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Writers of the Byzantine Empire.

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Bennington Free Library

Bennington Free Library is a public library located at 101 Silver Street in Bennington, Vermont.

History
The library was established in 1865, by Trenor W. Park and Seth B. Hunt, on the corner of Main and Silver Streets. Originally, and costing in total 10,000 USD, a room was "fitted up as a library" on the second floor of the as yet unfinished building. The Town of Bennington then, in 1897, voted to appropriate funds towards making library materials available free of charge.

In 1936 a new library was constructed adjacent to the original, and donated in memory of Park by his son. The architect for the 1936 library was Herbert Turner. In the late 1980s, the library went through significant renovations, including the construction of a bridge between the nineteenth and twentieth century buildings.

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Hückeswagen Castle

Hückeswagen Castle is the castle of the town of Hückeswagen in the Oberbergische Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

It is first recorded in the year 1189. Today (2005) it accommodates municipal offices and a museum of local history.

History
The castle Hückeswagen (castrum Hukingiswage) was mentioned for the first time in 1189, the counts by Hückeswagen, however, already in 1138. In 1260 the county Hückeswagen was disposed to the counts Berg, and the Hückeswagener counts moved to Moravia. In the future the castle of the countess Margarete von Hochstaden served as a widow's seat. To constant Verpfändungen of Hückeswagen during the following centuries the name changed in 1397 into castle. During the following centuries the castle was mostly in a bad state, until it reached in 1884 at first partially in the possession of the town. Later the city administration and the home museum were accommodated there. Only in 2005 parts of the city administration were evacuated in the civil centre built in the former central station area on the Etapler place

Scoundrel's tower
One of the most striking components of the arrangement is the donjon which is also called "scoundrel's tower". He was probably established in the first third of the 13th century. The oldest view of the castle of Erich Philipp Ploennies at the beginning of the 18th century shows the tower with 23 metres substantially higher than today. The reduction on two floors occurred at rebuilding and protection work at the beginning of the 19th century.

Surroundings of the castle
The castle square is fastened and by vehicles over Marktstrasse which leads immediately by the historical Old Town to reach. A historical well which was redeveloped in 2007 extensively stands on the place enclosed with a wall. Also sidewalks start to the castle: once from Bahnhofstrasse by the so-called Schlosshagen (tree growth with sidewalks) or alternatively over the precipitous street "castle mountain" which branches off from Islandstrasse. The rose garden borders on the castle square oppositely. Striking building there is a historical pavilion. Directly beside the castle stands the Paulus church Hückeswagen. The Steengaden, a rest of the former connection arrangement, is below the castle in Islandstrasse.

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User:Sherubtse

Working in the mental health field, primarily with those who have rather severe mental illnesses, I am a 45 year old Canadian male.

Having obtained several degrees in Political Science, I went overseas for several years to teach civics in South Asia. Upon returning to Canada, I studied theololgy, and graduated as a non-ordained minister.

My hobbies, rather than my profession, will be the focus of my editing here. After all, why talk about mental health issues, when I deal with them every day?

Instead, I will contribute knowledge of my personal, rather than my professional, interests.

Tashi Delek!

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Stefan Persson

Stefan Persson may refer to:

 * Stefan Persson (magnate) (born 1947), owner of Swedish fashion company Hennes & Mauritz
 * Stefan Persson (ice hockey) (born 1954), retired ice hockey player
 * Stefan Persson (swimmer) (born 1967), Swedish swimmer
 * Stefan Persson (bandy) (born 1974), Swedish bandy player

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Talk:Škoda

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For talk on Skoda Works, see Talk:Skoda Works

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User:Mikeshk, kindly disambiguate the remaining links to Skoda after moving. --Joy [shallot]   12:29, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Joan Fraser

Joan Fraser (born October 12, 1944) is a Canadian former senator and journalist.

Biography
Fraser went to Edgehill School and then joined the Montreal Gazette in 1965 after graduating from McGill University. After two years as a cub reporter on the women's page, she joined the Financial Times of Canada where she worked for eleven years and served as news editor, editorial page editor and Montreal bureau chief. She returned to The Gazette in 1978 becoming its editor-in-chief in 1993. In 1996 she left that post and from 1997 to 1998 she was director-general of the Centre for Research and Information on Canada.

In 1998, Fraser was appointed to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. In the 39th Parliament, she was appointed Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, working under Leader of the Opposition, Senator Dan Hays, PC.

Fraser has served as President of the Women's Coordinating Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (2004–2006), as well as an ex officio member of the International Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (2002–2006).

Fraser sat as a member of the Senate Liberal Caucus. She was the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from 2006 to 2007 and was a member of the Standing Senate Committee on Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament.

Fraser retired from the Senate on February 2, 2018, reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75 the year before. In 2020, she was appointed as a member of the Order of Canada.

Awards
Fraser has won two National Newspaper Awards (1982 and 1991) and four National Newspaper Award Citations of Merit (1986, 1987, 1990, 1994) for editorial writing. She has also won other awards for journalism, communications and her work on women's issues.

Archives
There is a Joan Fraser fonds at Library and Archives Canada.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Washington State Route 900

 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 Screw the closure templates, I'm closing this with consensus to keep. --SPUI (talk) 14:57, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Washington State Route 900
I don't think Wikipedia should be a street directory. There are a lot of these articles. I feel all articles about roads should be deleted from Wikipedia unless of importance such as Champs-Élysées --Chammy Koala 18:28, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I now think that the article should be merged with other articles, such as all Washington State Routes. The articles are very short on their own, and one good article could be made from them all being together.

 * Delete, non-notable road. Dave the Red (talk) 18:43, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, this is a highway, not a mere street. --Lukobe 19:08, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep In theory, I agree that WP should not be a street directory but the reality is that there are now hundreds, maybe thousands, of articles about streets, bus stops, subway stations etc. and the WP community seems to accept them as valid. I don't see that there's anything to be gained in trying to turn the tide on this one. --Lee Hunter 19:52, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete being a highway (as opposed to a street) isn't necessarily encyclopedic. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 19:54, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, along with all of the other several hundred state highways in the United States. Zzyzx11 | Talk 20:17, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep we have lots of road articles. N-Mantalk 21:53, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep if we can expand it a bit. Chris talk back 22:10, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep state-numbered highways. --SPUI (talk) 22:40, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Local roads are not notable. --Carnildo 23:05, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The time to decide that was several years ago. Not now, AFTER all these articles have been created IN GOOD FAITH. --SPUI (talk) 23:23, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I've written three or four California highway articles, but I tend to agree that a state highway shield doesn't always mean notability.  Google "California State Highway 195" to see what I mean.  It's not much more than a farm road.  This one seems notable. - Lucky 6.9 01:03, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a directory. What does an article like this do that isn't done far better by Yahoo Maps or Google Maps or Mapquest? How is anybody going to use an article like this? Dpbsmith (talk) 01:24, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Seriously, try finding information like this on Mapquest. It's not as easy as it seems, especially to find ACCURATE information. Mapquest still puts US Route 1 and US 9 shields on New Jersey State Highway 139, which hasn't been US 1/9 since the mid-1930s. --SPUI (talk) 02:02, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * (Changed vote) Keep in present form as improved by SPUI. Dpbsmith (talk) 12:20, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as long as the article has more content than "where it is", "what other roads it is linked to" and "how many lanes it has". Things like history, why it was built, amount of traffic, influence on the society, etc. Otherwise, delete and put somewhere on Wikicities. The article as it stands right now is not much more encyclopedic than a stub and should be expanded. --cesarb 02:47, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The last two paragraphs are about the history; thus this vote should be counted as a keep. --SPUI (talk) 03:08, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Couldn't you at least add when the road was built? --cesarb 09:42, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately that's nontrivial to find; I'd need some maps from the era. Not even Highways of Washington State gives a date for when it was built. --SPUI (talk) 12:53, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * This gives the Sunset Highway's opening as 1915, and this and this conspire to say that what's now 900 was the original routing for route 2, if I'm reading it all right. Does that work? --iMb~Meow
 * However, the Sunset Highway/PSH 2 was a long route across the entire state, and what's now SR 900 is just a small portion (most has been upgraded to or paralleled by I-90). The part on SR 900 may have been finished earlier, as a road for local use (and maybe connecting to a dirt road through the mountains). --SPUI (talk) 14:10, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Better now, count my vote as a keep. --cesarb 17:48, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, articles for roads like this are normal for Wikipedia. --iMb~Meow 03:12, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. As per the above, this kind of information isn't collected in any other one place. Meelar (talk) 05:31, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge, anyone? Merging will make the information more usable for route-planning. Radiant_* 08:59, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. State highways are generally worthy of inclusion, and this one has enough content to merit such. Arkyan 09:10, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. I began this quest for deletion, but a merge is fine, as deleting this one article wouldn't solve the problem anyway.  For all you who have argued to keep, what would Wikipedia be like if it wasn't just filled with American roads/highways?  How about an aritcle on the Hume Highway between Albury/Wadonga and Melbourne in Victoria, Australia?  Sound interesting?  If every major road in the world was added then every time someone did a random page search, guess what would come up?  The only people who care about an individual road are either people who travel on it, or who are going to.  They wouldn't look for it on Wikipedia in either case - they'd buy a map.  I appreciate a lot of people have gone to an effort to create these articles, but the information won't be lost in a merge.  You could even make it a very good article if it was.--Chammy Koala 10:27, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with what? List of Washington state highways would be awfully big. By the way, we have a rather nice article on the Hume Highway. --SPUI (talk) 11:41, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I would support all major roads being added, yes. And there's plenty of material about roads that can't be found on a map. For people interested in local history, for example, these articles are invaluable. Meelar (talk) 19:07, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, we have lots of articles about highways (and not just U.S. ones). If we ever get any more 900-series articles, it might be worthwhile considering merging the lot into a single article.  JYolkowski 19:50, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep for reasons above. Samaritan 20:22, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable highway. Klonimus 06:51, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep state highways. -- Decumanus 03:58, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)
 * Keep. This ship sailed long ago. And it's not just a US thing--see Al, List of British Columbia provincial highways, List of Western Australian highways, Great Britain road numbering scheme, etc., let alone local road articles such as Queen Street and List of Toronto, Ontario roads (some of which I voted to delete as excessively granular, but obviously I was on the losing side). Merge/rediring articles destined to only be a couple paragraphs does seem prudent, however. Niteowlneils 05:19, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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


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This article contains text copied from the United States National Library of Medicine,
 * http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/jablonski/syndromes/syndrome048.html

and
 * http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/jablonski/syndrome_cgi?index=48

The copyright link on those pages provides this information: ''Government information at NLM Web sites is in the public domain. Public domain information may be freely distributed and copied, but it is requested that in any subsequent use the National Library of Medicine (NLM) be given appropriate acknowledgement.''

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'developmental-biology-stub'
I added the BBS article to the category developmental-biology-stub since a number of the disease manifestations affect fetal growth, as well as bodily functions while a child or an adult. It should, of course, remain a part of the disease-stub group that it is already a part of. N2e 17:20, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Article needs attention -- the Science is outdated
This article needs attention in the medical science, genetic science, and pathologies areas.

User Rl vastly improved this BBS WP article when the public-domain information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) was inserted. However, I just did a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation on that material and determined that two-thirds of the NLM journal references were from the 1950s through the 1980s, with one-third from 1990-1997.

With significant advances in Bardet Beidl Syndrome science, both clinical and genetic, since 1997 none of this vast new knowledge is in the older NLM source material. And little of the new science has been added to this article.

I have tried to update the article with info about various BBS organizations, and have added a number of additional external links, but will leave the medical, genetic, pathology, and disease characteristics updates to others. N2e 18:05, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

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Recent science
I have added a major new section to the article today, one that gives a rather comprehensive summary of the syndrome from a recent 2008 book from Oxford University Press. That material, with citations, is now in the article.

Later today, I discovered another excellent edited book entitled "Obesity : Genomics and Postgenomics" (also published in 2008) with yet another very good article on BBS: Bardet-Biedl Syndrome : New Insights into Ciliopathies and Oligogenic Traits. Among other things, this chapter suggests that BBS is a model ciliopathy (pp 201) which is allowing further progress in understanding all ciliopathies. The full, ready-to-use citation for the article is here:  Included in the reference is a citation to Google Books where the article may be read. Others may freely use this information to improve the Wikipedia article. N2e (talk) 23:09, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Could this be written in plain English?
This article MIGHT be useful to people who already know the subject. It is almost useless to this layman looking to understand what the syndrome is unless I follow ever deeper links. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.109.64.183 (talk) 20:12, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

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Barberini family

The House of Barberini is a family of the Italian nobility that rose to prominence in the 17th century Rome. Their influence peaked with the election of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini to the papal throne in 1623, as Pope Urban VIII. Their urban palace, the Palazzo Barberini, completed in 1633 by Bernini, today houses Italy's Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (National Gallery of Ancient Art).

Early history
The Barberini family was originally a family of minor nobility from the Tuscan town of Barberino Val d'Elsa, who settled in Florence during the early part of the 11th century.

Carlo Barberini (1488–1566) and his brother Antonio Barberini (1494–1559) were successful Florentine grain, wool and textile merchants. In 1530 Antonio participated in the defense of the Florentine Republic but after the capture of the city by Imperial troops, and the return to power of the Medici, Antonio grew weary of Medici rule and left Florence in 1537 to oversee Barberini business in Rome.

In 1552, Carlo's son Francesco followed his uncle to Rome and business flourished. Francesco became a very rich man and bought several high offices within government and the Catholic church. In 1559, his uncle Antonio was murdered by forces loyal to the Medici.

Francesco continued to build his fortune and amass titles until he died in 1600. Ordinarily, his estate would have been "fined" by the Camera Apostolica for operating a business while holding church office but his relatives successfully appealed to the head of the organization Francesco had, himself, once directed. The continuation of Barberini's business fell to his nephews (the sons of his brother, Antonio Barberini, who had died in 1571) including Maffeo Barberini.

Maffeo Barberini as Pope Urban VIII

The Barberini acquired great wealth and influence when Cardinal Maffeo Barberini was elected to the papal throne in 1623, taking the name Pope Urban VIII. He elevated a brother Antonio Marcello Barberini (Antonio the Elder) and two nephews, Francesco Barberini and Antonio Barberini, to the cardinalate. He made another brother Duke of Monterotondo, and gave a third nephew, Taddeo Barberini, the principality of Palestrina. Taddeo was also made Gonfalonier of the Church, Prefect of Rome and Commander of Sant'Angelo.

The ecclesiastical, diplomatic, and cultural accomplishments of Urban's reign were overshadowed by the nepotism the pope practised. Urban's contemporary, John Bargrave, wrote:

Upon his elevation, his kindred flew from Florence to Rome like so many bees (which are the Barberini's arms), to suck the honey of the Church, which they did excessively.

Likewise, the War of Castro, toward the end of Urban's papacy, sullied Urban's reputation and the popularity of those family members who survived him. It is estimated that during Urban's reign, the Barberini amassed 105 million scudi in personal wealth.

When the pope removed the ancient bronze beams from the portico of the Pantheon to procure bronze for the baldachin of St. Peter's Basilica and for the papal cannon foundry, an anonymous critic punningly wrote:

Quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barberini

This translates to "What the barbarians did not do, the Barberini did". The pope erected a tablet proudly proclaiming his re-use of these hidden beams for the glory and defense of the church.

Wars of Castro, exile and restoration

The Barberini participated extensively in the First War of Castro. The conflict began when Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, visited Rome and insulted the pope's nephews by suggesting the brothers were too young to manage the Pope's affairs. The war produced no clear victor, and Pope Urban died in 1644, only months after a peace accord was signed.

Despite Urban's appointment of several relatives as cardinals, the College of Cardinals elected Pope Innocent X of the Pamphili family. Almost immediately, Innocent X launched an investigation into the conduct of various members of the Barberini family during the wars.

The three nephews who had risen to prominence under their uncle Pope Urban VIII, cardinals Antonio and Francesco and Prince Taddeo were forced into exile and fled to Paris under the protection of Cardinal Mazarin. Antonio and Taddeo left first, by sea, but not before hanging the French coat of arms above the door of the Palazzo Barberini to confirm they were under the protection of France. Francesco joined his brothers soon after.

Taddeo's wife, Anna Colonna also joined her husband and children in Paris but not before making a passionate appeal (in person) to the Pope, urging him not to strip the Barberini of their assets. The Pope agreed and, though he paid some debts out of the Barberini estate, left the Barberini alone.

In Paris, they relied on the hospitality of Louis XIV, King of France, until 1653 when most of the family finally returned to Rome. Though Taddeo died in exile in 1647, his brothers eventually reconciled with the papacy through the marriage of Taddeo's younger son Maffeo with Olimpia Giustiniani, a niece of Pope Innocent. Maffeo was given his father's former title, that of Prince of Palestrina.

Taddeo's older son Carlo Barberini was made a cardinal by Pope Innocent X. Taddeo's daughter, Lucrezia Barberini, married Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena (who had previously sided with the Farnese during the First War of Castro), further stabilizing relations.

Later history
The 1627 marriage of Taddeo Barberini and Anna Colonna, daughter of Filippo I Colonna began the century-long process which would eventually see the Barberini merge with the Colonna family.

In 1728, the Carbognano branch (Colonna di Sciarra) of the Colonna family added the name Barberini to its family name when Giulio Cesare Colonna di Sciarra married Cornelia Barberini, daughter of Urbano Barberini, the last legitimate male Barberini heir.

Though Urbano's wives bore him no legitimate male heirs, Urbano fathered a son, Maffeo Callisto Barberini in 1688 before any one of his three marriages. The will of Urbano Barberini's last wife, Maria Teresa Boncompagni, makes mention of this Maffeo Callisto as the Marquis of Corese. A large portion of the Barberini estate was left for him in her will.

Later her progeny came into conflict with his over claims to the Barberini estate but the quarrel was settled with an agreement signed in Paris in 1811 which divided the estate between the two claimant branches of the family.

The Colonna line became extinct again on the death of Prince Enrico Barberini-Colonna and the name went to his daughter and heiress Maria and her husband Marquis Luigi Sacchetti, who received the title of Prince of Palestrina and permission to use the Barberini name.

On 21 June 2005, Augusto Barberini, the 13th Prince of Palestrina, died in Rome. The family is now represented by Benedetto Francesco Barberini, Prince of Palestrina (born 1961), whose heir is his eldest son.

Patrons of the arts
The Palazzo Barberini, the Barberini library (now a core section of the Vatican's Biblioteca Apostolica), and the many buildings, altars, and other projects spread across Rome (and marked with the heraldic three bees) give evidence of the family's wealth, taste and magnificence in the seventeenth century. The family commissioned many artists, such as Lorenzo Ottoni, to undertake various Barberini-centric projects. The family were also important early patrons of opera, maintaining "star" singers like Marc'Antonio Pasqualini on payroll, and building the private Teatro delle Quattro Fontane. Many objects from the Barberini art collections are scattered in museums around the world including:

 * The Barberini Faun and Barberini Apollo, sold to Ludwig I of Bavaria and now in the Munich Glyptothek
 * The Barberini Venus
 * The Barberini Hera, also seen in this head;
 * The Portland Vase (once known as the Barberini Vase), bought from the family by Sir William Hamilton and now in the British Museum
 * The Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power
 * The Anglo-Saxon Barberini Gospels, in the Vatican Library, with many other manuscripts from the Barberini collections
 * The Barberini Codex, or Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis, an Aztec herbal manuscript now once again in Mexico.

A nucleus remains in the hands of the family, as well as in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, which occupies part of the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. The cultural influence of the dynasty was considerable, and provided the subject for a major international conference in December 2004 (and subsequent publication), entitled I Barberini e la Cultura Europea.

Barberini family tree
Family tree of the 16th and 17th century Barberini (hereditary patriarchy of the family is indicated by the colored squares).

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Carole Ann Ford

Carole Ann Lillian Ford ( Higgins; born 16 June 1940) is a British actress best known for her roles as Susan Foreman in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, and as Bettina in the 1962 film adaptation of The Day of the Triffids.

Life and career
Ford has had a long and diverse acting career. Her theatrical work includes many comedies, dramas and musicals, including The Jungle Book, Stranger in the House, Bakerloo to Paradise, The Owl and the Pussycat, The Rumpus, Pride and Prejudice, Inadmissible Evidence, Enrico, Expresso Bongo, Sleeping Beauty, You Never Can Tell, Ned Kelly, Mother, MacBett, The Boy Friend, Have You Seen Manchester and Private Lives.

Her film appearances include The Day of the Triffids (1962) as the blind French girl Bettina, Mix Me a Person (1962), The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966), The Hiding Place (1975) and The Incredible Sarah (1976). In addition to Doctor Who, her television appearances include Suspense (in the episode "Man on a Bicycle"), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (in the episode "Affairs and Relations"), Public Eye, Emergency Ward 10, Attorney General, Moonstrike, Compact, Probation Officer and Dial M for Murder (1967).

Ford appeared on Juke Box Jury and various quiz shows, and has performed many voice-overs and voice dubs.

Doctor Who

According to the documentary Doctor Who: Origins, an appearance on Z-Cars prompted Ford's screen test for the role of Susan in Doctor Who in 1963. Playing the granddaughter of the Doctor, Ford was one of the three original companions to accompany William Hartnell's incarnation of the Time Lord. The character of Susan is the An Unearthly Child referred to in the shows pilot and first episode. According to Ford, Susan was originally intended to be a character similar to those in The Champions, with telepathic abilities as well as the skills to fly the TARDIS, but in the series she was made to be far more ordinary. Her character departed from the series at the conclusion of the 1964 serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth, but returned briefly for both the series's 20th-anniversary TV special, "The Five Doctors" (1983), and 30th-anniversary charity special, Dimensions in Time (1993). She appeared as a different character in the independent Doctor Who spin-off film Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans (1995).

Ford mostly stopped acting following an illness in 1977 which led to a dramatic weight reduction and the loss of her voice; it recovered later. Since then, she has taught voice and presentation skills and dialogue coaching to politicians, businesspeople, after-dinner speakers, and actors. Since the 2000s, however, she has made a limited return to the profession, reprising the role of Susan in a number of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish Productions (some of which have been broadcast on BBC Radio): two Doctor Who Unbound stories, Auld Mortality and A Storm of Angels; two Companion Chronicles stories, Here There Be Monsters and Quinnis; and three stories also featuring the Doctor, starting with the subscription-only release An Earthly Child, in which her character is reunited with Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor, followed by Relative Dimensions and Lucie Miller.

She was played by Claudia Grant in the BBC Two docu-drama An Adventure in Space and Time, which dramatises the story of the conception of Doctor Who and was broadcast on 21 November 2013 to complement the series' 50th-anniversary special. Ford herself appeared in a small role as a character named Joyce.

In November 2013, Ford appeared in the one-off 50th-anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. Ford also narrated the behind the scenes look at the making of An Adventure In Space And Time, "The Making of Doctor Who". She examines the making of Doctor Who and what it was like to work with William Hartnell (the First Doctor).

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The Power of Movement in Plants

The Power of Movement in Plants is a book by Charles Darwin on phototropism and other types of movement in plants. This book continues his work in producing evidence for his theory of natural selection. As it was one of his last books, followed only by the publication of The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms, he was assisted by his son Francis in conducting the necessary experiments and preparing the manuscript. The Power of Movement in Plants was published 6 November 1880, and 1500 copies were quickly sold by publisher John Murray.

This book stands at the culmination of a long line of study in plants and is immediately preceded by 'The different forms of flowers on Plants of the same species’ (1877). (See Bibliography for additional publications on plants.) These studies on plants were first evidenced in 'On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects’ (1862), the publication that immediately followed On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection.

He co-authored this study with his son Francis Darwin (who specialised in botany) and his devotee, George Romanes, who assisted in editing the work. The work was begun in earnest late in 1877, after his work on climbing plants (1875) and insectivorous plants (1875) stimulated his interest in the subject. At times, Darwin despaired of ever finishing the work, as the book outgrew his original expectations:

 * "I have written a rather big book—more is the pity—on the movements of plants, and I am now just beginning to go over the MS. for the second time, which is a horrid bore."

As the book neared completion, he summarised its underlying viewpoint:
 * "My MS. relates to the movements of plants, and I think that I have succeeded in showing that all the more important great classes of movements are due to the modification of a kind of movement common to all parts of all plants from their earliest youth."

The work concerns itself with how plants respond to external stimuli and examines these processes in individual plants to gain understanding of some general principles governing their growth and life. This continues Darwin’s work of elucidating how natural selection works and specifically how plants have adapted to differing environments whilst at the same time answering some objections of his day that evolution could not account for changes in behavioural responses. In his conclusions, Darwin presents the key features of plants from an evolutionary perspective indicating that gradual modification of these processes in response to natural selective forces like light and water could enable extensive ability to adapt.

The process that creates the circular or elliptical movement of the stem and tips of plants (circumnutation) was identified as a significant one in enabling plants to evolve and adapt to almost any environment on the planet. Darwin also drew attention to the similarities between animals and plants, e.g., sensitivity to touch (thigmotropism), light sensitivity (phototropism), and gravity (geotropism). Darwin used various methods of enquiry: usually setting up rigorous controlled experiments which are clearly explained in the text, reporting the results and then drawing general conclusions. Studies of nyctinasty were particularly burdensome, to Darwin's rest as well as to the plants:

 * "I think we have proved that the sleep of plants is to lessen the injury to the leaves from radiation. This has interested me much, and has cost us great labour, as it has been a problem since the time of Linnaeus. But we have killed or badly injured a multitude of plants."

Content
The book is divided into the following chapters, each of which describes types of movements based on Darwin's specific experiments and their results.

 * Chapter 1: The Circumnutating Movements of Seedling Plants
 * Chapter 2: General Considerations of the Movements and Growth of Seedling Plants
 * Chapter 3: Sensitiveness of the Apex of the Radicle to Contact and to other Irritants
 * Chapter 4: The Circumnutating Movements of the several parts of Mature Plants
 * Chapter 5: Modified Circumnutation: Climbing Plants; Epinastic and Hyponastic Movements
 * Chapter 6: Modified Circumnutation: Sleep or Nyctitropic Movements, Their Use: Sleep of Cotyledons
 * Chapter 7: Modified Circumnutation: Nyctitropic or Sleep Movements of Leaves
 * Chapter 8: Modified Circumnutation: Movements excited by Light
 * Chapter 9: Sensitiveness of Plants to Light: its transmitted effects
 * Chapter 10: Modified Circumnutation: Movements excited by Gravitation
 * Chapter 11: Localised Sensitiveness to Gravitation, and its Transmitted Effects
 * Chapter 12: Summary and Concluding Remarks

Reception and influence
According to Darwin's son Francis, the book was "widely reviewed and excited much interest among the general public." A lead article in the London Times on 20 November 1880, generated notes from acquaintances and friends. The book received critical review by botanist Dr. Julius Wiesner of the University of Vienna.

In the Preface to the Da Capo Press Edition of the original book, Pickard asserts that "If asked to choose the scientific report which most clearly marks the beginning of the modern study of plant growth, a great many botanists would select Charles Darwin's The Power of Movement in Plants." She reviews the influence of Darwin's techniques here on later research by Boysen Jensen, Frits Went, and others that ultimately led to the discovery of auxin as the growth principle and notes that Darwin pioneered the use of the coleoptile (which in Darwin's time was called a cotyledon) in plant growth studies.

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Disambiguation
Suggestions - disambiguation page (admittedly unlike the parallel case with Double Concerto- where the Harrison instead of the Brahms is featured at present, many musicians would probably agree this was the most important of the various works entitled Lyric Suite, and by a far sight.) Also, the English could be more idiomatic; at the moment it reads as a word for word translation of Adorno. Will try to help somewhat with the latter to the extent that it is within my abilities. Schissel : bowl listen 18:35, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * I suggest a primary topic disambiguation. See: Disambiguation. Hyacinth 01:48, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Introduction
The introduction needs to be longer than one sentence. Hyacinth 19:36, 7 August 2006 (UTC) Fixed. Thanks y'all! Hyacinth (talk)

Recordings
I believe this section is not up to the quality standard of the rest of the article, and should either be deleted or expanded in accordance with other discography tables. Anybody agree ? Francesco Malipiero (talk) 17:48, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

orchestration
Hi, I'm new here, and hope this OK. I see that Berg's own orchestration of three movements of the Lyric Suite is mentioned; would it be an idea to mention that the other three movements have been orchestrated by Theo Verbey making it possible to perform the entire work? http://www.universaledition.com/Alban-Berg/composers-and-works/composer/51/work/12574 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevey-22 (talk • contribs) 16:11, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

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Jean Lapointe

Jean Lapointe, (December 6, 1935 – November 18, 2022) was a Canadian actor, comedian and singer as well as a Canadian Senator.

Lapointe began his stage career as part of the duo Les Jérolas with Jérôme Lemay, performing in such venues as The Ed Sullivan Show and at the Olympia in Paris.

He launched his solo career in 1974 and performed on stage, albums and in two feature films. Most of his albums have been produced by Yves Lapierre.

He was also a social activist who campaigned against alcoholism and drug abuse through his Jean Lapointe Foundation. Named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1984, he was appointed to the Senate by Jean Chrétien in 2001, where he served as a Liberal until reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75 on December 6, 2010. In 2006, he was appointed an Officer of the National Order of Quebec.

Lapointe was also a life member of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada and a member of the Stamp Advisory Committee of Canada Post.

In 2005, Lapointe was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Francophone SOCAN Awards held in Montreal.

Lapointe died on November 18, 2022, at the age of 86.

Thoroughbred racing
Jean Lapointe owned the sprinter Diapason whose wins included the 1984 Nearctic Stakes and who was voted the Sovereign Award as that year's Canadian Champion Sprint Horse.

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Georges Bardet

Georges, Louis, Bardet (1885–1966) was a French physician who is known for first describing a rare genetic disease. In his graduation thesis at the University of Paris in 1920, Bardet wrote about a medical condition characterized by obesity, retinitis pigmentosa, polydactyly and hypogonadism. Two years later, Hungarian physician Arthur Biedl described the same symptoms in two sisters, separate from Bardet's findings. This condition has since become known as the Bardet–Biedl syndrome.

Georges Bardet was the uncle of Jean Bardet, the founder of Éditions du Seuil.

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Arthur Biedl

Arthur Biedl (4 October 1869 – 26 August 1933) was a Hungarian pathologist born in what today is Comloșu Mic, Romania.

He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, and from 1893 served as an assistant to Salomon Stricker (1834-1898), Philipp Knoll (1841-1900), and Richard Paltauf (1858-1924) at the institute of experimental pathology in Vienna. In 1899 he became an associate professor, followed by a full professorship in 1902.

In 1898, Biedl and colleague R. Kraus demonstrated that "bile salts," when injected into the bloodstream of animals, failed to elicit a behavioral change. They hypothesized that this was due to a semipermeable membrane that protected the central nervous system from the passive diffusion of solutes in the bloodstream. Two years later, Max Lewandowsky coined the term "Blood–brain barrier" when these findings were confirmed with other biological compounds. Edwin Goldmann and his mentor Paul Ehrlich further confirmed these findings with aniline dyes injected inside and outside of the brain.

He is considered a founder of modern endocrinology. In 1910, Biedl published a landmark textbook on endocrinology called Innere Sekretion (Internal Secretions), which was a thorough study on glands and their secretions.

In 1922, he described his studies of two sisters who had retinitis pigmentosa, polydactyly, hypogonadism as well as obesity. Two years earlier Georges Bardet (1885–1966) at the University of Paris described the same symptoms in two sisters unrelated to Biedl's findings. This syndrome is now called the Bardet–Biedl syndrome after the two men.

A similar disease was originally named the "Laurence–Moon–Bardet–Biedl syndrome", together with two English physicians, John Zachariah Laurence (1829–1870) and Robert Charles Moon (1845–1914). Today this disease has been shortened to become the Laurence–Moon syndrome, while the Bardet–Biedl syndrome is recognized as a separate entity.

In 1928 he founded the journal Endokrinologie.

Principal works

 * Innere Sekretion : ihre physiologischen Grundlagen und ihre Bedeutung für die Pathologie, 1910. English translation 1912. fourth edition, with an exhaustive bibliography, 1922.
 * Physiologie und Pathologie der Hypophyse. Berlin, 1922.
 * '"in Geschwisterpaar mit adiposo-genitaler Dystrophie". in: Deutsche medicinische Wochenschrift, Berlin, 1922, 48: 1630.

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Jacqueline Hill

Grace Jacqueline Hill (17 December 1929 – 18 February 1993) was a British actress known for her role as Barbara Wright in the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who. As the history teacher of Susan Foreman, the Doctor's granddaughter, Barbara was the first Doctor Who companion to appear on-screen in 1963, with Hill speaking the series' first words. She played the role for nearly two years.

Hill returned to Doctor Who in 1980 for an appearance in the serial Meglos, as the Tigellan priestess Lexa.

Biography
Hill was orphaned as a toddler and brought up by her grandparents. She was taken out of school at the age of 14 to enable her younger brother to continue. She then worked at Cadbury's, which had an amateur dramatics society. She was encouraged to apply for, and was awarded, a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and entered RADA at the age of 16. Hill graduated in 1951.

Hill made her stage debut in London's West End in The Shrike. Many more roles followed, including Fabian of the Yard and An Enemy of the People. In 1958 she married the director Alvin Rakoff, having the previous year appeared in his BBC adaptation of Rod Serling's American TV play Requiem For A Heavyweight. This production featured former bit-part actor Sean Connery; Hill had recommended that Rakoff cast him, because she believed Connery would be popular with female viewers.

She was offered the part of Barbara Wright in Doctor Who, following discussions with producer Verity Lambert about the role. She had first met Lambert when they worked at ABC Weekend TV.

Hill preferred the historical Doctor Who stories; her favourite serials were The Aztecs and The Crusade. Shortly after leaving the series in 1965 she gave up acting in order to raise a family, resuming her career in 1978. Her later TV credits included Tales of the Unexpected and the 1978 BBC Television Shakespeare version of Romeo and Juliet (as Lady Capulet), which was directed by her husband.

In October 1980, she returned to Doctor Who in a guest role, portraying Priestess Lexa, leader of the religiously fanatical Deons, in the story Meglos. By this time the Doctor was played by Tom Baker.

Death
Jacqueline Hill died of breast cancer in 1993, aged 63.

Portrayals
In 2013, as part of the Doctor Who 50th anniversary celebrations, the BBC produced a docu-drama relating the story of the creation and early days of the series, titled An Adventure in Space and Time. Hill appeared as a character in the drama, portrayed by actress Jemma Powell.

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Jeremiah Evarts

Jeremiah F. Evarts (February 3, 1781 – May 10, 1831), also known by the pen name William Penn, was a Christian missionary, reformer, and activist for the rights of American Indians in the United States, and a leading opponent of the Indian removal policy of the United States government.

Early years
Evarts was born in Sunderland, Vermont, the son of James Evarts, and graduated from Yale College in 1802. At Yale, he was a member of Brothers in Unity – a literary and debating society. He was admitted to the bar in 1806. Evarts married the widow Mehitabel Sherman Barnes, a daughter of United States Declaration of Independence signer Roger Sherman, and a member of the extended Baldwin, Hoar & Sherman family that had a great influence on U.S. public affairs. Jeremiah and Mehitabel Sherman Evarts were the parents of William M. Evarts, who later became a United States Secretary of State, US Attorney General and a US Senator from New York.

Battle against Indian removal
Evarts was influenced by the effects of the Second Great Awakening and served the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions as its treasurer from 1812 to 1820 and Secretary from 1821 until he died in 1831.

Evarts was the editor of The Panoplist, a religious monthly magazine from 1805 until 1820, where he published over 200 essays. He wrote twenty-four essays on the rights of Indians under the pen name "William Penn". He was one of the leading opponents of Indian removal in general and the removal of the Cherokee from the Southeast in particular. He engaged in several lobbying efforts including convincing Congress and President John Quincy Adams to retain funding for civilizing efforts. He was a leader in the unsuccessful fight against President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830. This law led to the forcible removal of the Cherokees in 1838, known as the Trail of Tears.

Evarts hoped to defeat the Indian Removal Act by organizing "friendly congressmen", who he hoped would convince enough Jacksonians removal was immoral, and so pressure them to vote against the bill, while also attempting to mobilize public opinion against removal.

In 1830, Georgia passed a law which prohibited whites from living on Indian territory after March 31, 1831, without a license from the state. This law was written to enable the removal of the white missionaries that Jeremiah had organized through the ABCFM. These missionaries were trying to help the Indians resist removal through efforts to integrate them into the white society through conversion and education. In the wake of the passage of the Indian Removal Act, Jeremiah encouraged the Cherokees to take their case against this and other laws that they felt were intended to annihilate them to the Supreme Court of the United States, which they did in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia.

Death and legacy
He died of tuberculosis on May 10, 1831, in Charleston, South Carolina, having overworked himself in the campaign against the Indian Removal Act. He was buried in the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, CT. According to historian Francis Paul Prucha, "the Christian crusade against the removal of the Indians died with Evarts."

The effect that Evarts's activism for the rights of indigenous peoples had on U.S. foreign policy through his son, William M. Evarts who was Secretary of State during the Hayes administration (1877–1881), is a question for historians. The moral and religious arguments that Evarts used against the Indian Removal Act had later resonance in the abolitionism movement.

Publications by or referring to Evarts

 * Andrew, John A., III. From Revivals to Removal: Jeremiah Evarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
 * Norgren, Jill, Cherokee Cases: Two Landmark Federal Decisions in the Fight for Sovereignty, University of Oklahoma Press (2004).
 * Oliphant, J. Orin, ed. Through the South and West with Jeremiah Evarts in 1826. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 1956.
 * Prucha, Francis Paul, ed. Cherokee Removal: The "William Penn" Essays & Other Writings by Jeremiah Evarts. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1981; containing essays originally published as Essays On The Present Crisis..American Indians in 1829.
 * Tracy, E.C. Memoir of the Life of Jeremiah Evarts, Esq. Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1845.
 * Massachusetts Marriage Index, 1784–1840

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The summary is very long, and I think it might go into too much detail. Also, much of it is written in what seems to me too informal a style. I was wondering if anyone else shared these opinions. -Branddobbe 18:42, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * I completely agree James 18:47, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

I replaced the summary with the significantly shorter version found at |Memory-Alpha. It is GFDL, despite the Creative Commons license on the site, because it was derived from the Wikipedia article in the first place. I think it is still too long for Wikipedia, but is certainly an improvement. James 19:33, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

 * Memory Alpha's text belongs to MEMORY ALPHA, putting theirs or ANYONE OTHER sites text here is a COPYRIGHT VIOLATION! I have returned this to it's original state, so please leave it alone. Cyberia23 02:02, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Is it just me
Is it just me or at about 27.30min into the ep when Picard and Riker are speaking after the Admiral left in the corridor there is a slightly balding man in a skirt and shin high boots working at a station behind them? Wolfmankurd 17:46, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

YES! I noticed the same balding man in the skirt, and had to rewind it and note the time. Why?? --Orthogonalogy 19:58, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

 * That may have been a "Skant" uniform. But being as this section is "Is it just me"  I'd like to have my own "is it just me" question.
 * Is it just me or is this episode of Star Trek remarkably like "Night of the Creeps"? Angelsilhouette (talk) 04:59, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

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The Creature
I just finished watching this episode. What is the creature and what is it forshadowing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.82.162.11 (talk) 00:09, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Note
""Conspiracy" is one of only two episodes in the show's history to be broadcast with a warning about its content." This really shouldn't be there without saying which is the other episode... 70.29.161.7 (talk) 03:11, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Paul Newman's face?
The article asserts that Remmick's exploding head was modeled after Paul Newman! Is there a source for this, and/or explanation as to why him and not the actor who played Remmick? --Heath 50.134.34.221 (talk) 03:31, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Weird as it seem, but by using Google Books snippets function to preview that page, it does seem to be an accurate paraphrasing of the book. As for the explanation: special effects are expensive so all kinds of strange things get reused eventually. -- 109.78.211.177 (talk) 05:55, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

Long plot
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Charles Band

Charles Robert Band (born December 27, 1951) is an American film producer and director, known for his work on horror comedy movies.

Career
Band entered film production in the 1970s with Charles Band Productions. Dissatisfied with distributors' handling of his movies, he formed Empire Pictures in 1983. At its height, Empire would release an average of two films a month, one theatrically and one on home video. Movies released by Empire included Ghoulies and Ghoulies II, and the cult classic Re-Animator.

Empire folded in 1988, due to financial difficulties. Band would found Full Moon Productions the same year. Full Moon releases include the Puppet Master and Subspecies series. Full Moon's family-oriented label Moonbeam Entertainment released the Prehysteria! trilogy.

Personal life
Band was born in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of director-producer Albert Band, and brother of composer Richard Band. Band's grandfather was the artist Max Band. With his former wife Meda, Band had two children, including Alex, the vocalist for the band The Calling. He had two sons with his former wife Debra Dion.

As director

 * Last Foxtrot in Burbank (1973, as Carlo Bokino)
 * Crash! (1977)
 * Parasite (1982)
 * Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)
 * The Alchemist (1983, as James Amante)
 * Ragewar (1984, segment "Heavy Metal")
 * Trancers (1985)
 * Pulse Pounders (1988)
 * Meridian: Kiss of the Beast (1990)
 * Crash and Burn (1990)
 * Trancers II (1991)
 * Doctor Mordrid (1992)
 * Prehysteria! (1993)
 * Dollman vs. Demonic Toys (1993)
 * Head of the Family (1996, as Robert Talbot)
 * Mystery Monsters (1997, as Robert Talbot)
 * Hideous! (1997)
 * The Creeps (1997)
 * Blood Dolls (1999)
 * NoAngels.com (2000)
 * Full Moon Fright Night (2002, TV Series)
 * Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003)
 * Dr. Moreau's House of Pain (2004)
 * Decadent Evil Dead (2005)
 * Doll Graveyard (2005)
 * The Gingerdead Man (2005)
 * Petrified (2006)
 * Evil Bong (2006)
 * The Haunted Casino (2007)
 * Decadent Evil Dead II (2007)
 * Dangerous Chucky Dolls (2008)
 * Evil Bong II: King Bong (2009)
 * Skull Heads (2009, Video)
 * Evil Bong 3-D: The Wrath of Bong (2011)
 * Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt (2011)
 * DevilDolls (2012)
 * The Dead Want Women (2012)
 * Puppet Master X: Axis Rising (2012)
 * Ooga Booga (2013)
 * Blood of 1000 Virgins (2013, Documentary)
 * Nazithon: Decadence and Destruction (2013, Documentary)
 * Unlucky Charms (2013)
 * Bada$ Mothaf**kas (2013, Documentary)
 * Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong (2013)
 * The Haunted Dollhouse (2013)
 * Trophy Heads (2014)
 * Evil Bong 420 (2015)
 * Kings of Cult (2015, Documentary)
 * Evil Bong: High 5 (2016)
 * Ravenwolf Towers: The Feature (2016, Video)
 * Ravenwolf Towers (2016, TV Series)
 * Fists of Fury (2016)
 * Evil Bong 666 (2017)
 * Puppet Master: Axis Termination (2017)
 * Evil Bong 777 (2018)
 * Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre as Robert Talbot (2018)
 * Bunker of Blood: Chapter 2 - Deadly Dolls: Deepest Cuts (2018, Video)
 * Death Heads: Brain Drain (2018, Video)
 * Vampire Slaughter: Eaten Alive (2018, Video)
 * Bunker of Blood: Chapter 6: Zombie Lust: Night Flesh (2018, Video)
 * Bunker of Blood: Chapter 8: Butcher's Bake Off: Hell's Kitchen (2018, Video)
 * Corona Zombies (2020, Video)
 * Barbie & Kendra Save the Tiger King (2020, Video)
 * Barbie & Kendra Storm Area 51 (2020)
 * Evil Bong 888: Infinity High (2022)
 * Barbie & Kendra Crash Joe Bob’s Drive-in Jamboree! (2024)

Charles Band Productions

 * Last Foxtrot in Burbank (1973)
 * Mansion of the Doomed (1975)
 * Cinderella (1977)
 * Crash! (1977)
 * End of the World (1977)
 * Auditions (1978)
 * Laserblast (1978)
 * Fairy Tales (1978)
 * Tourist Trap (1979)
 * The Day Time Ended (1980)
 * The Best of Sex and Violence (1980)
 * Famous T&A (1982)
 * Parasite (1982)
 * Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)
 * Filmgore (1983)

Empire

 * The Alchemist (1983)
 * The Dungeonmaster (1984)
 * Ghost Warrior (1984)
 * Trancers (1984)
 * Ghoulies (1985)
 * Re-Animator (1985)
 * Savage Island (1985)
 * Underworld (1985)
 * Walking the Edge (1985)
 * Zone Troopers (1985)
 * Breeders (1986)
 * Crawlspace (1986)
 * Dreamaniac (1986)
 * Eliminators (1986)
 * From Beyond (1986)
 * Necropolis (1986)
 * Rawhead Rex (1986)
 * Robot Holocaust (1986)
 * Troll (1986)
 * TerrorVision (1986)
 * Vicious Lips (1986)
 * The Caller (1987)
 * Creepozoids (1987)
 * Dolls (1987)
 * Enemy Territory (1987)
 * Mutant Hunt (1987)
 * The Princess Academy (1987)
 * Ghoulies II (1987)
 * Prison (1987)
 * Valet Girls (1987)
 * Assault of the Killer Bimbos (1988)
 * Buy & Cell (1988)
 * Catacombs (1988)
 * Cellar Dweller (1988)
 * Ghost Town (1988)
 * Pulse Pounders (1988)
 * Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988)
 * Transformations (1988)
 * Arena (1989)
 * Deadly Weapon (1989)
 * Intruder (1989)
 * Robot Jox (1989)
 * Spellcaster (1991)

Pulp Fantasy

 * Head of the Family (1996)
 * The Killer Eye (1998)
 * Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt (2011)

Action Xtreme

 * Alien Arsenal (1999)
 * Murdercycle (1999)

Filmonsters!

 * Frankenstein Reborn! (1998)
 * The Werewolf Reborn! (1998)

Alchemy Entertainment/Big City Pictures

 * Ragdoll (1999)
 * The Horrible Dr. Bones (2000)
 * Killjoy (2000)
 * The Vault (2001)
 * Cryptz (2002)
 * Killjoy 2: Deliverance from Evil (2002)

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I read your addition to the God article (subsequently reverted by Brian0918):

 * The Why bother? position argues that the existence of God is not important. It asks the question - Why would you want to believe in God?

It may have some merit, but you'll probably have to work on it to make it seem like something other than a sophmore's poke at the establishment. It would help if you had some philosophical jargon, if there were a philosopher you could cite... It's not really an argument against God's existence, rather a meta-questioning calling the entire enterprise into question. It might grow out of an agnostic position rather than an atheist's.

Brian0918 has left me a message explaining why 'e deleted your work. 'E has a point, but only half a point... 'E thinks what you added is your own, original thought. What 'e doesn't seem to know is that there are others out there who have expounded on what you are pointing out. The issue is formulating the information in a manner so that 'e can't delete it without being accused of POV. Brian0918 seems to be an upstanding wikipedian and will uphold our NPOV values if we do.

This would necessitate a revision of that portion of the organization of the God article. Under the heading "The Existence of God" there would need to be a new section devoted to the Agnostic position. Right now there are Theistic, Atheistic and Fideistic arguments. The Agnostic could/should be added. Then we'd need to figure how it should be arranged to avoid POV issues. If you are interested in working on this with me, leave me a message. Emyth 17:22, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

This morning I remembered the term for the "Why bother?" position - it's the "Apatheist" position ("apathy" + "theist") This neologism may still be a lay-person's term or in the realm of folk theology/philosophy, but it is being forwarded in a serious manner. I'll see if I can remember where I ran across it... (Google helps...) It was an Atlantic Monthly article from May 2003 by Jonathan Rauch. The article has been picked up by Beliefnet, and various dictionary style websites have entries for the term. (There is even already an entry in the Wiktionary... ) I don't know if this is the fons et origo of the term, but it just may be.

So, having laid Brian0918's criticism of your entry to rest (well, almost...) on with writing it up encyclopedically. Emyth 11:23, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

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Maureen O'Brien (born 29 June 1943) is an English actress and author best known for playing the role of Vicki in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, although she has appeared in many other television programmes.

Early life
O'Brien was born in Liverpool. She attended Notre Dame School in that city, as well as the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

Career
After graduating in 1964, O'Brien returned to Liverpool to become a founder member of the Everyman Theatre. As well as acting, she worked as an assistant floor manager for the company.

She played the part of Vicki in 38 episodes of Doctor Who from 2 January to 6 November 1965, starring alongside the original Doctor, William Hartnell. She has reprised the role in several Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio plays. In 2022, 57 years after playing the role on screen, she appeared as Vicki in a short webisode made to promote the release of her first season on Blu-ray. She reprised the role again in the series Tales of the TARDIS.

After leaving Doctor Who O'Brien found it difficult to find acting work on television, and worked as a supply teacher. Her next role was in the theatre, where she appeared in an Oxford Playhouse production of Volpone with Leo McKern and Leonard Rossiter.

In the early 1970s O'Brien lived and worked in Ontario, Canada. In 1971 she directed a production of Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle at Carleton University. She later returned to the UK.

She had a recurring role as Morgan in The Legend of King Arthur (1979) and as unit general manager Elizabeth Straker in the second season of Casualty (1987). She made guest appearances in The Duchess of Duke Street ("Trouble and Strife") (1976), Taggart ("Forbidden Fruit") (1994), Cracker ("The Big Crunch") (1994), A Touch of Frost ("Private Lives") (1999) and Heartbeat. In 1997 she appeared as Kirsten Holiday in "Jack in the Box", episode two of Jonathan Creek.

In 1974, she played Celia in "Panic", an episode of the BBC Radio series The World of Daphne du Maurier. The 1980s saw her teaching acting workshops in the USA. She also made a rare film appearance in the comedy She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas in 1985, opposite Julie Walters. She received the Time Out Critic's Choice award for her production of Mike English's Getting In in 1986.

O'Brien has also written seven detective novels: Close-Up on Death (1989), Deadly Reflection (1993), Mask of Betrayal (1998), Dead Innocent (1999), Revenge (2001), Unauthorised Departure (2003) and Every Step You Take (2004); all feature the character of Detective Inspector John Bright.

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"If It Were Left Up to Me" is on "Fresh," not this album. Perhaps a different song was released as a single? --Sojambi Pinola 16:18, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

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Hopsan

Hopsan is a free simulation environment for fluid and mechatronic systems, developed at Linköping University. Although originally developed for simulation of fluid power systems, it has also been adopted for other domains such as electric power, flight dynamics, and vehicle dynamics. It uses bi-directional delay lines (or transmission line elements) to connect different components.

History
The development on Hopsan first began in 1977 at the Division of Hydraulics and Pneumatics at Linköping University. The first version was written in FORTRAN, with a drag-and-drop graphical user interface written in Visual Basic. In addition to the simulation capability it also had features for simulation based optimization. This used the COMPLEX direct search optimization method or a generic algorithm (GA). It also had features for frequency analysis and transfer function analysis, on simulated results. It also supported co-simulation under Simulink. Component models were written as FORTRAN subroutines. A separate tool called COMPGEN, written in Mathematica, was also developed, which can be used to generate component models in a more straightforward way. In 1991 the method of bi-directional delay lines (or transmission line modelling TLM) was introduced for system simulation.

In 2009 the development of the first version of Hopsan was dropped in favor for a brand new generation of the software, written in C++. This working name of the project is Hopsan NG, and the first beta version was released in February 2011. Parts of the source code in Hopsan was used in the OpenModelica Connection Editor (OMEdit) in a collaboration with the OpenModelica project.

Program Overview
The current generation of Hopsan consists of two parts, a graphical user interface and a simulation core library. These are completely separated, so that the core can be used stand-alone, for example in embedded systems or target computers. System models are built using components from the built-in or external libraries. This includes components for hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, mechanical and control systems (filters, non-linear functions and arithmetic). The library components are pre-compiled, so that no compilation is required during runtime. Custom user models can be created and compiled as separate library files, which can be loaded into Hopsan. There is also a built-in automated equation based component generator using Modelica syntax. Models can also be generated from equations by using Mathematica. Numerical optimization can be performed by a built-in tool, using COMPLEX-RF, COMPLEX-RFP or particle swarm algorithms. It is also possible to perform Monte Carlo sensitivity analysis. The plotting tool is capable of generating frequency spectrums and performing frequency analysis to generate Bode diagrams and Nyquist plots.

Hopsan models can be exported to Simulink. Plot data can be exported to XML, CSV, gnuplot and Matlab. Experiments with including the Hopsan simulation core to LabVIEW Simulation Interface Toolkit by using a wrapper library have been successful. Support for model exchange, both import and export, by using the Functional Mock-up Interface is currently being implemented.

Hopsan is a cross-platform project, with the intention of running on Windows, Unix and Macintosh systems. The current beta release is only available for Windows and Linux, but the intention is to create versions for the other systems as well. The transmission line element method is very suitable for parallel execution, due to physically motivated time delays between certain components. Hopsan has support for dividing simulations in separate threads, making it possible to take advantage of multicore processors.

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Jędrzej Śniadecki

Jędrzej Śniadecki (archaic Andrew Sniadecki; Andrius Sniadeckis; 30 November 1768 – 11 May 1838 ) was a Polish writer, physician, chemist, biologist and philosopher. His achievements include being the first person who linked rickets to lack of sunlight. He also created modern Polish terminology in the field of chemistry.

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Śniadecki was born in Żnin (Greater Poland region) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth where his father Jędrzej and mother Franciszka née Giszczyňski ran a farm. He went to a convent school in Trzemeszno and after the death of his father he was taken care of by paternal uncle Jan who was a professor at the Krakow Academy. He went to the Nowodworskie Gymnasium where he graduated with a gold medal for diligence which was presented at a ceremony by King Stanislaw. After briefly considering engineering (influenced by his brother Jan Śniadecki), he changed his mind and went to study medicine at the University of Krakow. His teachers included Wincenty Szaster and Jan Szaster. After completing his university studies at the Chief Crown School in Kraków, he resided for some time in Pavia, Italy and Scotland. He had been especially interested in the work of Galvani, Volta, Spallanzani and Antonio Scarpa. In Edinburgh he was influenced by John Duncan, James Gregory and Alexander Monro Secundus. In 1797, he was appointed to the Chair of Chemistry in the Medicine Faculty at the Main School in Vilnius (Wilno, Vilna), which in 1803 was renamed the Imperial University of Vilna. One of his students was Ignacy Domeyko. Śniadecki was also one of the main organizers, along with Johann Peter Frank, and head of the recently created Wilno Medical-Surgical Academy. In 1806–1836 he headed the local Medical Scientific Society, one of the premier scientific societies in the region. In 1830 his wife and brother Jan died.

Śniadecki's most important book was Początki chemii (The Beginnings of Chemistry), the first Polish-language chemistry textbook, prepared for the Commission of National Education. It was considered one of the best Polish scientific textbooks of the age and was used in Polish universities well into the 1930s. Śniadecki was also known as a writer of less serious works; a co-founder of Towarzystwo Szubrawców (The Wastrel Society), he contributed articles to its satirical weekly, Wiadomości Brukowe (The Pavement News). He also wrote copiously in Wiadomości Wileńskie (The Vilnius' News), the largest and most prestigious daily in Vilnius.

In 1807, Śniadecki announced he had discovered a new metal in platinum and called it "vestium". Three years later, Académie de France published a note saying that the experiment could not be reproduced. Discouraged by this, Śniadecki dropped all his claims and did not talk about vestium anymore. Nevertheless, there have been speculations that this new element was ruthenium, found 37 years later by Karl Klaus. However, they are not accepted by modern sources.

Jędrzej was the father of Ludwika Śniadecka. He died in Vilnius and is buried at the Horodnyki Cemetery in Ashmyany district in Belarus.

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Eoin Ryan Snr

Eoin David Ryan (12 June 1920 – 14 December 2001) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, and a Senator for thirty years.

Ryan was born in Dublin. When Ryan was born, his father and mother were actively engaged in the War of Independence. His mother Máirín Cregan was arrested when he was a baby in February 1921 and held in prison for a short time at the same time as his father. She later made her name as a writer. His father, James Ryan, was a founder member of Fianna Fáil and a member of successive governments. Eoin Ryan was educated at Presentation College, Bray, and later at Mount St. Joseph Abbey, Roscrea. He joined the Defence Forces during the emergency years of World War II and rose to the rank of captain between 1940 and 1943. He later returned to his studies at University College Dublin, achieving a Bachelor of Arts in economics and a diploma in public administration. He went on to study at King's Inns and was called to the bar in 1945.

Throughout this time, Ryan had an intense interest in politics although, unlike his father, who was a Minister for most of his 30 years in the Dáil, the young Ryan was reluctant to enter full-time politics. He preferred putting his views forward on the governing bodies of the party, where he served for many years on the national executive and as vice president of Fianna Fáil. Ryan was first elected to Seanad Éireann in 1957, winning a seat on the Labour Panel, although he switched to the Industrial and Commercial Panel in 1961. For four of his years in the upper house, 1965 to 1969, his father was also a Senator serving after his retirement from the Dáil. He was Leader of the Seanad from 1977 to 1981 and leader of the Fianna Fáil group from 1973 to 1977.

He married Joan Dowd in 1949; and they had four children. One son, also called Eoin Ryan, was also a member of Seanad Éireann, Dáil Éireann, and was a Member of the European Parliament for Dublin.

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X-Men (disambiguation)

The X-Men are a fictional team of superheroes appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Comics

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 * X-Men: Legacy, 1991–2014 comic series, also known as X-Men (vol. 2) and New X-Men
 * X-Men (comic book), ongoing comic book series starting in 2010

Television

 * X-Men: The Animated Series, a 1992–1997 animated series
 * X-Men: Evolution, a 2000–2003 animated series
 * Wolverine and the X-Men, a 2009 animated series
 * X-Men, a 2011 Marvel anime television series
 * X-Men '97, a 2024 animated series

Film

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 * X-Men (film), 2000, first film in the series

Games

 * X-Men (1992 video game)
 * X-Men (1993 video game)
 * X-Men (1994 video game)

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Raymond Lavigne

Raymond Lavigne (born November 16, 1945) is a former Canadian senator and businessman, and a former Member of Parliament (MP).

Career
Lavigne first ran as a Liberal candidate for the House of Commons of Canada in the Quebec riding of Verdun—Saint-Paul at the 1988 election but was unsuccessful. He successfully contested the riding in the 1993 election. He was re-elected as the MP for the riding, with altered boundaries, in the 1997 and 2000 federal elections. He served until he was appointed to the Canadian Senate on March 26, 2002.

He was appointed to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to make his riding available for Liza Frulla, a former Quebec cabinet minister.

Criminal charges and convictions
On June 8, 2006, he was expelled from the Liberal caucus after allegedly misusing Senate funds for personal use. He apparently used $23,000 in funds for work on his estate, including having his executive assistant cut down trees on his property.

Since then, Lavigne's lawyer said that Lavigne had agreed to pay back the $23,000, without an admission of wrongdoing.

On August 14, 2007, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who had been investigating allegations raised concerning the misuse of funds for the last year, laid criminal charges against Lavigne: fraud over $5,000, breach of trust and obstruction of justice. Because of the criminal proceedings, Lavigne is barred from sitting in the Senate or taking part in any Senate committees, but still drew a salary and was entitled to claim expenses.

His trial on these charges began December 9, 2009. Closing arguments took place on September 17, 2010, having been rescheduled from July 2010 to allow Lavigne to obtain trial transcripts. On November 12, 2010, it was announced by the court that Judge Robert Smith's decision is ready but a date for the decision could not be set because Lavigne's lawyers did not show up. A final ruling was scheduled to be issued on February 22, 2011, but the court instead heard argument on how much weight should be given to Senate report on expenses spending. Lavigne's lawyers argued he should not be found guilty because the rules were unclear. On March 11, 2011, Lavigne was found guilty of fraud and breach of trust, and was acquitted on the third charge of obstruction of justice.

Because of the maximum term of 14 years in prison, Lavigne is not eligible for a discharge. Therefore, he will be suspended from the Senate under Senate Rule 141 from the date of his sentencing until his sentence is overturned on appeal or the Senate decides whether to expel him. Under Rules 138–139, he will not receive a sessional allowance or various perquisites to which senators are entitled; it is not clear whether his salary will be affected by the suspension.

On March 21, 2011, Lavigne resigned from the Senate.

On May 10, 2011, Lavigne was sentenced to six months in prison with an additional, consecutive six month conditional sentence to be served at home. Lavigne appealed both his convictions and sentences, but his appeals were rejected. He began serving his sentence in June, 2013.

title: Raymond Lavigne