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Conservative Political Action Conference

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC ) is an annual political conference attended by conservative activists and elected officials from across the United States. CPAC is hosted by the American Conservative Union (ACU). The first CPAC took place in 1974.

The same name and acronym has been used for conferences in other countries.

1974
The conference was founded in 1974 by the American Conservative Union and Young Americans for Freedom as a small gathering of dedicated conservatives. Ronald Reagan gave the inaugural keynote speech at CPAC in 1974. The presidential hopeful used it to share his vision for the country—"A Shining City Upon A Hill," words borrowed from John Winthrop.

2010–2017
The 2010 CPAC featured co-sponsorship for the first time from GOProud, a gay conservative group. GoProud is credited in the media for initiating talks with ACU to invite Donald Trump to speak at CPAC 2011. The 2011 CPAC speech Trump gave, is credited for helping kick-start his political career within the Republican Party. Christopher R. Barron, co-founder of GOProud who would later not only endorse Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, but also launch LGBT for Trump, said he "would love to see Mr. Trump run for president".

In 2014, CPAC extended an invitation to American Atheists, which was immediately withdrawn on the same day due to controversial statements by AA's president David Silverman, who declared his group was going to "enlighten conservatives" and that "the Christian right should be threatened by us". The 2015 CPAC featured Jamila Bey who became the first atheist activist to address CPAC's annual meeting.

The 2016 CPAC featured co-sponsorship for the first time from the Log Cabin Republicans. In December 2016, CPAC extended an invitation to conservative blogger Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at the event, despite his history of controversial views on feminism, racial minorities, and transgender issues. The invitation was canceled when the Reagan Battalion re-posted a video of 2016 and 2015 YouTube videos in which Yiannopoulos is heard making comments defending sexual relationships between adult men and 13-year-old boys, citing his own sexual experiences at that age with a Catholic priest.

Richard Spencer, a figurehead of the alt-right and a white supremacist, entered the lobby of the Gaylord National Hotel on February 23, 2017, in an attempt to access CPAC. Organizers of the conference ejected him from the hotel as soon as his presence was discovered, citing his "repugnant [views which] ... have absolutely nothing to do with conservatism or what we do here" as cause for rejecting his admission to CPAC. ACU's Executive Director Dan Schneider castigated Spencer and the alt-right in a main-stage speech, calling them "garden-variety, left-wing fascists," and saying that the alt-right "despises everything [conservatives] believe in".

Media members across the political spectrum condemned the intrusion as yet another attempt by groups like the alt-right to conceal their extremist views within a legitimate philosophy. Opinion columns in The New York Times, and articles in Mother Jones and Rolling Stone voiced concern about the 2017 interview of ex-Trump Adviser Steve Bannon and ex-Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus with ACU Chairman Matt Schlapp, advocating for the American Right to reject the tenets of the alt-right, including homophobia, xenophobia, sexism, and racism.

2019
The 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference was held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, from February 27 to March 2, 2019. The event was headlined by President Trump, with many additional speakers. Themes throughout the conference were fighting against socialism; criminal justice reform; China; and criticizing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Green New Deal.

2020–2021
In 2020, CPAC hosted its main event just prior to the federal emergency declaration regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. On Saturday, March 7, 2020, ACU confirmed that an attendee at the 2020 CPAC had tested positive for COVID-19. Senator Ted Cruz, Representatives Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Doug Collins, and Mark Meadows had recent contact with the patient, who remained unnamed; none of whom would go on to test positive immediately after the event.

The following year, the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference was held during the COVID-19 pandemic. The previous customary venue for CPAC, (Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center) in National Harbor, Maryland was subject to restrictions in Maryland, issued by Republican governor Larry Hogan, who had restricted gathering sizes to a maximum of 10.

As a result, the conference was relocated to Orlando, Florida, which had removed all prior pandemic-related limits on gathering sizes. The event was still subject to Orlando mandatory mask-wearing rules. Notwithstanding those restrictions, numerous attendees chose to not wear masks during the event, despite frequent announcements by the event's organizers and hotel staff, requesting attendees to comply with the local mask-wearing mandate. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis characterized the state's resistance to pandemic gathering-size limits as comporting with the state's status as "an oasis of freedom." The conference's theme, "America Uncancelled", sought to highlight alleged attempts by social media companies, the Democratic Party, U.S. universities and progressive organizations to censor conservatives' public expression of their political views. The conference's main event was a closing address by former U.S. president Donald Trump, his first public address and political speech since leaving office. Trump spent significant portions of the speech criticizing his successor, Joe Biden. The speech received significant media coverage in anticipation of Trump's announcement of his post-presidential political activity.

A second 2021 conference was held in Dallas from July 9 to 11 at the Hilton Anatole hotel. The theme of the conference was immigration policy and border security, in the context of the ongoing migrant crisis at the U.S. Southern Border.

2022
The 2022 conference was held on February 24 to 27 in Orlando, Florida. Speakers included Trump, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, and former Democratic congresswoman and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard.

As in 2021, a second conference was held in Dallas, Texas from August 4 to 6. Speakers included Trump, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Arizona Republican Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, and many congressional representatives.

As part of one of the 2022 break-out sessions, the Dallas CPAC conference displayed a banner across their main stage with the phrase "We are all domestic terrorists."

2023
CPAC returned to National Harbor, Maryland for their 2023 conference. Major speakers at the winter event included Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, U.S. House members Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert, presidential candidate Nikki Haley, and Donald Trump Jr. Attendance was thinner than at previous conferences, with the main ballroom often half-full during speeches, though Trump drew a capacity crowd. He said he would not withdraw from the 2024 presidential race if he was indicted as a result of federal and state investigations underway. CNN fact checker Daniel Dale found that Trump "made some of his most thoroughly dishonest speeches" at the conference. Trump said, in part:

"In 2016, I declared: I am your voice. Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution."

Also during the conference political commentator Michael Knowles called for the elimination of "transgenderism," arguing that those who identify as transgender are "laboring a delusion, and we need to correct that delusion." Knowles further stated that "there can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism," and that "for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely." Knowles' comments were criticized by several political media figures, including civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, describing them as genocidal. Knowles demanded that The Daily Beast retract a headline stating that he was calling for the eradication of the "transgender community".

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy later alleged that a political consultant with ties to CPAC had offered to rig the straw poll in his favor in exchange for a fee exceeding $100,000, which Ramaswamy refused.

Longtime CPAC board member and vice-chair Charlie Gerow resigned in August 2023, calling for investigations of Matt Schlapp and the organization's financial practices. He said, "The situation at CPAC has become such that I felt compelled to resign." Four other longtime board members resigned earlier in the year, with one citing concerns over CPAC's financial reports.

2024
CPAC returned to National Harbor, Maryland for their February 2024 conference. Speakers included Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ben Carson, Steve Bannon, Nigel Farage, Liz Truss, Javier Milei, Nayib Bukele, Santiago Abascal, deposed Catholic bishop Joseph Strickland, as well as Senators and Members of Congress. Politico noted that CPAC had been diminished due to the previous year's scandals involving Matt Schlapp and belief that the conference had "come to be seen as a mere adjunct of Trumpism".

During an event at CPAC on February 23, alt-right commentator Jack Posobiec made a speech that was widely covered in the media, stating "Welcome to the end of democracy – we're here to overthrow it completely. We didn't get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here" holding his clenched fist in the air. "Because all glory is not to government — all glory to God." The event notably featured several neo-Nazis who were able to secure official CPAC badges to walk the show floor and were not ejected unlike previous years.

In addition to the annual presidential straw poll, a poll was also taken on who should be presumptive nominee Trump's vice president. Kristi Noem and Vivek Ramaswamy tied at 15%, followed by Tulsi Gabbard at 9%, and Elise Stefanik and Tim Scott at 8%.

Opposition to Donald Trump among some conservatives led to a rival conference held by the group Principles First.

Annual straw poll
The annual CPAC straw poll vote traditionally serves as a barometer for the feelings of the conservative movement. During the conference, attendees are encouraged to fill out a survey that asks questions on a variety of issues. The questions regarding the most popular possible presidential candidates are the most widely reported. One component of CPAC is evaluating conservative candidates for president, and the straw poll serves generally to quantify conservative opinion.

In total, former U.S. President Donald Trump holds the record for the most wins in CPAC straw polls with seven. Mitt Romney follows with four, and Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, and Rand Paul follow with three wins each, followed by Ron Paul with two wins. Of these five, the Pauls are the only two to win more than one straw poll, yet never appear on a Republican presidential ticket in any election, although Ron Paul did receive one Electoral College vote in 2016.

Despite his former popularity, Romney was not invited from CPAC in 2020 because of his vote to hear additional witnesses in the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump and was also not invited to the 2021 CPAC after he voted to convict Trump on one count in his second impeachment trial. CPAC's chairman said he could not ensure Romney's "physical safety" at the 2020 CPAC conference.

Australia
Australia's first CPAC was held in August 2019 by Andrew Cooper, founder of conservative think-tank LibertyWorks. Guest speakers included former prime minister Tony Abbott, Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage, former Breitbart News editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam and NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham. Liberal Senator Amanda Stoker and Craig Kelly MP were at the event. There were calls for Kassam to be banned from coming into the country before the event.

The second conference was held in November 2020. Canadian alt-right YouTuber Lauren Southern was initially scheduled to appear, but her invitation was rescinded by the organizers.

The 2022 conference was held in Sydney on October 1. Attendees included Tony Abbott, Eric Abetz, Katherine Deves, Nigel Farage, Jacinta Price and Amanda Stoker.

The 2023 conference was held in Sydney from August 19–20. One prominent speaking point of the conference was in opposition to the proposed constitutional amendment to create an Indigenous voice to parliament. Tony Abbott, Warren Mundine and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price were among the speakers at the conference.

Brazil
The first CPAC in Brazil took place on October 11–12, 2019, in the city of São Paulo, attended by leading American conservatives including ACU chairman Matt Schlapp and his wife Mercedes Schlapp, Utah senator Mike Lee, Fox News specialist Walid Phares, as well as Brazilian figures including President Jair Bolsonaro's son Eduardo Bolsonaro, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araújo, and the Prince Imperial of Brazil Bertrand Maria José de Orléans e Bragança and others.

The ACU Foundation announced that the event would take place annually in Brazil from 2019.

In September 2021, Jason Miller, a former senior adviser to Donald Trump, and other American right-wing media personalities in his traveling party, were detained and questioned for three hours at Brasília International Airport following participation in the 2021 CPAC Brazil Conference. The investigation was part of an inquiry by Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes into misinformation allegedly perpetuated by the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro. Miller had praised Bolsonaro's supporters as "proud patriots" and claimed they had been deplatformed and shadow banned by Brazilian authorities. Miller continued to advise Jair Bolsonaro after his October 2022 election defeat, meeting with the president's son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, in November 2022, as protests and election challenges continued.

The 2024 CPAC Brazil featured Jair Bolsonaro, Eduardo Bolsonaro, Argentinian President Javier Milei, Chilean Republican Party leader José Antonio Kast and Salvadoran Justice and Public Security Minister Gustavo Villatoro.

Hungary
A conservative conference billed by the organizers as CPAC Hungary was held on May 19–20, 2022 in Budapest, Hungary. Speakers included Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán; Spain's Vox party leader Santiago Abascal; Eduardo Bolsonaro; right-wing US commentator Candace Owens; Ernst Roets, the Deputy CEO of AfriForum; and former US White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, as well as far-right US conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec and Hungarian journalist Zsolt Bayer.

CPAC 2024 in Hungary attracted attention by refusing registration to journalists from various national media, using 'CPAC is a NO WOKE ZONE' as an argument. The event was attended by 3000 participants, among them 500 from abroad, from 6 continents: two Prime Ministers in office (Irakli Kobakhidze (Georgia) and Viktor Orbán (Hungary), three former Prime Ministers (Tony Abbot, Mateusz Morawiecky, and Janes Jansa), seven ministers in office (5 Hungarians and 2 Israelis), ten presidents of political parties (amongst them: Santiago Abascal, Geert Wilders, and Tom van Grieken), three American congressmen (Andy Harris, Paul Gosar, and Keith Self), and seven high ranking Polish political leaders. Participants of the conference were greated with video messages by: Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States of America, Vivek Ramaswamy, former candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, and André Ventura, founder of the Portguese party Chega!.

Japan
The first international CPAC was hosted in Tokyo on December 16–17, 2017 by the Japanese Conservative Union (JCU) in conjunction with the American Conservative Union (ACU). JCU and ACU have continued to co-host J-CPACs every year since. Participants have included notable lawmakers and conservatives from the U.S., Japan, and around the world. They include ACU chairman Matt Schlapp and executive director Dan Schneider, White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, U.S. Representatives Bruce Westerman, and Paul Gosar, Fmr. METI Minister Akira Amari, Fmr. Defense Minister Gen Nakatani, Fmr. Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, Fmr. Taiwanese Finance Minister and WTO ambassador Ching-Chang Wen, journalist Sara Carter, then-SEC commissioner Michael Piwowar, Asia expert and commentator Gordon G. Chang, to name just a few. Hong Kong localist activist Andy Chan Ho-tin attended Japanese CPAC 2019 by video after he was arrested in Hong Kong on his way to Tokyo to make a live appearance.

Mexico
The first CPAC in Mexico (CPAC México) took place on November 18–19, 2022 at a Westin hotel in Santa Fe, Mexico City. Speakers included former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon, American anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson, Eduardo Bolsonaro, Argentinian presidential candidate Javier Milei, former Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast, and Juan Iván Peña Neder, the President of the Mexican Republicans. It was organized by Mexican anti-abortion activist Eduardo Verástegui. At the start of the conference, a group of anti-fascist protesters wearing Che Guevara shirts and waving red hammer and sickle flags showed up at the hotel; Matt Schlapp dubbed the protest "CPAC Derangement Syndrome".

South Korea
The first CPAC in South Korea (KCPAC) took place between October 3, 2019, in the city of Seoul. They include ACU chairman Matt Schlapp and executive director Dan Schneider, Fmr. acting United States Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, Fmr. Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States K. T. McFarland, Asia expert and commentator Gordon G. Chang, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, Founder of the New Institute Andrew Crilly, Fox News Contributor Sara A. Carter, Professor of law at Handong International Law School Eric Enlow, Professor emeritus at Yonsei University Kim Dong-gil, Fmr. public security prosecutor Koh Young-ju, Co-chairperson KCPAC Annie M. H. Chan, Fmr. Prime minister of South Korea Hwang Kyo-ahn, Liberty Korea Party members of the National Assembly Kim Jin-tae and Chun Hee-kyung and Min Kyung-wook, Director of the International Strategic Research Institute Kim Jung-min, Director of Korea Institute for Crisis Management Analysis Huh Nam-sung, Fmr. Director of Korea Institute for National Unification Kim Tae-woo, Founder and former Chief of Pennmike Chung Kyu-jae, Lawyer Chae Myung-sung, Leader of Dawn of Liberty Party Park Kyul, Leader of Truth Forum Kim Eun-koo. In Korea, Min Kyung-wook and Ryu Chulwoong presented at CPAC2021 in the United States.


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Suggestions
This page should probably be merged with free regular set .linas 17:17, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Nahh. linas 05:19, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Knots
Some of the hyperbolic ones are related to knot complements. e.g. the classic number theory one is the complement of the trefoil knot mod the stabilizer SO(2). Or something like that. Note the presentation y^2=x^3 for the trefoil is the same presentation as for the modular group. Or something like that. Or so I overheard at a party. What I'd like to know is ... are all homogeneous spaces knot complements? if not, why not? linas 05:19, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

General definition ?
Hello, I am wondering if the definition given in the article is general enough (a fundamental domain is a set D of representatives for the cosets of Γ in G, Γ being a lattice of the Lie group G). The article on Mathworld doesn't make any reference to Lie groups. I must also say that as a newcomer to these theories, I find the definition from Mathworld clearer. Is it legal to just copy it? (just the definition, which should be public domain). --Mathieu Perrin (talk) 06:07, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

modular group
"The standard fundamental domain of the modular group probably deserves a page of its own. Katzmik (talk) 14:11, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

definition from MathWorld--Correct?
Let be a group and  be a topological G-set. Then a closed subset of  is called a fundamental domain of  in  if  is the union of conjugates of, i.e., and the intersection of any two conjugates has no interior. For example, a fundamental domain of the group of rotations by multiples of in  is the upper half-plane  and a fundamental domain of rotations by multiples of  is the first quadrant. The concept of a fundamental domain is a generalization of a minimal group block, since while the intersection of fundamental domains has empty interior, the intersection of minimal blocks is the empty set."

 * I hope this is right, since the last sentence is due to me. I would say if it is right, that would be nice, because it is concise and seems easy to understand and use. The current wikipedia article, like many wikipedia math articles (such as how affine space USED to be)go on and on without giving an immediate, precise definition. Maybe that's necessary in the nature of these things and the clear, concise definition on MathWorld is wrong? I am genuinely concerned that I have contributed a plausible, userfriendly but wrong explanation to MathWorld.Rich (talk) 03:05, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Normally, the fundamental domain is taken to include its entire boundary
In almost all instances of a fundamental domain occurring in the mathematical literature — including that of the modular group as in the article's illustration — the fundamental domain is taken to include its entire boundary. In other words, it is not necessary that along the boundary, the fundamental domain be required to contain only one point in each orbit of the associated group action.65.157.43.50 (talk) 14:19, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Canonical Fundamental Domain
I think it's worth having a section titled "Canonical Fundamental Domain". Canonical is referenced in one of the image captions, but I'm actually not sure what is the correct definition of a canonical Fundamental Domain/Zone (this is something I'd like to know). Is it the one that's most accepted/used by the scientific community, or is it one where the "borders" are all high-symmetry points of the group?

 * There is no notion of a canonical fundamental domain in general. For some groups some domains can be nicer than others (for example if your quotient has nontrivial isometries you can ask that the domain be stable under a lift of some subgroup) but i'm not sure this has been formalised/studied in any notable way. Also reflection groups have a "canonical fundamental domain" from their very definition. As for your last remark, note that the "high symmetry" points will always be on the border of the domain since a small neighborhood cannot be contained in the domain if a nontrivial element stabilises the point. jraimbau (talk) 06:29, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

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Kalundborg

Kalundborg is a Danish city with a population of 16,558 (1 January 2024), the main town of the municipality of the same name and the site of its municipal council. It is situated on the northwestern coast of the largest Danish island, Zealand (or Sjælland in Danish), on the opposite, eastern side of which lies the capital Copenhagen, 110 km away.

Kalundborg is famous as the location of a large broadcasting facility, the Kalundborg Transmitter. The city was also home to the largest coal-fired power station in Denmark, the Asnæs Power Station, which started its transition to biomass in 2017.

Kalundborg is mainly a trading and industrial town, but is also well known for its five-spired Church of Our Lady, which is closely associated with King Valdemar I and the Archbishop Absalon. The church itself is said to have been built by Absalon's brother, Esbern Snare.

Kalundborg is also the traditional seat of the aristocratic Lerche family. Their stately home, Lerchenborg, the best example of rococo architecture in Denmark, can be seen in the town's outskirts.

Ferries connect Kalundborg westward to the island of Samsø.

Geography

Kalundborg is at latitude 55°41′N, longitude 11°6′E, about 110 km west of Copenhagen on the island of Zealand (Sjaelland).

History
The Kalundborg area was first settled in 1170 at a natural harbour at the head of the narrow bay today known as Kalundborg Fjord. It became more urbanized during the nineteenth century and had grown into a major industrial centre by the mid-twentieth century.

Kalundborg Municipality has approximately 20,000 inhabitants, and its network is the most published example of Industrial Symbiosis. The history of Kalundborg Industrial Symbiosis activities began in 1961 when a project was developed and implemented to use surface water from Lake Tisso for a new oil refinery, to save the limited supplies of ground water. The City of Kalundborg took the responsibility for building the pipeline while the refinery financed it. Starting from this initial collaboration, a number of other collaborative projects were subsequently introduced and the number of partners gradually increased.

By the end of the 1980s, the partners realised that they had effectively "self-organised" into what is probably the best-known example of Industrial Symbiosis. The material exchanges in the Kalundborg region include: conservation of natural and financial resources; reduction in production, material, energy, insurance and treatment costs and liabilities; improved operating efficiency; quality control; improved health of the local population and public image; and realisation of potential income through the sale of by-products and waste materials.

Economy
Kalundborg Municipality is home to approximately 19,000 jobs of which 13,000 are in the private sector (December 2014). Novo Nordisk has extensive production facilities in Kalundborg with a total of more than 2,400 employees. Since 1999 they have invested more than DKK 7.5 billions in the complex. Pronova BioPharma Danmark, a bulk manufacturer of Omega-3 products which was acquired by BASF in 2014, also has a manufacturing plant in Kalundborg.

Port of Kalundborg
The port plays a central role in the town's economy. It is a municipal self-governing port with independent finances. Kalundborg Container Terminal is served by Unifeeder on a weekly basis. Schultz Shipping is a local shipping company. As of 2015, the port is being expanded with a new west harbor on the south side of the Asnæs peninsula.

Statoil Refining Denmark operates Denmark's largest oil refinery on the harbor with a capacity of 6.6 million ton oil products per year. Haldor Topsøe is one of the companies that has facilities at Kalundborg Tank Terminal.

Rail
The Northwest Line (1874) connects Kalundborg with Holbæk and Roskilde and the rest of the Danish rail network. Kalundborg railway station is the principal railway station of the town and offers frequent direct regional train services to Holbæk, Roskilde and Copenhagen operated by the national railway company DSB. The eastern part of the town is also served by the railway halt Kalundborg East.

Public Service & public thinking

 * Esbern Snare (1127–1204) a crusader; had built the Church of Our Lady, Kalundborg
 * Christian II of Denmark (1481–1559 in Kalundborg Castle) monarch under the Kalmar Union
 * Jørgen Bjelke (1621–1696 in Kalundborg) an exiled Norwegian officer and nobleman
 * Sophie Amalie Lindenov (1649 in Kalundborg Castle–1688) noblewoman and landowner
 * Hans Hagerup Gyldenpalm (1717–1781) a Danish born, Norwegian jurist and civil servant
 * Arnoldus von Falkenskiold (1743–1819) a Danish military officer and landowner of Sæbygård
 * Henrik Steffens Hagerup (1806–1859) a Norwegian naval officer and politician who served as Minister of the Navy
 * Wilhelm Hellesen (1836–1892) inventor and industrialist; helped invent the dry cell battery
 * Anne Elisabet Jensen (born 1951) a Danish politician and MEP
 * Professor Claus Manniche (born 1956) a Danish rheumatologist, consultant and academic
 * Sandra Skalvig (born 1990), a Danish MP

The Arts

 * Johan Thomas Lundbye (1818–1848) a graphic artist and painter of animals and landscapes
 * Elisabeth Dons (1864 in Bjergsted–1942) operatic mezzo-soprano at the Royal Danish Theatre
 * Johannes Holbek (1872 in Årby–1903) a Danish painter and graphic artist
 * Margrethe Lendrop (1873–1920) operatic soprano at the Royal Danish Theatre
 * Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) a Norwegian novelist, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928, emigrated to Norway aged 2
 * Viggo Rørup (1903–1971) a Danish artist, joined the artists' colony the Odsherred Painters
 * Thøger Birkeland (1922–2011) a teacher and writer, known for his children's books
 * Søren Ulrik Thomsen (born 1956) a Danish poet; his debut was City Slang, 1981
 * Frank Madsen (born 1962) a Danish author, illustrator and comics artist
 * Christian E. Christiansen (born 1972) is a Danish filmmaker
 * Jonas Poher Rasmussen, filmmaker

Sport

 * Mogens Guldberg (born 1963) a middle-distance runner, competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics
 * Claus Nielsen (born 1964) a former footballer, almost 200 club caps and 14 for Denmark
 * Henrik Djernis (born 1968 in Svebølle) a Danish cyclist
 * Thomas Damgaard (born 1971) a Danish former professional boxer
 * Anders Nielsen (born 1972) a Danish footballer, over 300 club caps
 * Susanne Meyerhoff (born 1974) a Danish sport shooter, competed at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics
 * Thomas Frandsen (born 1976) a Danish former footballer, almost 300 club caps
 * Jesper Hansen (born 1980) a Danish sport shooter, competed at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics and finished 26th, 5th and 2nd in the Men's skeet. In 2013, he won the skeet shooting world championship.

Other

 * Frida Schou (1891–1980), early businesswoman who ran the brick factory Knabstrup Teglværk from 1928

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Jay Ferguson (American musician)

John Arden "Jay" Ferguson (born May 10, 1947) is an American rock and pop musician known for his work with the bands Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne, and his 1978 solo hit "Thunder Island". His later career has been as a composer of music for television programs and films. Many people know Ferguson for composing the theme song for the American version of The Office on NBC.

Childhood and early musical career
Ferguson was born on May 10, 1947, in Burbank in the San Fernando Valley, California, to John Becker and Kathleen Jane Ferguson. He grew up in the Van Nuys and Canoga Park sections of Los Angeles. At 12 years old, Ferguson's parents encouraged his musical abilities with classical piano lessons. When he was 16, Ferguson's interest transferred to the banjo. Along with his brother Tom, an accomplished fiddle player, he formed a bluegrass group called The Oat Hill Stump Straddlers including Michael Fondiler and Steve Fondiler. Ferguson was also a member of local garage bands Western Union and The Red Roosters, as was Michael Fondiler.

He also held part-time jobs at different points as a theater usher and an architect's assistant for his father John Ferguson, and taught piano in a music store and studied at UCLA after high school.

The band Spirit
Spirit was founded in the mid-1960s. Many musicians of the time cited The Beatles and their music as an influence, and Ferguson was no exception. Reuniting with longtime musician friends Randy California and California's stepfather Ed Cassidy, who, with Mark Andes and John Locke were in a band called the Red Roosters - Ferguson joined with them to form a jazz influenced rock group that was originally called Spirits Rebellious, after a Khalil Gibran passage. With the general consensus that the moniker was too long, they later shortened the name to Spirit. Ferguson was the last member to join the band and found himself in the position of lead vocalist and percussionist.

Ferguson shared singing and songwriting duties with California, writing most of the songs on their first album. Spirit began playing at various nightclubs and concerts in the Los Angeles area, especially the clubs along the Sunset Strip, including Whisky a Go Go. At one of these shows, French film producer Jacques Demy saw Spirit perform and decided he wanted them in his next film. It led to a cameo role for the band and a short speaking part in which Ferguson played a character based loosely on himself in the film Model Shop. Spirit also provided much of the instrumental soundtrack. The band went on to tour and record several albums.

Jo Jo Gunne
Ferguson and Mark Andes decided to leave Spirit in 1971 and form their own band.

Ferguson was Jo Jo Gunne's main songwriter (writing virtually all the material) and only lead vocalist. Jo Jo Gunne became the second act signed to the new Asylum Records label. The band scored a moderate hit with the single "Run, Run, Run" from their debut album (1972).

With the first record and some touring already completed, Mark Andes decided to leave and join a band that would later become Firefall, with his brother Matt staying behind with Jo Jo Gunne. Jimmie Randall, an Austin, Texas, bassist was recruited in Mark's place.

Jo Jo Gunne toured all over the US and Europe for the next three years, and recorded three more albums, Bite Down Hard (1973), Jumpin' The Gunne (1974) and Where's The Show (1975). Matt Andes left the band after the third album and was temporarily replaced with Star Donaldson on lead guitar, and then, later, John Staehely. After a four-year existence, the group split up in the mid-1970s. Jo Jo Gunne reformed in 2005, and recorded a new album, Big Chain, which included both new material and new versions of several old Gunne songs.

Solo career
Ferguson took a year and a half off to rest, until record producer Bill Szymczyk asked Ferguson to come down to his Coconut Grove recording studio in Miami. He contributed in 1975 on piano and vocals to Joe Walsh's live recording of You Can't Argue with a Sick Mind, before Walsh subsequently went on to join Eagles. Ferguson recorded three studio albums and a limited-run live album for Asylum. While managed by Martin Pichinson, he scored a Top 10 hit with the title track on his second solo album, Thunder Island (1978), which peaked at No.9 in the US. Another minor hit was "Shakedown Cruise" (No. 31) from his last Asylum album, Real Life Ain't This Way. After his recording contract for Asylum was completed, Ferguson changed record labels, and recorded two more solo albums for Capitol Records. In 1983 his keyboards and bass were a prominent contribution to Language, a 5-track EP by acclaimed Texas guitarist Gary Myrick, who was exploring a new-wave direction at the time.

Soundtrack composer
In 1982, after his sixth and last solo album, White Noise, Ferguson decided to become a soundtrack composer for movies and television. To date, he has written music for over 15 feature films and for many TV shows. His most recognizable composition as a TV and film scorer is the theme to the NBC-TV version of The Office, which won him the 2007 Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for a Comedy Television Program. (In The Office, he is also the guitarist in Kevin's band "Scrantonicity".) He is the composer of "Pictures of You" from the soundtrack to The Terminator, and the entire score to A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child and Bad Dreams, the Tales From The Crypt episode "Forever Ambergris", as well as Tremors 2: Aftershocks, and Tremors 4: The Legend Begins. Ferguson is also the current soundtrack composer for NCIS: Los Angeles, having replaced original composer James S. Levine halfway through season one with Ferguson's music debuting in the season 1 episode, "Chinatown".

Albums

 * 1976: All Alone in the End Zone (Asylum Records)
 * 1977: Jay Ferguson Live (Asylum) (promotional issue only)
 * 1977: Thunder Island (Asylum) U.S. No.72
 * 1979: Real Life Ain't This Way (Asylum) U.S. No.86
 * 1980: Terms and Conditions (Capitol Records)
 * 1982: White Noise (Capitol) U.S. No.178
 * 1989: A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (soundtrack) (Varèse Sarabande)

Singles

 * 1976: "Medicated Goo"
 * 1977: "Thunder Island" - U.S. No.9, Canada No.8
 * 1978: "Losing Control"
 * 1979: "Shakedown Cruise" - U.S. No.31, Canada No.48
 * 1979: "Paying Time"
 * 1980: "Terms and Conditions"
 * 1982: "Tonite (Fallin' for Ya)"

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Left Overtures

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 15:45, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Left_Overtures

 * Delete Advertisement. --BenWilson 17:19, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, store advertisement. Megan1967 05:41, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete ad. —Korath (Talk) 08:08, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

Keep Goddamnit You people are being silly. This place has at least 5000 Mariah Carey CDs. Who the hell would ever have that much Mariah Carey lying around to sell to a record store? Someone with a torrid past, that's who.

Plus, this place has every movie on Comedy Central for sale, so there is a good chance the executives from that channel come to this store when they want to buy new movies to put on the air. It's a very crazy place and worth having in a damn internet encylcopedia. Get off your high horse, you racists. --Boycottthecaf 03:29, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete this advertisement, there's nothing interesting there. (I've censored the above post for swearwords). Radiant! 09:14, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nothing notable here. Oh, and it's generally best not to edit other people's comments in anything but the most extreme circumstances. Besides, Boycotthecaf's calling us racists wasn't swearing, but was pretty amusing. -R. fiend 09:24, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Racists? I didn't even evaluate for gender. :-) Or race, for that matter.

Hey Fuckers the entry has been updated so it is now more informative then ever. Keep it. --Boycottthecaf 01:18, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) Who cares if it's not on the interent; the internet is full of nerds. Let's not take their word on it. The internet isn't the final word if something is important. Only cool people go to Leftovertures, anyway. Maybe they all don't want to write about the store on their dumbass livejournals. --Boycottthecaf 19:56, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'm not sure if that's a vote. But, you already have at least once voted already.--BenWilson 14:06, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, still not all that informative. Google reveals only 33 hits off the terms "Left overtures," but most of those seem to be for a band "No Left Overtures." For all the alleged fame noted in the revised article, there's no web presence to substantiate. --BenWilson 14:12, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

Delete I am glad so many people agree to delete this Jew entry and agree with Nazism. Hail the white race! --Hilter 2:49, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Nice try. -R. fiend 01:38, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * For the record, User "Hitler" vote was added during Boycottthecaf's edit, so he's just screwing around with the process. At least he voted to keep before he voted to delete. ;-) --BenWilson 14:12, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete - author is a jerk, and it doesn't look that notable. Zetawoof 03:50, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Zetawoof username is stupid and he likes to touch little boys. we don't need that catholic priest crap around here. --Boycottthecaf 05:07, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Next time you edit this comment, Boycottthecaf, I'm taking this to Arbitration. Zetawoof 06:57, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Not sure if you can delete a user without being charged for murder. Don't think I've not considered it a time or two myself. :-)--BenWilson 14:06, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

Keep Don't make me come down there. I'll smite you, so help me myself - GOD 01:50, 22 Feb 2005 (UTC) [fake vote by Boycottthecaf. jni 15:45, 24 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.


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Squad Designated Marksman Rifle

The Squad Designated Marksman Rifle (SDM-R ) is an American designated marksman rifle used by the United States Army. It is essentially a heavily modified M16 rifle designed to provide U.S. Army designated marksmen greater accuracy and firepower at longer ranges, increasing an infantry squad's effective range to up to 600 meters.

The SDM-R is similar in development and role to the SEAL Recon Rifle and Mk 12 Special Purpose Rifle (SPR), designed and produced for the United States Navy SEALs and the United States Special Operations Command respectively.

The SDM-R was replaced by the M110A1 SDMR, expected to enter service in the 2020s. In this role, the M110A1 retains the "Squad Designated Marksman Rifle" name.

History
The addition of an embedded marksman at the platoon or squad level has historically been a continuing process in the U.S. military. The United States Marine Corps (USMC) experimented with this during Project Metropolis, before creating the "Squad Advanced Marksman" (SAM) role along with the Squad Advanced Marksman Rifle (SAM-R) specifically for this purpose.

The 3rd Infantry Division followed suit in implementing a training program to have one marksman per squad, the Squad Designated Marksman (SDM), and developing a rifle, the Squad Designated Marksman Rifle (SDM-R). The SDM is an integral part of the squad and serves as a rifleman first and designated marksman second. The SDM is not meant to be a squad sniper who engages the enemy with precision fire at long ranges, but instead is trained to directly support the squad with well-aimed shots at ranges slightly beyond the normal engagement distances for riflemen.

Much like the U.S. Marine Corps SAM-R, the 3rd Infantry division SDM-R was an accurized M16 rifle built in-house by the United States Army Marksmanship Unit with 240 rifles provided for deployment in Iraq. The rifle was informally known as "the AMU rifle".

Replacement
The SAM-R has since been replaced in U.S. Army service, mostly due to the performance of match grade 5.56 NATO ammo in the DMR role. Its slated replacement was the Heckler & Koch HK417-based M110A1 SDMR, expected to enter service in the early 2020s.

Training
The National Guard Marksmanship Training Center of the Arkansas Army National Guard conducts the fourteen-day-long Squad Designated Marksman Course at Camp Joseph T. Robinson. Soldiers fire over 1500-rounds from the M16A4 rifle under the close supervision of course cadre. Another is done in Fort Benning, Georgia.

Task Force Small Arms Readiness Group (TF SARG) conducts the week-long SDM course at the SARG academy at Camp Bullis, Texas. Many of the instructors are President's 100 recipients.

Design

 * The U.S. Army used either M16A2 or A4 lower receivers previously supplied by either Colt or Fabrique Nationale de Herstal. All rifles were equipped with a fixed A2 stock and a Knight's Armament Company 2-stage match grade trigger The upper receivers were flat top style, but unlike the SAM-R and SPR, they did not have extended feed ramps.
 * Barrel: The 1:7 twist, 20 in barrel from the M16A2 and A4 were replaced with a stainless steel Douglas Barrels 1:8 twist, 20-inch barrel, with 12 flutes cut into the barrel to reduce weight. The front sight block was installed with 4 set screws instead of two taper pins. The SDM-R retained the A2-style flash hider.
 * Sights and optics: The issued optic was a 4×32 Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight (ACOG) (models TA31F, TA31RCO, TA01, TA01B, or TA01NSN). A Matech Industries 600-meter backup iron sight was also used.
 * Handguard: Daniel Defense DDM4 Rail 12.0 handguard, with an octagonal aluminum collar locking it to the upper receiver. The handguard provides a free-floating Picatinny rail forend.
 * Bipod: A Harris S-L bipod attached to an ARMS #32 throw-lever rail mount was mounted to the underside of the handguard. Since the handguard was free-floating, it did not come into contact with the barrel, and any pressure from the bipod on the handguard did not deflect the barrel.

Variants
The 82nd Airborne Division examined an alternate version, based on the M4 carbine. The barrel was to have been an 18 in long fluted Douglas barrel with 1:8 twist. A mid-length gas system was to be used, along with the Daniel Defense M4Rail 9.0 handguard. This effort never went beyond the staffing process.

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Cutty Sark (whisky)

Cutty Sark is a brand of blended Scotch whisky produced by La Martiniquaise in Scotland.

History
The whisky was created on 23 March 1923 as a product of Berry Bros. & Rudd, with the first home of the blend considered to be at The Glenrothes distillery in the Speyside region of Scotland.

Name and label
The name comes from the River Clyde-built clipper ship Cutty Sark, whose name came from the Scots term "cutty-sark", the short shirt [skirt] prominently mentioned in the famous poem by Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter".

The drawing of the clipper ship Cutty Sark on the label of the whisky bottles is a work of the Swedish artist Carl Georg August Wallin. He was a mariner painter, and this is probably his most famous ship painting. This drawing has been on the whisky bottles since 1955. The Tall Ships' Races for large sailing ships were originally known as The Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races, under the terms of sponsorship by the whisky brand.

US distribution
Cutty Sark was originally distributed in the United States by Buckingham Co., which was acquired by Allied Lyons (later Allied Domecq) in 1989. Skyy Spirits bought the distribution rights from Allied Domeq in 1999. After Edrington acquired the brand, it switched US distribution from Skyy to Rémy Cointreau US. Edrington launched its own distribution unit in the US in 2014.

Bottlings
The most popular member of the range, Cutty Sark Original Scots Whisky, is sold in a distinctive green bottle with a yellow label. The range also includes other blends, and premium blends, currently identified by the age of the youngest whisky in the blending.

Reviews
Cutty Sark has received modest reviews from international spirit ratings organisations. In 2008, 2009, and 2011 for example, the San Francisco World Spirits Competition awarded the Cutty Sark blended scotch bronze and silver medals. The Beverage Testing Institute gave Cutty Sark modest scores of 85 and 87 in 2008 and 2011, respectively.

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2003–04 Belgian First Division

The 2003–04 season of the Belgian First Division was held between 8 August 2003 and 15 May 2004. Sporting Anderlecht became champions on 24 April 2004.

Promoted teams
These teams were promoted from the second division at the start of the season:
 * Cercle Brugge K.S.V. (second division champions)
 * K. Heusden-Zolder (playoff winner)

Relegated teams
These teams were relegated to the second division at the end of the season:
 * K. Heusden-Zolder
 * R. Antwerp F.C.

Anderlecht's title success
The battle for the title was not great as Anderlecht had a big lead over their opponents (mainly Club Brugge). However, a bad finish from Anderlecht kept the suspense until the 31st matchday when Club Brugge drew with Mouscron while the team from Brussels also drew (1-1) at Herman Vanderpoortenstadion, the homeground of Lierse.

Battle for Europe
The next week, Club Brugge was sure to enter the UEFA Champions League Preliminary Round with a 1-0 win against Standard Liège, then lying third. In spite of this defeat, Standard managed to qualify for the UEFA Cup as they were 6 points ahead of Mouscron after the 32nd matchday. The suspense was killed after a 1-1 draw against Charleroi the next Saturday.

The relegation dog fight
The end of the league was thus centered on the battle against relegation. Four teams were concerned : R.A.E.C. Mons and Charleroi, which finally saved themselves, R. Antwerp F.C. and K. Beringen-Heusden-Zolder finishing respectively 6 and 5 points adrift.

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George Botsford

George Botsford (February 24, 1874 – February 1, 1949) was an American composer of ragtime and other forms of music.

Early life and education

Botsford was born in Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory. He grew up mostly in Clermont, Iowa. Botsford married singer Della Mae Wilson, and, in 1900, they began touring with the Hoyle Stock Company troupe. An ad promoting Botsford and his wife as musicians appeared in the New York Clipper in 1901, which may indicate the first time that Botsford visited New York City.

Career
Botsford's first copyrighted number was "The Katy Flyer", published in 1899 in Centerville, Iowa. Other early numbers followed themes of relaxation and wide open space, with "Dance of the Water Nymphs", which was sold as Hawaiian mood music, and Western-themed "In Dear Old Arizona" and "Pride of the Prairie". This would change when Botsford moved to New York City, where he joined an assortment of Tin Pan Alley composers and began writing ragtime almost exclusively.

Botsford secured his first songwriting contract with New York's J. H. Remick & Co. after selling them "Pride of the Prairie". It was while on that contract that he published "Black and White Rag", which stands as perhaps the most known work of his career. He was put in charge of vocal arrangements for Remick's "harmony & quartet" division in 1910.

Botsford was a founding member of ASCAP in 1914. From 1914 to 1915, he experimented with miniature opera intended to be sung by three or four people, but the idea never gained momentum.

Later life and death
By the 1920s, Botsford had largely stopped composing, and mostly made his living through organizing vaudeville performances. He produced a handful of musical shows for stage and radio. His last known public performance was at the Algonquin Hotel in 1934. After a long career involving many kinds of music, Botsford died in New York on February 1, 1949, twenty-three days before his 75th birthday.

Legacy

"Pride of the Prairie" is a prime example of Tin Pan Alley's response to the rising popularity of cowboy music. Many western-themed songs were being released by New York ragtime composers at the time, but Prairie would become a part of the era's folk music catalogue, eventually being recorded by numerous country and folk acts including Aaron Campbell's Mountaineers, Tex Owens, and Patsy Montana.

"Black and White Rag" sold over 200,000 copies in 1908, and eventually topped one million copies sold. The song was recorded by numerous artists, but most notably by Winifred Atwell, whose 1953 recording became a gold record and was used as the theme of the long-running BBC2 snooker tournament show, "Pot Black". The song was also used as theme music for the 1985 video game Repton.

"Grizzly Bear Rag" initially saw moderate success, but jumped in popularity when Irving Berlin composed lyrics for it. The song was recorded under titles including Dance of the Grizzly Bear and Doin' the Grizzly Bear, and helped spark a trend of naming dances after animals; the most notable example of this being the foxtrot.

"Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay" became very popular at its time, and was recorded later by Bing Crosby for his 1975 album, A Southern Memoir.

Compositions

 * "The Katy Flyer" (1899)
 * "Dance of the Water Nymphs" (1906)
 * "In Dear Old Arizona" (1906)
 * "Pride of the Prairie" (1907)
 * "The Big Jubilee" (1908)
 * "Klondike Rag" (1908)
 * "Black and White Rag" (1908)
 * "Old Crow Rag" (1909)
 * "Wiggle Rag" (1909)
 * "Texas Steer Rag" (1909)
 * "Pianophiends Rag" (1909)
 * "Chatterbox Rag" (1910)
 * "Lovey-Dovey Rag" (1910)
 * "Grizzly Bear Rag" (1910)
 * "Honeysuckle Rag" (1911)
 * "Honey Girl" (1911)
 * "Hyacinth" (1911)
 * "Royal Flush" (1911)
 * "Eskimo Rag" (1912)
 * "Buck-Eye Rag" (1913)
 * "Incandescent Rag" (1913)
 * "Universal Rag" (1913)
 * "Rag, Baby Mine" (1913)
 * "Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay" (1913)
 * "Boomerang Rag" (1916)
 * "On the Old Dominion Line" (1916)

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I converted the REDIRECT to the admiral into a biographical substub about the mathematician (and not a disambiguation page) since all of What links here was for for the mathematician.--192.35.35.34 17:26, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Primary topic
Is there any argument that the mathematician is the primary topic over the admiral? I am dubious. john k (talk) 17:05, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

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Arthur Marshall (composer)

Arthur Owen Marshall (November 20, 1881 – August 18, 1968) was an American composer and performer of ragtime music from Missouri. He was a protege of famed ragtime composer Scott Joplin.

Early life and education
Marshall was born on a farm in Saline County, Missouri, the son of Emily Marshall, a washerwoman, and Edward Marshall, who had no discernible career, on November 20, 1881. A few years later his family moved to Sedalia, Missouri because black children were allowed to attend school nine months a year there as opposed to the three months allowed blacks elsewhere, and the Sedalia townspeople were reportedly more accepting of African Americans. The Marshalls lived at 135 West Henry Street. Marshall attended elementary school in Sedalia. He was only fifteen years old when Scott Joplin first arrived in Sedalia. Joplin took up residence with the Marshall family, and before long both Marshall and Scott Hayden, a Lincoln High School classmate of Marshall, became Joplin's protégés. Marshall had already taken some private lessons in classical music years before, and was versed with piano technique and a gift for syncopation. Joplin also helped get Marshall a job at the Maple Leaf Club during its single year of existence in 1899. In the club on October 1, 1899, Marshall got into a fight with a young man named Ernst Edwards over Edwards's girlfriend. They took their fight outside, Marshall pummeled Edwards with his cane, Edwards drew a gun, and Marshall ran away.

Career
At Joplin's suggestion, Marshall then continued to study music at George R. Smith College, learning music theory. Marshall graduated from the Teacher's Institute with a teaching license, however, it seems that he chose to pursue a career as a performer. He earned a reputation as an outstanding local musician. While still in college, he traveled with McCabe's Minstrels for nearly two years, playing during intermissions. Marshall also helped cover his school expenses by playing ragtime in public venues and for dances and special occasions. He also played where work was available; in the brothels, where substantial tips regularly exceeded his standard wage by a great deal.

During 1901 and 1902, Marshall lived in the Joplin home in St. Louis, along with Scott Hayden, Hayden's wife Nora, Joplin's wife Belle, and Joplin's brother Will. During this time, Nora and Will died.

Marshall continued to play in various tours and contests, both in St. Louis and at places such as Chicago. In 1903, despite flagrant racial discrimination, Marshall worked at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis World's Fair), playing piano at the Spanish Cafe where he earned $12 per week plus tips until he was replaced by a band. At some point after mid-1905, he moved with his wife to Chicago. They lived in an apartment at 2900 South State Street above Beau Baum's Saloon, across the street from the Pekin Theater. Marshall played at several local spots; the Wintergarden at 3047 South State Street, Lewis's Saloon and the Eureka Saloon.

Marshall collaborated with Scott Joplin on two ragtime compositions, "Swipesy Cake Walk" (copyrighted July 21, 1900) and "The Lily Queen" (copyrighted November 7, 1907), and produced several solo efforts, including "Kinklets", "Ham and !", and "The Peach". It appears that for these three solo compositions Marshall received $50 and 3-cent royalties from his publisher John Stillwell Stark, a deal which Marshall felt was fair. However, he struggled to come to terms with Stark in 1906, possibly for his rag "The Pippin", and finally settled on a non-royalty offer of $10 and 200 copies of the music.

Later life and death
Marshall retired from the music business in 1917, but later in life he participated in ragtime revivals. Arthur Marshall died in Kansas City, Missouri.

Personal life
Marshall apparently married four times during his life.
 * Latisha (or Letitia) Howell, in St. Louis circa 1904
 * Maude McMannes, in St. Louis
 * Julia Jackson, in Chicago, with whom he had three children, two girls (one being Mildred Steward) and one boy. Julia died in childbirth in 1916.
 * Odell Dillard (Childs), in Kansas City on November 25, 1919

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WTMJ (AM)

WTMJ (620 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Owned by Good Karma Brands, the station has a news/talk radio format. Its sign-on dates back to 1922 and for most of its history it was owned by The Milwaukee Journal newspaper. On weekdays, it airs news blocks during drive time, local talk shows in middays, sports in the evening and syndicated shows in late nights. It is the flagship station for Milwaukee Brewers baseball and Milwaukee Bucks basketball.

By day, it transmits 50,000 watts, the maximum for AM radio stations in the United States. At night, to avoid interference to other stations, it reduces power to 10,000 watts. In addition, it broadcasts on 250-watt FM translator W277CV at 103.3 MHz.

WCAY and WKAF
The station was first licensed, with the sequentially assigned call letters WCAY, on May 15, 1922. It was owned by the Kesselman O'Driscoll Company, a music house located at 517-519 Grand Avenue (now Wisconsin Avenue) in Milwaukee. It was initially authorized to broadcast on the "entertainment" wavelength of 360 meters (833 kHz). On May 24, 1923, WCAY was reassigned to 1150 kHz. The next year ownership was transferred to the Milwaukee Civic Broadcasting Association.

The station license was briefly allowed to lapse in 1925, but it was quickly relicensed as WKAF to the WKAF Broadcasting Co., located at 130 Second Street. The station was now jointly owned by Kesselman-O'Driscoll Co., the Hotel Antlers (the studio location), and station engineer H. L. Ford. WKAF's first regular broadcast was held on October 20, 1925.

WTMJ
On April 20, 1927, WKAF was purchased by The Milwaukee Journal for $16,350. The Journal changed the call sign to WTMJ on May 10 to reflect the newspaper's name. Station facilities were upgraded, including the building of a new transmitter site in Brookfield, west of Milwaukee. The new WTMJ also affiliated with the NBC Red Network.

The Journal already had extensive experience with radio broadcasting. On May 1, 1922, it had sponsored the debut program on WAAK, Milwaukee's first radio station, which was owned by the local division of the Gimbel's department store chain. On January 24, 1925, the newspaper entered into an agreement as a joint, and dominant, partner in the operation of Marquette University's station, WHAD, which limited the university's programming to just one and one-half hour on Friday evenings. The newspaper's operations at WHAD ended on August 15, 1927, with the university returning to full responsibility for the station. WTMJ aired a full service format featuring a mixture of music, news, talk and local personalities along with sports play-by-play, as well as dramas, comedies and other programs from NBC.

WTMJ made its debut broadcast on July 25, 1927. That day's broadcast featured music by the WTMJ Orchestra and included a remote broadcast featuring Bill Carlsen's orchestra. (Carlsen was later hired by WTMJ and went on to become Wisconsin's most widely known radio and television weather forecaster.) On September 11, 1927, WTMJ was assigned to 1020 kHz. WTMJ also began broadcasting University of Wisconsin Badgers football games that year.

AM 620
On November 11, 1928, as part of a major nationwide allocation under the provisions of the Federal Radio Commission's General Order 40, WTMJ was reassigned to its current frequency of 620 kHz. In November 1929, WTMJ broadcast a Green Bay Packers game for the first time.

WTMJ was indirectly involved with the installation of the first directional antenna by a radio station in the United States. In 1929 a joint operation in Clearwater, Florida, WFLA-WSUN, was also assigned to 620 kHz. WTMJ immediately complained that at the initial power allocation the Florida stations were causing significant interference to WTMJ's coverage, especially at night. WFLA-WSUN turned to the engineering community to determine whether a then-theoretical concept of a directional antenna could be installed to reduce the Florida station's signal toward Milwaukee. This led to the successful development in 1932 of the first modern AM directional antenna system. (WFLA moved to 970 kHz in 1941, with WSUN taking its place in Tampa, followed by the current-day WDAE)

Radio City studios
In 1942, a new facility, The Milwaukee Journal's Radio City, opened for WTMJ and its FM sister station, W55M (later WMFM and WTMJ-FM), in addition to the yet-to-come WTMJ-TV. An article in the trade magazine Broadcasting reported that the building was the "first ever designed to house all three types of broadcasting".

A 1944 survey by The Milwaukee Journal found WTMJ to be the most popular radio station in Milwaukee, especially for local morning show Top of the Morning and NBC radio's The Hour of Charm in evenings. WTMJ had gross advertising revenue of over $1.2 million. Gordon Hinkley began a near three-decade career with WTMJ in 1951, starting as a staff announcer and host of the Sunday morning beautiful music show Invitation to Beauty.

Beginning in 1961, WTMJ promoted Hinkley to host its morning drive program Top O' the Morning and call-in talk show Ask Your Neighbor. Top O' the Morning was the highest rated morning show in Milwaukee for five straight Arbitron surveys from summer 1977 to summer 1978. Hinkley hosted Top O' the Morning until 1984.

Sports
In 1971, WTMJ began broadcasting Milwaukee Brewers games. WEMP broadcast the inaugural Brewers season the previous year. WTMJ temporarily lost the Brewers to rival WISN in 1981 and 1982.

Having been the most popular station in local Arbitron ratings, WTMJ tied Top 40 station WKTI in the top ratings spot in by spring 1990.

Switch to news/talk
By the summer of 1990, most of the music shows had been discontinued. WTMJ began to be listed as a news/talk station in the Arbitron ratings. In 1993, WTMJ hired two new talk show hosts, liberal Jay Marvin and conservative Charlie Sykes. Sykes joined WTMJ from rival WISN. Marvin left for WLS in Chicago after seven months.

Also in 1993, WTMJ lost the production rights to Wisconsin Badgers sports broadcasts because an employee submitted the bid for the rights minutes after the deadline had passed. Though the station no longer originated the network, it continued to be the network flagship under Learfield Communications, the new rightsholders.

Power increase
WTMJ was granted permission in 1995 to upgrade to 50,000 watts days and 10,000 watts nights from a new directional antenna. It uses a six-tower array, located in Union Grove, south of Milwaukee.

In November 1997, WTMJ switched its national news provider from CBS to ABC. WTMJ returned to CBS on October 1, 2001.

In 2002, Sykes and fellow WTMJ host Jeff Wagner led a campaign to recall Milwaukee County Executive Tom Ament, who was embroiled in scandal for abusing the county pension system; Ament controversially retired at the end of February 2002, rather than resign.

In 2013, WTMJ made changes to its programming and management. In March, Journal Communications fired program director Joe Scialfa, who had been with the station for 14 years beginning as producer for the Charlie Sykes show. That November, WTMJ elected not to renew its contract with the University of Wisconsin, thus ending over eight decades of broadcasting Wisconsin Badgers sports by 2014. WOKY and WRIT became the new Milwaukee affiliates for the Wisconsin sports network effective in the 2014–15 season.

Changes in ownership
Journal Communications and the E. W. Scripps Company announced on July 30, 2014, that the two companies would merge to create a new broadcast company under the E.W. Scripps Company name that will own the two companies' broadcast properties, including WTMJ, WTMJ-TV, and WKTI-FM. The deal separated the WTMJ stations from the Journal Sentinel after nine decades, as the two companies' newspapers were spun off into a separate company under the Journal Media Group name (that company merged with Gannett itself in April 2016).

Both WTMJ Radio and WTMJ-TV eventually partnered with the Milwaukee Business Journal after the sale for business coverage). The transaction was completed on April 1, 2015; E.W. Scripps will also continue to originate the Packers and Brewers radio networks.

Sykes hosted his final show on WTMJ on December 19, 2016, nearly a month after the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president. In an essay for The New York Times, Sykes said: "The conservative media is broken and the conservative movement deeply compromised."

FM translator
On February 22, 2018, WTMJ began simulcasting on a monaural FM translator, W277CV at 103.3 MHz. It has its transmitter on the WTMJ-TV/WKTI tower.

The transmitter, formerly individually licensed to Frank Glass McCoy and leased to Scripps (who owns the physical tower and transmitter assets) and operated by Good Karma Brands, was formerly licensed to Waukegan, Illinois, and translated Kenosha public radio station WGTD before the move of the translator to Milwaukee. McCoy sold the translator license to Auslator, LLC in May 2019.

Additionally, the station is simulcast at 88.5 FM within the campus of American Family Field, allowing fans attending Brewers games to listen to the radio play-by-play of the game without the broadcast delay presented both by the satellite delay to WTMJ's studios, and for regulatory reasons.

Good Karma Brands
On July 27, 2018, as part of its exit from radio, Scripps announced the sale of WTMJ and WKTI to Good Karma Brands. The stations became part of a cluster with ESPN Radio affiliate WAUK. Morgan Murphy Media and other local groups have made investments in Good Karma Brands to back the purchase. Good Karma took control of WTMJ and WKTI on November 1, 2018, thus separating the AM station from its TV cousin for the first time. Shortly after, WTMJ's HD Radio transmitter was taken out of service as the station had since established an FM translator.

After trailing other stations, including iHeartMedia news/talk station WISN, for the first three months of 2021, WTMJ returned to the top of Milwaukee radio ratings in April 2021. On October 27, 2021, the Green Bay Packers announced that it would end its longtime association with WTMJ at the end of the season, with WRNW taking over the rights in 2022; production of the broadcasts had been transferred from WTMJ to the team in 2018. WTMJ's final Packers broadcast was the NFC Divisional game, a 13–10 loss to the San Francisco 49ers on January 22, 2022.

On September 28, 2022, WTMJ, WKTI and WGKB departed Radio City for new showcase studios based in The Avenue MKE, within the Third Street Market Hall, two blocks from where it first broadcast as WCAY only a few months after the license's centennial.

Programming
With hourly news updates from ABC News Radio, WTMJ airs news programming in morning and afternoon drive times. During the midday, the station airs live, local talk shows with Jeff Wagner and Steve Scaffidi. In the evenings, WTMJ has a three-hour sports talk show WTMJ Nights followed by nationally syndicated programs in late night hours including The Ramsey Show, Rich Valdés America at Night, Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal.

During weekends the station airs a mixture of local how-to programming, talk shows, local sports talk programs, sports play-by-play and national talk shows, for instance The Truth About Your Future with Ric Edelman and Compass Media Networks' This Weekend with Gordon Deal, in addition to ABC News' Perspective news magazine, the CBS News Weekend Roundup, and CBS's podcast The Takeout with Major Garrett.

WTMJ has broadcast the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team and Milwaukee Brewers baseball team for most of their histories. From 1929 to 2021, WTMJ served as the flagship radio station for the Green Bay Packers football team.

Studios and transmitter
For eighty years, WTMJ was based at 720 East Capitol Drive in Milwaukee, in an Art Deco facility known as "Radio City" in tribute to the New York complex of the same name.

WTMJ and WKTI are the two primary entry points in southeastern Wisconsin for the state's Emergency Alert System (EAS) alerts. WTMJ's transmitter site is in Union Grove.

As of February 22, 2018, WTMJ's HD Radio simulcast on WKTI-HD2 (launched after Scripps' assumption of ownership) is broadcast within the core Milwaukee metro region by translator W277CV (103.3 FM), which is licensed to Milwaukee and transmits from the WTMJ-TV/WKTI tower just north of Radio City.

WTMJ broadcasts with 50,000 watts during daytime hours, and 10,000 watts during nighttime from a six-tower site in Union Grove, south of Milwaukee. Its daytime signal can be heard in much of eastern Wisconsin and as far away as Chicago. Four towers are used during the day, providing city-grade coverage to most of eastern Wisconsin (including Madison and Green Bay) and northern Illinois, with most of the Chicago area getting at least a grade B signal. At night, power is fed to all six towers in a directional pattern, concentrating the signal in Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Chicago.

The station also regularly rates outside the Milwaukee market, doing so in Sheboygan despite that city being within its own radio market.

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Argo D-4 Javelin

Javelin (Argo D-4) was the designation of an American sounding rocket. The four stage Javelin rocket had a payload of around 125 pounds (57 kg), an apogee of 1100 kilometers, a liftoff thrust of 365 kilonewtons (82,100 lbf), a total mass of 3,385 kilograms (7,463 lb), and a core diameter of 580 millimeters (22.8 in). It was launched 82 times between 1959 and 1976.

This vehicle consisted of an Honest John first stage plus two Nike Ajax stages plus a X-248 stage. First NASA use in 1959. Could lift 45 kg (100 lb) to 800 km (500 mi).

It was launched 85 times between 1959 and 1976.

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White Highlands

The White Highlands is an area in the central uplands of Kenya. It was traditionally the homeland of indigenous Central Kenyan communities up to the colonial period, when it became the centre of European settlement in colonial Kenya, and between 1902 and 1961 was officially reserved for the exclusive use of Europeans by the colonial government.

Name
The first European explorers and administrators used the term Highlands to refer to the region no less than 5,000 feet (1,524 m) above sea level, which was best suited climatically for the Europeans to reside. During the process of settlement, the term came to be used for the areas not already settled by local African tribes. As The Crown Lands Ordinance of 1902 permitted land grants only to Europeans, the Highlands came to mean only the lands Europeans could own and manage.

Exploration
To many early explorers and administrators, the cool climate and absence of populations over large swathes of the Highlands, made it a uniquely attractive area for European settlement in sub-tropical Africa. In 1893, the explorer Frederick Lugard, whilst lobbying for a railway in East Africa, noted that European settlement in the region was not feasible until the cooler Highlands were made accessible. This view was echoed by Sir Harry Johnston who, on completion of the Uganda Railway, noted of the Highlands:

Settlement
In 1902, Sir Charles Eliot, then British Commissioner of the Protectorate, encouraged settlement of the Highlands for farming. Commissioner Eliot, a leading critic of building the railway, believed the only way to recoup the money spent on its construction was by opening up the Highlands for farming. In his view, only European settlers and agriculture could develop the region and generate the necessary funds to support the colonial administration. Eliot's view was supported by pioneer settlers such as The 3rd Baron Delamere and Ewart Grogan, who believed that they had a civilising mission to transform the entire country into a modern industrialised "White Man's Country".

By 1903 there were about 100 European settlers in the Highlands. A large proportion of the settlers hailed from South Africa including 280 Boers from the Transvaal who settled in the Uasin Gishu plateau in 1908.

By 1914, there were around a thousand European settlers in the Highlands. In 1914, around twenty percent of the leases held in the region were held by 13 individuals or groups. The granting of leases to settlers for low prices resulted in rampant land speculation, to the extent that by 1930 approximately sixty five percent of land reserved for Europeans was not under any form of agriculturally productive activity.

Alienation
When European settlement began, the Highlands were primarily inhabited by nomadic pastoralists and this absence of settled agrarian communities allowed British officials to describe the region as uninhabited. At the time, the African population was distributed between cultivating tribes and pastoralist people. The cultivating tribes existed mainly in the high rainfall areas of Nyanza and the slopes at the foot of Mount Kenya such as the Aberdares, Elgeyo and the hills of Ukambani. The intervening areas consisted of extensive but sparsely inhabited plains, at over 5,000 feet, where rainfall was more uncertain and pastoralists instead relied on the grazing of animals. European settlement was predominately in these extensive plains, traditionally inhabited by the Maasai tribe.

At the turn of the century, the Maasai had been decimated by a concurrence of natural disasters. Accompanying a smallpox epidemic was a severe drought and an invasion of locusts which consumed vegetation over large tracts of land, whilst rinderpest had killed large numbers of cattle resulting in starvation within the community. The Maasai entered into treaties with British officials to surrender large amounts of land, which reduced manpower meant they were unable to defend against rival tribes. Of the 12,000 square miles of European settled land, 7,000 consisted of former Masai grazing grounds abandoned under agreements between 1904 and 1913, and large parts of remaining areas, such as the Uasin Gishu plateau, were uninhabited.

British officials also alienated land from other tribes, whom the Maasai had pushed to woodlands on the fringes of the Highlands. These tribes practised shifting cultivation, resulting in large areas of land remaining abandoned for a number of years. Similar disasters as afflicted the Maasai also caused havoc amongst these tribes and, between 1901 and 1902, a famine resulted in the Kikuyu losing between twenty and fifty percent of their population on their frontier with the Maasai. Many survivors sought refuge amongst relatives elsewhere in their domain, but by leaving their land it made the frontier appear disused to European officials. Before the famine, the Kikuyu had been buying up parcels of land in the frontier for individual holdings. As had happened in colonies in North America, when British officials later began paying the Kikuyu for that land, they were acquiring the land freehold under colonial law. However, the Kikuyu were allowed to believe the British were only renting the land until the Kikuyu wished to reclaim it in future, because the transaction had not followed native customs. This difference in cultural understandings of land tenure was a contributing factor in the Mau Mau Rebellion.

End of reservation
The reservation of the White Highlands for Europeans by administrative practice was ended by the Land Control Regulations in 1961.

Extent
Initially the region was not clearly defined, instead lying between two points on the railway track, namely Kiu and Fort Ternan, and later from Sultan Hamud to Kibigori. It was not until 1939 that the boundaries were defined in the 7th Schedule to The Crown Lands Ordinance under authority of the Kenya (Highlands) Order in Council, 1939. The Order also established a Highlands Board with a majority elected by the Legislative Council to advise and make recommendations on the disposal of land in the region.

Today
Today, the region is at the heart of Kenya's economy. It is the country's best served region by road and rail and has many flourishing cities such as Nairobi, Nakuru, Eldoret, Kitale, Thika, Kericho and Nyeri. Although covering only five percent of Kenya's total land area, it produces most of Kenya's agricultural exports, particularly tea, coffee, sisal and pyrethrum.

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Charles Hunter (composer)

Charles H. Hunter (May 16, 1876 – January 23, 1906) was an American composer of ragtime music.

Early life and education
Charles Hunter was born in Columbia, Tennessee, and at birth was almost totally blind. He was the son of Jordan M. Hunter and Fannie F. Hackney. His father was a musician in the 6th Cavalry of the Confederate army during the American Civil War. Hunter attended the School for the Blind in Nashville, Tennessee, where he learned the piano tuner's trade. He went to work at the Jesse French Piano Company in Nashville.

Career
Absorbing the folk strains of Nashville, Hunter published his first rag, "Tickled to Death", in 1899, which became a hit. This was followed in 1900 by "A Tennessee Tantilizer," and in 1901 by "Possum and Taters," "Cotton Bolls," and "Queen of Love."

In 1902 he transferred to Jesse French's St. Louis store. "Just Ask Me" was published that year, and "Why We Smile" the next.

Hunter's health and career deteriorated as he partook of the St. Louis night life, and it was not until late in 1905 that he published his final rag, "Back to Life," so named to celebrate his return to health. It was a short-lived recovery; he died of tuberculosis not long afterwards. According to his funeral notice in the Columbia Herald, he left a young wife. He died on January 23, 1906, just six weeks after his marriage.

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Black bean

Black bean commonly refers to:

 * Black turtle bean, a variety of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) in Latin American cuisine

Other edible seeds

 * Black adzuki bean, a variety of adzuki bean in Korean cuisine
 * Black gram (Vigna mungo), a variety of gram (lentil) in South Asian cuisine
 * Black soybean, in East Asian cuisine
 * Fermented black beans (douchi) used in Chinese cuisine
 * Kenyan black bean (Lablab purpureus), used in Kenyan cuisine

Other uses

 * Castanospermum australe (Moreton Bay Chestnut), a tree with poisonous seeds

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Robin Skelton

Robin Skelton (12 October 1925 – 22 August 1997) was a Canadian academic, writer, poet, and anthologist.

Biography
Born in Easington, Yorkshire, Skelton was educated at the University of Leeds and Cambridge University. From 1944 to 1947, he served with the Royal Air Force in India. He later taught at Manchester University, where he was a founder member of The Peterloo Group. In 1963, he emigrated to Canada, and began teaching at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

Skelton was an authority on Irish literature. He is well known for his work as a literary editor; he was a founder and editor, with John Peter, of The Malahat Review, and a translator. Known as a practising Wiccan, Skelton also published a number of books on the subject of the occult and other neopagan religions.

Georges Zuk, a purported French surrealist poet, was a heteronym created by Skelton.

Writers he influenced include Jordan Stratford.

Poetry

 * Patmos, And Other Poems (1955)
 * The Poetic Pattern (1956)
 * Third Day Lucky (1958)
 * The Cavalier Poets (1960)
 * Begging the Dialect: Poems and Ballads (1960)
 * Two Ballads of the Muse (1960)
 * The Dark Window (1962
 * A Valedictory Poem Upon His Departure from Manchester, England, for the New World (1963)
 * An Irish Gathering (1964)
 * A Ballad of Billy Barker (1965)
 * Because of This and Other Poems (1968)
 * The Hold of Our Hands : Eight Letters to Sylvia (1968)
 * Selected Poems, 1947–1967 (1968)
 * An Irish Album (1969)
 * Answers: Poems (1969)
 * The Hunting Dark (1971)
 * Private Speech: Messages, 1962–1970 (1971)
 * A Different Mountain, Messages 1962 – 1970: Poems And Photo-Collages (1971)
 * Remembering Synge (1971)
 * Musebook (1972)
 * Three For Herself (1972)
 * Country Songs (1973)
 * Time Light (1974)
 * The Limners (1975)
 * Callsigns (1976)
 * Mystics Mild: Song (1976)
 * Because of Love (1977)
 * Three Poems (1977)
 * Landmarks (1979)
 * They Call It the Cariboo (1980)
 * Limits (1981)
 * Collected Shorter Poems, 1947–1977 (1981)
 * Zuk (1982)
 * The Paper Cage (1982)
 * De Nihilo (1982)
 * Wordsong: Twelve Ballads (1983)
 * The Collected Longer Poems, 1947–1977 (1985)
 * Distances (1985)
 * Telling the Tale (1987)
 * Openings (1988)
 * Celtic Contraries (1989)
 * A Formal Music: Poems in Classical Metres (1993)
 * Popping Fuchsias: Poems, 1987–1992 (1992)
 * A Formal Music: Poems In Classical Metres (1993)
 * Islands: Poems in The Traditional Forms And Metres Of Japan (1993)
 * I Am Me: Rhymes For Small (1994)
 * A Way of Walking : Poems in the Traditional Forms and Metres of Japan (1994)
 * Wrestling the Angel: Collected Shorter Poems, 1947–1977 (1994)
 * Samhain (1994)
 * The Edge Of Time: Poems And Translations (1995)
 * Three for Nick (1995)
 * One Leaf Shaking: Collected Later Poems, 1977–1990 (1996)
 * A Further Spring: Love Poems (1996)
 * Lens of Crystal: Poems (1996)
 * Long, Long Ago (1996)
 * Love Poems: A Further Spring (1996)
 * Or So I Say: Contentions and Confessions – A Happenstance Book (1998)
 * The Shapes of Our Singing (1999)
 * The Shapes of Our Singing: A Guide to the Meters and Set Forms of Verse from Around the World (2002)
 * In This Poem I Am(2007)

Fiction

 * The Man Who Sang In His Sleep (1984)
 * The Parrot Who Could (1987)
 * Fires of the Kindred (1987)
 * Hanky-Panky and Other Stories (1990)
 * Higgledy Piggledy (1992)

Non-fiction

 * John Ruskin: The Final Years (1955)
 * Teach Yourself Poetry (1963)
 * The Practice of Poetry (1971)
 * J. M. Synge and His World (1971, US title: The Writings of J. M. Synge)
 * The Poet's Calling (1975)
 * Poetic Truth (1978)
 * Spellcraft: A Manual of Verbal Magic (1978)
 * Herbert Siebner (1979)
 * They Call It The Cariboo (1980)
 * Magical Practice of Talismans (1985, US title: Talismanic Magic)
 * Practice of Witchcraft Today: An Introduction to Beliefs & Rituals of the Old Religion (1988)
 * A Gathering of Ghosts (1989, with Jean Kozocari)
 * A Witches' Book of Ghosts and Exorcism (1990, with Jean Kozocari)
 * Earth Air, Fire, Water : Pre-Christian and Pagan Elements in British Songs, Rhymes and Ballads (1990, with Margaret Blackwood)
 * Practice of Witchcraft Today: An Introduction To Beliefs and Rituals (1990)
 * The Record of A Logophile (1990)
 * A Devious Dictionary (1991)

Memoir

 * The Memoirs of A Literary Blockhead (1988)
 * Portrait of My Father (1989)

Anthologies

 * Translations by J. M. Synge (1961)
 * Edward Thomas: Selected Poems (1962)
 * Collected Works of J. M. Synge (1962)
 * Six Irish Poets: Austin Clarke, Richard Kell, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Richard Murphy, Richard Weber (1962)
 * Penguin Book of Poetry of the Thirties (1963)
 * Collected Poems of David Gascoyne (1965)
 * The World of W B Yeats: Essays in Perspective (1965, with Anne Saddlemyer)
 * Irish Renaissance: A Gathering of Essays, Memoirs and Letters from the Massachusetts Review (1965, with David R. Clark)
 * Inscriptions (1967, with Herbert Siebner)
 * Five Poets of the Pacific Northwest (1968)
 * Poetry of the Forties (1968)
 * Contemporary Poetry of British Columbia (1970)
 * Collected Verse Translations of David Gascoyne (1970)
 * Herbert Read: A Memorial Symposium (1970)
 * Collected Plays of Jack B. Yeats (1971)
 * Selected Poems Of Byron (1971)
 * Introductions from an Island 1973: New Writing for Students in the Creative Writing Programme (1973)
 * A Gathering in Celebration of the Eightieth Birthday of Robert Graves (1975, edited with William Thomas)
 * Six Poets of British Columbia (1980)
 * From Syria by Ezra Pound (1981)
 * Herbert Siebner: A Celebration (1993)
 * Dark Seasons A Selection of Georg Trakl Poems (1994)

Translations

 * Georges Zuk: Selected Verse (1969)
 * 200 Poems from the Greek Anthology (1971)
 * The Underwear of the Unicorn by Georges Zuk (1975)
 * George Faludy: Selected Poems, 1933–80 (1985)
 * Briefly Singing : A Gathering of Erotic Satirical and Other Inscriptions Epigrams and Lyrics from the Greek and Roman Mediterranean 800 BC – AD 1000 Including the Complete Poems of Rufinus (1994)
 * Rufinus. The Complete Poems (1997)

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Taking Sides

Taking Sides may refer to:
 * Taking Sides, a novel by Gary Soto
 * Taking Sides (film), a 2001 adaptation of Ronald Harwood's play, directed by István Szabó
 * Taking Sides (play), a 1995 play by Ronald Harwood

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Scott Hayden

Scott Hayden (March 31, 1882 — September 16, 1915) was an American composer of ragtime music.

Life
Born in Sedalia, Missouri, he was the son of Marion and Julia Hayden. Hayden is remembered today for the four rags he composed in collaboration with Scott Joplin, "Sunflower Slow Drag," "Something Doing," "Felicity Rag," "Kismet Rag" and also for another composition he wrote himself, "Pear Blossoms". There was a family connection of sorts between the two men, since Joplin's first wife, Belle Hayden, had been Scott Hayden's sister-in-law. Hayden married Nora Wright and lived with the Joplins in St. Louis.

Nora died giving birth to a daughter in 1901. Hayden moved to Chicago, got a job as an elevator operator in the Cook County Hospital, and married Jeanette Wilkins. A slender, handsome man of delicate health, he died in Chicago of pulmonary tuberculosis, leaving "Pear Blossoms" unfinished.

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Club Atlético Banco de la Nación Argentina

Club Atlético Banco de la Nación Argentina (mostly known as Club Banco Nación) is an Argentine sports club, located in the neighborhood of Vicente López in the homonymous partido of Greater Buenos Aires. The club is mostly known for its rugby union team, which currently plays in Primera División A, the second division of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires league system.

Apart from rugby, the club hosts other activities such as aikido, artistic roller skating, basketball, field hockey, football, judo, pilates, swimming, tennis, volleyball and yoga. Banco Nación also has a section of Saint Edward's College.

History
Banco Nación was founded on October 12, 1909, as sports club by employees of Banco de la Nación Argentina, Argentina's state-owned bank. Originally located near the Colegiales railway station, the club moved to its current location on Zufriategui street in 1928.

Banco Nación's rugby team won the URBA Tournament in 1986 and 1989, as well as several rugby sevens tournaments. Hugo Porta, long-time captain of the national team, played in Banco Nación during his entire career; other recognized Pumas, such as Fabián Turnes, Pablo Hacha Dinisio, Fabio Aguja Gómez, and Rodolfo Capeltti began their careers with the team.

On July 14, 1990, Banco Nación defeated England national team in a surprising 29 to 21 victory, being the only club level team to do that in the world. Banco Nación is the only Argentine club to defeat two national teams, having also defeated Canada in 1989.

In 2010 Banco was relegated to the second division, along with Club Pueyrredón. In November, 2011, Banco Nación defeated Hurling Club 31-28 proclaiming second division champion.

In September 2014, Banco Nación returned to the first division (Grupo I) after defeating Universitario (La Plata) by 41-19.

In December 2018, Hugo Porta, the most notable rugby player in Banco Nación's history, was elected president of the institution.

Nootable athletes

 * Agostina Alonso – field hockey, also part of the Argentina national team, that won silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
 * Hugo Porta – rugby (1970–90), widely regarded as the best Argentine player ever.
 * Fabián Turnes (rugby)

Rugby union

 * Torneo de la URBA
 * First Division (2): 1986, 1989
 * Second Division (1): 2011

Field hockey

 * Women's:
 * Metropolitano de Primera División (4): 1968, 1970, 1973, 2018


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Wesley Merritt

Wesley Merritt (June 16, 1836 – December 3, 1910) was an American major general who served in the cavalry of the United States Army during the American Civil War, American Indian Wars, and Spanish–American War. Following the latter war, he became the first American Military Governor of the Philippines.

Early life
Merritt was born in New York City. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1860 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 2nd Dragoons, serving initially in Utah under John Buford. He became the adjutant for the unit when it was renamed the 2nd Cavalry Regiment.

American Civil War
In 1862, Merritt was appointed captain in the 2nd Cavalry and served as an aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. Philip St. George Cooke, who commanded the Cavalry Department of the Army of the Potomac. He served in the defenses of Washington, D.C., for the rest of 1862. In 1863, he was appointed adjutant for Maj. Gen. George Stoneman and participated in Stoneman's Raid in the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863.

He was slightly wounded in the Battle of Brandy Station; on June 29, 1863, he was appointed brigadier general of volunteers for his "gallant and meritorious service" at Brandy Station and Upperville. Being promoted directly from captain to brigadier general was an unusual step, even for the Civil War, but Merritt shared this honor on that date with Captain Elon J. Farnsworth and Captain George Armstrong Custer.

In the Gettysburg Campaign, Merritt commanded the Reserve Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac. In the initial cavalry actions of the Battle of Gettysburg, Merritt saw no action; his reserve brigade guarded the lines of communications of the Army of the Potomac. On July 3, 1863, however, he participated in the assault ordered by division commander Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick on the Confederate right flank, following Pickett's Charge. His fellow general, Elon J. Farnsworth, was killed during this futile assault against infantry troops. Merritt took over command of the 1st Division of the Cavalry Corps following the death by typhoid fever of its commander, John Buford, in December 1863. Brig. Gen. Alfred Torbert was the initial commander of the 1st Division but was absent ill for most of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign in 1864, so Merritt acted as commander in his place. He received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel in the regular army for his actions at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, the engagement in which Confederate cavalry commander Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart was killed.

During Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's Valley Campaigns of 1864, Merritt commanded the 1st Division, Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Shenandoah. Arriving at the opportune moment, his division routed the Confederate forces at the Third Battle of Winchester, a deed for which he received a brevet promotion to major general of the volunteers. Upon his return his Cavalry was deployed across the valley, burning, destroying or taking away everything of value or likely to become of value to the enemy. October 5 his division alone destroyed from Port Republic to Toms Brook 630 barns, 47 mills, 410,742 bushels of wheat, 515 acres of corn not counting private homes. He was second-in-command to Sheridan during the Appomattox Campaign and was one of several commissioners for the surrender at Appomattox Court House. He was brevetted major general in the regular army, in April 1865, for bravery at the Battle of Five Forks and the Appomattox Campaign.

In June 1865, Merritt was appointed command of Cavalry Forces of the Military Division of the Southwest, commanded by Sheridan. He led the 1st Division of Cavalry to march from Shreveport, Louisiana, to San Antonio, Texas, as part of the Union occupation forces on an arduous 33-day 600-mile march between July 9 and August 11, 1865. On January 28, 1866, Merritt was one of a number of brevetted generals mustered out of volunteer service and returned to their pre-war ranks in the regular army.

Frontier duty and West Point
After the war's end, Merritt continued to serve in the cavalry along the frontier. He was appointed lieutenant colonel of the newly raised U.S. 9th Cavalry on July 28, 1866, and in July 1867 was sent to command Fort Davis, Texas, garrisoned by six of the regiment's companies. He was made colonel of the 5th Cavalry on July 1, 1876, which he commanded in the Battle of Slim Buttes during the American Indian Wars.

As colonel of the 5th Cavalry, Merritt was a member of the court of inquiry which first sat on January 13, 1879, presided over by Colonel John H. King of the 9th Infantry, which was convened to consider the behavior of Major Marcus A. Reno of the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25 to 26, 1876); which resulted in the death of General George Armstrong Custer and over 200 men of the 7th Cavalry.

He served on the frontier until being appointed superintendent of West Point, a post he filled from 1882 to 1887. In 1887, he was appointed brigadier general in the Regular Army. He was promoted to major general in the U.S. Army in 1895.

Merritt was a companion of the Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

Spanish–American War
After Commodore Dewey's Asiatic Squadron destroyed Rear Admiral Patricio Montojo's Spanish Pacific Squadron at the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898, the United States began to organize ground forces to attack and capture the city of Manila. Merritt was placed in command of the newly created Eighth Army Corps. In June 1898, Merritt and the available troops of the corps departed from San Francisco for the Philippines.

When Merritt arrived in Manila, he and Dewey made preparations for the attack on the city. The two intentionally kept Emilio Aguinaldo in the dark about the plans for the attack because the Americans did not want Aguinaldo's forces to end up in control of the city. Merritt and Dewey made arrangements with Governor General Fermín Jáudenes, commander of the Spanish garrison, to surrender the city to the American forces after the latter put up a token resistance. The city fell to the Americans on August 13, 1898, and Merritt became the first American military governor of the Philippines. Merritt was relieved by Major General Elwell Stephen Otis on August 30 to advise the United States delegation in the peace negotiations leading to the Treaty of Paris.

Based on his Spanish–American War service, Merritt became a member of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of Foreign Wars.

Family and death
Merritt was married twice. His first wife was Caroline Warren Merritt, who died on June 12, 1893, at the age of 44. She is buried at West Point Cemetery. Merritt's second wife was Laura Williams Caton, daughter of John D. Caton, whom he met in the late 1890s, when she was in her mid-twenties. General Merritt and Laura Williams were married in London on October 24, 1898.

General Merritt retired from the Army in 1900 and died from complications of arteriosclerosis in Natural Bridge, Virginia, at the age of 74, on December 3, 1910. He is buried at West Point Cemetery.

Portrayal in the media

 * Portrayed by Greg Dorris in the Filipino film, Heneral Luna (2015).

title: Wesley Merritt