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The name of the movie
Does anyone know why it's called Scent of a Woman, women/or a woman are of minor significance in this film, it's not like Charlie is keeping quiet for his girlfriend or anything. I had thought maybe Slade being blind being able to smell them might have something to do with it, but his testimony for Charlie has nothing to do with a woman or women. The snare (talk) 20:26, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Hysterical Trivia
Trivia should be limited to things for which citations can be given. It should not be the target of wishful thinking.

Also: isn't it nice of the foreign box offices to keep things nice and tidy in even MILLIONS? Let's not look the fools here. Currently that's exactly what we look like.

found it very hard to find this... i searched on google -"scent of a woman" wikipedia- and got to a theater actor... bargh.. the answers.com-http://www.answers.com/topic/scent-of-a-woman is a copy of this one and only says that it "uses" this site

quotes from the movie: there's also a bunch in http://www.garnersclassics.com/qscent.htm "dont fuck with me charlie" "and if you think youre hip kid yyoure gonna hop to, too" "and once youve sung charlie my boy you're gonna take your place on that long grey line of american manhood/and you will be through" "I've got a loaded 45 and you got pimples" "No time to grow a dick, son" "I'm in the dark here, you understand, I'm in the dark" -yelling and most importantly "If youre tangled up just tango on"

here's the imdb site: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105323/ here's the tagline-from imdb: Col. Frank Slade has a very special plan for the weekend. It involves travel, women, good food, fine wine, the tango, chauffeured limousines and a loaded forty-five. And he's bringing Charlie along for the ride.

Dwarf Kirlston Feb 27 2005 22:14 Time Zone-Brasilia

Contents: History, Plot, Awards, Money, Trivia, Soundtrack Related: Al Pacino, Depression Dwarf Kirlston Feb 27 2005 22:14 Time Zone-Brasilia

Some grammatical errors have been corrected. The latter half of the plot, however, still requires further attention to improve poor writing quality. - AWF
 * Yep.

Stub ?
This article is not a stub any more I guess its time to remove stub tag

Good catch. Removed that. --Dave 03:36, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Airline version
Why did the director disown the airline cut of this film? --Navstar 16:26, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I, too, am curious, but I assume it's because of being edited for content and language. - JNighthawk 05:51, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Content and language is more than enough for the US of A. That or a Janet Jackson nipple. Kids might turn into psychopaths you know. Not anywhere else on the globe - just in the US. We therefore have to be very careful. We can talk and act as dirty as we want but it must never be official on celluloid.

 * Where is that documented? There's no mention of it in the article now (eight years later), and AWB doesn't show any mention of "airline" in the revision history. To discuss this with me, please me. Thnidu (talk) 19:03, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Movie Reviews
This discussion is about a Wiki article and how it can be improved. It is NOT a discussion board for fans of the movie.

Acrimony on Thanksgiving
I watched the movie last week, and my recollection of Slade's surprise visit to his relatives on Thanksgiving Day was that it was acrimonious from start to finish. Hence, my decision to alter the phrase "ends in acrimony", which implies that the acrimony began somewhat after the middle.

I wonder if anyone else who's seen the film will back me up on this: Does anyone recall a pleasant word being spoken in the hallway, or during the meal? Slade was rude and condescending from the very beginning. Then he monopolized the dinner conversation with cutting remarks.

 * acrimony - harsh or biting sharpness especially of words, manner, or disposition

Finally, one man starts insulting him back, while Slade uncharacteristically responds mildly and the other relatives ask the man to stop with the insults. Slade lets him go until he crosses some sort of line, at which the evening ends in violence of a near-fatal sort.

We might not need all this detail in the article, but to say "ends in acrimony" is inaccurate. The biting sharpness of words is there from the start; it does not commence at the end. --Uncle Ed (talk) 14:07, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

 * My point was the inner details need not be known. Slade shows up, deliberately provokes everyone and by the end of dinner, he's succeeded in alienating himself from his family that much more.  Someone was writing in the little piece about "don't call him Chuck" as if it had any relevance to a greater summary of the plot.  We could even chop the entire paragraph off and change it to, "an incident at Slade's brother's home further alienates Slade from his family.--Louiedog (talk) 17:46, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

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Steve Kline (left-handed pitcher)

Steven James Kline (born August 22, 1972) is an American college baseball coach for the IUP Crimson Hawks. He is also a former professional relief pitcher who pitched for the Cleveland Indians, Montreal Expos, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, and San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB) over an 11-year career. Kline attended West Virginia University, where he played college baseball for the Mountaineers.

Cleveland Indians
Kline was selected by the Cleveland Indians in the 8th round of the 1993 draft as a starting pitcher.

In 1994, he led the South Atlantic League with 18 wins (a team record), 174 strikeouts, and 185.2 innings pitched while playing for Single-A Columbus (Georgia), earning him the Bob Feller Award as Cleveland's best minor league pitcher.

Following a difficult season in 1996, where Kline went 8–12 with a 5.46 ERA at the Double A level, the Indians began using Kline primarily as a reliever for 1997.

Kline made his major league debut with the Indians in their 1997 season opener. He entered in the 6th inning with 1 out and a runner on base, against the Oakland Athletics with the score tied 6-6. He induced a flyout from Scott Spiezio for his first major league out, and the baserunner (Ernie Young) was caught stealing on the next pitch. He earned his first major league win as the Indians rallied to take the lead in the next half inning with Kline as the pitcher of record. He would go on to strike out his first major league batter (future teammate Jim Edmonds) in his next appearance. Kline ultimately struggled early in the season, and was sent back down to Triple A, where he continued to be used primarily as a reliever.

At the 1997 MLB Trading Deadline, Kline was traded to the Montreal Expos for pitcher Jeff Juden.

Montreal Expos
Kline appeared in 26 games with the Expos in 1997, though he struggled to a 6.15 ERA. Combined, his 1997 ERA between both Montreal and Cleveland was 5.98.

However, Kline began to take big strides forward as a left-handed reliever during the 1998 season. He held left-handed batters to a .178 average, and proved that his arsenal of pitches could be successful against both righty and lefty batters as even righties hit only .253 off him. He earned his first major league save on August 9 against the Arizona Diamondbacks, entering the game to start the 8th inning in a save situation (ahead 5–2), and finishing off what became an 8–2 victory. He finished 1998 with a 2.76 ERA in 78 appearances. His 78 appearances tied for second in the National League with Robb Nen and Chuck McElroy, and sixth in baseball.

In 1999 and 2000, he continued his strong pitching. He posted a career high total for wins in a single season in 1999 (7), and achieved a rare feat by striking out 4 batters in an inning against the San Francisco Giants on August 17. In 2000, Kline was actually used as the closer in June and part of July, amassing a career best 14 saves. He would actually lead or tie for the lead in Major League baseball for relief appearances in both seasons, demonstrating his durability, and the fact that he was a key reliever who had earned the trust of his manager.

In December 2000, Kline was part of what at the time was a blockbuster offseason trade between the Expos and St. Louis Cardinals as he headed to the Cardinals with pitcher Dustin Hermanson for young pitcher Britt Reames and the injury prone young slugger Fernando Tatis.

St. Louis Cardinals
During his time in St. Louis, Kline quickly became a fan favorite, known for the dirty hat he always wore when pitching. It was even inspiration for a Cardinals promotion at the ballpark in 2002, which the team called "Steve Kline Hat Day," and an ESPN feature on the subject. Kline was also active in the community with charity work, and quickly became known as an "everyman" who enjoyed spending time with fans and signing autographs. Kline easily ended up being the catch of that trade as he had his best season to date in 2001, finishing 3–3 with a 1.80 ERA and again leading all of MLB in relief appearances with 89, setting a new MLB record for a left-hander in a single season. It was the third consecutive season Kline had tied or led MLB in appearances. He held left-handed batters to a .149 batting average. Additionally, not only did Kline not allow a left-handed batter to hit a home run off him all season, he did not allow a single extra-base hit to a lefty either. After his strong campaign, Kline even received an MVP vote, the only time in his career he did so.

He remained one of the top left-handed relievers in baseball through the 2004 season, though, rather infamously in 2001 and 2002, he threw the pitches that ended both Cardinals' seasons during the MLB playoffs. In 2001, he gave up a walk off series winning single to Tony Womack of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the Division Series, and in 2002, Kenny Lofton got him for a similar hit in the NLCS to send the San Francisco Giants to the World Series against the Anaheim Angels. However, he was a key cog in both postseasons for the Cardinals. In fact, in 2001, Kline was called upon to close out both Cardinals victories in their 5-game Division Series loss to the Diamondbacks, and he responded with 2 saves in those clutch situations.

Kline's overall effectiveness against left-handed batters was again highlighted on August 12, 2002, despite the fact that in that game he gave up a home run to left-handed slugger Brian Giles. It was noted that the home run was the first Kline had allowed to a left-handed batter in over 2 years (the last had been to Troy O'Leary on July 17, 2000).

Kline appeared in his 500th Major League game on August 13, 2003, pitching 1.1 scoreless innings against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Kline posted a career year in 2004, at 2–2 with a 1.79 ERA. He did not surrender an earned run pitching at home at Busch Stadium, and held left-handed batters to a .143 average. He was also part of the Cardinals' run to the World Series, where they fell to the Boston Red Sox. However, he was not able to pitch in the World Series after aggravating a finger tendon injury in the 2004 NLCS against the Houston Astros.

During the 2004-05 offseason, Kline signed as a free agent with the Baltimore Orioles.

Baltimore Orioles
During his first week of play with the Orioles, Kline lashed out at his teammates for not supporting him like his Cardinals teammates had when he said, "I'm so used to (Edgar) Rentería and Jimmy (Edmonds) running down my mistakes and picking me up." He also bashed his home fans when he declared, "There's nothing worse than getting booed at home. St. Louis fans are too good for that. They understand the game more than most people."

Following the 2005 season, in which he posted a 4.28 ERA, Baltimore traded Kline to the San Francisco Giants for set-up reliever LaTroy Hawkins.

San Francisco Giants
Following the struggles of his 2005 campaign, Kline had a successful debut season in 2006 with the Giants, posting a 4–3 record to go along with a 3.66 ERA. He appeared in his 700th game on July 26, 2006, pitching a scoreless inning against the Washington Nationals, who of course had been the Expos when Kline had pitched for them earlier in his career in Montreal. All told, he would appear in 72 games in 2006.

On December 8, 2006, the Giants re-signed Kline to a two-year deal.

Kline was used as a left-handed specialist in the 2007 season, pitching in 68 games, and worked 46 innings with a 4.70 ERA and a 1–2 record. However, Kline struggled in 2007 compared to his earlier success, as lefties hit .318 off him.

On May 13, 2007, while the Giants were routing the Colorado Rockies 15–1, in the 8th inning, Kline gave up a single to Yorvit Torrealba. Torrealba stole second, meaningless to the Giants, and scored on a base hit for the Rockies' second run. Kline told the newspapers he was angry at Torrealba for stealing a base in a 15–1 game, saying "You know what? I'm a dumb hick, and I forget a lot of things, but I'm not gonna forget that." Torrealba responded by saying "What's he gonna do? Hit me with an 84 MPH fastball?" The next time Kline faced the Rockies, on May 26, 2007, Torrealba was hit on the first pitch by Kline with an 88 MPH fastball. As Torrealba walked to first, he said something angrily to Kline, and the benches cleared. The two had to be restrained by teammates and the umpires while they struggled to fight each other.

After a poor spring training before the season, Kline was designated for assignment on March 30 and was released on April 5. On April 10, 2008, Kline signed a minor league contract with the Philadelphia Phillies and was assigned to their Triple-A affiliate, the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. On June 9, 2008, Kline was ejected from a game for making contact with an umpire; facing a fine and possible suspension, the Phillies released Kline two days later, on June 11, 2008.

Kline finished his career tied for 11th all-time among left-handed pitchers with 796 appearances.

Post-playing career

After his release from the Phillies in 2008, Kline retired and began coaching in the Giants instructional leagues.

On December 17, 2008, he was announced as the pitching coach for the Single-A Augusta GreenJackets.

On May 10, 2011, he was suspended after he head-butted an umpire. He was later suspended for 15 days and fined $500 for the incident.

On January 26, 2012, he was announced as the pitching coach for the Class A Advanced San Jose Giants.

Then, in the World Baseball Classic Qualifier, which took place in Taiwan from November 15 to 18, 2012, Kline was the pitching coach of team New Zealand. He returned as the Augusta GreenJackets' pitching coach for the 2013 and 2014 seasons.

He served as the pitching coach for the Richmond Flying Squirrels, the Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, from 2015 to 2017 and again from 2020 to 2021. He spent most of the 2018 and 2019 seasons as the pitching coach for the club's Triple-A affiliate, the Sacramento River Cats, with a brief stint as the San Francisco Giants' bullpen coach in 2019.

On June 4, 2021, he was named head coach of Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Division II baseball team.

Pitching style
Known for his colorful sound bites, he has accused umpires of favoring the New York Yankees and has jokingly said he thought about putting one ump in the "Cobra Clutch". One of Kline's signature pitches is a sinker that seems to "roll off the kitchen table". He utilized this pitch frequently when serving as a setup man for the St. Louis Cardinals. He also had an above average slider that he often featured against left-handed batters throughout his career, and would throw the occasional changeup.

Though he did not bat often, Kline, a switch hitter, chose to bat right-handed against right-handed pitchers three times in his career.

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Benjamin Abrams

Benjamin Abrams (August 18, 1893 – June 23, 1967) was an American businessman and a founder of Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corporation after his purchase of Emerson Records in 1922. Along with his brothers he invented a number of devices that are commonplace today, among them midget transistor radios, self-powered radios, and clock radios.

Biography
He was born in Dorohoi, Romania and emigrated with his parents to the United States when he was 12.

He was a prominent donor to Jewish cause. He was a founder of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, a founder of the Greater New York Committee for Israel Bonds, and a founder and board member of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Greater New York. He served as a member of the board of directors of the United Jewish Appeal, the Weizmann Institute, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel, and the American Friends of the Hebrew University. In 1954, he funded the electronic laboratory at the Weizmann Institute at Rehovot which was named in his honor.

Abrams was a Freemason. He was a member of Farragut Lodge No 976 in New York.

He was married to Elizabeth Kramer. In 1964, his daughter Cynthia Abrams married businessman Nelson Peltz; they divorced in 1981.

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Dukbur Griplok
Haldo peoples! Dukbur Griplok is my main character on the maelin starpyre server on Everquest. He is a Froglok Warrior, currently level 33.

My Chihuahua is annoying but cool!

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To Do

 * Continue translating to Gianfrancesco Guarnieri from pt:Gianfrancesco Guarnieri

Questions

 * Is there a disconnect between the prestige associated to success, and the lack of prestige associated to the means employed to reach success?

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Talk:Dragoon

Merge in mounted infantry
I think the article mounted infantry should be merged into this article. --Philip Baird Shearer 14:41, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I disagree. That was indeed originally what dragoons were, but the term "mounted infantry" began to be commonly used long after dragoons had become standard cavalry. -- Necrothesp 18:28, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree -- too many similarities between the two - Brian Stout.

Keep them separate. Dragoons and mounted infantry may have had similar functions in their respective beginnings but they did not share a common time frame and evolved into quite different types of horse soldiesrs.

 * I agree with those who disagree - keep them separate - they are not the same. Dragoons morphed into something different over time.  There should also be mention of the Australian Light Horse units of WWI in the Mounted Infantry article.  As well, add a link to the Cavalry article at the bottom of the Dragoons page. -- Tom Rycroft, 6 Apr 06

I agree with Tom just use the link at the bottom of the page.

The categories should not be merged. The Society of the Military Horse has started a thread on its website on the merger of these topics, and this topic in general. Pat H. http://www.militaryhorse.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6393

Dragoon page should not be listed under pigeon breeds Dragoon
I am not sure if this should be folded into it or not, but it should not be listed under pigeon breeds, Dragoon. While there is a pigeon breed called Dragoon, this article has nothing to do with that breed.

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False Link
I removed the link to Dragon, because, well, it's not the right link. The Disambiguation page doesn't list a carbine called a dragon, so unless someone can provide the right article, I don't think this should have a hyperlink at all.

In case you didnt know...
In the game The Legend of dragoon, a Dragoon is a warrior said to come in time of need to fight such things as winglies. When in fact a dragoon is a soldier that rides on horseback. Also in the game a dragoon can gain five d lv ( dragoon levels). Maybe this is a thing that also reverts to history. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.122.64.178 (talk) 18:28, 31 January 2007 (UTC).

Just a small curiosity. The Portuguese army had a Cavalry group in the Colonial War, called the Angolan Dragoons, that used horses. Just to make a small footnote of history, as they look similar to dragoons, at least in some functions, like patrol and recon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.136.56.89 (talk) 12:57, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Information re; American Dragoons worth it's own entry
I think the very detailed section regarding the US Dragoon regiments confuses the entry, which until this point appears to be a general overview of the cavalry unit type. It would be better to replace this section with a brief detail of the US Dragoons, and resection the additional information and historical detail in a new entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.178.109.150 (talk) 14:39, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

 * I agree. The extensive material assembled on historical American dragoons is excellent and would serve as a solid basis for a separate "U.S. Dragoons" article. It is however a bit out of place amongst a listing of surviving dragoon regiments in modern armies. Brief details recording the present day U.S. units with a dragoon heritage should be sufficient for this part of the general "Dragoon" article. Buistr (talk) 00:06, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

 * I also agree. Espcially as the subheadline is "Modern Dragoons", I is not appropiate to have a small essay about historial U.S. dragoons in the Early American Wars. Beringar —Preceding comment was added at 21:37, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Concur. The American entry should either be removed or placed in its own article if it merits independent treatment. Peter (talk) 14:49, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Brazilian Dragoons
Since i've started to learn english, Everyone said that i shouldn't translate names, but in the Brazil section, all names are translated. I'm editing to correct this.

Original -> Translation, Pedro I -> Peter I, João IV -> John IV 189.59.190.59 (talk) 13:24, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Norwegian Dragoons
Added some details regarding Norwegian Dragoons. Kingvald (talk) 12:51, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Period when dragoons were established in national armies
I think that there is an error in the opening section of this article. That is the statement "During the late 18th century and the Napoleonic Wars dragoon regiments were formed in most European armies". Starting with the French Army (prior to 1669) dragoons were established in Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Wurttemberg, England, Sardinia, Portugal, Russia, Spain and Sweden during the second half of the 17th or the very early 18th centuries. The only significant exceptions amongst European armies appear to have been those of Denmark (1807) and the Netherlands (1849). If no one has any objections I will reword the sentence accordingly. Buistr (talk) 07:33, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Germany
Is Image:2. Badisches Dragoner Rgt.jpg an illustration of Baden Dragoons? --Una Smith (talk) 01:05, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Age of Emps
Short section titled "Popular Culture" added. Recorded the role in the unsigned comment added by Resident Mario (talk • contribs) 20:29, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

At the end of the 18th century there were three tercios[...]. In 1704 disbanded
18th Century: 1701-1800, can't have been disbanded in 1704, or can't have been 3 tercios of Dragoons at the end of the 18th century. Dubious. Fifelfoo (talk) 05:08, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Modern use of horse-mounted troops
See this article on the use of horses in 20th century counter-insurgency warfare - http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a237625.pdf The South African army had a horse-mounted infantry unit until 2006 when 12 SA Infantry Battalion was disbanded - http://www.dod.mil.za/sasoldier/2007/mar2007.pdf (page 28). Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:58, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Dragon and French guns
According to the French page, the name for the mounted infantry can't come from the weapons since they were never called Dragon in French. I therefore mark that statement as dubious. BP OMowe (talk) 20:39, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Correct and the alternative explanation given by French sources (that dragons of the fire-breathing lizard variety were used as a symbol on the standards carried by some early mounted infantry units) seems more convincing. However it does seem that no-one really knows for sure.Buistr (talk) 23:36, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I found this source which supports the "dragons on standards" origin. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:28, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

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Need to emphasize dismounted origins?
As discussed in the Wiki article for calvary in general, " Infantry who moved on horseback, but dismounted to fight on foot, were known in the 17th and early 18th centuries as dragoons, a class of mounted infantry which later evolved into cavalry proper while retaining their historic title." The dismounting is implied by classifying them as infantry, but we don't make it explicitly clear. Since this was a defining difference between calvary in general and dragoons specifically in earlier incarnations, it seems like this is an importnt thing to note in the lead, and elsewhere.12.11.127.253 (talk) 22:37, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

 * ✅. Thanks for pointing this out.  --A D Monroe III (talk) 16:50, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Napoleonic period British cavalry
There seems to me some confusion in the article about the regiments and designations of British cavalry in the Napoleonic Wars period. Although regiments of dragoons were considered to be 'medium cavalry' in France, this is not the case in Britain, the concept of medium cavalry didn't exist. The heavy cavalry consisted of the Household Cavalry (3 regiments: 1st and 2nd Life Guards, and the Royal Horse Guards (Blues)), the Dragoon Guards (7 regiments) and the Dragoons (nominally 6 regiments, but the 5th Dragoons were disbanded for suspected treasonous intentions). The Household and Dragoon guards were considered separate, and the remaining regiments were 'line cavalry' numbered consecutively from 1 to (eventually) 25. The first 6 regiments (as I mentioned ) were "Dragoons" and were heavy cavalry (they had the same equipment and very similar uniforms to the Dragoon Guards), from 7 and up, they were regiments of light cavalry, termed 'Light Dragoons'. From 1806 a number of Light Dragoon regiments (7th,10th,15th and 18th) were renamed 'Hussars', though formally they were called "?th Light Dragoons (Hussars)". They had different uniforms and grew moustaches, but they had the same equipment and role as the remaining Light Dragoons regiments. All the heavy cavalry used the 1796 pattern heavy cavalry sword, and all the light regiments used the 1796 pattern light cavalry sabre.

 * That seems a very accurate summary of the somewhat complex history of dragoons/dragoon guards during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. I wonder though if it is correct to distinguish Dragoon Guards from line cavalry. The sources I have agree that after 1746 the three senior regiments of Horse were converted into Dragoons for reasons of economy (dragoons although no longer mounted infantry were cheaper to equip and maintain). It was to compensate for the loss of status and lower pay that the regiments affected were given the grander title of Dragoon Guards. They remained line (in the sense of ordinary or mainstream) cavalry and did not become Household troops of any sort. All of which sounds like a recipe for desertion or mutiny in some armies but seems to have been accepted without demur. Buistr (talk) 19:26, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

 * Some sources call the Dragoon Guards 'line cavalry', but their status was anomalous. As you say their creation was due to a financial scam on the part of the government. They were not 'household regiments', but the 1st Dragoon Guards were brigaded with the acknowledged household regiments during the 1815 campaign. Also, strangely, any regiment (heavy or light) might be assigned royal escort duty (for example, in the summer of 1796 the 16th Light Dragoons were in attendance on George III at Weymouth). The infantry had no 'household regiments', but did have numbered guards regiments, with all other regiments numbered consecutively from 1st to 100+th. The Dragoon Guards were definitely senior to all other non-household cavalry regiments, but, in the best tradition of British ambiguity and fudging, their exact status, line or quasi-guards, seems to be elusive. Urselius (talk) 17:30, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

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Some inaccuracies
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"The Dragoon Guards regiments were the heavy cavalry regiments of the British Army, although by continental standards they were not the heaviest type of cavalry since they carried no armour (unlike cuirassiers).[20] While some of the cavalry regiments of the line were simply designated as regiments of dragoons i.e. medium cavalry, the lighter cavalry regiments, which were particularly mobile, became regiments of hussars, identified by their 1796-pattern light cavalry sabres[21] or became lancers, identified by the lances that they carried.[22]"

There was no distinction of equipment or type of mount (other than colour for some regiments "Scots Greys", "Queen's Bays") or role between regiments of Dragoon Guards and regiments of Dragoons - same helmet, same sword,, same carbine, same pistols, same saddle etc. The only differences were minor details of uniform (shape of cuffs). To say that one type was heavy and the other was 'medium' cavalry is erroneous, they were both heavy.

Starting from around 1745 there was a gradual introduction of light cavalry into the British army. After c. 1760 whole regiments of dragoons were converted into regiments of "Light Dragoons". By c. 1800 all regiments of dragoons numbered above the 6th were Light Dragoons - they had different uniforms and weapons and, in theory at least, lighter-fleshed mounts (though not necessarily shorter at the withers) from the heavy cavalry. Beginning in 1806-1807 four regiments of Light Dragoons were converted to hussars, the 7th, 10th, 15th and 18th - but officially their names retained the designation Light Dragoons, becoming, for example: "7th Light Dragoons (Hussars)". All regiments of Light Dragoons and Hussars used the 1796 pattern light cavalry sabre. See the first few chapters of Fletcher, Ian (1999), Galloping at Everything: The British Cavalry in the Peninsula and at Waterloo 1808–15, Staplehurst: Spellmount, ISBN 1-86227-016-3 Urselius (talk) 09:38, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

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Érik Bédard

Érik Joseph Bédard (pronounced baydar; born March 5, 1979) is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros and Tampa Bay Rays. With Baltimore, Bédard was the staff ace, setting the franchise single-season strikeouts per nine innings record at 10.93 in 2007.

Early years
Bédard was born on March 5, 1979, in Navan, Ontario, a suburb of Ottawa. A Franco-Ontarian, Bédard began his baseball career in the Orleans Little League and the Ontario Baseball Association. He was a pitcher on the 1992 Orleans Junior Red Sox team which defeated Glace Bay in the 1992 Canadian Championship. Bédard did not play high school baseball, which is common in Canada due to the short playing season.

Although 5 ft and 120 lb as a senior, he grew seven inches and gained 30 lb during the summer between graduating from high school and beginning college. He accompanied a friend to a tryout at Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Connecticut, and made the baseball team as a walk-on.

While in college, he added 10 miles per hour to his fastball, gained another 30 lb, took the "lowest level" non-credit English language course to enhance his knowledge of the language, and became a junior college All-American.

Baltimore Orioles
As a left-handed starter, Bédard was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the sixth round of the 1999 Major League Baseball draft. He made his professional debut with the Gulf Coast Orioles, where he allowed only one earned run in 20.1 innings for an 0.44 ERA, 4th best among all minor league pitchers that year. He spent the 2000 season with the Delmarva Shorebirds of the South Atlantic League, where he was 9–4 with a 3.57 ERA in 29 games (22 starts). In 2001 with the Frederick Keys of the Carolina League, he led all Orioles farmhands with a 2.15 ERA and compiled a 9–2 record in 17 starts.

Bédard made his MLB debut on April 17, 2002, for the Orioles against the New York Yankees. He entered the game in the bottom of the eighth and allowed a single to the first batter he faced (Jason Giambi) before retiring Jorge Posada on a pop fly and striking out Robin Ventura swinging before he was replaced by another reliever. He also appeared in a game on April 21 against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and allowed an RBI single to the only batter he faced (Ben Grieve). He was optioned to the Double-A Bowie Baysox two days later and pitched in 13 games for them, including 12 starts, with a 6–3 record and a 1.97 ERA. He was named the Eastern League's best pitching prospect by Baseball America. However, Bédard left his start on June 26 with pain in his left elbow and would undergo "Tommy John" ligament replacement surgery on September 10.

Bédard spent most of the 2003 season on the disabled list rehabbing his elbow and returned to make only six short starts in the minors late in the season. He received an invitation to big-league spring training the next year and made the most of his opportunity, beating out other pitchers for the fifth spot in the starting rotation. In 2004, he posted a 4.59 ERA in $137 1/3$ innings of work. His strikeout numbers were 7.93 K/9, and he had 71 walks allowed. Bédard was criticized for having a high pitch count (19.5 pitches/inning), forcing him to frequently make early exits from ballgames, and he was criticized for lacking a third type of pitch.

Under the tutelage of pitching coach Ray Miller, who rejoined the Orioles in the middle of the 2004 season, Bédard refined his control of the changeup (his third pitch) to go along with his 91–93 mph fastball and slurve. In the beginning of 2005, he posted a 2.08 ERA, but after a sprained knee sidelined him for two months, he posted a 5.44 ERA. He had one of his best statistical years in 2006, going 15–11 in 33 starts and posting a 3.76 ERA and 1.35 WHIP. He also pitched a total of 196.1 innings, his highest in any season.

Bédard was named the Orioles' 2007 Opening Day starting pitcher. On May 20, he recorded his first major league hit, a single up the middle in the 5th against the Washington Nationals. In his next at-bat, he looped an RBI single over shortstop, going 2–2 with a sacrifice in the game. On July 7, Bédard struck out 15 Texas Rangers, matching the Orioles franchise record set by Mike Mussina. In the same game, he faced the minimum number of batters (27), as the only two batters who reached base were later out on double plays. His 15 strikeouts also set the record for the most in a game by a Canadian. His performance throughout the month earned him the American League Pitcher of the month award for July 2007.

Although he played for a losing team, Bédard's individual performance put him among those shortlisted to contend for the American League Cy Young Award. Then-teammate Kevin Millar stated that Bédard "probably has the best curveball in baseball." Bédard broke the franchise single-season strikeout record on August 26. The previous record was held by Mike Mussina, who had 218 in 1997.

The results of an MRI on September 4 confirmed that Bédard suffered a strained oblique in his previous start on August 26. Because the Orioles were eliminated from playoff contention later that week, manager Dave Trembley decided to shut down Bédard for the remainder of the season on September 9, prematurely ending his season by placing him on the 60-day disabled list.

Bédard finished the season with a 13–5 record, posting a 3.16 ERA with 221 strikeouts. He was eligible for arbitration from the Orioles during the 2007–2008 offseason.

Seattle Mariners
On February 8, 2008, Bédard was traded to the Seattle Mariners in a 5-for-1 deal sending outfielder Adam Jones and pitchers George Sherrill, Tony Butler, Chris Tillman and Kam Mickolio to the Orioles. On February 13, Mariners manager John McLaren announced that he would be their Opening Day starter. Bédard then signed a one-year, $7 million deal with the Mariners on February 15, avoiding salary arbitration. He was 6–4 with a 3.67 ERA in 15 starts for the Mariners in 2008 but on July 10, 2008, he was placed on the 15-day disabled list with stiffness in his left shoulder. He missed the rest of the season and underwent arthroscopic surgery on the shoulder on September 26.

Bédard only played the first four months of the 2009 season before landing on the disabled list again due to a torn labrum in his pitching shoulder. He finished with a 5–3 record and a 2.82 ERA.

On February 6, 2010, Bédard re-signed with the Mariners to a one-year contract with a mutual option for 2011. At the start of the 2010 season, there was hope he would return to the majors as soon as May or June 2010. Since then, he suffered multiple setbacks while rehabbing his shoulder and did not pitch in the majors in 2010, though he did appear in three minor league rehab games.

After the 2010 season, the Mariners declined their 2011 option on Bédard's contract and re-signed him to an incentive laden non-guaranteed contract. He appeared in 16 games for the Mariners to start the 2011 season, with a 4–7 record and a 3.45 ERA.

Boston Red Sox
On July 31, 2011, Bédard and minor league pitcher Josh Fields were traded to the Boston Red Sox for minor league outfielders Trayvon Robinson and Chih-Hsien Chiang as part of a three team deal that also involved minor leaguers Tim Federowicz, Stephen Fife and Juan Rodriguez going to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Bedard made eight starts for the Red Sox in August and September. He never went more than six innings, and had one win, two losses and a 4.03 ERA.

Pittsburgh Pirates
On December 7, 2011, the Pittsburgh Pirates signed Bédard to a one-year, $4.5 million contract. He was their 2012 Opening Day Starter.

Bedard had 7 wins, 14 losses and an ERA of 5.02 in 24 starts, and was released on August 28.

Houston Astros
After their move to the American League, the Houston Astros signed Bédard to a minor-league deal on January 21, 2013. He recorded his first career save on opening day, March 31, 2013, with $3 1/3$ innings of relief against rival Texas Rangers. On July 21, 2013, he pitched $6 1/3$ innings of a no hitter when he asked to leave his no-hitter after 109 pitches. In 32 appearances (26 starts) for the Astros, he was 4–12 with a 4.59 ERA.

Tampa Bay Rays
On February 17, 2014, he signed a minor league contract with the Tampa Bay Rays. He was released by the Rays on March 25 and became a free agent, exercising an "opt-out" clause in his contract after not making the starting rotation at the end of spring training. A few days later, he changed his mind and agreed to report to the Durham Bulls, the AAA minor league affiliate of the Rays.

On April 11 the Rays announced that Bédard had been called up from Durham to the major league team. He pitched for the Rays until he was designated for assignment on July 28, 2014. Bédard was released on August 3. In 17 appearances (15 starts), he was 4–6 with a 4.76 ERA.

Los Angeles Dodgers
On January 18, 2015, Bédard signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. On March 23 the Dodgers announced that Bédard would miss four to six weeks after he strained his back during a spring training appearance, ending any chance he had to make the opening day roster. After spending the start of the season in extended spring training rehabilitating his injury Bedard was assigned to the Class-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes on May 25. He made three starts for the Quakes with a 1–1 record and 5.02 ERA before announcing his retirement on June 11.

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a memoir by Dave Eggers. Published in 2000, it chronicles his stewardship of his younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents.

The book was a commercial and critical success, reaching number one on The New York Times bestseller list and being nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Time magazine and several newspapers dubbed it "The Best Book of the Year". Critics praised the book for its wild, vibrant prose, and it was described as "big, daring [and] manic-depressive" by The New York Times. The book was chosen as the 12th best book of the decade by The Times.

Important characters

 * Heidi McSweeney Eggers – Eggers's mother, a woman who has to deal with raising her children while suffering from stomach cancer. She dies in January 1992, relatively early in the book.
 * John K. Eggers – Eggers's father was a heavy smoker and drinker. When he was a child, Eggers remembers his father as an angry drunk, often chasing after his children, trying to catch them so that he could spank them. Like Eggers's mother, his father has a minor role in the book, as he died November 1991, prior to Eggers's mother.
 * William D. Eggers – Eggers's oldest brother. He lives in Los Angeles, and is not mentioned much in the book.
 * Elizabeth Anne "Beth" Eggers – Eggers's sister. Beth took care of her dying mother and helped Eggers raise Toph, their younger brother, after their parents died.
 * Christopher M. "Toph" or "Topher" Eggers – Eggers's younger brother, whom he must finish rearing after his parents' deaths and his older siblings are unable.
 * Shalini – In one part of the book Shalini falls from a building patio and must stay in the hospital until she has recovered from her coma. Eggers visits her often in the hospital. When not visiting her, Eggers goes to the pub to drink and 'check out' girls.
 * Sari Locker – A sexologist, with whom Eggers fantasizes about having sex.
 * Marny Requa – After Eggers creates a magazine titled Might, he becomes good friends with Marny, a girl with whom he works. He sometimes imagines having sex with her, but Marny always gets Eggers's mind off sex and back on focus with the magazine.
 * Kirsten – Eggers and Kirsten remain friends after their relationship is over. Kirsten and Beth help Eggers rear Toph, even after Kirsten and Beth move two hours away from Eggers and Toph.
 * John – A friend of Eggers’ who often reaches out to him during crisis moments in his struggles with drugs and alcohol, often leading to Eggers intervening and sending him to rehab.

Themes
The book's primary story is Eggers's learning to be both brother and parent to Toph. It starts out with Eggers, Toph, and Beth dealing with their mother and father's stomach and lung cancer illnesses, respectively. After their parents' deaths, Eggers, Toph, and Beth's lives become complicated. The three children move from Illinois to California.

Beth lives on her own at first, and Toph becomes Eggers's responsibility. Eggers, a man in his early 20s, has to raise a child as if he were his own. Eggers's life can no longer involve things many 20-year-olds would like to do. For example, Eggers cannot stay out of the house all night at the bar and bring home a different girl every week, something which he talks about wanting to do in his book in detail.

With the help of an inheritance and Social Security, Eggers and Toph rent apartments in neighborhoods where Toph can go to private schools and Eggers can work on his magazine venture. Eggers is occasionally self-conscious about the cleanliness of their various homes and worries that other people will mistakenly find him unfit to parent Toph, but counterbalances these images with recollections of including Toph in fun activities (frisbee, for example) and cooking, laundering, and driving for Toph.

Eggers talks thoroughly about how much he loves and cares for Toph. Eggers says he would kill or severely hurt anyone who hurts Toph. In addition, all the times Eggers leaves Toph at home with a babysitter, Eggers is constantly wondering whether or not Toph is okay.

Summary
In Lake Forest, Illinois, Dave Eggers and his siblings, Bill, Beth and Toph (who is 13 years younger than his next-eldest sibling, Dave) endure the sudden death of their father due to lung cancer. Their mother dies a month later from stomach cancer after a long struggle.

Afterwards, Eggers, Beth and Toph move to California. Bill, who does not play a large role in the plot, eventually moves to Los Angeles. The rest of the family live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Eggers and Toph begin living on their own in a dilapidated, untamed fashion. Eggers struggles between moments of feeling that his approach to parenting is calculated and brilliantly designed to make Toph well-adjusted, to worrying that his hands-off approach and commitment to personal projects will make Toph maladjusted. Eggers's own attempts to lead a normal life as a young adult often involve fairly ordinary encounters with women and alcohol, but are depicted by the author as somewhat surreal. Due to his parents' death and his duty to take care of Toph, he feels robbed of his youth, and this fuels his pursuit of sex and irresponsibility.

Eggers and his friends organize an independent magazine called Might in San Francisco and become engrossed in the Generation X subculture. Much of the magazine's history is portrayed in the book. Eggers also auditions for MTV's The Real World in a development on the theme of exhibitionism.

Real-life aspects
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is usually classified as a memoir or autobiography, although it includes tangential fantasy scenes. Eggers occasionally "compresses" time, making events in the book closer in time to one another than they actually were to enhance the flow of the story.

Eggers sometimes has characters lapse into breaking the fourth wall by acknowledging their existence within the book at several points when talking to him. In these cases, the characters often abandon their typical real-life personalities and characteristics, becoming tools with which Eggers can express and analyze his own thoughts and feelings in an "internal" dialogue, or vehicles for self-criticism.

Eggers points out which parts of the book were fictionalized or exaggerated in the course of the book and the preface. One critic has noted that the very title of Eggers’ memoir invites a discussion of how the reader is to engage with the book. In this view, the title, as a so-called "allographic paratext", is seen as an invitation for the reader not to "dismiss the emotionally tinged style as bathos" but rather accept "the premise that this book, in part, is a textualized trauma" and thus the reader is "called upon to be sympathetic to the emotional sincerity found in the book."

Preface and addenda
The book includes lengthy preface and acknowledgement sections, a list of tips to help better enjoy the book (including several tips not to bother reading large sections of the book), and a guide to its symbols and metaphors.

Later printings of the book also include an addendum called Mistakes We Knew We Were Making, which details some of the deliberate omissions and composite events that made the book flow more easily.

Film adaptation
In 2002, New Line Cinema bought the rights to adapt the book into a film. The screenplay was written by novelist Nick Hornby and screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis. In a 2007 interview, Eggers told Entertainment Weekly that a film version was unlikely to be seen, saying that the studio's option on the film had run out.


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Adam Loewen

Adam Alexander Loewen (born April 9, 1984) is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher and outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Toronto Blue Jays, Philadelphia Phillies, and Arizona Diamondbacks.

Loewen pitched in major leagues for the Orioles from 2006 to 2008, before converting to a position player. He played with the Blue Jays as an outfielder in 2011. After spending the next two seasons in the minor leagues as a position player, Loewen converted back into a pitcher, and was called up to the Phillies in August 2015. He pitched for the Diamondbacks in 2016.

Though there have been full-time pitchers who have converted to full-time position players, and vice versa, Loewen's three stage career (converting from full-time pitcher to full-time position player and back to full-time pitcher) is unique in major league history.

Biography
Loewen grew up in Surrey, British Columbia, and was both a starting pitcher and first baseman for Kennedy-Surrey Little League, the team that represented Canada at the 1996 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He would go on to attend Fraser Valley Christian High School and play baseball for the Whalley Chiefs of the British Columbia Premier Baseball League. He committed to play college baseball at Arizona State. While still in high school, he pitched a no-hitter against the Dominican Summer League Pirates for the Canadian national baseball team.

Baltimore Orioles
The Baltimore Orioles selected Loewen in the first round, with the fourth overall pick, of the 2002 Major League Baseball draft. This was the highest a Canadian player had ever been drafted until righthander Jameson Taillon was drafted second overall by the Pittsburgh Pirates (though he remains the highest Canadian-born player ever picked, as Taillon was born the child of Canadian nationals in Florida). Loewen went on to play one season with Chipola College, but signed a Major League Baseball contract with Baltimore worth $4.02 million shortly thereafter. In 2004, he was named their top prospect by Baseball America. However, by early 2006, he had been downgraded to the team's second best prospect.

Loewen garnered international attention on March 8, 2006, when he started for Canada against the United States team in the first round of the 2006 World Baseball Classic. Loewen pitched $3 2/3$ scoreless innings and earned the win.

During the season, Loewen was called up by the Orioles. In his first four major league starts, he faced three former Cy Young Award winners: Randy Johnson, Tom Glavine and Roy Halladay, whom he faced twice. This made Loewen the first pitcher in Major League Baseball history to face Cy Young winners in his first four starts. He was injured early in the season, suffering a stress fracture to his pitching elbow, and was later placed on the 60-day disabled list in May.

Loewen began to develop control problems during spring training, where he led the Majors in walks, with 19 in just over 16 innings. His lack of control did not cease during the early stages of the regular season, and after experiencing soreness in his left arm throughout April, Loewen was placed on the disabled list and missed the next two months of the season. Although he was subsequently converted into a relief pitcher when he returned in July, he experienced a sharp pain in his surgically repaired elbow. This injury, diagnosed as a stress fracture, eventually caused him to prematurely end his season. Loewen announced on July 19 that he would no longer be a pitcher due to his chronic injuries, and that he would convert to an outfielder/first baseman. He temporarily ended his pitching career with a lifetime 8–8 record, with an earned run average of 5.38 and 134 strikeouts; he would return to pitching in 2014, as recounted below.

Transition to position player
Due to the nature of his injury and his inability to remain as a pitcher, Loewen had the Orioles' support when he made the decision to transition to a position player. His contract stipulated that he was required to remain with the big league club on its active roster at this stage in his career. As Loewen would need time in the minors to learn a new position and pick up batting experience, both sides agreed on October 20, 2008, that Loewen would be released from his contract. Both sides had talked about re-signing him to a minor league contract though no formal agreement was ever reached. The Orioles had hoped to develop Loewen to play at first base but were also actively in the market to sign free agent first basemen. Loewen reportedly received several offers from other teams, and signed a minor-league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays. After attending minor-league spring training with the Jays, Loewen was assigned to the Dunedin Blue Jays on April 9, 2009.

During 2011 with Triple-A Las Vegas, Loewen batted .306 with 17 home runs and 85 RBI in 134 games, which also saw him play all three outfield positions as well as first base.

Toronto Blue Jays
Loewen was called up to the Blue Jays on September 6, 2011, marking his first trip back to the majors since becoming a position player. Loewen made his position player debut on September 7, against the Boston Red Sox. He recorded his first career hit in the eighth inning, against reliever Daniel Bard. In a game against his former team, the Baltimore Orioles, on September 11, Loewen hit his first career home run, a solo shot over the centre field wall off starter Tommy Hunter.

New York Mets
On November 22, 2011, Loewen signed a minor league contract with the New York Mets. He spent most of the 2012 season with the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons, batting .227 with eight home runs and 27 RBI in 63 games.

Toronto Blue Jays (second stint)
The Toronto Blue Jays announced on January 12, 2013, that Loewen had been signed to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. Initially, Loewen was to start the 2013 season with the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats; however, on April 2, Loewen was promoted to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons, where he played during 2012 in the Mets farm system. On April 11, Loewen was sent down to Double-A New Hampshire. In 115 games with New Hampshire, he hit .269 with 15 home runs and 60 RBI.

Philadelphia Phillies and return to pitching
On April 16, 2014, Loewen signed a two-year minor league contract with the Philadelphia Phillies as a pitcher. The team sent him to extended spring training. He made two starts in May for the High-A Clearwater Threshers before being promoted to the Double-A Reading Fightin Phils.

On August 7, 2015, Loewen was called up by the Phillies from the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs.

Arizona Diamondbacks
On October 30, 2015, Loewen signed a minor league contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks. On July 30, 2016, the Diamondbacks brought Loewen up from the Triple-A Reno Aces as a pitcher. He was designated for assignment on August 15.

Texas Rangers
On February 13, 2017, Loewen signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers. In 50 appearances out of the bullpen split between the Double–A Frisco RoughRiders and Triple–A Round Rock Express, he accumulated a 6–1 record and 3.81 ERA with 67 strikeouts across 52 innings pitched. Loewen elected free agency following the season on November 6.

On January 12, 2018, Loewen re-signed with the Rangers. On May 31, Loewen was released by the Rangers after spending the beginning of the year with Triple-A Round Rock.

New Britain Bees
On June 26, 2018, Loewen signed with the New Britain Bees of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He became a free agent following the 2018 season.

International career
Loewen played for the Canadian national baseball team at the 2006 World Baseball Classic, 2009 Baseball World Cup 2013 World Baseball Classic, 2019 Pan American Games Qualifier and 2019 WBSC Premier12. He came out of retirement to pitch in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

Personal life
Loewen and his wife, Lynda, had two children. She died from breast cancer in 2021 at the age of 37.

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Calan Mai

Calan Mai ( "first day of May") or Calan Haf ( "first day of Summer"), also historically called Cyntefin, is the Welsh celebration of May Day (1 May). It marks the beginning of summer and traditionally it involved festivities around bonfires, maypoles, and carol singing. Some of its traditions parallel the Gaelic May Day festival Beltane, and other May Day traditions in Europe.

Customs
Traditionally, bonfires (coelcerth) were lit at Calan Mai in parts of Wales. They were lit in Glamorgan until the 1830s. Nine men would gather branches of nine different trees, remove all metal, then light the fire by friction between wood. A fire kindled in such a way is known as a need-fire. Sometimes two fires were built side-by-side. Round cakes of oatmeal and brown-meal were sliced and placed in a bag, and participants each chose one; those who chose a brown-meal slice had to leap three times over flames, or run thrice between the bonfires. This was believed to ensure a good harvest. Calan Mai bonfires were also recorded in Montgomeryshire. The Scottish Highlands had very similar May Day (Beltane) bonfire customs, and historian Ronald Hutton suggests they were all survivals of a tradition that was once more widespread.

Maypoles were traditionally set up for Calan Mai. In Britain, the maypole was found primarily in areas of English influence. However, the earliest account is from a Welsh poem by Gryffydd ap Adda ap Dafydd in the mid-14th century, in which he described people making festivities around a tall birch pole at Llanidloes, central Wales.

Small groups of young men went about singing May carols (carolau Mai) or summer carols (carolau haf) at Calan Mai, and were rewarded with food and drink.

Other traditions:
 * May Eve (Nos Galan Haf) is considered an Ysbrydnos or "spirit night", when spirits are wandering and divination is possible.

 * On May Eve, villagers gather hawthorn (draenen wen, "white-thorn") branches and flowers which they would then use to decorate the outside of their houses, celebrating new growth and fertility.

 * In Anglesey and Caernarfonshire it would be common on May Eve to have chwarae gwr gwellt "playing straw man" or crogi gwr gwellt "hanging a straw man". A man who had lost his sweetheart to another man would make a man out of straw and put it somewhere in the vicinity of where the girl lived. The straw man represented her new sweetheart and had a note pinned to it. Often the situation led to a fight between the two men at the May Fair.

 * Being the time between Summer and Winter, Calan Haf would be the time to stage a mock fight between the two seasons. The man representing Winter carried a stick of blackthorn (draenen ddu "black-thorn") and a shield that had pieces of wool stuck on it to represent snow. The man representing Summer was decorated with garlands of flowers and ribbons and carried a willow-wand which had spring flowers tied on it with ribbons. A mock battle took place in which the forces of Winter threw straw and dry underbrush at the forces of Summer who retaliated with birch branches, willow (helygen) rods, and young ferns (rhedyn). Eventually the forces of Summer would win and a May King and Queen were chosen and crowned, after which there was feasting, dancing, games and drinking until the next morning.

 * May Day was the time that the twmpath chwarae or "tump for playing" (a kind of village green) was officially opened. Through the summer months in some villages the people would gather on the twmpath chwarae in the evenings to dance and play various sports. The green was usually situated on the top of a hill and a mound was made where the fiddler or harpist sat. Sometimes branches of oak decorated the mound and the people would dance in a circle around it.

 * Common drinks during Calan Mai festivities fermented honey (mead) sometimes flavoured with herbs or spices (metheglin). Sometimes it was made of herbs, including woodruff, a sweet-smelling herb which was often put in wine in times past to make a man merry and act as a tonic for the heart and liver. Elderberry and rhubarb wines were popular as well as various beers.

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All About Me

All About Me is a British television sitcom starring Jasper Carrott about a multicultural family living in Birmingham. It was broadcast on BBC One from 8 March 2002 to 29 October 2004. All About Me was created by Steven Knight, who also wrote two of the early episodes.

Cast

 * Jasper Carrott – Colin Craddock
 * Meera Syal – Rupinder Craddock (series 1)
 * Nina Wadia – Rupinder Craddock (series 2 and 3)
 * Jamil Dhillon – Raj
 * Ryan Cartwright – Peter Craddock
 * Natalia Cappuccini – Sima
 * Robert Cartin – Leo Craddock
 * Alina Iqbal – Kavita
 * Jonty Stephens – Billy
 * Richard Lumsden – Charles (series 3)
 * Amanda Root – Miranda (series 3)
 * Luke Allder – Voice of Raj (series 2 and 3)

Plot
The sitcom is based around a modern family who live in the Midlands. The family consists of Colin Craddock, a white Brummie builder, and his Asian wife Rupinder. Colin's two sons from his first marriage, Peter and Leo, share the house, as do Rupinder's half-sister Sima, daughter Kavita and son Raj, a wheelchair user with cerebral palsy. The 'me' in the title was Raj, and his thoughts were heard in a voiceover.

At the end of the first series Colin and Rupinder had their own child. The third series saw the introduction of two new characters called Charles and Miranda, whose attempts at political correctness proved untactful.

Series One (2002)

 * 1) Episode One (8 March 2002)
 * 2) Episode Two (15 March 2002)
 * 3) Episode Three (22 March 2002)
 * 4) Episode Four (29 March 2002)
 * 5) Episode Five (5 April 2002)
 * 6) Episode Six (12 April 2002)

Series Two (2003)

 * 1) "A Safe Pair of Hands" (17 October 2003)
 * 2) "The Green-Eyed Monster" (24 October 2003)
 * 3) "Look Who's Talking" (31 October 2003)
 * 4) "What's in a Name?" (7 November 2003)
 * 5) "Thick as Thieves" (14 November 2003)
 * 6) "A Flying Visit" (28 November 2003)
 * 7) "Quiet Night In" (5 December 2003)
 * 8) "Life's a Beach" (12 December 2003)

Series Three (2004)

 * 1) "The Name Game" (10 September 2004)
 * 2) "The First Mrs Craddock" (17 September 2004)
 * 3) "Downloading" (24 September 2004)
 * 4) "Badmarsh" (1 October 2004)
 * 5) "Little Voice" (8 October 2004)
 * 6) "A Dog Called Wonga" (15 October 2004)
 * 7) "Where There's Blame" (22 October 2004)
 * 8) "Best Laid Plans" (29 October 2004)

Title song
The title song was written by Gary Judd and Nick Ryan and performed by Catherine Porter. Incidental music was written by Garry Judd.

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Harold Foster

Harold Foster may refer to:

 * Hal Foster, cartoonist
 * Hal Foster (art critic), university professor and art critic
 * Harold E. Foster, basketball player and coach
 * Harold D. Foster, Canadian geographer and geomorphologist

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Nicolaus Ragvaldi

Nicolaus Ragvaldi (Latinized form of Swedish Nils Ragvaldsson) (born in the early 1380s and died on 17 February 1448) was bishop of Växjö and from 1438–1448 archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden. He is known as an early representative of the Gothicist tradition.

On 12 November 1434 he held a speech at the council of Basel, where he argued that the Swedish monarch, Eric of Pomerania, was a successor to the Gothic kings, and that the Swedish delegation deserved senior rank. The Spanish delegation responded with a claim of seniority because of the Visigoths. Notes of these speeches were written down and preserved, and included by Johannes Magnus when he wrote the influential History of the Nordic People about 150 years later. His research results resulted in Gustav Vasa's son styling himself as Eric XIV, although his father disapproved.

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Rodrigo López (baseball)

Rodrigo López Muñoz (born December 14, 1975) is a Mexican former professional baseball pitcher and sportscaster. López was a pitcher in the Mexican League in when the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB) purchased his contract.

San Diego Padres
He worked his way up to the major leagues with the Padres, when he made his debut on April 29,. López did not appear in the majors in, but spent the entire year with the High Single-A Lake Elsinore Storm and Triple-A Portland Beavers. He became a free agent after the 2001 season.

Baltimore Orioles
López joined the Baltimore Orioles in where he went 15–9 and in the process was runner-up for AL Rookie of the Year. was a disappointment for López, as he went 7–10 in an injury-marred campaign. In, he was moved to middle relief but pitched his way back into the starting rotation. That year, his record was 14–9.

Colorado Rockies
On January 12,, he was traded to the Colorado Rockies for minor leaguers Jason Burch and Jim Miller. López left a start against the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 26, 2007, in the seventh inning with an elbow injury, and he later underwent Tommy John surgery on August 22, 2007. In 14 starts for the Rockies, López went 5–4 with an ERA of 4.42, with 43 strikeouts. He also went 5–1 with an ERA of 3.63 at Coors Field. After the 2007 season, he became a free agent.

Atlanta Braves
On August 22,, exactly one year after his surgery, he signed a minor league contract with the Atlanta Braves. The contract included the rest of 2008, and, with a major league option. He started his Braves career by pitching for the Gulf Coast League Braves, before being promoted to Single-A Rome. He was released by the Braves in November 2008.

Philadelphia Phillies
On March 5, 2009, López signed a minor league contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. He was called up to the Phillies from the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs on July 3, 2009, and started that night against the New York Mets, allowing two runs in 6$1/3$ innings to pick up the win in a 7–2 Phillies victory. It was his first win in the major leagues since he defeated the Phillies on July 7, 2007, as a member of the Colorado Rockies. On September 9, he was released by the Phillies.

Arizona Diamondbacks
López was signed to a minor league contract by the Arizona Diamondbacks on December 16, 2009. On March 30, 2010, Lopez was named the Diamondbacks' 4th starter after having a productive spring training compiling a 2.35 ERA in 5 games with 4 game starts in 15.1 innings. His regular season was disappointing, however, with an ERA of a flat 5.00 starting in 33 games. He won 7 games, and lost 16.

Atlanta Braves
On January 31, 2011, López signed a minor league contract with the Atlanta Braves. Atlanta sent him to Triple A at the end of Spring training where he started Opening Day for the Gwinnett Braves.

Chicago Cubs
He was traded to the Chicago Cubs on May 26, 2011, for Ryan Buchter.

On April 23, 2012, Lopez was designated for assignment to make room on the roster for newly acquired Michael Bowden. After clearing waivers, he was sent back to Triple-A Iowa.

Broadcasting career
On December 6, 2013, the Diamondbacks announced that López was hired to join their Spanish language radio broadcast team as the color analyst alongside play-by-play announcer Oscar Soria.

Personal life
His parents are Isabel and Raúl López, he has a brother named Raúl as his father. They live in Mexico City. He is married to Romy, and the couple have two boys: Rodrigo Jr. (born March 7, 2003) and Raymond (born March 17, 2005).

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United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs

The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) is one of the functional commissions of the United Nations' Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and is the central drug policy-making body within the United Nations System. The CND also has important mandates under the three international drug control conventions, alongside the three other treaty-mandated bodies: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (on behalf of Secretary-General), World Health Organization, and International Narcotics Control Board.

History
Under the League of Nations, the predecessor of the CND was the Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, established by the first Assembly of the League of Nations on 15 December 1920, which met from 1921 to 1940.

After the World War II, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs was established as early as 1946, by ECOSOC resolution 9(I). Initially, the CND was composed of only 15 countries "Members of the United Nations, which are important producing or manufacturing countries or countries in which illicit traffic in narcotics constitutes a serious social problem."

The first members were Canada, Chinese Taipei, Egypt, France, India, Iran, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Turkey, the UK, US, USSR, and Yugoslavia. The CND first met in December 1946 under the chairmanship of Canadian ambassador Charles Henry Ludovic Sharman. At its first meeting, the CND resolved to take over all powers and mandates related to drugs previously held by the League of Nations.

At first, CND's mandate was to assist ECOSOC in supervising the application of international conventions and agreements dealing with narcotic drugs. In December 1991, General Assembly resolution 46/104 assigned the CND the additional role of the governing body of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme, nowadays administered by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Work and mandate
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs has two distinct mandate areas:

 * 1) Treaty-based and normative functions under the international drug control conventions,
 * 2) Operational, policy-guidance functions as the governing body of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme, which is administered by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Normative functions
The CND is the prime policymaking body in the field of international drug control policy.

The CND may make recommendation for the implementation of the Conventions, according to article 8 of the 1961 Convention and article 17 of the 1971 Convention.

Drug scheduling decisions
Under the international drug control conventions (namely: 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1988 Convention against Illicit Traffic), the Commission on Narcotic Drugs is mandated to decide on the scope of control of substances:

 * Narcotic drugs are placed under international control by including them in one of the four schedules of the 1961 Convention (simple majority vote), upon recommendation of the WHO;
 * Psychotropic substances are placed under international control by including them in one of the four schedules of the 1971 Convention (2/3rd majority vote), upon recommendation of the WHO;
 * Precursors are placed under international control by including them in one of the two tables of the 1988 Convention, upon recommendation of the INCB.

Each schedule and table entails a specific control regime. According to article 3 of the 1961 Convention, article 2 of the 1971 Convention and article 12 of the 1988 Convention, the CND decides on the addition of substances to the schedules/tables, as well as the transfer or deletion of substances. After the votes, States Parties can request a review of the scheduling decisions of the CND by the ECOSOC following article 3 (8) of the 1961 Convention, article 2 (8) of the 1971 Convention and article 12 (7) of the 1988 Convention.

Proposals to change the scope of control of substances can only be made by the World Health Organization (for the 1961 and 1971 Conventions) and the International Narcotics Control Board (for the 1988 Convention).

In 2020, the commission was brought to public attention when voting upon the removal of cannabis and cannabis resin from Schedule IV of the Single Convention on narcotic drugs, 1961.

Policy guidance

The Commission on Narcotic Drugs provides policy guidance for the United Nations International Drug Control Programme, managed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). It also prepares and monitors policy documents addressing the world drug problem. The main policy documents of the preceding decade are the 2009 Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem, the Joint Ministerial Statement of the 2014 high-level review by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the implementation by Member States of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action and the outcome document of the thirtieth special session of the General Assembly, entitled "Our joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem". In March 2019, the CND adopted a Ministerial Declaration, in which it committed to accelerating the full implementation of these three policy documents and resolved to review the progress in implementing all international drug policy commitments in 2029, with a mid-term review in 2024.

The CND, performing its duties as a governing body, adopts during its regular sessions resolutions to provide policy guidance and monitors the activities of the UNODC. It further approves, based on a proposal of the executive director, the budget of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme, administered by the UNODC.

The CND, together with the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, is the governing body of the UNODC.

Meetings
The CND meets usually twice annually:

 * The main session is held during a week, usually in March.
 * A short reconvened session, usually held in December, addresses administrative and budget matters. During December sessions, joint meetings are held with the CCPCJ to administer the UNODC.

Membership and decision making
CND membership consists of 53 states, serving four-year terms, with the following distribution of seats among regions, following the United Nations Regional Groups:

 * 11 for Africa;
 * 11 for Asia-Pacific region;
 * 10 for Latin America and the Caribbean (GRULAC);
 * 6 for Eastern Europe;
 * 14 for Western European and others (WEOG) states;
 * 1 seat rotates between the Asia-Pacific and GRULAC every four years.

ECOSOC resolutions 845(XXXII) and 1147(XLI) provide that members are elected:

 * From among the States Members of the United Nations and members of the specialized agencies and the Parties to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961;
 * With due regard to the adequate representation of countries that are important producers of opium or coca leaves, of countries that are important in the field of the manufacture of narcotic drugs, and of countries in which drug addiction or the illicit traffic in narcotic drugs constitutes an important problem;
 * Taking into account the principle of equitable geographical distribution.

Other countries not among the 53 CND Members are still allowed to attend CND meetings and negotiate decisions and resolutions: CND membership only allows to table new drafts, and vote on scheduling recommendations.

Decision-making procedure
The CND is an intergovernmental body made up of sovereign states rather than individuals. Decisions and resolutions are taken following the Rules of Procedure of the Functional Commissions of ECOSOC. Notwithstanding the rules of procedure, the Commission usually adopts decisions by consensus in the "Vienna spirit" that has been described by Yuri Fedotov (former UNODC Executive-Director) as: "the willingness and dedication of all concerned to pull together to find joint solutions, even on the most difficult topics". The "Vienna Consensus" has however been the focus of a number of criticisms in recent years.

Scheduling decisions under the international drug control conventions are governed by the rules of procedure contained in the 1961, 1971, and 1988 Conventions respectively, as they supersede following the lex specialis doctrine. Nonetheless, the CND sometimes disregards both ECOSOC rules of procedure and treaty-based requirements, as was the case during the considerations of WHO recommendations on cannabis and cannabis-related substances.

Criticism
Being composed of government and ministerial representatives with permanent mission in Vienna, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs is regarded more of a political commission as opposed to a group of experts, which is why many discussions and negotiations are not based on in-depth knowledge on drug policy issues. In addition, decisions taken within the CND are primarily outcomes of time-consuming political negotiations which need to result in a consensus, allowing policy perspectives to be pushed aside by political interests of certain stakeholders.

Another aspect of criticism of the CND is related to the bureaucratic nature of the commission's working process. While the CND focuses on the issue of drugs (a multidisciplinary topic which also concerns human rights, health, development, or environmental issues) the CND rarely establishes coordination with other relevant UN agencies such as the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the Human Rights Council and High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the World Health Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, etc.

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Clan Mackintosh

Clan Mackintosh (Clann Mhic an Tòisich) is a Scottish clan from Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. The chiefs of the clan are the Mackintoshes of Mackintosh. Another branch of the clan, the Mackintoshes of Torcastle, are the chiefs of Clan Chattan, a historic confederation of clans.

Origins of the clan
The Scottish Gaelic word toisiche means leader and can also be translated as chief. The seanachies of the Clan Mackintosh claim that the first chief of the clan was Shaw, second son of Duncan MacDuff, Earl of Fife of the royal house of Dál Riata. In 1160 Shaw MacDuff accompanied Malcolm IV of Scotland on an expedition to suppress a rebellion in Morayshire. In about 1163 he was also made constable of Inverness Castle and was granted land in the Findhorn valley. The heartland of the clan was the lands of Petty which was also the burial place of the chiefs. In 1179 Shaw MacDuff was succeeded by his son who was also called Shaw and was confirmed in his patrimony by William the Lion.

Scottish-Norwegian war
In 1263, during the Scottish–Norwegian War, Ferquhar Mackintosh, the fifth chief led his clan at the Battle of Largs against the army of Haakon IV of Norway. However, he was killed in a duel in 1265 leaving his infant son, Angus, as heir.

Clan Chattan
Angus Mackintosh was brought up in the court of his uncle, Alexander of Islay, Lord of the Isles, chief of Clan Donald. In 1291 a splendid match was arranged for Angus when he married Eva, the only daughter of Dougal Dal, chief of the Clan Chattan, which brought Angus the lands of Glenloy and Loch Arkaig. Angus and Eva lived on the lands of Clan Chattan at Tor Castle but they later withdrew to Rothiemurchus. After this the Clan Chattan developed into a unique confederation of independent Scottish clans that was led by the Mackintosh chiefs. However their leadership was unsuccessfully challenged over the centuries by the Clan Macpherson who were part of the confederation. From this point onwards Clan Mackintosh and Chattan history is inextricably entwined.

Wars of Scottish Independence
During the Wars of Scottish Independence the sixth chief of Clan Mackintosh supported Robert the Bruce.

14th century and clan conflicts

Clan Mackintosh were involved in many clan battles, mostly against Clan Cameron with whom they had an extensive feud which lasted over 350 years:

The Battle of Drumlui was fought in 1337; it was a dispute between the Clan Mackintosh and Clan Cameron over land at Glenlui and Loch Arkaig. The Camerons were defeated but started a 350-year feud. The Battle of Invernahoven was fought in 1370 between the Clan Cameron and the Chattan Confederation of Clan Mackintosh, Clan Macpherson, and Clan Davidson. The Battle of the North Inch in 1396 was fought between the Chattan Confederation that was led by the Mackintoshes and the Clan Cameron, and was one of the most important battles between these two clans.

15th century and clan conflicts
The ninth chief of Clan Mackintosh, Ferquhar had to surrender the chiefship in favour of Malcolm Beg Mackintosh, 10th of Mackintosh, son by the second marriage of William Mackintosh the seventh chief. Malcolm Mackintosh was a strong leader who greatly extended the influence of his clan. He feuded with the Clan Comyn in a dispute that had its origins when the Comyns had feuded with Robert the Bruce. In 1424 the Comyns forcibly took possession of some of the Mackintosh lands at Meikle Geddes and Rait but Malcolm Mackintosh retaliated and put many of the Comyns to the sword. This was in turn retaliated by the Comyns who invaded the Mackintosh homeland of Moy and unsuccessfully tried to drown the Mackintoshes on their island of Moy. A feast of reconciliation was held at the Comyn's castle of Rait however here the Mackintoshes slaughtered their Comyn hosts.

The Mackintoshes fought at the Battle of Lochaber in 1429 which was between forces led by Alexander of Islay, Earl of Ross, 3rd Lord of the Isles and the royalist army of James I of Scotland. The Battle of Palm Sunday, 1429, was fought between the Clan Cameron against the Clan Mackintosh and the Chattan Confederation.

The Battle of Craig Cailloch was fought in 1441: the Clan Mackintosh, led by the chief's son, Duncan Mackintosh, (later the 11th chief), at the instigation of Alexander, Lord of the Isles, began to invade and raid the Clan Cameron lands. A battle took place at Craig Cailloch between the Camerons and the Mackintoshes in which the chief's second son, Lachlann "Badenoch" was wounded and Gille Chaluim, the chief's fourth son, killed. The Battle of Clachnaharry, was fought in 1454 between the Clan Mackintosh and the Clan Munro led by John Munro of Milntown.

The Raid on Ross took place in 1491, where Ferquhard Mackintosh (later the 12th chief), supported Alexander MacDonald of Lochalsh's insurrection of 1491, the Raid on Ross. Ferquhard also subsequently took Inverness Castle using a "sow". The king later imprisoned Ferquhard, along with Kenneth Mackenzie, 8th of Kintail, in Edinburgh Castle. Two years later they escaped, but Mackenzie was killed by the Laird of Buchanan and Ferquhard was recaptured and imprisoned in Dunbar Castle where he remained for sixteen years until being released after the Battle of Flodden in 1513. During the years that Ferquhard was in prison, the affairs of his clan were administered by William Mackintosh who was the eldest son of Lachlan "Badenoch" Mackintosh who was in turn the second son of Malcolm Beg Mackintosh, 10th of Mackintosh.

16th century and clan conflicts
Early in 1528, Clan Mackintosh and the wider Clan Chattan suffered a letter of Fire and Sword issued by King James V, who assigned it to the Earl of Moray. The Letter required "utter extermination and destruction" of the clan and its supporters "leaving none alive except priests, women and children" who were to be transported across the sea and to the low countries. This was to punish the clan for the disorder caused in Badenoch following Hector Mackintosh, the chief's illegitimate brother starting a quarrel with the Earl over who would raise the dead chief's infant son. The Earl captured 300 clan males and started to hang them one by one in order to find out where Hector was. Hector subsequently gave himself up and pledged an oath of fealty to the King.

Lachlan Mor Mackintosh, 16th of Mackintosh and his clan supported Mary, Queen of Scots in her victory over George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly at the Battle of Corrichie in 1562, where Huntly was killed. According to 19th century historian Alexander Mackintosh-Shaw, it is likely that Lachlan also fought at the Battle of Langside in 1568 as five days before the battle he had subscribed to a band for the Queen's defence at the town of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire. Of the 136 subscribing barons and chiefs, apart from Mackintosh only two others were Highland chiefs: George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly and Alexander Gordon, 12th Earl of Sutherland.

The Battle of Bun Garbhain was fought in 1570 between the Clan Cameron and Clan Mackintosh. Domhnall Dubh Camshròn, XV Chief of Clan Cameron, had died, leaving an infant son, Ailean, at the head of the clan. During the battle the chief of Mackintosh is believed to have been killed by Donald 'Taillear Dubh na Tuaighe' Cameron, (son of the XIV Chief of Clan Cameron), with a fearsome Lochaber axe.

The Battle of Glenlivet was fought in 1594 where the Clan Mackintosh and Chattan Confederation fought on the side of the Earl of Argyll along with Clan Campbell, Clan Stewart of Atholl, and Clan Forbes. They were defeated by the Earl of Huntly's forces which consisted of Clan Gordon, Clan Comyn, and Clan Cameron.

17th century and Civil War
During the Scottish Civil War the Mackintoshes fought for James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose throughout his campaign for Charles I of England.

The Stand-off at the Fords of Arkaig took place in 1665 between the Chattan Confederation led by the Clan Mackintosh against the Clan Cameron.

The Battle of Mulroy was fought in 1668. Clan Cameron and Clan Mackintosh were at peace and Ewen Cameron of Lochiel was responsible for keeping the peace between his men and their former enemies. However, when Ewen Cameron of Lochiel was away in London a feud broke out between Clan MacDonald of Keppoch and their enemies Clan Mackintosh. As the Cameron Chief was away he was not able to hold back his clan and the combined forces of Cameron and MacDonald defeated the Mackintoshes who were supported by Government troops under Kenneth Mackenzie of Suddie.

Jacobite rising of 1715
During the Jacobite rising of 1715 the Mackintoshes remained loyal to the Stuart cause. Lachlan Mackintosh led eight hundred clansmen in support of the Jacobites, under his cousin, William Mackintosh of Borlum. However, they were defeated at the Battle of Preston (1715). After this many clansmen were transported to the Americas. General Wade's report on the Highlands in 1724, estimated the combined clan strength of the Mackintoshes and Farquharsons at 800 men.

Jacobite rising of 1745
During the Jacobite rising of 1745, Angus Mackintosh, twenty-second chief of Clan Mackintosh was a captain in the British Black Watch regiment. However, in his absence, his wife, Lady Anne Mackintosh raised men to fight for the Jacobite Charles Edward Stuart. Command was given to MacGillivray of Dunmaglas, of the Clan MacGillivray. They contributed to the Jacobite victory at the Battle of Falkirk Muir in 1746. Following this victory Charles arrived at Moy on 16 February 1746 where he was received by Lady Mackintosh. The prince's bed is still at Moy Hall. An attempt was made by five hundred Government troops to capture Prince Charles at Moy, but they were deceived by just five of the Lady Mackintosh's retainers into believing that they had blundered into the entire Jacobite army and fled. This incident became known as the Rout of Moy. At the Battle of Culloden the Mackintoshes and their allies in the Chattan Confederation suffered heavy losses.

Chiefs
John Lachlan Mackintosh of Mackintosh (born 1969) succeeded as Chief in 1995 and currently resides in Singapore. The Mackintosh was an Integrated Humanities (IH) and history teacher in the Humanities Faculty at Nanyang Girls' High School before retiring in 2022 and is married to a former Language Arts teacher and academic, Miss Vanessa Heng in March 2014, after their engagement in 2013.

Castles
Castles held by the Clan Mackintosh have included:
 * Moy Hall is the current seat of the Chief of Clan Mackintosh. The original Moy Hall was built in about 1700 to replace Moy Castle which was on Moy Island on Loch Moy. The Moy Hall that was built in about 1700 was accidentally burned down in the time of Aneas Mackintosh, 23rd chief (died 1820). He had another Moy Hall built in about 1800 which in turn was remodeled in the 1870s when the tower and two large wings were added. It was discovered to have dry rot, and despite remedial treatment was demolished in the 1950s. It was replaced with a much plainer house that was built 1955–57.
 * Moy Castle on Moy Island, on Loch Moy was the original seat of the chief of Clan Mackintosh in the 14th century. There are now only slight remains of Moy Castle.
 * Borlum Castle, held by the Mackintoshes and later replaced by a mansion, the castle was seat of the Jacobite William Mackintosh of Borlum.
 * Castle Stuart was granted to James Stewart, Earl of Moray but was once held by the Mackintoshes after they seized it in a dispute over ownership and an agreement was reached.
 * Culloden House, near Inverness, is a mansion house that incorporates part of a castle, was once held by the Mackintoshes but was sold to the Clan Forbes in 1626.
 * Keppoch Castle, originally the seat of the chiefs of the Clan MacDonald of Keppoch, it was disputed over with the Mackintoshes and eventually passed to them in 1690.
 * Rait Castle, near Nairn, Inverness, passed to the Mackintoshes from the Clan Comyn and then from the Mackintoshes to the Clan Campbell of Cawdor. A feast held at the castle between the Comyns and Mackintoshes ended in the slaughter of most of the Comyns and the laird blamed his daughter who he chased around the castle. She climbed out of a window but he chopped off her hands and she fell to her death. The castle is said to be haunted by her ghost. The Duke of Cumberland is said to have stayed at the castle before his victory at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
 * Tor Castle, near Fort William, Lochaber, was held by the Mackintoshes but was seized by the Clan Cameron in the fourteenth century.

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