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Is the link to the article 'Time' in the following sentence not a bit irrelevant? The passage is this:

Time has largely invalidated both.

Why define 'time', but not 'to invalidate', 'to have' or 'both'?

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Third Amendment
It would be interesting to find out when the Third Amendment has ever been used. Does anyone happen to know? – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs, blog) 03:50, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

^^^^The only time the Third Amendment has had to be interpreted by the Supreme Court is Engblom v. Carey. Firestorm 23:00, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, it was the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the district court resolved the case. Follow the link for more information. --DThomsen8 (talk) 19:11, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Kingdom
Kingdom of Great Britain should be used instead of United Kingdom as later did not exist until 1801. Djegan 20:01, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism
There's been vandalism or mistakes under the section "Modern relevance". The paragraph ended with some nonsense:

"then isaac smith run to lexington and shot himself in the face. 2pac was there and so was TI and they had a rap battle . if 2pac the patriots would win the war and gain freedom."

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.50.29.0 (talk • contribs)

 * Yes, this article is a very common object of vandalism. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 08:14, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Quarter act
what was the quarter act you ask well it was when the colonist had to house the soldiers feed them wash there clothes do there chorse they did not like it at all —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.246.196.1 (talk) 12:44, 3 May 2007 (UTC).

Smart
Wouldn't it be a smart idea to say why they did the quartering acts? Dermato1 22:22, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Yes, added. BradMajors 01:01, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Quartering Act of 1774
The Quartering Act of 1774 did not add anything which was not already in the Quartering Act of 1765, and the article should reflect this. On the other hand, if the Act of 1774 instead of confirming, was intended to replace the Act of 1765 this is significant since the most onerous provisions only appear in the Act of 1765. BradMajors 21:23, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

The second Quartering Act was intended to simply infuriate the colonists and to pressure them to comply with British Rule. This act was not meant to be either a continuation or replacement of the previous one. Cubie Newbie (talk) 22:26, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

1965/1774
I don't believe that the Act of 1965 actually required the American colonists to supply the English with candles, food, etc, but only housing. Anyone have proof on this?

-192.168.1.100 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.217.216.90 (talk) 21:16, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I assume you mean "the Act of 1765" and not "the Act of 1965" that you have stated above. Here is the proof you desire from the text of the Act:
 * That in case any innholder, or other person, on whom any non commission officers or private men shall be quartered by virtue of this act... shall be desirous to furnish such noncommission officers or soldiers with candles, vinegar, and salt, and with small beer or cyder, not exceeding five pints, or half a pint of rum mixed with a quart of water, for each man per diem, gratis, and allow to such noncommission officers or soldiers the use of fire, and the necessary utensils for dressing and eating their meat, and shall give notice of such his desire to the commanding officer, and shall furnish and allow the same accordingly
 * The Text of the 1765 Act can be found linked within the article. Regards. Road Wizard (talk) 21:29, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Expiry of the 1765 act
From the article:
 * For failure to comply with the Quartering Act, Parliament suspended the Province of New York's Governor and legislature in 1767 and 1769. In 1771, the New York Assembly allocated funds for the quartering of the British troops.
 * The Quartering Act was circumvented in all colonies other than Pennsylvania.
 * This act expired on March 24, 1767.

Since the Quartering Act of 1765 expired in 1767, why would Parliament suspend New York's Governor and legislature in 1769, and why would the New York Assembly allocate funds for the quartering of troops in 1771? Is the expiration date in the article wrong? --MultiPoly (talk) 01:05, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

David Ammerman
This article cites the work of the historian David Ammerman in its dismissal of the assertion that soldiers were not ever quartered in private residences. However, this claim does not seem to be widely accepted (from what I have seen), and I think that the language of the article should be changed so as to take into account this doubt. Lothar_von_Richthofen (talk) 01:26, 29 Sept 2009 (UTC)

Cmeyer8
The opening of this article is a very good summary of what the Acts were and the details are very informative. I apperciated where it specified which colonies had actually had the act circumvented, but it would be beneficial to include why Pennsylvania did not. Also some more information on the second Quartering Act could also increase the usefulness of this article. And seeing the subtitle "Quartering in time of War", sparked my interest further. If its possible, more information could be included here, or perhaps other sources to look into about this topic. Overall this article is informative, and relevant, lacking only small details that could increase its usefulness from a point of very useful to incredibly. The idea to include the modern day impacts of the acts really brings it all together and keeps a reader thinking and sets a desire to learn more about how history effects the world we now live in. Cmeyer8 (talk) 15:19, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

LFriesen
The content of this article is objective and inclusive in that it covers the main points in history, but there are some sections that are confusing due to grammatical errors. For example, in the sentence below, it could be made into two sentences, because each half of the sentence addresses different parts of the Quartering Act.

These Quartering Acts were put into circulation by the Parliament of Great Britain. and they ordered local governments of the American colonies to provide a place to stay and provisions for British soldiers that were required in the area.

In the first sentence of this section, the use of provision is confusing.

It did not have the provision in the previous Act that soldiers be provided with provisions. The amendments made also created the requirement for the housing of troops to be a mutual agreement between the parties involved. Also, if a government had laws that provided troops with billets, that were approved by the crown, they did not have the Act applied to their province. Along with that, the act had similar protective guidelines to that of the Mutiny Act in Great Britain at the time. These guidelines were punishments for people who were quartered in private buildings. They were the same whether you lived in England itself or its’ colonies.

Overall, I would suggest that you proof read what you contributed. Also, it would greatly enhance this article if there was a picture. There is a respectable amount referencing and external links that support the article which is good. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LFriesen (talk • contribs) 20:29, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Skeletonfish
-Throughout the article I noticed that there are some spelling mistakes and grammatical mistakes making the article hard to read and understand. I suggest going through the article and proof read it to get rid of the spelling errors.

-Lord Loudoun, mentioned in the second last paragraph in Quartering in the time of War, just came out abruptly and made reading the paragraph confusing. Maybe list who was was and how he was important during this time to help the flow of the paragraph and better understand his role in the Quartering.

-Other than these simple mistakes, I felt that it had a good flow and kept into the timeline of the event. Skeletonfish (talk) 13:52, 21 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.209.17.254 (talk)

JedJaren
-Overall a very interesting and a well needed expansion of a Wikipedia article. Some suggestions to improve the article quality: In the opening section, expanding on the history of issues that led to the British government implicating the Quartering Acts, and the overall intentions the British government had for creating the act would add interesting content to the article. I see no mention of the Quartering Act as a tax, or the similarities to other acts that were imposed on the colonies, such as, the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, or the Sugar Act, to name a few, which together ultimately created conflict that led to the Revolutionary War. Addition of further links throughout the article, such as names like "Col. Henry Bouquet" or "Pennsylvania Assembly" and so on would enhance the sections of the article greatly. JedJaren — Preceding unsigned comment added by JedJaren (talk • contribs) 20:06, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Nanner888
This article has lots of pertinent information; however there are a few things that still need some editing. The first thing I noticed was the citations. Numbers six through eleven, do not have enough information. If I was going to verify a source, I would not know where to begin to find them. The second thing I noticed was in the last line of the description it just states London. That leads me to think that it is London, England, however there are 38 London’s in the world including ones in the United States. The article seems a bit awkward and could benefit some housekeeping. I would recommend reading out loud to someone, so you are listening, but also have a second set of ears for stylistic purposes. (Nanner888 (talk) 06:58, 24 November 2012 (UTC))

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Anderson
The text in the "Quartering in time of War" section has a note that refers to "Anderson, p. 649." However, no other notes provide information on who Anderson is or what he or she wrote that provides source material. Also, the References section is likewise absence of Anderson identifications. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.47.164.176 (talk) 06:54, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

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The U.S. Navy League Cadet Corps (also known as the United States Naval League Cadet Corps or "NLCC") is a junior version of the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps (NSCC) program developed for younger cadets, aged 11 through 13, under the auspices of the Navy League of the United States. The mission of the NLCC is to train cadets about the seagoing military services, community service, citizenship, and an understanding of discipline and teamwork so that they are prepared for membership in the NSCC. While NLCC cadets can go into the NSCC when they turn 13, they may also elect to remain in the NLCC until age 14, when they must either transfer into the NSCC, or leave the program.

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High taxes, clicky social groups, and a mall downtown that may be the worst idea anyone ever had...but at least William Penn University now has a bunch of thugs playing for its sports teams. --unknown author

Huh? The above was obviously written by someonw who has never been to Iowa, let alone Oskaloosa...

 * Apparently it's a matter of opinion; I live in Osky and I agree with what "unknown author" said. But I am surprised that there's anyone here besides me that's even been to the town.

On another matter, why does the "Oskaloosa" page link to a smaller community in Kansas? --Archola

-As someone who was raised in 'Osky' and managed to escape, I believe the first statement is correct. The town is repressed and too dependent on the factories (Pella, Vermeer, Clow, Cargill). Hopefully these employers never leave because Osky would become a ghost town. The unfortunate factor in Oskaloosa is that the town itself has the potential to be a beautiful 'Mayberry' town, but only a few select members of the 'clicks' seem to be able to get ahead. At least George Daly's lawyers were smart enough to get ahold of his oil money and use it to improve the town.
 * I'm beginning to think that you're right. I'm still trapped in Osky and can't find full-time work. Arch O. La  Grigory Deepdelver  16:44, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I was the "unknown author", and Wikipedia added that to all of their old posts. As one who grew up there, too, I still stand by my comments. I am truly sorry to say that it is just plain not a nice place to live. -- aproudhawkeye

The above is completly right, our crappy city ran by Joe Crookham, our crappy downtown with a crummy mall full of dumb ass stores like a hearing aid clinic/art gallerey/hair salon/nail salon, no wonder super wal-mart is the only thing that really works in this town. Our crappy high school that has school shooting threats/bomb threats and doesn't tell the kids. I can't wait to leave. At least Pella has a super wal mart with an Icee machine, you can't even buy an Icee here. I went to a movie at Jordan Creek mall, it was the same price as our theatre and i think food was cheaper, but theres was so much nicer...

 * The "shooting" turned out to be nothing more than false rumours. As for our shops, I don't think it's a matter of what we already have (all those stores you mentioned would probably exist in a larger city, too); I think it's a matter of needing other things in addition. Is the swearing really necessary? Also, please sign your comments. -Tacubus 03:55, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

And I cussed so much? ass one time... damn your dumb.

 * There sure has been guns and shootings at William Penn University. How many other towns with a college of that size has had anywhere near the problems that Oskaloosa has had with Penn students? RBLakes 07:12, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Picture
I think we need to find a better picture for Oskaloosa than the Mahaska County Courthouse. That picture would be better suited for the Mahaska County page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RBLakes (talk • contribs) 04:17, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Mayor
Dave krudzfeldt is the mayor, I work with him so I don't have any actual citations for it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.199.230.86 (talk) 06:04, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

???
The Wal-Mart in Osky is not 48 years old. Someone please address this to reflect assessment records/reality? 67.224.6.6 (talk) 17:04, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Harry Hamilton Laughlin was a racist and a bigot; to call him just an "executive" is outrageous.
Laughlin is called here an "executive," but he is remembered only for his racism and bigotry.

“The next nativist surge began around 1890 and lasted more than thirty years. The immigrant scapegoats this time were from southern and eastern Europe: Italians, Slovaks [read Slavs (S. V.)], and Jews from Poland and Russia. Racist theories found new support among older settlers, as yet another generation of eugenicists, purporting to base themselves on Social Darwinism, once again proclaimed immigrants and blacks as inferior. Among them was Dr. Harry Laughlin, who was appointed a consultant to the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization in 1922. To buttress his anti-immigrant views, Laughlin reported to Congress that the foreign-born in federal and state hospitals had three times the insanity rate of American natives (Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbout, Immigrant America: A Portrait, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1996, pp. 159-164). “The result was the new immigration [...] [which] contained a large and increasing number of the weak, the broken and the mentally crippled of all races drawn from the lowest stratum of the Mediterranean basin and the Balkans, together with hordes of the wretched, submerged populations of the Polish ghettos. Our jails, insane asylums and almshouses are filled with this human flotsam and the whole tone of American life, social, moral, and political, has been lowered and vulgarized by them (Michael Novak, The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics, Politics and Culture in the Seventies, New York, Macmillan, 1972, p. 86). “Bowing to this public outcry, Congress passed the most restrictive immigration law in U.S. history, with a racially based national quota system. Not surprisingly, this was also a period of intense oppression of blacks in the South, for it seems that anti-immigration upsurges always seem to go hand in hand with high tides of antiblack prejudices. The Ku Klux Klan swelled to 6 million members. Jim Crow laws were enacted throughout the South. In 1919 alone, seventy-four blacks were lynched (Ibid, p. 86; also Harold Cruse, Plural But Equal: Blacks and Minorities in America’s Plural Society, New York, William Morrow, 1987, pp. 104-107).”

The foregoing three paragraphs are quoted from Gonzalez 2011:208-209.

Gonzalez, Juan. 2011. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. Revised edition. New York. Penguin Books.

“[Harry Hamilton Laughlin] had epilepsy and never had children. Widely known for his research into racial breeding and very special friendship with Adolf Hitler. He received an honorary PhD from the University of Heidelberg in 1936 and the German sterilization laws were based on his model law for compulsory sterilization which was implemented by some 20 states leading to the sterilization of more than 60,000 Americans for being blind, deaf, poor, etc. Coincidentally, epilepsy was one of his criteria for compulsory stertilization of racial inferiors” (Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38445624/harry-hamilton-laughlin; accessed on 13 July 2021; reference is to Harry Hamilton Laughlin, born in Oscaloosa, Iowa, on 11 March 1880 and died in Kirksville, Missouri, on 26 January 1943).S. Valkemirer (talk) 12:46, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

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Gulich

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 * Gulich Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
 * Jülich, a town in Germany, also known as Gülich

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 * Jeremias Friedrich Gülich (1733–1808), German dyer
 * John Percival Gülich (1864–1898), British artist
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Naimark

 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

Mark Naimark
This Ukranian mathematician only returns 37 hits on google.  Is there something in particular that makes him distinguishable from other PhD's and worthy of note on Wikipedia? GRider\talk 00:46, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Keep, cleanup and expand. Borderline notable for me. Megan1967 05:29, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. If there is a MacTutor biography of him, I trust the Scots that he is an important mathematician. / u p p l a n d 07:10, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless someone can substantiate. The article does not establish notability beyond the average professor, thus fails the professor test. Radiant! 09:16, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep he is an important and distinguished mathematician. See  ~10.000 hits. Look at Gelfand-Naimark-Segal_construction,Gel%27fand-Naimark_theorem. MathMartin 21:42, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Whoa. That's a definite keep. DS 22:50, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Deletioncruft.--Centauri 12:09, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable figure. JamesBurns 06:25, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad

Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad (AM&O) was formed in 1870 in Virginia from three east–west railroads which traversed across the southern portion of the state. Organized and led by former Confederate general William Mahone (1826-1895), the 428 mi line linked Norfolk with Bristol, Virginia by way of Suffolk, Petersburg, Lynchburg, and Salem. The AM&O was promoted as a trade link to the west, and further expansion was envisioned with the goal of increasing Virginia's Ohio Valley and Mississippi Valley commerce. It was heavily backed by investors from England and Scotland.

The AM&O went into receivership after the U.S. Financial Panic of 1873. After several years of continuing financial problems, Mahone's relationship with the bondholders soured, and he was removed as trustee, but was permitted to continue to lead operations. Finally, in 1881, the AM&O was sold at auction. It was acquired by other U.S. interests based in Philadelphia who outbid Mahone. They were already building Shenandoah Valley Railroad and had a new commodity in mind: bituminous coal. The AM&O was renamed to Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W). Norfolk & Western Railway was expanded west into the coalfields, and later into a much large system, eventually tapping the Ohio Valley and Mississippi Valley commerce as earlier promised Virginia. The N&W was combined with the Southern Railway, another profitable carrier, to form Norfolk Southern Corporation (NS) in 1982.

Today, much of the former Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad remains in service for Norfolk Southern. The Fortune 500 company, headquartered in Norfolk, transports bituminous coal, intermodal shipping containers, automobile parts and completed vehicles, and other commodities in the 21st century global transportation markets. Most of the former AM&O lines are still part of the NS rail network.

Predecessor lines
Three pre-civil war era railroad lines were combined to form the AM&O. They are listed from east to west:

Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad
The Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, organized by Dr. Francis Mallory of Norfolk was built between 1853 and 1858 by a young civil engineer named William Mahone (1826-1895). It featured an innovative and durable roadbed through a portion of the Great Dismal Swamp and an arrow-straight 52 mile tangent between Suffolk and Petersburg. Mahone was named its head in 1860.

South Side Railroad
The oldest predecessor was the City Point Railroad a 9 mi long line to Petersburg completed in 1838. In 1854, it became part of the South Side Railroad. The South Side Railroad was the middle section of the AM&O, stretching 132 miles from City Point (part of today's City of Hopewell) to Lynchburg in 1854.

Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad extended 204 mi from Lynchburg to Bristol. It made important westward connections which reached New Orleans, Louisiana, before the war began in 1861.

William Mahone and the American Civil War
All three railroads were severely damaged during the American Civil War (1861-1865). After Virginia seceded in April 1861, William Mahone, as its president, used the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad (N&P) to deliver a small force to Norfolk to secure the Gosport Navy Yard, an important resource for the Confederacy. After Union leaders declined a request to surrender possession, he used an N&P train and other deception to bluff them into thinking large numbers of rebel troops were arriving, causing them to abandon the shipyard with no loss of life. He accepted a commission in the Confederate Army and during the remainder of 1861 and until May 1862, also continued as head of the N&P. Mahone was relieved of N&P duties in 1862 as he took on increasing responsibilities with the Confederate Army. He was active in many campaigns and was an able leader during the war, best known as the hero of the Battle of the Crater in 1864 where he rallied troops and foiled an initial Union success during the Siege of Petersburg.

Post-war, rebuilding and linking

After the end of hostilities, defeated Confederate General Robert E. Lee advised his generals to go back to work rebuilding. William Mahone did just that. He returned to his old job and quickly set about repairing the N&P. Meanwhile, the managers of the South Side Railroad and Virginia and Tennessee Railroad also worked hard to restore service and rebuild bridges, stations, and rolling stock. The war had demonstrated the need to consolidate resources and connections, and the stockholders of the South Side Railroad elected Mahone as president of their road also before the end of 1865.

It was known that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) and other northern interests were trying to develop connections in the Shenandoah Valley which would favor Baltimore over Norfolk and other Virginia ports. Mahone could see that the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad was the key to western connections for the other two roads and he became a driving force in the linkage of N&P, South Side Railroad and the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad (V&T). He was president of all three by the end of 1867. However, the V&T board was opposed to consolidation which was favored by the other two roads. Rumors indicated that the B&O would expand its Valley line southward to meet the V&T near Salem, Virginia. Ultimately, the B&O did reach as far as up the valley as Lexington, Virginia, only 50 mi short of reaching Salem.

When Mahone could not persuade the V&T board, he took another route to force consolidation, and worked diligently in lobbying the Virginia General Assembly, a part-owner of all three roads, to gain the legislation necessary to combine them into a single entity, and expand westward.

"All Mine and Otelia's"
Mahone was finally successful, and in 1870, the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad (AM&O) was organized as a new line comprising the three railroads he headed, extending 428 miles in Virginia from Norfolk to Bristol. The former general and his wife Otelia (a character in her own right) moved to Lynchburg, where the AM&O established headquarters and shops. The letters A, M and O were said to stand for "All Mine and Otelia's." Instead of utilizing northern financial interests, in addition to the state's investment, Mahone obtained the needed funded through bonded indebtedness from across the ocean through a British financial agent.

The AM&O did well for several years. The three former railroads initially each became divisions, and the former South Side Railroad was later consolidated with the former N&P into a single division. Unfortunately for Mahone's dreams, before much expansion could take place, the AM&O fell on hard times in the financial Panic of 1873 which negatively impacted almost all of the railroads.

After several years of operating under receiverships, Mahone had a falling out with his agent, who claimed a breach of integrity. There are some historical indications that this may have resulted from miscommunication, interference by Mahone's many enemies, or both. In any event, the foreign bondholders requested other receivers be appointed, and one of his lieutenants, Henry Fink, was named. In early 1881, the AM&O was sold at public auction. Mahone forces had gathered what he thought would be sufficient funds to place a winning bid, but they were outbid by a surprise entry of a principal of a Philadelphia-based financial company, a previously unidentified competitor. The new owners renamed it Norfolk and Western, possibly utilizing an earlier name proposed by citizens of Norfolk in the pre-war efforts to secure rail service.

Mahone was able to arrange for a portion of the State's proceeds of the AM&O sale to help found a school to prepare teachers to help educate black children and former slaves. The Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute near Petersburg was forerunner of Virginia State College, which expanded to become Virginia State University. A leader of the Readjuster Party, after leaving the railroad business, he became even more active in Virginia's politics and served as a Senator in the U.S. Congress from 1881 to 1887.

What became of the former AM&O

The new owners were E. W. Clark & Co., a private banking firm in Philadelphia which already owned a controlling interest in the Shenandoah Valley Railroad. The latter was expanding south from Hagerstown, Maryland, and seeking a potential connection. Under the common ownership, the link was established between Lynchburg and Salem on the old AM&O at the tiny community of Big Lick on the Roanoke River, which soon became the city of Roanoke and a major office and shops location of the N&W. It became known as the "Magic City."

While Mahone's vision for the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad was western trade and the transportation business, the new owners were focused on their investments in the rich, largely untapped coal reserves of southwestern Virginia and southern West Virginia. They knew older anthracite coal fields in northwestern New Jersey, southern New York, and northern Pennsylvania were playing out. Under their auspices, the former AM&O was greatly expanded as the N&W into the coal fields and beyond and became a system larger and far more wealthy than Mahone probably had ever dreamed.

In the mid 20th century, N&W merged with long-time rival Virginian Railway in the Pocahontas coal region and grew even more in size and profitability by mergers with other rail carriers including Nickel Plate Road and Wabash in adjacent areas to form a system serving 14 states and a province of Canada between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River and Great Lakes with more than 7000 mi of trackage.

100 years later after its name was changed from AM&O, the N&W was combined with the Southern Railway, another profitable carrier, to form Norfolk Southern Corporation (NS) in 1982.

Today, much of the former Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad remains in service for Norfolk Southern, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia. The modern railroad transports bituminous coal, intermodal shipping containers, automobile parts and completed vehicles, and other commodities in the 21st century global transportation markets. Mahone's trackbed through the Great Dismal Swamp, the 52 mi tangent, and much of the rest of the AM&O route are still in service.

Websites

 * Mahones of Virginia: The Mahone Family Heritage
 * official site, Library of Virginia, William Mahone page

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Talk:Doug (TV series)

Youtube
the picture clearly has a YouTube pointer on it.

i get the feel it's from one of those "The 90's and it's shows" videos

i found a better picture to use (through it does not show it's title)

http://www.walldesk.net/pdp/1024/23/03/Doug%20Funnie/dougfunnie1.jpg

I'm a goofy goober, YEAH!, Your a goofy goober, YEAH! (talk) 17:41, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

The crap I've found so far in the Characters section
Section is written in the wrong tone, first and foremost, and needs a proper tidy up.

"She despises Doug's dog Porkchop and the two usually get into fights, being a cat and dog."

This is bad. It's established all over the paragraph that's taken from that it's talking about a cat, no need to keep repeating that information. It's also clearly in an inappropriate tone for an encyclopedia.

"Gets worse - Her skin is slightly brighter than Doug's, her hair is blue, and is shown to be rather meek, but also an outgoing environmentalist."

Her hair is meek. Her hair is an outgoing environmentalist. And this is only as far as I've read down the page.

Why is this article so crap? 86.182.176.137 (talk) 13:15, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Edit - confirmed, it doesn't get any better from here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.182.176.137 (talk) 13:23, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The reason why the article is crap, is that you haven't improved it yet. Wikipedia is composed of volunteers; if you feel you can improve the article, feel free to do so. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:26, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

How do you fix the highlight thumbnail?
The thumbnail highlight picture for Doug (TV series) is Richmond, Virginia, and not the Doug logo. How can one fix that? --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 22:21, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, why do we need to use the logo? The logo appears in the infobox and there's another logo in the Disney acquisition section. I don't see the value of adding another logo. And frankly adding another logo opens up questions about fair use. We don't want to overdo it with someone's trademark unless there's a legitimate reason. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 23:29, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree. How do you we use the logo that's already in the infobox? Also, when you highlight this series' name, it appears confusingly to be an article about a city. A page teaser should tell the user exactly what the article is about. There should be no element which prompts them to actually go to the article if they only want a summary. Also, it looks sloppy, and I have never seen a page with this problem before. Doug (TV series): highlight this to see what I mean if you're using a web browser.

 * We could use a lose res image of the cartoon, or I could send a letter to the current IP holder and ask if they have an image we can use, if the logo thumbnail can't be used in both the infobox and the highlight box. Otherwise, I'd suggest removing the city picture as it really adds nothing to the article. --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 00:52, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

 * , I'm not sure I understand the bulk of what you are saying. I don't see a problem with the inclusion of the Richmond skyline. It's merely there to make an otherwise dull text wall slightly more visually appealing. We've already used the Nick series logo in the infobox, so there's no need to use it again. I'm not sure what you mean when you refer to a "page teaser". Maybe you'd benefit from turning on "Hovercards" as found in your user preferences? (Don't forget to click "save" at the bottom.) Not sure what you mean when you're talking about "highlighting" the series' name and it displaying an article about a city. Are you talking about hovering over a link, and seeing a pop-up window or something? If so, I don't see the problem you're describing by hovering over the link. If you're talking about selecting the text and highlighting it by drawing your cursor across it, I don't see the problem you're describing. I'm also not clear on who you plan to send a letter to, etc. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 01:50, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

 * Yes, hovercards. As you say. You see how it's a picture of a city on the card? That doesn't seem jarring to you in any way? --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 10:57, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Could we seperate this page into two?
Is it fair that we and I can seperate this page into two, one named "Doug" and the other named "Disney's Doug"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.0.37.124 (talk) 14:10, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest we not do that. The series is complete, lots of stuff is common that would need to be repeated. I don't see a real advantage to potential readers to split now. Geraldo Perez (talk) 16:40, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Technically, Doug and Disney’s Doug are two different shows from the same franchise, so we should really just split them up. Ren and Stimpy for example is split up into two different pages, one for the original Nickelodeon series and then another for the Spike TV version. So we should have one page for Nickelodeon’s Doug and another for Disney’s Doug. Sandwichey Boy (talk) 01:36, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Page Split
I think the page needs to be split. I think the shows are completely different even if related. The Nickelodeon series should be considered the original series while the Disney series should be considered the sequel series. BaldiBasicsFan (talk) 04:47, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't think that would be helpful, as Geraldo Perez said above. Lots of shows have seen creative changes after shifting networks for a new season or more. The two runs of episodes share so much in common that it's best to just explain the revamp. This source explains it: "Nickelodeon failed to renew Doug after 52 episodes had been produced, whereupon Disney picked up the franchise in early 1996, produced new episodes ... Nick continued to run the older episodes". Hammill Ten (talk) 16:15, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * What Sandwichey Boy said, they are technically two different shows though, despite being from the same franchise. The Disney series is distributed by a different company, and over run as a different show respectively to be a sequel.
 * Another Nicktoon franchise Ren & Stimpy has two different shows despite the same franchise, one is for kids and the other being for adults. BaldiBasicsFan (talk) 20:16, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Nickelodeon vs. Disney
They are still two separate shows technically, because they are from different distrubutors, and the streaming services said so.

I don't want to have more edited wars with people so I decided to make this post. BaldiBasicsFan (talk) 01:20, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Jim Jinkins and Jumbo Pictures were the ones producing the show at all times. Shows change distributors a lot, and Disney+ only having their distributed seasons does not automatically make those seasons a whole separate show. Please do not continue calling it a "sequel series" as this is misleading, and it's much easier to just explain that Jumbo was acquired by Disney, which then greenlit more episodes. Sheolvise (talk) 02:23, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

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Hilot

Hilot (/HEE-lot/) is an ancient Filipino art of healing. It uses manipulation and massage to achieve the treatment outcome, although techniques differ from one practitioner to another. It emerged from the shamanic tradition of the ancient Filipinos with healers considering their practice as derived from their calling from visions or from having been born by breech.

Overview
Hilot incorporates supernatural aspects, particularly in cases of practitioners who claim that their ability is given by a supernatural source such as the case of manghihilot who embarks on pilgrimage to a mountain called Banahaw to satisfy the spiritual component of their healing practice. A Hilot practitioner or albularyo (herbalist) are usually cheaper alternatives to medical doctors in the Philippines, especially in very deep rural areas. A Manghihilot employs chiropractic-like manipulation and massage for the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal ailments. They also have been known to reset dislocated and sprained joints such as the knee, ankle, fingers and metacarpal bones. An Albularyo use herbs in addition to massage. The term hilot is also applied to traditional midwives, licensed or otherwise (Panday in Meranaw).

Spiritual and physical components
The spiritual component of Hilot treats the relationship between the body's attitude and universal energy. In other words, the goal is to bring the body back to harmony. This focuses on inner change. One way this can be achieved is through the Banahaw Devotional Technique. Tracing its origins to the fifteenth century, this technique requires the performance of orations and sacrificial rituals to influence the body's spirit. The goal of this is to ask for forgiveness from God. Depending where the manghihilot and their patient are located, the popular location to perform this technique is in the active volcano of Mt. Banahaw, located in Luzon. Following the Banahaw Devotional Technique is the Pagpapahalaga, or the Valuing Process in which the goal is to direct inner change to outer change with the use of inner understandings. These inner understandings is presented within the following three modules: mabuti (self-honesty), makabubuti (sincerity), makapagpapabuti (consequential goodness). The Banahaw Devotional Technique and Valuing Process are treatments for inner conflicts within the body such as stress which causes the imbalance of the four elements.

The physical material component of Hilot is addressed through four modalities and this time focuses on external forces in order to restore balance between the four elements. The bio-chemical modality promotes chemical component changes through the process of breaking down foods, herbs, vitamins, and minerals. The neuro-electrical modality is the use of electricity, in the form of positive and negative ions, to break down material goods in the body. The goal of the third process, electro-magnetic field (EMF), is to cause a change in the neuro-electric field to restore the normal function of the body's cells. The final modality is the bio-mechanical process which is the modality that has chiropractic similarities. This process focuses and manipulates the interaction of bones, tendons, and muscles to restore their normal functions. The direction of treatment among all four modalities is from material components (outer) to the inner components of the body.

Practitioners
Practitioners of hilot are both the manghihilot and the magpapaanak:

Manghihilot
The manghihilot ("massager", "folk massage therapist", "folk chiropractor") uses massaging techniques to treat sprains, fractures, and other similar conditions that affect the skeletal system and the musculatory system, including ligaments. The practice treats illnesses a variety of ways based on its own universal law and natural Law (physical manipulation, herbal remedies, and dietary/life style advice). Manghihilots are either chosen by maestros or master albularyos, or through apprenticeship. Gender is not a limiting factor since they can be any gender. When chosen, their trainings include a pilgrimage to a sacred mountain to perform the oracions, or words enabling the communication with the spirit world or the panawagan. Similar to the albularyo practice, the hilot is a fusion of spiritual and medicinal practices with physical manipulation and the focus of healing the whole body being the main distinctions between the two practices. Illnesses were referred to as pilay and were defined by imbalances in the body which are explained by their enkanto, or unseen entities, elements, and manifestations in the body. This practice shares similarities with India's Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Magpapaanak
The magpapaanak, the other "hilot", is the folk "midwife" who does prenatal visits and check-ups to pregnant mothers. Normally a woman, she delivers babies during childbirth and often performs the ritual called the suob (a form of "aroma therapy" performed while placed under a cloak).

Traditional Chinese Medicine similarities
The geopolitical position of the Philippines as either being the gateway to either enter or exit Southeast Asia has allowed the exchanging of medical knowledge between immigrants, whether they are colonial predecessors or neighboring countries. The Chinese diaspora (see also: Chinese mestizos) showed one exchange. The trade between China and the Philippines was recorded as early as the eighth century and enhanced in the sixteenth century. The activity of trade during the sixteenth century was especially active because of the Manila-Acapulco Galleons. The methods used by manghihilots is similar to the Chinese acupuncture study of the Yellow Emperor's Body, the idea that the body through fluids of energy known as a yin and yang, in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Native Filipino medicine uses the four elements (earth, water, fire, and air) to diagnose conditions while TCM views the conditions of the body through the Five Element Theory: fire, earth, wind, metal, water, and wood. Another similarity is the diagnosis of imbalance caused by engkantos, or the unseen entities within the body. For instance, the manghihilot may describe a person who is having trouble breathing air by calling that trouble engkanto sa hangin meaning air entity. This person's actual condition may be asthma according to Western medicine. In TCM, this imbalance may be explained by the imbalance set between yin and yang (the force of yin may be dominating the body and vice versa). Other similar approaches to diagnosing include herbs (not necessarily accompanied by the blessing of it shown in the Albularyo practice), taking patient history, facial diagnosis, and tongue diagnosis. Current research on the Hilot shows that it is not clear as to whether or not the Chinese medicine had a direct influence on the Hilot or the Hilot had an influence on TCM because it is not clear whether these Hilot methods were a coincidence of similarities or borrowed from Traditional Chinese Medicine since the people coming from Southern China were primarily involved in commerce. It is also not clear which Indigenous practices originated from Ayurveda. It is not known whether these merchants had medical knowledge.

Present day
The sophistication of the practice has evolved over time and is still being practiced, primarily in rural areas of the Philippines. The challenges of incorporating traditional/alternative medicine into the Philippine national health care system shows the competition against Western medicine because of the stigma of superstition and the lack of scholarly evidence to prove alternative medicine effective. There are organizations advocating for the fusion of both western medicine and alternative medicine out of the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act (TAMA) passed in 1997 to make healthcare accessible in rural areas. The Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC) is one of the advocacy groups formed from TAMA and one of their objectives is to: "Encourage scientific research on and develop traditional and alternative health care systems that have direct impact on public health care". With this objective, the organization advocates for the continuation and legitimization of hilot. The ancient practice of the hilot has become a debate in public health policy in the Philippines.

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Treaty of Windsor

Several treaties are named Treaty of Windsor. The most famous is the treaty of 1386 between England and Portugal, the world's oldest recorded allegiance between two nations.

 * Treaty of Windsor (1175) between England and Ireland.
 * Treaty of Windsor (1386) between England and Portugal.
 * Treaty of Windsor (1522) between England and the Holy Roman Empire.
 * Treaty of Windsor (1899) between England and Portugal.

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Talk:Ernie Els

Earnings in board
I assume the amounts in the board are expressed in US dollars, right? This needs to be made clearer (it doesn't suffice to mark "$" in there, since in many countries there's no automatic association with US currency). Furthermore, I wonder about the accuracy of those numbers. As the very article states, Els plays all over the world, which means that he gets paid in several different currencies. Converting all those into one single total, expressed in one single currency is not that simple (in fact, top players regularly complain about it). Is there a trustworthy source behind those numbers (the PGA? Els's official website?). In order to avoid this type of doubt, it would be better to quote the origin of the figures. Regards, Redux 00:52, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I've added a wikilink to the US dollar article, but I think the number of people who would be in doubt about which type of dollar is meant when winning figures are quoted for a US based tour would be rather small. All PGA tour events except the British Open have prizes in US dollars (including the 2 in Canada) Oliver Chettle 05:20, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Wine
Little mention is made of his winery. As this is a very succesful venture and now includes a restaurant, should this not be mentioned more prominently (i.e. in the section on "Other ventures")? --83.160.198.125 (talk) 17:01, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Ernie Els 'self-proclaimed avid cocaine user' ???
I haven't attempted to edit a wiki before and am not doing so now, but reading the Wikipedia article on Ernie Els yielded an isolated statement in the Background section that Ernie was a 'self-proclaimed avid cocaine user'. This potentially libelous statement was unsubstantiated in the rest of the article and a google search came up empty. I find it hard to believe that Ernie is big into coke. In any case, it needs to be substantiated beyond what the article offers. 216.152.186.182 (talk) 05:26, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

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Gunton

Gunton may refer to:

Places

 * Gunton, Manitoba, Canada
 * Gunton, Norfolk, England
 * St Andrew's Church, Gunton, a redundant church near Gunton Hall, Norfolk
 * Gunton railway station in Thorpe Market, Norfolk
 * Gunton, Suffolk, England
 * Gunton Hall, Norfolk

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Bank of China Group

Bank of China Group (中銀集團; BOCG) was the brand used to denote 13 banks that were almost entirely owned by the Chinese government that operated in Hong Kong, until their merger in 2001 to form Bank of China (Hong Kong). The exception was the Hong Kong branch of the Bank of Communications, which left BOCG in 1998. The BOCG brand is still retained by the life insurance and casualty insurance operations of the Bank of China, in both Hong Kong and Mainland China.

History
The opening of a branch of the Bank of China in Hong Kong in 1917 marked the entry of state-owned Chinese banks into the then colony's banking sector. Other banks soon followed suit, starting with Yien Yieh Commercial Bank in 1918.

By the time the People's Republic of China was established in 1949, there were 15 branches of state owned Chinese banks in Hong Kong, plus branches of nine Mainland-incorporated banks that were public-private joint ventures, namely:

 * Sin Hua Bank Limited (SHB)
 * China & South Sea Bank Limited (CSSB)
 * Kincheng Banking Corporation (KBC)
 * China State Bank Limited (CSBL)
 * The National Commercial Bank Limited (TNCB)
 * The Yien Yieh Commercial Bank Limited (YYCB)
 * Young Brothers Banking Corporation
 * Wo Sang Bank
 * National Industrial Bank of China

In addition, the Chinese government established Po Sang Bank in 1949 and Nanyang Commercial Bank in 1950. Both of these were incorporated in Hong Kong.

Centralised management
In 1952, the nine public-private banks were grouped into the Joint Office of Joint Public-Private Banks. The Hong Kong branches of three of these (namely Young Brothers Banking Corporation, Wo Sang Bank and National Industrial Bank of China were closed in 1954 when their parents were scrapped, and management of the remaining six public-private banks were transferred to the Hong Kong and Macau Regional Office of the Bank of China in 1958. The Bank of China later took over management of the Hong Kong branches of Kwangtung Provincial Bank, Hua Chiao Commercial Bank and the Bank of Communications. All three were incorporated in the Mainland.

1970-1980s
The Bank of China began accumulating stakes in Chiyu Banking Corporation in the 1970s. In June 1975, the Bank of China moved to increase the capital of the public-private banks. As all of the new capital were from the Chinese government, private ownership in the public-private banks were substantially reduced to less than 1%.

The 14 banks were rebranded as part of the Bank of China Group in the 1980s, after a common IT platform was established. Treasury and foreign currency exchange operations were also centralised.

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Sieraków

Sieraków is a town in western Poland with 8,768 inhabitants (2012). Located by the Warta River, it is situated in the Międzychód County in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. Sieraków is known as a holiday destination with well-developed tourism and sport infrastructure. It is surrounded by extensive areas of forest and lakes, including the protected area called Sieraków Landscape Park.

History
As part of the region of Greater Poland, i.e. the cradle of the Polish state, the area formed part of Poland since its establishment in the 10th century. It was a private town, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.

During the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Sieraków, under its Germanized name Zirke was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia. Following the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw. After the duchy's dissolution in 1815, it was re-annexed by Prussia. The local population was subjected to Germanisation policies. In 1871, it also became part of Germany and was located in the Birnbaum district in the Prussian Province of Posen. According to the census of 1871, the town had a population of 2,527, of which 1,130 (44.7%) were Poles.

The town was captured by Polish insurgents in the Greater Poland uprising in 1919 and was subsequently assigned to the Second Polish Republic through the Treaty of Versailles. During World War II in 1939, the town was occupied by Nazi Germany and was annexed as part of the Birnbaum district in Reichsgau Wartheland. In 1939–1940, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, whose houses were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy. The Polish resistance was active in the town. The leader of the local unit of the Grey Ranks was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent to prisons in Poznań and eventually to the Mauthausen concentration camp where he died in 1944. Towards the end of the war in 1945, it was captured by the Red Army and was restored to Poland.

In 1975–1998, it was administratively located in the Poznań Voivodeship.

Notable residents

 * Lewis Naphtali Dembitz (1833–1907), German American legal scholar
 * Raphael Lasker (1838–1904), German-American rabbi
 * Hartmut Neugebauer (1942-2017) German actor and voice actor
 * Krzysztof Opaliński (1611-1655), Polish nobleman and political satirist

Major corporations

 * WartaGlass
 * Glass Work Majchrzak

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Thunder (band)

Thunder are an English hard rock band from London. Formed in 1989, the group was founded by former Terraplane members Danny Bowes (lead vocals), Luke Morley (guitar, backing vocals) and Gary "Harry" James (drums), along with second guitarist and keyboardist Ben Matthews and bassist Mark "Snake" Luckhurst. Originally signed to EMI Records in the UK, the band released their debut album Backstreet Symphony in 1990, which reached number 21 on the UK Albums Chart and number 114 on the US Billboard 200. The 1992 follow-up Laughing on Judgement Day reached number 2, while both albums were certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). All nine singles released from the two albums reached the UK Singles Chart top 40.

Luckhurst left the band in late 1992, and was replaced the following February by former Great King Rat bassist Mikael Höglund. The new lineup recorded only one studio album, Behind Closed Doors, which peaked at number 5 in the UK and spawned three UK top 40 singles. The 1995 compilation Their Finest Hour (And a Bit) reached number 22 in the UK and was certified silver by the BPI. Höglund left in 1996 and was replaced by Chris Childs, after Morley performed bass on fourth album The Thrill of It All, which reached the UK top 20. Thunder's 1998 live album Live reached number 35 on the UK Albums Chart, while the following year's fifth studio album Giving the Game Away reached number 49. The band broke up in early 2000 due to "outside business forces".

After a brief hiatus, Thunder returned in 2002 and formed their own record label, STC Recordings. The band's sixth studio album Shooting at the Sun was released the following year, supported by the UK top 50 single "Loser". After three more new studio albums – 2005's The Magnificent Seventh, 2006's Robert Johnson's Tombstone and 2008's Bang! – Thunder decided to break up in 2009. Two years later, however, the group returned for a third active spell, scheduling a number of sporadic live shows over the following years. A tenth studio album, Wonder Days, was released on the earMusic label in 2015, giving the band their first UK top ten since 1995 when it peaked at number 9. Rip It Up followed in 2017, reaching a peak UK Albums Chart position of number 3.

1989–1991: Early years and debut studio album
On 1 January 1989, at the group's annual New Year's Day meeting, Terraplane was disbanded by vocalist Danny Bowes and guitarist Luke Morley, who decided to form a new band under the name Thunder. Later in the month, the pair recorded a number of demos at Great Linford Manor Studios in Milton Keynes with producer Andy Taylor and engineer Ben Matthews, as well as Terraplane drummer Gary "Harry" James, who was brought in after the initially planned drummer failed to attend. According to Morley, the band name was chosen as a combination of two elements: a song he had written called "Distant Thunder", and Taylor's debut solo album. Enlisting Bad Company's Steve Price to play bass temporarily (Morley played bass as well as guitar on the Linford Manor demos), the group invited a number of record labels to their rehearsals in London, and later signed with EMI in April. Mark "Snake" Luckhurst joined Thunder as the group's original bassist on 2 May 1989, having been recommended by James after the two had performed together in Hellfire Corner. The band's lineup was completed with the addition of Matthews, who had earlier played keyboards for Terraplane's last two shows and engineered Thunder's January demos. Thunder played their first live show on 13 July 1989 at the Reid's Club in Southend-on-Sea, the first date in a short run of seven UK dates dubbed "The Toilet Tour". In August the band returned to the Great Linford Manor to record their debut studio album, again working with Taylor as producer. The album was mixed at London's AIR Studios by Mike Fraser, who also engineered the record. "She's So Fine" was released as the first single from the upcoming album on 30 October, after which the band embarked on a 27-date tour of the UK and Ireland dubbed the "Static Discharge Tour", which included two shows supporting Aerosmith at the NEC Arena in Birmingham. "Dirty Love" was released in February 1990 and entered the UK Singles Chart at number 40, before peaking the following week at number 32. The band's debut album Backstreet Symphony was released on 5 March and entered the UK Albums Chart at its peak position of number 21. By 1991, it had been certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Four more tracks from Backstreet Symphony were later issued as singles – the title track, "Gimme Some Lovin'", a reissue of "She's So Fine", and "Love Walked In" – all of which reached the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. Writing for Classic Rock magazine in 2002, journalist Dave Ling claimed that the album was "greeted with critical rapture", calling it "one of the all-time great hard rock debuts". AllMusic's Alex Henderson, however, proposed that while the record "wasn't lacking when it came to spirit and enthusiasm", it displayed Thunder as "[not] the most original or groundbreaking band in the world". Backstreet Symphony was featured at number 7 on the Kerrang! "Albums of the Year" feature for 1990, and in 2008 was voted by the magazine's readers to be the 84th best British rock album of all-time. Backstreet Symphony was promoted on a UK tour running from late February through until the end of March, after which Thunder travelled to the United States to perform a pair of shows for American media and meet with EMI's sister label Capitol Records, who had originally released the album in the US. According to journalist Mick Wall, who had been travelling with Thunder for a number of months, "Capitol in America were notorious at the time for not supporting acts signed to EMI in the UK", which resulted in the band splitting with the label shortly after their meeting. Thunder continued touring in support of their debut album, including a stint supporting Heart in April and May, and another supporting Love/Hate in July, both in Europe. On 18 August they performed for the first time at Monsters of Rock, which was headlined by Whitesnake. After splitting with Capitol earlier in the year, the band signed a US deal with Geffen Records in September, who reissued Backstreet Symphony with a new cover the following April. In June 1991, the album peaked at number 114 on the Billboard 200. Singles "Dirty Love" and "Love Walked In" reached number 10 and number 31, respectively, on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.

1991–1996: UK chart success and bassist change
After continuing to promote their debut album Backstreet Symphony in various regions around the world throughout 1991, Thunder began recording their second studio album on 3 February 1992 at Outside Studios, which was later mixed at AIR Studios in June. The band worked with producer Andy Taylor again, although the album was co-produced by Luke Morley. In July 1992, the band supported Iron Maiden on a tour of South America which visited Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, before they performed at Monsters of Rock for the second time the following month, which was also headlined by Iron Maiden. Also in August, "Low Life in High Places" was released as the first single from the band's second album, reaching number 22 on the UK Singles Chart, before Laughing on Judgement Day itself was released and debuted at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart – the band's highest album chart position to date. The album was Thunder's second release to receive a gold certification from the BPI, which it did in January 1993. Later singles "Everybody Wants Her", "A Better Man" and "Like a Satellite" all registered on the UK Singles Chart top 40 ("A Better Man" peaked at number 18, the highest UK Singles Chart position for the band to date).

Thunder embarked on their Laughing All Over the World Tour on 1 October 1992, beginning with a run of 19 headline shows in the UK supported by Australian band The Screaming Jets. The band saw the year out supporting Extreme on a European tour in November, followed by a short run of dates in Japan in December. By the end of the year, Luckhurst had left the band. Morley has revealed that Luckhurst was sacked from the group, due to an incident in which the bassist threw a birthday cake at photographer Ross Halfin, after he requested for photos of only Morley and Bowes together. He was replaced the following February by Swedish bassist Mikael "Micke" Höglund, who was selected from a number of auditionees for the role including former Terraplane member Nick Linden, who claims he "got down to the last two candidates". The band continued touring throughout the rest of 1993, including a number of festival appearances in the summer, and later toured as their alter egos "Danny & the Doo Wops".

For their third studio album (and first with Höglund), Thunder primarily recorded at Southern Tracks in Atlanta and Rumbo Recorders in Los Angeles, with additional sessions taking place at Jacobs Studios in Farnham, Surrey, Armoury Studios in the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia, and the Record Plant in Los Angeles, where the album was also mixed. Mike Fraser, who had previously engineered and mixed Backstreet Symphony, produced the album alongside Morley. "Stand Up" was released as the album's lead single in December 1994, peaking at number 23 on the UK Singles Chart. Behind Closed Doors followed on 23 January 1995, reaching a peak position of number 5 on the UK Albums Chart and receiving a silver certification from the BPI. "River of Pain" was issued as the album's second single in February, reaching number 31 in the UK, followed by "Castles in the Sand" in April which reached number 30. In June 1995, the band won the Kerrang! Award for Best British Live Act.

The Behind Closed Doors Tour commenced in Germany on 5 April 1995 and included shows in Europe, the UK and Japan, wrapping up on 1 September in Tokyo. Later that month, the band released their first compilation album, The Best of Thunder: Their Finest Hour (And a Bit), promoted by the new song "In a Broken Dream" which reached number 26 on the UK Singles Chart and topped the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart. The album reached number 22 on the UK Albums Chart, number 3 on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart (behind AC/DC's Ballbreaker and One Hot Minute by Red Hot Chili Peppers), and was certified silver by the BPI. The compilation was promoted on the Their Finest Set (And a Bit) Tour, which included five shows in five UK cities between 27 September and 2 October.

1996–2002: Second bassist change and breakup
Morley, Matthews and James began writing new material with producer Taylor in January 1996, before entering the studio to record their fourth studio album in April. The album would be the band's first on their own B Lucky label, distributed by Castle Communications, with whom they signed in February that year. Recording took place at Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire, Wales and saw Morley handling bass duties in addition to guitar due to the absence of Höglund as a result of "family commitments". The album was completed by the end of May, after which Höglund announced that he was to leave Thunder permanently; he was replaced in the autumn by Chris Childs, formerly of Then Jericho. The Thrill of It All was released in Japan on 1 September 1996 through JVC, but was delayed elsewhere due to Matthews's diagnosis of tendinitis, which prevented him from playing guitar. The album was eventually released outside of Japan in February 1997, reaching number 14 on the UK Albums Chart.

After a Japanese run in January, the Thrill of It All UK Tour started in February and was followed by European dates in March; additional UK shows postponed due to Matthews's injury were rescheduled for April. Some UK dates were pushed back due to Bowes suffering pneumonia and laryngitis, and in July he underwent surgery on his knee which signalled a short break for the group, during which time Childs and James featured in the rock musical Carnaby Street, while Morley toured with Taylor's band The Power Station. Thunder signed with Eagle Records in November 1997, who would release the band's first live album, simply titled Live, the following February. The album reached number 35 on the UK Albums Chart and spawned the top 40 single "The Only One". Live was recorded over the course of four shows in Wolverhampton and London between 12 and 16 November 1997, and were promoted on European and UK tours (in addition to a run supporting Status Quo) in the spring of 1998.

The band also returned to the studio in April 1998 to record their fifth studio album Giving the Game Away. The first preview of the album was released in the form of the single "Play That Funky Music" in June, which reached the UK Singles Chart top 40. "Just Another Suicide" (renamed "You Wanna Know" for the UK release) was issued as the second single from the album in March 1999, reaching number 49 on the UK Singles Chart, followed a week later by the album which reached the same position on the UK Albums Chart. The band toured the UK in promotion of the album through May and early June, before announcing later in the year that they were due to break up, issuing a statement which outlined that "After a great deal of exploration, discussion and soul searching, we have decided to split up. The reasons are many and complex, but to cut a long story short, we feel we have no choice. We must stress that this decision is due to outside business forces and not down to any personal or musical differences within the band." Speaking about the decision to disband Thunder, Bowes explained that "It was a matter of simple economics. We were finding it increasingly hard to find a record company that would allow us to compete", while Morley added that "There was no way to expand".

The UK Farewell Tour ran through December 1999, followed by a run in Japan the following March. The final Thunder show took place on 4 May at Dingwalls in London, and featured an acoustic set followed by a regular "electric" set. The final show was recorded for the live album They Think It's All Over... It Is Now, which was released in July 2000; the acoustic set was also later issued as They Think It's All Acoustic... It Is Now in May 2001. After Thunder's breakup, Morley released his debut solo album El Gringo Retro in March 2001, Bad Influence featuring James and Childs released their second studio album One Way Love in May 2001, James joined Magnum in February 2002, and Bowes and Morley released an album together entitled Moving Swiftly Along in May 2002, under the name "Bowes & Morley".

2002–2009: Reformation and second active spell
In July 2002, it was announced that Thunder would be reuniting for a series of shows in November marketed under the Monsters of Rock brand. In a post online, Bowes confirmed the news, which had been leaked without permission, but reiterated that it would be "a non permanent reformation" which the band agreed to "as it gives us the ability to play again without having to commit to anything long-term". The band also began recording a new studio album in October, and in December formed their own record label, STC Recordings. STC stands for "Straight Talk Company", as Bowes says "I give you the news the same way; whether it's good or bad, I give it to you straight". Shooting at the Sun received a limited release online in March, and was later released throughout Europe in August by Frontiers Records. The album did not register on the UK Albums Chart, but did spawn the UK Singles Chart top 50 single "Loser". The band toured in promotion of the album throughout much of the rest of 2003, and early 2004.

Thunder recorded their seventh studio album between June and August 2004, as well as playing a number of European festivals in July. The album was recorded at Chapel Studios in South Thoresby, produced by Morley and engineered and mixed by Rupert Coulson. In November the band supported Deep Purple alongside Peter Frampton on a tour of the UK, before "I Love You More Than Rock 'n' Roll" was released as a single and reached number 27 on the UK Singles Chart. The Magnificent Seventh was released in the UK on 21 February 2005 and a day later in Europe, debuting at number 70 on the UK Albums Chart and number 5 on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart. The album was released a month later in Japan, and in mid-April internationally on iTunes. The Magnificent Seventh Tour started in the UK in March, followed by European dates in April and June, a Japanese leg running into July, a second string of shows in Europe in December, and a return to the UK the following January.

The band's eighth studio album, Robert Johnson's Tombstone, followed in October 2006, peaking at number 56 on the UK Albums Chart. The album's only single, "The Devil Made Me Do It", was the group's 18th (and to date, latest) single to reach the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. Touring for the album commenced in the UK in November, followed by European shows in March 2007, a number of festival appearances in the summer, and three dates in Japan in September. In October 2007, the band released the first in a series of extended plays (EPs) – Six of One... – which featured three previously unreleased studio tracks and three live recordings from the UK tour the previous November. The follow-up, ...Half a Dozen of the Other, was issued in April 2008 and also featured three studio tracks and three live recordings. The third and final EP of the trilogy, The Joy of Six, was issued alongside the band's ninth studio album Bang! on 3 November 2008. The album reached number 62 on the UK Albums Chart.

In January 2009, after a short UK tour promoting Bang!, it was announced that Thunder were due to split up again. The band released a statement which explained that "we've found ourselves becoming increasingly busy with our various activities outside of the band, and we've come to the conclusion that there are simply not enough hours in the day to fit it all in", adding that they would complete scheduled tours in Europe in February and Japan in April, as well as adding a final run of UK shows in July. The final show of the UK tour, at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, was documented on the live video album At the End of the Road: Live in London, 11th July 2009 released later in the year. The band's final shows took place at Rock of Ages and Sonisphere Festival on 31 July and 1 August, respectively.

2009–2022: Hiatus, and return
After Thunder's breakup, Morley formed The Union with former Winterville frontman Peter Shoulder, while Childs also joined on bass. The band released their self-titled debut album in August 2010, which debuted at number 77 on the UK Albums Chart. Subsequent albums Siren's Song (2011) and The World Is Yours (2013) each charted in the UK top 100. Bowes and James featured on former Bad Company guitarist Dave "Bucket" Colwell's debut solo album Guitars, Beers & Tears (credited to "Bucket & Co.") – James performed drums on the whole album, while Bowes performed vocals on the song "Life". James also continued to record and tour with Magnum, who released the studio album The Visitation in 2011 which reached number 55 on the UK Albums Chart.

In February 2011, it was announced that Thunder would reunite for a performance at the High Voltage Festival on 24 July, although Bowes made it clear that "there's no plan to do any other recording going forwards", while Morley reiterated that it was a "one-off reunion". Following the festival, however, the band announced that they would perform another show on 21 December at Rock City in Nottingham, while Bowes and Matthews would also perform a short run of six "intimate sit down shows" the following February. A second show at Rock City was later added the day after the first. Both shows were documented on the live albums Rock City 12: The Baubles Are Back in Town and The Xmas Show 2011, released in 2012. Another pair of shows in December followed a year later, this time at the Manchester Academy, with the band committing to annual Christmas shows in the future. The band supported Journey and Whitesnake on tour in May 2013, as well as performing at a number of summer festivals.

In May 2014, Thunder announced that they were due to record their first studio album since 2008. A statement released by a spokesperson for the band stated that "after what has been a rather silly amount of knob-twiddling and string-pulling, I'm happy to report that they've decided to record a new studio album". Responding to the question over the band's "change of heart" regarding the possibility of new material, Bowes commented that they decided to record a new album after receiving an "overwhelming response" from fans when they supported Journey and Whitesnake the previous year. Sessions for the album took place at Rockfield Studios in Wales, with Morley producing the record. Much of the album was recorded without the involvement of Matthews, who was going through treatment for throat cancer at the time. Wonder Days was released in February 2015, and became the first Thunder album to reach the UK Albums Chart top ten since 1995's Behind Closed Doors, when it peaked at number 9. The album was voted the 11th best of 2015 by Classic Rock magazine, while the publication ranked the title track as the fifth best song of the year. Thunder were also named Best British Band at Planet Rock's end-of-year awards.

The band toured extensively in promotion of Wonder Days, including three UK arena shows in March alongside Reef and Tax the Heat, numerous festival appearances in the summer, a run of European shows in November (including one of the first in Paris, France following the November 2015 attacks), and five arena shows with Terrorvision and King King in February 2016.

Later in the year, the group released their first career-retrospective book Giving the Game Away: The Thunder Story, written by Joel McIver. The book was launched at the Louder Than Words Festival in Manchester on 12 November 2016, where the band performed a short acoustic set and spoke with McIver live.

The follow-up to Wonder Days was announced in December to be Rip It Up, which would be released the following February and supported by a UK tour starting in March. The album reached number 3 on the UK Albums Chart, marking the highest position achieved by the band since Laughing on Judgement Day reached number 2 in 1992. Thunder performed their first shows ever in Australia shortly after the album's release, before returning to Europe in April for a string of dates.

On 1 December 2017 the band released the single "Christmas Day", including a re-recorded version of "Love Walked In" and acoustic recordings of "Low Life in High Places" and "Heartbreak Hurricane".

In October 2018, the band announced a new album with UK tour dates scheduled for February. Please Remain Seated was released through new label BMG on 18 January 2019, with "twelve radically reworked re-recordings of songs from their 30 year career" and has been described as "a more quiet album, taking in influences from rock, blues, country, jazz and soul".

As of October 2022, the band's latest album is Dopamine, which contains sixteen songs and constitutes the group's first double-album. The first single goes by the title "The Western Sky". Music website Blabbermouth.net praised the song as featuring Thunder sounding "as immediate as ever" while also labeling "The Western Sky" as a "razor-sharp, riff-driven track". The related music video, which focuses on motorcycle touring among various isolated landscapes, made its YouTube debut on 17 February 2022.

2022 – present: Danny's illness, temporary hiatus, solo projects.
Luke Morley confirmed in an interview in November 2023 that Thunder were currently on a break, following Danny's illness, and released a solo album, Songs from the Blue Room. He also confirmed that he had recorded an album and would tour with the Quireboys, led by singer Spike, who he had known since the 1980s.

Band members
Current members Former members Timeline
 * Danny Bowes – lead vocals (1989–2000, 2002–2009, 2011–present)
 * Luke Morley – guitar, keyboards, harmonica, mandolin, backing vocals (1989–2000, 2002–2009, 2011–present)
 * Ben Matthews – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals (1989–2000, 2002–2009, 2011–present)
 * Chris Childs – bass, backing vocals (1996–2000, 2002–2009, 2011–present)
 * Gary "Harry" James – drums, percussion, guitar, backing vocals (1989–2000, 2002–2009, 2011–present)
 * Mark "Snake" Luckhurst – bass, backing vocals (1989–1992)
 * Mikael "Micke" Höglund – bass, backing vocals (1993–1996)

Discography
Studio albums
 * Backstreet Symphony (1990)
 * Laughing on Judgement Day (1992)
 * Behind Closed Doors (1995)
 * The Thrill of It All (1996)
 * Giving the Game Away (1999)
 * Shooting at the Sun (2003)
 * The Magnificent Seventh! (2005)
 * Robert Johnson's Tombstone (2006)
 * Bang! (2008)
 * Wonder Days (2015)
 * Rip It Up (2017)
 * Please Remain Seated (2019)
 * All the Right Noises (2021)
 * Dopamine (2022)

Concert tours
• The Toilet Tour (1989)

• Static Discharge Tour (1989)

• Backstreet Symphony Tour (1990–1991)

• Drink Canada Dry Tour (1991)

• Laughing All Over the World Tour (1992–1993)

• Stand Up and Be Counted Tour (1994)

• Behind Closed Doors Tour (1995)

• Their Finest Set (And a Bit) Tour (1995)

• The Thrill of It All Tour (1997)

• The Live Tour (1998)

• Giving the Game Away Tour (1999)

• The Farewell Tour (1999–2000)

• Monsters of Rock Arena Tour (2002)

• Shooting at the Sun Tour (2003–2004)

• The Magnificent Seventh Tour (2005–2006)

• Robert Johnson's Tombstone Tour (2006–2007)

• Six of One... Tour (2007)

• Bang! Tour (2008)

• 20 Years & Out: The Farewell Tour (2009)

• Wonder Days Tour (2015–2016)

• Rip It Up Tour (2017)

• Please Remain Seated Tour (2019)

• Dopamine Tour (2022)

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Tuesday Morning Quarterback

"Tuesday Morning Quarterback" was a column written by Gregg Easterbrook that started in 2000 and published every football season until temporarily stopping publication for the 2016 season. The column moved to The Weekly Standard for the 2017 NFL season, debuting on August 22, 2017.

The column is noted for its length (it often runs over 15 pages in printed form) and frequent sidetracking into political and non-football-related discussion. Easterbrook commonly includes a "Running Items Department", football haiku and senryū, "Cheerbabe Cheesecake" and "Equal-Time Beefcake", "obscure college-football scores" including his obsession with Indiana of Pennsylvania and California of Pennsylvania, and continual references to Christmas creep & the general trend of pushing events earlier and earlier (which he refers to as the "Unified Field Theory of Creep").

The column derives its name from the phrase "Monday morning quarterback", a derogatory term for a pundit (and the name of a competing long-read column by Peter King of Sports Illustrated). The change in day reflects its typical publishing date of Tuesday, which also allows the column to address that week's Monday Night Football contest. He also guarantees "All Predictions Wrong or Your Money Back." Since the column is free, there is nothing to be refunded.

On May 13, 2015, Easterbrook announced that ESPN had not renewed TMQ.

Easterbrook joined The Upshot, the blog of The New York Times, for the 2015 NFL season. The column went on hiatus in 2016. For the 2017 season, Easterbrook's columns were published by The Weekly Standard, until Week 15, when the whole magazine folded. Beginning with the first week of the 2023 NFL season, TMQ will be published on Gregg Easterbrook's Substack, "All Predictions Wrong."

Recurring themes
General themes which recur in the column include:

 * An emphasis on solid football fundamentals, as opposed to what Easterbrook considers an overemphasis on flashy, but risky, and often foolish plays, designed to obtain greater media coverage.
 * Bemoaning the tendency of teams to pass instead of run the football.
 * Analysis of coaching strategy and various excellent or atrocious plays and games.
 * Contending that most successful plays are usually the product of good offensive or defensive line play, rather than the prowess of any individual quarterback, running back or wide receiver.
 * Criticizing the overuse of the blitz
 * Commenting on coaches punting or kicking field goals instead of trying for first downs or touchdowns, which he mocks as "cowardly".
 * Mockery of most coaches in general, except for Bill Belichick with whom he has a conflicted relationship, due to his brilliant coaching yet recent ethical lapses.
 * Mockery of various publicity stunts and other public actions from individuals in the football world whom he considers foolish.
 * A continuing tirade against the NFL Sunday Ticket product available only through DirectTV, which he considers an illegal monopoly and an example of a for-profit corporation taking advantage of municipal taxpayers, who fund NFL stadium construction.
 * Advocates a "no punting" strategy on 4th down plays, as well as going for a two-point conversion when trailing by one in the final seconds of a game, citing the higher expected value of a successful conversion vs. turning the ball over to the opponent, and bemoaning coaches who do not take the risk. The crux of Easterbrook's argument is that the average yards gained on a play is 5 yards. Analysts, however, have stated this theory is short-sighted, since it does not take into account the fact that 4th-and-short attempts usually face goal-line defenses; as such, the two-point conversion, which takes place only two yards from the end zone, is more likely to fail than not, with a 40% success rate. Easterbrook disputes this analysis and claims that the real percentage is between 50% and 55%.
 * Criticizing several local markets' tendency to air lackluster games as opposed to more competitive matchups, except when a local team is playing, which by NFL rules with the television contracts are required to be shown in their home market in their entirety.
 * Criticizing teams that make uniform changes, having cited only four recent team uniform changes (New England, Philadelphia, San Diego, and St. Louis) as being an improvement. In particular, Easterbrook hates the monochrome look of several teams, leading to the cognomen for Atlanta, Denver, and Seattle, while having mixed opinions on teams wearing throwbacks, favoring the Chargers' 1960s look, Buffalo Bills O. J. Simpson-era uniforms, and the Redskins 70th Anniversary throwbacks but not caring much for throwbacks worn by the Eagles, Steelers, or the New York Jets decision to return to the Joe Namath-era uniforms full-time in 1998.
 * Highlighting examples of running up the score at all levels of football and counterexamples of the same team losing, as an illustration of bad karma. (Easterbrook will occasionally and facetiously compare the two scores, add the margin of loss to the margin of victory, and extrapolate a transitive relation, suggesting that the team whom the runners lost to would have beaten the team the runners had won against by an even larger margin.) Easterbrook does not object to running up the score in the NFL, with the caveat that tragedy follows greed for those who do so.

Easterbrook also espouses certain football superstitions attributed to a "pantheon" of "football gods" who bestow victory upon the team with the least warmly dressed coach (Cold Coach = Victory), the most sportsmanlike conduct, the most spirited play, or the most scantily dressed cheerleaders (especially in cold weather); Easterbrook also highlights one particularly attractive cheerleader from an NFL team each week.

Also, the column is known for randomly placed items and rants on various topics on politics, science fiction, actual science, and various television, film, and pop culture items. Photographs and captions accompany the columns which are often designed to be ridiculously humorous metaphors or caricatures of various persons or items mentioned in the column.

"TMQ" team nicknames
Easterbrook refers to teams by nicknames or "cognomen", such as "Potomac Drainage Basin Indigenous Persons" (Washington Redskins) and "Arizona CAUTION: MAY CONTAIN FOOTBALL-LIKE SUBSTANCE Cardinals" (Arizona Cardinals). The nicknames are usually used only if a team is struggling or if the team made a boneheaded play that cost them a game. One exception is the Redskins, whom Easterbrook criticized because of the team's Native American mascot. The nicknames also extends into college football, calling the Miami Hurricanes the "Miami Tropical Storms" having been downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, likely in reference to the 2011 scandal.

Beginning with the 2014 season, Easterbrook largely abandoned cognomens for teams, preferring to call the teams by their actual names. Exceptions were made for the Redskins (whose nickname had got more mainstream controversy in recent years and was ultimately retired in 2020) and teams that play a considerable distance from their home city like the Giants, Jets, and 49ers. As of the 2017 season, Easterbrook still maintains an official list of cognomen.

Easterbrook also frequently referred to defensive coordinator Gregg Williams as being "tastefully named", due to the two sharing the first name of Gregg. He has used the nickname throughout Williams' various coaching stops in Buffalo, Washington, New Orleans and St. Louis, but apparently stopped it once Williams' role in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal was revealed and he was banned indefinitely from the league.

Tuesday Morning Quarterback Non-QB Non-RB NFL MVP award
According to Easterbrook, the "longest [named] award in sports". This is the top award in a series of awards he publishes at the end of each season, known as the "All-Unwanted All-Pros." These awards were created due to Easterbrook's view that the awards and Pro Bowl selection of various sports media outlets and the NFL tended to unfairly reward what he considered "glory boy" positions, such as quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers, as well as players who tended to be better known due to higher press coverage as opposed to actual quality of play. (New England Patriots wideout Troy Brown, who won the award in 2004 despite primarily being a wide receiver, was considered an exception since he also played cornerback that season after the Patriots had a rash of injuries at the position during the season.) Easterbrook also was protesting the lack of attention given to offensive or defensive linemen whom he considers the most important positions in football. Criteria tend to vary from year to year but generally includes players who either were undrafted or cut from previous teams, but otherwise managed to play important or pivotal roles with their current teams over the course of the season. Originally, they also had to be on a playoff team even to be considered; starting in, Easterbrook restricted eligibility even further, only allowing players on Super Bowl teams to be considered. The 2013 award, given to Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, was the first to be determined by online voting from TMQ readers. Most of the winners through the 2011 season were offensive linemen, but the last five winners have been defensive players.

Kill Bill controversy
ESPN fired Easterbrook after he made comments about Jewish Hollywood executives and film Kill Bill on a blog hosted by The New Republic. Easterbrook apologized for his comments and resumed his "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" column, temporarily for two weeks on the independent website Football Outsiders, and then more permanently for NFL.com. During his stint on NFL.com, Easterbrook was also an analyst for the then-fledgling NFL Network. On April 24, 2006, it was announced that Easterbrook would be brought back to ESPN's website after a two-year absence. His return column, a preview of the 2006 NFL Draft, appeared the following day.

Spygate
Easterbook's column has been highly critical of Bill Belichick with relation to the "Spygate" controversy, calling for Belichick's suspension from the league. Easterbrook's most controversial article was "Suspending Belichick will bring closure to Spygate". Easterbrook's imaginative proposals led one reader to mockingly call him "Mr. Fantasy."

Easterbrook's response to Spygate was criticized by his fellow "Page Two" columnist (and self-professed Patriots fan) Bill Simmons. "If you have a national column in which you're excoriating a sports team for cheating even though it already paid a severe penalty for what it did, and you're hinting more revelations are coming down the road, and then it's proven you were barking up the wrong tree ... you need to admit defeat and quit blowing the situation out of proportion. No, really."

After the Rams and Patriots again reached the Super Bowl in 2019, Easterbrook tweeted the accusation that Belichick videotaped the Rams walkthrough the first time around.

title: Tuesday Morning Quarterback