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Another Country (novel)

Another Country is a 1962 novel by James Baldwin. The novel is primarily set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France in the late 1950s. It portrayed many themes that were taboo at the time of its release, including bisexuality, interracial couples, and extramarital affairs.

Background
Baldwin started writing Another Country in Greenwich Village in 1948 and continued to write the novel in Paris and again in New York. Despite his privately confessed reluctance to bring "Another Country, unfinished, into yet another country," Baldwin completed the book in Istanbul in 1962. In 1959, amidst growing fame, Baldwin received a $12,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to support his work on the book.

Baldwin had returned to the United States in 1957, partly to cover the mounting Civil Rights Movement led by Martin Luther King Jr. Baldwin admired King, but sought to depict relationships deeper than King's "brotherly love."

Plot summary
The book uses a third-person narrator who is nevertheless closely aware of the characters' emotions.

The first fifth of Another Country tells of the downfall of jazz drummer Rufus Scott. He begins a relationship with Leona, a white woman from the South, and introduces her to his social circle, including his closest friend, struggling novelist Vivaldo, his more successful mentor Richard, and Richard's wife, Cass. Initially, the relationship is frivolous, but it turns more serious as they continue to live together. Rufus becomes habitually physically abusive of Leona, and she is admitted to a mental hospital in the South. Depressed, Rufus returns to Harlem and commits suicide, jumping off the George Washington Bridge.

The rest of the book explores relationships between Rufus' friends, family, and acquaintances in the wake of his death. Rufus's friends cannot understand the suicide, and experience some guilt over his death. Afterwards, they become closer. Vivaldo begins a relationship with Rufus's sister Ida, which is strained by racial tension and Ida's bitterness after her brother's death.

Eric, an actor and Rufus' first male lover, returns to New York after years living in France, where he met his longtime lover Yves. Eric returns to the novel's social circle but is calmer and more composed than most of the group. Everyone's relationships become strained in the course of the novel. Ida starts having an affair with Ellis, an advertising executive who promises to help with her career as a singer. Cass, who has become lonely due to Richard's writing career, has an affair with Eric after he arrives in New York. At the novel's climax, Cass tells Richard about her affair with Eric, who in turn has a sexual encounter with Vivaldo, who himself learns about Ida's relationship with Ellis.

Race and nationalism
Baldwin called Rufus Scott "the black corpse floating in the national psyche," as well as a Christ figure—a living (and dying) symbol of suffering black men. Rufus's death has been described as tantamount to murder.

Because Rufus is living in a predominantly racist era, his life is constantly affected by an internalization of this racism to the point where he hates himself. Throughout the novel, the effects of this internalized oppression are obvious: he is sexual with any person who is white — violently sexual, because he seeks power; he feels disappointed in himself in comparison to his proud Black sister Ida, and he avoids the support of his family during his last day of life.

The concept of "another country" reflects not only the return of Eric to the United States from France, but also the feelings of alienation experienced by African Americans within the United States.

Another Country was unique at the time, in its attempt to explore race relations through romantic love instead of homosocial friendships.

Love
The relationship between Ida and Vivaldo serves as a microcosm for the relationship between African Americans and white liberals. Their relationship and others (including the earlier coupling of Rufus and Leona) represent a struggle for love amidst the obstacles of race, sex, and modern society. According to Baldwin biographer W. J. Weatherby:

"Whether it was the central relationship between white Vivaldo and black Ida or the accompanying bisexual affairs involving most of the other leading characters, all were intended by Baldwin to illustrate how difficult he felt real love was in contemporary American society. Facing each other without lies and perceiving the relationship realistically were much more important than which sexes were involved or how love was expressed, in Baldwin's opinion.… The whole racial situation, according to the novel, was basically a failure of love."

Racial and sexual differences are compared and contrasted, both represented as areas for conflict that must be addressed en route to mature love. According to some readings, this complete unity represents "another country" and perhaps an impossible utopia. Stefanie Dunning wrote:

"Rufus' death suggests that there is no black utopia, no place where he can escape the iniquities of racism. More importantly, Another Country suggests that we have not yet found a model for thinking outside the box that frames our discussions of interraciality and same-sex eroticism. It suggests, more importantly, that eliminating gender and racial difference will not solve the 'problems' of difference either. The title of the novel suggests the wish for 'another country,' another nation, in which our racial and sexual selves are imagined and defined differently or perhaps where they are not defined at all. It is at once a question: another country, illustrating the futility of national crossings, and it is a wistful fantasy: another country, a mythic, imaginary and unattainable place where relationships are not fractured by difference."

Dunning argues that the novel's critique of nationalism extends to black nationalism, which still relies on a fantasy of authentic and heterosexual reproduction.

Willing ignorance
One of the most significant themes in Another Country is one's willingness to ignore parts of reality (including oneself) that one finds unpleasant or ego-dystonic. Vivaldo is perhaps the most affected by this tendency. He also partially denies his own bisexuality. He fails to fully admit his attraction to Rufus. On the night of his death, Rufus went to Vivaldo and indicated a need for sexual love, but Vivaldo pretended not to recognize this need and later felt guilty, suspecting that he might have prevented Rufus's death. He does not see that his attraction to Ida potentially mirrors his attraction to Rufus. Also, despite mounting signs that Ida is involved in a career-advancing affair with the white TV producer Ellis, Vivaldo mostly denies this until the disillusioned Ida confesses to him herself in a cathartic scene near the end of the book.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, after considerable youthful struggles with self-acceptance of his homosexuality due to social ostracism in his hometown in Alabama, Eric eventually becomes the novel's most honest and open character. He admits that Rufus was abusive of Leona, that he actually does not reciprocate Cass's love, and that his love of Yves is genuine. This also makes him the book's calmest and most composed character. Only after a night with Eric does Vivaldo see the world more clearly and make tentative steps toward acceptance of his own bisexuality.

Most of the white characters in the book downplay or refuse to admit the racial tension surrounding them. Cass and Richard are shocked when a group of black boys beat up their sons. Ida constantly suspects Vivaldo of exploiting her because she is black and has known white men who seek out sexual relations specifically with black women. Vivaldo refuses to admit any of this, although it is indicated that it may be true of their relationship.

Professional jealousy
Richard and Vivaldo are jealous of one another as writers. Vivaldo essentially denies the value of Richard's first novel and is jealous that it is being published, while Richard is jealous of Vivaldo because Richard thinks his wife Cass sees suffering and a lack of commercial success as a sign of artistic integrity. Consequently, after Cass and Eric initiate their affair, Richard suspects she is seeing Vivaldo.

Also, Ida's beginning recognition as a jazz singer causes increased tension and jealousy between her and Vivaldo.

Black homosexual masculinity
In his 1968 essay "Notes On A Native Son", from his book Soul on Ice, Eldridge Cleaver denounced the concept of interracial homosexuality and, in effect, acted as the mouthpiece for the hegemonic narrative that framed black homosexual masculinity in America in the 1960s. He expressed not so much a discomfort with homosexuality as with the power paradigm and ultimate feminization that ensues after the physical act of black men sexually submitting to white men:"It seems that many Negro homosexuals, acquiescing in this racial death-wish, are outraged and frustrated because in their sickness they are unable to have a baby by a white man. The cross they bear is that, already bending over and touching their toes for the white man, the fruit of their miscegenation is not the little half-white offspring of their dreams but an increase in the unwinding of their nerves –though they redouble their efforts and intake of the white man's sperm. (p. 102)."

In the eyes of Cleaver, Rufus Scott of Another Country is a failure to his race because he fails to act as "the referent for masculinity, sexuality, and raciality" (Dunning 104). According to black nationalists of the time, the future of the black race is reliant upon reproduction. At the first Plenary Conference on Self Determination in 1981, a flyer read "Homosexuality does not produce children. [It] does not birth new warriors for liberation" (Cheney, 113). In sexually submitting to the white man, Rufus has fulfilled his own death-wish literally and figuratively because, according to Stephanie Dunning: "[T]o be both homosexual and black is to express a hatred for blackness.…In this construction, to be black is to be feminized and to be homosexual is to be castrated. Homosexuality, then, is the ultimate threat to being the man, since it presumably takes away that which makes you one: the impregnating phallus."So Rufus is the embodiment of the pervasive, oppressive nationalist viewpoint that burdened and continues to burden homosexual men of color. Rufus is by no means a proponent of the black nationalist homophobia, but instead a victim to it. In his romantic relationship with his Southern white friend Eric, Rufus internalizes this concept that in "receiving" Eric, he is allowing Eric to dominate him; and yet, in Another Country, Baldwin professes and emphasizes that it is the vulnerability within this power paradigm in interracial same-sex relationships that will ultimately break down racial barriers.

In reshaping masculinity and expectations of black men in particular, we can shift the power dynamic that leads to violence and aggression in men, particularly black men. In speaking about his relationship with Rufus, Vivaldo remarks:"Well, perhaps they had been afraid that if they looked too closely into one another, each would have found –he looked out of the window, feeling damp and frightened. Each would have found the abyss. Somewhere in his heart, the black boy hated the white boy because he was white. Somewhere in his heart, Vivaldo hated and feared Rufus because he was black. (p. 134)"With his privilege as a white man, Vivaldo is able to step back and see homosexual sex for what it is, which is an act of vulnerability and trust, rather than dominance and submission as seen through the eyes of Rufus.

Reception
Another Country received much attention and mixed reviews. Reviews in the black press were generally favorable. The New York Times called it "a sad story, brilliantly and fiercely told" and compared it to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land as a record of spiritual desolation in modern times. Time magazine called it "a failure". Norman Mailer said it was "abominably written". It quickly became a bestseller.

A film adaptation was announced in 1964, with Tony Richardson directing and Baldwin himself writing the screenplay, though the film was never produced.

The book was designated "obscene" in New Orleans and banned, drawing the attention of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

In Australia, the Commonwealth Customs Department banned its import. The country's Literature Censorship Board, while admitting Baldwin's writing had some merit, described Another Country as "continually smeared with indecent, offensive and dirty epithets and allusions". The chairman noted that some might connect the novel's depiction of race relations with current events in Australia, and bearing in mind that a complete ban might damage the country's reputation, suggested that the book be available to "the serious minded student or reader." In 1966 Alexander William Sheppard, an Australian bookseller, announced his plan to publish Another Country by dint of airmailing a number of letters to Australia, each containing a number of pages from the book, and then assembling all the pages received and printing the book. He did this and the Australian ban was lifted.

Baldwin inferred from the book's popularity that "many more people than are willing to admit it lead lives not at all unlike the lives of the people in my book." Baldwin also said that the book "scared people because most don't understand it."

Eldridge Cleaver had harsh words for Baldwin, in his book Soul on Ice, writing that he admired Baldwin in some ways but felt increasingly uncomfortable with his writing. Cleaver says that Another Country made clear why his "love for Baldwin's vision had become ambivalent," and writes:

"Rufus Scott, a pathetic wretch who indulged in the white man's pastime of committing suicide, who let a white homosexual fuck him in the ass, and who took a Southern Jezebel for his woman, with all that these tortured relationships imply, was the epitome of a black eunuch who has completely submitted to the white man. Yes, Rufus was a psychological freedom rider, turning the ultimate cheek, murmuring like a ghost 'You took the best so why not take the rest', which has absolutely nothing to do with the way that Negroes have managed to survive here in the hells of North America!"

The book was listed by Anthony Burgess as one of his Ninety-nine Novels: The best in English since 1939.

Analysis
On writing the book, Baldwin said in the New York Times Book Review: "I think I really helplessly model myself on jazz musicians and try to write the way they sound. I am not an intellectual, not in the dreary sense that word is used today, and do not want to be: I am aiming at what Henry James called 'perception at the pitch of passion.'"Asked to cite literary influences, Baldwin said that Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and George Bernard Shaw were his "models." The character of Yves is connected to Baldwin's lover Lucien Happersberger, who made plans in 1960 to meet Baldwin in New York City.

It has been argued that James Baldwin is in three characters: Rufus as Baldwin would have turned out had he not moved to France; Eric as Baldwin was in Paris; and Vivaldo as a writer struggling with a writer's block because of his love affairs, in the manner of Baldwin himself. Baldwin has also been identified with Ida, as Rufus's advocate after death, and Richard, a writer who has become successful.

Baldwin later said that he developed the character of Rufus to complement and explain Ida.

The book has been described as an implicit criticism of Mailer's The White Negro and its passive romanticization of black culture. Brandon Gordon describes this critique in terms of the relationship between Vivaldo and Rufus, mediated by Leona. Gordon writes: "Contrary to Vivaldo's expectations, emulating the African American's hypermasculine sexual ethos does not ultimately enable him to fulfill the hipster's fantasy of embodied identification." He concludes that, in fact, Vivaldo's homosexual encounter with Eric at the end of the novel—and specifically the fact that Vivaldo is penetrated—represents a truer form of "embodied identification" with another.

One author felt the title echoes lines in Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta: Thou hast committed— Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CSHN

 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. Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 20:42, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

CSHN
Delete - gratuitous disambig page. Offers several options, none of which is a Wikipedia article about CSHN. Suspiciously, one is an external link to a n RPG hacking community. Most of the options seem fake, but one is legit - CSHN is an acronym for Children with Special Health Needs. That brought it out of speedy-land for me. FreplySpang (talk) 15:05, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, i'm still editing it. I also see another definition leading to hacking clan, though this doesn't contain virus, just a group of people that play. Look up "csd". Please keep this, as I'm looking for more acronyms!

 * Delete. Admittedly a stealth disambiguation page intended to house an external link to this "hacking clan." Disambiguation pages ought to disambiguate actual articles, not external links. android↔talk 15:35, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as long as none of the things it stands for is notable. Martg76 15:37, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Can Spam Hacking Nonsense. (Delete.) Samaritan 16:04, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Disambig pages are just for articles, not for external links.José San Martin 16:20, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a collection of external links. Jeltz talk  19:58, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Darren2

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.

Vandalism
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Category:Hoffmeister asteroids

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Palmerton Arboretum

The Palmerton Arboretum is an arboretum of 5 acre which contains almost 90 species of trees and shrubs from around the world. It is located on West Evans Creek Road in Rogue River, Oregon, United States on the site of a 1930s-era tree nursery. Admission is free.

The Arboretum features over 40 species of mature trees including Japanese pines, Mediterranean cedars, redwoods, and other trees native to the Pacific Northwest. It also contains several kinds of azaleas and rhododendrons, plus a variety of other labeled plants, shrubs and trees, as well as a duck pond, playground, and picnic area.

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User talk:Tacid

Edit summary
When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labelled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this: The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature. When you leave the edit summary blank, some of your edits could be mistaken for vandalism and may be reverted, so please always briefly summarize your edits, especially when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. Oleg Alexandrov 15:08, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok. Thanks for advise Tacid 19:56, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_June_7 requested vote to Keep
Hello! I noticed in the past you contributed to the Ductile iron article. Recently I attempted to begin a new category called Category:Cast Iron and its alloys. Into this category I added about 6 or 7 cast irons with separate articles in Wikipedia. Another editor reverted my edits and left one article in the category for Compacted graphite iron. The category was then nominated for deletion. The vote stands at 2 for Delete and 1 for Keep. I'm asking you to visit the Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_June_7 and vote as you see fit. I would like to keep the category and expand it to cover the current Wikipdeia articles and others I would like to add. However, if you will vote either way you see fit perhaps we can move the process along. Thanks for your consideration. Mfields1 (talk) 01:22, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:Jewel bearing

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I think the article should mention explicitly what sorts of jewels are used, which varieties are better for the task, and also how the jewels are used - I believe the bearing is just a jewel with a hole carved in it for the shaft, but the article doesn't say. Bryan 15:09, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Non-jewel jewel bearings?
Is it still called a jewel bearing if it's not a jewel? For example, a salad spinner often has a basket with a conical dimple in the bottom that mates with a conical spike in its tub. It's plastic-on-plastic. Similarly model train wheels are typically steel axels with conical tips that mate with ABS plastic conical holes. In both cases, the principal is the same as for a typical V jewel bearing: by moving the contact radius down to nearly zero, if you have Coulomb friction, the rotational friction goes to zero. —Ben FrantzDale (talk) 02:16, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

 * No, a jewel bearing is not necessarily (and in fact is not usually) a needle bearing, with a conical shaft end supported on bearing material. That is only found in a capstone bearing (see lower drawing in article).  Most jewel bearings are plain journal bearings, consisting of a shaft rotating in a hole lined with bearing material (upper drawing).  The distinguishing feature of a jewel bearing is the use of an ultrahard bearing material like sapphire, so your examples would not be called jewel bearings. -- Chetvorno TALK 02:35, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

 * As far as I can tell from Wikipedia, a sharp-cone-in-cup bearing is not a needle bearing. To the contrary, needle bearings have many slender rollers that add up to produce "high radial load carrying capacity". This is in contrast with a sharp-cone-in-cup bearing, which has extremely high contact stress and so relatively low radial load-carrying capacity. And again, it seems like the notion of making a bearing with extremely low radius is half of what makes jewel bearings good (the other half being using ultrahard bearing materials. —Ben FrantzDale (talk) 14:00, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

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Bălțătești

Bălțătești is a commune in Neamț County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Bălțătești, Valea Arini, and Valea Seacă. It also included Ghindăoani village until 2003, when it was split off to form Ghindăoani Commune.

The commune is situated 36 km north of the county seat, Piatra Neamț, on the national road DN15C leading to Fălticeni and Suceava.

Bălțătești has several sources of mineral waters used for disease treatment purposes, a hotel and medical facilities. The natural landscape and the surroundings makes it a tourist destination.

The Bălțătești mine is a large salt mine situated on the administrative territory of the commune.

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 * Vasile Conta (1845–1882), philosopher, poet, and politician

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User:SebastianRueckoldt~enwiki

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/42 BELOW

 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. Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 20:46, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

42 BELOW
Note: This is a relisting of a previously kept article, but the previous vote seems to be lost in the acres of vfd history.

brands. StuTheSheep 06:48, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as pure advertising. FreplySpang (talk) 15:11, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Clearly an encyclopedic topic - if the article is not neutral it should be edited not deleted. Keep. Pcb21| Pete 19:59, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Not sure about it being an encyclopaedic topic, but not quite pure advertising in its current form. Weak keep. Chris talk back 21:16, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, advert. Megan1967 06:49, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Tell me which sentences you guys are finding non-NPOV, and I will fix them, rather than have you delete the whole article. Pcb21| Pete 12:59, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with List of Vodka brands. Radiant_* 14:16, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, it's the #1 google hit for vodka "new zealand", obviously notable in the crowded field of New Zealand vodkas. Kappa 00:53, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * keep this please - vodka brands are interesting enough Yuckfoo 06:39, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - it's not significantly different from any of the other pages on vodka
 * Keep - If this is deleted then so should be Pepsi, Nike etc etc etc .... it's a (very good) brand :)
 * Merge with South Gin to form Pacific Dawn Distillers. Individual brands are rarely noteable (I have spent ages reducing Category:Brands of beer by merging stubs into brewery articles where they belong, but companies who produce things have more permanence, and this is would make a small article about a distiller using local ingredients to make a NZ distilled product range. Justinc 11:16, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge - Note that the awards section needs to be fact checked.  The Beverage Testing Institute web page does not list 42 BELOW as winning any awards in 2004 and it earned a tasting score below other vodkas Beverage Testing Institute Results.  Also, I cannot find any info on the web pertaining to San Francisco Beverage / Spirits awards except for the mention on the42 BELOW manufacturer website.  Tobycat 05:20, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Also remember that 42 Below is a company; an NZX listed public company. They own the brands 42 Below and South gin.

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Talk:Martin Mystery

General Improvements
I cleaned up the grammar significantly today - one concern with the page is whether the show still airs (anywhere). The original run is over, so I changed the entry in the text box at the top, and I know it has not been shown in Canada since around the same timeframe, but cannot verify for the Disney Channel or Disney Asia. I suspect it is no longer shown by Disney Channel either, but Family (the Canadian equivalent, more or less) does not have the exact same lineup. If so, it would be nice if someone from the US could add when it wrapped up there. Sailor7sakura (talk) 23:56, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Ha! I guess I must not have removed the maintenance tag from this page the last time I edited it, because apparently I've improved the page's grammar twice now. I think it's definitely sufficiently improved to warrant removing that tag now! Sailor7sakura (talk) 05:20, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

What about the Flirt Stepsibling Trope?
In the Original Comics, Martin and his step sister get married. There is also an undercurrent of their romantic love(just under the surface) for each other through ought the show.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlirtyStepsiblings — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.75.45.165 (talk) 14:11, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, it's unclear what you are proposing be added/changed to the article, but if you are proposing that we treat Wikipedia like it is TVTropes by adding interpretive content, the answer is no. We only care what reliable published sources with established reputations for fact-checking and accuracy have to say about any given subject, so if you can find such an authoritative source (not TVTropes, not blogs or other user-generated sources) that makes observations about the series along these lines, then perhaps changes can be made. But until that point, we don't add our personal beliefs/feelings/opinions/interpretations to articles. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:37, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure that you're actually referring to something from the show. The way I read it, there is little in the TV adaptation to suggest any relationship between Martin and Diana that crosses the line from siblings to romantic interests. One significant factor standing in its way is the presence of different love interests for both of them. I think both of these things say that including such a trope would be totally unfounded. Sailor7sakura (talk) 05:17, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Broadcast section
I have been removing an unreferenced section labeled "Broadcasting International" from this article as its content conflicts with says "When detailing a show's international broadcasting, simply listing every channel the series appears on is discouraged; Wikipedia is not a television guide. Apart from the channel of origin for the series, editors are encouraged to instead detail noteworthy (see next paragraph) foreign broadcasts, from English-speaking countries, through prose form". The section was an unreferenced table, not prose, consisted of a list of flags and countries and had no explanation of why any of that info listed was notable. It does not belong in article. Geraldo Perez (talk) 21:11, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Mulligan?
When was Martin’s last name Mulligan? Was it revealed in an episode? —101.173.71.14 (talk) 06:11, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

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Peer Günt

Peer Günt are a hard rock band from Kouvola, Finland, formed in 1976. The band became known in the mid- to late 1980s with three successful albums, Peer Günt (1985), Backseat (1986), and Good Girls Don't... (1987).

Current members

 * Timo Nikki — vocals, guitar
 * Pete Pohjanniemi — bass
 * Sakke Koivula — drums

Former members

 * Vesa Suopanki — bass (1976-1977)
 * Pauli Johansson — drums (1976-1977)
 * Jussi Kylliäinen — secondary lead guitar (1977)
 * Jukka Loikala — bass (1977-1979, 1981-1982)
 * Reima Saarinen — drums (1977-1981)
 * Seppo Karjalainen — keyboard (1977-1978)
 * Timo Kipahti — vocals, guitar (1979)
 * Petri Korppi — bass (1979-1981)
 * Teijo "Twist Twist" Erkinharju — drums (1981-2005)
 * Teijo "Tsöötz" Kettula — bass (1983-2005)

Albums

 * Peer Günt (1985)
 * Backseat (1986)
 * Good Girls Don't... (1987)
 * Fire Wire (1989)
 * Don't Mess with the Countryboys (1990)
 * Smalltown Maniacs (1994)
 * No Piercing, No Tattoo (2005)
 * Guts and Glory (2007)
 * Buck the Odds (2009)

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Pavle, Serbian Patriarch

Pavle (Павле, Paul; 11 September 1914 – 15 November 2009) was the patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1990 to his death. His full title was His Holiness the Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch Pavle. Before his death, he was the oldest living leader of an Eastern Orthodox church. Because of poor health, he spent his last years in the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade, while his duties were carried out by Metropolitan Amfilohije.

Early life
Pavle was born as Gojko Stojčević (Гојко Стојчевић) in the village of Kućanci near Magadenovac, then part of Austria-Hungary (present-day Croatia). He lost both of his parents in childhood, and was raised by an aunt. After finishing elementary school, Pavle graduated from a gymnasium in Belgrade, then studied at the seminary in Sarajevo. After finished Seminary, Gojko entered University of Belgrade where he studied Theology and Medicine in parallel. He quit medicine, but graduated with a Theology degree in 1942. During World War II he took refuge in the Holy Trinity monastery in Ovčar, and later moved to Belgrade. During 1944, he was employed as a teacher and educator at the refugee children's home in Bosnia in Banja Koviljaca. When the children were running on the river, one boy started to drown and Gojko jumped into the cold water to help him. Soon he was seriously ill "on the lungs" and doctors believed that was tuberculosis predicted him another three months of his life. He then went to the Vujan Monastery where he lived for some time isolated from other monks and managed to cure this disease. In gratitude, he carved and donated a wooden cross to the monastery with crucifixion. After the war, he worked in Belgrade as a construction worker, but because of his poor health he took monastic vows in Blagoveštenje monastery in Ovčar in 1946. His monastic name became Pavle (Paul). He served as a hierodeacon in Blagoveštenje, and later in Rača monastery between 1949 and 1955. In 1954, Pavle was ordained to the rank of hieromonk. The same year he was ordained as protosyncellus, and in 1957 as archimandrite.

Between 1955 and 1957 Pavle took post-graduate studies in the Theological School of the University of Athens, Greece. He received a doctorate in New Testament and liturgy by the Theological Academy in Athens. After returning from Greece, he was elected the Bishop of Ras and Prizren (the eparchy which includes all of Kosovo) in 1957. He held that position for 33 years before he was elected Patriarch.

As a religious leader
As a bishop of Ras and Prizren Pavle built numerous new churches and helped the reconstruction of old ones. He spent a lot of time in traveling and meeting with people of his eparchy. He also wrote books and gave lectures in Church music and Church Slavonic language.

Yugoslav Wars
After spending 34 years in Kosovo, Pavle was elected the Serbian Patriarch in 1990, succeeding the ill Serbian Patriarch German, and moved to Belgrade. He was ordained for the Patriarch in the St. Michael's Cathedral in Belgrade on 2 December 1990, and in Patriarchal Monastery of Peć, the ancient seat of the Serbian Church, on 22 May 1994. Six days after his election, the parliamentary election was held in Serbia, in which Slobodan Milošević's SPS came to power. At first, relations between the government and the church were good, but gradually eroded because of the Yugoslav Wars and ongoing crisis in Serbia. Pavle had connections to the Karić family and had numerous meetings with Milošević and Mira Marković, but also with the leaders of the opposition. In 1993 Pavle wrote a letter to Milošević urging him to release Vuk Drašković from prison.

During the Yugoslav Wars, the patriarch and the church gave support to the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs (Republika Srpska) and Croatian Serbs (Republic of Srpska Krajina). Patriarch Pavle had been heavily criticized for his actions during the wars. The Orthodox church has been viewed as promoters of Serbian nationalism by many Bosnian Muslims and Croats. Pavle visited the cities of Knin, Pale while Serbian troops carried out a siege on Goražde. Pavle met with Serb paramilitary leader, Arkan, who he claimed was justified in his actions and presented him with an autographed icon of Saint Nicholas; Arkan considered himself a favorite of Pavle and regarded the patriarch as his "commander", stating that "we are fighting for our religion, the Serbian Orthodox Church."

On 13 December 1991, Pavle wrote a letter which circulated to all Orthodox churches urging for the protection of Croatian Serbs from "the Croatian neo-fascist regime - the successor of the Ustašas who massacred 700,000 Orthodox Serbs in World War II." He openly referred to the Republic of Croatia as the "new Independent State of Croatia" and justified the war as "righteous".

During the Bosnian War, Pavle supported the President of Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadžić, in his rejection of the Vance-Owen peace plan and supported Karadžić in his claims that there were no Serbian rape camps that kept Muslim women, but accused Bosnian Muslims and Croats of the same thing. A famous photograph from this time is that of Karadžić kissing Pavle's hand. In May 1993, Pavle received a letter from Karadžić which thanked him for his "advice and support" in the Bosnian Serbs' "just battle". Karadžić regarded the Serbian Church as the "only spiritual force capable of uniting the Serb nation, regardless of borders." In 1994, Pavle claimed that Serbs were native to Bosnia and Herzegovina and that Bosniaks had only arrived there when the Ottomans invaded.

When a swift Croatian offensive in May 1995 put western Slavonia region back into Croatian control, he urgently called Slobodan Milošević, asking if he will defend Serbia's "brethren in need". On 31 July 1995, he traveled to the Krajina capital Knin with Ratko Mladić (currently on trial for war crimes and genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), to assure the rebel Serbs of military and religious support. However, Krajina ceased to exist just three months later, following Operation Storm that resulted in 200,000–250,000 Serbian refugees. In September 1997, Pavle signed a declaration to the UN Security Council which demanded suspension of the proceedings against Karadžić before the Hague tribunal. Pavle urged Belgrade not to give up Karadžić and Mladić, indicted for war crimes, to the ICTY. He and other nationalist intellectuals also signed a declaration demanding their pardon.

In 1998, Pavle was invited to Zagreb by Croatian Archbishop Josip Bozanić for talks on peace where he was snubbed by several leading Croatian party members and Christian groups for his and the Orthodox Church's role with the rebel Serbs during the war.

After the launch of NATO deployment into Kosovo and Pristina in June 1999, Norwegian special force soldiers escorted Pavle from Pristina to the Patriarchal Monastery of Peć in the city of Peć. The escort mission was regarded to possibly be provocative so soon after the atrocities in the area in question and there were fears of a possible assassination. The patriarch and the Norwegian soldiers were attacked several times on their way.

1996–1997 protests in Serbia
In 1997 Pavle took part in the massive anti-government protests in Belgrade. On 27 January (St Sava Day) he led the protesters to break the police cordon in Kolarčeva street. This was the first time that Pavle openly confronted Milošević's government. Although in following years he became close to the opposition leaders and confronted Milošević, Pavle took part in the 1999 Republic Day celebration where he congratulated Milošević. Pavle later apologized and said that it was misinterpreted. After this, the relations between Pavle and Milošević hit new lows. In 2000, Milošević didn't send Pavle Christmas congratulations for the first time. Pavle later called Milošević and his government responsible for the Yugoslav catastrophe and asked him to resign. After the change of power in Serbia, Pavle continued to cooperate with the government, and was a frequent guest at various political ceremonies.

Later years
Pavle was referred to by some as the "walking saint" based on his simple lifestyle and personal humility. All of the bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church had cars, which they used to travel through their dioceses, except Pavle. When asked why he'd never owned a car, he replied: "I will not purchase one until every Albanian and Serb household in Kosovo and Metohija has an automobile." Asked by foreign journalists about alleged Church support to the Greater Serbian project, Pavle answered: "So I say: if a Great Serbia should be held by committing crime, I would never accept it; may Great Serbia disappear, but to hold it by crime - no. If it were necessary to hold only a small Serbia by crime, I would not accept it. May small Serbia disappear, but to hold it by crime - no. And if there is only one Serb, and if I am that last Serb, to hold on by crime - I do not accept. May we disappear, but disappear as humans, because then we will not disappear, we will be alive in the hands of the living God."

In his tenure as the Patriarch he healed the schism with the "Free Serbian Orthodox Church", now known as the New Gračanica Metropolitanate, and he made efforts to heal the ongoing schism in Macedonia with the Macedonian Orthodox Church, which was considered uncanonical by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and all other Eastern Orthodox churches. During his term, he visited numerous eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church abroad. He visited Australia, United States, Canada and Western Europe. He visited Russia, and was also a guest at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City and at the White House. Patriarch Pavle was the oldest among all living Patriarchs. He was especially devoted to and fond of the words of the Apostle Paul (after whom he was named Pavle), whom he often quoted and expressed admiration for.

In October 2004, Pavle wrote an open letter in which he denounced the elections in Kosovo and urged Serbs to boycott the polls.

On 27 April 2007, the Holy Synod announced that it had named the Metropolitan of Zagreb, Ljubljana and all Italy, Jovan, as the Guardian of the throne (taking over the Patriarch's duties temporarily) while patriarch Pavle was recovering in Sveti Sava Hospital. He was discharged on 1 May and returned to his duties on 14 May. The Patriarch's health worsened and he was restricted to a wheelchair. On 13 November 2007 Pavle was admitted to a medical clinic, and the Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral Amfilohije Radović, as the oldest member, was elected by the Holy Synod to conduct the duties of the Patriarch. On 20 November 2007 it was announced that his life was in danger. On 17 May 2008 the Holy Synod took over all Patriarch Pavle's duties owing to his inability to carry out his functions. On 12 October 2008 Pavle was reported to have asked the Holy Synod to accept his resignation because of declining physical ability. On 11 November 2008, the Holy Synod decided to turn down his request and to ask him to remain on the throne for life.

Death
Pavle died on 15 November 2009, after more than two years spent in the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade. Citizens were able to pay tribute to Patriarch Pavle at the Cathedral Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Belgrade. The Divine Liturgy was held on November 19 inside St. Michael's Cathedral (Saborna Crkva), with His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presiding, while the funeral service was held outside of Cathedral of Saint Sava and he was laid to rest on 19 November, in Rakovica monastery. The funeral was attended by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Patriarch Daniel of Romania, Filaret, Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, Archbishop Anastasios of Albania, Metropolitan Christopher of Prague and Roman Catholic Cardinal Angelo Sodano.

The Government of Serbia announced three days of national mourning over the death of Patriarch Pavle, while Republika Srpska, City of Belgrade and Brčko District declared the funeral day as the official day of mourning. President Boris Tadić said that the patriarch's death was an "irredeemable loss for the entire Serbian nation." Condolences to the Serbian church, people and officials were sent by Russian Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow, Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople and Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens held memorial service, Patriarch Daniel of Romania, Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Walter Kasper, Presidents and heads of Government of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Germany and France as well as leaders of countries that are territorially part of the Serbian Orthodox Church - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Yugoslav Republic of North Macedonia, Montenegro (President Filip Vujanović). The Jewish community, both Islamic communities in Serbia, the Islamic community in Bosnia, and the Roman Catholic Church in Serbia sent condolences.

He was succeeded by the bishop of Niš Irinej in January 2010.

Awards and honors

 * SRB-SHS-YUG Orden Karađorđeve zvezde VKrst BAR.svg Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Karađorđe (by the Karađorđević dynasty), 2007
 * Award of the Unity of Orthodox Nations Foundation, 2002 (for 2001)
 * Order of the Holy Prince Vladimir Equal to the Apostles of the First Degree (ROC), 2004
 * Honorary Doctorate of Divinity (SOC), 1988

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Charles Meeker

Charles Carpenter Meeker (born July 27, 1950) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 34th Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina. He was first elected in 2001 over Republican Paul Coble, and reelected for a fifth two-year term in 2009. A fifth term tied Meeker with Avery C. Upchurch as Raleigh's longest-serving mayor.

He is the son of Leonard C. Meeker, who served as United States Ambassador to Romania from 1969 to 1973, and brother of architect Sarah Meeker Jensen

Career
Meeker is a Raleigh-based lawyer whose firm focuses on local government issues, including public transportation and development. In his five terms as mayor and during previous service on the Raleigh City Council (1985–89 and 1991–95), Meeker, living and raising his family in Boylan Heights, advocated downtown redevelopment and the creation of a light rail system connecting Raleigh to Durham, Research Triangle Park, and Chapel Hill under the auspices of the Triangle Transit Authority. He also successfully pushed for the construction of a new downtown convention center and hotel, as well as the reconstruction of Fayetteville Street, a $9.33 million project to convert the pedestrian mall to an urban "main street" with outdoor dining, art galleries, and open spaces.

Meeker was a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition.

Meeker announced in April 2011 that he would not run for a sixth term.

He was a candidate for North Carolina Commissioner of Labor in the 2016 election, losing to Republican incumbent Cherie K. Berry.

Upon leaving office, he joined the Charlotte-based law firm of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP as a partner in the firm’s Raleigh office.

Education
Charles Meeker received his BA in 1972 from Yale University and in 1975 received his JD from Columbia University.

Meeker became a member of the North Carolina bar in 1975 and a member of the District of Columbia bar in 1984.

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Craig Stevens (actor)

Craig Stevens (born Gail Shikles Jr.; July 8, 1918 – May 10, 2000) was an American film and television actor, best known for his starring role on television as private detective Peter Gunn from 1958 to 1961.

Early life
Stevens was born in Liberty, Missouri, to Marie and Gail Shikles. His father was a high school teacher in Liberty and later an elementary school principal in Kansas City, Missouri. He studied dentistry at the University of Kansas.

Later, in the early 1940s, he also majored in theatre at the University of Kansas at Lawrence.

Early roles
Acting with the university's drama club prompted him to halt his studies to audition in Hollywood. Under the name Michael Gale (a play on his first name), his first screen role was a sailor in Coast Guard (1939). After his debut in a small role in 1939, he adopted the stage name Craig Stevens. For the next period of his film career, he played mainly secondary parts.

He could be glimpsed in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Alice in Movieland (1940), a short at Warner Bros; Those Were the Days! (1940); Argentine Nights (1940); Lady with Red Hair (1940) at Warner Bros; and I Wanted Wings (1941), at Paramount.

WWII service
During World War II he served in the United States Army Air Corps' First Motion Picture Unit based in Culver City, California acting in propaganda and training films. That unit came to be known as "The Culver City Commandos".

Warner Bros
Stevens signed a contract with Warner Bros. They put him in Affectionately Yours (1941), then in Dive Bomber (1941); the latter starred his future wife Alexis Smith, although they shared no scenes in the film.

Stevens had a support role in Law of the Tropics (1941) and the lead in a short, At the Stroke of Twelve (1941). He was in The Body Disappears (1941) and was third billed in Steel Against the Sky (1941), with Smith top billed.

Stevens's first lead in a feature was Spy Ship (1942), a B movie. He followed it with leads in two other "B"s, Secret Enemies (1942), and The Hidden Hand (1942). He and Alexis Smith married on June 18, 1944.

He appeared in films like Three Cadets (1943), Learn and Live (1944), and Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944). He also appeared in the training film How to Fly the B-26 Airplane (1944).

Stevens had a small role in Since You Went Away (1944) for David O. Selznick and The Doughgirls (1944) for Warners. He played himself in Warners' Hollywood Canteen (1944) and had the lead in Plantation Melodies (1945) playing Stephen Foster.

Stevens had support roles in Too Young to Know (1945), God Is My Co-Pilot (1945), Humoresque (1946), The Man I Love (1946), That Way with Women (1947), Love and Learn (1947), Night Unto Night (1948), and The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949).

Post-Warners
Stevens appeared on an episode of The Lone Ranger, (episode #35 in 1950 entitled "Bullets for Ballots"), then had support parts in Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), Blues Busters (1950), Katie Did It (1951) and The Lady from Texas (1951).

Stevens guested on shows like Stars Over Hollywood, The Bigelow Theatre and Hollywood Opening Night as well as appearing in films like Drums in the Deep South (1951) and Phone Call from a Stranger (1951).

Increasingly, Stevens focused on television, appearing in The Unexpected, Gruen Guild Theater, Fireside Theatre, and Chevron Theatre.

Stevens had a lead role in the low budget Murder Without Tears (1953) and was the romantic male lead in Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953). He had supporting roles in The French Line (1953) and Duel on the Mississippi (1955).

Stevens was in The Revlon Mirror Theater, The Lineup, The Star and the Story, The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater, Private Secretary, The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse, The Whistler, The Millionaire, Science Fiction Theatre, Matinee Theatre, Four Star Playhouse, Chevron Hall of Stars, The Ford Television Theatre, Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre , The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna, Mr. Adams and Eve, The Silent Service, Lux Video Theatre, Studio 57, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Loretta Young Show, Schlitz Playhouse, and State Trooper.

On October 29, 1954, Stevens guest-starred on The Ray Bolger Show (1953-1955), an ABC sitcom with a variety show theme.

In 1956, Stevens and Smith toured the country in a musical Plain and Fancy. They later appeared in King of Hearts.

Stevens had the lead in the sci-fi classic The Deadly Mantis (1957) and was second billed in Buchanan Rides Alone (1958).

Peter Gunn
In 1958, after 19 years working in films, Stevens gained national prominence for his starring role in the private detective series Peter Gunn, which ran on NBC from September 1958 to September 1960 and then moved to ABC, where it continued for another year. The series was produced by Blake Edwards, who also wrote and directed many of the episodes. The iconic theme music for the series was composed by Henry Mancini.

On May 7, 1959, Stevens was a guest star on the NBC variety series The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. He and Tennessee Ernie Ford did a comedy skit based on Peter Gunn. He sang on The Dinah Shore Chevy Show with Dinah Shore.

During the run of Peter Gunn, Stevens guest starred on Special Agent 7, The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, and The Chevy Show. He shot a pilot called The Mighty O that was not picked up in 1961.

After the show ended he and Smith toured in a 13-week run of Critic's Choice from 1961 to 1962.

Man of the World and Mr Broadway
After Peter Gunn ended, Stevens was called on by Sir Lew Grade of ITV to move to London, England, to play the lead role in the television series Man of the World in 1962.

During 1963–64, he appeared in the Broadway musical Here's Love, which ran for 334 performances.

In 1964, Stevens followed this series with Mr. Broadway, the 13-week CBS drama in which he starred as Mike Bell.

In 1965, he and Smith toured on stage once more in a production of Mary, Mary.

Stevens and Blake Edwards brought Peter Gunn to the big screen in 1967 with the feature film Gunn. Though it was advertised as "Gunn-Number One", there were no sequels.

TV guest star
Stevens shot an unsold pilot The Best Years, and guest starred on several television series including The Name of the Game; The Bold Ones: The Lawyers; McCloud; My World and Welcome to It; The Governor & J.J.; My Three Sons; To Rome with Love; Bracken's World; The Virginian; Gunsmoke; Marcus Welby, M.D.; Alias Smith and Jones; Medical Center; Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law; The Rookies; Here's Lucy; Love, American Style; The Snoop Sisters; Circle of Fear; Search; Faraday and Company; and Chase.

He later starred as Professor Higgins in a national touring production of My Fair Lady with Jane Powell. He also made lengthy national tours in Cactus Flower, co-starring again with his wife.

The Invisible Man and later career
Stevens co-starred with David McCallum in The Invisible Man for a single season on NBC during 1975–1976.

After the series ended, he guest starred on Starsky and Hutch, Gibbsville, Police Woman, and Project U.F.O.. He also had roles in Rich Man, Poor Man (1976) and Secrets of Three Hungry Wives (1978) and could be seen on The Incredible Hulk; Flying High; The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries; David Cassidy: Man Undercover; B.J. and the Bear; Dallas; The Tony Randall Show; Quincy, M.E.; Happy Days; Fantasy Island; Hotel; The Love Boat; Murder, She Wrote; and Supercarrier.

Stevens reunited with director Blake Edwards in the comedy film S.O.B. (1981). He also appeared in La truite (1982) directed by Joseph Losey and the TV movie Condor (1985).

Stevens's final acting appearance was in the TV movie Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair (1988)

Personal life
On June 18, 1944, Stevens married actress Alexis Smith at the Church of the Recessional, Forest Lawn. They were married for 49 years, until her death in 1993. They had no children.

Stevens died of cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, on May 10, 2000, at the age of 81.

Legacy
The year after Stevens's death, funds were granted by his estate to the University of Kansas to endow the Alexis and Craig Stevens Performing Arts Scholarship in the school's theatre department. The scholarship provides financial aid to undergraduate and graduate students studying theatre.

His physical features and performance in the TV series Peter Gunn were the inspiration for the Dutch comics character Agent 327 by Martin Lodewijk.

Partial filmography

 * Coast Guard (1939) - Sailor (uncredited)
 * Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - Senate Reporter (uncredited)
 * Those Were the Days! (1940) - Second Passenger (uncredited)
 * Argentine Nights (1940) - Gaucho (uncredited)
 * Lady with Red Hair (1940) - Bit Role (uncredited)
 * I Wanted Wings (1941) - Corporal (uncredited)
 * Affectionately Yours (1941, unbilled) - Airline Official Talking to Ricky in Ambulance (uncredited)
 * Dive Bomber (1941) - John Thomas Anthony
 * Law of the Tropics (1941) - Alfred King, Jr.
 * The Body Disappears (1941) - Robert Struck
 * Steel Against the Sky (1941) - Chuck Evans
 * Spy Ship (1942) - Ward Prescott
 * Secret Enemies (1942) - Carl Edward Becker
 * The Hidden Hand (1942) - Peter Thorne
 * Learn and Live (1943) - Bob (uncredited)
 * Since You Went Away (1944) - Danny Williams
 * Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944) - B-26 Pilot (uncredited)
 * The Doughgirls (1944) - Craig Stevens
 * Hollywood Canteen (1944) - Craig Stevens
 * Roughly Speaking (1945) - Jack Leslie (uncredited)
 * God Is My Co-Pilot (1945) - Ed Rector
 * Too Young to Know (1945) - Major Bruce
 * Humoresque (1946) - Monte Loeffler
 * The Man I Love (1947) - Bandleader
 * That Way with Women (1947) - Carter Andrews
 * Love and Learn (1947) - Willard Deckerr
 * Night Unto Night (1949) - Tony Maddox
 * The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949) - Danvers (uncredited)
 * Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) - Ken Paine
 * Blues Busters (1950) - Rick Martin
 * Katie Did It (1951) - Stuart Grumby
 * The Lady from Texas (1951) - Cyril Guthrie
 * Drums in the Deep South (1951) - Colonel Braxton Summers
 * Phone Call from a Stranger (1952) - Mike Carr
 * Murder Without Tears (1953) - Detective Sergeant Steve O'Malley
 * Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) - Bruce Adams
 * The French Line (1953) - Phil Barton
 * Duel on the Mississippi (1955) - René LaFarge
 * From the Desk of Margaret Tyding (1956)
 * Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957) (Season 3 Episode 11: "The Deadly") - Lewis Brenner
 * The Deadly Mantis (1957) - Colonel Joe Parkman
 * Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) - Abe Carbo
 * Gunn (1967) - Peter Gunn
 * The Limbo Line (1968) - Richard Manston
 * The Elevator (1974) - Dr. Stuart Reynolds
 * Killer Bees (1974) - Rudolf van Bohlen
 * S.O.B. (1981) - Willard
 * The Trout (1982) - Carter

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Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture recognizes individuals for distinguished contributions to the field of architecture. The Medal in Architecture has been jointly awarded each year by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello and the University of Virginia School of Architecture since 1966. Along with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership, and the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Global Innovation, the awards are the highest external honors bestowed by the University, which grants no honorary degrees.

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Stig Blomqvist

Stig Lennart Blomqvist (born 29 July 1946) is a retired Swedish rally driver. He made his international breakthrough in 1971. Driving an Audi Quattro for the Audi factory team, Blomqvist won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1984 and finished runner-up in 1985. He won his home event, the Swedish Rally, seven times.

Outside the WRC, he won the British Rally Championship in 1983 and the Swedish Rally Championship several times. At the Race of Champions, Blomqvist took the title "Champion of Champions" in 1989 and 1990.

Career
Stig Blomqvist acquired his driving licence at the age of 18, and immediately took second place in a 1964 local rally event near the Swedish town of Karlstad, behind the wheel of a Saab 96. After his education as a driving instructor, together with later teammate Per Eklund at the Kvinnersta Folkhögskola outside of Örebro, he proceeded to drive with the Saab team, and achieved his first international victories in 1971; first winning the Swedish Rally, then the 1000 Lakes Rally in Finland and the RAC Rally in Great Britain. These performances helped Saab gain second place behind Alpine-Renault in the International Championship for Manufacturers, the predecessor to the World Rally Championship.

Blomqvist went on to win the Swedish Rally again in 1972 (Saab 96 V4), 1973 (Saab 96 V4), which marked his first WRC event and win, 1977 (Saab 99 EMS) and 1979 (Saab 99 Turbo). Outside the WRC, he won the 1973 Cyprus Rally, the 1976 Boucles de Spa and the Swedish Rally Championship several times. His long-time association with Saab ended when the Saab Sport department hung up their spurs in 1981. Driving a Talbot Sunbeam Lotus in 1981, Blomqvist finished eighth in the 1000 Lakes and third at the RAC.

For the 1982 season, Audi Sport, Audi's factory team, signed Blomqvist to drive the Quattro in a few events alongside Hannu Mikkola and Michèle Mouton. He won the Swedish Rally, finished second in the 1000 Lakes and then took his first WRC victory outside his home country by winning the Rallye Sanremo. Audi then signed Blomqvist as their third regular driver for the following season. Blomqvist scored seven podiums, including a win in the season-ending RAC Rally, and finished fourth in the drivers' world championship. In the British Rally Championship, he captured the title by winning four of the six events.

In the 1984 season, Blomqvist drove the Quattro A2 and the Sport Quattro evolutions to five victories, and finished second at the Monte Carlo Rally. Beating Mikkola to the title, he became the second Swedish world rally champion after Björn Waldegård. His first place in the Rallye Côte d'Ivoire would remain his career-last victory in the WRC. The 1985 season saw him finish runner-up to Timo Salonen of the new Peugeot Talbot Sport team headed by Jean Todt. His best result was second; at the Swedish Rally, the 1000 Lakes and the Acropolis Rally. In the last Group B season in 1986, Blomqvist competed for Ford in an RS200 and for Peugeot in a 205 Turbo 16 E2, recording his only podium at the Rally Argentina.

During the first two Group A years, Blomqvist continued with Ford and drove a Ford Sierra RS Cosworth, finishing on the podium three times. He also drove for Volkswagen Motorsport and finished third in a Golf Mk 2 16V on the 1989 Safari Rally.The 1990 WRC season was the series' first without Blomqvist in action. In 1991 and 1992, he drove a Nissan Sunny GTI-R for Nissan Motorsports Europe, Nissan's factory team. At the 1992 Swedish Rally, Blomqvist took third place, which would remain his last podium spot in the WRC.

Later in the 1990s, he used his experience of two-wheel drive cars and helped Škoda Motorsport to develop the Škoda Felicia Kit Car. During a guest appearance at the 1996 RAC Rally, when the event was not on the WRC schedule, the 50-year-old veteran finished third overall with the car. That same year, he finished seventh in the Safari Rally in a Ford Escort RS Cosworth. This would remain his last points-finish in the World Rally Championship.

After only three events in four years, Blomqvist returned to the role of a regular WRC competitor. Together with co-driver Ana Goñi, he drove a Group N category David Sutton Cars Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6 in twelve events in 2001, finishing fifth overall in the Production World Rally Championship (PWRC). In 2003, he finished third in the PWRC championship in a Subaru Impreza WRX STI. In his last world rally, the 2006 Swedish Rally, Blomqvist drove the Impreza to 24th place overall and was fourth fastest in Group N.

In September 2008, Blomqvist was due to take part in the Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally, a round of the Scottish Rally Championship centred in Perth in Scotland, in a Ford Escort Mk2 with Goñi as his co-driver. The rally was held in memory of McRae, who died in 2007.

He has lived in the UK for many years, based in Saffron Walden, Essex. His son, Tom Blomqvist, has followed in his motorsports footsteps, becoming the youngest ever Formula Renault UK champion in 2010, at the age of 16.

WRC victories

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! # ! Event ! Season ! Co-driver ! Car
 * 1
 * 🇸🇪 Swedish Rally
 * 1973
 * Arne Hertz
 * Saab 96 V4
 * 2
 * 🇸🇪 Swedish Rally
 * 1977
 * Hans Sylvan
 * Saab 99 EMS
 * 3
 * 🇸🇪 Swedish Rally
 * 1979
 * Björn Cederberg
 * Saab 99 Turbo
 * 4
 * 🇸🇪 Swedish Rally
 * 1982
 * Björn Cederberg
 * Audi Quattro
 * 5
 * 🇮🇹 Rallye Sanremo
 * 1982
 * Björn Cederberg
 * Audi Quattro
 * 6
 * RAC Rally
 * 1983
 * Björn Cederberg
 * Audi Quattro A2
 * 7
 * 🇸🇪 Swedish Rally
 * 1984
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User talk:Hebrides Soothsayer

James I
I think that one would not be well advised to add details to the introduction of an article. Such details belong in the body of the essay; they need not clutter the lead section. Moreover, the idea that witches were executed in Nor Loch is inaccurate. Nor Loch was used for ducking, never for execution. Moreover, the theory that James I used his anti-witchcraft efforts to control unemployment seems rather far-fetched. If you would be good enough to provide a reliable reference for this information, I shall of course not object to its inclusion. Furthermore, I will have you know that I am not American. -- Emsworth 15:18, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Proposed 1893 Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom

The proposed 1893 Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom would have been a replacement of the Constitution of 1887, primarily based on the Constitution of 1864 put forth by Queen Liliʻuokalani. While it never became anything more than a draft, the constitution had a profound impact on Hawaiʻi's history: it set off a chain of events that eventually resulted in the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

Background
Prior to 1887, the monarchs of Hawaiʻi ruled the kingdom as executive monarchs. Following the writing of the 1887 Constitution, however, the monarch was reduced to a mere figurehead.

During the 1890 legislature, the Hawaiian king, Kalākaua, backed a number of proposals to amend or rewrite the 1887 constitution. However, all of these measures failed.

In 1891, Liliʻuokalani ascended the throne. In 1892, she backed measures in the kingdom's legislature to amend or rewrite the constitution. However, the measures failed as they had during the reign of her brother. Among the measures that failed was an amendment that would lower the property requirement to vote so most of the general public could vote. When that was voted down, many Hawaiian citizens protested. The Queen received petitions in the thousands to issue a new constitution as Kamehameha V had done in 1864 (the Constitution of 1864). Liliʻuokalani was assisted by Hawaiian legislators Joseph Nāwahī and William Pūnohu White and the captain of the Household Guards Samuel Nowlein with the drafting of the new constitution.

The proposed Constitution
The constitution that Liliʻuokalani proposed differed from the 1887 constitution in the following respects:

 * Members of the privy council, notary public, and agents would be able to run for the legislature.
 * Princess Kaʻiulani, Prince Kawānanakoa and Prince Kalanianaʻole would be added to the line of succession.
 * The Queen would be given the power to call meetings of the legislature.
 * The legislature would meet for regular sessions in April instead of May.
 * The Queen’s private lands and other property were made inviolable.
 * The Queen would sign all bills before they became law. Under the 1887 constitution, any bills vetoed by the Queen and then repassed by the legislature with a two-thirds majority would automatically become law without the signature of the Queen. Under the proposed 1893 constitution, the Queen would be obligated to sign all bills repassed by the legislature with a two-thirds majority.
 * The pay of the legislators would be increased from $250 to $500.
 * Nobles would be appointed by the Queen instead of elected.
 * The number of representatives could be increased from 24 to 48.
 * Property requirements for voters were decreased.
 * American and European residents, granted suffrage in 1887, would lose the right to vote.
 * Supreme court judges would be appointed for six years instead of for life.
 * The Queen would be able to appoint governors of each island for four years.
 * Article 78 of the 1887 Constitution which required the monarch to perform "with the advice and consent of the Cabinet" was left out.

Events leading to January 14, 1893
In the weeks prior, her cabinet had all individually confided in the Queen stressing to her all for the need for a new constitution. The Queen then called meetings at Muʻolaulani Palace to have a chance to hear everyone’s thoughts regarding constitutional reform. The conclusion of these meetings received the same (yes) response from the entire cabinet. Having been assured that they were all aligned in a like-minded plan, and trusting in their loyalty to the constitutional government they swore to uphold under oath when appointed to each of their positions; the draft for a new constitution had begun.

January 14, 1893
On January 14, 1893, the Queen met with her cabinet at ʻIolani Palace. None of her ministers agreed to sign the constitution. In fact, the ministers intention was never to sign the constitution at all. They were and had already been actively informing the Queen's political enemies of her plans, and were more than aware of the unnecessary turmoil that their actions were soon to ignite. The Queen, though anxious from what was all too clear to her at that point a set-up, was far more concerned with what this would mean for Native Hawaiians. The Bayonet Constitution was directly oppressing, depriving, and restricting their rights, and they alone were suffering for it. During the election of 1892 out of the 9,500 registered voters, 7,000, or 3/4 of them had formally sent signed petitions to the Queen expressing their plea for a new constitution. Her response was “To have ignored or disregarded so general a request I must have been deaf to the voice of the people, which tradition tells us that is the voice of God. No true Hawaiian chief would have done other than to promise a consideration of their wishes.” Outside, a large crowd of Native Hawaiians had gathered, expecting the Queen to proclaim a new constitution. However, after her meeting with her cabinet, Liliʻuokalani instead went outside onto the palace balcony and told the crowd that a new constitution would have to wait and that they should peacefully return to their homes.

That evening, a group of the Queen's opponents met to discuss the events of the day. Most were concerned over the Queen's attempt to restore the power of the crown. Some annexationists, like Henry Baldwin, urged moderation but others, like Lorrin A. Thurston urged the complete overthrow of the monarchy. A plan of action was created by the group, including the creation of a Committee of Safety, the overthrow of the monarchy, the establishment of a provisional government, and the petitioning for annexation to the United States.

Overthrow of the Kingdom
The following Monday, the Queen issued a statement saying that she would not attempt to amend the constitution except by the means provided in the 1887 constitution. However, the Committee of Safety did not believe her promise was sincere, and continued with their planning. A group of men mostly drawn from the ranks of the Reform Party of the Hawaiian Kingdom formed the Committee of Safety and asked the United States Minister, John L. Stevens, to land troops from the U.S.S. Boston (anchored in Honolulu Harbor) into Honolulu, “to protect American lives and property.” John L. Stevens, reacting to what he saw as potential unrest as the internal crisis continued, requested the landing of 300 Marines, who were given specific orders by Captain G. C. Wiltse to "land in Honolulu for the purpose of protecting our legation, consulate, and the lives and property of American citizens, and to assist in preserving public order." At 2:00pm on January 17, 1893, a proclamation was read on the steps of Government building, declaring the monarchy overthrown. U.S. peacekeepers were at the time stationed at Arion Hall, the U.S. Consulate, and the U.S. Legation, under orders of strict neutrality and out of any potential line of fire between the Provisional Government and Royalist forces. The Queen abdicated under protest ostensibly "to the superior force of the United States government", though her surrender was delivered to the Provisional Government, not the United States. The Kingdom of Hawaiʻi had ended, and a new provisional government was declared.

The Provisional Government quickly gained recognition from the United States Government and all the other governments with embassies in Hawaiʻi, but was opposed by the administration of Grover Cleveland for years as he attempted to restore the monarchy, beginning with the Blount Report. President Grover Cleveland, in a message to Congress on December 18, 1893, denounced the actions of Minister Stevens, the Honolulu Rifles and the Committee of Safety as an "act of war, committed with the participation of a diplomatic representative of the United States and without authority of Congress."

Liliʻuokalani's trial
In 1895, an abortive attempt by Hawaiian royalists to restore Queen Liliʻuokalani to power resulted in the queen's arrest. She was forced to sign a document of abdication that relinquished all her future claims to the throne. Following this, she was subject to a public trial before a military tribunal in her former throne room.

Convicted of having knowledge of a royalist plot, Liliʻuokalani was fined $5000 and sentenced to five years in prison and hard labor. The sentence was commuted to imprisonment in an upstairs bedroom of ʻIolani Palace. During her imprisonment, the queen was denied any visitors other than one lady in waiting. She began each day with her daily devotions followed by reading, quilting, crochet-work, or music composition.

After her release from ʻIolani Palace, the queen remained under house arrest for five months at her private home, Washington Place. For another eight months she was forbidden to leave Oahu before all restrictions were lifted.


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User talk:JIP/Symbols that are both country codes and chemical symbols

I think it's about time to remove the VfD notice. =)   — J I P | Talk 15:19, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Languages?
How about expanding the list to include a "Languages" column, so e.g. La would be not only Laos and Lanthanum but also Latin...

BTW the standard English spelling is Herzegovina (not w); since it's in your Userspace, I'll let you correct it...

--Haruo 13:07, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Eh?
What's this for? — Ilγαηερ   (Tαlκ)  02:35, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Update needed
That's a fairly intriguing list. :) The chemical element copernicium has recently received its trivial name and the chemical symbol Cn, which is an exact match of the ISO 3166 country code for China. Would you update it? --Theurgist (talk) 15:43, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Just noticed something
I noticed that for Cn, the text "China" is in the "Element" section and "Copernicium" is in the "Country" section. I don't have a Wikipedia account so I don't know if my message is correct in any way at all, but I just wanted to let you know. -- anon, 10:37, 20 June 2024 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.113.241.214 (talk)


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WETA-TV

WETA-TV (channel 26) is the primary PBS member television station in Washington, D.C. Owned by the Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, it is a sister station to NPR member WETA (90.9 FM). The two outlets share studios in nearby Arlington, Virginia; WETA-TV's transmitter is located in the Tenleytown neighborhood in Northwest Washington.

Among the programs produced by WETA-TV that are distributed nationally by PBS are the PBS NewsHour, Washington Week, and several cultural and documentary programs, such as the Ken Burns documentaries and A Capitol Fourth.

History
In 1952, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocated 242 channels for non-commercial use across the United States; channel 26 was allocated for use in Washington, D.C. In 1953, the Greater Washington Educational Television Association (GWETA) was formed to file for a channel 26 construction permit, joining the D.C. Board of Education. The Board of Education would drop its bid in 1954. GWETA credits Elizabeth Campbell with having founded the organization. In the early days, before it was granted a license for its own channel, GWETA produced educational programming for WMAL-TV and WTTG.

An application was finally filed on May 3, 1961, and approved on June 12, for a construction permit for the channel. GWETA was eventually granted a license by the FCC to activate channel 26; WETA-TV first signed on the air on October 2, 1961, with the first televised class being aired on October 16. WETA originally operated out of Yorktown High School in Arlington; the station later relocated its operations to the campus of Howard University in 1964. Rapid growth led a station that had been described as having "a rough time meeting the monthly bills" in 1963 to even pursue thoughts of a second channel in 1965. In 1967, WETA began producing Washington Week in Review (now simply titled Washington Week), a political discussion program that became the station's first program to be syndicated nationally to other non-commercial educational stations and is now the network's longest-running public affairs program.

Around 1970, the Greater Washington Educational Television Association changed its name to the Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association to reflect the oversight of the new WETA (FM). In 1971, the station begin producing shows for the newly-formed National Public Affairs Broadcast Center (later National Public Affairs Center for Television), a group led by PBS for its news programming. In 1972, the producing organization National Public Affairs Center for Television merged into WETA. In 1992, WETA broadcast the first publicized over-the-air high-definition television signal in the United States. In 1995, WETA acquired CapAccess, an interactive computer network. From that acquisition, WETA helped connect public schools, public libraries and local government agencies to the Internet.

In 1996, WETA launched its first national educational project, LD Online, a website that seeks to help children and adults reach their full potential by providing accurate and up-to-date information and advice about learning disabilities and ADHD. It was joined in 2001 by Reading Rockets, a multimedia project offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help. In 2003, Reading Rockets spun off Colorín Colorado, a free web-based service that provides information, activities, and advice for educators, and Spanish-speaking families of English language learners (ELLs). To support the parents and educators of older students who struggle with reading, WETA launched Adlit.org in 2007. AdLit.org is a multimedia educational initiative offering research (articles, instructional strategies, school-based outreach events, professional development webcasts, and book recommendation) to develop teens' literacy skills, prevent school dropouts, and prepare students for the demands of college. Seeing a need to educate the public about brain injuries, in 2008 WETA, in partnership with the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, launched BrainLine.org. The site features videos, webcasts, recent research, personal stories, and articles on preventing, treating, and living with traumatic brain injuries.

In 1997, WETA tested its new full-power digital transmitter by broadcasting the first-ever high definition telecast of a live Major League Baseball game to the National Press Club; the digital facility was activated for full-time broadcasting in November 1998.

With the national closure of the PBS Kids network in 2005, WETA did not become a PBS Kids Sprout partner. By April 2006, the station had added World programming to a subchannel prior to its January 2007 launch as a nationwide network. In 2007, WETA started broadcasting a children's channel branded under the name WETA Kids. By February 2009, WETA only aired a daily three-hour children's morning block on its primary channel, clearing the afternoon for general audience programs like Charlie Rose, travel shows, repeats of the previous night's prime time shows, movies, documentaries, and miniseries.

WETA decided to drop Create due to the network moving to being fee-based on July 1, 2012, and perceived lack of programming flexibility. WETA How-To lifestyle programming replaced Create in January 2012. How-To was replaced by WETA UK on July 4, 2012, after an analysis of audience and local viewers' demand for British programs.

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:

Channel 26.2, "WETA UK", is a subchannel programmed in-house with a schedule of shows produced in the United Kingdom. Channel 26.5, "WETA Metro", is also produced in-house and focuses on timeshifted rebroadcasts of news programming and reruns that interest a local audience.

Analog-to-digital conversion
WETA-TV shut down its analog signal, on UHF channel 26, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 27, using virtual channel 26.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uidefaults

 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 merge and redirect. Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 20:58, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Uidefaults
Thue marked this vfd on March 2, but never made a subpage or listed it on vfd. I'm just bringing it here for resolution; do not consider this a vote. —Korath (Talk) 15:21, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into a new section on the Swing (Java) page. — RJH 18:27, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I wonder why I didn't complete that one. Anyway, merge whatever fits into Swing (Java) and then delete. Thue | talk 19:32, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Swing (Java). Megan1967 06:50, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Stoneface

Godo job on the MGS references in the Order of Lenin article. If I do come up with a section of fictional recepients of the Hero of Socialist Labor, your welcome to add that reference again. Zscout370 15:23, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Q... (TV series)

The article states: "Rather than call the final series Q10, Milligan opted to call it There's a Lot of it About (a rare example of Milligan feeling a joke had gone too far)." I've read elsewhere (can't find the link now) that the BBC insisted it was called TALOIA instead of Q10, not Spike. Would be helpful if someone could verify this..
 * --Taras 15:23, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I just leafed through his biography and it says "TALOIA, as the BBC had opted to call what was effectively Q10". It doesn't go into much detail, but it looks like your right. I apologise.--Crestville 15:29, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Added link tags around Spike's name, otherwise this page wouldn't link to his. --Attila the Pooh 13:18, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

"what are we going to do now"
worth a mention surely as the ultimate get out from a sketch with no punchline. GraemeLeggett 12:25, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Classic Sketches
The fake game show "Lose your Furniture" where Spike made mad hand gestures to parody Ted Rogers in the then very popular game show "3-2-1", then the contestant kept having their belongings taken away (I seem to rememebr someone going by in a bath tub). The star prize was an eviction notice. --SMKinnear 18:26, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Mate - Pakistani Daleks. End of. --81.159.161.115 (talk) 18:52, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Spike Milligan - Q series.jpg
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There's a Lot of It About
There's a Lot of It About is treated in this article as being the 6th and final series of the Q... series, but other sources seem to treat it as a separate series from the first 5 Q... series and was also not released on DVD when Simply Media released all the other extant episodes of Q.... About the only reason I can think of why TALOIA is treated the way it is here is because the show uses The Q5 Piano Tune as the theme song like the other Q... series. Should references to TALOIA be removed from this article and moved to one of it's own? 31.22.46.176 (talk) 13:24, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture

Untitled
I don't know how to put the following at the end of the article, I guess because I don't know how to close the table properly. I copied the table boilerplate from a Nobel Prize page, but I guess I did something different.

References Brassrat 15:25, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * http://www.arch.virginia.edu/faculty/visiting/jeffersonmedal/


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Sciennes

Sciennes (pronounced, ) is a district of Edinburgh, Scotland, situated approximately 2 km south of the city centre. It is a mainly residential district, although it is also well-known as the site of the former Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Most of its housing stock consists of terraces of four-storey Victorian tenements. The district is popular with students, thanks to its proximity to the University of Edinburgh. Its early history is linked to the presence in the area of the 16th-century Convent of St Catherine of Scienna, from which the district derives its name.

Location
Sciennes is located approximately 2 km south of Princes Street in Edinburgh's city centre, and immediately south of The Meadows. The district is not an administrative unit or electoral ward and therefore has no formal boundaries, but it is generally considered to be the area that lies between Melville Drive to the north, Argyle Place to the west, Sciennes Road to the south, and Causewayside to the east, with an extension to the south east which takes in Sciennes Hill Place and Sciennes Gardens.

Sciennes shares a community council with Marchmont and lies partly within the Marchmont, Meadows and Bruntsfield Conservation Area.

Sciennes is also the name of a road which runs north to south in the eastern part of the district.

History
The recorded history of Sciennes starts in the early 16th century, with the establishment of two religious houses. In 1512, Sir John Crawfurd, canon of St Giles, erected a chapel dedicated to St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist on land that had been part of the ancient Burgh Muir, this being common ground that was given to Edinburgh by David I in the first half of the 12th century.

The name is a corruption of Sienna in Italy, and comes from the Dominican Convent of St Catherine of Scienna. This was founded by a group of women, led by Lady Janet Seton, whose husbands and other relatives had been killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. The convent, which was completed in 1518, was built on land acquired from Sir John Crawfurd, and incorporated his chapel. It stood on the south side of the present Sciennes Road, roughly where St Catherine's Place now stands. It was the only Dominican Nunnery in Scotland. In 1567, the convent was destroyed and the community dispersed as a result of the Reformation. A plaque on the wall of No 16 St Catherine's Place marks the site of the convent.

Up until the early 19th century, much of the area of present-day Sciennes was occupied by just a few mansions and large villas, each set in its own grounds. By the end of the century, these had largely been replaced by terraces of Victorian tenements. In contrast to neighbouring Marchmont, where the tenements had been developed according to an overall design, those in Sciennes grew up in a more piecemeal fashion.

The area also included some industrial development, notably the extensive engineering works and foundry of Bertrams Ltd, an international manufacturer of paper-making machinery. The works stood on the corner of Sciennes Road and (the street named) Sciennes. They were demolished in 1985, the site now being occupied by residential flats.

Origins of street names
The Convent of St Catherine of Scienna gives its name to Sciennes itself and to several of its streets (such as Sciennes Road and Sciennes Gardens) as well as to St Catherine's Place. Other streets in the district, especially those that were developed in the 19th century, are named after notable figures of the day. These include Livingstone Place, for the explorer, David Livingstone; Gladstone Terrace, for William Ewart Gladstone, the Liberal Prime Minister; and Lord Russell Place, for Lord John Russell, a Whig and Liberal Prime Minister.

Notable buildings
Built around 1741, Sciennes Hill House was originally a substantial three-story town house set in a large garden. It was partly demolished in 1868, the remaining parts of the structure being incorporated into a terrace of Victorian tenements which now make up the north side of Sciennes House Place. The north elevation was the original front of the house. This still contains some of the original architectural features but these are not visible from the street. The street frontage was originally the back of the house. The interior of the building was sympathetically restored in 1988. In the winter of 1786–87, the house was the location of the only recorded meeting of Robert Burns and Walter Scott, at a literary dinner hosted by the philosopher Professor Adam Ferguson. A bronze plaque on the outside of the building commemorates the event.

Sciennes House Place is also the location of the Old Jewish Burial Ground, the first Jewish cemetery in Scotland. It was opened in 1816 by the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation and closed to burials in 1870. Some of the memorials, inscribed in Hebrew, show up to four generations of some families buried here.

Also in Sciennes House Place is the Old Braid Fire Station, a Category C listed building which was designed in 1885 by Robert Morham, the City Architect. This was one of four fire stations established in the 1820s by Edinburgh's first firemaster James Braidwood. It is now an architect's office.

Robert Morham also designed, in 1884, the former 'A' Division Police Station on the corner of Causewayside. This is a four-storey building in the Scottish Baronial style. It closed in the early 1980s and has since been converted to flats. The building stands opposite the shop of the antique dealer and police historian T W Archibald who wrote a history of the Lothians and Borders Police.

The former Royal Hospital for Sick Children (commonly referred to as the Sick Kids) is an imposing neo-Jacobean building, designed by George Washington Browne. It operated at its site in Sciennes Road from 1895 to 2021. It is a listed building with murals by Phoebe Anna Traquair in its mortuary chapel. In 2017, the hospital was due to move to Little France, but this was delayed because of technical and financial problems. In February 2019, planning permission was given to the Downing Group to convert the main hospital building to 126 residential units and to replace other buildings on the site with student flats. The hospital finally closed on 23 March 2021 when its facilities moved to the new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People at Little France. The Downing Group started work on the redevelopment of the site in June 2021.

Sciennes Primary School stands next to the former hospital. It was designed in 1889 by Robert Wilson, the architect for the Edinburgh Board of Education, and opened in 1892.

Sylvan House is an 18th century Category B listed residential building situated behind a row of Victorian tenements in Sylvan Place. In the 1790s, it was the summer home of Joseph Black, Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh University. A plaque commemorating Black's occupancy was unveiled in 1991.

Notable residents

 * Duncan Napier (1831–1921), botanist and herbalist, lived at 8 Gladstone Terrace and later at 5 Sciennes Gardens (at the time, the house was known as Ruby Villa).
 * Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), novelist and short-story writer, noted for his Sherlock Holmes stories, lived briefly with his family in an overcrowded tenement at 3 Sciennes Place when he was eight years old.
 * David Daiches (1912–2005), literary historian and critic, and his brother Lionel Daiches (1911 – 1999), Scottish QC and Liberal Party politician, grew up at 6 Millerfield Place.
 * Charles J. Smith (1920–2000), author of several books on the history of Edinburgh, lived briefly in Livingstone Place as a child.
 * Sheila Gilmour (1949-) Scottish Labour MP for Edinburgh East from 2010 to 2015.

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Honda Avancier (station wagon)

The Honda Avancier (ホンダ・アヴァンシア) is a mid-size station wagon produced by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Honda. It is based on the sixth-generation Accord.

Overview

Upon its introduction in 1999, the Avancier was available with a 2.3-litre F23A VTEC four-cylinder engine producing 110 kW mated to a 4-speed automatic transmission or a 3.0-litre J30A VTEC V6 engine producing 160 kW mated to a 5-speed automatic transmission. It can be had with a front-wheel drive or the Honda's real-time four-wheel drive system. The V6-engined Avancier can be optioned with an "Intelligent Highway Cruise Control" (IHCC) that used a radar to determine and maintain a reliable distance with the car in front and capable to maintain a speed. Due to the large engine displacements, the Avancier was considered as a mid-size wagon in Japan instead of a compact wagon. The dimensions also contribute to such classification in Japan.

When the Accord underwent a full model change, the production of Avancier ceased by 2003.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vlacula

 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. Postdlf 23:12, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Vlacula
MCBastos marked this vfd on January 13 with edit summary "vfd: is this a joke?", but never made a subpage or listed it on vfd. I'm just bringing it here for resolution; do not consider this a vote. —Korath (Talk) 15:28, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete — It seems to be associated with World of Warcraft in google. There were no other solid English references that I could find. Besides the spelling is atrocious. ;) — RJH 18:10, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not attribute it's source, I doubt it is from a major literary source. Previous comment would suggest a gamer's character. Average Earthman 19:58, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Bad joke. Pavel Vozenilek 02:18, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * BJAODN. Not funny enough, you say? BJAODN is not paper. -- 8^D gab 21:49, 2005 Apr 22 (UTC)
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