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From WP:IFD: dbenbenn | talk 14:37, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Image:Wolyn1943.jpg - OB by Image:Wolyn1943.JPG. --Ttyre 16:51, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep since both images are the same size and showing the same thing. I would delete the one with the uppercase file name instead. Zscout370 17:40, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Agree with Zscout370 as the lowercase version is also much better quality. Evil Monkey∴Hello 22:09, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

Source of the picture
Is anyone able to comment more on the source of this picture ? --Lysytalk 09:54, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Here is the original caption in Polish: "Zdjęcie ze zbiorów dr Aleksandra Kormana z wyjaśnieniem: Łobozowa, pow. Tarnopol, jesień 1943 lub 1944 roku. Terroryści OUN-UPA dokonali okrutnego mordu na polskich dzieciach. W alei starych drzew, do każdego drzewa przybijali wokół małe dzieci, tworząc tzw. "wianuszki" Aleję tę, na rozwieszonym transparencie nazwali "drogą do samostijnej Ukrainy". Na zdjęciu jedno z drzew, na którym przybito czworo małych dzieci. Zdjęcie to publikuje J. Węgierski, informując, że pochodzi ono ze zbioru M. Domiszewskiego." --Lysytalk 21:05, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

This isn't a picture of Polish children
http://www.rzeczpospolita.pl/news.rol?newsId=1680 To nie są polskie dzieci Twierdzimy tak, ponieważ posiadamy niezaprzeczalne dowody, że wspomniane zdjęcie — pierwowzór projektu pomnika — przedstawia zupełnie inne wydarzenie. Miało ono miejsce w nocy z 11 na 12 grudnia 1923 r., cztery ofiary to dzieci cygańskie, a zabójcą była ich obłąkana matka, 32-letnia M.D. Zdarzenie jest szczegółowo opisane w pracy wydanej drukiem w 1928 r. (a zapewne też w ówczesnej prasie). publikacji, która powoływała się na artykuł z roku 1928. Obydwa teksty są publikacjami z zakresu medycyny sądowej. Pierwszy to artykuł „Psychoza szałowo-posępnicza w kazuistyce sądowo-psychiatrycznej”, zamieszczony w „Roczniku Psychiatrycznym” z 1928 r. Jego autorem był Witold Łuniewski, wieloletni dyrektor zakładu w Tworkach. Druga publikacja to „Podręcznik medycyny sądowej dla studentów i lekarzy”, wydany w 1948 r. przez Wiktora Grzywo-Dąbrowskiego, profesora Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego i członka komitetu redakcyjnego „Rocznika Psychiatrycznego”. To właśnie fakt, że zabójcą dzieci była ich matka, przyciągnął uwagę uczonych. Nieszczęsna kobieta zabiła czworo dzieci w akcie rozpaczy po aresztowaniu męża i rozpadzie grupy cygańskiej, w której dotąd żyła, w przekonaniu, że grozi im niechybna śmierć głodowa. Następnego dnia zgłosiła się na policję. Z polecenia sądu została umieszczona w zakładzie psychiatrycznym, gdzie stwierdzono u niej „psychozę szałowo-posępniczą”, dziś powiedzielibyśmy zapewne o ciężkim przypadku depresji. Jak pisze Łuniewski, jej czyn „był psychopatologiczną próbą dokonania rozszerzonego samobójstwa, którego chora nie doprowadziła do końca”.

Obydwie wymienione publikacje zawierają fotografie z miejsca zbrodni. W „Podręczniku medycyny sądowej” zamieszczono zdjęcie, które oznaczyliśmy nr II. Nie jest ono takie samo jak zdjęcie nr I. Czytelnik dostrzeże, że zdjęcie I jest jego lustrzanym odbiciem. Fotografia zamieszczona w pracy Łuniewskiego, którą oznaczyliśmy nr III, jest innym zdjęciem — przedstawia niewątpliwie tę samą scenę, ale sfotografowaną z nieco innej strony. „Przejmujący grozą obraz tej zbrodni został sfotografowany przez urząd śledczy”, pisze Łuniewski, i zapewne wykonano kilka zdjęć z różnych perspektyw. Możliwe, że w archiwach sądowych lub policyjnych zachowały się inne jeszcze zdjęcia tej sceny. Ponadto zdjęcie I różni się od pozostałych ukośnymi jasnymi liniami, które kilku komentatorów wzięło błędnie za drut kolczasty. Są to zapewne ślady zgięć pierwotnej fotografii lub zarysowań na negatywie. Dwa lata później zdjęcie pojawia się w pracy J. Węgierskiego „Armia Krajowa w okręgach Stanisławów i Tarnopol ” z podpisem „zamordowane przez oddziały SS-Galicja dzieci polskie w rejonie Kozowej (pow. brzeżański) (ze zbioru W. Załogowicza)”. Aleksander Korman w pracy „Stosunek UPA do Polaków na ziemiach południowo-wschodnich II Rzeczypospolitej” (Wrocław 2002) zamieszcza najwięcej informacji o zdjęciu i zbrodni, którą ma ono przedstawiać. Twierdzi, że zdjęcie pochodzi ze wsi Kozowa lub Łozowa, pow. Tarnopol, zapewne z grudnia 1943 lub 1944 r., skąd grupa ocalałych z rzezi Polaków dostarczyła je na konspiracyjną placówkę 14. Pułku AK na przedmieściach Lwowa. Tam trafiło w ręce Władysława Załogowicza (na którego relację się powołuje), który wiele lat później przekazał je Krzaklewskiemu, a ten autorowi. Pisze też, że upowcy poczynili wiele takich „wianuszków” z dzieci, przybijając je do drzew w alei, którą nazwali „drogą do samostijnej Ukrainy”. Poznajemy nawet nazwisko przypuszczalnego dowódcy oddziału UPA, odpowiedzialnego za rzeź, i inne szczegóły zbrodni. W wydanym rok później wspomnianym już albumie Korman zamieszcza zdjęcie dwukrotnie, ponownie z informacją, że przedstawia jedno z drzew przy „drodze do samostijnej Ukrainy” w powiecie tarnopolskim. Z kolei w liczącym ponad 1100 stron tomie H. Komańskiego i Sz. Siekierki o ludobójstwie w województwie tarnopolskim (Wrocław 2004) czytamy, że zdjęcie pochodzi ze zbioru St. Krzaklewskiego, a wykonał je niemiecki fotograf wojskowy we wsi Kozówka, pow. Brzeżany, w listopadzie 1943 r. Choć praca ta ma bogatą bazę źródłową i rozbudowany aparat naukowy, nie podaje, na jakiej podstawie przypisano tę scenę do wsi Kozówka. Dodajmy, że od kilku lat zdjęcie I pojawia się w różnych publikacjach i w Internecie (np. w Wikipedii), a jego opis obrasta w coraz to nowe szczegóły rzekomej zbrodni.

 * Well done. Thanks. --Lysytalk 16:41, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Rename
Can we rename the image to a less misleading name ? --Lysytalk 15:22, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

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Chapel of the Pines Crematory

Chapel of the Pines Crematory is a crematory and columbarium located at 1605 South Catalina Street, Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California, in the West Adams District a short distance southwest of Downtown. It is beside Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, one street east, at the southwest corner of Catalina and Venice Boulevard.

Established in 1903, this domed structure, which looks like an observatory, provides crematory services and columbarium inurnment. It is the final resting place for the cremains of a number of noted persons.

Vaultage
In addition to the multiple columbaria that are open to the public for visitation, there are five vaults in the basement of the crematory that are closed to the public. These vaults house the cremains of over 10,000 individuals. Cremains were placed in vaultage for a variety of reasons, including those that were unclaimed, the inability for family to pay for a public niche or the deceased or their family choosing for a private inurnment location. Most, but not all, of these cremains have been placed in copper box urns with name labels affixed to them. Chapel of the Pines ended the practice of storing cremains in the vaults in 2006 and any unclaimed cremains since then are turned over to the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner after being held for sixty days. Although vaultage is no longer offered, the vaults are legally considered a tomb and, per California law, removal of cremains from the vaults is considered exhumation of a grave and is not permitted without either permission of the surviving family or a court order.

List of notable interments
(Note: This is a partial list.)

Use the following alphabetical links to find someone.

A

 * Ted Adams (1890–1973), actor
 * Broncho Billy Anderson (1882–1971), actor (private vault)
 * George Anderson (1886–1948), actor
 * Lionel Atwill (1885–1946), actor (private vault)
 * Arthur Aylesworth (1883–1946), actor

B

 * Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (David Seville) (1919–1972), musician, actor, creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks
 * Bob Bailey (1913–1983) radio actor
 * Alma Bennett (1904–1958), actress
 * Frank Brownlee (1874–1948), actor
 * Nigel Bruce (1895–1953), actor
 * Mae Busch (1891–1946), actress

C

 * Leonard Carey (1887–1977), actor
 * Louise Carver (1869–1956), actress
 * Helen Chandler (1906–1965), actress (originally inurned here in the private vault, ashes relocated to Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2023)
 * Parley Parker Christensen (1869–1954), Utah and California politician, Esperantist
 * Dorothy Christy (1906–1976), actress
 * Colin Clive (1900–1937), actor (cenotaph here, but ashes were scattered at sea)
 * June Collyer (1906–1968), actress
 * Heinie Conklin (1889–1959), actor
 * Tom Conway (1904–1967), actor (private vault)
 * Cecil Cunningham (1888–1959), actress

D

 * J. Searle Dawley (1877–1949), film director, screenwriter, stage actor, and playwright
 * Edgar Dearing (1893–1974), actor
 * William Desmond (1878–1949), actor (private vault)
 * Elspeth Dudgeon (1871-1955), actress
 * Margaret Dumont (1882–1965), actress

E

 * Stuart Erwin (1903–1967), actor
 * Anthony Eustrel (1903–1979), actor
 * Renee Evans (1908–1971), actress
 * Ernest Evers (1874–1945), film actor

F

 * Bess Flowers (1898–1984), actress
 * Maude Fulton (1881–1950), actress, screenwriter (private vault)
 * Noel Francis (1906–1959), actress

G

 * Florence Gill (1877–1965), voice actress
 * Edmund Gwenn (1877–1959), actor (originally inurned here in the private vault, ashes relocated to Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2023)

H

 * Raymond Hackett (1902–1958), actor
 * Jean Hagen (1923–1977), actress
 * Hobart Henley (1887–1964), actor
 * Halliwell Hobbes (1877–1962), actor
 * Arthur Hoyt (1874–1953), actor
 * Warren Hymer (1906–1948), actor

I

 * Lloyd Ingraham (1874–1956), actor, director, and screenwriter

J

 * Julanne Johnston (1900–1988), actress
 * Justine Johnstone (1895–1982), actress
 * E. Truman Joiner (1905–1961), Key Grip

L

 * Gregory La Cava (1892–1952), director
 * Lew Landers (1901–1962), motion picture director
 * William LeBaron (1883–1958), motion picture producer
 * Mitchell Leisen (1898–1972), comedy director
 * Montagu Love (1877–1943), actor
 * Wilfred Lucas (1871–1940), actor, director, screenwriter

M

 * J. Farrell MacDonald (1875–1952), actor and director
 * Herbert Marshall (1890–1966), actor
 * Edward Martindel (1876–1955), actor
 * Sarah Y. Mason (1896–1980), screenwriter and script supervisor (private vault)
 * Torben Meyer (1884–1975), actor
 * Gertrude Michael (1910–1965), actress
 * Geneva Mitchell (1908–1949), actress
 * Thomas Mitchell (1892–1962), actor (private vault)
 * Leonard Mudie (1883–1965), actor

N

 * Alan Napier (1903–1988), actor (cremated here, ashes scattered in his former residence's garden)
 * Ray Nazarro (1902–1986), film director
 * Tom Neal (1914–1972), actor, convicted of manslaughter in the death of his estranged wife
 * Kurt Neumann (1908–1958), motion picture director and producer

O

 * Willis H. O'Brien (1886–1962), filmmaker
 * Vivien Oakland (1895–1958), actress
 * Philip Ober (1902–1982), actor
 * Garry Owen (1902–1951), actor

P

 * Franklin Parker (1900–1962), actor
 * Gladys Parker (1908–1966), cartoonist
 * Stuart Paton (1883–1944), motion picture director (private vault)
 * Eileen Percy (1900–1973), actress
 * George P. Putnam (1887–1950), publisher, author and explorer, husband of Amelia Earhart

R

 * Warner Richmond (1886–1948), actor
 * Rachel Roberts (1927–1980), actress
 * Harry Ruby (1895–1974), screenwriter, songwriter and composer (private vault)

S

 * William Selig (1864–1948), pioneer movie studio owner
 * Ann Sheridan (1915–1967), actress (originally inurned here in the private vault, ashes were relocated to Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2005)
 * Jay Silverheels (1912–1980), actor (cremated here, ashes were scattered on his Six Nations reservation in Canada)
 * Herbert Standing Sr. (1846–1923), actor
 * Vernon Steele (1882–1955), actor
 * Harry Stubbs (1874–1950), actor
 * Noel Francis (1906–1959), actress

T

 * Zeffie Tilbury (1863–1950), actress
 * Florence Turner (1885–1946), actress, producer, and screenwriter (private vault)

V

 * Philip Van Zandt (1904–1958), actor (private vault)

W

 * H. B. Warner (1875–1958), actor (private vault)
 * E. Allyn Warren (1874–1940), actor
 * Lyle R. Wheeler (1905–1990), movie art director
 * Kathlyn Williams (1888–1960), actress, screenwriter

Y

 * Cy Young (1897–1964), animator

The British Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemorates one Commonwealth serviceman whose ashes are inurned here, a soldier of the Canadian Army of World War I.

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Waterford Regional Sports Centre

The Waterford Regional Sports Centre (or simply, the RSC) is part of Waterford Corporation's Municipal sporting facilities and home to Waterford F.C. of the League of Ireland. Waterford moved to the newly opened RSC from their former home, Kilcohan Park for the 1993-94 season and have remained there ever since.

Included on another site is an 18-hole pitch-and-putt course, an indoor hall, football pitches and tennis courts. The complex also had a Skateboard Park. The RSC comprises two stands. The Cork Road West Stand, opened in May 1996 has capacity of 1,275 seats. The new Kilbarry side East Stand which holds 1,760 opened in May 2008 and brings seating capacity to 3,035. There are future plans to extend the West Stand to bring the overall seated capacity to near 5,000.

The RSC also contains a tartan athletics track which runs around the soccer pitch. The record attendance at the RSC was at the FAI Cup Semi-final in April 1997 when a crowd of 8,500 paid in to see Waterford United lose to Shelbourne 2-1.

In June 2009 the Ireland under-21 side defeated Spain 2–1 in front of a capacity crowd of 3,400 at the RSC. In September 2009, it hosted the League of Ireland Cup Final as Bohemians beat Waterford United 3-1.

In February 2010 Munster A played Nottingham R.F.C. in the British and Irish Cup at the ground.

The Republic of Ireland U-23 team played England C in May 2010 in a 2009–11 International Challenge Trophy game.

The RSC also hosted UEFA U21 European Championship Qualifiers when the Republic of Ireland played Holland, Russia and Switzerland. These games were televised live by Sky. The Republic of Ireland U21 team also played Spain U21s in a friendly international at this venue.

It hosted games at the 2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship.

In December 2023, Waterford F.C. announced that they had secured a 50 year lease from Waterford City and County Council on the RSC.

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Talk:Beer in Belgium

Merge List of Belgian beers into Beer in Belgium
The List of Belgian beers article is a duplicate of information (WP:CONTENTFORK) in Beer in Belgium, which contains more information in context, and is the established article. SilkTork (talk) 20:48, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

 * As there were no objections after ten days listing I've merged the articles. The talkpage of List of Belgian beers has been archived here. SilkTork (talk) 13:49, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * "Merged" in what sense, ? I don't see the content of the list in the article. --Andreas Philopater (talk) 21:41, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

 * I agree. I was called away shortly after the edit. Returned to do some work on the article a couple of hours later, but again was called away. I have a little bit of time now. SilkTork (talk) 21:50, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Rochefort 12?
I'm pretty sure there isn't a Rochefort 12, which this article claims in the section on trappist beers. 83.253.97.176 (talk) 07:15, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I can't find any evidence that a Rochefort 12 exists and have deleted it. Maybe it used to exist? Tammbeck  talk  07:30, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Beer in Belgium or Belgian beer culture?
Is there any difference between this article and Belgian beer culture??? I think they should get merged -- Mastrocom (talk) 11:06, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

 * P.S. Obviously wikidata items should be merged too -- Mastrocom (talk) 11:10, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

 * One article is 22K of prose, one is 8K, so after taking out unsourced or tagged content, they could potentially sit as one article. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  14:09, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

 * Given the size of the topic, it is possible to imagine several spun-out articles for "Belgian beer" (the actual drinks) and "Belgian beer culture" (the role of the drink in wider culture and society). Whether either article actually meets the bill is, of course, a slightly different question. 23:17, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

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World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies

The World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) is an international Non-governmental organization established in 1995 by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development that acts as a forum for investment promotion agencies (IPA), provides networking and promotes best practice in investment promotion.

The objectives of WAIPA, as reflected in the Association’s Statutes, are to: The Secretariat has been based in Geneva, Switzerland since 1995. Since 2015 its headquarters are established in Istanbul, Turkey, from where Waipa serves its 170+ members in 130 countries.
 * Promote and develop understanding and cooperation amongst IPAs;
 * Strengthen information gathering systems, promote the efficient use of information and facilitate access to data sources;
 * Share country and regional experiences in attracting foreign investment and enhancing outward investments;
 * Assist IPAs to advocate the promotion of policies, within their government, which are beneficial to increasing foreign direct investment and promoting economic development;
 * Facilitate access to technical assistance and promote training of IPAs.


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Filip Adwent

Filip Stanisław Adwent (31 August 1955 – 26 June 2005) was a Polish politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Pomeranian Voivodship. He was born in Strasbourg. He ran as a candidate from the League of Polish Families, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

Adwent was a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism and a vice-chair of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.

He died eight days after he and his family were involved in a multiple car accident which occurred on 18 June 2005 near Warsaw. His father and daughter died instantly, along with two other people. Adwent, aged 49, and his mother died eight (8) days later from their injuries.

Education

 * 2004: Physician specialising in anaesthesiology and intensive therapy (1983), post-graduate studies at the Warsaw Agricultural University in Environmental Protection

Career

 * 2001-2002: Member of the Polish Alliance
 * Organiser of aid to Polish hospitals for 15 years, honoured by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare for services to the protection of health

See: 2004 European Parliament election in Poland

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Talk:Frequency domain

Frequency space
Frequency space redirects here. When I think of "frequency space", though, I think more of a time-frequency transform, like the STFT. - Omegatron 14:43, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

"Frequency domain is a term used to describe the analysis of mathematical functions with respect to frequency."

=> The Frequency Domain is used to understand the frequency content of mathematical functions and measured data.

Momentum space
Momentum space also redirects here, but there isn't any discussion of it. Fresheneesz 23:37, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, why is that? It dosn't seem to make any sense when comming from [Wavefunction] What the hell does the frequency domain have to do with momentum space? Chad Okere

 * Momentum space is the Fourier transform of the wavefunction in position space. It's an analogous relationship to time and frequency, but if it's not discussed here it shouldn't be linked here. Dicklyon 05:14, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Momentum space is more of a physics concept used to explain Fermi energy levels, which uses wave function vectors that can also be called reciprocal lattice vectors in condensed matter physics. However I wish either separate articles are made for each of these definitions or that it be addressed that they are all basically the same concept.--Waxsin (talk) 03:06, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Example graphs?
Would be nice to see some graphs of examples of frequency and time domain functions. For example, a graph of a sound in each space. --jivy 18:53, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

"An example is the Fourier transform, which decomposes a function into the sum of a (potentially infinite) number of sine wave frequency components." this seems wrong to me, the fourier transform turns a signal in the time domain into its equivalent in the frequency domain. op seems to be talking about a fourier series which is completely different. only a 1st year undergrad though so might well be utterly wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.31.68.87 (talk) 23:06, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

hi Samanthantrkumar (talk) 16:07, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

Wanted: Frequency Domains for Dummies
What follows is something of a cry for help, but I think it may also suggest how some Wiki pages might be made clearer - including this one. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking with it. :-)

I have been on a quest that took me to Wiki pages about transfer functions, the Laplace transform, filters, and audio crossovers. The object of the exercise was to write software to model loudspeaker systems. I finally got 'er done, up to a point, but there is one thing that is bugging me, and it has to do with the (frequency) domain of a transfer function, which is typically the ratio of two Laplace transforms.

It is clear that the domain of a transfer function includes pure imaginary numbers j*ω, where ω is a frequency expressed in radians per unit-time (seconds). It is also clear that the range of a transfer function consists of complex numbers whose modulus (aka absolute value, aka L2 norm) represents amplitude or gain, and whose argument (aka angle) represents phase. What is not at all clear to me is whether the domain also includes numbers that are not pure imaginary, and if so what they represent. Everywhere I go I see the formula σ + j*ω, without explanation. It seemed to me that σ represents phase-shift in the domain. I expected that when I used a complex number σ + j*ω with a non-zero σ as input to a transfer function, the amplitude output would be unchanged and the phase output would differ from the output for j*ω by σ. Not the case. If I make σ much different from 0, I get nonsense results.

So my question, which I think this Wiki page should clarify, is what specifically is the domain of a transfer function? Does it include only numbers of the form j*ω? If it includes numbers of the form σ + j*ω for non-zero σ, what do the those inputs and associated outputs represent?

[I posted essentially the same question on the talk page for "transfer function."]

Jive Dadson (talk) 08:27, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

 * Yes, the whole complex space is the domain of Laplace transforms; the pure imaginary line reduces it to just Fourier transforms, which may be enough for you. The sigma represents the rate of growth or decay of the complex exponential (generalized sinusoid) exp(st).  I have a draft book chapter that explains all this stuff better, imho; send me an email if you'd like to review it. Dicklyon (talk) 17:44, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

 * Well, duh. I see that now. I would be happy to run the Dummy-test on your book chapter. I see we live in the same area and share some common interests like colorimetry. I will be in touch. Jive Dadson (talk) 00:45, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Merge proposed
The disambiguation page Spectral analysis gives one meaning as: Spectral density estimation, in statistics and signal processing, an algorithm that estimates the strength of different frequency components (the power spectrum) of a time-domain signal. This may also be called frequency domain analysis

If these indeed are just two different names for the same thing (or if frequency domain analysis can be adequately covered in the frequency domain article) the articles should be merged. Currently they aren't even cross-linked well; that's an alternative solution. -- Beland (talk) 22:17, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

 * They are closely related concepts, but the frequency domain is useful for more than "analysis". Like for synthesis.  The Spectral analysis disambig page link to various ways to get into the frequency domain.  Dicklyon (talk) 00:00, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

The present article is not frequency domain analysis, rather just frequency domain. The correct correspondence is roughly: and not Spectral density estimation ~ frequency domain, as proposed. I'm taking the liberty of removing the merge tag. Fgnievinski (talk) 22:00, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Spectral density estimation ~ frequency domain analysis
 * Spectral density ~ frequency domain

Frequency Sub-domain Characteristics
Given that 99% of humanity does not have a degree, I would like to see a (low education) inclusion or reference to the characteristics or applications for various (all?) frequencies (DC to light) in various energy forms or media (acoustics, emf, population, behavior, history, physics, etc.). It might be possible to include some essay into the nature of wave forms (pulse, ICW, sign-waves, etc.) in practical behavior, technology, geology, physics, etc., but frequency is an important and pervasive influence on every reader, without an outline of that influence. Frequency list (initial): 0: life of universe; 100 million years: climate oscillations; 10 million years: Earth's magnetic oscillations; ... 20 years: human generations; yearly: Earth's orbit around Sol; monthly: Moon's orbit around Earth; ... 3 Hertz: human blinks, ELF Submarine radio, ; 1-100 Hz: Human brain waves; 60/sec: earthquakes ; 50-400 Hz: commercial electric power transmission (Usu. 60 Hz); 15 Hz-20 Kz: human hearing; 0.5 Hz-300 Kz: animal hearing; 10 kHz (10 microseconds): Loran; ... 1 MHz: computer clock rate(appx); ... I realize that pedagogically, this is a multi-dimensional challenge, and might not easily fit here (Frequency domain) without a great deal of cross-referencing. It would also be a backbone (link all above refs) for exploration of many other fields. --Wikidity (talk) 03:56, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

mirros on sky
imagine that mirrors are removing night i.e at opposite of earth of sun then america is day and india is night then keeping the mirrors at sky reflecting then on india Samanthantrkumar (talk) 16:11, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

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Talk:Beer in Hungary

Beer Clinking
The article is incorrect. The execution of the Martyrs of Arad resulted in a popular oath for Hungarians to never clink their glasses with beer for a 150 years. That period ended in 1999. So younger people do not ignore it, rather many are well aware that the "restriction" has ended.

Since this story is part of the national mythology in Hungary (an urban legend, as nowadays we call it), it doesn't make sense to say if it's correct or not. I also think that this 150 years thing was added later to the legend - some may think it's over, some not, it's up to the person's belief. The slight majority of people (55%) still doesn't clink with their glasses of beer, though; see http://www.urbanlegends.hu/2005/06/17/koccintas-sorrel/ --Kevert 11:14, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Breweries
For reference here is the list of beers from the List of breweries Justinc 14:45, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Borsodi Sörgyár
 * Brau Union Hungária Sörgyárak
 * Martfűi Sörgyár
 * Soproni Sörgyár
 * Dreher Sörgyárak
 * Kőbányai Sörgyár
 * Nagykanizsai Sörgyár
 * Pécsi Sörfőzde

 * I was the one who added the information on the list of breweries yesterday. I know the above information is accurate, but I'm not sure if it covers all of the major breweries in Hungary.  There is very little information (and I can't find a webpage) for the Nagykanizsai Sörgyár.  It is a regional brewery, but I'm unsure of who the owners are.  It may just be the employees.  Anyway, if anyone can find anymore information on breweries, please add it.
 * Also, is anybody planning on expanding the information on the individual breweries? I have already written something on the Pécsi Sörfőzde that I plan to create a separate page for, once I get to used to using Wikipedia.--Hungarian83 19:49, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
 * Go ahead and create the pages, I will look over them if you like. Its just the list is not very useful (most countries it is very incomplete), I thought it would be more useful here as a reference to create the entries. Justinc 20:27, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I created the Pécs Brewery article. This is my first attempted article, so please make any corrections you feel are necessary.  The basic information is essentially from the brewery website, but I wrote everything myself (the site is referenced).  I will make a brewbox on the page once I can get a suitable logo image.--Hungarian83 21:29, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
 * Thats really excellent. A added a few extra links, but it is a very good article. Justinc 22:20, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I have created (finally) another Hungarian brewery article: Borsod Brewery. If anyone gets to the other three breweries before me, I think it would be good if the same format was used for all of them. I am planning on making some brew boxes for the two breweries I have done so far (Pécs Brewery and Borsod Brewery). --Hungarian83 22:16, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

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A featured picture is an image that is "beautiful, striking, shocking, impressive, titillating, fascinating, or in short just brilliant". And while this image is surely not a perfect photograph, it certainly is one of the most striking, shocking, impressive and fascinating pictures I have ever seen. As a person born about 20 years ago, it is totally incomprehensible to me that such an event could take place. Sure, I've read about it, but numbers don't impress me. This image does. --Conti|✉ 14:46, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC) +21 / -0 -- Solipsist 13:29, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Nominate and support. --Conti|✉ 14:46, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. There seems to be a lot of good pictures at the same source. Not all of them have very high resolution though. Jonas Olson 15:36, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. It is historically significant, and actually surprisingly artistic.  It is a bit washed out, but I'm not sure any correction is warranted.  --SFoskett 15:55, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Wide-eyed frog support Circeus 16:06, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. -- brian0918  ™  21:47, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support, but this image most certainly isn't beautiful. undoubtedly shocking though. --Fir0002 22:24, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Impressive. --Bricktop 23:32, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Ground 01:58, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Poor old swastika Denni ☯ 02:16, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)
 * Support both shocking and striking. Mgm|(talk) 08:44, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support TomStar81 05:08, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support - Wow! - Adrian Pingstone 15:26, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support -- Amazing! - Longhair | Talk 12:00, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support although I feel that the colours could do with some tweaking. I tried, but failed to come up with anything convincing... any photoshop experts want to try? Lupin 14:36, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. I can hear the chants of the crowd.... Very ominous.... Cue imperial march theme. - Pioneer-12 18:57, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Impressive. Sango  123  16:15, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. James F. (talk) 22:20, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support - Impressive composition JoJan 18:17, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support - like they say: a pictures worth a thousand words. - Ian 02:30, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
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Moynaq

Moynaq, also spelled as Muynak (Karakalpak Мойнақ/Moynaq; Russian Муйнак/Muynak; Uzbek Мўйноқ/Moʻynoq), is a city in northern Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic in Uzbekistan. It is the seat of the Moynaq district. Formerly a sea port on the Aral Sea, it is now 150 km from the water in the Aralkum Desert and thus is a disaster tourism destination. It is also the location for the biggest electronic music festival in Central Asia.

History
Once a bustling fishing community and Uzbekistan's only port city with tens of thousands of residents, Moynaq is now dozens of kilometers from the rapidly receding shoreline of the Aral Sea. Fishing had always been part of the economy of the region, and Moynaq became a center of industrial fishing and canning. However, a 1960s Soviet government diversion of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers sapped the Aral Sea of its inflows, causing much of the lake to dry up and thus leaving the area susceptible to economic collapse. The regional Soviet-led agricultural monoculture dominated by cotton production diverted water from the aforementioned tributary rivers of the sea into irrigation, which resulted in severe pollution caused by agricultural chemical runoff. This, in turn, caused the sea to evaporate and left the remaining water with extremely high levels of salinity, which made it toxic and led to the ecological disaster that is destroying the sea and killing the residents of the towns in its vicinity, including Moynaq.

Moynaq's major attractions are the armada of rusting hulks that once made up its fishing fleet during the Soviet era, and a one-room museum devoted to Moynaq's heritage as a center of the fishing industry. Poisonous dust storms kicked up by strong winds across the dried and polluted seabed give rise to a multitude of chronic and acute illnesses among the few residents who have chosen to remain, most of them ethnic Karakalpaks, and weather unmoderated by the sea now buffets the town with hotter-than-normal summers and colder-than-normal winters.

Culture
Stihia Festival, the largest electronic music festival in Central Asia, has been held in Moynaq annually since 2018. Described by Vice Media as “a techno rave in an abandoned ship graveyard,” the 2019 event attracted 10,000 people, as well as some of the best DJs in Uzbekistan and Europe. In 2022, the event was very successful, despite sandstorms.

Stihia means "an unstoppable force of nature" and it is a reference to both the Aral Sea environmental disaster and the power of music to bring people together. The festival is a collaboration of musicians, artists, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs, and Stihia N+1, a series of talks about arts, science, and technology, runs alongside the music event.

The Aral Sea Memorial is in the north end of Moynaq, amongst the rusting skeletons of the former fishing fleet. This ships’ graveyard is a reminder of the economic impact of the shrinking of the Aral Sea, which is often overlooked in discussion about the environmental disaster.

Moynaq Museum has paintings and photographs of the town in its more prosperous days. The exhibits demonstrate the wealth and importance of the place, not only due to fishing but also other industries such as fur farming and rush mat manufacturing.

Wildlife
Saiga antelope can still be found in the wild around Moynaq. Although they migrate in large numbers, the saiga are vulnerable as they are hunted for their meat, and the males’ translucent horns are valuable in traditional Chinese medicine.

Moynaq is on a migration corridor for birds flying to and from Siberia, and the brackish pools between Moynaq and the Aral Sea are good spots for birdwatching. It is possible to see approximately 230 species of birds in the region, around half of which breed in the Sudochye Wetland, an internationally recognised Important Bird Area (IBA). 24 of these species are rare or vulnerable, and 13 of them are in the IUCN Red List. These include the critically endangered slender-billed curlew.

Population
The population was: 13,000 inhabitants in 1991 and 18,196 in 2012. As of January 1, 2018, the population of Moynaq was 13,500. Unlike most cities in Uzbekistan, Moynaq has a stable trend of population decline. The main part of the city's population is made up of Karakalpaks. There are also quite a large number of Uzbeks and Kazakhs living in the city. Among the national minorities there are also Tatars, Turkmens and others.

Languages
As in the rest of Karakalpakstan, Uzbek and Karakalpak languages have official status in Moynaq. The Russian language actually has the status of a language of interethnic communication. English is also widespread among tourism and service workers in the city due to the popularity of the city among foreign tourists.

Transport
Water transportation is currently absent. Moynaq port is not functioning. To the south-east of the city there is a small airfield operating irregularly. Public transportation is represented by rare Daewoo Damas shuttle buses, as well as private cabbies and cab drivers in passenger cars.

Festival "Стихия" ("Element")
The annual non-commercial festival of electronic music, art and science "Стихия" ("Element") is held in Moynaq. The festival's mission is to help the Aral Sea region and raise awareness about the Aral Sea catastrophe. Today, "Стихия"("Element") is a mix of several projects involving musicians, DJs, producers, artists and scientists. They are all united by the common goal of creating a powerful attraction in a very unusual place on earth. Since the drying up of the sea, the festival is the most high-profile event. The festival usually lasts 2 days directly at the ship graveyard and has gained a lot of popularity among fans of the electronic music genre over the years. The festival ends with the ceremonial burning of a 10-meter high installation of the letters "SEA".

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Spurn Lightship

The Spurn Lightship (LV No. 12) is a lightvessel (i.e. a ship used as a lighthouse), previously anchored in Hull Marina in the British city of Kingston upon Hull, England. It was relocated to a shipyard in October 2021 for restoration, prior to becoming a display together with the Arctic Corsair.

The ship was built in 1927 and served for 48 years as a navigation aid in the approaches of the Humber Estuary, where it was stationed 4+1/2 mi east of Spurn Point.

The lightship was decommissioned in 1975 and bought/restored by Hull City Council in 1983 before being moved to Hull Marina as a museum in 1987. The museum closed in June 2018, in preparation for the vessel being relocated in September, to facilitate a footbridge being constructed over the adjacent A63. Initially it was expected that the museum would reopen in 2021 after undergoing conservation work and a relocation to a new position on the marina.

Restoration
The ship was moved to a private shipyard in October 2021 for restoration, having been static for 34 years. Part of a £30 million project, after renovation in a dry dock with completion anticipated for 2023, it will be displayed together with the Arctic Corsair trawler. Following restoration it was returned to the marina on 9 March 2023. It was relocated in February 2024 to a newly constructed mooring in the marina near to Murdoch's Connection footbridge.

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Areal feature

In geolinguistics, areal features are elements shared by languages or dialects in a geographic area, particularly when such features are not descended from a proto-language, i.e. a common ancestor language. That is, an areal feature is contrasted with lingual-genealogically determined similarity within the same language family. Features may diffuse from one dominant language to neighbouring languages (see "sprachbund").

Genetic relationships are represented in the family tree model of language change, and areal relationships are represented in the wave model.

Characteristics
Resemblances between two or more languages (whether in typology or in vocabulary) have been observed to result from several mechanisms, including lingual genealogical relation (descent from a common ancestor language, not principally related to biological genetics); borrowing between languages; retention of features when a population adopts a new language; and chance coincidence. When little or no direct documentation of ancestor languages is available, determining whether the similarity is genetic or merely areal can be difficult. Edward Sapir notably used evidence of contact and diffusion as a negative tool for genetic reconstruction, treating it as a subject in its own right only at the end of his career (e.g., for the influence of Tibetan on Tocharian).

Major models
William Labov in 2007 reconciled the tree and wave models in a general framework based on differences between children and adults in their language learning ability. Adults do not preserve structural features with sufficient regularity to establish a norm in their community, but children do. Linguistic features are diffused across an area by contacts among adults. Languages branch into dialects and thence into related languages through small changes in the course of children's learning processes which accumulate over generations, and when speech communities do not communicate (frequently) with each other, these cumulative changes diverge. Diffusion of areal features for the most part hinges on low-level phonetic shifts, whereas tree-model transmission includes in addition structural factors such as "grammatical conditioning, word boundaries, and the systemic relations that drive chain shifting".

Sprachbund
In some areas with high linguistic diversity, a number of areal features have spread across a set of languages to form a sprachbund (also known as a linguistic area, convergence area or diffusion area). Some examples are the Balkan sprachbund, the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area, and the languages of the Indian subcontinent.

Phonetics and phonology

 * The spread of the guttural R from either German or French to several Northern European languages.
 * Contrast between (dark L) and palatalized  in Slavic, Baltic and Turkic languages of Central Asia.
 * Development of a three-tone system with no tones in words ending in -p, -t, -k, followed by a tone split, and many other phonetic similarities in the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area.
 * Retroflex consonants in the Burushaski, Nuristani, Dravidian, Munda, and Indo-Aryan families of South Asia.
 * The occurrence of click consonants in several languages of Southern Africa, including a few Bantu languages
 * The lack of fricatives in Australian languages.
 * The use of ejective and aspirated consonants in the languages of the Caucasus.
 * The prevalence of ejective and lateral fricatives and affricates in the Pacific Northwest of North America.
 * The development of a close front rounded vowel in the Bearnese dialect of Occitan and the Souletin dialect of Basque.
 * The absence of and presence of  in many languages of Central and Eastern Europe.
 * The lack of nasal consonants in languages of the Puget Sound and the Olympic Peninsula.
 * The absence of but presence of  and  in many languages of Northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
 * The presence of a voicing contrast on fricatives e.g. vs  in Europe and Southwestern Asia.
 * An isogloss between dialects with and without phonemic /y/ in Europe cutting across the boundary between Romance and Germanic dialect continua.

Morphophonology

 * Vowel alternation patterns in reduplicatives.

Syntax

 * The tendency in much of Europe to use a transitive verb (e.g. "I have") for possession, rather than a possessive dative construction such as mihi est (Latin: 'to me is') which is more likely the original possessive construction in Proto-Indo-European, considering the lack of a common root for "have" verbs.
 * The development of a perfect aspect using "have" + past participle in many European languages (Romance, Germanic, etc.). (The Latin habeo and Germanic haben used for this and the previous point are not in fact etymologically related.)
 * A perfect aspect using "be" + past participle for intransitive and reflexive verbs (with participle agreement), present in French, Italian, German, older Spanish and Portuguese, and possibly even English, in phrases like "I am become death, destroyer of worlds" and "The kingdom of this world is become".
 * Postposed article, avoidance of the infinitive, merging of genitive and dative, and superessive number formation in some languages of the Balkans.
 * The spread of a verb-final word order to the Austronesian languages of New Guinea.
 * A system of classifiers/measure words in the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area.

Sociolinguistics

 * The use of the plural pronoun as a polite word for you in much of Europe (the tu-vous distinction).

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PROHIBITION and the CUSTOM SCANDAL OF 1926

TEMPERAMENT TEMPERANCE TEMPER

In the 1820’s, Christian reformers began to campaign about the evil of alcohol. Most of these crusaders were middle-class, Protestant, English- Canadians.

This was one of the causes fought by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Another big issue for them was women’s right to vote. The WCTU was founded in 1974 and reached national status in 1885.

Recognizing the dividing issue, the liberal government held a national referendum. Every province supported complete prohibition, except for Quebec, where 81% of the population rebuffed the proposition.

Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier declared that the voter turnout was so low, that he decided against prohibition.

Campaigns then focused their efforts on provincial playing fields.

Prince Edward Island was the first to give in to downright prohibition in 1900. Every other province, except Quebec again, followed suit by 1916. In 1918, Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden brought into effect “prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages” in Canada.

It is interesting to note that to this day it is strictly forbidden to sell cold beer in Prince Edward Island – it’s still on the books!

CANADIANS ARE ALL WET

After World War 1, the United States decided to stay dry. Canada, however, wishing to turn away from its history of strong temperance movements, went wet. The dominion government of 1919 parked the question of prohibition on each province’s doorstep.

Quebec and British Columbia led the way by setting up government-controlled liquor stores. The provinces prairie followed suit in 1923 and 1924, after seeing the revenue that the liquor commissions generated. Ontario joined in 1926. By the end of the decade, the only dry province was Prince Edward Island; they conceded in 1948.

Distilleries and breweries such as Hiram Walker in Windsor, Gooderham and Worts in Toronto, and Molson’s Breweries in Montreal were already old and established businesses.

The United States’ decision to keep its Eighteenth Amendment, prohibition legislation, sparked a gigantic cross-border smuggling operation that resulted in the 1926 Customs Scandal.

BY LAND AND BY WATER

By land and water, Canadian liquor was smuggled into the United States, and customs officers conspired with smugglers on either side of the border. The most famous illegal trafficking point was along the 200 kilometres between Cornwall, Ontario and Rock Island, Quebec – 60 unprotected roads led to Vermont and the New York State. Another spot later revealed was the Windsor-Detroit border, which was ruled by the prognostic of the Mafia, Black Hand. Customs officers conspired with smugglers on either side of the border.

The only law Canadian breweries and distilleries consistently broke was tax evasion, that is, not giving the federal and provincial governments their share in excise and sales tax.

By 1924 a two-way smuggling enterprise had been formed. Previously empty cars collecting Canadian alcohol began to fill with clothing, jewellery, cigarettes, radios and drugs. Since the United States’ mass production of these items was less expensive than their Canadian counterparts, they were readily accepted.

A group of clothing manufacturers formed the Commercial Protective Association in August 1924 to investigate the smuggling.

R.P. Sparks, the association’s chairman, wrote Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in February 1925 about his astonishing discovery of the extent of corruption in the department of customs.

Jacques Bureau, the minister of customs, responded to the allegations by defending those who worked for him especially R.R. Farrow, his deputy minister. And despite his established reputation as a shameless bootlegger, Bureau promoted J.A. E. Bisaillon to chief preventive officer for Montreal.

The RCMP tried to curtail the rampant smuggling, but repeatedly failed. One of Jacques Bureau’s first acts as customs minister was to withdraw the Mounties form the Quebec and British Columbia borders.

THE BARGE TREMBLAY AFFAIR

In February 1925, under cross-examination in the House, Bisaillon related an event that exemplified just how deep the corruption was set.

In November 1924, a Belgian Schooner in the St. Lawrence transferred a load of alcohol onto a barge owned and operated by a Captain Tremblay. On board with Capt. Tremblay were two of New York’s most prominent bootleggers.

After receiving a tip that Tremblay was planning to smuggle the alcohol to the United States, the Quebec Liquor Commission police arrived to meet the boat and arrest everyone on board.

When they reached the dock, however, they found that Bisaillon had taken over, representing the federal government. The thieves audaciously marched off the barge and sailed away on a yatch waiting for them.

Captain Tremblay was later arrested and charged with smuggling. He was released after paying a small fine.

Bisaillon was charged with conspiracy. He’d also confessed to depositing all the custom duties into his private bank account, which would explain why he had a balance of $65,000 even though he had an annual salary of $2,300. Even with this damaging discovery, the Montreal judge acquitted Bisaillon of all charges. Even more incredible is that he kept his job as chief customs officer in Montreal for the next ten months.

THE KING BYNG AFFAIR

After five years in office, and anticipating an open revolt in the House over the Customs Department scandal, King decided in 1926 to call for an election. As required by law in such matters, he then approached Governor General Julian Byng, a former British Commander and war hero.

Byng refused King’s request, and instead asked Arthur Meighen to form a government.

King was stunned and angry. After all, it was common knowledge that the Governor General was a figurehead only, and had o right to refuse the government’s requests.

Meanwhile, Meighen’s new government was so weak it only lasted three days before it fell apart. The election King had requested happened after all.

The election campaign that followed was heated and intense, with a lot of childish name-calling on both sides.

King cast a slur on Meighen for accepting power “unconstitutionally”. He also rallied against the Governor General’s “meddling” in parliamentary business, and cautioned the people that Byng was attempting to reduce Canada back to mere colony status.

Meighen, in turn, tried to sway the people against King by dredging up the Customs Scandal and ridiculed King’s arcane “constitutional issue”.

King was voted in with a working majority.

Canadians still can’t agree as to whether King or Byng was in the right, but the stage had nonetheless been set. Governor General, as the Royal Family, has since become (unofficially) no more than tokens and were not to interfere anymore.

King wanted Canadians to regain faith in their government, so he took belated steps to stop the bootleggers. He reinstated the RCMP’s power to patrol the borders. He also set up a Royal Commission to investigate the smuggling.

N.W. Rowell, a well-known prohibitionist, was named as Commission Counsel. One of the tasks he took on was to sue distilleries and breweries, which had profited largely, for tax evasion, or had their licenses revoked.

In 1930, King finally brought down legislation prohibiting clearances to vessels carrying liquor to the U.S., as the Americans have been asking for since the war had ended.

The reason King probably took so long to act on the problem was because of the large revenue that ensued form excise and customs duties. The American thirst for Canadian liquor had increased the government’s revenue from about $60 Million in 1929 from $10 Million in 1919.

After being elected President of the United States in 1932, Roosevelt repealed prohibition on December 5, 1933.

Source: Format: Trade Paperback · Published: September 2000 Dimensions: 384 Pages, 7.4 x 9.31 x 1.07 in ISBN: 1894413199 · Published by CDG Books

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Any idea what I should write here? Phlogistomania 14:50, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC) Maybe to read more books... no, keep up the questioning!

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