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Tower Hotel (Niagara Falls)

The Tower Hotel, opened in 1962, is located in the Fallsview district of Niagara Falls, Ontario and was the first of the contemporary observation towers built near the brink of the Falls. It features an indoor observation deck, restaurant, and hotel. The tower is 99 m tall above street level and 160 m above the falls. The tower assumed its present name in 2010 as a result of its most recent renovation; as Minolta was the longest-tenured sponsor of the building, tourists and locals may still call it the Minolta Tower.

Previous towers
For more than 100 years, there had been various smaller towers built throughout the area with most of them being wooden structures. Two notable towers were the wood construction tower located at the top of Drummond Hill on Lundy's Lane behind the historic Drummond Inn, and Street's Pagoda on Cedar Island.

 * Drummond Hill Tower was built for visitors to have an aerial view of the War of 1812 Battle of Lundy's Lane battle field and the Drummond Hill Cemetery where many British and American soldiers killed during the battle are buried.
 * Street's Pagoda was named for an early area settler, Thomas "T.C." Street, who had ownership of Cedar Island, located between the Horseshoe Falls and Dufferin Islands. This tower was dismantled in 1887, and Cedar Island was eventually made part of the mainland with the construction of the Rankine Generating Station upriver by 1910.

Construction
Construction began in 1961, and was reportedly the first using of the slipform construction method in North America. One minor fire occurred on the roof on September 2, 1961, due to spillage of hot-mix concrete igniting a tarp and causing several propane tanks to explode. Damage was minimal, estimated at "a few thousand dollars", and nine people suffered minor injuries battling the blaze. The tower opened for business on July 1, 1962.

Changing skyline
When the tower and surrounding area was first designed prior to groundbreaking on March 15, 1961, it was to be the centrepiece of a proposed hotel/convention centre. Due to finances, the accompanying hotel buildings were not built, and it would be over forty years before hotels began to rise adjacent to the tower.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the surrounding land was occupied by an aquarium to the north, and the Waltzing Waters attraction to the south. The Waltzing Waters site was moved across the street in 1995 to allow for site planning of the current Marriott hotel. The Waltzing Waters, a light and water show synchronized to music, disappeared altogether by 2000. The aquarium was dismantled in 1996 to allow for further site expansion.

The 2000s boom in large hotel construction on Fallsview Boulevard, such as the Fallsview Hotel, Hilton Hotel, and Embassy Suites by Hilton, as well as the nearby Oakes Hotel and Radisson, has diminished the Tower Hotel's prominence as a landmark. All of these hotels strive to give their guests as good a view of the Falls as possible by taking advantage of their position of the height on land above the falls, once dominated solely by the Tower Hotel. In contrast, the airspace around the Skylon Tower remains fairly open, thanks to its position further down the Niagara River away from the American Falls and Horseshoe Falls.

Naming
The Tower Hotel was originally called the Seagram Tower, named after the House of Seagram business in Montreal, Quebec. Over the years, due to multiple bankruptcies and ownership changes, tower names changed between Heritage Tower (1969), Royal Inn Tower (1971), Royal Centre Tower (1972), Panasonic Tower (1973), Minolta Tower (1984), and Konica Minolta Tower Centre (2003) with the merger of Konica and Minolta in 2003. The tower underwent renovations again in 2010, resulting in its colour reverting to the original white, the banner displaying Konica Minolta being replaced by the title Tower Hotel, and the removal of the exterior clocks.

Observation deck
Located on the 25th floor, this deck features a panoramic view of the falls and Niagara River in addition to floor-to-ceiling windows treated with a non-glare finish designed to enhance photography. There are many historical photos and news articles about the construction of the tower mounted around the deck in addition to pay-per-use telescopes. The observation deck is now closed and only available for weddings.

Restaurants
The restaurant has an International House of Pancakes location on the 26th floor, previously home to Marilyn's Bistro & Lounge, a restaurant themed after Marilyn Monroe in honour of the film, Niagara, in which she starred. The tower's original, award-winning gourmet Pinnacle Restaurant had been located there for many years.

Hotel
In 2002, the tower re-opened after extensive renovations to include the four-star Ramada Plaza Fallsview. This franchise was lost and the hotel has operated without the Ramada flag since 2011 choosing to instead go by the new name The Tower Hotel.

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Ottó Herman Museum

The Ottó Herman Museum is the largest museum in Miskolc, Hungary. It holds more than 600,000 artifacts. Its main focus is on archaeology, mineralogy, arts, history, and ethnography.

History
The museum was founded in 1899 under the name Borsod-Miskolcz Museum (Borsod is the historical county whose capital is Miskolc, and Miskolcz is an archaic spelling of the name of the city.) It became state property in 1949. The museum took the name of the famous polymath Ottó Herman in 1953. Since 1963, it collects artifacts not only from Miskolc and Borsod, but from the whole unified Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county.

Exhibition sites belonging to the Ottó Herman Museum
The museum has several buildings both in Miskolc and in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county. The one near Erzsébet square in Miskolc is the oldest. It hosts the mineral collection. The main building on Görgey street was built in 1952; it holds the arts museum, library, and storerooms.

The Pannonian Sea Museum is one of the new parts of the museum, which opened in 2013.

Other exhibition sites are the Abaúj Museum at Forró, the Bodrogköz Castle Museum of Pácin, the Ferenc Kazinczy Museum of Sátoraljaújhely, the Ferenc Kazinczy Memorial Hall in Széphalom, the Gallery of Sárospatak, the Gömör Museum of Putnok, the László Holló Gallery of Putnok, the Matyó Museum of Mezőkövesd, the Agricultural Machines Museum of Mezőkövesd, the Museum of Tokaj in Tokaj, and the Zemplén Museum of Szerencs.

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 * Cite specific, well-known password-entry areas and compare them.

 * Talk about cracked agorithms and their role in cheating.

 * Possibly talk about some more modern games that use passwords.

 * Add a few more screenshots (possibly; great job Wolfen).

 * [Add your suggestion here!]

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 * I made the seed article for Edenism. hoping to start contributing to wiki.
 * -AlabamaSlammer 21:08, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cell handover process

 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. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 21:44, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Cell handover process
This is a duplicate of Handoff and parts of Cellular network with no new material and a title which wouldn't be likely to be used for searching. I say delete. This has already been discussed at Deletion policy/Teletraffic Engineering, but there doesn't seem to be a consensus to delete all articles at once, so I think they need to be listed individually. N.B. if a consensus did develop on the policy page then this VFD should probably be terminated early. Mozzerati 21:09, 2005 Apr 11 (UTC)
 * Concur with that, delete. Radiant_* 09:29, Apr 12, 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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George Allman (natural historian)

George James Allman FRS FRSE (1812 – 24 November 1898) was an Irish ecologist, botanist and zoologist who served as Emeritus Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University in Scotland.

Life
Allman was born in Cork, Ireland, the son of James C. Allman of Bandon, and received his early education at the Royal Academical Institution, Belfast. For some time he studied for the Irish Bar, but ultimately gave up law in favour of natural science. In 1843, he graduated in medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, and in the following year was appointed professor of botany in that university, succeeding the botanist William Allman (1776–1846), who was the father of George Johnston Allman (distant relations of George).

This position he held for about twelve years until he moved to Edinburgh as Regius Professor of natural history. There he remained until 1870, when considerations of health induced him to resign his professorship and retire to Dorset, where he devoted himself to his favourite pastime of horticulture.

The scientific papers which came from his pen are very numerous. His most important work was upon the gymnoblast group of the hydrozoa, on which he published in 1871-1872, through the Ray Society, an exhaustive monograph, based largely on his own researches and illustrated with drawings of remarkable excellence from his own hand. Biological science is also indebted to him for several convenient terms which have come into daily use, e.g. endoderm and ectoderm for the two cellular layers of the body-wall in Coelenterata. He contributed articles to the Irish Naturalist.

He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1854, and received a Royal medal in 1873. He received the Cunningham Medal of the Royal Irish Academy in 1878.

In 1859–60, he was President of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, for several years (1874–1881) President of the Linnaean Society, and in 1879 presided over the Sheffield meeting of the British Association.

He died in Ardmore, Parkstone in Dorset and is buried in Poole Cemetery.

Family
Allman married Hannah Louisa Shaen. They had no children. George Allman's family ran Allman's Bandon Distillery, his brother, the Liberal MP Richard Allman, was a partner in the Distillery.

Select bibliography

 * Allman G. J. 1843. On a new genus of terrestrial gasteropod. The Athenaeum 1843 (829): 851. London.

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