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Rajrappa

Rajrappa is a waterfall and a pilgrimage centre in the Chitarpur CD block in the Ramgarh subdivision of the Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Location
Rajrappa is located at 23.632°N, 85.711°W.

Rajrappa stands at the confluence of the Damodar and Bhairavi (locally called Bhera) rivers.

Rajrappa is located off NH 23 connecting Ramgarh and Chas. It is 20 km from Ramgarh, 65 km from Hazaribagh, 70 km from Ranchi and 68 km from Bokaro Steel City.

Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the district. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Waterfalls
The Bhera or Bhairavi joins the Damodar, falling from a height of 9.1 m.

Geographical significance
Rajrappa Falls has tremendous geographical significance. The Damodar valley at Rajrappa is a typical example of polycyclic valley or topographic discordance which is characterized by two storey valley. The Damodar developed its broad and flat valley of senile stage before the onset of Tertiary upliftment. The river was rejuvenated due to upliftment of landmass during the Paleogene and Neogene Periods (66 million to 1.8 million years ago) by the side effects of the Himalayan orogeny and thus the Damodar excavated its new deep and narrow valley of youthful stage within its broad and flat valley of senile stage. The Bhera river coming from over the Ranchi plateau makes a waterfall while joining the Damodar and thus presents an example of a hanging valley. The Damodar gorge near Rajrappa is a typical example of incised meander.

Pilgrimage centre
Rajrappa is a Hindu pilgrimage centre attracting an estimated 2,500-3,000 persons daily. The main attraction of the Chhinnamasta (also known as Chinnamastika) temple located here is the headless deity of goddess Chinnamasta which stands on the body of Kamdev and Rati in the lotus bed. The Chhinnamasta temple is very popular for its Tantrik style of architectural design. The temple is very old but has that essence of enchantment. Apart from the main temple, there are ten temples of various gods and goddesses such as the Sun God and Lord Shiva. Animal sacrifice is still practised in the temple. The sacrifice is offered on Tuesdays and Saturdays and during Kali puja.

Rajrappa also  is a pilgrim centre for the Santals and other tribals who come  for immersion of the ashes of their loved ones in the Damodar. They come mostly during the month of December, in groups known as yatri. As per their mythology it is their final resting place. In their folk songs Rajrappa is referred to as "Thel Kopi Ghat" (Water Ghat) and they use oil after bathing. They come in significant numbers from the southern parts of Jharkhand state such as East and West Singhbhum and Saraikela districts.

In popular culture Chinnamasta is featured in the detective story of Bengali novel Feluda series "Chhinnamastar Abhishap" by the renowned filmmaker Satyajit Ray.

Police station
Rajrappa police station serves Chitarpur CD block.

Coal mining
Rajrappa Area of Central Coalfields Limited (CCL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited, is located in Ramgarh Coalfield. It is one of the biggest coal-fields in this region. It is widely known as the Rajrappa Project, which consist of the main quarry (a huge open cast mine), offices, colonies, recreation facilities, shopping complexes, a police out-post and public utility buildings. It is a complete township in itself.

Education

 * DAV Public School Rajrappa
 * Shishu Vidya Mandir (SVM) Rajrappa
 * Government School, Rajrappa
 * Government School, Rajrappa

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John Edgar Wideman

John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and essayist. He was the first person to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice. His writing is known for experimental techniques and a focus on the African-American experience.

Raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wideman excelled as a student athlete at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1963, he became the second African American to win a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford. In addition to his work as a writer, Wideman has had a career in academia as a literature and creative writing professor at both public and Ivy League universities.

In his writing, Wideman has explored the complexities of race, family, trauma, storytelling, and justice in the United States. His personal experience, including the incarceration of his brother, has played a significant role in his work.

He is a professor emeritus at Brown University and lives in New York City and France.

Early life and education
Wideman was born on June 14, 1941, in Washington, D.C., the oldest of five children of Edgar (1918–2001) and Bette (née French; 1921–2008) Wideman.

Wideman traces his roots to the period of American slavery. On his mother's side, his great-great-great-grandmother was a slave from Maryland who had children with her master's son. Together, they relocated to Pittsburgh either during or immediately after the American Civil War. According to Wideman family lore, this ancestor first settled the area that eventually became the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Homewood, despite the fact that a white lawyer and politician, William Wilkins, is credited with founding the community. On Wideman's father's side, his ancestors have been traced to rural South Carolina, where records indicate there were both white and African-American Widemans, including one who owned slaves. Wideman's paternal grandfather moved to Pittsburgh as part of the Great Migration of the early 20th century, when many African Americans fled Southern states.

Wideman's father, Edgar, graduated high school in Pittsburgh, where he was an avid basketball player. After marrying Wideman's mother, Bette, he moved with her to Washington, D.C., for a job in the U.S. Government Printing Office. The couple moved back to Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood after Wideman was born in 1941. During World War II, Wideman's father enlisted in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Charleston, South Carolina, and on Saipan. After the War, he worked several jobs simultaneously, including as a waiter and sanitation worker, in order to support the family. Wideman's youngest brother, Robert, was born in 1951 while the family was living in Homewood. With the support of Edgar's earnings, the family was able to move to Shadyside, a predominantly white neighborhood, allowing Wideman to attend Peabody High School.

Wideman's teachers had noted his intelligence from an early age, and he proved to be an outstanding student. In high school, he was a star basketball player, president of the student body, and valedictorian of his class. However, Wideman was socially cautious, especially around white students. Interviewed for an article in 1963, one of his white classmates recalled Wideman telling her that "he wouldn't want to be seen on the street alone with a white girl" and that "when class breaks came, he would seldom walk to the next class with the white students".

College
Wideman attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was offered a Benjamin Franklin Scholarship for academic merit and was one of a small number of African Americans to enroll in 1959. In his memoir, Brothers and Keepers, he described a heated freshman-year encounter with a white student in the dorm room of an African-American friend: the white student claimed to know more about blues music than Wideman did, and his friend refused to offer support. According to Wideman, the encounter left him feeling that he had "no place to hide", and he was in an environment "that continually set me against them and against myself". Feeling alienated, he decided to quit college, but was stopped by his basketball coach at a bus station, where Wideman was about to board a bus back to Pittsburgh.

Addressing his brother in Brothers and Keepers, he summarized his motivation:"I was running away from Pittsburgh, from poverty, from blackness. To get ahead, to make something of myself, college had seemed a logical, necessary step; my exile, my flight from home began with good grades, with good English, with setting myself apart long before I'd earned a scholarship and a train ticket over the mountains to Philadelphia... if I ever had any hesitations or reconsiderations about the path I'd chosen, youall were back home in the ghetto to remind me how lucky I was."Once again, Wideman excelled academically and in athletics, becoming a star basketball player. By his senior year, he was captain of the basketball team, which he led in scoring, and was named to the "All Ivy League" team. While his team lost the Ivy League championship to Princeton University his senior year, they won the "Big 5" tournament, which has traditionally determined the best college basketball team in Philadelphia, pitting Penn against Villanova, Saint Joseph's, La Salle, and Temple universities. For his academic achievements, which included winning campus-wide awards for both creative and scholarly writing, Wideman was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa national honor society.

In 1963, before graduating with a bachelor's degree in English, Wideman was named a Rhodes Scholar, becoming the second African American to win the prestigious award from the University of Oxford. The achievement brought him national attention: he was profiled in Look that spring, in an article entitled "The Astonishing John Wideman". It described Wideman as having been "showered with so many academic and athletic honors, awards and 'firsts' that he is unable to enumerate them. He sometimes forgets that he won a prize that another student would consider the high point of a college career".

In the fall of 1963, Wideman moved to England to begin his studies at Oxford, where he pursued a thesis on 18th-century British fiction. He also continued to play basketball and was captain of the Oxford University men's basketball team, where one of his teammates was fellow Rhodes Scholar, and future NBA All-Star and United States Senator, Bill Bradley. The two had played against each other as undergraduates, when Bradley was at Princeton. At Oxford, their team won the 1965 B.U.S.F. National Championship and the 1966 A.B.B.A. National Championship.

In 1965, Wideman married Judith Goldman, a white Jewish woman from Long Island whom he began dating when both were undergraduates at Penn. The following year, Wideman received a BPhil degree from Oxford and returned to the U.S. He spent the 1966–67 academic year at the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he studied under Kurt Vonnegut and José Donoso.

Philadelphia and early novels
In 1967, Wideman accepted a faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania. That summer, his first novel, A Glance Away, was published. Wideman's editor, Hiram Haydn, had seen his profile in Look and contacted Wideman before he left for Oxford, asking the aspiring author to send him his writing. While Wideman was at Oxford, Haydn read the unfinished manuscript of A Glance Away and agreed to publish it. The novel garnered positive reviews. A reviewer in The New York Times Book Review described Wideman as "a novelist of high seriousness and depth" who had written "a powerfully inventive" debut.

Responding to student demand, Wideman offered Penn's first classes in African-American literature in 1968. In the same year, his first son, Daniel, was born. Wideman also became an assistant coach for the varsity men's basketball team for which he had played as a student.

In 1970, Wideman's second son, Jacob, was born. In the same year, his second novel, Hurry Home, was published. A reviewer for The New York Times admired the novel's "dazzling display" of "Joycean" prose and Wideman's "formidable command of the techniques of fiction".

Wideman's initial courses in African-American literature grew into a program in African American Studies, which Wideman helped to establish. From 1971 to 1973, he served as director of the program. In 1972, he stepped down as an assistant basketball coach.

In 1973, Wideman's third novel, The Lynchers, was published. Examining violent strains of black nationalist ideology that had emerged during the 1960s, the novel depicts African-American characters who plan to lynch a white police officer. Writing in The New York Times, Anatole Broyard claimed that Wideman "can make an ordinary scene sing the blues like nobody's business", although he found the novel to be flawed.

In 1974, Wideman was promoted to a full professorship of English at Penn, and he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to pursue research in African-American literature. However, he had already begun to look for a reprieve from his duties at the institution, as well as life in Philadelphia, in order to focus on his writing and raising a family. Having previously visited the University of Wyoming, he accepted an offer to join its faculty.

Wyoming, brother's murder conviction, literary success
Wideman joined the faculty of the University of Wyoming in 1975. That same year, Wideman's daughter, Jamila, was born. The circumstances of her birth were traumatic, as a complication caused Wideman's wife, Judith, to be transported by ambulance from Laramie, Wyoming, to Denver, Colorado, where Jamila was born two months premature. After the family returned to Laramie, Wideman learned that his brother Robert, with whom he had grown up in Homewood, was a fugitive. During the 1960s and early 1970s, the neighborhood was in a state of decline—it has frequently been described as a ghetto. Robert began to use drugs, a habit which he supported via petty crime. In November 1975, along with two accomplices, he participated in a robbery scheme that went awry when the intended victim, a fence named Nicola Morena, fled. One of Robert's accomplices shot Morena as he ran. A short time later, a passerby encountered the wounded man and called for an ambulance. Morena was taken to the nearest hospital, which did not have the surgeon necessary to treat his wound, and after a period of waiting, he was transported to another hospital, where he died. The victim's family later filed a lawsuit against the city of Pittsburgh, the hospitals and doctors involved, and the ambulance drivers, claiming negligence. That suit was not successful, although the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania acknowledged that a delay in Morena's treatment was "a contributing factor in causing his death". The family ultimately settled a malpractice lawsuit against the hospital system.

Robert and his accomplices fled Pittsburgh and arrived in Laramie, where Wideman let them spend a night in his house, an act he has attributed to naïveté. Robert and his accomplices then drove to Colorado, where they were apprehended. Afterward, police in Wyoming accused Wideman of aiding a fugitive, but no charges were filed.

According to Pennsylvania law, because the attempted armed robbery of Morena resulted in a homicide, the charge against the shooter was second-degree murder, and because Robert was an accomplice, he faced the same charge as the shooter. At trial, Robert was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. All of his appeals failed.

Wideman incorporated his brother's experience into his work. After an eight-year publication hiatus, he published two books simultaneously: a story collection, Damballah, and a novel, Hiding Place, both of which appeared in 1981 and allude to the events that resulted in Robert's imprisonment. He followed these books with another novel, Sent for You Yesterday, in 1983. Because these books share characters and a setting in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Homewood, they are frequently referred to as the "Homewood trilogy".

The trilogy was celebrated upon publication, inspiring a claim in The New York Times that Wideman was "one of America's premier writers of fiction". For many critics and scholars, the trilogy represents Wideman's artistic breakthrough, with some even considering it his greatest literary achievement. Surveying Wideman's career in The Nation in 2016, the critic Jesse McCarthy claimed that the trilogy shows Wideman "achieving a distinctive voice that is more confident and vernacular than in his early work". Some of the stories in Damballah have been widely anthologized.

In 1984, Wideman followed the successful Homewood trilogy with what has been called his most popular book, Brothers and Keepers. Wideman's first memoir delves into his brother Robert's story. Stylistically, the book is distinctive for its use of multiple voices, alternating between Wideman and his brother. It is also notable for its exploration of the realities of the American criminal justice system and life in prison, particularly for African Americans. Ishmael Reed, reviewing the book in The New York Times, called it "a rare triumph". Writing in The New York Review of Books in 1997, Joyce Carol Oates claimed that it belongs among the "masterpieces of American memoir".

Massachusetts, son's murder conviction, prolific period
In 1986, Wideman joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where the prominent author James Baldwin was a visiting member of the faculty. Wideman taught in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers.

In the same year, Wideman's son, Jacob, who was sixteen years old, stabbed another teenager to death during a youth camping trip in Arizona. He then fled the state. At his parents' urging, he surrendered to law enforcement, and after being released into parental custody, underwent psychiatric evaluation in Massachusetts. During his stay in a psychiatric facility, he called police in Arizona and confessed his guilt. However, before a judge, he pleaded not guilty, and his case was scheduled for trial. A plea bargain was then struck, in which Jacob pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison, with a possibility of parole after 25 years.

Wideman then entered what is, to date, the most prolific period of his career. A novel written before his son Jacob's crime, entitled Reuben, appeared in 1987. This was followed by a collection of stories, entitled Fever (1989). The following year saw the publication of the novel Philadelphia Fire, which garnered both critical acclaim and literary awards. Inspired by the police's 1985 bombing of the Philadelphia headquarters of the black liberation group known as MOVE—an act that resulted in the death of five children and the loss of two city blocks —the "intense, poetic narrative" centers on one man's attempt to find, and write about, a child rumored to have survived the tragedy.

Philadelphia Fire was followed by a story collection, The Stories of John Edgar Wideman (later re-issued as All Stories Are True) in 1992; a memoir, Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society (1994), and two more novels, The Cattle Killing (1996) and Two Cities (1998). Notably, while Wideman wrote about his son's story in some of these books (for example, in Philadelphia Fire and in Fatheralong ) he has not written a memoir about it. In interviews, he has frequently declined to discuss the case.

During this period, Wideman was in demand as "one of America's most distinguished writers". He edited anthologies, provided introductions for books, and appeared in various media, including television, to comment on societal issues, particularly those affecting African Americans. Additionally, his daughter, Jamila, became a star basketball player and, in 1997, the third overall pick in the inaugural draft of the Women's National Basketball Association, bringing further media attention, including a cover story in Sports Illustrated magazine.

In 2000, Wideman and his wife, Judith, divorced.

In 2001, the University of Massachusetts appointed Wideman a Distinguished Professor; it was the same year that another memoir, Hoop Roots, appeared, focusing on Wideman's experience as a player and fan of basketball. A review in Bookpage hailed it as "one of the best books ever written about the sport". It was followed by a nonfiction book on Martinique entitled The Island: Martinique (2003).

Brown and latest work
In 2004, Wideman was appointed Asa Messer Professor and Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts at Brown University. In the same year, he married French journalist Catherine Nedonchelle.

The following year, his story collection, God's Gym, was published. This was followed by his first novel in a decade, and tenth overall, Fanon, which appeared in 2008. In 2010, a collection of flash fiction, entitled Briefs, was published, inspiring a theatrical adaptation that premiered in Los Angeles in 2018.

In 2014, after a decade at Brown University, and nearly 50 years in academia, Wideman became an emeritus professor. He has since published a hybrid work of fiction and nonfiction that explores the life of Louis Till, the father of Emmett Till, entitled Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File (2016). He published a collection of stories, American Histories, in 2018. In 2021, a selection of his short fiction, produced over four decades, was published as You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981-2018. Publishers Weekly proclaimed the collection "a stunning showcase" that confirms Wideman's place in American literature.

Family
Wideman was married to Judith Ann Goldman (1943-2023), an attorney, from 1965 until their divorce in 2000. The couple had three children together: Daniel Wideman is a poet, playwright, and essayist, as well as a business executive; Jacob Wideman was convicted of a murder committed while he was a minor and sentenced to life in prison in Arizona, and Jamila Wideman is a lawyer and executive at the National Basketball Association, having played professional basketball in the Women's National Basketball Association and the Israeli League.

In 2004, Wideman married French journalist Catherine Nedonchelle. He resides in France and on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City.

Wideman's brother, Robert, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in a 1975 murder. After more than 40 years in prison, his sentence was commuted and he was released on July 2, 2019.

Work
Wideman's work has been, and continues to be, the focus of academic study. The John Edgar Wideman Society was formed to promote scholarship and awareness of his work. Affiliated with the American Literature Association, it held its first international conference in 2003. Wideman's papers, including manuscripts, correspondence, and other materials, are housed at the Houghton Library at Harvard University.

Style
Wideman's writing is known for its complexity, with critics describing it as cerebral and experimental. It is also known for combining traditional English diction with African-American Vernacular English. In some works, Wideman's writing relies on sentence fragments, whereas elsewhere, he has written a single sentence that spans several pages. He has sometimes used the stream-of-consciousness technique and sudden, unannounced shifts in perspective. In much of his writing, Wideman eschews punctuation such as question marks or quotation marks, relying instead on context to identify speakers or discern questions from statements. In some cases, Wideman mixes nonfiction and fiction in the same work.

Among scholars, there has been discussion as to whether Wideman is a modernist or a postmodernist writer. The scholar D. Quentin Miller, however, argues that Wideman's works "resist categorization".

Themes
While Wideman's work is thematically diverse, some common themes emerge. Most prominently, Wideman is known for his exploration of race, a subject that factors in all of his books. His fiction depicts African-American characters dealing with the challenges and alienation of life in a predominantly white society. His work also depicts the ways that race and racism are constructed by, and manifested in, society—from language to interpersonal relationships to interactions with the state.

Another chief concern of Wideman's writing is family, particularly as the key unit of community and cultural survival. Yet family, for Wideman, is inherently contentious: his writing investigates the ways that family is necessary for protection and individual development, while at the same time proving to be something one needs to be protected from in order to find one's true self. This exploration is explicit in Brothers and Keepers, in which Wideman and his brother navigate the complexities of their familial relationship.

Another of Wideman's frequent themes is storytelling. Of particular importance is the notion that "all stories are true", which Wideman has used in multiple works, including as the title for one of his story collections. The scholar Heather Russell explains that, in focusing on this concept, Wideman's writing "reflects African American traditions of storytelling within which myth, history, parable, parody, folklore, fact, and fiction exist in synergy. Storytelling functions as a bridge between both past, present, and future and between history, memory, and the imagination".

Frequently in Wideman's work, storytelling is focused on trauma—expressing it, escaping it, or healing from it. Trauma, in Wideman's work, can exist on the level of the individual and for all of society. The scholar Tracie Church Guzzio summarizes Wideman's approach to trauma when she claims that his writing "illustrates that the trauma suffered by African Americans in the period of slavery in America is re-lived and re-experienced in the continuing racism confronting African Americans in their daily lives as well as in the images projected by history, literature, and popular culture".

Influences
In interviews, Wideman has typically declined to identify his influences. However, scholars and critics have pointed to figures that, judging from Wideman's work and interviews, appear to be literary or intellectual influences. These include W. E. B. Du Bois (to whom Wideman has dedicated work), Frantz Fanon (inspiration for Wideman's novel, Fanon), Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and, especially in his early work, the modernist writers James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and William Faulkner.

Novels

 * A Glance Away (Harcourt, 1967) ISBN 978-0557314775
 * Hurry Home (Harcourt, 1970) ISBN 978-0557314829
 * The Lynchers (Harcourt, 1973) ISBN 978-0557314836
 * Hiding Place (Avon Books, 1981) ISBN 978-0395897980
 * Sent for You Yesterday (Avon Books, 1983) ISBN 978-0395877296
 * Reuben (Henry Holt, 1987) ISBN 978-2070732340
 * Philadelphia Fire (Henry Holt, 1990) ISBN 978-0618509645
 * The Cattle Killing (Houghton Mifflin, 1996) ISBN 978-0395877500
 * Two Cities (Houghton Mifflin, 1998) ISBN 978-0618001859
 * Fanon (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) ISBN 978-0547086163

Omnibus editions

 * The Homewood Trilogy (Avon Books, 1985) ISBN 978-0380895649
 * The Homewood Books (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992) ISBN 978-0822938316
 * Identities: Three Early Novels by John Edgar Wideman (Henry Holt, 1994) ISBN 978-0805035926

Story collections

 * Damballah (Avon Books, 1981) ISBN 978-0395897973
 * Fever (Henry Holt, 1989) ISBN 978-0805011845
 * The Stories of John Edgar Wideman (Pantheon Books, 1992; published as All Stories Are True, Vintage Books, 1993) ISBN 978-0679407195
 * God's Gym (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) ISBN 978-0618711994
 * Briefs (Lulu Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0557310043
 * American Histories (Scribner, 2018) ISBN 978-1501178351
 * You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981-2018 (Scribner, 2021) ISBN 978-1982148911
 * Look for Me and I'll Be Gone (Scribner, 2021) ISBN 978-1982148942

Memoirs and other

 * Brothers and Keepers (Henry Holt, 1984) ISBN 978-0618509638
 * Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society (Pantheon, 1994) ISBN 978-0679407201
 * Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race, and Love (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) ISBN 978-0395857311
 * (Editor) My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African-American Literature (Running Press, 2001) ISBN 978-0762410354
 * (Editor) 20: The Best of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001) ISBN 978-0822941705
 * The Island: Martinique (National Geographic Directions, 2003) ISBN 978-0792265337
 * Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File (Scribner, 2016) ISBN 978-1501147296

Athletic honors

 * Philadelphia Big 5 Hall of Fame, inducted 1974
 * University of Pennsylvania Athletics Hall of Fame, inducted 1998

Honors for body of work
In 1993, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in awarding him a fellowship, noted that Wideman "has contributed to a new humanist perspective in American literature, distilling personality and history, crime and mysticism, art and the exigencies of material life into his work." Honors bestowed for his entire body of work include:

 * Honorary Doctorate, University of Pennsylvania (1986)
 * John Dos Passos Prize for Literature (1986)
 * Lannan Literary Award in Fiction (1991)
 * Honorary Doctorate, Rutgers University (1991)
 * American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected Member (1992)
 * St. Botolph Club Foundation Distinguished Artist Award (1992)
 * MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1993)
 * Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award (1998)
 * Rea Award for the Short Story (1998)
 * Honorary Doctorate, Colby College (1998)
 * Honorary Doctorate, University of Bern (1998)
 * Honorary Doctorate, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (1999)
 * New England Book Award for Literary Excellence (2001)
 * Honorary Doctorate, Columbia College Chicago (2003)
 * Langston Hughes Medal (2004)
 * American Philosophical Society, Elected Member (2005)
 * Katherine Anne Porter Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2008)
 * Honorary Doctorate, State University of New York at New Paltz (2010)
 * Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award (2011)
 * American Academy of Arts and Letters, Elected Member (2016)
 * Honorary Doctorate, Duquesne University (2017)
 * Lannan Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement (2018)
 * Stephen E. Henderson Award for Outstanding Achievement (2019)
 * PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story (2019)
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature (2021)

Honors for individual works

 * American Library Association Notable Books List for Sent for You Yesterday (1984)
 * PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Sent for You Yesterday (1984)
 * American Library Association Notable Books List for Brothers and Keepers (1985)
 * National Magazine Award for "Doc's Story", originally published in Esquire (1987)
 * PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Philadelphia Fire (1991)
 * American Book Award for Philadelphia Fire (1991)
 * James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction for The Cattle Killing (1997)
 * O. Henry Award for "Weight", originally published in Callaloo (2000)
 * O. Henry Award for "Microstories", originally published in Harper's Magazine (2010)
 * Prix Femina Étranger for Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File (2017)
 * PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File (2017)
 * O. Henry Award for "Maps and Ledgers", originally published in Harper's Magazine (2019)
 * The Wall Street Journal "10 Best Books of 2021" for Look for Me and I'll Be Gone (2021)

Wideman's winning the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1991 marked the first time a writer had won that prize twice, a feat that has since been accomplished by three other writers: Philip Roth, E. L. Doctorow, and Ha Jin.

In addition, Wideman's memoir, Brothers and Keepers, and his book, Writing to Save a Life, were both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His memoir, Fatheralong, was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Wideman's short works have been widely anthologized, including in the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, the Oxford Book of American Short Stories, and The Heath Anthology of American Literature, among others.

Wideman has been a visiting fellow, professor, or speaker at numerous institutions. His work has been translated into many languages.

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Talk:List of Brown University people

Wally Snell and Hal Neubauer
under "Sports/Athletics", i'm not sure if Wally Snell is worth including. Apparently he only played 6 games of Major League baseball. (http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/snellwa01.shtml)

same goes for Hal Neubauer. He only pitched 7 games. (http://www.baseball-reference.com/n/neubaha01.shtml) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 138.251.225.116 (talk • contribs) 19:21, 7 February 2005 (UTC).

Diana Ross's daughters
Do Diana Ross's small-deal actress daughters really merit listing? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 138.251.225.116 (talk • contribs) 01:21, 5 April 2005 (UTC).
 * I don't think so. Including people who are primarily famous because they're someone's son or daughter would make this list huge. (I know I just added Navah Perlman, but she has made it on her own to merit listing.) – flamurai (t) 04:57, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)

Ted Turner
I think he was expelled. Did he even get a degree from Brown? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.196.64.198 (talk • contribs) 23:19, 23 August 2005 (UTC).

 * He was expelled after three years, but he did receive honorary baccalaureate and doctorate degrees from the university. According to a 29 April 2004 article in the Brown Daily Herald :

 * "Ted Turner '60 spent three years at Brown and left without graduating."
 * "Turner, who studied classics and economics, was commodore of the yacht club and vice president of the debating union."
 * "But Turner was also suspended twice and was ultimately expelled from Brown when he was found living with his girlfriend during his second suspension."
 * "In 1989, the University awarded Turner an honorary baccalaureate degree, and in 1993 he received an honorary doctorate." —User:MementoVivere (talk • contribs) 05:38, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Michael Rubin

 * Michael Rubin (2000) - play-by-play announcer of numerous Brown University sports broadcasts on the Brown Sports Radio Network

why on earth does this merit posting??? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.130.233.151 (talk • contribs) 10:21, 18 February 2006 (UTC).

 * It doesn't. Go ahead and remove it. NBS525 20:30, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Fair use images
should not be used to decorate this list. See WP:FUC. ed g2s • talk 10:46, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Fields Medal Winning Mathematician
I think it would be appropriate to mention Prof. David Mumford, of the Division of Applied Mathematics, who has received the Fields Medal (the math equivalent of the Nobel Prize).

Jonathan.

Xeno Müller
The Athletics section appears to overlook Swiss-American rower Xeno Müller, who won the men's single sculls event at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and took silver in Melbourne in 2000. --Death Bredon (talk) 11:53, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Darrell M. West
Darrell M. West is a political commentator, director of Governance Studies at Brookings Institution, and has published multiple books. I was trying to figure out what category to list him under (the article on him is orphaned, so putting him on this list would help things out a bit) and none of the categories in the Government, law and public policy seemed right...should I just list him under the general Notable Faculty section at the end? Thanks, Politizer (talk) 06:20, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Ignore that message; I just noticed he's already on the list, only with a bad wikilink! I really need to start checking things out better before I go posting all over the talk pages.... thanks again! Politizer (talk) 06:23, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Peter Jacobsen
Peter Jacobsen (of House M.D. fame) graduated in '87...

A Hope in the Unseen
Someone might want to make mention of "A Hope in the Unseen" by Ron Suskind. It's an acclaimed biographical narrative of an inner-city student who earns acceptance to Brown.

Carrie Bradshaw, Fictional Alumna
According to series creator Candace Bushnell's Summer in the City: A Carrie Diaries Novel, Carrie Bradshaw, the Sex and the City character, is an alumna.

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Why is there a section on Trustees? None of it is cited, there is no indication of whether the list includes current or past Trustees, and most of the entries are non-notable (i.e., have no Wikipedia article). I don't know of any other article on University people with a list of trustees. For all of those reasons, I suggest deleting this section. Softlavender (talk) 22:16, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

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John Quincy Adams
Article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams says he was a professor at Brown.

But "Notable faculty", about 2/3 down this page, doesn't list him, nor does searching the page for "Quincy" find him.

Whichever page is wrong, fix it.

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Split proposal
@Filetime, I support the split proposal you made. Brown is a big/notable enough institution that there can definitely be full list articles for both faculty and alumni. Cheers, {{u| Sdkb  }}  talk 04:15, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

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She also created prototype theory.
 * OK, I put that in today. Spalding 12:28, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)

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Karaboro languages

The Karaboro languages are spoken in Burkina Faso by approximately 65,000 people (SIL 1995/1991). They belong to the Senufo subfamily, but are separated from other Senufo languages by a small band of unrelated languages. Within Senufo they are thought to be most closely related to the Senari languages.

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User:Richard Mushet

I'm Richard Mushet, I originate from Doncaster and I currently live in Nottingham while studying for a Law degree at Nottingham Trent University. I suppose you could say my mission statement (I do realise that makes me sound like a business school failure) for Wikipedia is to wax lyrical on some of my passions, and eliminate red links.

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Geoffrey Keating

Geoffrey Keating (Seathrún Céitinn; c. 1569 – c. 1644) was an Irish historian. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and is buried in Tubrid Graveyard in the parish of Ballylooby-Duhill. He became a Catholic priest and a poet.

Biography
It was generally believed until recently that Keating had been born in Burgess, County Tipperary; indeed, a monument to Keating was raised beside the bridge at Burgess, in 1990; but Diarmuid Ó Murchadha writes,

"The presumption that Geoffrey Keating attended a bardic school at Burgess, County Tipperary, is attributable to Thomas O'Sullevane, a shadowy character from the fringes of literary circles in London. The same unreliable source names Burgess as Keating's place of birth, whereas recent work (Cunningham 2002) indicates that Moorstown Castle in the parish of Inishlounaght [in Tipperary] was his probable birthplace."

In November 1603, he was one of forty students who sailed for Bordeaux under the charge of the Rev. Diarmaid MacCarthy to begin their studies at the Irish College which had just been founded in that city by Cardinal François de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux. On his arrival in France he wrote Farewell to Ireland, and upon hearing of the Flight of the Earls wrote Lament on the Sad State of Ireland. After obtaining the degree of Doctor of Divinity at the University of Bordeaux he returned about 1610 to Ireland and was appointed to the cure of souls at Uachtar Achaidh in the parish of Knockgraffan, near Cahir, where he put a stop to the then-common practice of delaying Mass until the neighbouring gentry arrived.

His major work, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (Foundation of Knowledge on Ireland, more usually translated History of Ireland), was written in Early Modern Irish and completed c. 1634.

The Foras Feasa traced the history of Ireland from the creation of the world to the invasion of the Normans in the 12th century, based on the rich native historical and mythological traditions (including that of the Milesians), Irish bardic poetry, monastic annals, and other ecclesiastical records. The Foras Feasa circulated in manuscript, as Ireland's English administration would not give authority to have it printed because of its pro-Catholic arguments. It was still a time of repression; in 1634 a political campaign for a general reform of anti-Catholic religious persecution, known as the Graces, was denied by the viceroy.

Having Old English ancestry, Keating held the political view that Ireland's nobility and natural leadership derived from the surviving Irish clan chiefs and Old English landed families who had remained Catholic. He also accepted the House of Stuart as lawful kings of Ireland, which had a long-term influence on both Irish Confederate and Jacobites until Papal recognition of the Stuart claim finally ended in 1766. Keating continued to influence Irish genealogical writers such as John O'Hart into the 1800s.

Works

 * Edited and translated works:

 * For a list of editions, translations, and manuscripts see Foras Feasa ar Éirinn
 * For a list of editions, translations, and manuscripts see Foras Feasa ar Éirinn

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The Occult Roots of Nazism

The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890–1935 is a book about Nazi occultism and Ariosophy by historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, who traces some of its roots back to Esotericism in Germany and Austria between 1880 and 1945. The foreword is by Rohan Butler, who had written The Roots of National Socialism in the 1930s. The book is based on Goodrick-Clarke's 1982 Ph.D. thesis The ariosophists of Austria and Germany 1890-1935: Reactionary political fantasy in relation to social anxiety.

This book has been continually in print since its first publication in 1985, and has been translated into twelve languages, including Spanish, French, Polish, Italian, Russian, Czech, German and Greek. It was republished as a paperback by New York University Press in 1992 (ISBN 0-8147-3060-4), and more recently republished by I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd (ISBN 1-86064-973-4).

The German edition features a preface and an additional essay Nationalsozialismus und Okkultismus (National Socialism and Occultism) (15 pages) by H.T. Hakl.

Publication history
The exact title of the book changed in the 1992 edition. Foreign language editions are also (partly) listed:

 * Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke 1985: The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890–1935, Wellingborough, England: The Aquarian Press. ISBN 0-85030-402-4.
 * 1992: The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology, New York: New York University Press ISBN 978-0-8147-3060-7
 * 2004: The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology, (Expanded with a new Preface) I.B. Tauris & Co. ISBN 1-86064-973-4.
 * Spanish edition 2005: Las Oscuras Raíces del Nazismo. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana ISBN 978-9500726603
 * French edition 1989: Les racines occultistes du nazisme: Les Aryosophistes en Autriche et en Allemagne 1890–1935 ISBN 2-86714-069-2.
 * Russian edition 1993: Оккультные корни нацизма
 * German edition 1997:  Die okkulten Wurzeln des Nationalsozialismus. Graz, Austria: Stocker ISBN 3-7020-0795-4.
 * 2. German edition 2000: Graz: Stocker ISBN 3-7020-0795-4.
 * 3. German edition 2004: Wiesbaden: Marix-Verlag ISBN 3-937715-48-7.
 * Greek edition 2006: ΟΙ ΑΠΟΚΡΥΦΙΣΤΙΚΕΣ ΡΙΖΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΝΑΖΙΣΜΟΥ ISBN 960-8345-85-5
 * Czech edition 1998: Okultní kořeny nacismu: Rakouští a němečtí ariosofisté 1890-1935: Tajné árijské kulty a jejich vliv na nacistickou ideologii. Prague: Votobia ISBN 978-80-7220-023-8
 * 2. Czech edition 2005: Okultní kořeny nacismu: Tajné árijské kulty a jejich vliv na nacistickou ideologii. Prague: Eminent ISBN 80-7281-278-5
 * Polish edition 2001: Okultystyczne źródła nazizmu. Warsaw: Bellona ISBN 978-83-11117-31-0
 * 2. Polish edition 2011: Okultystyczne źródła nazizmu. Warsaw: Aletheia ISBN 978-83-61182-48-1
 * Portuguese edition: Raízes Ocultistas do Nazismo: cultos secretos arianos e sua influência na ideologia nazi, Lisboa, Terramar, Agosto 2002. ISBN 972-710-321-9

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The Demo Compilation

The Demo Compilation is the second compilation of old songs by Swedish hardcore punk band Refused. It was released in 1997 through Burning Heart Records. It is also known as This Album Contains Old Songs & Old Pictures Vol. 2.

Track listing
Tracks 1–15 collect the EPs First Demo: Refused (1992, self-released) and Second Demo: Operation Headfirst (1992, Umeå Hardcore Records). Tracks 16–21 are bonus songs.

 * 1) "Re-fused" – 2:41
 * 2) "Another One" – 2:19
 * 3) "Enough Is Enough" – 2:07
 * 4) "Fusible Front" – 2:25
 * 5) "Reach Out" – 2:07
 * 6) "Fudge" – 2:33
 * 7) "Blind" – 3:05
 * 8) "Back in Black" (Young/Young/Johnson) – 3:36
 * 9) "The New Deal" – 2:13
 * 10) "I Wish" – 2:55
 * 11) "Where Is Equality?" – 2:17
 * 12) "Who Died?" – 1:51
 * 13) "Burn" – 3:32
 * 14) "Racial Liberation" – 2:30
 * 15) "Hate Breeds Hate" – 3:28
 * 16) "I'll Choose My Side" – 2:51
 * 17) "The Marlboro Man Is Dead" – 3:02
 * 18) "Defeated" – 2:21
 * 19) "Live Wire" – 3:02 (Mötley Crüe cover)
 * 20) "Gratitude" – 2:39 (Beastie Boys cover)
 * 21) [untitled] – 2:20 (Gorilla Biscuits cover; the song is called "No Reason Why" and this is a live recording)

Personnel

 * Dennis Lyxzén – lead vocals, layout (all tracks)
 * Pär Hansson – guitar (all tracks)
 * Henrik Jansson – guitar (tracks 9–15)
 * Jonas Lidgren – bass (tracks 1–8)
 * Magnus Flagge – bass (tracks 9–15)
 * David Sandström – drums, percussion, liner notes (all tracks)
 * Jon Brännström – layout
 * Pelle Gunnerfeldt – production
 * Eskil Lövström – mastering
 * Tracks 16–21 are unknown personnel

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Best page title for monument ?
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London South Collegiate Institute

London South Collegiate Institute (also known as S.C.I., or simply South) is a public high school in London, Ontario, Canada.

South is administered by the Thames Valley District School Board. Approximately 600 students attend the school from grades 9-12. It offers a co-op program and a program for gifted students called the Academy Program.

The school colours are garnet and grey and the school mascot is the lion. South is known for its academic rigour, sports teams, and the strength of its arts program, which includes drama, visual arts, music, and dance.

The South Collegiate Alumni Association, established in 1999, organizes the school's reunions and alumni events, including annual homecoming events since 2007. South is one of the only high schools in Canada to host a homecoming with football games and a tailgate party.

From May 24 to 26, 2013, South celebrated its 85th year at the Tecumseh Avenue location with a reunion. It commemorated the 100th anniversary of its original founding on May 26, 2023.

History
The school first opened in 1922, at the corner of Askin Street and Wharncliffe Road South, where Victoria Public School now lies, with 290 students and 10 teachers. The growing school moved to its current location on Tecumseh Avenue in June 1928, six years later.

School pride was a focus right from the early years. According to the school's website, early students recited a daily pledge: "We're here to win the day for the garnet and grey, and to London South we pledge allegiance now." The school's Latin motto, virtus repulsae nescia sordidae, means "courage will never know ignominious defeat." They are also known for the school's fight song: “Garnet and Grey, Garnet and Grey,

Knock them down and lead the way!

Hit 'em low and hit 'em high,

Fight 'em, fight 'em, SCI!

Go, South! Fight, fight, fight!"

Renovations
In the 1995-96 school year, the school underwent comprehensive renovations which included enclosing the school's former open central courtyard into an enclosed atrium.

Between 2005 and 2007, the rubber gym floor was replaced by a new wood floor, partly due to the success of the "Roar for the Floor" fundraising campaign. An outdoor scoreboard was also installed with money raised. In the summer of 2007, the field was revamped, with new sod, a sprinkler system, new football nets, bleachers, a paved track, new fence, and several portable classrooms removed. The field renovation costs were donated by alumnus Matt Giffen, and the field was named - in memory of his father - the James A. Giffen Memorial Field.

The school was formerly renamed “South Secondary School” for many decades, but regained its original name in 2009.

Notable alumni

 * Dan Brodbeck, record producer
 * Chuck Dalton, Olympic basketball player
 * Brett Dier, actor
 * Noah Johns, absoulute beauty
 * Chris Doty, filmmaker, journalist
 * Robert Ford, diplomat, poet
 * Ray Getliffe, former NHL hockey player, Montreal Canadiens
 * Shuman Ghosemajumder, Google executive, entrepreneur
 * John Glassford, CFL football player, Ottawa Rough Riders
 * Dennis Goulden, Emmy Award-winning producer
 * Dianne Haskett, former mayor, London, Ontario
 * Vaughn Martin, NFL football player, Kansas City Chiefs
 * Kate Nelligan, Oscar-nominated actress, The Prince of Tides
 * Alex Pierzchalski, CFL football player, Saskatchewan Roughriders
 * Walter Stewart, journalist

Notable faculty

 * Lesley Thompson, Olympic athlete
 * Welwyn Wilton Katz, children's author, mathematics, 1970s
 * Marion Woodman, Jungian psychologist, english, 1950s-70s

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Denise Cronenberg

Denise Cronenberg (1 October 1938 – 22 May 2020) was a Canadian costume designer.

Cronenberg was born in Toronto, Ontario and was the sister of film director David Cronenberg and the mother of filmmaker Aaron Woodley. She produced work for films such as Dawn of the Dead and The Incredible Hulk.

Cronenberg and her brother worked together on The Fly, a 2008 operatic adaptation of the 1986 film of the same name.

She died due to "complications from old age" in Burlington, Ontario in May 2020 at the age of 81.

Works

 * The Fly (1986)
 * Dead Ringers (1988)
 * The Long Road Home (1989)
 * The Guardian (1990)
 * Naked Lunch (1991)
 * M. Butterfly (1993)
 * Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
 * Crash (1996)
 * Murder at 1600 (1997)
 * Mad City (1997) Alan Alda's wardrobe
 * A Cool, Dry Place (1998)
 * The Wager (1998) (also executive producer)
 * eXistenZ (1999)
 * The Third Miracle (1999)
 * Bless the Child (2000)
 * Dracula 2000 (2000)
 * Camera (2000)
 * The Caveman's Valentine (2002)
 * Spider (2002)
 * Avenging Angelo (2002)
 * Rhinoceros Eyes (2003)
 * Dawn of the Dead (2004)
 * A History of Violence (2005)
 * Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
 * The Fly (2008), opera by Howard Shore
 * Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

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The Shape of Punk to Come

The Shape of Punk to Come: A Chimerical Bombination in 12 Bursts, often shortened to The Shape of Punk to Come, is the third album by Swedish hardcore punk band Refused, released on 27 October 1998 through Burning Heart Records.

Although Refused broke up only months after the album's release, The Shape of Punk to Come has since found an audience for the band and largely contributed to their posthumous fame, as well as inspiring many later artists in a wide range of genres. Kerrang! magazine listed The Shape of Punk to Come at #13 on their 50 Most Influential Albums of All Time list in 2003.

Overview
This album marked a sharp and conscious departure from Refused's earlier work. The philosophy of the album, expounded in the ample liner notes and encapsulated in the song "New Noise", was that punk and hardcore music could not be anti-establishment by continuing to package revolutionary lyrics in sounds which had been increasingly co-opted into the mainstream. The sound of the record challenged existing punk sensibilities; it can be seen as "punk" at a fundamental level and includes experimental combinations of post-hardcore, post-punk, techno, and jazz sounds.

The album also includes "political interludes" between some songs. The use of more technological sounds or drum and bass music, particularly on The New Noise Theology E.P. which followed the album, is a tactic that various members of Refused have credited to the influence of Philadelphia punk band Ink & Dagger.

Recording
In 2006, producer Pelle Henricsson said of the recording:"We did not use Pro Tools at all. The Shape was recorded on 24 track 2 inch tape and occasional Adats in sync when the 24 tracks wasn't enough. The drums were recorded as grooves and then edited in Soundscape without any grid reference. The whole thing was then bounced back to 2 inch where all guitars and basses were recorded. Same thing with vocals but not 'every word' moved around. More like keeping phrases that were within the groove. The Soundscape system we used back then held 12 tracks and was used as a stand alone editing unit. Overall the whole recording had groove as THE key word, maybe that's why it's still a cool record!?"

The album's production has inspired other artists to work with Pelle Henricsson and Eskil Lövström, including Poison the Well, and Hell is for Heroes.

Samples and references

 * The cover artwork imitates the cover of Teen-Age Dance Session (1994) by Rye Coalition, which is of itself a reference to the cover of Teen-Age Dance Session (1954) by Dan Terry.
 * The song title "Worms of the Senses / Faculties of the Skull" is an allusion to a line from Allen Ginsberg's long poem "Howl".
 * The transition from "Liberation Frequency" to "The Deadly Rhythm" features a spoken word part taken from an introduction by Bob Garrity for the song "A Night In Tunisia" performed by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Candido Camero on 14 November 1952.
 * The opening of “The Deadly Rhythm” also features layered samples of the opening drums, and closing saxophone riff, from a live performance of the same song by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.
 * "The Deadly Rhythm" features a musical quotation of Bo Diddley's 1959 R&B song "I'm a Man", or - perhaps more arguably - from the saxophone riff in the Art Blakey version of "Night in Tunisia".
 * The break in "New Noise" samples Colonel Kurtz's famous monologue from the 1979 Vietnam war film Apocalypse Now.
 * The spoken text at the start of '"Protest Song '68" comes from the opening of the Henry Miller novel Tropic of Cancer.
 * The title of the song "Refused are Fucking Dead" is a reference to the Born Against song "Born Against are Fucking Dead".
 * The album's title The Shape of Punk to Come and the song of the same name are a reference to Ornette Coleman's 1959 avant-garde jazz album The Shape of Jazz to Come.
 * "Tannhäuser / Derivè" includes a reference to the theme "The Augurs of Spring: Dances of the Young Girls" from Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Musical style
The album has been described musically as post-hardcore, and hardcore punk, with elements of jazz,   punk rock,  electronica, post-rock, ambient, and heavy metal.

In other media and legacy
"New Noise" has been featured in movies such as Crank, Jalla! Jalla!, The Hitman's Bodyguard, Boot Camp, Triangle of Sadness, and Friday Night Lights; in the television programs 24, Rage, The Bear, Criminal Minds, Nitro Circus, The Following, and Wayne; in the video game Tony Hawk's Underground; and in the trailers for the movie Witching and Bitching and the video game Doom. It was also the entrance music for major league pitcher John Axford when he closed games for the Milwaukee Brewers.

The Used, Anthrax, Snot, and Crazy Town have covered "New Noise" on numerous occasions live.

The British magazine Rock Sound gave the album The Shape of Punk to Come the number one spot in the magazine's list of the 100 albums that most influenced the music that Rock Sound covers.

Paramore's song "Born For This" from their 2007 record Riot! features a direct reference to the song "Liberation Frequency" by quoting the lyric "We want the airwaves back." and overlaying it with a modulation of the song's leading melody.

2004 reissue
In 2004, a DVD-Audio version of the album was released, remixed in 5.1-channel Surround Sound. Many of the songs were compositionally altered, some significantly. "Bruitist Pome #5," for example, was thoroughly reworked, while a seven-minute version of "Refused Are Fuckin Dead" transitions into a new second half, which incorporates elements of the Bomba Je Remix of the song. Other songs received new intros or outros.

Reception
In 2003, Kerrang! magazine listed The Shape of Punk to Come at #13 on their 50 Most Influential Albums of All Time list. In 2005, The Shape of Punk to Come was ranked number 428 in Rock Hard magazine's book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time. In 2013, LA Weekly named it the twelfth best punk album in history. In 2015, the Phoenix New Times named it the fifth best political punk album ever.

The album has sold 179,000 copies in the United States as of June 2015.

2010 reissue
In addition to the 12 tracks of the original release, the 2010 reissue, released as a deluxe edition, also included previously unreleased live recordings from a 1998 concert and a DVD of the documentary on the band, Refused Are Fucking Dead.

Disc 2: Live at Umeå Open festival (3 April 1998)

 * 1) "The Shape of Punk to Come" – 4:38
 * 2) "The Refused Party Program" – 1:28
 * 3) "Circle Pit" – 2:48
 * 4) "Worms of the Senses / Faculties of the Skull" – 5:31
 * 5) "Hook, Line and Sinker" – 2:51
 * 6) "Summerholidays vs. Punkroutine" – 3:54
 * 7) "Rather Be Dead" – 3:42
 * 8) "Burn It" – 2:33
 * 9) "The Deadly Rhythm" – 4:05
 * 10) "Coup d'Ètat" – 5:10
 * 11) "New Noise" – 4:48
 * 12) "Tannhäuser" – 7:30

Personnel
The Shape of Punk to Come personnel as listed in the album liner notes.

Refused

 * Dennis Lyxzén – vocals
 * Kristofer Steen – guitars, bass, drums
 * Jon Brännström – guitars, samples, programming, synthesizers
 * David Sandström – drums, melodica, guitars
 * Magnus Björklund – bass guitar, cello

Additional musicians

 * Torbjörn Näsbom – violin
 * Jakob Munck – upright bass
 * Pelle Henricsson – tambourine

Production

 * Eskil Lövström, Pelle Henricsson, Refused – recording, production, mixing, mastering
 * Andreas Nilsson – sound technician, recording, production, mixing, mastering

Art and design

 * Dennis Lyxzén – art direction, layout
 * José Saxlund – layout
 * David Sandström – photo collage
 * Ulf Nyberg – Refused photos
 * Axel Stattin – back cover photo

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eli Hagen

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was Keep. Rje 23:47, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

Eli Hagen
Politicians' spouses are only notable in exceptional circumstances (such as if their horoscopes influence the foreign policy of a country, say). These aren't such circumstances. Uncle G 19:27, 2005 Feb 7 (UTC)
 * "wife and secretary"... second wife, I have to wonder? *sigh* Samaritan 20:10, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Politicians' spouses can be encyclopedic, simply for being famous due to their association with their spouse (e.g., Lady Bird Johnson). In practice, that pretty much limits it to the spouses of Presidents/PMs/Dictators-for-life. She might be notable, if she has received sufficient media attention, but if she had, you'd think the article would provide more detail.  Delete unless notability shown. Meelar (talk) 02:51, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * The spouse of a nation's president or prime minister or other national leader is legitimately notable, because that inherently puts them in a fairly senior public role. The spouse of a political party leader who isn't a PM/president/whatever, however, should only be in here if they're notable in their own right. If she can be shown to be notable on her own, keep; if not, delete. I can't tell from a Google search, since most relevant pages are written in Norwegian. Bearcat 07:02, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. There is an Eli Hagen who also listed as a published linguistics researcher. Not sure at this stage if she is the same one. No vote as yet. Megan1967 07:13, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * More Googling does show up some notability. Voting Keep with expansion. Megan1967 00:43, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I guess I have to say keep now. Gee, I just wasted 30 minutes of my life looking up information on this woman and summarizing it. Please take another look at the article now and tell if it is redeemable. Eli Hagen is married to the right-wing populist Carl I. Hagen. From a quick look at what Google brings up, it appears that she is notorious in Norway for accidentally driving her car down the monumental stairs in front of the Royal Palace in Oslo a few years ago, and there are references in Norwegian press to people "doing an Eli Hagen", i.e. driving down those (or other) stairs. She was subsequently featured in an advertizing campaign on road safety in Norway. / up land 09:24, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * P.S. I notice that Wikipedia still doesn't have an article on the Royal Palace in Oslo itself. / up land 09:39, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Well she's definitely no Nancy Reagan, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Eleanor Roosevelt, or Imelda Marcos. She's not a Tipper Gore, either.  Being Norway's most famous Off-Roading Mum probably brings her to the level of Christine Hamilton, though: a politician's spouse who became a minor celebrity for a short while due to one newsworthy episode, and attempted to parlay that celebrity to only minor effect.  I'm not greatly convinced of the notability of such people, to be honest, though.  I'm now at Weak Delete. (And I'd certainly much prefer Royal Palace in Oslo to this.  ☺) Uncle G 18:13, 2005 Feb 8 (UTC)
 * Keep, content is helpful, could use a mild cleanup though. Wyss 20:58, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. She seems notable enough to me, and this article is currently probably the best source of information about her anywhere (except talking with her, perhaps). LizardWizard 21:02, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Hokay, after hedging my bets in my earlier comment on this, I'm now in favour of keeping, although only weakly. Bearcat 00:13, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * For me, this is a positive example of Wiki is not paper... Wyss 00:21, 9 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.
 * Keep thanks to the good work of Uppland. hopefully, I will work on an article on Royal Palace in Oslo. Capitalistroadster 10:49, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Looking at new files on Commons, I just noticed a couple of recently uploaded images there: Image:Slottet oslo 2.jpg and Image:Slott noreg bak 1.jpg. / up land 18:22, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep since she is a public figure. Some may claim this is due to her hair-do and recently, the Royal Castle stairs affair. More importantly, claims have been made that she has played an important role in the development of her husbands party, which is noteworthy, especially since in recent years the party has become the largest in Norway. Sorry, but that is what I know. Egil 13:32, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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As is well known, Switzerland was not a member of UN neither, until recently. Do not use irrelevant facts to support your non-NPoV edits. at0 19:29, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Mehmet, by using TRNC to refer to the occupied Cyprus part, you are undermining the sovereignty of the recognised republic of Cyprus (which includes the occupied part as well, as you would know being an expert with the UN status). The Switzerland analogy is to say the least inappropriate. Please stop using this website to promote Turkish propaganda. The mere reference to denktash in an article for Paphos is a sign for propaganda (Paphos was the birthplace of far more important men that Denktash). I don't object in keeping this fact there however, since some people might find it useful, but at least use an appropriate terminology. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.146.12.92 (talk) 21:32, 7 February 2005 (UTC)

Please feel free to include "far more important men that Denktash" in the article. I am using an appropriate terminology. at0 06:34, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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New photos
Hello I am petty sure, that there are much better photographs of the port, and the city... I am goin g to try and update the ASAP... TomasNY (talk) 14:25, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Aphrodite Hills Resort
"Aphrodite Hills recently appeared in the highly prestigious Forbes Magazine commissioned top five resorts" I know that Aphrodite Hills resort has been listed in the top ten resorts by various holiday magazines, but top five of forbes ? Could you please provide a link? --Polysophia (talk) 13:02, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I notice that there is still not a "forbes" link - merely one to a golfing holidays website. This paragraph appears to be advertising. Is there any reason it should stay?Plingsby (talk) 09:34, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

More info
It would be nice to see more info or separate sections under headings , on culture on tourism although these are covered to a certain extent in history and economy. --Polysophia (talk) 01:30, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Earthquake
From 1222 Cyprus earthquake:
 * The castle of Saranda Kolones, built only 30 years earlier overlooking the harbour, was destroyed by the earthquake. It was never rebuilt, as it was no longer needed to protect the port, which had dried up.[6][7] The earthquake permanently changed Paphos, rendering the harbour unusable, and moving the shoreline seawards; it no longer had a protected anchorage.[7]

I'd like a map of shorelines before and after the earthquake to better gauge its impact. --Error (talk) 22:58, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Notable people
Christos Eustathiou is in no way a notable person. Removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.7.245.197 (talk) 12:33, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Köppen Climate Classification
Article lists the Köppen Climate Classification for Paphos as BSh, and my research shows that is should be Csa (Hot semi-arid climate). If no one disagrees, I will make the amendment. Cheers! RichardMills65 (talk) 15:20, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

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Hello,

I have added new images to the page's infobox, consisting of the following images of:

Paphos Port, Modern Aphrodite Sculpture, Paphos Castle, Municipal Library, Markideo Theatre, View of Paphos

 * In italics: these places were also found in the previous image collage of the page

I've added these new images to better showcase the city, as well as to include better pictures for the page. (ex.: Modern Aphrodite Statue) Lomaine (talk) 20:25, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

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Rae Dawn Chong

Rae Dawn Chong (born February 28, 1961) is a Canadian-American actress. She made her big screen debut appearing in the 1978 musical drama film Stony Island, and in 1981 starred in the fantasy film Quest for Fire, for which she received the Genie Award for Best Actress.

Chong later starred in films Beat Street (1984), American Flyers (1985), The Color Purple (1985), Commando (1985), Soul Man (1986), The Principal (1987), Tales from the Darkside (1990), Time Runner (1993), and Boulevard (1994). She is the daughter of comedian and actor Tommy Chong.

Early life
Chong was born on February 28, 1961, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the first daughter of actor/comedian Tommy Chong. Her father is of Chinese and Scots-Irish descent and her mother, Maxine Sneed, was of Black Canadian descent. She also self-identifies as being of Cherokee descent through her mother. Her younger sister Robbi Chong is a model and actress. They have three younger half-brothers (one adopted) and a half-sister by their father's second wife. In addition to Rae Dawn, two of her sisters and her adopted brother Marcus Chong have pursued acting careers.

Chong has said that her paternal grandfather left a poor village in China in the 1930s to live with an aunt in Vancouver, where Chinese immigrants were mostly sequestered in a small area due to racial discrimination, and that although he spoke Cantonese, he refused to teach it to his children or grandchildren. She said, "I think my grandfather had great racial shame, which was hard on us growing up. ... We grew up desperate to know anything about our Chinese culture." Later in life, though, her grandfather "saw the error of his ways and embraced his heritage."

Career
After acting in a few television roles, Chong's second feature film was Quest for Fire (1981), for which she won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in 1983. Other notable roles have been in the films Choose Me (1984), Beat Street (1984), The Color Purple (1985), and Commando (1985). She appeared with her father in Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers (1984) and Far Out Man (1990). In 1985, Chong played the love interest in Mick Jagger's video "Just Another Night".

At 19 years old, Chris Pratt was waiting tables at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company restaurant in Maui when he was scouted by Chong; she cast him in her directorial debut, the short horror film Cursed Part 3, which was filmed in Los Angeles in 2000.

On television, Chong starred opposite Adrian Pasdar in the science fiction drama series Mysterious Ways from 2000 to 2002. later she starred in the first season of Lifetime comedy-drama series Wild Card opposite Joely Fisher. The following years, she appeared in a number of independent movies. She returned to television appearing in two episodes of Better Things in 2016, and two episodes of 9-1-1 (2018-19). In 2021, she played Betty Currie in the FX series Impeachment: American Crime Story.

In 2021, Chong was honored with the "Invisible Woman Award" from the Women Film Critics Circle for "Supporting performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored" for her performance in the drama film The Sleeping Negro.

In 2022, Chong portrayed Florence de Pointe du Lac in the AMC series Interview with the Vampire.

Personal life
Chong married Owen Baylis, a stockbroker, and they had a son named Morgan. They divorced in 1982. In 1989, she married actor C. Thomas Howell, her co-star in the feature film Soul Man. They divorced in 1990. In 2011, Chong married Nathan Ulrich (one of the founders of Xootr). They divorced in 2014.

Pop culture references
British-American rapper-producer MF DOOM recorded a song titled "Rae Dawn". It was released under the alias Viktor Vaughn, as a single from his third studio album Vaudeville Villain (some releases list the title as "Raedawn"). The reference to Chong appears in the lyrics: "New drink, named it after Chong daughter".

Rapper Redman mentions Chong in his 1994 song "Winicumuhround".

Comedian Stephen Lynch also has a song about Chong—"R.D.C. (Opie's Lament)"—as the 12th track on his 2000 debut album A Little Bit Special.

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Page move
Excuse me, but I know how to move a page. The page that I moved to already existed and had its OWN history, which I did not want to delete. Thank you. Páll 08:01, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for un-moving the page - though I support PZFUN's move, it was done without consensus on the Talk page. A vote has started on the renaming now. Wizzy 08:29, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

Welcome
Let me be the first to welcome you to Wikipedia! Seems you have found a lot on your own - let me point out WP:POST, a good summary page of what is going on in the WP world .. Wizzy 08:35, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

Morbid warning template
The template was deleted, but it appears that Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse still works because a more general purpose version that was created at Template:Photo warning by User:Flamurai a few weeks ago. I'm a little surprised that such a narrow vote was called for delete, but I think the new template is even better. Cool Hand Luke  03:24, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

RfA thanks
Thank you for the vote at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Henrygb2. It has made my week. --Henrygb 01:56, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Zürich to Zurich
Zürich has been nominated on Requested moves for a page move to Zurich. Perhapse you might like to express your opinion about this proposed move on talk:Zürich. Philip Baird Shearer 10:47, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image:Autofellatio 2.jpg IfD Vote comment
In reference to your message to me:

 * You said: "Considering the support Image:Charlotterossnypdblue.jpg is getting--a picture which has no illustrative value at all, and appeals only to prurience--it's clear to me that homophobia is behind a great deal of these votes." Now that it turns out that it only got 5 votes to keep and was deleted, are you prepared to withdraw that personal attack? --Audiovideo 01:40, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

At the time I made that comment the mix of votes for the image was different. However, in any case, I didn't intend it as a personal attack: a personal attack is just that--personal, and I wouldn't presume to know any individual's motivation for voting beyond what they write in the vote discussion. However, yes, I do believe homophobia is behind some of the votes to delete on the autofellatio image ("A great deal" may be overstating the case). If you in any way thought I was painting you with that brush, please accept my sincere apology. Demi T/C 01:52, 2005 Apr 9 (UTC)

Pronouns
Thanks for your comments. No, I don't have a problem with pronouns - as you imply, I have continued their use after the first naming at the beginning of a paragraph. I guess I simply prefer to restate the subject at the beginning of the paragraph and use a consistent style. I appreciate that the surname alone can seem aggressive to some people, but I felt this is better than Mr X, Firstname Lastname or the other variations that I have come across. I'll bear your point in mind and try not to be quite so prescriptive - the main point of my edits has been to reflect that many are no longer MPs.

Thanks again. Mtiedemann 23:48, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

SuperDude comment
I truly cannot thank you enough for the kind words. I admit to feeling as if I'd taken part in a lynching once I found out about that fellow's condition. It was frustrating to think that I was trying to help a troll! I couldn't be happier to learn this wasn't the case and that the request for comment had a very positive outcome. Great user name, BTW! I studied video production in college and I still enjoy getting behind a Betacam or some such lovely feelie. :^P Anyway, do take care and thank you again. I'll be incommunicado over the weekend so perhaps we'll chat next week. - Lucky 6.9 04:48, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Template:Counties of Ireland
I have reverted your edit at Template:Counties of Ireland as this intended for Counties of Ireland and not Districts of Northern Ireland - their is a significant difference that is easly overlooked. Djegan 14:09, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Just a thought
This may not satisfy all of your needs, but if you don't show some support, we're not likely to get even this much. — Xiong 熊 talk * 10:46, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Babel
Could you consider adding this template to your userpage? It is very helpful in case translators are needed and such.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 15:13, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Request for your vote
I saw that you voted against the adminship of William M Connolly. I reviewed said candidate's actions on the Cold Fusion article and determined them to indeed be very biased and uncivil. I haven't looked at WC's actions on the aetherometry article yet though. The vast support for WC is truly disturbing. I am a candidate for the arbitration council. William M Connolly is precisely the type of biased and uncivil person that I would fight against.

I request that you review my candidate statement and questions at: Arbitration_Committee_Elections_January_2006/Vote/LawAndOrder, and consider voting for me, though only if you have suffrage for arbitration committee elections (registered before 9/30/2005, and have over 150 edits before 1/9/2006). The votes are vastly against me, so I will not win, but I have very few support votes, so voting for me will at least show that I (who is on your side) am less of a pariah. LawAndOrder 21:16, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

GWU
Hello, I'm trying (again) to get The George Washington University moved to George Washington University. Since you weighed in on this when it came up last year, I thought you might like to weigh in again. john k 23:30, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

 * It seems to have happened--Audiovideo 20:36, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

E-mail
AV, would you mind e-mailing me, please? SlimVirgin (talk) 02:05, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Yes I would mind. I am very unhappy with your behaviour over WP:ATT and I doubt I could remain civil in private conversation. --Audiovideo 11:54, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

 * There's an issue I would like to discuss with you, and you might prefer that it's in private. SlimVirgin (talk) 00:06, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Please contact ArbCom
Please contact Arbcom via our mailing list or via any of our individual emails regarding your status. Thank you. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 15:10, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Henry Bottomley
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