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Peter Ronald Brown (25 December 1940 – 19 May 2023) was an English performance poet, lyricist, and singer best known for his collaborations with Cream and Jack Bruce. Brown formed the bands Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments and Pete Brown & Piblokto! and worked with Graham Bond and Phil Ryan. Brown also wrote film scripts and formed a film production company.

Early life, poetry and music
Brown was born in Ashtead, Surrey, England. Before his involvement with music, he was a poet, having his first poem published in the U.S. magazine Evergreen Review when he was 14 years old.

Brown became part of the poetry scene in Liverpool during the 1960s, and in 1964 was the first poet to perform at Morden Tower in Newcastle. He became a significant advocate of British Beat Poetry, and in partnership with Michael Horovitz wrote poetry which they recited together as part of the 1965 event at the Royal Albert Hall.

Combining his poetry with music, Brown began performing at live events with musicians including the "New Departures" group with Horovitz, and toured with folk guitarist Davey Graham. The First Real Poetry Band was formed by Brown with John McLaughlin (guitar), Binky McKenzie (bass), Laurie Allan (drums) and Pete Bailey (percussion).

Cream
The First Real Poetry Band brought Brown to the attention of the band Cream. Originally, he was seen as a writing partner for drummer Ginger Baker, but the group quickly discovered that he worked better with bassist Jack Bruce. Of the situation, Bruce later remarked: "Ginger and Pete were at my flat trying to work on a song but it wasn't happening. My wife Janet then got with Ginger and they wrote 'Sweet Wine' while I started working with Pete."

Together, Brown and Bruce wrote many of Cream's songs, including the hits "I Feel Free", "White Room" and "SWLABR"; Brown, Bruce and Clapton also wrote "Sunshine of Your Love".

After the break-up of Cream, Bruce and Brown continued to write songs together. Brown wrote the lyrics for most of Bruce's solo albums.

Solo career
Brown formed Pete Brown and His Battered Ornaments in 1968, and in 1969 the band recorded two albums: A Meal You Can Shake Hands With in the Dark and Mantlepiece, with a line-up including Pete Bailey (percussion), Charlie Hart (keyboards), Dick Heckstall-Smith (sax), George Kahn (sax), Roger Potter (bass), Chris Spedding (guitar) and Rob Tait (drums). Brown was asked to leave the band, the day before they were due to support the Rolling Stones at Hyde Park. His vocals were subsequently removed from Mantlepiece and re-recorded by Chris Spedding, and the band was renamed The Battered Ornaments.

"Piblokto!" was formed after Brown's dismissal from the Battered Ornaments, and was active between 1969 and 1971. The original Piblokto! members were; Brown on vocals, Laurie Allan on drums, Jim Mullen on guitar, Roger Bunn on bass and Dave Thompson on organ. Most of their releases were for Harvest Records.

Allan left to join The Battered Ornaments and was replaced by their drummer Rob Tait. They released their first single "Living Life Backwards" / "High Flying Electric Bird" (the A-side later covered by Jeff Beck), followed by the album Things May Come and Things May Go but the Art School Dance Goes on Forever (1970). Bunn was replaced by Steve Glover for their second single, "Can't Get Off The Planet" / "Broken Magic" and the LP Thousands on a Raft (1970).

Mullen, Thompson and Tait left, so Brown and Glover were joined by Phil Ryan on keyboards, John "Pugwash" Weathers on drums (both formerly from The Eyes of Blue) and Brian Breeze on guitar. This line-up only recorded one single, "Flying Hero Sandwich"/"My Last Band". Weathers and Breeze both departed, to be replaced by guitarist Taff Williams (also formerly in The Eyes of Blue) and drummer Ed Spevock, before finally disbanding in Autumn 1971, and Brown went on to work with Graham Bond. Both albums, all three singles and several bonus tracks were reissued on the double album CD BGOCD522 in 2001.

The band's name was taken from the Inuit word for "Arctic Hysteria", Piblokto, with symptoms including hysteria (screaming, uncontrolled wild behaviour), depression and echolalia (senseless repetition of words).

Later career
After Piblokto!, Brown started to work with Graham Bond, with input from Jack Bruce and Bond's wife, Diane Stewart. In 1972 they recorded one album, Two Heads Are Better Than One, a single, "Lost Tribe", and much of the soundtrack to the short experimental documentary film Maltamour, before Bond left to form Magus in 1973.

Brown then formed Brown and Friends, and Flying Tigers, though neither group got beyond producing demos. In 1973, he recorded an album of his early poems, The Not Forgotten Association, before recording with members of Back to the Front, including an album, Party in The Rain, which was recorded in 1976 but not released until 1982.

On the rise of punk, he left the music scene in 1977 and wrote film scripts, including that for Felix the Cat: The Movie. He then wrote a film score for a BBC TV film, with Phil Ryan, who had been in a late Piblokto! line-up. They collaborated for 12 years, and Brown formed his own label, Interoceter, which issued two Pete Brown/Phil Ryan albums: Ardours of the Lost Rake and Coals to Jerusalem. They began touring in 1993, and a compilation of the two albums was issued on CD as The Land That Cream Forgot (Vintage, VIN 8031-2). In the 1990s, Brown also appeared with The Interoceters, performing his earlier material.

A new Brown/Ryan album Road of Cobras, including Maggie Bell, Arthur Brown, Mick Taylor and Jim Mullen, was released in 2010.

In 2004, he formed Brown Waters, a film production company, with Mark A. J. Waters and Miran Hawke.

In 2010, Brown published his autobiography, White Rooms & Imaginary Westerns: On the Road With Ginsberg, Writing for Clapton and Cream — An Anarchic Odyssey (JR Books, London), which is in the process of being adapted as a documentary.

In 2017, Brown partnered with Gary Brooker writing lyrics for the songs on Procol Harum's final album, Novum.

Death
Brown died of cancer in Hastings, Sussex, on 19 May 2023, at the age of 82.

References in popular culture

 * "Pete the Poet", a track on guitarist John McLaughlin's debut album Extrapolation (1969), is named after him.
 * "Get", a song by Blurt about Brown and his model aeroplane collection.
 * "Student Susan", a track on Japanese guitarist Saiichi Sugiyama's album So Am I (2004), which Brown wrote with Sugiyama, is named after the former girlfriend of Stuart Sutcliffe of the Beatles, whom Brown went out with during the Liverpool poetry scene in the early 1960s.
 * Brown is mentioned in Alasdair Gray's short story "The Great Bear Cult", from Gray's collection Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Penguin Books, 1983).

Poetry

 * Few Poems (Birmingham: Migrant Press, 1966)
 * Let 'Em Roll, Kafka (London: Fulcrum Press, ISBN 0-85246-014-7, 1969)
 * The Old Pals' Act, with poems by Libby Houston, Gillian Barron, Spike Hawkins, Heather Holden, Alan Jackson, Ted Milton and Brian Patten (editor; London: Allison & Busby, ISBN 0-85031-016-4, 1972)
 * The Not Forgotten Association (album of Brown reading his early poems, 1973)
 * Mundane Tuesday & Freudian Saturday (Detroit: Ridgeway Press, ISBN 978-1564391360, 2016)

Discography

 * A Meal You Can Shake Hands with in the Dark (Harvest, SHVL 752, June 1969)
 * Things May Come and Things May Go but the Art School Dance Goes on Forever (Harvest, SHVL 768, 1970)
 * Thousands on a Raft (Harvest, SHVL 782, 1970)
 * Two Heads Are Better Than One (1972)
 * The "Not Forgotten" Association (1973)
 * My Last Band (Harvest, SHSM 2017, 1977)
 * Party in the Rain (1982)
 * The Land That Cream Forgot (Vintage, VIN 8031-2, 1996)
 * Curly's Airships (2000) (with Judge Smith)
 * Pete Brown And The Interoceters - Live (2002) (with Dave 'Munch' Moore, Mo Nazam, David Hadley Ray, Simon Edgoose, Helen Hardy, Rietta Austin)
 * Ardours of the Lost Rake (2003)
 * Coals to Jerusalem (2003)
 * "The Shadow Club" (2024) with Richard Bailey, Joe Bonamassa, Arthur Brown, Malcolm Bruce, Eric Clapton, Clem Clempson, John Donaldson, Carla Olson, Bobby Rush

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Eiríkr Hákonarson

Erik Hakonsson, also known as Eric of Hlathir or Eric of Norway (Eiríkr Hákonarson; 960s – 1020s), was Earl of Lade, Governor of Norway and Earl of Northumbria. He was the son of Earl Hákon Sigurðarson and brother of the legendary Aud Haakonsdottir of Lade. He participated in the Battle of Hjörungavágr, the Battle of Svolder and the conquest of England by King Canute the Great.

Name
Eric is referred to in various ways in the medieval sources and by modern scholars. He most commonly witnessed charters as Yric dux ("Duke Eric") but his name is also spelled Yric, Yrric, Iric, Eiric or Eric in 11th-century Latin and Old English sources. In Old Norse sources, using normalized orthography, he is most commonly Eiríkr jarl ("Earl Eric") or Eiríkr jarl Hákonarson, but sometimes as Eirekr. Modern historians usually use a variant of Eiríkr/Eirik/Eric and his patronym, Hákonarson/Hakonarson/Hakonson, meaning "son of Haakon". In modern Norwegian, it would be Eirik Håkonsson. Some English works prefer Eric of Hlathir, referring to his Norse earldom, or Eric of Norway.

Early life
Principal sources on Eric's youth are Fagrskinna and Heimskringla. They relate that Eric was the son of Hákon Sigurðarson and a woman of low birth whom Hákon bedded during a sojourn in Oppland. Hákon cared little for the boy and gave him to a friend of his to raise. On one occasion when Eric was eleven or twelve years old he and his foster father had harboured their ship right next to earl Hákon. Then Hákon's closest friend, Skopti, arrived and asked Eric to move away so that he could harbour next to Hákon as he was used to. When Eric refused, Hákon was infuriated by the boy's pride and sternly ordered him away. Humiliated, Eric had no choice but to obey. In the following winter he avenged the humiliation by chasing down Skopti's ship and killing him. This was Eric's first exploit, as commemorated by his skald Eyjólfr dáðaskáld who mentions the incident in his Bandadrápa. The sagas say that after killing Skopti, Eric sailed south to Denmark where he was received by king Harald Bluetooth. After a winter's stay in Denmark, Harald granted Eric earldom over Romerike and Vingulmark - areas in the south of Norway long under Danish influence. In Heimskringla this information is supported with a somewhat vague verse from Bandadrápa.

Battle of Hjörungavágr
The Battle of Hjörungavágr was Eric's first major confrontation. The battle was fought at sea, between the earls of Lade and a Danish invasion fleet. The battle is described in the Norse kings' sagas—such as Heimskringla—as well as in Jómsvíkinga saga and Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. Those late literary accounts are fanciful but historians believe that they contain a kernel of truth. Some contemporary skaldic poetry alludes to the battle, including verses by Þórðr Kolbeinsson and Tindr Hallkelsson.

Hákon Sigurðarson was a strong believer in the Old Norse gods, and when King Harald Bluetooth attempted to force Christianity upon him, Haakon broke his allegiance to Denmark. A Danish invasion force was defeated at the battle of Hjörungavágr in 986. According to Heimskringla, Eric, apparently reconciled with his father, commanded 60 ships in the battle and emerged victorious. After the battle he gave quarter to many of the Jomsvikings, including Vagn Ákason.

Exile
In 995, as Óláfr Tryggvason seized power as King of Norway, Eric was forced into exile in Sweden. He allied himself with King Olof of Sweden and King Sweyn whose daughter, Gyða, he married. Using Sweden as his base he launched a series of raiding expeditions into the east. Harrying the lands of King Vladimir I of Kiev, Eric looted and burned down the town of Staraya Ladoga (Aldeigja). There are no written continental sources to confirm or refute this but in the 1980s, Soviet archaeologists unearthed evidence which showed a burning of Ladoga in the late 10th century. Eric also plundered in western Estonia (Aðalsýsla) and the island of Saaremaa (Eysýsla). According to the Fagrskinna summary of Bandadrápa he fought Vikings in the Baltic and raided Östergötland during the same time.

Battle of Svolder
In the Battle of Svolder in 1000, Eric, Sweyn, and Olof ambushed king Óláfr Tryggvason by the island of Svolder. The place cannot now be identified, as the formation of the Baltic coast has been much modified in the course of subsequent centuries. Svolder was an island probably on the North German coast, near Rügen. During the summer, King Olaf had been in the eastern Baltic. The allies lay in wait for him at the island of Svolder on his way home. The Norwegian king had with him seventy-one vessels, but part of them belonged to an associate, Jarl Sigvaldi, a chief of the Jomsvikings, who was an agent of his enemies, and who deserted him. Olaf's own ships went past the anchorage of Eric and his allies in a long column without order, as no attack was expected. The king was in the rear of the whole of his best vessels. The allies allowed the bulk of the Norwegian ships to pass, and then stood out to attack Olaf.

Olaf refused to flee, and turned to give battle with the eleven ships immediately about him. The disposition adopted was one which is found recurring in many sea-fights of the Middle Ages where a fleet had to fight on the defensive. Olaf lashed his ships side to side, his own, the Long Serpent, the finest war-vessel as yet built in the north, being in the middle of the line, where her bows projected beyond the others. The advantage of this arrangement was that it left all hands free to fight, a barrier could be formed with the oars and yards, and the enemy's chance of making use of his superior numbers to attack on both sides would be, as far as possible, limited — a great point when all fighting was with the sword, or with such feeble missile weapons as bows and javelins. Olaf, in fact, turned his eleven ships into a floating fort.

Norse writers, who are the main authorities, gave all the credit to the Norwegians, and according to them all the intelligence of Olaf's enemies, and most of their valour, were to be found in Eric. They say that the Danes and Swedes rushed at the front of Olaf's line without success. Eric attacked the flank. His vessel, the Iron Ram (ON Járnbarðinn), was "bearded", that is to say, strengthened across the bows by bands of iron, and he forced her between the last but one of Olaf's line. In this way the Norwegian ships were carried one by one, till the Long Serpent alone was left. At last she too was overpowered. Olaf leapt into the sea holding his shield edgeways, so that he sank at once and the weight of his hauberk dragged him down. Eric captured Olaf's ship, the Long Serpent, and steered it from the battle, an event dwelled upon by his court poet Halldórr ókristni.

Rule of Norway

After the battle of Svolder, together with his brother Sveinn Hákonarson, Eric became grand earl of Norway under Sweyn Forkbeard from 1000 to 1012. Eric's son, Hákon Eiríksson, continued in this position until 1015. Eric and Sveinn consolidated their rule by marrying their sister Bergljót to Einarr Þambarskelfir, gaining a valuable advisor and ally. Fagrskinna relates that "there was good peace at this time and very prosperous seasons. The jarls maintained the laws well and were stern in punishing offences."

During his rule of Norway, Eric's only serious rival was Erlingr Skjálgsson. Too powerful and cautious to touch but not powerful enough to seek open confrontation he maintained an uneasy peace and alliance with the earls throughout their rule. According to Grettis saga, Eric forbade duelling by law and exiled berserks shortly before his expedition to England.

Conquest of England
In 1014 or 1015 Eric left Norway and joined Canute the Great for his campaign in England. Judging from Þórðr Kolbeinsson's Eiríksdrápa their fleets met off the English coast (in 1015) but the chronology of the various sources is difficult to reconcile and some scholars prefer placing their meeting in 1014 in Denmark. At that time Canute was young and inexperienced but Eric was "an experienced warrior of tested intelligence and fortune" (Fagrskinna) and, in the opinion of Frank Stenton, "the best adviser that could have been found for a young prince setting out on a career of conquest".

The Scandinavian invasion fleet landed at Sandwich in midsummer 1015 where it met little resistance. Canute's forces moved into Wessex and plundered in Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset. Alderman Eadric Streona assembled an English force of 40 ships and submitted to Canute. The Encomium Emmae is the only English source which gives any information on Eric's actions at this time but its account of his supposed independent raids is vague and does not fit well with other sources.

In early 1016, the Scandinavian army moved over the Thames into Mercia, plundering as it went. Prince Edmund attempted to muster an army to resist the invasion but his efforts were not successful and Canute's forces continued unhindered into Northumbria where Uhtred the Bold, earl of Northumbria, was murdered. The great north English earldom was given by Canute to Eric after he had won control of the north. After conquering Northumbria, the invading army turned south again towards London. Before they arrived King Ethelred the Unready died (on 23 April) and Edmund Ironside was chosen king.

Following Ethelred's death, the Scandinavian forces besieged London. According to the Encomium Emmae the siege was overseen by Eric and this may well be accurate. The Legendary Saga of St. Olaf indicates that Eric was present at the siege of London and a verse by Þórðr says that Eric fought "west of London" with Ulfcytel Snillingr.

After several battles, Canute and Edmund reached an agreement to divide the kingdom but Edmund died a few months later. By 1017, Canute was undisputed king of all England. He divided the kingdom into four parts; Wessex he kept for himself, he gave Northumbria to Eric, East Anglia to Thorkell the Tall, and Mercia to Eadric Streona. Later the same year Canute had Eadric executed as a traitor. According to the Encomium Emmae, he ordered Eric to "pay this man what we owe him" and he chopped off his head with his axe.

Eric remained as earl of Northumbria until his death. His earlship is primarily notable in that it is never recorded that he ever fought with the Scots or the Britons of Strathclyde, who were usually constantly threatening Northumbria. Eric is not mentioned in English documents after 1023. According to English sources he was exiled by Canute and returned to Norway. This is very unlikely as there are no Norse records of his supposed return. Eric's successor as earl, Siward, cannot be confirmed as being earl of Northumbria until 1033 so Eric's death can not strictly be placed more precisely than between 1023 and 1033. According to the Norse sources he died of a hemorrhage after having his uvula cut (a procedure in medieval medicine) either just before or just after a pilgrimage to Rome.

Religion
According to Theodoricus monachus, Eric pledged to adopt Christianity if he emerged victorious from the battle of Svolder. Oddr Snorrason's Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar has a more elaborate version of the story where Eric replaces an image of Thor on the prow of his ship with a Christian cross. There is no skaldic poetry to substantiate this but most of the sagas agree that Eric and Sveinn adopted Christianity, at least formally. Fagrskinna says:

"These jarls had had themselves baptised, and remained Christian, but they forced no man to Christianity, but allowed each to do as he wished, and in their day Christianity was greatly harmed, so that throughout Upplönd and in over Þrándheimr almost everything was heathen, though Christianity was maintained along the coast."

Adopting Christianity was no doubt a politically advantageous move for the earls since they were allied with the Christian rulers of Sweden and Denmark. Instituting freedom of religion was also a shrewd political move after Óláfr Tryggvason's violent missionary activity. Eric's religious conviction as a Christian was probably not strong. While the court poets of Eric's rivals, Óláfr Tryggvason and Óláfr Haraldsson, censored heathen kennings from their poetry and praised their lord as a Christian ruler, all surviving court poetry devoted to Eric is entirely traditional. The Bandadrápa, composed sometime after 1000, is explicitly pagan - its refrain says that Eric conquers lands according to the will of the heathen gods. Even the poetry of Þórðr Kolbeinsson, composed no earlier than 1016, has no indication of Christian influence. According to Historia Norwegiae and Ágrip, Eiríkr actively worked to uproot Christianity in Norway but this is not corroborated by other sources.

Works that mention Eric
The most important historical sources on Eric are the 12th and 13th century Kings' Sagas, including the Heimskringla, Fagrskinna, Ágrip, Knýtlinga saga, Historia Norvegiæ, the Legendary Saga of St. Olaf and the works of Oddr Snorrason and Theodoricus monachus. The Anglo-Saxon sources are scant but valuable as they represent contemporary evidence. The most important are the 11th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Encomium Emmae but Eric is also mentioned by the 12th-century historians Florence of Worcester, William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon.

A significant amount of poetry by Eric's skalds is preserved in the Kings' Sagas and represents contemporary evidence. The most important are the Bandadrápa of Eyjólfr dáðaskáld and the works of Halldórr ókristni and Þórðr Kolbeinsson. Other skalds known to have composed on Eric are Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld, Gunnlaugr ormstunga, Hrafn Önundarson, Skúli Þorsteinsson and Þórðr Sjáreksson.

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Area codes 740 and 220

Area codes 740 and 220 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the southeastern and central parts of Ohio. The numbering plan area (NPA) includes the cities of Athens, Belpre, Cadiz, Chillicothe, Circleville, Coshocton, Delaware, Gallipolis, Heath, Ironton, Jackson, Lancaster, Laurelville, Logan, Marietta, Marion, Mount Vernon, Nelsonville, Newark, Newcomerstown, Pataskala, Portsmouth, Rockbridge, Steubenville, Washington Court House, and Zanesville, Shadyside and the surrounding areas. It does not include the city of Columbus and rate centers in Franklin County which primarily use area code 614. Although it is Ohio's largest area code by geographic size, Southeastern Ohio is largely rural and has fewer residents overall than the rest of the state except in the areas near Columbus.

History
Area code 740 was established by an area code split of area code 614 on November 8, 1997. By the end of 2013, exhaust studies indicated that the 740 area code would run out of telephone numbers sometime in 2015. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio chose a relief plan by implementing an overlay with new area code 220, effective April 22, 2015. This requires all calls within the numbering plan area to be dialed using the full ten-digit telephone number.

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Thanks for your contributions to the Mario Lanza page, and for your email. I'm not overly concerned about someone talking trash about me on an offsite web page, but thanks for the link. If Jeff Rense wishes to contribute to the article in a constructive manner, he is more than welcome to do so.

I really have no more authority than you do on Wikipedia; anyone can edit a article. I'm not a moderator, just another user with interest in opera and opera singers. I did not know that the person with the anonymous IP was Jeff Rense himself; in that case, he can contribute all the text that he wants, provided he doesn't sign it at the bottom and he works it into the article. There is a Manual of Style that wikipedians strive to adhere to, so that articles all have the same general formatting. My main objection, after the copyright violation one, was that the information did not comply with the formatting. When he started just putting it right back up there without replying on the talk page and making derogatory comments, it just started seemingly like vandalism.

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Sorry, Derek, I must have reverted your changes to Mario Lanza by mistake. I had reverted an "advert" for Jeff Rense from the JR article added by someone else, and then saw that the same user had added copyright material to the ML article. However, I must have been working with an old version of the ML article, before your edits, so inadvertedly removed your edits. Sorry! (That's what I get for working on WP in the wee small hours...) Camillus talk 17:49, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

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Penshurst railway station

Penshurst railway station is on the Redhill to Tonbridge Line and is located approximately two miles north of Penshurst in Kent, in the village of Chiddingstone Causeway in England. It is measured from London Charing Cross via Redhill.

History
Penshurst station was opened by the South Eastern Railway on 26 May 1842. Penshurst Airfield, which was in operation from 1916 to 1936, and again from 1940 to 1946 as RAF Penshurst, was within 1/4 mi of the station.

In 1967 the station became unstaffed following which the original station buildings were demolished. In 1993 the line was electrified and services started to run through to London rather than being an extension of the Reading to Tonbridge North Downs Line service. Prior to electrification a new down platform was constructed opposite the up platform. New signalling was installed when the signal box was closed.

In 2007, a PERTIS (Permit to Travel) machine was installed at the street entrance to the Tonbridge-bound platform (since replaced by a modern ticket machine). The station was until December 2008 operated by Southeastern before it transferred to Southern, whose green signage was installed before October 2008.

Facilities and Connections
Penshurst station is unstaffed and facilities are limited. Tickets can be purchased from the self-service ticket machine at the station and there are passenger help points located on each platforms. There is also a basic shelter located on each platform. The station has step free access available to both platforms.

The station is served Monday-Saturday by the Metrobus routes 231 & 233 buses which provide connections to Edenbridge and Tunbridge Wells as well as the Autocar route 210 which provides connections to Tonbridge.

Accidents and incidents

 * On 28 July 1845, a light engine was in a rear-end collision with a passenger train near Penshurst. Thirty people were injured.
 * On 20 January 1846, a bridge over the River Medway between Tonbridge and Penshurst collapsed whilst a freight train was passing over it. The driver was killed.

Services
All services at Penshurst are operated by Southern using EMUs.

The typical off-peak service is one train per hour in each direction between Redhill and Tonbridge. A small number of additional services call at the station during the peak hours.

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William Smith (judge, born 1728)

William Smith (18 June 1728 – 6 December 1793) was a lawyer, historian, speaker, loyalist, and eventually the loyalist Chief Justice of the Province of New York from 1780 to 1782 and Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec from 1786, later Lower Canada, from 1791 until his death.

Early life
Born in New York City on June 18, 1728, he was the son of Judge William Smith. His brother, Joshua Hett Smith was notable as the supposed "dupe" of Benedict Arnold and Major John André when they collaborated during the American Revolution. Smith graduated from Yale University in 1745, studied law with William Livingston, and was admitted to the bar in 1750.

Family
His brother, Doctor Thomas Smith, was the owner of the "treason house" in West Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York that was being occupied by his other brother, Joshua Hett Smith, at the time that Benedict Arnold and Major John André planned their conspiracies.

Career
During the American Revolution, he was referred to as "the weathercock" because his contemporaries were not able to understand which side he was on. Basically, though, he was neither friend to Revolutionary nor Loyalist and was one of the main reasons that the loyalists themselves declared that they did never trust the family of Smith. In 1752, along with William Livingston and John Morin Scott he founded a weekly journal, the Independent Reflector.

He and his brother Joshua Hett Smith escaped prosecution and probable execution by the Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York in 1778 for the crime of treason due to the memory of their father's influence upon the Justice system: the elder William Smith had, despite the efforts of friends and relatives, refused appointment to the Office of Chief Justice of the Province of New York in 1760, which his son William then accepted.

In 1776, he moved to Albany to avoid the contentious politics but in 1778 declared his allegiance for the loyalist cause and joined the British in New York City. Smith was escorted across the lines by Aaron Burr and became an important adviser and confidant of the military and civilian officials including both Governor William Tryon and General Sir Henry Clinton. In 1780, he was appointed Chief Judge of New York but by this time the office only related to the small part of the Province that was still in British hands. The real judicial power was held by Daniel Horsmanden.

He published the first history of New York, ''The History of the Province of New-York, from the First Discovery to the Year M.DCC.XXXIII. To which is annexed, A Description of the Country, with a short Account of the Inhabitants, their Trade, Religious and Political State, and the Constitution of the Courts of Justice in the Colony.'' in 1757 (London: Thomas Wilcox).

Smith returned to England in 1783 and then came to Quebec City in 1786, when he was named Chief Justice for the province and also named to the legislative council. In 1791, he became chief justice for Lower Canada and was appointed to the Legislative Council of Lower Canada, serving as its first speaker.

Personal life
He married Janet Livingston, of the Livingston family of New York.

In 1770, he built a manor house in West Haverstraw, New York. From July 15 to July 18, 1778, while his sister Martha and her husband Col. Ann Hawkes Hay were living in the house, it served as headquarters for General George Washington. The house burned down c. 1808–1809 and the Fraser-Hoyer House later built on the site.

He died in Quebec City in 1793. He was buried at Mount Hermon Cemetery in Sillery. Smith's diary and selected papers were compiled and edited in two volumes by L.F.S. Upton in 1963 as part of the Champlain Society's General Series.

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Edenbridge railway station

Edenbridge railway station is one of two stations serving Edenbridge in Kent, England. It is measured from London Charing Cross via Redhill. Train services are operated by Southern.

History
The station was opened on 26 May 1842.

In 1967 the station became unstaffed following which the original station buildings were demolished.

In 1993 the line was electrified and services started to run through to London rather than being an extension of the Reading to Redhill North Downs Line service.

In 2007, a PERTIS machine was installed at the street entrance to the Tonbridge-bound platform. This has since been replaced with a self-service ticket vending machine as common on larger stations. Until December 2008 Edenbridge station was operated by Southeastern before it transferred to Southern, whose green signage was installed before October 2008.

Facilities
Edenbridge station is unstaffed and facilities are limited. Tickets can be purchased from the self-service ticket machine at the station and there are passenger help points located on each platforms. There is also a basic shelter located on each platform. The station has a free car park (operated by Saba Parking).

The Tonbridge bound platform is accessible without steps although the Redhill bound platform is only reachable through the use of steps.

Connections
Metrobus routes 231, 233 and 236 serve the station providing connections to Oxted, East Grinstead and Tunbridge Wells.

Services
All services at Edenbridge are operated by Southern using EMUs.

The typical off-peak service is one train per hour in each direction between Redhill and Tonbridge. A small number of additional services call at the station during the peak hours.

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Talk:The Sound Pattern of English

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I moved these draft notes here from the article; looks like an outline of some proposed additions:

...the transformational cycle

...what kind of phonomena get explained: where stresses fall in an utterance, vocalic shift

...influence on modern phonology

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Ha, I love how the picture is of an old and wrinkled copy of SPE...seems fitting, somehow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.89.158.132 (talk) 17:20, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

What's this about Lee Hartman?
It's not that Hartman's work doesn't belong in Wikipedia, but I've never heard of it and it certainly doesn't merit a mention alongside Chomsky and Halle in the history of phonology. Someone should move it to its own page, it deserves a link at most from this page. Putting it here isn't information, it's advertising. The only reason I didn't move it already is that I don't know enough about it to go putting up a new page for it, and I didn't want to delete it outright without discussion.

Ncmc 11:19, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

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International Plaza

International Plaza may refer to:

 * International Plaza (Pennsylvania). formerly known as Scott Plaza, an office complex in Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
 * International Plaza (Singapore), a commercial and residential building in Singapore
 * International Plaza and Bay Street, a shopping mall in Tampa, Florida

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Currency detector

A currency detector or currency validator is a device that determines whether notes or coins are genuine or counterfeit. These devices are used in a wide range of automated machines, such as retail kiosks, supermarket self checkout machines, arcade gaming machines, payphones, launderette washing machines, car park ticket machines, automatic fare collection machines, public transport ticket machines, and vending machines.

The process involves examining the coins and/or notes that have been inserted into the machine, and conducts various tests to determine if the currency is counterfeit. Because the parameters are different for each coin or note, these currency acceptors must be correctly programmed for each item to be accepted.

In normal operation, if any item such as a coin, banknote, card or ticket is accepted, it is retained within the machine and it falls into a storage container to allow a member of staff to collect it later when emptying the machine. If the item is rejected, the machine returns the item to the customer. If a coin is rejected, it usually falls into a tray or rolls out of a slot at the bottom where the customer can remove the coin. If a banknote, card or ticket is rejected, it is ejected out of the machine so that the customer can remove it from the slot into which it was inserted.

Coin acceptors
The basic principle for coin detection is to test the physical properties of the coin against known characteristics of acceptable coins. The coin acceptor identifies the coin according to its mass (i.e. weight), diameter, thickness, metal composition and/or magnetism, and then sends an appropriate electrical signal via its output connection. The next step is generally performed by the banknote-to-coins exchanger.

Today, sophisticated electronic coin acceptors are being used in some places that, in addition to examining the mass and size, also scan the inserted coin using optical laser beams and match the image to a pre-defined list, or test the coin's "metallic signature" based on its metallic composition.

Normal circulation coins eventually collect microscopic particles of dirt, dust, oil and grease from people's fingers. When a coin acceptor is used for a long time, thousands of coins rolling along a track will leave enough dirt, dust, oil and grease to be visible. So the coin acceptor must regularly be cleaned properly to prevent malfunction or damage. Coin acceptors are modular, so a dirty acceptor can be replaced with a clean unit, minimising downtime. The old unit is then cleaned and refurbished.

Some new types of coin acceptors are able to recognize the coins through "training", so they will support any new types of coins or tokens when correctly introduced.

Testing methods
Vending and change machines use several methods of deciding whether a banknote is genuine. Adjusting these settings and the sensitivity of each is programmed via means of DIP switches on the internal circuitry.

Optical sensing
Optical sensing with a small light detector called a photocell or a miniature digital camera is one of the main techniques that vending machines use. Many countries' banknotes are pixelated—that is, their image is made out of small dots. The dots are spaced differently and have different sizes, depending on the note. The optical sensors can look for these different patterns to determine what sort of note has been inserted. Some paper money is also fluorescent: it glows when ultraviolet light is shone on it. Some machines shine an ultraviolet light on the note and measure the glow to help determine the banknote's material composition.

GMR sensor proximity detection
The particles in the ink on many countries' currency have ferromagnetic properties, including some elemental iron. The magnetic composition of the ink may be provided by carbon nanofoam in an amount of from 0.1 to 45 percent by weight of the total composition.

Notes are passed over a permanent magnet array and magnetized along their direction of travel. A magnetic sensor located several inches away with its sensitive axis parallel to the direction of travel can detect the remnant field of the ink particles.

The purpose of the biasing magnet in this case is to achieve a controlled orientation of the magnetic moments of the ink particles, resulting in a maximum and recognizable magnetic signature. Reversing the magnetizing field can actually invert the signature.

Physical attributes
The thickness and dimensions of a banknote are tested to ensure they are correct. US bank bills (notes) are 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long and 0.0042 inches thick, and weigh 1 gram. Bills printed before 10 July 1929 were bigger. As the notes pass between the rollers, the voltages vary according to their thickness.

Miniature transducers, approximately $3/8$ inches in diameter, offer high accuracy linear measurement in a compact space where size constraints prohibit the use of standard LVDTIs. In addition, the low-mass core is ideal for systems with low driving forces or high acceleration, and therefore will not adversely influence the delicate nature of these applications. Operating ranges are available from ± 0.005" to ± 1.00", divided into eight intermediate strokes.

Genuine Federal Reserve notes have a clear polyester thread embedded vertically in the paper. The thread is inscribed with the denomination of the note, and is visible only when held up to light. Each denomination has a unique thread position and will glow a unique color in ultraviolet (UV) light.

Banknote acceptors
Also known as validators or acceptors, paper currency detectors scan paper currency using optical and magnetic sensors. Upon validation, the validator will inform the vending machine controller (VMC) or other host device of a credit via a parallel or serial interface. Various interfaces exist for the host device, including a single-line pulse interface, a multi-line parallel interface, a multi-line binary interface, and serial interfaces such as ccTalk, SSP, and MDB. Wrinkled or creased notes can cause these machines to reject them. There are currently only a handful of companies manufacturing this equipment. Crane Payment Innovations (joining Crane Payment Solutions and MEI), and Japan Cash Machine (JCM) are two of the largest, each maintaining dominance in a particular market segment. Other notable companies producing this type of equipment include Coinco, Pyramid Technologies, Inc. (PTI), International Currency Technologies (ICT), Alpha CMS (Cash Management Solutions), Astrosys, Pyramid Technologies, Validation Technologies International (VTI), Innovative Technology Ltd (ITL), Global Payment Technologies (GPT) and Jofemar. Recent innovations include remote auditing and reporting by these devices as part of an Automated Cash Handling network for entertainment, banking, retail, casino and other industries.

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Godstone railway station

Godstone railway station is on the Redhill to Tonbridge Line and serves Godstone in Surrey, England. It is measured from London Charing Cross via Redhill. The Bletchingley Tunnel, is less than one mile due west of the station is about ½ mile long.

History
The station was opened in 1842 by the South Eastern Railway.

The station became unstaffed in 1967 following which the original station buildings were demolished and replaced with small shelters.

In 1993 the line was electrified and services started to run through to London rather than being an extension of the Reading to Tonbridge North Downs Line service.

In 2007, a PERTIS machine was installed at the street entrance to the Tonbridge-bound platform. The station was until December 2008 operated by Southeastern before the Department for Transport approved the transfer suggested by Southern to its operations, whose green signage was installed before October 2008.

Facilities
The station is unstaffed and there is a self-service ticket machine available as well as information screens and help points for train information. Step-free access is available to the Tonbridge bound platform only at the station.

There is a small free car park and bicycle storage is available at the station.

Services
All services at Godstone are operated by Southern using EMUs.

The typical off-peak service is one train per hour in each direction between Redhill and Tonbridge. A small number of additional services call at the station during the peak hours.

Connections
Metrobus route 409 serves the station providing connections to Selsdon, Caterham and East Grinstead.

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Nutfield railway station

Nutfield railway station is on the Redhill to Tonbridge Line and serves Nutfield, Surrey, England. It is about a mile south of Nutfield itself, located in South Nutfield, a settlement which did not exist before the coming of the railway. It is measured from London Charing Cross via Redhill.

Since 2008 the station, and all trains serving it, have been operated by Southern, following the ending of the previous Southeastern service.

History
The railway line between Redhill and Tonbridge was opened by the South Eastern Railway on 26 May 1842. Nutfield station opened on that line on 1 January 1884, although a public siding named 'Mid Street' had been provided here from an early date. The station buildings were similar in style to those at Sandling Junction, although no footbridge was provided at Nutfield. The buildings were demolished in the late 1960s. Until electrification all passengers crossed the lines at rail level at the Western end of platforms, close to the signal box.

For many years a private siding from Nutfield station served the chemical works of the Nutfield Manufacturing Company, situated Southwest of the station on the site of a former brickworks.

Goods facilities were withdrawn in January 1966, and coal traffic ceased in November of that year. Full-time staffing ended on 5 November 1967 but staff was frequently provided at morning commuter peak hours until around 1990. The signal box remained in use until 10 May 1970.

In 1993 the line was electrified and services started to run through to London rather than being an extension of the Reading to Tonbridge North Downs Line service.

Station facilities
The two platforms are now linked by a footbridge.

Trains heading to Tonbridge have an information board displaying the next train details, and in May 2011 an information board was installed on Platform 1 which heads to Redhill and London.

In 2008, a PERTIS machine was installed at this station at the entrance to the Redhill-bound platform.

Services
All services at Nutfield are operated by Southern using EMUs.

The typical off-peak service is one train per hour in each direction between Redhill and Tonbridge. A small number of additional services call at the station during the peak hours.

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Jakob

Jakob may refer to:

People

 * Jakob (given name), including a list of people with the name
 * Jakob (surname), including a list of people with the name

Other

 * Jakob (band), a New Zealand band, and the title of their 1999 EP
 * Max Jakob Memorial Award, annual award to scholars in the field of heat transfer
 * Ohel Jakob synagogue (Munich)

Fictional characters

 * Jakob, a character from the video game Fire Emblem Fates

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Soissons

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete both. CDC  (talk)  22:35, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mark Soissons and Neil Vanos
More vanity articles from the makers of Bryan Schwor and Silly Goose Productions, delete--nixie 07:42, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Small article, small film presence. Not vanity as per Vanity page.--Jim8675309 07:45, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * User's only edits are to this page and related Bryan Schwor articles. RickK 21:33, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable, unverifiable. Xezbeth  07:46, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete both. Self-promotion, non-notable, unverifiable. Expecting sockpuppets to appear on this VfD also. jni 07:47, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, both. Not notable, promo. Megan1967 08:44, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, doesn't qualify as vanity. Self-promotion of small companies legal.--168.212.165.131 15:31, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Not on Wikipedia, it isn't. RickK 21:33, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete both. Advertising, non-notable, vanity. Dpbsmith (talk) 18:29, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no imdb entry for either one. RickK 21:33, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. Jayjg (talk) 03:15, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete both, as they ably slither under the limbo bar of notability. (Now, if only they were lovable "Pokemon" muppets or fictional characters in a Star Warstrek "universe", that'd be different I suppose.) -- Hoary 05:19, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
 * Yeah, then maybe someone outside of Spokane might have heard of them. --Calton | Talk 11:46, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Their company webpage is a Geocities page: a dead Geocities page, at that. --Calton | Talk 11:46, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Their web site on GeoCities is working now. But the email address on their web site is a free Yahoo one. Zzyzx11 | Talk 02:37, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. These articles are not blatant vanity. They are brief biographies for the creators of Bryan Schwor. So long as Schwor exists, they should remain as small bio stubs. It may serve us better to contact them for more information about their films to see how noteworthy they are.--168.212.165.131 17:32, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete both. Gamaliel 18:19, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. These are funny movies. --67.106.16.59 02:53, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Niether of them warrant their own article. Just because they've created a regionally significant film does not mean that they are as significant. --Fritz9000 06:48, 22 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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User:Perteghella~enwiki

Hi, my primary page is Perteghella in it.wikipedia.org, this is for interwiki.

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The Way I Am

The Way I Am may refer to:

Albums

 * The Way I Am (Ana Johnsson album), or the title song (see below)
 * The Way I Am (Billy Preston album), or the title song
 * The Way I Am (Colton Ford album)
 * The Way I Am (Dino album), 1993
 * The Way I Am (Jennifer Knapp album), or the title song
 * The Way I Am (Knoc-turn'al album), or the title song
 * The Way I Am (MC Mong album), or the title song
 * The Way I Am (Merle Haggard album), or the title song (see below)
 * The Way I Am, an album by Patti Dahlstrom

Songs

 * "The Way I Am" (Charlie Puth song), 2018
 * "The Way I Am" (Eminem song), 2000
 * "The Way I Am" (Ingrid Michaelson song), 2006
 * "The Way I Am" (Merle Haggard song), 1980
 * "The Way I Am" (Neil Sedaka song)
 * "The Way I Am" (Sandra song), 2006
 * "The Way I Am", a song by Ana Johnsson from Cuz I Can
 * "The Way I Am", a song by Staind from The Illusion of Progress
 * "The Way I Am", a song by Status Quo from Perfect Remedy

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MFD

MFD may refer to:

Fire departments

 * Madison Fire Department, US
 * Minneapolis Fire Department, US
 * Milwaukee Fire Department, US
 * Mumbai Fire Brigade, India

Science, technology, and medicine

 * Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram, a type of fundamental diagram of traffic flow in transportation engineering
 * Microfarad, a unit of electrical capacitance sometimes written as "MFD"
 * Minimum focus distance, in macro photography
 * Mode field diameter, an expression of distribution of the irradiance, across the end face of a single-mode fiber
 * Modular function deployment, a method for product modularization

 * Multifunction display, an interactive system for presenting various information
 * Mutation Frequency Decline, a gene/gene product used in transcription-coupled repair

Computing

 * Multifunction device, an office all-in-one device (copier, printer, scanner)
 * Micro Floppy Disk, the 3½-inch floppy disk format; See History of the floppy disk
 * Mini Floppy Disk, the 5¼-inch floppy disk format; See History of the floppy disk

Hiring

 * m/f/d, an initialism welcoming "male, female and disabled (or diverse)" candidates.

Transportation

 * Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport (IATA airport code)
 * Minoan Flying Dolphins, a Greek ferry company

title: MFD