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Nancy Millis

Nancy Fannie Millis  (10 April 1922 – 29 September 2012) was an Australian microbiologist and Emeritus Professor who introduced fermentation technologies to Australia, and created the first applied microbiology course taught in an Australian university.

Biography
Millis was born in Melbourne in 1922, the fifth child of six. She attended high school at Merton Hall, Melbourne Girls Grammar, but had to leave before completing her studies when her father had a heart attack. She attended business college, then worked for a customs agent and then as a technician at the CSIRO. Millis Matriculated part-time, taking two years to complete her high school studies. The University of Melbourne refused her entry into the Bachelor of Science; however, she could gain entry to the degree of agricultural science. In 1945 she graduated with a BAgSc, and went on to complete a master's degree in 1946 studying the soil organism Pseudomonas.

Millis travelled to Papua New Guinea with the Department of External Affairs to teach women agricultural methods. However, her posting was cut short due to serious illness that almost claimed her life and she was airlifted to hospital in Brisbane. After recovering from her illness she applied for a Boots Research Scholarship at the University of Bristol. She spent three years at Bristol working on the fermentation of cider, and microorganisms that can affect the process. This led Nancy in her lifelong passion in anything that ferments.

When she completed her PhD in 1951, Millis returned to Australia; she had hoped to work for Carlton United Brewery, but at that time they did not employ women in their laboratories. She joined the Department of Microbiology at the University of Melbourne in 1952 and worked as a demonstrator, and then as a lecturer, setting up the Applied Microbiology course at the University. In 1954 Millis was awarded a Fulbright Travel Grant; she went to Hopkins Marine Station at Stanford University and worked with C B Van Neil, and then to the Institute of Applied Microbiology at the University of Tokyo.

Millis was the Chancellor of La Trobe University from 1992 until her retirement in 2006.

She died on 29 September 2012, aged 90.

Honours
Millis was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1977 New Year's Honours. She was awarded Australia's highest civilian honour, Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), in the Queen's Birthday Honours 1990. She was awarded the Centenary Medal on 1 January 2001.

She was one of six scientists featured in the 2002 Australian Legends series of postage stamps.

She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA), a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Victoria (FRSV) in 1999. The Nancy Millis Room at the Royal Society of Victoria is dedicated to her distinguished contribution to science in the State of Victoria at the Society.

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Christian F. Schilt

Christian Frank Schilt (March 19, 1895 – January 8, 1987) was an American general in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was one of the first Marine Corps aviators and a recipient of the United States highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor. He received the Medal for using his biplane to evacuate wounded Marines under fire in Nicaragua.

In addition to his actions in Nicaragua he saw action in World War I, the Haitian and Nicaraguan campaigns, World War II and the Korean War. He retired after nearly 40 years of active service and was promoted to the rank of four-star general at retirement.

Early life and education
Christian Frank Schilt was born March 19, 1895, in Richland County, Illinois, and after attending Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana, he enlisted in the Marine Corps June 23, 1917.

Military career
As an enlisted man he served at Ponta Delgada, in the Azores, with the 1st Marine Aeronautical Company, a seaplane squadron assigned to anti-submarine patrol. This was the first organized American air unit of any service to go overseas during World War I.

Returning to the United States as a corporal, he entered flight training at the Marine Flying Field, Miami, Florida. He was designated an aviator June 5, 1919, and commissioned a second lieutenant five days later. That October, he began his first tour of expeditionary duty as a member of Squadron "D," Marine Air Forces, 2nd Provisional Brigade, in Santo Domingo. He returned to the United States in February 1920, to enter the Marine Officers Training School, Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia.

Completing the course in August 1920, he went overseas again the following month, joining squadron "E" of the 1st Provisional Brigade, at Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was transferred to the 2d Brigade the following March to make an aerial survey and mosaic map of the coast line of the Dominican Republic. After completing that assignment he returned to Quantico in October 1922.

Except for service at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, from January to July 1923, and completion of a three-month photographic course at the Air Service Technical School, Chanute Field, Illinois, in 1925, Schilt remained at Quantico for the next five years. While attached to that post, he won second place in the Schneider International Seaplane Race at Norfolk, in November 1926, flying a special Curtiss racer at a speed of 231.3 mph (372.2 km/h) over seven laps of a triangular 50 km course. In November 1927, Schilt was ordered to Managua, Nicaragua, where he joined Observation Squadron 7-M. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism from 6 to January 8, 1928, at Quilali, Nicaragua, where two Marine patrols were ambushed and cut off by Sandino forces. Then a lieutenant, he voluntarily risked his life to make ten flights into the besieged town, evacuating 18 casualties and carrying in a replacement commander and badly needed medical supplies. To make a landing strip on the village's rough, rolling, main street, the Marines on the ground had to burn and level part of the town, and since his O2U Corsair biplane had no brakes they had to stop it by dragging from its wings as soon as it touched down.

Hostile fire on landings and take-offs, plus low-hanging clouds, mountains and tricky air currents, added to the difficulty of the flights, which the citation describes as feats of "almost superhuman skill combined with personal courage of the highest order." He returned to the United States in August 1929, and after commanding Fighter Squadron 5-N at Quantico, was named Chief Test Pilot and Flight and Aerological Officer at the Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia. He served in that capacity for two years before returning to Quantico in June 1932, to enter the Company Officers' Course at the Marine Corps Schools. He completed that course in July 1933, and a month later entered the Air Corps Tactical School at Montgomery, Alabama.

Graduating from the tactical school in June 1934, Schilt began another four years at Quantico, where he was air officer on the staff of the commanding general, Fleet Marine Force, and later a squadron commander with Aircraft One, Fleet Marine Force. He then served from May 1938 to June 1940, as executive officer of the Marine Corps Air Station St. Thomas, on the Virgin Islands. After that he returned to Quantico to complete the Senior Course in the Marine Corps Schools and serve with Base Air Detachment 1, Fleet Marine Force.

He left Quantico in May 1941, when he was assigned to the American embassy in London, United Kingdom, as an assistant naval attache for air. In that capacity he traveled through England and Scotland and served as a naval observer in North Africa and the Middle East. He returned to the United States in August 1941, and was assigned to Quantico as engineer and supply officer of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing.

In September 1942, he arrived on Guadalcanal as assistant chief of staff, 1st Marine Air Wing. After that he was commander of Marine Aircraft Group 11, Chief of Staff of the 1st Wing and commanding officer of the Strike and Search Patrol Commands, Solomon Islands. He returned to the United States in September 1943, and commanded Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, until March of the following year.

From April to June 1944, Schilt headed the 9th Marine Aircraft Wing during the organization of that unit. He then served for six months as chief of staff of the wing and for another month as its commander before returning to the Pacific theater in February 1945. This time he was Island Commander, Peleliu, from March to August 1945, and commanding general, Air Defense Command, 2d Marine Aircraft Wing, on Okinawa until October 1945, when he took command of the 2d Wing.

Returning from Okinawa in March 1946, the general reported to the Naval Air Station Glenview, Illinois, the following month. There he headed the Marine Air Reserve Training Command until July 1949, when he was ordered to Naval Station Norfolk as chief of staff, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic. He served in that capacity until he took command of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Korea in July 1951.

In April 1952, Schilt returned from Korea to serve in Hawaii as deputy commander, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, until February 1953 when he became commanding general, Aircraft, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, at the Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California. He left El Toro in July 1955, and assumed his duties at Headquarters Marine Corps as Director of Aviation on August 1, 1955, as a lieutenant general. He served in this capacity until retirement from the Marine Corps on April 1, 1957, when he was promoted to full general.

General Schilt died on January 8, 1987, at age 91, in Norfolk, Virginia, and was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery. His grave can be found in section 2E, lot 151–2.

Military awards and decorations
During his career he received the following military decorations:

Medal of Honor citation
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps. Place and date: Quilali, Nicaragua, 6, 7 and January 8, 1928. Entered service at: Illinois. Born: March 1, 1895, Richland County, Ill.

Citation: "During the progress of an insurrection at Quilali, Nicaragua, 6, 7, and 8 January 1928, 1st Lt. Schilt, then a member of a marine expedition which had suffered severe losses in killed and wounded, volunteered under almost impossible conditions to evacuate the wounded by air and transport a relief commanding officer to assume charge of a very serious situation. 1st Lt Schilt bravely undertook this dangerous and important task and, by taking off a total of 10 times in the rough, rolling street of a partially burning village, under hostile infantry fire on each occasion, succeeded in accomplishing his mission, thereby actually saving 3 lives and bringing supplies and aid to others in desperate need."

Distinguished Service Medal citation
Citation: "The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Medal to Major General Christian Franklin Schilt, United States Marine Corps, for exceptionally meritorious service to the United States while in a position of great responsibility from 27 July 1951 to 5 April 1952. As Commanding General of the FIRST Marine Air Wing, United States Marine Corps, General Schilt provided United Nations Forces engaged in action against the enemy in Korea with outstanding tactical air support for ground operations. Operating from three separate sites, including an aircraft carrier, General Schilt skillfully integrated his unit into Far East Air Forces interdiction program by implementing highly efficient fighter bomber, night intruder and night interdiction operations against enemy support missions. Concurrently, the Wing performed productive photo reconnaissance missions, helicopter airlift, and air rescue operations. The Wing contributed to the destruction of ammunition stockpiles, fuel lubrications and other combat material, and proved an efficient deterrent to the build-up of the enemy's war machine. Achieving success in all its operations, the Wing materially aided the overall Far East Air Forces operations. The outstanding combat efficiency of the First Marine Air Wing in sustained operations against the enemy in Korea was achieved through the able and mature guidance of General Schilt. His vast experience in aerial combat was not only a valuable source of aid to operations of the United Nations Forces, but also evoked the full and unceasing effort of his command toward the United Nations' objective in Korea. General Schilt's significant achievements in combat, and his resourceful leadership sustained the highest traditions of the military service and reflected great credit upon himself, the United States Marine Corps, and the United Nations forces."

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Waterside (Norfolk, Virginia)

The Waterside, is a festival marketplace on the Elizabeth River in downtown Norfolk, Virginia, opened June 1, 1983. While the Waterside Annex was demolished May 16, 2016, the main portion was renovated and reopened as Waterside District in May 2017.

Beginning in the late 1970s, mall-developer James W. Rouse and the Rouse Company had conceived the festival marketplace (e.g., Norfolk's Waterside) as an important component to redeveloping a declining downtown, a seminal catalyst to further development. The concept combined to varying degrees major restaurants, specialty retail shops, food courts and nightlife activities.

Like other shopping centers, malls and marketplaces, the Waterside has evolved through numerous business cycles. Originally, Waterside featured mostly restaurants like The Baitshack on the first floor. There were small nautically themed stores as well as an arcade. The balconied second floor featured more niche stores and kiosks. A second phase was added to the complex in the 1980s, while the mid-1990s saw a decline in business, mitigated by the opening of nearby MacArthur Center. In the early-2000s, the upstairs stores were replaced by entertainment venues, such as Jillian's arcade.

The Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority purchased the Waterside from its private owner, Enterprise Real Estate Services, in 1999, at the time considered a temporary arrangement. The Waterside delivered approximately $2.2 million in tax revenue in 2007, down $300,000 since 2004. Norfolk subsidized the facility with $1 million in 2008 for studying the next phase of the marketplace's repositioning.

Waterside District
The City of Norfolk and The Cordish Companies broke ground on the new Waterside District in August 2015. The new venue will be in the footprint of the old Waterside and consist of dining and entertainment venues. Its grand opening took place on May 11, 2017.

A critical component of Norfolk's ongoing post-World War II revitalization, the complex connects via a cross-street pedestrian bridge to a parking garage, sits at the foot of the Portsmouth Ferry terminal, and connects via a waterfront promenade to the downtown, the nearby baseball stadium (Harbor Park), naval museum (Nauticus) and waterfront neighborhood of Freemason Harbor.

The venue hosted the traveling SkyStar Wheel from May 19, 2018 until August 19, 2018.

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The Last Broadcast (album)

The Last Broadcast is the second studio album by British indie rock band Doves. The album was released by Heavenly Recordings on 29 April 2002, and went straight to number 1 on the UK Albums Chart. The album's first single "There Goes the Fear" entered the UK Singles Chart at number 3, the band's highest-charting single to date, despite being released and deleted on the same day. Two further singles, "Pounding" and "Caught by the River", were also successful, charting in the Top 30. The Last Broadcast garnered critical acclaim upon its release, and was a shortlist nominee for the Mercury Prize in 2002.

Background and recording
Following the success of their debut album Lost Souls and subsequent tours of the United Kingdom and their first tour of North America, the band entered the studio in January 2001 to begin work on the follow-up album. "When we went back into the studio this time, we were determined to get rid of the perception that people had of us," said Jimi Goodwin in an interview with NME. Jez Williams told NME, "This time around, we had a lot more confidence." In a 2010 interview with Spinner.com, Jez furthered, "It was like a big burst of energy... it affected our songwriting. We wanted it to be optimistic, more hopeful."

The band moved away from the Cheetham Hill studio they had recorded Lost Souls in for Revolution Studios in Manchester, Parr Street Studios in Liverpool, Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Bath, The Dairy and 2 kHz Studios in London, and a cottage in Lancashire (additionally, "M62 Song" is credited as being recorded under a flyover of the M62 motorway in Northenden. However, in a 2022 interview on the XS Long Player Podcast with Jim Salveson, Andy Williams revealed that the song was actually recorded under the M60 Motorway flyover but the band "got the name wrong" also adding that 'M62 Song' Sounds better anyway" ).

In a 2009 interview with QTheMusic.com, Jez said that the songs came quickly and effortlessly: "I had this little house in Northenden where my makeshift studio was. It took a couple of nights to get the backing track with the top line melody to 'There Goes the Fear'. Literally the next night I had 'Words' coming out of the speakers."

"Caught by the River" was the final song recorded for the album, which took form at a rehearsal room in Stockport called The Green Room. "Jimi, Andy and I just started to play these three chords. Jimi started to sing this great top line melody and there it was... very natural and easy. Andy started to write these very poignant lyrics about a friend of ours; everything started to click like at the start of the recording. That was the last piece of the jigsaw for the album," said Jez.

The band also incorporated string, brass, and woodwind arrangements into the songs, arranged by The High Llamas frontman Sean O'Hagan, as well as gospel choir vocals on "Satellites", while lead single "There Goes the Fear" features a Brazilian Carnival-inspired percussive outro. Doves wrote, recorded, and mixed the album within eight months, "which for Doves was incredibly fast," concluded Jez Williams.

"M62 Song" is credited to the band and Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, and Peter Sinfield because, as stated in the album sleeve, the song is an adaptation of "Moonchild" by King Crimson. Similarly, the B-side "Hit the Ground Running" is an adaptation of "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon.

Release and legacy
The Last Broadcast was released on 29 April 2002, and topped the UK Albums Chart. The release of the first single "There Goes the Fear" on 15 April brought the band their highest-charting single to date, peaking at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart. The single, pressed as a limited edition eCD and a 10" vinyl record, was released and deleted on the same day. When asked in a 2010 interview with Under the Radar as to why the single was limited, Jez Williams stated, "It was to do something different from the norm. Just wanted to try something different really. I can't remember exactly whose idea it was. It might have been the manager's, but we were kind of into it. A kind of statement, in a way. We liked the fact that you could only get a hold of a certain amount of this or a certain amount of that. Especially in this day and age of readily available bits of music, it's kind of nice: a physical copy that's precious to you because you managed to get to the shop that day and actually own that." The Last Broadcast sold 52,000 copies in its first week, and has since been certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. The album's second single "Pounding" was released in July 2002, and peaked at number 21, while third and final single "Caught by the River" was released in October 2002 and reached number 29 on the charts. Like "There Goes the Fear" before them, the singles for "Pounding" and "Caught by the River" were also limited in released quantities. The Last Broadcast was released by Capitol Records in the United States on 4 June 2002; first pressings of the album stateside included a limited edition bonus disc, featuring four songs released as B-sides on the UK singles.

The band began touring in promotion for the album at the end of February 2002. By summer of 2002, Doves were touring for the album in the United States, the Netherlands and Europe, Australia, and Japan. Their July performance at The Eden Sessions in Cornwall was filmed and featured on the band's full-length compilation DVD Where We're Calling From, released in September 2003. In addition to the live concert, the DVD prominently featured a documentary on the band, including previously unreleased footage of the recording of The Last Broadcast as well as previous album Lost Souls, along with all of the band's music videos to date and a myriad of special features.

A remixed version of "Words" entitled Live for City is played at the start of all Manchester City F.C. games at the City of Manchester Stadium, due to the band's support of the team. The intro to "Words" has also been used as the background music for both ITV Sport's FA Cup coverage and the NFL Network's commercials during the 2006-07 football season. "There Goes the Fear" was featured in the film and on the original motion picture soundtrack to (500) Days of Summer in 2009, while "Pounding" was used in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics With Glowing Hearts/Des Plus Brilliants Exploits advertisement campaign and in pre-event intros.

Reception
The Last Broadcast was met with critical praise. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 85, based on 20 reviews. NME awarded the album 9 out of 10 stars, calling the album "the most uplifting miserable album you'll hear all year." The Austin Chronicle called the album "[a] stunner... an infectious, melancholy, ultimately euphoric barrage of sound wrapped in a sheeting of guitars and subtle effects that coalesce around frontman Jimi Goodwin's plaintive voice and brothers Jez and Andy Williams' lovely, pounding, relentless vibe that echoes with hints of Northern soul and terrifically big beats." Blender called the album "utterly entrancing," while AllMusic praised it as a "musical daybreak."

Like its predecessor Lost Souls in 2000, The Last Broadcast was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2002. The album lost to Ms. Dynamite's debut album A Little Deeper. Kludge included it on their list of best albums of 2002.

Doves

 * Jimi Goodwin – lead vocals (tracks 3, 6–12), bass, guitars, backing vocals on "Words" and "M62 Song", programming
 * Jez Williams – guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Words", keyboards on "Last Broadcast"
 * Andy Williams – drums, percussion, backing vocals, lead vocals on "M62 Song", harmonica on "N.Y."

Production

 * Produced by Doves, except "Satellites" produced by Steve Osborne for 140 dB, and "Caught by the River" co-produced by Steve Osborne and Doves.
 * Additional production by Martin "Max" Heyes for Z Mint.
 * Recorded, programmed and mixed by Doves and Max Heyes.
 * Recorded and mixed between January 2001 and January 2002 at: Revolution, Manchester; Parr St., Liverpool; The Dairy and 2 kHz, London; Real World, Bath; under the M60 flyover, Northenden; Jez's house; Lynch Mob studio; and various country seats.
 * Mastered by Miles Showell at Metropolis.
 * Engineered by Max Heyes, Adrian Bushby, and Danton Supple.
 * Andrea Wright, Darren Nash, Marco Migliari, and Paul Grady – assistant engineering
 * Art direction and design by Rick Myers.
 * Photography by Rich Mulhearn.
 * Band photograph by Kevin Westenberg.

Additional musicians

 * Martin Rebelski – keyboards and glockenspiel on "Words," "N.Y.," "Satellites," and "The Sulphur Man"
 * Brian Madden – megaphone on "Words"
 * Jay Rofe-Turner – tambourine on "Satellites"
 * Marc Starr, Chris Davies, Billy Booth, and Richard Sliwa – percussion on "There Goes the Fear"
 * Rosie Lowdell – violin on "Words" and "The Sulphur Man"
 * Paulette Bailey and Celia Goodwin – violin on "N.Y."
 * Rob Shepley – viola on "N.Y."
 * Ian Bracken – cello on "N.Y."
 * Jackie Norrie and Sally Herbert – violin on "Friday's Dust" and "The Sulphur Man"
 * Brian Wright – violin and viola on "Friday's Dust" and "The Sulphur Man"
 * Marcus Holdaway – cello on "Friday's Dust" and "The Sulphur Man"
 * Sean O'Hagan and Marcus Holdaway – string, brass & woodwind arrangement on "Friday's Dust" and "The Sulphur Man"
 * Marcus Holdaway – string arrangement on "Friday's Dust" and "The Sulphur Man"
 * Andy Robinson – brass woodwind arrangement & trombone on "Friday's Dust" and "The Sulphur Man"
 * Marc Bassey – trombone on "Friday's Dust" and "The Sulphur Man"
 * Steve Waterman – trumpet and flugelhorn on "Friday's Dust" and "The Sulphur Man"
 * Colin Crawley – tenor sax and flute on "Friday's Dust" and "The Sulphur Man"
 * Duncan Ashby – clarinet on "Friday's Dust"
 * Barrington Stewart, Fyza, Lisa Saddoo, and Joanne Watson – backing vocals on "Satellites"

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Champlain (federal electoral district)

Champlain was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 2004.

It was created in 1867 as part of the British North America Act, 1867. It was abolished in 2003 when it was redistributed into the districts of Saint-Maurice—Champlain and Trois-Rivières.

Members of Parliament
This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

List of MPs for districts that included Champlain (since 1867)
The following list contains members of districts that have included Champlain, since 1867:

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gary Brolsma

 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

Gary Brolsma
This is a redirect to Numa-Numa which is him singing "Dragostea Din Tei" into a webcam. That has been nominated and I don't see why an insignificant teenager needs his own page.
 * Delete, not notable, vanity redirect. Megan1967 03:14, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * If numa-numa gets deleted, the redirects to it will be deleted too. If it survives, this should be kept. Kappa 04:40, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Concur with Kappa.-- Jmabel | Talk 07:40, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Jealous much? ( 70.248.179.218)
 * Extreme keep. It's just a cheap redirect.  I hardly doubt that Gary Brolsma himself created a redirect, and redirects aren't really vanity anyhow.  There is already a VfD posted for Numanuma, so if that article does not survive then redirect this over to Dragostea Din Tei.    —RaD Man (talk) 19:57, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * From the Dragostea Din Tei article: Gary Brolsma is a teenager from Saddle Brook, New Jersey. Brolsma, reportedly, is not happy with his fame.  Brolsma has since stopped taking phone calls from the media, cancelling an appearance on NBC's Today Show and not taking calls from The New York Times regarding the story.
 * Abstaining for now. I note that the Dragostea Din Tei article contains more information about various Flash renditions thereof by amateurs, than about the song itself. Does a popular song merit its own article? And if so, shouldn't it be about the song rather than simple internet spoofs? Radiant! 20:48, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * It seems that all the spoof into has been added by users after the original article was put together. The song definitely deserves an article. Hedley 22:22, 19 Feb 2005
 * My vote is to keep everything under "Dragostea Din Tei". Of course the internet parodies should be within that entry, along with mention of Gary Brolsma.  But I don't see why he gets his own page.
 * anon user vote not counted.Mikkalai 19:51, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Agree with the above. It's just a cheap redirect. Wikipedia is an excellent encyclopaedia of popular culture and we should always try to improve it as such. Haukurth 19:07, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep this page absolutely. If I had a thousand votes I would vote a thousand times to keep. This internet phenomenon is very significant and getting rid of it would require also getting rid of Badgerbadgerbadger.
 * anon user vote not counted.Mikkalai 19:51, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as redirect. The name is definitely searchable. Mikkalai 19:47, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, The relevent info is already covered in the Numa section. Gary is not noteworthy outside of his 15 minutes of fame.  If we allowed articles an every Joe Smoe out there wiki would turn into MySpace.Uopmegabytes 17:48, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Green789

Why did you remove the anon question at Talk:History of Islam? Seemed perfectly reasonable to me. Or were you also the anon in question? -- Jmabel | Talk 02:27, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I asked the question. I just moved it elsewhere. Green789 15:25, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

For the future: the fact that an article isn't changing doesn't mean it isn't being watched. I'd guess pretty much every article on a serious topic is on someone's watchlist. That's part of why vandalism has such a short half-life.

Sorry I don't know the answer to your question, though. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:55, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Green789 20:50, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Tayma

Tayma (Taymanitic: 𐪉𐪃𐪒,, vocalized as: ; تيماء) is a large oasis with a long history of settlement, located in northwestern Saudi Arabia at the point where the trade route between Medina and Dumah (Sakakah) begins to cross the Nafud desert. Tayma is located 264 km southeast of the city of Tabuk, and about 400 km north of Medina. It is located in the western part of the Nafud desert.

History
The historical significance of Tayma is based on the existence there of an oasis, which helped it become a stopping point on commercial desert routes. An important event was the presence there of Nabonidus, the last Neo-Babylonian emperor, who took residence there in the mid-6th century BC.

Bronze Age: Egyptian inscription
Recent archaeological discoveries show that Tayma has been inhabited since at least the Bronze Age. In 2010, the Ministry of Tourism of Saudi Arabia announced the discovery of the Pharaonic Tayma inscription by Ramesses III. This was the first confirmed find of a hieroglyphic inscription on Saudi soil. Based on this discovery, researchers have hypothesized that Tayma was part of an important land route between the Red Sea coast of the Arabian Peninsula and the Nile.

Assyrian, Babylonian, and biblical sources

The oldest mention of the oasis city appears as "Tiamat" in Neo-Babylonian inscriptions dating as far back as the 8th century BC. The oasis developed into a prosperous city rich in wells and handsome buildings. Tiglath-pileser III received tribute from Tayma and Sennacherib (r. 705–681 BC) named one of Nineveh's gates the Desert Gate, recording that "the gifts of the Sumu'anite and the Teymeite enter through it". It was rich and proud enough in the seventh century BC for Jeremiah to prophesy against it in : "Dedan, Tema, and Buz, and all those who have their hair clipped". It was ruled then by a local Arab dynasty known as the Qedarites. The names of two 8th century BC queens, Šamši and Zabibe, are recorded.

Emperor Nabonidus (ruled c. 556–539 BC) conquered Tayma, and for ten years of his reign retired there to worship and search for prophecies, entrusting the kingship of Babylon to his son, Belshazzar. Taymanitic inscriptions also mention that the people of Tayma fought wars with Dadān (Lihyan).

Cuneiform inscriptions possibly dating from the 6th century BC have been recovered from Tayma. They are known as the Tayma stones.

Tayma is mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. The biblical eponym is Tema, one of the sons of Ishmael, after whom the Land of Tema is named.

Jewish community: classical period and 12th century
According to Arab tradition, Tayma was inhabited by a Jewish community during the late classical period, but whether they were exiled Judeans or the Arab descendants of converts is unclear. The Jewish diaspora at the time of the Temple's destruction, according to Josephus, was in Parthia, Babylonia, Arabia, as well as some Jews beyond the Euphrates and in Adiabene. In Josephus' own words, he had informed "the remotest Arabians" about the destruction. So, too, in pre-Islamic poetry, Tayma is often referred to as a fortified city belonging to the Jews, as an anonymous Arab poet wrote, "Unto God will I make my complaint heard, but not unto man; because I am a sojourner in Taymā, Taymā of the Jews!"

As late as the 6th century AD, Tayma was the home of a wealthy Jew, Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya.

Tayma and neighboring Khaybar were visited by Benjamin of Tudela sometime around 1170. He claimed that the city was governed by a Jewish prince. Benjamin was a Jew from al-Andalus who travelled to Persia and Arabia in the 12th century.

Crusader threat
In the summer of 1181, Raynald of Châtillon, Prince of Antioch and Lord of Oultrejordain, attacked a Muslim caravan near Tayma during a raid of the Red Sea area despite a truce between Saladin and Baldwin IV of Jerusalem.

Climate
In Tayma, there is a desert climate. Most rain falls in the winter. The Köppen-Geiger climate classification is BWh. The average annual temperature in Tayma is 21.8 °C. About 65 mm of precipitation falls annually.

Archaeology

The site was first investigated and mapped by Charles M. Doughty in 1877. The Tayma stele discovered by Charles Huber in 1883, now at the Louvre, lists the gods of Tayma in the 6th century BC: Ṣalm of Maḥram and Shingala-and-Ashira. This Ashira may be Athirat/Asherah.

Archeological investigation of the site, under the auspices of the German Archaeological Institute, is ongoing.

Clay tablets and stone inscriptions using Taymanitic script and language were found in ruins and around the oasis. Nearby Tayma was a Sabaean trading station, where Sabaean language inscriptions were found.

Economy
Historically, Tayma is known for growing dates. The oasis also produced rock salt, which was distributed throughout Arabia. Tayma also mined alum, which was processed and used for the care of camels.

Points of interest

 * Qasr Al-Ablaq (قصر الأبلق) is a qasr located on the southwest side of the city. It was built by the Arab Jewish poet and warrior Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya and his grandfather 'Adiya in the 6th century.
 * Qasr Al-Hamra (قصر الحمراء), a palace was built in the 7th century BC.
 * Tayma has an archaeologically significant perimeter wall built around three sides of the old city in the 6th century BC.
 * Qasr Al-Radhm (قصر الرضم)
 * Haddaj Well (بئر هداج)
 * Cemeteries
 * Many Aramaic, Lihyanite, Thamudic, and Nabataean inscriptions
 * Qasr Al-Bejaidi (قصر البجيدي)
 * Al-Hadiqah Mound
 * Al Naslaa rock formation
 * Many museums. Although Tayma has museums of its own such as the "Tayma Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography", many artifacts from its history have been spread to other museums. Early finds such as the "Tayma Stele" are at the Louvre in Paris among others while large museums of national importance in Saudi Arabia, such as the National Museum of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh and the Jeddah Regional Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography also have significant collections of items from or related to ancient Tayma.

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Tom Abel (cosmologist)

Tom Abel (born 1970) is a German cosmologist who first simulated the collapse of a metal-free massive star that belongs to the first generation of stars in the Universe. This work was done in collaboration with Greg L. Bryan and Michael L. Norman and was published in Science magazine (2002, 295, 93). He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2000.

He is a Professor of Physics at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and from 2013 to 2018 served as Director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology.

His work with visualization expert Ralf Kaehler has been seen in many planetaria shows including "The Dark Universe" (2013)

Background
Abel was born in rural Lower Bavaria, Germany.

Work
His primary interests are:
 * Primordial star formation
 * Cosmological structure formation and reionization
 * Astrophysical fluid dynamics
 * Radiative transfer

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Differences Between Pokémon and Digimon

 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. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:13, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Differences Between Pokémon and Digimon
Not notable; the two series are inherently unrelated. As kelvSYC put it, "Do we need something like Comparison of apples and oranges?" --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 02:29, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC) Kappa 09:17, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not meaningful. --Sn0wflake 03:07, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, not encyclopaedic. Megan1967 03:15, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Plenty of VfD voters need to read up on the differences. Kappa 03:21, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Why do you assume the voters didn't read the article? I read it and found absolutely nothing of use or that somebody couldn't point out within three seconds of watching each show. --Sn0wflake 14:31, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I know some voters need to read this kind of article because they say things like "digimons are basically the same as pokemons right?". The article would be useful for people who've heard of them, but haven't had the opportunity to watch both shows. Kappa 06:39, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * And this article explains how very different they are. Lets see: 1. they have different names, 2. the plots are not identical; they battle evil in two slightly different ways, 3. digimon speak a real language (most notable difference listed), 4. their individual names are a bit different, 5. they evolve in slightly different ways, 6. they are not identical in every way, 7. digimon are sometimes scarier. Wow. Yes, when something rips off a popular idea, they don't copy it 100%. We get the idea. I suppose we'll be seeing difference pages for "Go-bots and Transformers", "7-Up and Sierra Mist", "Lord of the Rings and Sword of Shannara", "According to Jim and King of Queens", ad nauseam. Please, let's not go down this road. -R. fiend 07:05, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * So as we can see, some consider that pokemons and digimons are "inherently unrelated", and some consider that it's a ripoff, but not quite 100%. But this page should be apparently be deleted in order to prevent any other difference pages from showing up. Kappa 07:19, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No they don't. Foobaz · ✐  05:31, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, for so very many reasons. -R. fiend 06:14, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, as Sparky says. Radiant! 09:44, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. They are different.  So what?  --BM 15:18, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with above. Carrp | Talk 15:34, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. If this is encyclopedic, what's to stop someone from creating "Differences Between Days of our Lives and Law and Order" or "Differences Between American Idol and Dr. Phil"? Szyslak 05:37, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Some other possibilities: differences between "Alien" and "Aliens"; between "Scarlet O'Hara" and "Blanche DuBois"; between "Windows NT" and "Windows 2000"; not to mention the possible differences between "Ashlee Simpson" and "Ashley Judd", or between "Ashlee Simpson" and "Bart Simpson". vlad_mv 06:26, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Windows NT and Windows 2000 would be helpful. Kappa 06:37, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Or even more likely differences between "Ashlee Simpson" and her notable older sister, whats-her-name. --BM 12:02, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Differences between Windows NT and Blanche DuBois. Delete. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:42, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * But where will it end? If reduction ad absurdum can get this article deleted, what will stop Elvis Presley getting deleted in case a random teenager with a guitar uses it as a precedent? Kappa 08:55, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Differences between X and Y are not generally encyclopedic. If one is clearly a derivative of the other, and there is a large chance of mistaking one for the other, some non-obvious differences may be considered for listing under that article. But in this article, "pokemon is about a boy who wants to be a famous trainer and collects animals" and "digimon is about a group of kids trying to save the world from evil digital things" is extremely obvious. Radiant! 11:26, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * How can it be obvious to someone who's never seen a digimon show? Kappa 13:26, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I think we're revolving around the same arguments here. IMHO, the role of Wikipedia is not to make this obvious through an individual article, even to someone who hasn't seen the shows. Users should be perfectly able to read the Pokémon and Digimon pages and draw the differences themselves. If there's any risk of confusion, one could simply add a "Not to be confused with ..." line on the top of the main article. The point of the irony above was this: if we establish a precedent for such separate articles, what would stop us from creating them ad nauseum, for instance, for every sequel of every movie? There are obvious plot, casting, production differences between "Alien", "Aliens" and "Alien3", not to mention blatant stylistic differences due to the fact that each had a different director; and their names are so similar someone who hasn't seen any of the movies could easily get confused. vlad_mv 14:57, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't think the users would thank you for making them wade through a 37k page when a summary of the differences was already available somewhere else. Differences between items in a series like Alien could and should be discussed in the main article of that series. Why should someone who's interested in the development of that series have to 5 read separate articles with repeated information? Kappa 20:42, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I see your point, but that's a different claim: namely, that the Alien Series should have a separate article, because all movies taken together do form a notable unity. For the sake of concision, I'll leave that discussion aside for the moment. But I'll grant that: if we all agreed that such a page should exist, I'd be the first to approve discussion of the differences between the movies there. Now, coming back to the issue: are we prepared to say that Pokémon and Digimon form a coherent and notable unity? I would say no, at least not in the same way as the Alien Series obviously does. And if the answer is no, the comparison page should be ruled out. vlad_mv 00:02, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * A work and it's ripoff(s) work form a unity. Even if they aren't a ripoff, they are two things of the same kind, like Judaism and Christianity, which we have an article comparing. Kappa 09:17, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The fact the two things are "of the same kind" is not sufficient to say that they form a unity. Oranges and apples are of the same kind and do not form such unity - which means, if we allow a Comparison of apples and oranges page, we might as well have to allow a Comparison of cuccumber and squash, Comparison of parsley and chives, etc. Neither do Blanche DuBois and Scarlet O'Hara, for that matter. The list of counterexamples could go on indefinetly. The fact that it is a ripoff (if it indeed is) is not sufficient either. IMHO, the comparison with Judaism and Christianity seems to show clearly why we shouldn't allow this one, and not the opposite. vlad_mv 10:04, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Apples and oranges do not form a unity by themselves, but they belong to the unity fruit and do not resemble each other very much within that realm. Apples and pears resemble each other quite a lot, and I'm disappointed to see nothing discussing the difference between them in pome. Similarly gourd should discuss differences between melons, squashes and cucumbers. Kappa 22:06, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Not encyclopedic at all. It's like making an article on the differences between Star Wars and Star Trek. Who gives a damn about this really.   Wareware 02:08, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * DeleteWhile we do have some stuff like this, such as Comparing and contrasting Judaism and Christianity, they really need to have more in common than digimon and Pokemon.-LtNOWIS 04:26, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I disagree that they have to have more in common than Digimon and Pokemon (the article doesn't really establish any siginifant differences at all), but it does need more importance. The differences between Christianity and Judiasm affects anyone who is a practicing member of either religion, and many who aren't. The differences between Digimon and Pokemon are important only to a few elementary schoolers and other fans who already know what the differences are. -R. fiend 04:36, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * It's also important to any parent who wants to talk to their child about their hobby, or me when I have to vote on these things. I don't want to have to read the whole digimon article, jeez.
 * Yeah, I guess you're probably right about the importance thing, R. friend. Of course, no 2 cases are the same. And Kappa, while I feel for you, you or anyone else can probably find a similar article somewhere else in cyberspace.  Or just admit humble ignorance. -LtNOWIS 01:53, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Gamaliel 02:05, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for reasons already stated. - Lucky 6.9 23:43, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. May not be the greatest article in its present form, but I (having never seen either series) thought they were basically the same thing, and found an article pointing out that this was not the case useful. -- pne 10:54, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. ComCat 08:41, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and allow for organic growth. GRider\talk 17:13, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Predrag Dragić

Predrag R. Dragić Kijuk (Serbian Cyrillic: Предраг Р. Драгић Кијук; 8 December 1945 – 29 January 2012) was a Serbian humanist, writer, essayist, anthologist, playwright, literary and art critic, lexicographer, medievalist, historian, translator, philosopher and researcher of Dostoevsky. He graduated at the Belgrade University: philology, philosophy and law, and took specializations in Italy, Greece, Russia, France and Norway.

Biography
Dragić was operational editor of the Serbian Literary Magazine and the editor in chief of the Literary Newspaper). He authored many books, studies, and essays, five of which have been translated into foreign languages. He specifically studied old Serbian literature (in 1987 he published the provocative and voluminous study Medieval and Renaissance Serbian Poetry 1200-1700). His themes of interest are diverse and original, and his intellectual curiosity is a mixture of modern world poetry, philosophy of numbers, Christian esthetics, the works of Dostoevsky, Gogol and Andreyev, the history of European civilization, European esoteric writers, protohistory of Serbs and Slavs, the phenomenon of migrations and the Christian-Orthodox mysticism. Also, he has devoted his attention in his two latest books to the aberration of modern politics and the influence of the Vatican on the destiny of the Serbian people (Bestiarium Humanum, 2002; Atlantocracy As a Jesuit Ideal, 2005).

His book Tempter and the Redeemer (1990) was the first to introduce the theistic method into the genre of essay writing in Serbia, equaling it to other methods in the interpretation of literature, while the book Going Out to Play (1990) has had cult influence on European personalism. In 2003, Sir John Tavener, the most popular British composer reputed as a "classical artist" used texts from the book Medieval and Renaissance Serbian Poetry 1200-1700 written by Predrag R. Dragić Kijuk, for his monumental work "The Veil of the Temple" (performed by four choirs, several orchestras and soloists, seven hours in duration).

Selected bibliography

 * A Poem About The Goat (1974)
 * Demons Among Us - Criticism of the Work of F.M. Dostoevsky (1981)
 * Petar Mladenović (a three-lingual monography about the academic painter, 1986)
 * Medieval and Renaissance Serbian Poetry (in the English language, 1987)
 * Saga on Flight (1988)
 * Serbian Migrations - Miloš Crnjanski (in the English language, in co-authorship with M. Dačović; (1988)
 * The Battle of Kosovo (in the English language, in co-authorship with D. Bataković, 1988)
 * Vicarious Christi (1989)
 * The Ordeal Maker and the Redeemer (1990)
 * Coming Out for a Game (1990)
 * Catena Mundi, l-ll (1992)
 * Decalaration of Serbian Language in co-authorship with Dr. Vera Bojić and All. (1998)
 * The Little Legacy, (1999)
 * Bestiarium humanum ("Political Dairy"; 2002)
 * Atlantocracy As a Jesuit Ideal (2005)

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Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes (federal electoral district)

Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes (Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands et Rideau Lakes) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons since 1979. Prior to the 2015 election, the riding was known as Leeds—Grenville.

The 2018 Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes federal by-election was won by Michael Barrett.

Geography
The riding consists of the entirety of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville.

Demographics

 * According to the 2021 Canadian census

Ethnic groups: 91.3% White, 5.6% Indigenous

Languages: 91.7% English, 3.2% French

Religions: 60.6% Christian (22.2% Catholic, 11.5% United Church, 9.9% Anglican, 2.3% Presbyterian, 1.3% Methodist, 1.3% Pentecostal, 12.1% other), 37.7% none

Median income: $41,600 (2020)

Average income: $51,040 (2020)

History
The federal district was created in 1976 from parts of Grenville–Carleton and Leeds ridings.

It was initially defined as consisting of the County of Grenville and the County of Leeds, excluding the Town of Smiths Falls. Since 1987, it was re-defined as consisting of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, but this did not result in any boundary changes, as Smiths Falls is not part of the county. The 2003 redistribution defined the riding as also including the independent municipalities of Brockville, Gananoque and Prescott which are politically separate jurisdictions, but are geographically within the county, and therefore did not result in a boundary change either.

With the 2012 electoral redistribution, this district lost a small portion of territory to Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, following an annexation of a parcel of land by the Town Smiths Falls. In the process, the riding was renamed Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes. At 49 characters, this is the longest riding name in Canada.

Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, this riding will be renamed Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands—Rideau Lakes at the first election held after approximately April 2024.

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Lost Souls (Doves album)

Lost Souls is the debut studio album by British indie rock band Doves, released by Heavenly Recordings on 3 April 2000. The album was recorded over a period of several years, following the dissolution of Doves' original musical incarnation as house music act Sub Sub. Lost Souls was a moderate chart success in the UK; the album peaked at number 16, while the three singles taken from the album charted in the Top 40.

Lost Souls was considered by many to be the best debut album by a British act since Oasis' Definitely Maybe. It was met with positive critical acclaim and was a shortlist nominee for the Mercury Prize in 2000. The album was roundly praised on its release for its blending of claustrophobic intensity and euphoria, the sonic influences from electronic music present in its textures and for being "the perfect after-hours soundtrack."

Background
In the early 1990s, Jimi Goodwin and twin brothers Jez and Andy Williams were producing dance music as Sub Sub. The trio, along with guest vocalist Melanie Williams, had a club and chart hit single with "Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)" in 1993, reaching #3 on the UK Singles Chart and becoming one of many dance singles to cross over into mainstream popularity in the UK. The song would remain Sub Sub's only hit single; the release of the sole studio album Full Fathom Five in September 1994 and a handful of singles thereafter struggled to match the single's success.

In February 1996, on the Williams twins' birthday, the band's recording studio located in Ancoats, Manchester caught fire and burned down, destroying virtually all of the band's equipment and recorded material. In an interview with Excellent Online, Jimi Goodwin said of the fire, "Yeah, we lost tapes, we lost equipment. But we were insured. If we weren't insured, we might not be here now. When forty grand goes up, where would we be to get that back at 22 years old? So, yeah, we were lucky. It was a blessing in a way. I was laughing. After the initial shock, I started giggling, y'know? It was like [looking to the sky], 'What else you gonna throw at me, man? C'mon then, fucking bring it on! Me bird just left me, what else you got?'" The only surviving recorded material recovered from the ashes was released as Delta Tapes in February 1998, featuring early versions of later Doves tracks "Firesuite" and "Blue Water", as well as B-side tracks "Crunch" and "Lost in Watts".

Before the fire, however, the band were looking towards a new musical direction. In a 2009 interview with QTheMusic.com, Andy Williams stated that, "As Sub Sub we never made the album we thought we were all capable of. We'd always been in love with the idea of albums as opposed to just singles – which are cool in their way and suit dance music perfectly but we wanted to stretch ourselves and make a statement with a set of songs. So around 1996 we started writing and recording the songs which would finally become Lost Souls. We were for all intent and purposes still Sub Sub (we only called ourselves Doves a week or two before The Cedar Room was released, because we wanted a fresh start and a break from the past)."

Production
Sub Sub had been signed to Rob's Records, a label owned by Manchester-based manager Rob Gretton. After the studio fire, Gretton suggested that the band rent the studio owned by New Order in Cheetham Hill (VIBE Recording Studios, nicknamed 'Frank Bough Sound II' by the band ) for recording. The bulk of what would become Lost Souls was recorded there; said Andy Williams, "We really did lock ourselves away for three to four years until we discovered how we wanted to sound, it was a pretty oppressive place with no windows and thieves trying to break in! But it was also an inspiring place to be as it belonged to New Order and we were fans ... The garage there was full of their old gear; it was full of vintage keyboards, sequencers, drum machines and was like some weird techno graveyard in there. I also remember finding Stephen Morris' Rogers drum kit that he used in Joy Division stuffed behind some knackered flight case."

The trio – with Gretton's assistance – started their own record label, Casino Records. The first release on the label was Cedar EP, a limited edition 10" vinyl single featuring "The Cedar Room" and "Rise", two songs that would feature prominently on the album, and the instrumental track "Zither". The EP was released in November 1998 and was limited to 1,000 copies. During the album recording sessions, the band were facing the prospect of finding a lead singer, but found themselves more than satisfied with bassist Jimi Goodwin's vocals: "I think the key songs for us on Lost Souls were 'The Cedar Room' and 'Break Me Gently', because they were the first songs Jimi sang properly and we realised we needn't go looking outside the band for this 'mythical singer', something our friend and label boss Rob Gretton had been telling us for years," said Andy Williams. "And once Jimi started we [Andy and Jez] started singing as well. We took years to get there. He recognized something in us and helped us to share it with the world."

In late 1998, Doves joined Manchester-based musician Badly Drawn Boy as his backing band; their first release together was the single "Road Movie" in January 1999, recorded live in the studio. Doves also performed on several songs on Badly Drawn Boy's debut album The Hour of Bewilderbeast, as well as accompanied him on tour dates. Doves' second release was the Sea EP in May 1999. A little more than a week before the EP's release, the band's mentor and friend Rob Gretton died of a heart attack. In response, the band dedicated the music video for "Sea Song" to Rob's memory. In August 1999, Doves' third EP Here It Comes was released, with the title track charting at number 73 on the UK Singles Chart.

Doves signed with London-based independent record label Heavenly Recordings, and a reissue of the band's debut single "The Cedar Room" was released as the forthcoming album's first single in March 2000. Andy Williams concluded of Lost Souls that, "The best thing was that after all the years of hard work and very testing times we knew we were finally creating the sort of music we had always wanted to ..." The band also dedicated Lost Souls to their late friend and mentor Rob Gretton.

With their background in dance and house music, the band incorporated a variety of samples on Lost Souls: "A House" features the sounds of a fire burning, "Lost Souls" features funhouse music, "Break Me Gently" interpolates a sample of a telephone recording that originally appeared on hip hop group 3rd Bass's 1989 album The Cactus Album, and "Sea Song" features a spoken-word dialogue extract from the 1984 Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas. The band also cites Talk Talk's seminal 1988 album Spirit of Eden as a chief influence on Lost Souls.

Release and tours
Lost Souls was released on 3 April 2000, and peaked at number 16 on the UK Albums Chart. The album's first single "The Cedar Room" charted at number 33 on the Singles Chart. "Catch the Sun", which was co-produced with Steve Osborne, was released as the album's second single in late May 2000, and third single "The Man Who Told Everything" was released at the end of October 2000. Both songs peaked at number 32 on the Singles Chart. The album's release was supported by tours of the United Kingdom, including opening performances with Oasis at Wembley Stadium and Murrayfield Stadium in July 2000. The band were also augmented live by keyboardist Martin Rebelski, who made his first appearance with Doves on the Here It Comes EP in 1999.

The U.S. release of the album came in October 2000 on Astralwerks, featuring three additional bonus tracks: "Darker", "Valley", and "Zither" (all of which were previously released on singles and EPs in the UK). "Darker" was later featured in the second episode of the American Fox television drama series 24, and also in the movie Dandelion. The band embarked on their first-ever tour of North America in late 2000 and early 2001. Jimi Goodwin described to Excellent Online that the U.S. shows were "pleasantly surprising" with the turn-outs and crowd reactions: "The crowds have been amazing. Pretty much all selling out, which we couldn't believe. ... It's really nice. Astralwerks do seem pretty sussed, and they're just letting us be us. They're just as sniffy as us, going, 'Let's just check it out,' and not trying to convince people that you're the best thing since sliced bread, y'know. Let's just try sneaking in the back door a little. I don't know how American numbers work. I don't know how America works. This is our first time here as a band. We've travelled it, but not musically. We've done a few of them sit-down, meet-and-greets with radio, we've gotten some acoustic work out. ... But, yeah, we're really impressed by people loving the shows and everything. And we're playing better than ever, I think. In England, we've been getting a bit paranoid – 'we can't play this set anymore, we need some new tunes in there.' It's getting a bit old. Time to say, 'Come on lads, the band's playing the same set, time to throw in some new shit.'"

Reception
Lost Souls was met with generally positive reviews. In a 2009 review, BBC praised the album, and described the album as a rock record that kept the dance spirit alive, but could also appeal to a pop audience: "Lost Souls was a record that was widely discussed, and people wondered aloud whether its success marked the end of another era of dance music. In truth, it was a record about growing up; about giving up the drugs and the madness of The Haçienda, where the three Cheshire lads met. But because the simmering emotion on songs like 'The Cedar Room' was expressed through guitars rather than synths, in no way did that mean that Doves were taking dance music out the back and burying it in a shallow grave. But there was emotion, too – 'The Cedar Room' is a beautiful seven-minute break-up song that complains: 'I tried to sleep alone, but I couldn't do it.' This was a pop album that eventually appealed widely, and not just to the grown-up clubbers that could have been its sole audience." Q called the album "heavy, sombre and lugubrious ... it makes for seriously claustrophobic listening, until it takes a great gulp of euphoria." NME awarded the album 9 out of 10, and called the album "a serious and intense record ... the first great album to come from Manchester since Definitely Maybe... they make being sad after drugs sound great." In a mixed review, Pitchfork reviewer Sam Eccleston took a "straightforward" and "cynical" approach with the album and rated it 6.8 out of 10, saying, "Tonally, Lost Souls reflects the after-after-midnight hours, as if the boys felt the need to document the hung-over and blissed-out aftermath of the dancing-hours frenzy their Sub Sub days offered listeners years ago." The review goes on to say that, "The heart of the problem on Lost Souls is its overreaching ambition ... [but] ... despite its reach and ambition, works best in its most conventionally melodic moments."

Lost Souls was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2000, but lost out to Badly Drawn Boy's The Hour of Bewilderbeast, the album Doves had featured as a backing band on.

The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Manchester icon and Doves influence Johnny Marr called the album "a vast 3am melancholic beauty brought to life."

Artwork
The sleeve design and artwork was done by frequent Doves collaborator and art director Rick Myers. Myers has done the artwork and design for all of Doves' albums and singles from 1998's Cedar EP to the band's compilation album The Places Between: The Best of Doves in 2010. The photography was done by another frequent Doves collaborator, Richard Mulhearn, and the boxer featured in the photos is Sean McHale of the Ardwick Lads Boxing Club.

In April 2020, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the release of Lost Souls, Rick Myers posted the original photo montage that comprises the album cover to social media and the official Doves Music Blog.

Personnel

 * Band
 * Jez Williams – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "Rise", programming
 * Jimi Goodwin – lead vocals (tracks 1–4, 6, 8–10, 12), bass, acoustic guitar, drums on "Here It Comes", samples
 * Andy Williams – drums, backing vocals, lead vocals (tracks 2, 5, 7), harmonica (tracks 2, 4, 7), samples

 * Additional musicians
 * Martin Rebelski – piano on "Here It Comes"
 * Stuart Warburton – harmonica on "Rise"
 * Richard Wheatley – piano and Rhodes on "Firesuite", "Sea Song" and "Break Me Gently"
 * Strings on "The Man Who Told Everything" – Kate Evans, Jane Coyle, Barbara Grunthal, Wendy Edison

 * Production
 * All songs produced by Doves, except "Catch the Sun" produced by Steve Osborne with Doves
 * "Catch the Sun" mixed by Steve Osborne, assisted by Bruno Ellingham

 * Visual
 * Art direction and design by Rick Myers
 * Photography by Richard Mulhearn
 * Band shots by Mary Scanlon, Matthew Norman and Roger Sargent

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