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Talk:List of governors of Missouri

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I removed the following section: And replaced it with: This more accurately reflects the official list of governors (see http://sos.mo.gov/archives/history/historicallistings/governors.asp).
 * 1) Claiborne Fox Jackson 1861
 * 2) Hamilton Rowan Gamble 1861-64
 * 3) Willard P. Hall 1864-65

Information on the 'second Missouri government' can be found in the Missouri secession article. (this is also linked to from the Claiborne Fox Jackson article.

New style for the page
It's inspired by List of Governors of California.

Any thoughts about it?

--RobbieFal 23:00, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Territorial Governors and Civil War
Wikipedia is all about notability. Missouri has a unique notable history in its relationship to Louisiana Territory. So I've added territorial government. This conceivably could even go back to the Upper Louisiana governors (which is available on Illinois Country. Missouri also has a unique history during the Civil War so we should not hide that.  I modeled this process on Louisiana Governor.  It's overblown in its style but the information is very useful in providing the earlier information.  Americasroof 16:03, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Gamble's Dates of Office
I really, really, really appreciate the efforts of User:Golbez to improve this article with specific dates and add a much needed note section. I’m still not entirely comfortable with the dates for Hamilton Rowan Gamble. My understanding is that the start is correct per the Missouri Constitutional Convention (1861-63) when all state offices were declared vacant and then reappointed by the convention. However I believe there was a general election in 1863 for all the vacated state-wide offices and Gamble was formally elected by popular vote then (hence why I put the break in the succession).

As a side note I included the Confederate governors because Thomas Caute Reynolds was elected lieutenant governor with Claiborne Fox in 1860 and would have succeeded him as the regular governor.

The Civil War breaks the clean table. But Wikipedia is about notability and Missouri’s government during the Civil War was notable for its quirks. Americasroof 13:47, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

 * I've completely skipped the Civil War governors for now, so don't consider any word I put in on the war-era governors as gospel. ;) I figure the best way to handle those is the same way the Kentucky list handles them, but backwards. In Kentucky, it was an unelected Confederate government; in Missouri, it was an unelected Union government. (and, in Louisiana, they had both. : --Golbez 15:29, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Source for Biographies
A really spectacular source for biographies of the governors (including the territorial and even the Spanish Upper Louisiana governors!!!) is Dictionary of Missouri Biography by Lawrence O. Christensen (Editor), William E. Foley (Editor), Gary R. Kremer (Editor), Kenneth H. Winn (Editor) 1999. ISBN 0826212220  The book is also a treasure trove for a lot of Missouri biographies. And for good measure it's searchable on print.google ! Americasroof 15:41, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Wayward code snippet
There's a code fragment showing above Charles Phillip Johnson on line 21 of the governor chart. I don't know how to fix it, so any help an experienced editor can provide would be much appreciated. --Mechla (talk) 01:18, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Governors involved in assassination attempts?
Has there been assassination attempts on any Missouri governor? To my knowledge the only person who fits that category is Lilburn Boggs and that occurred after he left office. Thanks. Americasroof (talk) 23:58, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

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Term length
This article perhaps doesn't need extreme detail on this but should as a minimum state how long a gubernatorial term was initially, how many times it was extended until arriving at the current four years, how many terms can be served overall and consecutively (if different) and the times and extent to which this has been changed, without having to resort to the article on the Missouri Constitution.2600:1004:B11D:8AA3:0:57:334D:E401 (talk) 21:11, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oberin

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Speedy deleted under G4 recreation of previously created content and A1 short page with little or no context. Capitalistroadster 16:40, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Oberin
NN ad for RPG. "Is still in beta so I can not go into great detail". jnothman talk
 * delete per nom jnothman talk 16:04, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as devoid of content, merely a link to a web site. Ifnord 16:33, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Oberin
This is a computer game that is still in its beta test version and not available to the public. No Google hits for its developer, Creative Vision Interactive. Delete. — Brim 08:58, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not a part of an established franchise so this article is a tad premature, rewrite if it ever gets released --nixie 12:45, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Four year old private beta. -- Longhair 13:56, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. As a private beta, it is too early to be in Wikipedia. Zzyzx11 19:29, 20 Feb 200 (UTC)

 * CommentDrizzt2"- Four year old private beta. -- " Longhair
 * Wrong, its been private beta for 1 year and a half, nice try tho.

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A Hole in Space

A Hole in Space (U.K. edition ISBN 0-86007-853-1) is a collection of nine science fiction short stories and one essay, all by Larry Niven, published in 1974. This 1975 winner of the Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (place: second) includes:

 * "Rammer" (this story had later become part of the novel A World Out of Time)
 * "The Alibi Machine"
 * "The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club"
 * "A Kind of Murder"
 * "All the Bridges Rusting"
 * "There Is a Tide"
 * "Bigger Than Worlds" (essay)
 * "$16,940.00"
 * "The Hole Man"
 * "The Fourth Profession"

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Talk:Violet Trefusis

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WikiProject Biography Assessment

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 17:05, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Even after my cleanups, I'm demoting it to Start class. The nature of her life is, of course, one of gossip and scandal, but the article has to go farther in neutrality and encyclopedic tone. Not to mention things like references, pictures, infobox, etc. -- Yamara 17:55, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Discussion
Spoiler warning? Why is there a spoiler warning for a non-fictional person? Nik42 09:03, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

What's all the bolding for...? AnonMoos 19:13, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

"Violet and Vita" appear in the title track from Al Stewart's Between the Wars, running "Through the streets of Paris/Their laughter floating through the dark". Asat 21:30, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Neat! -- Yamara 17:05, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Major reversion
I reverted this article from the unwikified state I found it in to the version of Aug. 18, 2007, last edited by User:SatyrTN. Work done since that time has been lost, but the old version strikes me as so manifestly superior to the version I happened upon — having references, wikilinks, and other good things that the last version lacked — that I thought it best to simply discard more than a month's work of edits on the bad one. You may proceed to throw rocks and stones at me. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:10, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Why on earth does someone having an affair warrant a whole paragraph on wikipedia? It's ludicrous. I move to have the whole thing removed. Get a life, people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.100.252.153 (talk) 21:49, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Comparing and contrasting
We read: 'An essential difference between Mrs Keppel and Sackville-West seems to be that Mrs Keppel took care never to distress her lovers (and their marriages), thus advancing her family socially and financially, while Sackville-West caused broken hearts more than once. For her, marriage was rather the refuge she could always come back to after periods of abandonment.'

Why is Mrs. Keppel being compared to Vita? Are you sure you don't mean Violet? 109.154.14.8 (talk) 18:31, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

 * The material was added by an unknown user, you may edit it or remove if you wish to (Monkelese (talk) 18:19, 14 April 2012 (UTC))

Deletion of large sections of article
I have reverted the deletion of large parts of this article. The changes are apparently to conform to the official website and at the request of some copyright holder, presumably connected with the Trefusis literary estate. However the changes have not been discussed and seem to involve the deletion of cited text. I cannot comment on whether there are good literary or legal grounds for such deletion, I simply note that we should not be removing cited material (on Trefusis's supposed lesbianism, for example) simply because somebody does not like it; similarly, even if sources express different opinions, that is not reason to delete existing sources -- though it may very well be good grounds for balancing sources, stating the matter is disputed, and seeking different printed opinions on the debate. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:02, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Disembodied mention
''Governor Olson, as it turned out was not refused ... they were much cheered up by one another.''
 * Who he?
 * (Sorry forgot to sign!) Valetude (talk) 17:56, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Later Life
Frank Ashton-Gwatkin was not a member of the British Government. He was a senior Foreign Office official, not a politician. If there is no objection I will change this. Seadowns (talk) 09:12, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Estrangement
This W page claims that Denys and Violet were completely estranged before his death. But Nigel Nicolson in Portrait of a Marriage, Part 4, writes "they lived together in Paris until Denys's early death", and earlier in the same paragraph, " Denys and she came back to each other. [He quotes Violet]:'We both loved poetry....We were both Europeans in the fullest sense...We quarrelled a lot, loved not a little. We were more to be envied than pitied' ". This is not an account of estrangement. 47.150.208.154 (talk) 19:38, 26 March 2019 (UTC) AP
 * But I thought it had been a marriage of convenience from the start, because her mother wanted to avoid the disgrace of having an unmarried daughter, and Violet had made Denys sign a no-sex pre-nup. Valetude (talk) 18:56, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Whose engagement?
"When they returned to London, the Keppels moved to a house in Grosvenor Street. At that time, Violet learned that Vita was soon to be engaged to Harold Nicolson and was involved in an affair with Rosamund Grosvenor. Violet made it clear that she still loved Vita, but became engaged to make Vita jealous."

The last sentence does not (to me) make sense in context. Grammatically it refers to Violet getting engaged (in order to inspire jealousy) – but the previous sentence refers to Vita's engagement. No marital relationship involving Violet appears to be mentioned until the following paragraph, and that relationship appears ("her own loathing of marriage") to have been entirely Violet's mother's idea.

Surely this passage requires a rewrite? Harfarhs (talk) 14:29, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

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Chimakuan languages

The Chimakuan languages are a group of extinct languages that were spoken in northwestern Washington state, United States, on the Olympic Peninsula. They were spoken by Chimakum, Quileute and Hoh tribes. They are part of the Mosan sprachbund, and one of its languages is famous for having no nasal consonants. The two languages were about as close as English and German. Due to proximity, the Chimakuan languages are also similar to Wakashan.

Family division

 * Chimakuan
 * Chemakum (also known as Chimakum or Chimacum)
 * Quileute (also known as Quillayute)

Chemakum is now extinct. It was spoken until the 1940s on the east side of the Olympic Peninsula between Port Townsend and Hood Canal. The name Chemakum is an Anglicized version of a Salishan word for the Chimakum people, such as the nearby Twana word čə́bqəb (earlier ).

Quileute is now extinct. During the late 20th and early 21st centuries a revitalization effort began, and it is today spoken as a second language by a relatively small amount of the Quileute tribe on the west coast of the Olympic Peninsula, south of Cape Flattery. The name Quileute comes from kʷoʔlí·yot', the name of a village at La Push.

Phonology
The Chimakuan languages have phonemic inventories similar to other languages of the region, with few vowels, ejective consonants, uvular consonants, and lateral affricates. However, both languages have typological oddities — Chemakum had no simple velar consonants, and Quileute has no nasal consonants — because of regular sound changes in these languages.

Proto-Chimakuan
The Proto-Chimakuan sound system, as reconstructed by Powell, contained three vowels, long and short, and lexical stress (accompanied by a higher pitch as in English). It had the consonants listed in the following table. In angle brackets $⟨⟩$ following each IPA symbol are Powell’s own (Americanist) notation, which shall be used henceforth instead of the IPA. The plain voiceless stops and affricates were probably mildly aspirated as in modern Quileute.

The Proto-Chimakuan palato-alveolar fricative and affricates *š, *č, *č̓ developed as positional allophones of Pre-Proto-Chimakuan *xʷ, *kʷ, *k̓ʷ before the front vowel *i. This is why the Quileute and Chemakum reflexes of Proto-Chimakuan *xʷ, *kʷ, *k̓ʷ and *š, *č, *č̓ are largely in complementary distribution, though they are clearly phonemized in the modern languages (and probably already was in Late Proto-Chimakuan before it split) owing to loans and some irregular and analogical developments, especially in Chemakum. Note that the palatalization and delabialization of Pre-Proto-Chimakuan *xʷ, *kʷ, *k̓ʷ did not cause a merger with *x, *k, *k̓ at any point.

The regular reflexes of the Proto-Chimakuan consonant phonemes in the attested Chimakuan languages are tabled below. Where the official Quileute orthography or Boas’ Chemakum transcription differ from the Proto-Chimakuan transcription (on whose IPA values, cf. table above), the orthographical representations have been given in angle brackets.

Glottalized resonants, common in neighboring language families like Salishan, do not occur in either daughter language synchronically, but they must be reconstructed to account for some seemingly irregular correspondences between the languages with respect to occurrences of a glottal stop before resonant-reflexes, as well as language-internal evidence showing presence and absence of glottal stops around resonants in various related morphological forms, cf. Powell (1974) for more details.

Apart from the loss of glottalized resonants, Quileute has more-or-less kept the Proto-Chimakuan phonemic inventory unaltered. The only major change (sub-phonemic) is the infamous denasalization of *m (*m̓) and *n (*n̓) to (ʔ)b and (ʔ)d, respectively, ridding the language of nasal consonants except in certain archaïcizing narrative registers. Quileute also acquired the (presently rare) phonemes ƛ $⟨p⟩$ and g which occur primarily in loans but also a few words and morphemes of uncertain origin (and in the case of ƛ, phonemization of the biconsonantal sequence *t‿ƚ).

The development of Chemakum, on the other hand, has seen more significant changes. The Proto-Chimakuan palato-alveolar sibilants *š, *č, *č̓ were fronted and merged with the alveolar sibilants *s, *c, *c̓. Thereäfter the plain velars *x, *k, *k̓ were palatalized and affricated to š, č, č̓. The Proto-Chimakuan glides *y, *y̓, *w, *w̓ were subsequently (or concurrently) hardened to (ʔ)č and (ʔ)kʷ causing mergers (a few instances of the glides survive without hardening in Chimakum, e.g., in a demonstrative). A sub-table from the table above is reproduced below to illustrate these mergers more clearly. All of these developments have parallels in neighboring Salishan languages. As an illustrative example, consider Chemakum čā́ʔᵃčis $⟨t⟩$, Quileute káʔyis ‘aunt’ < Proto-Chimakuan *káy̓is.

The vocalic system of Proto-Chimakuan is much harder to reconstruct as Boas’ Chemakum data don’t allow for an unambiguous reading of the phonemic vowels in that language. However, assuming a Quileute-like 3-vowel system with an extra parameter of vowel length, Powel was able to reconstruct a similar provisional vocalic inventory for the proto-language: short *a, *e, *o, and long *a·, *e·, *o·. Stress was phonemic. In Quileute, the stress became fixed to the penultimate syllable, though subsequent changes made it somewhat unpredictable. Open syllables developed long vowels.

Morphology
There are more than 20 known common inflectional suffixed and about 200 derivational suffixes. No common prefixes are known. In some cases, infixes are used in both languages.

Lexicon
Below is a table listing numerals from 1 to 10 in Chemakum and Quileute. Only 1 through 4 and 6 are cognate, the rest being independently innovated in the two languages.

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User talk:Argonicana

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you were just trying to experiment, then use the sandbox instead. Thank you. -- 09:09, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Andrewkendall

Hello, welcome to Wikipedia. I've moved your autobiography article to your User page, since autobiographies are generally frowned upon in Wikipedia. RickK 09:11, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

Your work
I'm a big fan of your work. Being in the States, I haven't seen some of the more indie bands that you photograph, but I think you do an excellent job of capturing a moment, and particularly conveying motion. Just wanted to let you know that :) --Esprit15d 13:01, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Tony Hulman

"Big Tone" was a joke that went too far
Check the dates for the publication source for him being called "big tone" and the date the edit was made. I know the guy who claims to of made this edit and he brags about how he got the Indy Star to call him "Big Tone" in that article. He went by Tony and not a single article or piece of history in Terre Haute calls him that. A vast majority of the Clabber Girl factory and restaurant is dedicated to him. He was only referred to as Tony as a nickname. The Indy Star got their information from this wikipedia article AFTER the edit was made claiming he was called "Big Tone" I wouldn't be surprised if he was the one that cited the nickname .... He's kind of a turd like that. (184.60.42.123 (talk) 06:46, 11 January 2018 (UTC))

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A very good article; but it has the read and feel of a "slick" press release from a public-relations firm. I have nothing available to rewrite and give a more objective viewpoint; respectfully suggest revision by persons with more information on hand. Harper 16:05, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

peacockery
I've attempted to take out some of the obviously favorable terms used in the article and make it more neutral. If you disagree with any of the changes I made, feel free to change it yourself. Ducknish (talk) 03:50, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

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The Counterfeit Man

The Counterfeit Man is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Alan E. Nourse, published in 1963 by David McKay. Several of the stories have a medical or psychological theme.

Contents

 * "The Counterfeit Man". The medical officer of an exploratory spaceship returning from Ganymede determines that the crew has been infiltrated by at least one highly malicious shapeshifting alien. He forces one intruder, which can almost perfectly mimic human physiology down to the cellular level, to betray itself and ejects it into space with the cooperation of the expedition commander. The doctor then sabotages the ship to temporarily strand it in orbit around Earth, going ahead in a shuttle with proof in hand to order a quarantine. When the ship lands, the entire crew is accounted for and the incredulous doctor storms back into the ship to search it, only to be ambushed and killed by the remaining alien, which has taken on his own guise. It heads into the surrounding city. This story was adapted as the second episode of the BBC television series Out of the Unknown.
 * "The Canvas Bag" - A drifter with only a vague recall of his own past stops in a town and falls in love, which prompts him toward introspection. Examining his rather fuzzy memories, he realizes - to his shock - that he is over 150 years old. Having cursed his mother and his home, he has been punished with eternal homelessness, saddled with immortality, forgetfulness, and an irresistible thousand-year compulsion to wander the Earth. The girl he loved chases him down at the bus stop at the last minute, choosing to wander with him.
 * "An Ounce of Cure" - a short, absurdist satirical piece on Nourse's own medical profession: a middle-aged man goes to his doctor seeking treatment of his foot pain, but instead becomes trapped in a maelstrom of arcane diagnostic procedures and endless referrals to increasingly ridiculous specialists. Eventually the patient gives up on conventional medicine and goes to a beturbaned Eastern mystic instead.
 * "The Dark Door" - a former psychological experimenter, trapped in deeply paranoid persecution fantasies, appeals to his former mentor for help. The mentor, operating on a sinister hidden agenda, instead imprisons him in a machine resembling an early conception of a VR rig, subjecting him to a series of psychotic delusions. The purpose of the abuse is apparently to try to use trauma to force the subject to rediscover a vital finding he had uncovered during his earlier experimental work, which may be what had driven him insane to begin with.
 * "Meeting of the Board" - another satire, this one set in a future in which American industry has been badly compromised by workers purchasing full joint-stock ownership of their companies, mismanaging them into a state of stolid uncompetitiveness. For its humor, the story relies on the role-reversal of workers abusing and mistreating management, until the white-collar employees go on strike, withholding managerial services.
 * "Circus" - a very human-like alien is stranded on Earth, and futilely tries to convince Earthlings that he is an authentic extraterrestrial. Unfortunately the only human who will believe him is an SF writer, who over coffee in a diner gently informs the visitor that - due to his profession - no other human would find him credible on the subject.
 * "My Friend Bobby" - a disturbing story told in first person, by a young boy who can read minds. His father is mostly absent, and his power causes his mother to slowly come to fear and hate him, his only companion being his collie Bobby, with whom he has formed a telepathic link.
 * "The Link" - a cultured, gentle alien society has spent millennia fleeing from planet to planet, one step ahead of "the Hunters," their long-separated militaristic cousins, with whom they had fought a long-past war on their mutual homeworld. A young man and woman elect to stay behind on the aliens' current homeworld, which is being abandoned in the face of an advancing Hunter war fleet, to meet the pursuers face to face for the first time in ages. They hope to sue for peace, but find the Hunters implacable and cruel, lacking empathy or culture. Ordered to sing for the Hunters' commander, they are accused of trying to telepathically subvert their listeners, and are tortured for information until they erase their own minds in despair. However, their captors - oddly and subtly affected by their music - decide to dump them in the wilderness of the abandoned world, instead of killing them. The ending implies an "Adam and Eve" scenario.
 * "Image of the Gods" - the hardscrabble human agricultural colony on the hostile world of Baron IV is informed that Earth has undergone a regime change, apparently for the worse, and that they must accept a new military governor, whose first act is to unreasonably increase their agricultural-export quota. The colonists refuse the order and attempt to offer armed resistance, with the unexpected aid of Baron IV's primitive but helpful alien autochthones, the Dusties, who - they learn - have come to worship them as gods.
 * "The Expert Touch" - a reluctant experimental subject is tricked by his doctor into a painful battle against his inner demons, as part of a scheme to find the key to human sanity; the ordeal leaves him perfectly sane, but also - and perhaps as a consequence - highly unhelpful.
 * "Second Sight" - a young woman is the only true psychic on Earth. She is pressured by her government handlers to take part in an experiment to try to induce her powers in other similarly handicapped people - the ending reveals that she is deaf and blind, all of her senses being entirely psionic.

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Slobodan Rakitić

Slobodan Rakitić (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Ракитић; 30 September 1940 – 1 January 2013) was a Serbian writer and politician.

Biography
Rakitić was born in Vlasovo, Raška, Serbia. He attended the elementary school in Raška and the high school in Novi Pazar. First he studied at the Belgrade Medical School, but then changed to the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, where he graduated.

He was the editor of literary magazines such as Contemporary (Savremenik) and Raška. He was a member of the first editorial staff who initiated the appearance of Literary Word (Književna reč) in 1972. As the editor in charge of literature and language, he has been working at the Ilija M. Kolarac Foundation ever since 1973.

Rakitić wrote and had the following books of poetry published: Lights of Writings (1967), Raska Tunes (1968), The world is not our home (1970), Earth on the Tongue (1973), Poems of Tree and Fruit (1978), Craving for the South (1981), A Descendant (1982), Basic Land (1988), Deeds on Fire (1990), A Soul and a Sandbar (1994); his published books and essays are: From Ithaca to Illusion (1985), Forms and Meanings (1994); an anthology: Yugoslav Peoples' Poetry of Romanticism (1978); Selected Works in five volumes, Selected and New Poems (1998), Letters Made of Water (2000).

The poet received the following literary awards: "Milan Rakić" (1974), "Isidora Sekulić" (1982), "Branko Miljković" (1989), "Laza Kostić" (1995), "Kočić's pen" (1997), "Jovan Dučić" (1998), "Gold Link" (1998) and "Prince Lazar's Gold Cross" (1998). The book of poetry Deeds on Fire was awarded "The October Belgrade Prize" in 1990 and "Rade Drainac" award in 1991. His poems have been translated into a large number of foreign languages.

Rakitic was a meditative lyric poet with a distinct feeling for history, culture and traditional values. His lyrically-intimist, elegiac, reflexive and religious poetry tries to offer answers to eternal issues of life and death, to the position of an individual and historic, collective sufferings. Rakitić's poetic discourse is outstandingly metaphysical, noble and dominantly neosymbolistic. Thematically, by forms and motives found in them, his poems correspond to the old religious service literature.

Under the communist regime, Slobodan Rakitić played an active role as a writer struggling for human rights and democratic freedoms. He was never a partisan of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. In 1990, he took part in founding the "Serbian Renewal Movement" (SPO), the largest opposition party at that time, led by Vuk Drašković. He was the President of Serbian Renewal Movement parliamentary fraction in the Serbian Parliament during the first pluralist National Assembly (1991–1992), also the leader of the parliamentary fraction (1993–1994) of DEPOS - "Democratic Movement of Serbia" (a large union of major opposition parties and numerous individuals not belonging to any of the political parties).

Rakitić was the president of the Association of Writers of Serbia from 1994 until 2005.

In 2013 he was posthumously awarded the literature award "Jelena Balšić", established by the 'Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral', and is awarded every two years.

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Category talk:Internet celebrities

Internet celebrities and personalities
What exactly seperates this group from Internet celebrities? They both have a lot of people who could be in both, I think. DarthLuigi36 04:50, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * A bit late, but the category has been renamed to, with as a redirect.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 00:26, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Cleanup request
This mark was put here because, for some reason, the category has a section for lower-case j and p, rather than putting those links in the appropriate place between the uppercase letters. Radiant! 09:16, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Seems to have been fixed. -- Beland 21:48, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Why is user "Racoon Fox" listed here? --Bubba_Phat 11:01, 2 June 2006

Supergreg
Does anyone recall the supergreg webpage?

Here is a mirror of it.

http://zmax.org/supergreg/sgdotcom/

Years ago supergreg was a bit of a cult celebrity around my highschool, I dont know anything about him other than seeing this page and a couple of flash animations of him.

I think he may have done a television commercial at one point as I was searching for him on you tube and came across this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK046M525_k — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.53.86.13 (talk • contribs) 18:46, 7 November 2006

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The Aliens Among Us

The Aliens Among Us (ISBN 0-552-08461-1) is a collection of science fiction short stories by James White, published in 1969. It contains:

 * "Countercharm" (in the Sector General series)
 * "To Kill or Cure"
 * "Red Alert"
 * "Tableau" (in the Sector General series)
 * "The Conspirators"
 * "The Scavengers"
 * "Occupation: Warrior" (originally intended to be a Sector General story, but was re-written)

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Copper coulometer

The copper coulometer is a one application for the copper-copper(II) sulfate electrode. Such a coulometer consists of two identical copper electrodes immersed in slightly acidic pH-buffered solution of copper(II) sulfate. Passing of current through the element leads to the anodic dissolution of the metal on anode and simultaneous deposition of copper ions on the cathode. These reactions have 100% efficiency over a wide range of current density.

Calculation
The amount of electric charge (quantity of electricity) passed through the cell can easily be determined by measuring the change in mass of either electrode and calculating:
 * $$Q = \frac{z_{Cu}\Delta m F}{M_{Cu}}$$,

where:
 * $$Q$$ is the quantity of electricity (coulombs)
 * $$\Delta m$$ is the mass transported (gm)
 * $$z_{Cu}$$ is the charge of the copper ions, equal to +2
 * $$F$$ is the Faraday constant (96485.3383 coulombs per mole)
 * $$M_{Cu}$$ is the atomic weight of copper, equal to 63.546 grams per mole.

Although this apparatus is interesting from a theoretical and historical point of view, present-day electronic measurement of time and electric current provide in their multiplication the amount of passed coulombs much easier, with greater precision, and in a shorter period of time than is possible by weighing the electrodes.

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Talk:Malmö

William Borroughs
So, did you just remove my info at will? I request you put it back. --Fred chessplayer 05:41, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * The year of the establishment of Gamla Kyrkogården and the year of the inauguration of the bridge? In the context of night-life and entertainments? You think that's the right place? Central cemetries are strange only to Americans used to New Towns. Mind you, from Föreningsgatan virtually to Rosengård there is an even larger one! ;-)
 * But of course, if you insist! Do you? --Johan Magnus 07:51, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Why is not Gamla kyrkogården and the influence of Oresundsbron interesting? And the topic is not night-life, but miscellaneous. I'm not going to discuss this though, I can only refer you to Wikipedia policy not to delete others' material (unless it is wrong or copyvio). At most, if you think it is wrongly placed, you should move it to a more appropriate place. Because it did take me some time to find the material in question, and it is of course discouraging if you just remove it. I'm not going to reinsert it in some other place though, since you might then delete it again.
 * Personally I would, and might will, write about the cemetery in the centre of the city. I don't know if only Americans are unfamiliar with this concept. The cemetery is, IMO, ugly and takes up a lot of space. But it is also a part of Malmö's history. --Fred chessplayer 23:11, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I didn't realize that you entered the Borroughs quotation with the aim to criticize the cemetery. However, I judged your text by its own merits, and found the prose to be unnecessarily burdened by the long parenthetical comments. With all due respect, I didn't find it badly located, just without much relevance in the context. My sincerest ambition was to improve the text, not to pursue any city planning agenda, although I have nothing against traces that reminds about the history of the town, of which that cemetery is one, located in the periphery of the town that was protected by moats and walls. I propose you try to put your comments on cemeteries and changes due to the bridge in contexts of their own. Remember: If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly... do not submit it.
 * --Johan Magnus 08:09, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * If you thought the text was misplaced, why didn't you just move it? --Fred chessplayer 16:58, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I improved it! :-) --Johan Magnus 08:05, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Topless?
The topless part in Malmö, completely irrelevant and in my opinion something that should perhaps have an own page, not the primary page of Malmö City. It would be like me stating how many McDonald's restaurants that city has

Number of mosques?
The wiki currently says Malmö only has one mosque, but if you search for "mosque" on google maps, it seems to come up with loads. Should this line be changed on the wiki? TheAwesomeGingerGuy (talk) 13:30, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

 * Well spotted,, thanks. I added a couple of links to articles about mosques in Malmö, but it could do with more of a summary, and those numbers need citing. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 14:06, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

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Cycas

Cycas is a genus of cycad, and the only genus in the family Cycadaceae with all other genera of cycad being divided between the Stangeriaceae and Zamiaceae families. Cycas circinalis, a species endemic to India, was the first cycad species to be described in western literature, and is the type species of the genus.

As of April 2024, there are 119 accepted species within the genus Cycas, all of which are native to Asia, Oceania, and eastern Africa and the Indian ocean region, with the largest number of species native to Australia, China and Vietnam.

In horticulture, the most widely grown and perhaps best-known Cycas species is Cycas revoluta, which is commercially grown in large numbers for sale as houseplants or to be used in landscaping.

As with other cycads in general, Cycas species may be popularly called 'living fossils', representing the surviving decedents of an ancient lineage of seed-bearing plants that were known to exist in the dinosaur era. Despite their ancient roots, the majority of Cycas species are highly endangered. Many are threatened by the illegal trade of wild collected plants for plant collectors, and through the conversion of land for urban development or agricultural use.

Range
The genus Cycas is native to parts of Asia, eastern Africa and Oceania. Cycas has the widest distribution of any genus of cycad.

In Asia, Cycas (and therefore, the family Cycadaceae) represent the only cycads native to Asia. Within Asia, Cycas species are native from India and Sri Lanka in the west, through China to Japan in the north east and through south east Asia (including the Philippines) to Indonesia in the south. Globally, the northernmost species ( Cycas revoluta) is found at 31°N in southern Japan.

As of April 2024, the largest number of currently accepted species of Cycas in Asia are found in Vietnam (27 species), China (23 species), India (14 species), Thailand (12 species), Philippines (12 species) and Indonesia (10 species). The distribution of Cycas species in Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia is not well known, but as of April 2024, no accepted cycad species is known to be endemic to any of these three countries.

In Africa, cycads belonging to all three cycad families are found making it a major center of diversity for cycads in general, but only one Cycas species (Cycas thouarsii) is native and it is restricted to eastern Africa and nearby island nations. C. thouarsii grows in a comparatively wide area including coastal regions of Mozambique, Tanzania, and Kenya in mainland Africa, extending to the Seychelles, Madagascar and Comoros islands in the Indian Ocean.

In Oceania, Cycas species are native to Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the island nations of the Pacific Ocean region, but are absent from New Zealand. As in Asia, Cycas is the only genus of cycad found across the region, with the exception for Australia, where cycads native to all three families of cycads are found. Despite this, Australia also has the largest number of Cycas species globally with 34 native Cycas species accepted (as of April 2024), including the southernmost species globally (Cycas megacarpa) found at 26°S in southeast Queensland. At least 7 Cycas species are found in Papua New Guinea, some of which are also found in parts of neighbouring Indonesia. In the broader region, Cycas seemannii is found in Melanesia and western Polynesia and Cycas micronesica is found across Micronesia.

Globally, some Cycas species are considered to have be relatively widespread, for example Cycas thouarsii is native to a large area of mainland Africa and islands of the Indian Ocean, and Cycas pectinata and Cycas clivicola are both native to large areas of Asia; however, most Cycas species have restricted distributions, with some restricted to very small areas. In Asia, for example, more than 75% of species occur in no more than one country. For some countries, even though the number of species may not be high, the level of species-specific genetic variation can be very high meaning that so that even countries with few species, it may contain distinct gene pools of widespread species.

Evolution
Cycas (and the Cycadaceae family) is considered as being an early offshoot from the rest of the cycads and originated in the ancient landmass of Laurasia with Cycas fossils known from the Eocene deposits (38–54 MYA) of China and Japan. Estimates of the timing of the split ranging from the Jurassic to the Carboniferous. The presence of Cycas in Australasia and eastern Africa is relatively new, but the major evolutionary events behind the genesis of new species have taken place in Indochina and Australia, where the majority of living species are native.

Fossil seeds from the Middle Jurassic of England and British Columbia were suggested in a 2017 study to be more closely related to Cycas than other cycads and were assigned to the same family, Cycadaceae'''. ' A later study suggested that these seeds could not be assigned to the stem-group of Cycas'' with confidence due to lacking the double vascular system that characterises the seeds of all living cycads.

The leaf fossil genus Paracycas known from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Europe has been suggested to be early representatives of the Cycas lineage by cladistic analysis. The earliest fossils assignable to Cycas are known from the Paleogene of East Asia, such as Cycas fushunensis from the Eocene of Northeast China, with East Asia likely representing the ancestral homeland of the genus.

Morphology
The plants are dioecious, and the family Cycadaceae is unique among the cycads in not forming seed cones on female plants, but rather a group of leaf-like structures called megasporophylls each with seeds on the lower margins, and pollen cones or strobilus on male individuals.

The caudex is cylindrical, surrounded by the persistent petiole bases. Most species form distinct branched or unbranched trunks but in some species the main trunk can be subterranean with the leaf crown appearing to arise directly from the ground. There are two types of leaves - foliage leaves and scaly leaves. The foliage leaves are pinnate (or more rarely bipinnate) and arranged spirally, with thick and hard keratinose. They are not permanent and fall off leaving back leaf-bases. The leaflets are articulated, have midrib but lack secondary veins. The scaly leaves are persistent, brown in colour and protective in function. Megasporophylls are not gathered in cones. Pollination takes place by air.

Reproduction

Cycas take about 10 years to reach sexual maturity, after years of exclusive vegetative growth, which occurs by bulbils arising at the base of the trunk.

Conservation status
Cycas species are threatened worldwide and almost all the species are listed in the IUCN Red List. Cycas beddomei is the only species of the genus Cycas listed in Appendix I of CITES. All other members of Cycadaceae are listed under Appendix II. Cycas rumphii and Cycas pectinata have the most widespread distribution.

Phylogeny

Other species:

 * Cycas aenigma Hill & Lindström
 * Cycas apoa Hill
 * Cycas arnhemica Hill
 * Cycas badensis Hill
 * Cycas bglswamyi Pant ex Agrawal, Akhtar & R.C.Srivast.
 * Cycas brunnea Hill
 * Cycas campestris Hill
 * Cycas candida Hill
 * Cycas cantafolia Jutta, Chew & Saw
 * Cycas changjiangensis Liu
 * Cycas chenii Gong & Zhou
 * Cycas collina Hill, Nguyên & Lôc
 * Cycas cupida Forster
 * Cycas darshii Srivastava & Jana
 * Cycas desolata Forster
 * Cycas dharmrajii Singh
 * Cycas distans P.I.Forst. & B.Gray
 * Cycas divyadarshanii Khuraijam & Rita Singh
 * Cycas elephantipes Lindström & Hill
 * Cycas falcata Hill
 * Cycas flabellata Agoo, Madulid & Callado
 * Cycas fugax Hill, Nguyên & Lôc
 * Cycas furfuracea W.Fitzg.
 * Cycas glauca Miquel
 * Cycas hoabinhensis Lôc & Nguyên
 * Cycas inermis Oudem.
 * Cycas javana (Miquel) de Laubenfels
 * Cycas lacrimans Lindström & Hill
 * Cycas lane-poolei
 * Cycas laotica Nguyên & Nguyên
 * Cycas litoralis Hill
 * Cycas mindanaensis Agoo, Madulid & Callado
 * Cycas miquelii Warburg
 * Cycas montana Lindström & Hill
 * Cycas nayagarhensis Rita Singh, Radha & Khuraijam
 * Cycas nathorstii Schuster
 * Cycas orixensis (Haines) Rita Singh & Khuraijam
 * Cycas pachypoda Hill
 * Cycas panzhihuaensis Zhou & Yang
 * Cycas papuana von Mueller
 * Cycas pectinata
 * Cycas pranburiensis Yang et al.
 * Cycas pruinosa Maconochie
 * Cycas sainathii Srivastava
 * Cycas sancti-lasallei Agoo & Madulid
 * Cycas saxatilis Hill & Lindström
 * Cycas scratchleyana von Mueller
 * Cycas seemannii A.Braun
 * Cycas seshachalamensis Rao et al.
 * Cycas sexseminifera Wei
 * Cycas shanyaensis Fu
 * Cycas sundaica Miquel ex Lindström & Hill
 * Cycas terryana Forster
 * Cycas tuckeri Hill
 * Cycas xipholepis Hill
 * Cycas yorkiana Hill
 * Cycas yunnanensis Cheng, Fu & Cheng
 * Cycas zambalensis Madulid & Agoo
 * Cycas zeylanica (Schuster) Lindström & Hill

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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 15:32, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Agility Bug Tracking Software
Non-notable software. 13 Google hits for its title, related website gets Alexa ranking of 3,450,822. JoaoRicardo 09:27, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete, Looks like cleverly hidden advertisement to me. Non notable. Inter 18:24, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Reads like an ad. Zzyzx11 19:29, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete ad. -- Cyrius|✎ 19:57, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Geitoneura klugii
A good shot of geitoneura klugii on a branch.

 * Support. Self Nom. --Fir0002 09:27, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Easily passes my desktop wallpaper test. —Korath (Talk) 10:18, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support -- Chris 73 Talk 11:48, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support -- Longhair 12:53, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Looks sharp. Mgm|(talk) 13:43, Feb 21, 2005
 * Oppose - Focus is good but colors are a bit drab and both  previous featured pictures of lepidopterae are better I think.--Deglr6328 07:32, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Dsmdgold 17:58, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Excellent clarity. Enochlau 23:31, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose, see old FP pics and compare. BrokenSegue 03:32, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose - dark background makes it hard to see detail, especially around mouth - Bevo 12:39, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Very nice, but the dark branch breaks the outline of the butterfly. And the head is not completely in focus. Janderk 11:42, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * NOT Promoted. +7/-4. Based on past 8/4, 7/4 votes, not a consensus, but very close. -- BRIAN 0918  06:01, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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Glenelg, South Australia

Glenelg is a beach-side suburb of the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Located on the shore of Holdfast Bay in Gulf St Vincent, it has become a tourist destination due to its beach and many attractions, home to several hotels and dozens of restaurants.

Established in 1836, it is the oldest European settlement on mainland South Australia. It was named after Lord Glenelg, a member of British Cabinet and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. Through Lord Glenelg the name derives from Glenelg, Highland, Scotland.

History

Prior to the 1836 British colonisation of South Australia, Glenelg and the rest of the Adelaide Plains was home to the Kaurna group of Aboriginal Australians. They knew the area as "Pattawilya" and the local river as "Pattawilyangga", now named the Patawalonga River. Evidence has shown that at least two smallpox epidemics had killed the majority of the Kaurna population prior to 1836. The disease appeared to have come down the Murray River from New South Wales.

Prior to European settlement there were huge oyster reefs of Australian flat oysters (Ostrea angasi, also known as the Southern mud oyster) off Glenelg. Oysters were of huge importance as a food source for Indigenous Australians at many locations around Australia, but the extensive reefs were decimated after colonisation; it is estimated that in South Australia alone, at least 1500 km of coastal reefs were destroyed by the 21st century. Oyster fishing was practised by the early settlers, and much of the damage was caused by using dredging to collect the oysters, which led to the reefs being damaged.

Settlement
The first British settlers set sail for South Australia in 1836. Several locations for the settlement were considered, including Kangaroo Island, Port Lincoln and Encounter Bay. The Adelaide plains were chosen by Colonel William Light, and Governor John Hindmarsh proclaimed the province of South Australia at the site of The Old Gum Tree in Glenelg North on 28 December 1836.

The first post office in Glenelg opened on 5 December 1849; the first postmaster was John McDonald of the St Leonard's Inn. A telegraph office was opened in September 1859 and the two offices amalgamated in 1868. The present post office building on Moseley Square was built in 1912.

The sale of the surveyed lots that constitute the Town of Glenelg was remarkable: the right to purchase, at £1 per "town acre", was allocated by means of a ballot held in February 1839. The "winner" was a syndicate of six led by William Finke, with Osmond Gilles, his nephew John Jackson Oakden and H. R. Wigley (father of W. R. Wigley) notable members.

Among the town's earliest public buildings were the Independent (Congregational) church, opened 7 March 1848, St Peter's (Anglican) church, opened 28 March 1852 and the Pier Hotel, opened Christmas Day 1856, all the work of Henry J. Moseley, for whom Moseley Street and Moseley Square were named. No trace of the original structures remains.

The Corporate Town of Glenelg was proclaimed in 1855, separating local governance of the township of Glenelg from that of the West Torrens and Brighton district councils. Construction of the Glenelg Institute, which is now the Glenelg Town Hall (pictured top right), started in 1875. The institute opened in 1877, with lecture rooms, a concert hall and a library. The classical structure was designed by Edmund Wright, whose works include the Adelaide Town Hall and Adelaide General Post Office on King William Street. The hall sits on Moseley Square, just off the beach. The Holdfast Bay city council acquired the hall in 1887. Today it houses a museum, tourist information centre and restaurants.

Jetty
Construction of Glenelg's first jetty commenced in August 1857. It was opened on 25 April 1859. The structure was 381 metres (1,250 ft) long and cost over £31,000 to build. It served fishermen and maritime traders, including a mail service operated by P&O, until Port Adelaide replaced it as Adelaide's main port. Passengers were also able travel from the Glenelg jetty to Kangaroo Island by steamer.

Various additions to the jetty were made, none of which stand today. A lighthouse was built in 1872 at the jetty's end, but a year later it caught fire and was cast into the sea to save the rest of the structure. A replacement lighthouse was built in 1874, and was 12.1 metres (40 ft) tall. Other additions included public baths, an aquarium, a police shed and a three-story kiosk with tea rooms. The kiosk structure also housed a family.

The jetty kiosk was wrecked in a storm in 1943, and the jetty was severely damaged by a freak cyclone in 1948. Most of the structure washed away and the remaining structure was deemed unsafe. Just two weeks later, the local council began drafting plans for a new jetty and construction was completed in 1969. The new structure was just 215 metres (705 ft) long, less than two-thirds of the length of the original jetty. The second jetty continues to stand today, at the end of Jetty Road.

On 1 January 2016, two boys were drowned after falling into the water from rocks to north of the Glenelg jetty.

The Glenelg Blocks
An ill-fated breakwater construction project was conceived in the early 1900s, intended to create an artificial harbour for the protection of yachts and the local fishing fleet. Parliamentary approval was granted in 1905. In 1909 and 1910, work was dogged by losses of machinery to rough seas and concrete piles that shattered when driven. Pile-driving for seabed study had some success in 1913. By mid-1916 the project remained incomplete and its future was uncertain. In 1918, the contractors took legal action against the Government seeking damages of £80,000. By 1919, the project had become an embarrassment and an "eye sore" without providing a safe harbour as originally intended. Today, the structures are heavily eroded and are colonised with marine life. The site is an artificial reef known to divers and snorkelers as "The Blocks" or "The Glenelg Blocks".

Amusement parks

Glenelg has been a popular spot for recreation and leisure for much of its history. Following the success of Luna Park, Melbourne, a similar amusement park was constructed on Glenelg's foreshore in 1930. Luna Park Glenelg was placed in voluntary liquidation in 1934, and all the rides (excluding a single carousel) were disassembled, purchased by the directors, and transported to Sydney, where they were used in the construction of Luna Park Sydney. The park's managers claimed that the reasons for the closure were the inability to make money from the park as it was, and opposition to changes from Council and residents, who were afraid that "undesirables" would be attracted to the area.

Built near the former Luna Park site was Magic Mountain, which first opened in 1982. It featured water slides, mini-golf, bumper boats, dodgem cars and many other amusements and was popular with many Adelaide residents. It was also extensively criticised, called an eyesore and likened to a "giant dog dropping" in the media; despite this it was very popular with young children and teenagers. As part of the Holdfast Shores development, Magic Mountain was finally demolished in 2004 and replaced with The Beachouse, a 5-storey modern centre with a more conservative design which still incorporates the historic carousel; it opened in mid-2006. Since its opening, The Beachouse has been a widely popular attraction of the Glenelg area, appealing to both adults and children. A 25-metre single-arm Ferris wheel was a prominent feature of the area until its closure.

Wastewater treatment plant
South Australia's second largest wastewater treatment plants is located in Glenelg. It was first established in 1933, and was upgraded in 1945, 1962, 1973 and most recently in 2002. A pipeline pumps 2.8 gigalitres of treated wastewater to Adelaide where it is used to irrigate green spaces, such as parks and ovals. The facility also conducts tours for school groups and visitors to learn about water supply and treatment. The plant also returns treated wastewater to the ocean. The most significant pollutants discharged to the sea (by mass) in 2018/19 were: nitrogen (180 tonnes), phosphorus (78 tonnes), chlorine (32 tonnes), ammonia (14 tonnes), fluoride (14 tonnes) and zinc (1 tonne).

High-rise development
Atlantic Tower was built in the late 1970s and was Adelaide's tallest residential building at the time. The fourteen-story tower featured a revolving restaurant on its top floor, and was part of a larger development plan that never eventuated. Many other high-rise buildings exist in Glenelg, including the fifteen-story Stamford Grand hotel on Moseley Square, built in 1990, and the twelve-story Liberty Towers, built in 2004.

The Holdfast Shores development, starting in the late 1990s, included the construction of the Marina Pier apartment building with its own private marina in Glenelg North, and the Pier Hotel, founded 2001, and unrelated to the historic Pier Hotel on Moseley Square. The development was met with strong opposition, from both local residents and the City of Holdfast Bay, fearing overdevelopment would ruin the area. Parts of the plan were scaled back, with the Platinum Apartment building scaled down from fifteen stories to nine, and the cinema complex cancelled.

Demographics
The 2016 Census by the Australian Bureau of Statistics counted 3,349 persons in Glenelg on the night of the census. The majority of residents are of Northern European descent, and almost two-thirds of residents are at least second generation Australian. Glenelg is a predominantly Christian community, with common affiliations, in descending order, Catholic, Anglican, no religion and Uniting.

The age distribution of Glenelg residents is skewed upwards more so than that of the Australian population. 26.4% of persons were 65 years or older in 2001, compared to the Australian average of 12.6%. 20.4% of persons were younger than 25 years, compared to the Australian average of 34.5%.

Transport
The suburb is bordered by Anzac Highway, (the road link to the Adelaide city centre), to the north, Brighton Road to the west and Pier Street to the south. Jetty Road is the main shopping strip in the suburb, and runs down the middle. Adelaide Metro operates several bus services from Glenelg to various destinations including the central business district and Adelaide Airport. The local council operates a free loop bus service in the area.

Glenelg is the terminus of the Glenelg tram line, which runs from Moseley Square, along Jetty Road though Glenelg, to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. The route dates back to 1873.

Features and attractions
The wide beach is popular with visitors and locals alike, and tourists to Adelaide often visit Glenelg. To the north is the mouth of the Patawalonga River, which has been dammed to create an artificial lake which is used as a boat harbour, with a lock down to the sea. This is a popular spot for recreational boating.

A replica of HMS Buffalo (1813) was constructed in 1980 on the shore of the Patawalonga, with the appearance of being moored in the artificial lake, with a restaurant operating on it. It was demolished in 2019, after its popularity declined and it was no longer viable as a business.

Jetty Road is a long ribbon of shops, entertainment facilities and other commercial activities and is the main shopping precinct in Glenelg.

There is an annual celebration of the Epiphany for the Orthodox faithful of Adelaide, accompanied by the Greek festival of the Theophany.

A shark museum owned and operated by conservationist and shark attack survivor Rodney Fox once operated in Glenelg. Many of its former exhibits were leased to the South Australian Whale Centre, Victor Harbor, in 2008.

Sport
Glenelg is home to a team in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), the Glenelg Tigers, and the Glenelg Seahorses in the South Australian Grade Cricket League

Reef restoration
In late 2020, The Nature Conservancy used a large barge to scatter several hundred tonnes of stone across the sea floor about 1 km offshore, to create 2 ha of substrate for a new oyster reef for the native angasi oyster, which had been nearly eliminated in Australian waters by over-harvesting and dredging during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Oyster reefs and seagrass beds help to protect coastlines from the effects of storm events and climate change, as well as offering the benefits of greater biodiversity, which helps to protect fish stocks, and protection from extremes of temperatures, which can threaten vulnerable species.

Politics
Since 1985 Glenelg has been located in the Electoral district of Morphett for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was previously in the seat of Glenelg. The current sitting member is Stephen Patterson of the Liberal Party of Australia, who has held the seat since 2018. Federally, Glenelg is in the Division of Boothby and has been held by Louise Miller-Frost of the Australian Labor Party since the 2022 election.

Notable residents

 * Tom Jay Williams - Singer and songwriter is a former resident

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Translation operator

Translation operator can refer to these things:

 * Translation operator (quantum mechanics)
 * Shift operator, which effects a geometric translation
 * Translation (geometry)
 * Displacement operator in quantum optics

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Kaduna River

The Kaduna River is a tributary of the Niger River which flows for 550 km through Nigeria. It got its name from the crocodiles that lived in the river and surrounding area. Kaduna in the native dialect, Hausa, was the word for "crocodiles". It starts in Plateau State on the Jos Plateau 29 km southwest of Jos town, flows through its namesake Kaduna State and through its capital Kaduna, and meets the Niger River in Niger State. Most of its course passes through open savanna woodland, but its lower section has cut several gorges above its entrance into the extensive Niger floodplains. The river is used for fishing and transport of local produce.

Pollution
Urban and industrial wastes have been linked to elevated temperatures and heavy metal concentrations in the River Kaduna (Arah, 1985). Untreated industrial wastes that are carelessly dumped directly or indirectly into River Kaduna's inflow wastewaters have been determined to be a source of pollution.

Flooding
Due to recurring floods in Kaduna, the federal government established a flood control project. In 2022, flooding from the Kaduna river caused significant property damage to the surrounding area. In November 2022, two teenagers identified as Zakaria Aliyu Yahaya and Yusuf Abdullahi, aged 17 and 16 of the Government Secondary School in Zaria, reportedly drowned while swimming in the Kogin Mutuwa in Kaduna.

Climate
Yearly temperature in Kaduna is 25.2 °C | 77.4 °F. Around 998 mm | 39.3 inch of precipitation falls every year. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 55 °F to 95 °F and is rarely below 50 °F or above 102 °F. Because of its nearness to the equator.

The wet season is warm, oppressive, and overcast and the dry season is hot and partly cloudy. It is very difficult to portray summers in Kaduna definitively. The time of January, February, Walk, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December is generally viewed as the best season for Holiday visitation or visits.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Californian Accent

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Californian Accent
This page appears to be made up "original research" (using the term loosely). Daniel Quinlan 06:05, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

See also VfD for Californian Dialect mutation article. Mikkalai 22:40, 22 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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 * Delete. As a native Californian, I can tell you that there is no such thing as a statewide accent. (Maybe the O.C. but that's another story). The immigrants from other countries and the migrants from other areas of the United States that have come over the years have made that impossible. Zzyzx11 09:41, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. -- Robert Pendray 09:43, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Californians would call it "California accent" anyway.  The use of the word "Californian" as an adjective is not a California usage.  RickK 09:45, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * keep or rename if references can be provided . The idea that there is no Calfornia(n) accent is POV. I get 1,670 google hits for "califonian accent" and 3,370 for "california accent", although a lot of them seem to be about california accent pillows and car rentals, whatever they might be. Kappa 14:01, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * One reference: http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/californian/
 * Comment - Until you cite some references to research papers from notable linguistics, colleges and universities, I will stand by my Delete vote. Zzyzx11 19:40, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * That's ok, but at least it refutes the 'original research' theory which is the basis for this nomination. Kappa 20:27, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment:Well that source confirms that there is no single "California Accent". There are many California accents.  As a native Californian, I have also noticed the many different accents. — J3ff 21:47, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * So should we try to cover them or not? Kappa 23:58, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Beware orig research. Let us better try to "notice" a book on the topic. Then it will speak in favor of the article. Mikkalai 00:38, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Citizens of some other states seem to sound the same to me. There's no such thing as an accent within the borders of California. Plus, California is home to people from all around the world, who speak English with their own accent, so who's to say what California's one accent is? There's no need for this article. Evanwohrman 00:58, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Two reasons ... I've heard people in media sciences (and in the tech side of entertainment, where my experience is) refer to this as the "Western Regional Dialect," not the Californian Accent. Secondly, the article doesn't have it right ... now if they had noted that "o" as in "not" becomes "aw" as in "nawt," well, then they might have a point! HyperZonktalk 02:51, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: 3 google hits for "Western Regional Dialect", including this one bartleby . Kappa 11:03, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete homogeonous californian accent is questionable, and even if it wasn't, there already exists a Regional accents of English speakers article. --DaveTheRed 04:17, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * There's now a redirect on Californian Dialect pointing to this page. Rl 20:49, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes someone redirected Californian Accent but I've reverted it since it's on Vfd. Kappa 22:13, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, Californian Dialect is a mutation of Californian Accent, and must be on VfD of its own. Mikkalai 22:37, 22 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, mainly because, well, Californians don't sound like that. --Yath 22:45, 22 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aidwe&co

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Aidwe&co
Non-notable software company. Gets 900 Google hits, most seem unrelated; 5 Usenet hits; website is "in progress". JoaoRicardo 09:44, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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 * Delete Non-notable software company -- Longhair 13:48, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Reads like self-promotion. Zzyzx11 19:42, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - promotion for non-existent software company. Site is hosted on freewebs.com and has been under construction since 2003. I don't know why the hell they bothered. -- Cyrius|✎ 19:52, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)