text:
List of El-Hazard characters

The following article provides information on major and minor characters in the fictional universe of the various El-Hazard anime and manga series. If a character's existence differs significantly in the alternate timeline Wanderers TV series, these differences will also be noted. The names are listed in western order, with surnames following given names.

Makoto Mizuhara
Seventeen-year-old Makoto Mizuhara (水原 誠 Mizuhara Makoto) is the protagonist of the story. At the beginning of the first OVA, Makoto is to testify against student body president Katsuhiko Jinnai in an impeachment hearing. After school, Jinnai attacks him in an effort to prevent his testimony when time comes to a standstill. Making his way down to some ancient ruins underneath the school, Makoto discovers a mysterious, beautiful woman who sends him and the others still on the school campus to the world of El-Hazard.

Once in El-Hazard, Makoto meets up with his history teacher, Masamichi Fujisawa, and after a brief encounter with some Bugrom soldiers, the two rescue Princess Rune Venus of Roshtaria, who had been traveling to learn news of her missing sister, Fatora. As it turns out, Makoto bears an uncanny resemblance to the missing princess, and he's reluctantly recruited into impersonating Fatora. He goes along with the plan, hoping that doing so will allow him access to the Eye of God, which might have the power to return him to Earth. Over the course of the series, he becomes enthralled with Ifurita, and is oblivious to the advances that Nanami and Shayla-Shayla both make on him.

After Ifurita is catapulted far away into time and space, Makoto vows to uncover the secrets of the Eye of God in order to come rescue her. It apparently takes him several years to do so; when Makoto appears before Ifurita at the end of the first OVA, he seems to be in his late teens or early twenties.

Makoto's journey from Earth to El-Hazard endowed him with a special ability to activate and link with ancient devices of a lost El-Hazard civilization, including the Eye of God and the Demon God, Ifurita.

Makoto is notable as one of the few "harem anime" protagonists who actually becomes romantically involved with one of his admirers. Additionally, in the first OVA he showcases a certain strength of character, also notable among mostly weak-willed, sturdy-as-wet-cardboard harem leads. (Later series stripped him of these traits, returning him to "standard issue".)

Makoto in The Wanderers

Although considered more of an everyman in the OVA series, The Wanderers paints Makoto as more scientifically gifted. In the series, he creates a machine in the science lab to be on display at the start of the school's cultural festival, but when Jinnai sabotages it, it creates a portal to El-Hazard, pulling them in along with Nanami and Fujisawa. Because Fatora is not a part of The Wanderers, Makoto is never forced into impersonating her.

Enoki Films had planned to give Makoto the dub name "Mako" in its license.

Masamichi Fujisawa
Masamichi Fujisawa (藤沢 真理 Fujisawa Masamichi) is the alcoholic, chain-smoking history teacher at Shinonome High School.

Fujisawa is not widely respected among his students and has a very strong sense of school spirit. When he crosses over into El-Hazard, he gains super strength and athletic ability; he loses these powers if he has consumed too much alcohol. Also, if he does not smoke for a period of time, the stress amplifies his powers exponentially. Despite his vices, he is a good-hearted individual and a mountaineering enthusiast, which comes in useful whenever there is a mountain or cliff face to climb. He also gains the romantic interest of Miz Mishtal, but he is not quite sure how to handle the attention at first.

Fujisawa in The Wanderers

Fujisawa does not change very much, but his love of mountain climbing is emphasized a bit more than it is in the first OVA series. Also, he is not a smoker in this series and thus his "super" state doesn't exist.

Enoki Films had planned to give Fujisawa the dub name "Mr. Fuji" in its license.

Katsuhiko Jinnai
Katsuhiko Jinnai (陣内 克彦 Jinnai Katsuhiko) is the chief antagonist of the story.

Before his journey to El Hazard, Katsuhiko manages to win the student body presidential election by promising student government funds to campus clubs and organizations that voted for him. When Makoto catches wind of this and plans are made for him to testify against Jinnai (who is called "Jinnai" by everyone except his sister), the egocentric, power-hungry and soon-to-be-impeached student body president attempts to thwart the process by attacking Makoto, intending to keep him tied up until a technicality in the bylaws prevents him from being thrown out of office. Before he can execute his plan, however, he's sent to El-Hazard, and once there encounters the Bugrom, a race of human-sized insectoid beings ruled by Queen Diva.

Jinnai's power granted to him by the trip is the ability to communicate with the Bugrom, allowing him to become their military commander under their belief that he is the messenger from God sent to lead the Bugrom to victory. A skilled tactician, he is able to reorganize the Bugrom forces into an effective army and comes close to conquering El-Hazard.

Although Jinnai is a power-hungry egomaniac, he's not without some level of humanity. When Galus attempts to stop Makoto and the others from halting the Eye of God's apocalyptic malfunction, he takes the leader of the Phantom Tribe by surprise with the help of a Bugrom soldier. Although Jinnai effectively comes to Makoto and Nanami's rescue, he does so more for the fact that a "true ruler doesn't destroy the land he wishes to conquer". Jinnai has a very distinctive laugh.

Jinnai suffers from an obsession with Makoto that borders of the psychotic. Over the course of both series, he consistently blames Makoto for essentially every single failure and disappointment he experiences. His sense of his own history is a montage of misfortune, the chief architect of which is Makoto. Though generally megalomaniacal, one of his primary motivations in gaining power is to subsequently gain the ability to best, or, even kill him.

Perhaps due to his megalomania, Jinnai has tremendous confidence in himself and his abilities. He allows little to faze or depress him, and is quick to bounce back from any setbacks. Even at the end of the original OAV series, where the Bugrom empire has apparently been reduced to himself, Diva and his personal squad, he never falters and instead vows that they will find the ideal place to construct a new colony, building themselves back up into a powerful force. In El Hazard 2, Jinnai discovers a mesa deep in the desert where he declares that they shall settle, while in The Alternative World the colony begins to be repopulated - firstly by bands of surviving Bugrom, then at the climax, where Diva takes the shocked Jinnai as her mate so that she can breed new Bugrom.

Jinnai in The Wanderers

Jinnai does not change much in the transition from OVA to TV series, either, but he seems to treat Ifurita with more care. Although he's threatened with impeachment from his position as student body president at the beginning of the series and Makoto plays no direct role in the trial, he is paranoid that Makoto will replace him as president once he is kicked out of office.

Additionally, Jinnai reveals a softer side at the end of the series, showing a certain fatherly affection towards Ifurita after she stops the Eye of God from plowing into Roshtaria.

Enoki Films had planned to give Jinnai the dub name "Jimbo" in its license.

Nanami Jinnai
Nanami Jinnai (陣内 菜々美 Jinnai Nanami) is Jinnai's younger sister by about a year.

Nanami is highly independent and strongly entrepreneurial, going so far as to take payment from the high school's Broadcast Club to grill her brother over the fraudulent election results on campus television. When she's sent to El-Hazard, she's initially alone and is forced to take on a waitressing job to earn enough money to travel, but she eventually meets up with Makoto and Fujisawa at the Fountain of Arliman, where she is able to start a small business selling boxed lunches to the visiting priestesses. Nanami has feelings for Makoto, but she's never really had the opportunity to talk about a relationship with him. Her feelings also engage her in a running feud with Shayla-Shayla over Makoto's hand.

Nanami's power gained upon entering El-Hazard is to see through the illusions of the Phantom Tribe, making her a viable defense against the greatest threat in the first OVA series.

Nanami in The Wanderers

The Phantom Tribe does not exist in the alternate timeline, and so instead Nanami has the same power to communicate with the Bugrom as her brother. Her past relationship with Makoto is also explored a bit more in detail, and she becomes good friends with Princess Rune Venus. As well, in the last episode of the TV series, Alielle describes Nanami and herself as "special friends", lending their relationship a certain homoerotic subtext, though this seems to be more along the lines of a big sister relationship.

Enoki Films had planned to give Nanami the dub name "Nana" in its license.

Ifurita
Ifurita (イフリータ Ifurīta; spelled "Ifreeta" in the Etranger Tour Guide; possibly a reference to an ifritah, or female ifrit) is an ancient Demon God of El-Hazard. Although the specifics of her origin are never explained, it appears as though she is a biological machine designed to look like a beautiful young woman. When Makoto first encounters her under the high school, she seems to know him for some reason, and treats him warmly. However, later in the series, when Makoto and the others reach the Island of the Demon God, he discovers her still asleep, as she had been for centuries. Jinnai uses the Power Key Staff to wind-up Ifurita, awakening her, and because he is the master of the staff, she emotionlessly does his bidding. She has the destructive power to level entire cities, and because of her status as an ancient weapon she has knowledge of all the "ancient techniques" that the priestesses use and can therefore duplicate any attack or technique that's used against her, truly making her the most fearsome weapon in all of El-Hazard.

On occasions when Makoto's power allows his mind to synchronize with hers, she becomes aware that he somehow knows her, despite having never met him before. This leads her to question her existence as a weapon. When Makoto eventually disables the obedience circuit within her, she becomes free of Jinnai's control. At the end of the first OVA series, the Eye of God goes out of control, and she gives Makoto her staff, allowing her to tap into his power to control ancient technology. In stopping the Eye of God, Ifurita is thrown through time and space for thousands of years, eventually coming to rest under what would later become the site of Shinonome High School. After sending Makoto and the others to El-Hazard, she wanders the school, taking in memories that Makoto had passed along to her, and sadly leans against the fence outside the school as the sun rises, when a slightly older looking Makoto appears. After ten thousand years, the two are reunited with the key to recharge her and the ability to return to El-Hazard together.

In El-Hazard 2, there is another, identical looking Ifurita, belonging to a man called Yuba, another dimension-traveller who shares Makoto's powers.

Ifurita in The Wanderers

Ifurita underwent a complete makeover in The Wanderers. The tragic, mystifying and fearsome Demon God was given a totally different personality, making her a bubble-headed ditz along the lines of Mihoshi from Tenchi Muyo! She also underwent a major physical redesign, changing costume, hair and eye color, and facial shape, so that television Ifurita resembles a Japanese high school girl more than a woman from an exotic land. In The Wanderers, she does not become a love interest of Makoto's at all, but stays with Jinnai, cheerfully following his orders – and trying not to screw them up; where OVA Ifurita is lethally capable and efficient, the television version is not only scatter-brained but clumsy and incompetent. Unlike in the OVA, in which she stops the Eye of God after it goes out of control, this version of Ifurita is actually the key that controls the Eye and its destructive power.

The Power Key Staff

Ifurita's Power Key Staff holds two purposes. First, it is the device used to give Ifurita power, acting as a sort of wind-up key. Second, it serves as Ifurita's primary weapon, which she uses to channel her destructive energy. The Power Key Staff is not a separate device, but rather an extension of Ifurita's own body.

Kalia
Kalia is a Demon-God discovered by Jinnai in the second OVA. While she seems to share some of the same abilities as Ifurita, her real power is absorbing energy and using it to her advantage. It is unknown if she has the capability of copying the techniques of her opponents; however, she is fully able to collect and conserve energy from one or multiple attackers and reflect that power back at her leisure. Aside from this, she can also absorb and drain energy from living and biomechanical things through the gauntlets on her hands.

Her true purpose is to be the control of an ancient El-Hazard weapon called the Trigger of Destruction, made in the Holy Wars as a final act of vengeance by tribes affected by the Eye of God. The Trigger itself is essentially a Doomsday Device, killing both enemy and friend as it weaves its way through dimensions, annihilating anything caught in its path. Kalia takes control of the machine after defeating and sealing Ifurita-2, but Makoto and the revived Ifurita are able to elude the Trigger's defenses and enter Kalia's control room.

Caught distracted while attacking Makoto, Ifurita-2 drives her staff through Kalia's activation module and fires, reducing her to scrap as she melts from the inside out. Upon her death, the Trigger loses semblance and is destroyed along with her.

Kalia does not appear in The Wanderers.

Alielle Relryle
Alielle Relryle (アレーレ・レレライル Arēre Rererairu) is Princess Fatora's concubine, who is introduced when she returns to the royal palace after visiting her parents and sneaks into Fatora's bedroom while Makoto (still dressed as Fatora) is in bed. When she learns the whole truth, she becomes worried for the real Fatora's safety and assists Makoto and Fujisawa as they travel to see the three priestesses of Mt. Muldoon, serving as their guide. While an intelligent and courageous companion during the first quest, once Fatora returns she becomes a sycophant who even aids her mistress in her schemes to hit on other girls.

In the opening sequence of the first OVA, there is a brief shot of Alielle wielding a curved sword, but she never actually actively participates in any combat over the course of the series.

Muldoon Priestesses
The three priestesses of Mt. Muldoon are sought out by "Fatora" (Makoto in disguise), Fujisawa and Alielle on a mission from the alliance of nations against the Bugrom, as they are the only ones capable of unsealing the Eye of God's power. Each of the Muldoon priestesses holds control over a particular element and are able to wield their powers at will.

Shayla Shayla
Voiced by: Tomo Sakurai (Japanese), Mimi Woods (English)

At age nineteen, Shayla Shayla (シェーラ・シェーラ Shēra Shēra; spelled "Shaellah Shaellah" in the Etranger Tour Guide ) is (initially) the youngest of the three priestesses. Holding true to the classic anime redhead stereotype, this tanned priestess' temper is as fiery as her hair, matching her control over the element of fire. Makoto, Fujisawa and Alielle first meet her when she rescues them from a Bugrom attack on Mt. Muldoon, but she runs off with Afura without hearing them out about their mission. When she first learns Makoto's true identity, she accuses him of being a pervert and tries to roast him. But after he saves her life when Ifurita awakens, she begins to develop feelings for Makoto, even though she finds it very difficult to express them openly. She also has a friendly rivalry with the wind priestess Afura Mann.

Shayla Shayla in The Wanderers

Rather than be centralized in one location, the three priestesses each run a separate temple. Fittingly enough, Shayla's fire temple is located in a volcano. She is just as temper-driven as her OVA persona, but with the addition of being a heavy gambler. When Makoto and Fujisawa first meet her, she had lost her clothes and the entire temple to Jinnai in a rigged game.

Note: Overall design and visual appearance of the character Midori Himeno from the PlayStation fighting video-game title Eretzvaju (also known as "Evil Zone" in the United States and Europe) was heavily based on Shayla-Shayla. Even though Midori's archetype is somewhat opposite to that of Shayla's, she looks exactly like her. And it was stated by the creators of Eretzvaju, that they used several El-Hazard's character designs besides Shayla's as a base to make some of the Eretzvaju characters.

Afura Mann
Afura Mann (アフラ・マーン Afura Mān; spelled "Afrah Mahn" in the Etranger Tour Guide ) is the wind priestess of Mt. Muldoon. Of the three priestesses, her personality is delved into the least, and she comes off being rather wooden and serious most of the time, although she does make the occasional crack at Shayla's expense. Even though she is about the same age as Shayla, she's much more calm and composed. Still, she's not above shirking her duties on occasion, as she and Shayla are both late for the start of the rituals at Arliman after shopping at a bazaar, and like Shayla, she fails to listen to Makoto's pleas when they first meet.

Afura in The Wanderers

Afura remains a studious, intelligent priestess in the television series. However, her background with Shayla-Shayla is plumbed into much more detail, and her personality is given slightly more definition. Not much else changes, though. Her temple is located on a windy mountain peak and contains an extensive library of texts.

Miz Mishtal
Miz Mishtal (ミーズ・ミシュタル Mīzu Mishutaru; spelled "Meeze Myshtar" in the Etranger Tour Guide ) is the water priestess of Mt. Muldoon, as well as the oldest. Creeping towards thirty years of age, Miz's main concern, aside from her duties as a priestess, is keeping herself looking beautiful and hoping that she'll one day find a suitor so that she can marry and retire. While bathing in the springs of Arliman, a bumbling servant pours freezing cold water on her, causing her to scream, and Fujisawa, thinking she's in danger, "saves" her from her attacker. Taken with how handsome her "hero" is (not to mention that he is a teacher with a steady income), Miz instantly falls head over heels for him. Even as the world is in danger, Miz's primary motivation for ending the Bugrom conflict is so that she can plan out the whole wedding ceremony before Fujisawa can even say yes or no. Although she's more than capable of taking care of herself, she likes playing the delicate flower role when wooing Fujisawa.

Eventually, she and Fujisawa tie the knot by the end of El Hazard 2, and the water priestess becomes Miz Fujisawa. At the end of the Alternative World, she later gives birth to their son.

Miz in The Wanderers

Miz is very much the same person she is in the OVA. The water temple she controls was briefly left in the hands of Nanami, who turned it into a water park, much to Miz's dismay.

Faces at the Palace
These characters are seen within or associated most often with the royal palace in Florestica, the capital of Roshtaria and the location of the headquarters of the Alliance of human nations.

Rune Venus
Rune Venus (ルーン・ヴェーナス Rūn Vēnasu; spelled "Rhun Veenas" in the Etranger Tour Guide) is a princess of Roshtaria and Fatora's older sister; she is both the leader of Roshtaria and the head of the Alliance. (There is never any explanation given for why her title is "oujo" [king's daughter] rather than something befitting an autonomous ruler.) A serious, intelligent and kind-hearted ruler, she sends Makoto and Fujisawa on a mission to locate the Muldoon priestesses so that they can unseal the Eye of God. Even though Fatora's absence renders the superweapon useless, she and the other Alliance members believe that such an action would deter the Bugrom from attacking. She's also engaged to Prince Galus, who supports the action.

Rune Venus in The Wanderers

Like Ifurita, Rune undergoes a dramatic shift in personality and character design in The Wanderers. Younger and cuter, she's closer to Makoto's age and is made into his primary love interest as well as a much more central character in general. She's also more lighthearted and playful, but still serious enough to be a proper ruler. One particular quirk is her habit of talking to a dragon hand-puppet while bathing.

Enoki Films had planned to give Rune the dub name "Ruhn" in their license.

Londs
Londs is the chief servant of the royal house and a trained soldier. He oversees many of the day-to-day goings-on at the palace, and assists Makoto in keeping up the ruse of him playing Fatora. It is he who invites Makoto and Fujisawa to the palace after the two Earthlings rescue Princess Rune from a Bugrom attack.

Londs in The Wanderers

Londs does not change much, but he is initially much more suspicious of Makoto and Fujisawa when they first appear than he is in the OVA.

Dr. Schtalubaugh
The elderly Dean of Roshtaria's Royal Academy, Schtalubaugh has access to more knowledge about the workings of ancient El-Hazard than anyone else. It is he that discerns the exact nature of Makoto's super-ability. However, he has no knowledge of any ability to cross over dimensions, and thus is unable to find a way to return Makoto and Fujisawa to Earth. He also has hands in ceremonial matters, as Miz informs Fujisawa that he has agreed to oversee their vows at their wedding.

Dr. Schtalubaugh in The Wanderers

Very little about the good doctor changes, but there are scenes in which he is able to relax and enjoy himself.

Fatora Venus
Fatora Venus (ファトラ・ヴェーナス Fatora Vēnasu; spelled "Fatra Veenas" in the Etranger Tour Guide) is Rune's younger sister, and for most of the first OVA, she is in the clutches of the Phantom Tribe, being subjected to various scientific experiments. Although two females of royal blood are required in order to operate the Eye of God, the tribe utilizes a special device allowing them to control it with only her as a key. However, when the machine breaks down, the tribe is forced to retreat, and Ifurita, sent by Katsuhiko, takes her to the Bugrom to become their prisoner. When she's finally freed, she agrees to help Rune activate the Eye of God to eliminate the Bugrom, but Phantom Tribe sabotage causes the Eye to run out of control after they activate it together.

Although the members of the palace look at her with love and admiration, Fatora is in actuality a selfish despot. (Alielle, her lesbian lover, is happy to see that she hasn't changed at all after her ordeal.) She shows very little gratitude towards Makoto for rescuing her, instead declaring how he must have a greater appreciation for her station now that he's had a chance to live it. Therefore, she is doted ONLY by the royal members and is greatly disrespected by other parties, including the priestesses and Makoto's party. She is particularly disliked by Nanami and Shayla-Shayla, whom she would often try to seduce.

An apparently open lesbian (there is no indication in the narrative that her tastes are at all hidden knowledge), she is much like her primary lover Alielle in that she has an overdeveloped sex drive and little concern for the concept of "faithfulness" or even "disinterested". While it's implied that she has had many other "once-off" lovers in the past, and is attracted to Kalia when she first appears, during her appearance in the series she is fixated primarily on Shayla-Shayla and Nanami Jinnai: even though she knows that the two of them are both interested in Makoto, she still tries to lure them into sharing her bed. Fatora even goes to the extent of using her similarity to Makoto to disguise herself as him to try to take advantage of their crushes on him; while Nanami recognizes the truth and admonishes her, she manages to fool Shayla-Shayla sufficiently that she manages to kiss her, naturally prompting a fiery explosion of fury when the priestess realized who just claimed her first kiss.

Fatora does not exist in The Wanderers.

Ura
Ura (ウーラ Uura; spelled "Oolah" in the Etranger Tour Guide ) is a cat and Fatora's personal pet. Unlike felines of Earth, however, the cats of El-Hazard are able to stretch and wrap around humans, becoming a highly durable living armor. Ura is loaned to Makoto while he impersonates Fatora, and the cat saves his life on several occasions. As armor, Ura is at least strong enough to withstand a single blast of energy from Ifurita. He is also capable of limited human speech. A similar cat is seen around Rune Venus briefly, but is not named or otherwise shown again.

After Fatora is rescued, the princess ungratefully admonishes Ura and threatens to punish him. When Makoto steps in to defend Ura, Fatora cuts ties with her pet, and the cat becomes Makoto's guardian full-time.

Ura in The Wanderers

In The Wanderers, Ura is a cat raised in the wilds of a forest. He befriends Makoto and ends up tagging along with him, using his abilities as armor to protect him when needed.

The Phantom Tribe
The Phantom Tribe is a society of blue-skinned humanoids that were pulled into El-Hazard when the Eye of God was last activated in ancient times. Shunned by the ancients, they live as outcasts and hold a deep-seated grudge against all of El-Hazard. The members of the Phantom Tribe have innate powers of illusion, allowing them to disguise themselves as humans and create environmental illusions such as flash floods that are realistic enough to convince a person that he is actually drowning. They appear to dissolve at the moment of death.

The Phantom Tribe does not exist in The Wanderers universe.

Galus
Although the hierarchy of the Phantom Tribe isn't fully explored, Galus is probably their leader. Disguised as a human prince, he became engaged to Rune Venus at some point before the beginning of the OVA series. He manipulates the Alliance council into unsealing the Eye of God and kidnaps Princess Fatora in order to use the Eye to destroy all of El-Hazard in an act of insane revenge. Cunning and tactical, his hatred for the people of El-Hazard is boundless.

Kiriya
A Phantom Tribe assassin, Galus sends Kiriya to kill Makoto (still disguised as Fatora) before he can contact the Muldoon priestesses as with his death, everyone will be convinced that the real Fatora is dead. Her initial attempt at his life is thwarted by the appearance of Shayla-Shayla, who creates too much havoc to allow her to properly aim a shot from her crossbow. Later, at the Holy Fountain of Arliman, she disguises herself as a beautiful blonde woman and attempts to get close enough to Makoto to eliminate him. However, Nanami sees through Kiriya's illusion, and Miz kills her.

Nahato
A young Phantom Tribe boy, Nahato is a loyal retainer of Galus, willing to put his life on the line if it means his lord's plans will come to fruition. Despite his young age, he's highly intelligent, and he typically shows up at just the right time to make things more difficult for Makoto and the others. He closely assists Galus in the project to use Fatora as their key to the Eye of God. Nahato sabotages the Eye, under Galus' orders, causing it to go out of control and threaten El-Hazard when Princesses Rune Venus and Fatora use it to destroy the Bugrom. He is last seen holding a dying Galus before vanishing with his illusion power. His whereabouts after the first OVA series, and those of any other surviving Phantom Tribe members, is unknown.

The Bugrom
The Bugrom tribe is a race of largely human-sized or above human-sized insectoid creatures. Though their origin is unclear, it is likely they represent part of the indigenous fauna of El Hazard, being a dominant species prior to human colonization in the far past. They exist in several different varieties and are much stronger than an average human. Only Fujisawa is capable of defeating them in hand-to-hand combat with his super strength. Although typically rather unintelligent and disorganized, Jinnai rallies them into an effective army, and with the help of Ifurita, they come extremely close to conquering El-Hazard before they are almost completely wiped out when Princesses Rune Venus and Fatora activate the Eye of God. In the rest of the OVA continuity (EL Hazard: The Magnificent World 2 and El Hazard: The Alternative World), they are thus focused on creating a new hive in order to repopulate and eventually launch a retaliatory attack. In The Wanderers, Jinnai and the Bugrom forces are the primary antagonists rather than the Phantom Tribe.

The 'primary' Bugrom come in six different types, most of which are taller than humans. Additionally, there also exists Queen Diva (who looks almost entirely humanoid, which may be due to her position as a "Royal Caste" Bugrom), a very small fly-like Bugrom that apparently serves as a courier, and two creatures that might be Bugrom or merely trained insects. The first of these is a giant, scarab-like beetle that it is used as a flying transport, while the second is a scorpion-like creature that Jinnai presses into use as a living catapult, though whether this was its original function is unknown.

Jinnai assembles a group consisting of one Bugrom of each of the six main types as his main squad. In the English-language version, he names them Groucho, Harpo, Zeppo, Gummo, Chico, and Margaret, as a homage to the Marx Brothers and their foil Margaret Dumont. These are the only Bugrom besides Diva to survive the Eye of God being fired, and are thus responsible for helping Jinnai and Diva to create a new Bugrom Hive.

 * The first type is possibly the 'default' Bugrom, and resembles a four-legged centauroid beetle with a domed, helmet-like head. This Bugrom is predominantly purple in color, except for its chest, which is red. This is the type of Bugrom that Jinnai names "Katsuho" ("Groucho" in the dub), and is his primary follower amongst the squad.
 * The second type is slightly leaner and taller than the first and is orange and black in color, somewhat reminiscent of a bombardier beetle. This Bugrom has a somewhat narrow and elongated head, fitting its general body structure. Jinnai's name for this type of Bugrom is "Masuo" ("Harpo").
 * The third type of Bugrom is the shortest type, barely being Jinnai's height, and has a "hunchbacked" body structure with red and blue coloring. This is the Bugrom Jinnai names "Namihei" ("Zeppo").
 * The fourth type of Bugrom looks extremely human, even having a face that resembles a human mask, though this lies beneath a toadstool-like "cap" of shell. Colored yellow and greenish-blue, Jinnai calls this Bugrom "Ikura" ("Gummo").
 * The fifth type of Bugrom is the tallest and looks much like the first, though its squat head is mantis-like and it has a "crest" of shell on its shoulders that looks like a formal collar. This orange and blue Bugrom is called "Tarao" ("Chico") by Jinnai.
 * The sixth and final type is almost as human-looking as the fourth, though its abdomen is smaller (looking more like coat tails) and it has a mantis-like head and a cobra-like "hood" of shell. Jinnai names this green and red Bugrom "Norisuke" ("Margaret").

Enoki Films had planned to give Bugrom the dub name "Insectrons" in its license.

Queen Diva
Queen Diva (ディーバ Dība; spelled "Dheeva" in the Etranger Tour Guide) is the ruler of the Bugrom. With the exception of a few features, she has the external appearance of a beautiful woman and is the only fully humanoid member of the tribe, though this may possibly be an illusion, as with the case of the ruler of the Insects in the Alternate World of Creteria. When Katsuhiko arrives in El-Hazard and is brought before her by some of her soldiers, she becomes convinced that he is actually a messenger sent by God destined to lead the Bugrom to victory over their enemies in the Alliance. Impressed by Katsuhiko's ability to mobilize the troops and conquer nations with ease, she also becomes romantically interested in him. When the Bugrom homeland is annihilated by the Eye of God, she manages to avoid the attack with Jinnai's personal squad by traveling to deliver supplies to Katsuhiko on the frontline.

At the start of the Alternate World series, she is urged by Jinnai to produce eggs for the new colony they are constructing, due to the Bugrom having been decimated by the Eye of God — Even though more survivors have found their way to the new colony, their numbers are still insufficient. However, much to Jinnai's horror, she needs to have a mate in order to give birth to a new generation, and Jinnai is the only male available at the time (at least, that is what she claims). Jinnai's attempt to escape her is why he and his squad are transported to Cretaria. Once they return, however, Jinnai is dragged into Diva's amorous embrace.

Diva in The Wanderers

Diva is very much a background character in the OVA, and she doesn't have much more to do in The Wanderers, either. However, the relationship between her, Jinnai, and the bubble-headed Ifurita does take on a rather comedic family dynamic. Also, The Wanderers is the only El-Hazard series in which Diva encounters a human character without a special power to understand the Bugrom language.

Enoki Films had planned to give Diva the dub name "Deeva" in its license.

Characters from The Alternative World
These characters are exclusive to the OVA series' TV spinoff The Alternative World, and do not appear in The Wanderers.

Qawool Towles
Qawool Towles (クァウール・タウラス Kwaūru Taurasu) is a young 17-year-old priestess and the youngest priestess of Mount Muldoon ever. She was the top student of her class and took the place of Miz Mishtal after the former priestess of water married Fujisawa. Qawool's servant is Alielle's twin brother, Parnasse. Qawool is also very afraid of insects, which causes her to destroy whatever is around her. Like Alielle, Qawool addresses Makoto Mizuhara as master, because he saved her life and she is also in love with him. At first unsure of her role as a Priestess, her adventure in Creteria helps her gain confidence, and she gradually grows into her responsibility.

As a minor note, when The Alternative World was released in North America through Pioneer Animation (or Geneon, as it is now called), her name was written as "Qawool" and "Qawoor" on the packaging (the spelling used depended on the volume.) Ostensibly, this was done to make her name sound more native to El-Hazard, since "Qawool" can be hard for English speakers to distinguish from "Kaoru," a very common name in Japan. It may also be an attempt to represent the "ku-sub-a" phoneme that begins her name.

Parnasse Ralielle
Parnasse is Alielle's younger brother, who possesses looks and temperaments akin with his sister. Arriving at the Roshtaria palace as Qawool Towles' attendant, he develops a swift crush on Princess Fatora after she accidentally molests him in his sleep because she had mistaken him for Alielle.

Arjah
Arjah, the prime antagonist of The Alternative World, is a mysterious multi-dimensional being and self-proclaimed "ruler of the universe" who is trapped within the Spring of Life (Creteria's equivalent of El Hazard's Eye of God, and also a dimensional portal). His background story is unknown, but apparently he was incarcerated during the last time the Spring was deployed. However, Arjah was still able to reach out beyond his prison and into other worlds, and at an opportune moment activates a dimensional transport device which draws the series' protagonists from El Hazard into Creteria. He tricks Makoto and Gilda into activating the Spring, thereby giving him the chance to escape; but the Muldoon Priestesses manage to renew the seal, causing him to be obliterated.

Dall Narciss
Dall Narciss III is the vain, despotic emperor of the realm of Creteria in another world. In his younger years, when he was engaged to Gilda, he accidentally opened the Spring of Life and witnessed a vision of the time the Spring destroyed Creteria's previous civilisation. Because his bride Gilda had - like him - the genetic prerequisite to undo the Spring's safety seals, he cancelled their engagement to prevent it from ever being used again. After Arjah tricks Gilda and Makoto into releasing the seals, he is critically wounded by Gilda after Arjah possesses her body. However, as the main protagonists return to El Hazard after resealing the Spring, a vision is shown which depicts Narciss having made a full recovery and living a peaceful, simpler life with Gilda and their daughter.

Gilda
Gilda is Dall Narciss' aide de camp, and a princess from another country who was originally set to marry Narciss since her childhood. However, after Narciss became tempted to open the Spring of Life and afterwards rejected her for unexplained reasons, she became harsh and bitter over the loss of her love. After she sees him apparently losing his heart to Qawool Towles and Creteria falling into ruin, she initiates a coup d'etat to seize the secrets of the Spring of Life and save the country. However, with this action she plays right into Arjah's hands, who possesses and uses her to activate the Spring once more. After Arjah leaves her, she aids Makoto in rectifying her mistake. In a final vision seen by the main protagonists as they return to El Hazard, she is seen happily married to Narciss and having a daughter.

Chabil
Chabil is a farmer who is first introduced in episode 4. After discovering Afura Mann and the newly-weds Fujisawa and Miz Mishtal on his land, he welcomes them into his home. They are surprised to find Princess Rune Venus is already there, wearing clothing fitting for a farmer's wife. The group is surprised to find her acting in wifely ways, particularly cooking; Miz gets a bit jealous that Chabil treats Rune in a more romantic manner than Fujisawa treats her.

Chabil and Rune develop romantic feelings for each other, seemingly quickly. Within episode 4, the two admit their fondness for one another while enjoying a sunset by the edge of a lake, but Rune points out that she has responsibilities she must attend and therefore cannot stay with him.

Termite Queen
The Termite Queen is the ruler of a tribe of giant, intelligent subterranean termites who pass as the Creterian equivalent of El Hazard's Bugroms. She is an insectoid, but has the ability to assume the shape of an attractive female who shares a great likeness with Diva. Unlike the latter, however, she welcomes guests in her realm either as a food source (if male) or to nourish her young (if female); her would-be victims Jinnai and Shayla-Shayla, however, timely manage to escape her clutches.

title: List of El-Hazard characters


text:
Reeves Gabrels

Reeves Gabrels (born June 4, 1956) is an American guitarist, songwriter and producer. Currently a member of The Cure since 2012, Gabrels is also known for his work with David Bowie and Tin Machine from 1987 to 1999. He also fronts the band Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends, which is based in Nashville.

As a guitarist, Gabrels is recognized for his virtuosity and versatility, and been praised for his ability to "explore sonic extremes with a great, adaptive intuition for what each song needs most." He has been characterized as "one of the most daring rock-guitar improvisers since Jimi Hendrix".

Early life and education
Reeves Gabrels was born in Staten Island, New York on June 4, 1956. His mother Claire was a typist, and his father Carl was a part-time jazz musician and worked as a deckhand on tugboats in New York Harbor. Gabrels started playing guitar at age 13, and the following year his father arranged for lessons with his friend Turk Van Lake. Van Lake was a professional musician who had played with Benny Goodman and others.

After high school, Gabrels attended the Parsons School of Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York. He took lessons from jazz guitarist John Scofield. Gabrels then moved to Boston to attend the Berklee School of Music, though he did not graduate.

Career
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Gabrels was a member of bands including The Dark, Life on Earth, The Atom Said, Rubber Rodeo, The Bentmen, Deaf School, Too Happy, and Modern Farmer. His first professional recording was in 1983 with the Christopher Jones Band. Modern Farmer, which also included David Hull, released an album in 1994.

David Bowie and Tin Machine
Gabrels first met David Bowie in 1987 during a Bowie tour for which Gabrels' then-wife worked as a publicist. Gabrels's first project with Bowie was a re-imagining and rearrangement of the song "Look Back in Anger" for live performances combining dance, music, and video as part of a benefit for London's Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1988. Bowie expressed appreciation for Gabrels's guitar work for the project.

Later in 1988, Gabrels and Bowie formed the hard rock band Tin Machine with Hunt Sales and Tony Sales, and the band released two albums before disbanding in 1992. Gabrels continued to work with Bowie until 1999, co-writing and co-producing material on the albums Outside (1995), Earthling (1997), and Hours (1999). "Dead Man Walking," a Bowie/Gabrels song from Earthling, was nominated for a Grammy award. Gabrels and Bowie also created the soundtrack for the computer game Omikron: The Nomad Soul in 1999. Gabrels parted ways with Bowie in late 1999, and his last performance with Bowie was for VH1 Storytellers.

From 1989 through his departure in 1999, Gabrels was the guitarist on four concert tours with Bowie: the Tin Machine Tour of 1989, the It's My Life Tour (1991-92), the Outside Tour (1995–96) and the Earthling Tour (1997).

The Cure
Gabrels first met Robert Smith of The Cure during rehearsals for Bowie's 50th Birthday Concert on January 9, 1997 at Madison Square Garden. Bowie had invited Smith to sing at this event, for which Gabrels served as musical director. Reeves then made a guest appearance on the 1997 Cure single "Wrong Number" and appeared with the band several times during their 1997 tour. Gabrels, Smith, and Cure drummer Jason Cooper then formed the side project COGASM in 1998 to record the song "Sign From God" for Orgazmo, a film directed by Trey Parker. Gabrels and Smith co-wrote the song "Yesterday's Gone", with Smith on vocals, for Gabrels's 1999 album Ulysses (Della Notte).

Smith and Gabrels stayed in touch, and in 2012 Gabrels was invited to play as a guest during several Cure concerts. Gabrels then became an official member of the Cure and has performed with them ever since, though the band has not released any studio albums since he joined. Gabrels was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2019 as a member of the Cure, having initially been left off the list of nine current and former members.

Solo career
Gabrels has released six solo albums on which he served as singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter, starting with The Sacred Squall of Now in 1995. During this period he also contributed to several movie and video game soundtracks.

His 1999 album Ulysses (Della Notte) was nominated for a Yahoo! Internet Award in 1999 as a then-pathbreaking Internet-only release, before becoming available the following year on CD. His 2005 album Rockonica was widely praised for its experimentation. For example, Guitar Player's Andy Ellis wrote: "Gabrels walks the line between song structure and wiggy sonics like no one else. [...] But bubbling and roiling under and around this foundation are layers of eerie, broken sounds and oddball textures. And Gabrels isn't shy about juxtaposing genres."

His fifth and sixth albums were released under the name Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends, featuring collaborators from the music scene in Nashville, Tennessee whom Reeves first assembled in 2007. Their self-titled 2015 album received a favorable review from Vintage Guitar, and their 2017 live album was named as one of the best releases of the year by the guitar aficionado publications Guitar Moderne and Premier Guitar. Gabrels continues to tour with this ensemble during breaks in his work with the Cure.

Collaborations
Gabrels is an in-demand session and touring musician, starting in 1993 with Paul Rodgers, and later with artists such as Jeffrey Gaines and Los Duran. He was briefly a member of the European heavy metal supergroup X-World/5.

After moving to Nashville, Tennessee in 2006, Gabrels often collaborates informally with local musicians for live performances in small venues. These impromptu collaborations led to some studio albums, such as The Magnificent Others and Sonic Mining Company. During this period Gabrels began collaborating periodically with the Boston-based improvisational and instrumental group Club d'Elf, appearing on their album Now I Understand in 2006. Gabrels still collaborates with this group periodically, and has credited their experimental and improvisational techniques for improving his live performances with the Cure.

Gabrels also frequently serves as a guest musician for artists in a variety of genres, such as gODHEAD, The Mission, Deaf School, Sandie Shaw, The Rolling Stones, and Ozzy Osbourne. He released the experimental guitar duo album Fantastic Guitars with Bill Nelson in 2014. In 2022 he played guitar on the album The Long Morrow by Big Scenic Nowhere.

Instruments
Gabrels has used many different guitars throughout his career, selecting instruments to suit the music. He has favored Steinberger guitars, the Parker Fly, and Fernandes Guitars; but also plays Gibson and Fender guitars. He has often chosen lesser-known makers, explaining in interviews that he prefers a guitar without a set history and with which he is free to create sounds from his own imagination.

In 2008, Gabrels began playing guitars designed by Reverend Musical Instruments. Gabrels and Reverend have since developed a series of Reverend Reeves Gabrels signature model guitars. The first featured at the 2010 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California, and several updated designs have been developed in the years since.

Personal life
Gabrels's first wife Sara Terry was a press agent for the Glass Spider Tour in 1987, and Gabrels first collaborated with David Bowie via this connection. Gabrels married Susan Van Wie Kastan in 2018, and they currently reside in Troy, New York. Susan serves as business manager for Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends.

Partial discography
Tin Machine
 * Tin Machine (1989)
 * Tin Machine II (1991)
 * Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby (1992)

David Bowie
 * Black Tie White Noise (1993)
 * Outside (1995)
 * Earthling (1997)
 * Earthling in the City (1997)
 * Hours (1999)
 * The Nomad Soul (1999)
 * LiveAndWell.com (1999)
 * VH1 Storytellers (recorded and broadcast 1999; released on CD and DVD in 2009)

Solo
 * The Sacred Squall of Now (1995)
 * Ulysses (Della Notte) (1999)
 * live...late...loud (2003)
 * Rockonica (2005)
 * Reeves Gabrels and His Imaginary Friends (2015)
 * Imaginary Friends Live (2017)

Collaborations
 * Too Happy (1988) by Too Happy
 * Hard Row to Hoe (1994) by Modern Farmer
 * Night In Amnesia (1995) with David Tronzo
 * Sonicnauts (2006) by Protecto
 * Personal Nuclear Assault (2007) by Doom Dogs
 * The Magnificent Others (2011) by The Magnificent Others
 * Sonic Mining Company (2012) by Sonic Mining Company
 * Fantastic Guitars (2014) with Bill Nelson

The Cure
 * "Wrong Number" on Galore (1997)

Other Guest Performances/Song Collaborations
 * Carved in Sand (1990) by The Mission, features additional guitar by Reeves Gabrels on "Into the Blue" and "Hungry as the Hunter"
 * Emotional Rain (1994) by Lee Aaron, features guitars by Reeves Gabrels & Knox Chandler on all but two tracks
 * Cortlandt (1996) by Sean Malone, features guitars by Reeves Gabrels on "At Taliesin"
 * Left of the Middle (1997) by Natalie Imbruglia, features guitars by Reeves Gabrels on "Don't You Think"
 * Metropolis (1997) by Sister Machine Gun, features guitar performances by Reeves Gabrels
 * He Got Game (soundtrack) (1998), features guitar by Reeves Gabrels on "Go Cat Go" by Public Enemy
 * Live 3/28/02 Athens GA (2003) by Club d'Elf
 * Now I Understand (2006) by Club d'Elf
 * Emperors of Medieval Japan (2015) by Lisa Ronson, features guitar by Reeves Gabrels as a guest on "Shopping and F*cking" and "Get To You"
 * Fist Full of Devils (2021) by Earl Slick, features guitar by Reeves Gabrels on "Emerald"
 * The Long Morrow (2022) by Big Scenic Nowhere, features guitars by Reeves Gabrels on the title track

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Reeves Gabrels


text: User talk:Violetriga/header

title: User talk:Violetriga/header


text:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Web Your Business Inc.

 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. Joyous 02:59, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)

Web Your Business Inc.
Self-promotion for seemingly average web design firm, one of User:Webyourbusiness's four contributions (another one of which is self-promotion for NOD32USA, which sells software for Web Your Business; and another adding a link to yet another Web Your Business website to the external links of Loveland, Colorado). Seems like a pretty clear violation of "Please do not create an article to promote yourself, a website, a product, or a business (see What Wikipedia is not)." on the 'create an article' page. Niteowlneils 23:43, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unencyclopedic. Carrp | Talk 23:44, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Looks like a self-promo. --Sillydragon 23:45, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak delete for vanity/advertising. Lots of Google hits though for the title of this article (9k+).  Maybe worth a keep if somebody can clean it up soon, possibly add a portfolio to the article. --Idont Havaname 02:22, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * FWIW all the sites listed at http://www.webyourbusiness.com/v6/portfolio.shtml are small, local Fort Collins-area businesses, , , , , , and . WYB seems to try to adhere to wc3 standards, doesn't use Flash, creates nice, straight-forward sites, seems to provide a valuable service for local businesses, and "yeah small business", but being a noble concern is different from being a notable concern. Niteowlneils 06:17, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Just self-promotion. Zzyzx11 02:27, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Self-promo. Trilobite (Talk) 10:26, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete ad. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 14:29, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Vanity / self promo -- Longhair 14:54, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


text:
Category:IND Culver Line stations

Stations on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway, originally operated by the Independent Subway System. The IND acquired rights to operate the BMT Culver Line stations between Ditmas Avenue and Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue in 1954; these stations also appear in Category:BMT Culver Line stations.

title: Category:IND Culver Line stations


text:
Category:BMT Sea Beach Line stations

Stations on the BMT Sea Beach Line of the New York City Subway.

title: Category:BMT Sea Beach Line stations


text:
Category:BMT West End Line stations

Stations on the BMT West End Line of the New York City Subway.

title: Category:BMT West End Line stations


text:
Siuslaw River Bridge

The Siuslaw River Bridge is a bascule bridge that spans the Siuslaw River on U.S. Route 101 in Florence, Oregon. It was designed by Conde McCullough, built by the Mercer-Fraser Company of Eureka, California, and funded by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (later renamed the Public Works Administration). It opened in 1936.

The bridge's total length is 1568 ft. When open, the 140 ft double-leaf bascule provides 110 ft of horizontal clearance for boat traffic. The bascule section is flanked by two 154 ft reinforced concrete tied arches, identical to those used in the original Alsea Bay Bridge. Four Art Deco-style obelisks house mechanical equipment as well as living quarters for the bridge operator. The total cost of the bridge was $527,000 (equivalent to $ million in ).

The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 5, 2005.

title: Siuslaw River Bridge


text:
Fresno Raisin Eaters

The Fresno Raisin Eaters were a minor league baseball team which played in the Pacific Coast League in 1906. The Sacramento Solons, a charter member of the PCL which began play in 1903, moved to Tacoma in 1904, where the team won the PCL pennant playing as the Tacoma Tigers. The team returned to Sacramento during the 1905 season, then moved to Fresno for the 1906 season.

A crowd of 2,500 (considered large by the standards of the day) greeted the Raisin Eaters for their home opener against the Portland Beavers, which Portland won, 1-0. That was the high-water mark of the season, as fan support eroded as a result of the team's poor play.

The Raisin Eaters finished dead last in the six-team league, with a record of 64-117 (.353). The one-year wonders dropped out of the PCL after that year, returned to Sacramento, and re-entered the League in 1909 as the Sacramento Solons once more.

Although Fresno would field teams in the California State League and the California League in subsequent years (most notably the Fresno Cardinals) and the Fresno Giants, the Pacific Coast League would not return to Fresno for another 92 years, when the Fresno Grizzlies were admitted to the league in 1998.

During the 2006 season, the Grizzlies honored the 100th anniversary of their short-lived PCL predecessors in Fresno by wearing Raisin Eaters jerseys on the field during each Wednesday home game.

title: Fresno Raisin Eaters


text:
Wentworth Club

Wentworth Club is a privately owned golf club and country club in Virginia Water, Surrey, on the south western fringes of London, not far from Windsor Castle. The club was founded in 1922. Beijing-based Reignwood Group bought the club in September 2014 and implemented a new debenture membership structure, starting at £100,000. The debenture is now estimated at £200,000.

Wentworth is home to the headquarters of the PGA European Tour, the professional golf tour. Each year, it hosts the Tour's PGA Championship, which is played on the club's West Course. Wentworth was the venue of the 1953 Ryder Cup and of the World Match Play Championship from 1964 until 2007.

History
A 19th-century house named the "Wentworths" (now the clubhouse for the Wentworth Club) was the residence of the brother-in-law of the 1st Duke of Wellington. It was purchased in 1850 by an exiled Spanish Carlist military commander, Ramón Cabrera, 1st Count of Morella (Carlist title) and 1st Marquis of Ter (Bourbon title), and his heiress wife.

After the death of Cabrera in 1877, his widow (née Catherine Anne Vaughn-Richards) bought up the surrounding lands under The Cabrera Trust to safeguard the meadows, brooks and trees (planted from her travels on the continent with her gentrified husband) to form what has become the heart of the Wentworth Estate.

In 1912, builder W. G. Tarrant had started developing St George's Hill in Weybridge – a development of houses based on minimum 1 acre plots around a golf course. In 1922, Tarrant acquired the development rights for the Wentworth Estate, getting Harry Colt to design a golf course around the "Wentworths" house. Tarrant erected large residences on the estate using a similar Surrey formula to that used at St George's Hill. However, the development of the Wentworth Estate ground to a halt due to the Great Depression at the end of the 1920s. In 1931, when the banks asked for repayment of a large debenture, Tarrant was forced to declare bankruptcy. Ownership of the land passed to Wentworth Estates Ltd, which came under the control of Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Company.

In 1988, Elliott Bernerd's property investment company Chelsfield bought Wentworth Golf Club for £17.7 million (also reported as £20 million). Bernerd sold 40% of the club to Japanese investors, raising £32 million, in 1989. In 2004, Chelsfield sold the remaining 60% share, as fashion industry entrepreneur Richard Caring bought the club for £130 million. In 2014 Caring sold the club for £135m to Beijing-based Reignwood Investments (a holding company associated with billionaire Yan Bin), which has made the club more exclusive by cutting the number of members and raising the fees. Current debentures cost £175,000 and the annual fees is £16,000.

Today
Wentworth Club is best known for its associations with professional golf. It has three eighteen-hole courses: the famous Harry Colt-designed West Course from 1926, the earlier yet lesser-played East Course, which was also designed by Colt in 1924, the recent Edinburgh Course designed by John Jacobs, and a nine-hole par-3 executive course.

The headquarters of the PGA European Tour is located at the club, and each year it hosts the Tour's PGA Championship. It was the venue of the 1953 Ryder Cup and of the World Match Play Championship from 1964 until 2007.

The club is surrounded by and entwined with the Wentworth Estate, one of the most expensive private estates in the London suburbs, which was built simultaneously, where many top golfers and other celebrities have homes. One of them is Ernie Els, who became the club's "world-wide touring professional" in 2005. Over the winter of 2005-06 Els, who was developing a golf course design practice, made alterations to the West Course, lengthening it by 310 yd and adding 30 bunkers.

Wentworth also has a tennis and health club. The Wentworth Tennis and Health Club comprises a gymnasium, dance studio, health spa, ozone swimming pool and Jacuzzi, crèche facilities, changing rooms, and a café. The extensive facility was completed in 1999 for £9 million by architects Broadway Malyan.

West Course
West Course Scorecard
 * Opened: 1926
 * Architect: Harry Colt (redesigned from 2005 to 2017 by Ernie Els)
 * Par: 72
 * Length: 7284 yd
 * Course Record: 62, Robert Karlsson, Thomas Bjørn, Alex Norén
 * Key tournaments: HSBC World Match Play Championship, 1964 – 2007: BMW PGA Championship, 1984 – present: Ryder Cup, 1953: World Cup 1956

East Course
East Course Scorecard
 * Opened: 1924
 * Architect: Harry Colt
 * Par: 68
 * Length: 6201 yd
 * Course Record: 62, Doug N Sewell
 * Key tournaments: inaugural Curtis Cup, 1932; friendly match between US and GB&I (forerunner to Ryder Cup) 1926.

Edinburgh Course
Edinburgh Course Scorecard
 * Opened: 1990
 * Architect: John Jacobs (with Gary Player and Bernard Gallacher)
 * Par: 72
 * Length: 7004 yd
 * Course Record: 67, Gary Orr
 * Tournaments held: Wentworth Senior Masters

Executive Course (9 Holes)

 * Par: 27
 * Length: 1902 yd

title: Wentworth Club


text:
Cascar

Cascar may refer to:
 * CASCAR, the Canadian Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
 * Kashgar, an oasis city in Xinjiang, China

title: Cascar


text:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NOD32USA

 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. Joyous 02:57, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)

NOD32USA
Self-promotion for seemingly non-notable software firm (156 hits) which sells software for Web Your Business Inc., from User:Webyourbusiness. Seems like a pretty clear violation of "Please do not create an article to promote yourself, a website, a product, or a business (see What Wikipedia is not)."Niteowlneils 23:47, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Clearly self-promotion. Zzyzx11 02:25, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Concur. Alba 02:27, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yep. Trilobite (Talk) 10:27, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete agreed. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 14:32, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Longhair 12:28, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


text:
Talk:Diemaco

Apparently, Diemaco has been bought by Colt Defence. Another company is losing its Canadian owned and operated status... However, this purchase might help Diemaco fiancially as its previous owner, Héroux-Devtek Inc (an aerospace company), seemed to have been losing money.

Sources:

http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/050210/e_herouxdevtek_result_1.html http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,26637.0.html http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,26639.0.html

Feb. 16 2005

Move Page to Colt Canada
Since being bought, Diemaco has become Colt Canada. --MCG|(talk) 30 Aug 06

 *

title: Talk:Diemaco


text:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bob Simcock

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. —Korath (Talk) 03:49, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Bob Simcock
Bob Simcock is a former New Zealand politician and garners about 741 hits on google. Is there a "bar" to determine notability for inclusion of politicians on Wikipedia, or are they all inherently noteworthy? GRider\talk 23:48, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * They're all inherently notable. Keep. --Centauri 01:20, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong disagree on the above. There are far too many politicians in this world for them all to be notable. This one is marginally notable, imho, since he's part of a nation government rather than a local council. Radiant! 21:22, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong disagree on the above. The number of politicians in the world is irrelevant to this or any other discussion on "notability". --Centauri 00:24, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The way I see it, is that a category of people (such as actors or politicians or whatever) is probably notable as a group, but the people in there aren't notable as individuals. Within the group, there are usually certain people that stand out as the leaders, or the famous ones, or the misfits. Those are notable within their group and should be included in WP. Few individuals are notable simply because they are part of a group, and the larger the group, the less likely that is. In other words, the more politicians there are, the less the likelyhood that they all are notable simply by virtue of being a politician. Radiant! 09:19, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * All politicians are certainly not notable. This guy appears to have been a member of the Parliament of New Zealand, making him as notable as any member of the US House of Representatives, I suppose, so a marginal keep from me. -R. fiend 07:38, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. He held elected office at a national level. I've come across articles on plenty of such people who would have to be deleted if this one was. Trilobite (Talk) 10:28, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Held elected office at national level of a reasonably sized country. I believe New Zealand held these elections under some form of proportional representation, but a quick google for the lists suggests he was somewhere in the middle of the party lists of MPs, so clearly not their least valued MP. Equivalent to about 9000 votes (according to, and if having a readership of 5000 qualifies an author, having 9000 votes in an election must do it. Average Earthman 14:16, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - David Gerard 23:16, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


text:
Talk:Eli Hagen

VfD
This article was listed for deletion on February 7 2005, the consensus was to keep. see Votes for deletion/Eli Hagen. Rje 23:49, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

title: Talk:Eli Hagen


text:
Padroso

Padroso may refer to the following places in Portugal:

 * Padroso (Arcos de Valdevez), a parish in the municipality of Arcos de Valdevez
 * Padroso (Montalegre), a parish in the municipality of Montalegre

title: Padroso


text:
Yin Zizhong

Yin Zizhong (1909 – May 10, 1985), also transliterated as Che Chung Wan, Wan-Chi Chung, Zheng Zhisheng, was a popular Chinese musician during the New Culture Movement of the 1910s and 1920s in China.

Career
He was raised in China's Guangdong province and was affected by Western Church Music from an early age – Yin began performing at age 11, and went abroad to study in Lyons and Paris. At age 20, he was invited to New Zealand to play; he also played in London, England. He returned to China in the 1930s and introduced Western Music to China as the first Chinese conductor of a Chinese orchestra, when he became employed by Chongqing Symphonic Orchestra. At this Orchestra; where previously performances were given of Beethoven and Mozart, attendance, organization and management was exclusive to and solely performed by the expatriate community in China, since as far back as the 1850s. A Russian orchestra was in operation in nearby Harbin from the early 20th century.

During his employment as a conductor at the Chongqing Symphonic Orchestra, Yin has been credited as a major contributor to the creation of a "Guangdong" style of playing the violin in Chinese opera, a method still used today. Some of the works he is known for are "Magnolia Pearl", "Huazhou Hero", and "Overturned the Child".

From the 1930s to 1960s, he was a composer for Hong Kong cinema. He was also an actor for the films "Wealth Is Like a Dream "(1948), "Bitter Sweet" (1936), and "A Blooming Rose" (1935). The revolutionary spirit of Yin's style has been continued by the first generation of composers immediately following the accession of the Chinese Communist Party to power, namely Li Delun and Cao Peng. During this time he was regarded as one of the most popular performers of this age. In 1952, he stopped working in cinema in Hong Kong, and in 1957 he emigrated to San Francisco and taught music there for eight years. Later, he was invited to Boston to teach in the Chinese Music Society. When he arrived in San Francisco in 1963, he received the key to San Francisco from the mayor at the time (George Christopher).

He died on May 10, 1985, in Boston and is currently buried in Forest Hills Cemetery.

title: Yin Zizhong


text:
File:Pranksta Rap.jpg

Summary
Promo card for "Pranksta Rap".

Fair use for Pranksta Rap
This image is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
 * 1) This image illustrates the text next to which it appears, which describes the scene portrayed.
 * 2) It is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality).
 * 3) It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the work in any way.
 * 4) The image is being used in an informative way and should not detract from the original work.
 * 5) No free or public domain images have been located for this item.

The Simpsons is Copyright Fox

title: File:Pranksta Rap.jpg


text:
Talk:Boeing C-108 Flying Fortress

This article received the inaugural WikiWings award in January 2005 --Rlandmann 23:51, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

number?
I'm just curious why someone linked to the article on the number 108? That seems irrelevant to the aircraft.--Coryma "Go brain go." 21:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 one external links on Boeing C-108 Flying Fortress. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20050127025241/http://www.wpafb.af.mil:80/museum/air_power/ap16.htm to http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/air_power/ap16.htm
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20050127025241/http://www.wpafb.af.mil:80/museum/air_power/ap16.htm to http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/air_power/ap16.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 08:28, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 4 external links on Boeing C-108 Flying Fortress. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100129050103/http://home.att.net/~jbaugher2/b17.html to http://home.att.net/~jbaugher2/b17.html
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/air_power/ap16.htm
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100129050103/http://home.att.net/~jbaugher2/b17.html to http://home.att.net/~jbaugher2/b17.html
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/air_power/ap16.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 22:10, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

title: Talk:Boeing C-108 Flying Fortress


text:
Talk:Béla Kun

Untitled
What is known about Kun's fate following his trial? Was he executed, or did he die in a gulag? Everyking 23:51, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Glad to see that was addressed! Having something so quickly addressed like that doesn't happen often enough around here! Everyking 19:38, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Biography
What *was* his surname before 1906? It's not addressed prior to that statement. Tetigit 09:12, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
 * His father was a lapsed Jew, and his mother a lapsed Protestant. His father was the village notary. Béla Magyarized his surname to Kun in 1906.

i have a problem with that

 * Afterwards, the Romanians looted Budapest before leaving in November. - please provide evidence for this piece of info. like : is this a "common hungarian interpretation" or was it stated by a Court, like, did Hungary asked compensation for this looting or a declaration, something -- Criztu 13:28, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

did Hungary of Bela Kun attacked ROmania in 1919 or what ?

 * To buy time, Kun tried to negotiate with the Allies, meeting the South African Prime Minister, General Jan Smuts at a summit in Budapest in April. Agreement proved impossible and Hungary was soon at war later in April with Kingdom of Romania and Czechoslovakia, who were aided by France.

i read that Hungary started the war with Romania in april 1919. Altho the current formulation is ok, it leaves the reader with no clue about whom started the war. -- Criztu 10:12, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Jew-spotting
From everything stated in the article, Béla Kun was neither religious (all the contrary), nor a Zionist or otherwise Jewish identified, nor brought up in a Jewish environment, nor was his mother Jewish. Also, even if he had been Jewish by any definition, this would be completely irrelevant except for the same kind of antisemites who attacked him. There's no point in stating someone's ethnic ancestry in such a prominent place as is the introductory sentence of an article. This reeks of Jew-spotting. I removed the word "Jew" as well as his alleged name of birth (Aaron Cohen) which doesn't even match the name given in the first paragraph, Béla Kohn. The word "Jew" was added by the openly racist (Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/List_of_White_supremacists diff) ex-user Exil2.--84.188.180.40 17:08, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

No, it is critical to note that he was at least recognized as being an ethnic Jew because such information was critical in shaping the mindset of conservatives, Fascists, nationalists, and the Arrow Cross in linking socialist revolt with the Jewish minority. Even the supposedly tolerant Horthy noticed this connection and saw it in Cohen (Kun). Doesn't matter whether he was religious; most cosmopolitan Jews weren't, but they were still ethnic Jews in the eyes of most. And nobody failed to notice this. See the writings of Cecile Tormay as well if you like. - unsigned

Well, I think it's quite important, because it clearly had an effect on his contemporaries. Not to mention you can bring up "reverse Jew-spotting", which is also quite prominent; many famous people who did not identified themselves as Jewish, and were not religious, also are identified as such. I think it's a bit silly to complain about either. It's part of their background, just as well as I would be identified as Catholic, even though I'm an atheist if I ever get my wikipedia page :D —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.14.68.76 (talk) 20:22, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

I find it really hilarious and quite sad how desperate you people are to conceal the truth about the USSR and it's underlings.

the guy was Jewish, that is a relevant fact about his life because as a Jew he was a minority ruling the majority.

--99.231.215.49 (talk) 05:37, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

NPOV
I think this article is far from npov, ground informations are missing and full of with lies (see victims of 5000 of White terror). I think it will be neutralized soon. If I were more unpatient, I would edit in a POV template. Gubbubu 09:26, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Please give sources for your assertion that there were fewer than 1500 victims. You gave the name of a source for 5000. You don't have to agree with him, but the estimate is there. James James 09:29, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Please give sources there were more than 100. i don't know any serious sources would say that 1500 is a serious estimate. Please read this:

 * 1) Sajátos “számháború” bontakozik ki a tankönyvek lapjain arról, hogy tulajdonképpen hány áldozata is volt a fehérterrornak Magyarországon. Azt a tényt, hogy a zsidó és kommunista egyre ment a különítményes tisztek szemében, csak Hosszú írta le. Ő közli azt is, hogy 626 meggyilkolt áldozat esetét sikerült dokumentumokkal is bebizonyítani.32 Lator csak annyit ír, hogy “Napirenden voltak a gyilkosságok… Fölerősödött az antiszemitizmus.” De mivel ennek okairól egy szót sem szól, a tény megmagyarázása valószínűleg a tanárok feladata marad. Salamon Konrád 600 áldozatról tud, de nem említi, hogy Horthy különítményesei nemcsak antikommunisták, hanem fajvédő antiszemiták is voltak.33 Itt is megfigyelhető, hogy Salamon sokkal kritikusabb a baloldali, mint a jobboldali diktatúrákkal szemben.
 * 2) A Benkes–Borsányi–Kende és kollégáik által írott tankönyv 1500–2000 főre becsüli a fehérterror áldozatainak számát, szintén nem utalva arra, hogy köztük a zsidók “túlreprezentáltak” voltak, de pontos adatokat közölve a legálisan letartóztatott és elítélt emberekről is.34 Az amerikai holokauszt-szöveggyűjtemény Böhm Vilmos volt hadügyi népbiztost idézve 5000 főre teszi a meggyilkolt forradalmárok számát, mit sem törődve azzal, hogy a szakirodalom ezt a becslést már évtizedek óta túlzottnak tartja.35 Ormos Prónay Pál fehérkülönítményes parancsnok vélekedését idézi, aki szerint Horthy eleinte azért nem mert gátat vetni a zsidók elleni “büntetőexpedícióknak”, mert különben a “nemzeti oldalon álló” tábor elpártolt volna tőle.36 A kérdéskörrel kapcsolatos szakirodalom eddig nem hangsúlyozta, hogy Horthy Sir George Clerknek, a párizsi békekonferencia képviselőjének nyomására már 1919. november 1-jén határozott hangú nyilatkozatban ítélte el a zsidóüldözést, és vizsgálattal, haditörvényszékkel és a Nemzeti Hadseregből való kizárással fenyegette meg a bűnösöket, a tetteseket és az uszítókat is.37
 * 3) I must remark this source says that only 626 dead victims are proved with documents.40
 * 4) Gubbubu 12:57, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) My resource (Tóth Gy. - Kaslik) says that: "Az amerikai Dupuy Institute által fenntartott   OnWar.com   dokumentációs központ szerint  Kun Béla 133 napig tartó magyarországi uralma alatt  590 személyt végeztek ki,  közöttük 200 tanárt, illetve tanítót. Ez a szám természetesen nem tartalmazza Kun  Béla életútjának későbbi áldozatait." (The OnWar documentation centre held by the american Dupuy Institute says that 590 persons were executed during the 133 days-reign of Béla Kun - 200 teacher between them. this number certainly does not contains the later victims of Kun). Váry Albert in his book says also he can prove that after documents proven number of victims is at least 590. Gubbubu 17:12, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I thought I don't have time for this article. But I see revertion militarism here as in the Hungarian Soviet Republic article, so I will rewrite the whole article now, based on the hungarian article. This edit war you have started happened on the page Talk:Hungarian Soviet Republic and I proved there my side is right, I won't replay that discussion Gubbubu 11:24, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

My edits:

 * 1) I divided the section "Early career" to two undersections "Early ages" and "early career in the Worker's Movement", this was too long.
 * 2) I rewrote this paragraph, with a lot of plus infos: In March 1918, in Moscow, Kun co-founded the Hungarian Group of the Russian Communist Party (the predecessor to the Hungarian Communist Party). He travelled a lot, e.g. to Petrograd, or to Moscow. He came to know Lenin there, but inside the party he formed the ultra-radical left-wing political opposition of Lenin and the mainstream communists. Unlike Lenin's pragmatism Kun and his friends (like Terracini from Italy or Mátyás Rákosi from Hungary), aggregated around A. Sinovjev or K. B. Radek, thought and advertised the politics of  „revolutionary offensive by any means”. Lenin often called them as „kunerists”.
 * 3) I also completed this paragraph:  During the Russian Civil War in 1918, he fought for the Bolsheviks. During this time, Kun first started to make detailed plans for exporting Communism to Hungary, though characteristically he paid no thought as to what he would do if he took power. In November 1918, Kun, with at least several hundred other Hungarian Communists, and with a lot of money given by the soviet communists; returned to Hungary. (it is so understood that the soviet communists given Kun an extra mass of money to getting up in hungary).
 * 4) I deleted this paragraph: Kun, a good speaker, gave fifteen to twenty speeches every day, and the rest of the Communists were supposed to match his example. In addition, Kun founded an newspaper called Vörös Újság (Red News) and wrote countless pamphlets and, as he was an equally good writer, was widely read in the winter of 1918-19. (it is so-so pov, and it is too dubious "kun gave fifteen speeches every day" is no more than a legend spread between communists ... if you gave me resources, it can be put back).
 * 5) I havent deleted this paragraph: Kun's speeches had a considerable impact on his audiences. One who heard such a speech wrote in his diary: "Yesterday I heard Kun speak...it was an audacious, hateful, enthusiastic oratory. He is a hard-looking man with an head of a bull, thick hair, and moustache, not so much Jewish, but peasant features, would best describe his face...He knows his audience and rules over them...Factory workers long at odds with the Social Democratic Party leaders, young intellectuals, teachers, doctors, lawyers, clerks who came to his room...meet Kun and Marxism"2. (but please tell me who was the "one" who said that, see Cite sources)
 * 6) I deleted the estimate of victims of White terror. It is so disputed, and not relevant in this article (I think, in this article we should speak about Kun's victims, not about other victims). It must be taken into the White terror article, anatomizing particularly the disputes (see Neutral Point of View). Gubbubu
 * 7) I deleted "howewer, number of victims of red terror were low ... " this is an awful, inhuman pow remark I think. Gubbubu

My resources can bee seen at the end of the hungarian article. To be concrete, I used an article of Tóth Gy. László A pótolhatatlan Kun Béla published in the Magyar Nemzet, what mainly links to the sources below:
 * 1) Victor Serge's memoirs (# Victor Serge: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Publisher („Egy forradalmár emlékiratai”), Writers & Readers Publishing, 1984.
 * 2) Pierre Broué: Germany, 1921: The March Action. The Journal of the Socialist Labour League, Vol. 1., No. 2., 1964 (benne: Lenin levele Zinovjevnek).
 * 3) Lenin's letter to Zinovjev, can be found at Pierre Broué. Gubbubu 12:32, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

If I will have time or energy, I will write about his "activity" - if we can call mass murdering like this euphemistic way - in the Krím and his fall in Saxon Germany during the time of "The March Action". Gubbubu 12:41, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Birth of the Hungarian Communist Party
Béla Kun returned to Budapest on 17 November, 1918, but the article states that he founded the MKP on 4 November, 1918, in Budapest. Which statement is wrong? --Comrade Che 1 13:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Kun's torture after his arrest
The whole story about Kun's being tortured by the NKVD comes from Krivitski (I was Stalin's agent, 1940), who defected in May 1937. The problem with it, that at that time, Kun had not yet been arrested. Thus I think this statement could be removed, though it is possible that he was tortured. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lacz (talk • contribs) 13:42, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Change to Crimeria section
Borsányi quite clearly showed that the authors who stated the alleged executions refer to each other and that the common source is unknown Redcross nurse. It would have been impossible to identify the total number of dead (if you know Crimeria, you know why) by one person, not to mention the problem of separating these dead bodies by the cause of death. I have no doubts that there were executions there and probably quite a few.

As to the upset in the Bolshevik Party, he gave speeches to the Congress, he was elected to the Engerebüro, he was sent to Berlin - these quite clearly suggest the opposite. However, it does not mean that in the fraction-struggles, the allegations was not used against Kun. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lacz (talk • contribs) 14:35, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

looks like Sinatra!
He really looks like Frank Sinatra, doesn't he ? Look at photo in article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.28.81.129 (talk) 10:06, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Kinda, but do have a look here before you decide to edit in such nonsense. Dahn (talk) 10:08, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.28.81.129 (talk) 10:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Assertion that Kun caused anti-Semitism in Hungary removed
I removed the following" "Although Kun was hostile to all forms of religion, his partial Judaic ancestry and his advocacy of revolutionary communism resulted in hatred both for him and for actual members of Hungarian Jewish communities."

Sorry, an assertion like this had better be *very* carefully documented--which I rather doubt it can be.Doprendek (talk) 18:54, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Section about Crimea
The article cites some very spurious sources to claim that 50,000+ were executed in the Crimea. Rayfield is not a historian and his book was not issued by an academic publisher. He doesn't cite any source to support his claim. So we have no way to verify what he says.

Gellately's book, which was not published by an academic press, is also cited in this article, even though he has zero qualifications on Russian history. Gellately's is a recognized expert on Nazi German history: his research chiefly consists of The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy 1933-1945 (Oxford University Press, 1991) and Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press, 2002). He can and should be cited about Nazi Germany, but not for Soviet-related stuff. The source that Gellately does cite is the polemic "Black Book of Communism", which cites the discredited anti-Soviet agitator Melgunov for its allegations. Melgunov himself cites anti-Soviet newspapers claiming that 50-150 thousand were killed in the Crimea in a reign of terror. Melgunov, however, is not a reliable source: he was an apologist for the White leaders and lied about them. The scholar P.A. Golub for Dialog (August 2003) journal writes:

'':"In 1923, S.P. Melgunov, one of the most active instigators of civil war and apologists of Kolchak and other military dictators, issued in Berlin a self-righteous opus "Red Terror in Russia 1918-23". In this work, he hypocritically cried, "Where and when in the government policies and even the press of the anti-Soviet camp will you find theoretical justification of terror as a system of government? In bourgeois cricles, this man was considered a venerable historian and wrote a three-volume work "The Tragedy of Admiral Kolchak". He seems to know nothing of the monstrous cruelty such as the "Law on Rebellion" ordered by the Admiral on March 23, 1919, barbaric practices against Siberian partisans, the order of 14 May 1919 to shoot without trial soldiers who refused to kill their fellow human beings, and many other savage acts of the "supreme ruler" He knew of course, but persistently told the big lie about the White regimes not practicing systematic terror."''

What's worse is that Melgunov's allegations are discredited by more modern Russian observers. It turns out that the mass terror in Crimea during 1920 described by Melgunov's propaganda is dubious.

 * "Melgunov gives different numbers of victims of the Bolsheviks in the Crimea: 100-120 thousand or even 150 thousand. The "Red atrocities" written about by Melgunov were implausible because when I was living in Sevastopol in 1948, none of the local residents talked about them. At this time, witnesses had been living for at least 30 years. Compare this to how it's been 50 years since the end of World War II, and millions of witnesses are with us to talk about it. In addition, my grandfather with his family lived in the countryside of Crimea during and after the Civil War, and my father, who was 14 years old, lived in Simferopol. I did not hear anything about these "Red atrocities" from them. Furthermore, in Sevastopol two older brothers of my father were captured White soldiers. One of them was wounded in Perekop and was treated in hospital. None of them were subjected to violence or exile. To clarify what happened what did not, I turn to a resident of Sevastopol, Vladimir Kulich, almost 90 years old: It was in 1920, at age 11, he saw a lot, but he emphatically said that he did not witness or hear about the "atrocities" described by Melgunov. No one at Sevastopol was executed, and no civilians were repressed. Moreover, ordinary soldiers in Wrangel's army were left alone and untouched. It is true that the Germans hanged, but the Reds did not.

This article falsely states about Wrangel: "They had surrendered after having been promised amnesty if they would surrender." This is not true ! This is what really happened: Frunze promised Wrangel mercy for surrender. But Wrangel ignored this and ran off with his troops to Constantinople.

 * When Frunze broke into the Crimea, Wrangel appealed for French assistance in evacuating as many of his army who wished to escape the Bolsheviks and offered his entire navy and merchant marine for comepnsation. On November 11, Frunze broadcast an offer of amnesty in exchange for the surrender of the White forces. He promised a "full pardon for acts commited during the civil war" and "unimpeded departure" for those not wishing to remain in Russia, provided they swore a solemn oath to abstain from participation in further struggle against the Soviet government...There was no response to the Soviet proposal, for as Wrangel prepared to leave Sevastopol he was not thinking in terms of abandoning the struggle but of renewing it in the spring. He had placed his surviving forces under the protection of France not to be caried safely into exile but to begin their reorganiation for a new campaign. In three days Wrangel embarked the best of his troops and an equal number of civilian refugees, and steamed for Constantinople. On the afternoon of 14 November the evacuation was complete; the following morning the Red Army entered the city unopposed. 75.51.172.94 (talk) 03:01, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

I also doubted the numbers, because of the connection to anti-communist propaganda. But Soviet government data actually backs it up. Over 50,000 people were executed by the local Cheka in Crimea during the Red Terror. There were some more sensible Communist leaders like Sultan-Galiev who denounced Kun's actions and protested to the central party leadership about the scale of the killings. See the Russian wikipedia page: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Красный_террор_в_Крыму

--Famisht (talk) 19:45, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

REALLY?
Shame on wikipedia for tolerating such anti-semitic drivel. ranging from claims that ninety-five percent of the Hungarian leadership was Jewish, to the alleged "appointment" of Janitors working as synogogues as Commissars. There is NO credible evidence, aside from the anti-semitic heresay of a single reactionary who has long been discredited, to suggest this. There is documented evidence that aproximently 50-60 percent of the Hungarian leadership was Jewish. 30/49 of the Hungarian Commissars were jews, that isn't 95%. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.114.22.201 (talk) 22:33, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Jewish connection
Kun's Jewish family background probably wasn't too important to him personally, but it played a prominent role in numerous political and anti-Semitic polemics by various others. For those in the 1920s who claimed that the enemy was "Jewish Bolshevism", Béla Kun and Trotsky were Exhibits A and B. There should be more about this on the article... AnonMoos (talk) 11:30, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
 * It's funny, because Bela Kun's mother was a gentle, and therefore by laws of Jewish matrilineality, Bela Kun was a goy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8388:541:E300:2D25:7042:8DAB:C33D (talk) 12:58, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, his mother, Róza Goldberger was of Jewish heritage, but converted to Protestanism. However, by declaring who would be considered Jewish, are not necessarily decided by the laws of Jewish matrilineality, from non-Jewish viewpoint (i.e. see racial laws of some countries before/during WWII).(KIENGIR (talk) 13:33, 23 November 2018 (UTC))

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion: Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 16:26, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Bela Kun NKVD.jpg

title: Talk:Béla Kun


text:
Talk:War of July 1974

This page was voted on for deletion at Votes for deletion/War of July 1974. dbenbenn | talk 23:52, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

title: Talk:War of July 1974