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Talk:List of Knights Templar

Naming
How about some standardized manner of listing the Knights? Some of these names have surnames in CAPS, some don't, some are neatly stacked, others are all jumbled... Missi —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mississippienne (talk • contribs) 23:13, April 17, 2005

Keep Grand Masters and General List Separate
These really need to be separate as the GM list is already tainted with two individuals (Andre' de Montbard and Everard des Barres) who were regional leaders but probably not GMs. GMs must have resided in Jerusalem and these two did not, at least not during their terms.

Reason to exist of the list
The list of templars is important because, there are some people who try to make a link between templars after 1307 and other organisations. The question is: If no one mentioned after 1307 as templar was not in command position before 1307 where is the continuity? There was no Larmenius in templars comanderies, where is the link whith the templars? Larmenius Period

Merge
The Grand Master of the Knights Templar should probably be moved to Grand Masters of the Knights Templar, and linked from the main Knights Templar article, which currently has a duplicate of the information (except is better hyperlinked). Elonka 04:28, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

A few things
This article requires three things, as I see it, to be appropiate to WIkipedia 1. A standardized manner of listing the Knights (as stated by Missi) - when one reads an entry here, he wants it to have a certain general appearence and order, so it will not look like a patchwork of writings. I suggest surnames capitalized completely, and first names only capitilized first letters. 2. Merging. This and Grand Masters of the Knights Templar should be merged, as these are both just plain lists, and of practicly the same subject. The above linked subject should just be a sub-list in this subject. 3. Information Verification and expansion. These are lists only, a long line of names, some linked, some don't. This Info should be verified with official documents and/or people and not Via the un-verified sites of the Internet. Also, it would be nice to incloud a small text about each one, Being a sort of Lexicon, rather then a plain list of links and/or names. XonoX 10:17, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Info about each would be good, as would some reference to credible sources. However, I'd suggest that the GM list be kept separate as more will be available for each of them (probably), and the info might be enough to justify a paragraph or so, and hopefully a link to a separate article. In accordance with English style, and with Internet style in which ALL CAPS is regarded as impolite shouting, I'd suggest first and last names, as well as titles, have intial caps only.
 * Further, it occurs to me that WP writers in other languages might be asked to assist as at least some of the (credible) source material will be in languages other than English and elsewhere in any case. The English WP could, of course, offer to return the favor and coordinate formats so that such information in the various WP might have a uniform appearance, thus saving everyone more typing (and us all from the consequent typos).
 * Comments? ww 07:57, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Jehan de Vezelay
Jehan de Vezelay also known as the prohet Johannes of Jerusalem is missing. Interestingly, there is an article of it in the Albanian version of Wikipedia.

King Arthur and the Knights Templar
When I started reading the list, I was thinking in finding King Arthur, although I didn't find him. I was thinking, did King Arthur was connected to them, was one of the knights, or even be a Grand Master? I have some supporting information that could prove my affirmation, but I shall put them later. First, one detail, I've heard and studied some facts and events that made me think of King Arthur being one of the Knights Templar. One interesting thing is that both King Athur and his Knights of the Round Table, and the Knights Templar were having quests and some events including he Holy Grail at the same time period(which both powers ranged until the mid-1400s). If you guys please help me about this or have any opinion, I would be pleased to read it.

Mr. Mario192 - 1/26/07 (UFC)-(68.56.105.191 00:37, 27 January 2007 (UTC))

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.56.105.191 (talk) 00:32, 27 January 2007 (UTC).

 * Are you joking? Adam Bishop 04:51, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup
I'm not sure it's worth keeping a list of every Knight Templar, considering that there were many thousands of them throughout their 200 years of existence. Perhaps we should limit the list to only those members who either have their own articles, or potentially could have their own articles someday, by being a Master of a local order or perhaps a key figure in a battle somewhere. What do others think? --Elonka 22:36, 3 April 2007 (UTC) I'm sure it is worth keeeping the list, considering that there are many organisations that claim that inherit the templars heritage, a list will leave the crooks no room for generic afirmations.CristianChirita 06:56, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

New list
I've removed the following from the article:

Most important Templar Knights
From England
 * Sir Ralph St. Leger (1186 - 1202)
 * Sir Ralph St. Leger (son) served with his father
 * Sir Roger St. Leger, Master Templar 1216
 * Geoffrey son of Stephen, occurs 1180/1185
 * William de Beaulieu

From France
 * Sir Jean De St. LEGER (1096)
 * Payen de MONTDIDIER (1130)
 * Evrard des BARRES (1143 - 1147)
 * Guillaume de MALLAY (1286)
 * Jacques de Molay
 * Hugues de Payens

From Poland
 * Boleslavus Soltan
 * Thibault from Halych
 * Mieszko from Lwów
 * Boleslawus Soltanowicius
 * brat Fryderyk von Alvensleben
 * Jan from Halych

From Germany
 * Hugo de Gumbach
 * Alban von Randecke Rhin
 * Friedrich Wildegraf Rhin

There may be some good information here, but without links or any kind of references, and by the fact that it was just dropped in at the very beginning of the page, I'm uncomfortable with leaving it there. Can anyone provide a source for how these knights are listed as the "most important" ones? --Elonka 21:32, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Concerns (still...)
Is this list ever going to be useful? Right now I'm not sure whether any of these people were Templars, or whether they are just the names of random people who thought it was funny to vandalize Wikipedia. We should just delete the whole thing. Adam Bishop (talk) 18:37, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup
I have done a bit of cleanup: Replaced ALL CAPs names with capitalised lower case versions, and replaced numbered lists with bulleted lists, except where it appears the numbered list is one of consecutive masters. It still lacks a coherent style, however, with some sections having dates first, some names, &c. If i feel like it and have time i'll take a look in a bit. Cheers, LindsayHi 05:38, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

France is not that old
Reading this article I noticed the list of countries is based on countries who exist today. A number of knights are listed to a country of which in those days they certainly did not belong to. Someone who lived in Lille in the 13th century lived in Flanders - ennemy of France. On this page this person is listed in France... A huge number of templer adherants (at least 2 of the original 9 knights) lived in Flanders - now part of Belgium. This region / country is not present in your list.

Kind regards, G. CLAES 29-04-2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.164.178.221 (talk) 15:09, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

 * More than 10 years post factum, but... Well, basic history: the County of Flanders wasn't "the enemy" of France, it was part of France. Even though nowadays Vlaeminghskes want to deny this, it is a historical fact. Histarius (talk) 17:53, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

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CAN A 32ED DEGREE MASON GET INTO
Can a 32nd Mason get in with THE KINGHTS,WITH NO PROBLEM!?

Lloyd 32 166.182.83.137 (talk) 22:19, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 29 December 2023

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: no consensus for Knights Templar, moved for Knights of Columbus. (closed by non-admin page mover) feminist🇭🇰🇺🇦 (talk) 06:12, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

– Fits better with similarly named articles:
 * List of Knights Templar → List of Knights Templar members
 * List of Knights of Columbus → List of Knights of Columbus members
 * List of Knights Templar sites
 * List of Knights of Columbus buildings
 * List of Knights of Pythias buildings
 * List of Knights Hospitaller sites

Also more descriptive, less ambiguous naming that would avoid any potential conflict with MOS:JOBTITLES. Woko Sapien (talk) 22:39, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

 * Comment - I'm not entirely familiar with either of these organizations beyond a basic knowledge that they exist, so my question would be is it common to refer to a member of each as a "Knight Templar" or a "Knight of Columbus". If so, then I would say it's best to keep as is. But if not, then I would support the move. estar8806 (talk) ★ 18:27, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I couldn't find much on the Knights Templar, but a cursory search found that the Knight of Columbus often refer to their individuals as members, and not as knights (1, 2, 3). Also, the literature here includes a mission statement that reads: “To actively engage Knights of Columbus members in order to aid the parish and sustain visible Catholic action through works of charity in every parish and mission throughout the Order, and in sustainable parishes to form the Round Table into a fully functioning Council.” Woko Sapien (talk) 15:35, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

 * Oppose Templar move, no opinion on KoC. Srnec (talk) 17:28, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

Assassins
Does this have anything to do with assassins killing templars? 75.113.86.101 (talk) 20:24, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

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Old Yeller (film)

Old Yeller is a 1957 American Western drama film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney. It stars Dorothy McGuire and Fess Parker, with Tommy Kirk, and Kevin Corcoran. It is about a boy and a stray dog in post-Civil War Texas. The film is based upon the 1956 novel of the same name by Fred Gipson. Gipson also co-wrote the screenplay along with William Tunberg.

Old Yeller was released on December 25, 1957, to critical acclaim, and was a commercial success, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of 1957 and earning $6.25 million in the United States and Canada. The film's success led to a 1963 sequel, Savage Sam, which was based on a 1962 book by Gipson. In 2019, the film was selected for preservation into the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Plot
In the late 1860s, Jim Coates leaves his family—wife Katie, teenage son Travis, and small son Arliss—to sell cattle in Kansas. While Jim is away, Travis sets off to work in the cornfield, where he encounters a Black Mouth Cur he names "Old Yeller", as "yeller" is a dialect pronunciation of "yellow" and the dog's bark resembles a human yell. Travis unsuccessfully tries to shoo the dog away, while Arliss defends him. Yeller's habit of stealing meat from smokehouses and robbing hens' nests does not endear him to Travis, but his mother agrees with the idea of Arliss having a dog.

Later, Arliss tries to capture a black bear cub by feeding it cornbread and grabbing it. Its angry mother hears her cub wailing and attacks, but Old Yeller frightens her away, winning over the family. Travis grows to love and respect Old Yeller, who comes to profoundly affect the boy's life.

Bud Searcy and his granddaughter Lisbeth come for supper one day, and Lisbeth takes Travis aside to tell him Old Yeller has been stealing food all over the county. After she and Bud leave, Travis scolds Old Yeller. The next day, Old Yeller proves himself as a cow dog by protecting Travis from Rose, their cow, and restraining her while Travis milks her.

One day, Old Yeller's original master, Burn Sanderson, arrives looking for his dog. Realizing that the Coates family really needs Old Yeller, he agrees to trade him to Arliss for a horny toad and a home-cooked meal. Sanderson later takes Travis aside and warns him of the growing plague of hydrophobia (rabies).

One day, Travis sets out to trap a family of feral hogs. Advised by Bud Searcy, he sits in a tree, trying to rope them from above as Old Yeller corners them. However, Travis then falls into the group of hogs and is attacked by one. Old Yeller defends Travis as he crawls away with an injured leg. Old Yeller is severely injured by the hog and Travis hides him in a large hole. Travis' mother then retrieves Old Yeller and uses mule hair to suture his wounds. As Old Yeller recovers, Searcy warns the Coates family of hydrophobia in the area but Katie chastises him for trying to scare Travis. Searcy leaves, and Lisbeth stays with the Coateses to help them harvest corn. Travis assures Katie that the hogs were not rabid, and both he and Old Yeller recover.

Later, the family sees their cow, Rose, stumbling and foaming at the mouth. Travis confirms that she is rabid and shoots her. While Katie and Lisbeth burn her body that night, a wolf suddenly attacks them. Katie's scream alerts Travis, who runs outside with a rifle, just in time to see Old Yeller fighting off the wolf. Travis successfully shoots the wolf, but not before it bites Old Yeller on the neck. Katie tells Travis that because no healthy wolf would attack near a burning area, the wolf was rabid. Katie then suggests shooting Old Yeller, but Travis insists that they instead pen him in the corn crib to see if he shows symptoms of the disease. After remaining quarantined, the Coateses believe that Old Yeller escaped infection. One night, however, when Travis goes to feed Old Yeller, he notices he has rabies. Travis suspects that Old Yeller may have been infected but says nothing. Later that night, Katie then tells Travis that Old Yeller is suffering and brings the rifle with her, but Travis takes it, reluctantly kills Old Yeller and departs.

Upset over his dog's death, Travis declines a new puppy sired by Old Yeller. Jim then returns with money and gifts for the family. Katie tells him about the dog, and Jim discusses it with Travis. Upon returning to the farmhouse, Travis observes the puppy stealing a piece of meat, a habit inherited from Old Yeller. Travis then accepts the puppy, "Young Yeller", as his new dog.

Cast

 * Spike as Old Yeller
 * Fess Parker as Jim Coates
 * Dorothy McGuire as Katie Coates
 * Tommy Kirk as Travis Coates
 * Kevin Corcoran as Arliss Coates
 * Jeff York as Bud Searcy
 * Beverly Washburn as Lisbeth Searcy
 * Chuck Connors as Burn Sanderson

Comic book adaptation
The film was adapted into a 1957 comic book published by Dell Comics. It was issue #869 of Four Color comic series, and was reprinted in 1965.

In 1959 Japan also released a comic adaption, drawn by Leiji Matsumoto. It is considered very rare nowadays.

Box office
During its initial theatrical run, Old Yeller earned $5.9 million in box office rentals from the United States and Canada. The film was re-released in 1965, and earned an estimated $2 million in domestic rentals.

Critical reaction
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times praised the film's performers and called the film "a nice little family picture" that was a "lean and sensible screen transcription of Fred Gipson's children's book". He further described the film as a "warm, appealing little rustic tale [that] unfolds in lovely color photography. Sentimental, yes, but also sturdy as a hickory stick." Time magazine felt the "action, in short, is exciting for everybody, but all too often the dialogue is only for the very young", but they heralded the film as being "for the kids that adults will stay to enjoy themselves. Old Yeller propounds a major tenet of Disney philosophy: a dog should be a dog, and a boy should act like a man."

Harrison's Reports wrote the film "is fine entertainment for all, even though it has a special appeal for the children". John L. Scott of the Los Angeles Times praised the two child actors for "their naturalness and ability", as well as Spike the dog, writing that he "may be well be the next movie star dog". In summary, he wrote that "[t]he production is not a great one; but it will bring families back to the theater."

Legacy
Old Yeller went on to become an important cultural film for baby boomers, with Old Yeller's death in particular being remembered as one of the most tearful scenes in cinematic history. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 100% based on 22 reviews, with a weighted average of 8.20/10. The critical consensus reads: "Old Yeller is an exemplary coming of age tale, packing an emotional wallop through smart pacing and a keen understanding of the elemental bonding between humanity and their furry best friends". One critic cited it as "among the best, if not THE best" of the boy-and-his-dog films. Critic Jeff Walls wrote:

"Old Yeller, like The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars, has come to be more than just a movie; it has become a part of our culture. If you were to walk around asking random people, you would be hard-pressed to find someone who did not know the story of Old Yeller, someone who didn't enjoy it or someone who didn't cry. The movie's ending has become as famous as any other in film history."

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Dmitriy Gaag

Dmitry Vladimirovich Gaag (Дмитрий Владимирович Гааг; born 20 March 1971 in Karaganda) is an athlete from Kazakhstan, who competes in triathlon. Gaag competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took fourth place with a total time of 1:49:03.57.

He competed again at the second Olympic triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics, dropping to twenty-fifth place with a time 1:56:28.97.

On 6 September 2008 Gaag was banned for two years beginning 20 June 2008, after testing positive for recombinant erythropoietin (EPO).

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Iván Raña

Iván Raña Fuentes (born 10 June 1979) is a Spanish triathlete and the winner of three medals in the World Triathlon Championships between the years of 2002–2004. He also has won three medals at the European League Triathlon as well, between the years of 2001–2003.

He competed in three Olympics as well: Sydney in 2000, Athens in 2004, and Beijing in 2008, where he won two Olympic Diplomas for fifth place in both Sydney and Beijing.

Athletic career
Raña participated in the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took fifth place with a total time of 1:49:10.88.

In 2002 when he won world, European and national titles. His world championship win in Cancún, Mexico, was Spain's first gold medal in the event. The next year he came home second at the world championships behind Australia's Peter Robertson and he had to settle for silver earlier this year as well. In 2004, at the world champs in Madeira, Raña came home less than a second behind Kiwi Docherty. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Raña dropped to a disappointing twenty-third place with a time of 1:55:44.27. However, he competed again at the 2008 Summer Olympics where he took fifth place with a time of 1:49:22.03.

Cycling and other sports
Occasionally, Raña has participated in some rally car races, having his brother José as his copilot. The tandem drives a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution during the races. One of the competitions that he has participated in is called the Rally Botafumeiro, which was the scoring event for the Gallego Rally Championships in 2007, 2009, and 2010.

In December 2008, he signed a one-year deal with the professional cycling team Xacobeo–Galicia and during the first stage of his first race, the Mallorca Challenge, he was involved in a substantial fall, which resulted in a dislocated collarbone. After reflecting on his athletic career, Raña decided to return to the triathlon in December 2009 with the ambition of competing in the London Olympics in 2012.

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Miles Stewart

Miles Stewart (born 4 May 1971 in Sydney, Manly) is an athlete from Australia, who competes in triathlon.

Originally a speedskater from Wollongong he rose to the elite ranks of the emerging sport of triathlon in the early 1990s whilst living on Queensland's Gold Coast.

Palmarès Stewart can be found in the Guinness Book of World Records for the fastest triathlon time in the world.
 * 3 time (consecutive) winner of the Hervey Bay Triathlon.
 * He won the silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.
 * Stewart competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took sixth place with a total time of 1:49:14.52.
 * Currently CEO of Triathlon Australia

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Olivier Marceau

Olivier Marceau (born 30 January 1973 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, Hauts-de-Seine) is an athlete from France, who competes in triathlon.

A member of the Poissy Triathlon Club he competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took seventh place with a total time of 1:49:18.03.

Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Marceau competed again. This time he competed on the Swiss team, placing eighth with a time of 1:52:44.36.

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Talk:WHOIS

WHOIS spam
The Criticism section states Spammers often harvest plain-text email addresses from WHOIS requests.[9] with a reference to the whois study by ICANN. I don't believe it has been proven that spammers harvest plain-text email addresses from whois requests. That is the purpose of ICANN's study - to determine the validity of this comment. The various ICANN WHOIS studies are still in the planning stages. See

JPEcas (talk) 18:52, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Terrorism and Child Porn?
In the uses of WHOIS we see the following rather extreme examples: Assisting law enforcement authorities in investigations, in enforcing national and international laws, including, for example, countering terrorism-related criminal offenses and in supporting international cooperation procedures. In some countries, specialized non governmental entities may be involved in this work; Assisting in the combating against abusive uses of ICT's, such as illegal and other acts motivated by racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance, hatred, violence, all forms of child abuse, including paedophilia and child pornography, the trafficking in, and exploitation of, human beings. This seems like, frankly, farcical overstatement. Surely this could be condensed into a single point which reads "Assistance in the identification of network owners, which may be of aid in investigation of Internet crime such as hacking existing sites, or hosting content considered illegal in certain jurisdictions."

Indeed, the comprehensive, overstated nature of this particular list would lead me to believe its been copied and pasted from an offical US govt website, which could fall foul of copyright.

84.12.111.19 (talk)

Seconded.

The whole list of "uses" is incoherent and should be dropped or seriously rewritten. For example "Contributing to user confidence in the Internet" is not a "use" of WHOIS although "user confidence" may or may not be the effect of its use. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.221.146.187 (talk) 07:37, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

== More

Re-organisation
I've just re-organised the article a fair bit, and moved some stuff around. I think there are too many links to external sites; but I don't see the solution is to just delete them. They need better sorting, and organising, and perhaps the vast majority could be kept, if better linked, and better described.

It would also be good to see expansion of the "problems" section at some point. & to include details of exactly how (and where) the databases are maintained. UkPaolo 28 June 2005 20:31 (UTC)

The Whois infrastructure is now quite large and somewhat complex, not sure how much scope this entry should really cover. Many different companies, government and non-profits maintain whois data and servers. Jeff The Riffer 20:07, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Whois servers
Currently we have a buttload of web based whois servers, but what about actual whois servers, those that listen at TCP port 43? You'd think these would be even more obviously listed here than the web interfaces, but not even one is? I'm currently writing a WHOIS client as a small personal client/host learning project and for fun, but having a heck of a time to find a list of good WHOIS servers to try against. You know, common .com/.net/.org whois server(s). It would be nice to have some international servers too, and maybe even national for countries with a large internet-enabled population. I'm not asking anyone to bother digging up the most strange tiny WHOIS servers, but at least some commonly used ones, for example used by those web based services we have listed, if possible. -- Jugalator 00:58, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

The jwhois configuration file is probably what you are looking for. --Jeff The Riffer 22:47, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I started in the same direction of making a personal thingi, but ended up making database of sorts, anded to it a whois site which supports all ccTLDs and TLDs. it has information about each ccTLDs, and their coutries, ... in the process of adding country flags, i believe it would be a gr8 idea to put it as a resource,... perhaps under external links... any votes?

 * Site => Whois . Bizz . cc/

 * after writing this i figure my site, which also gives out free subdomains, has been blacklisted for spam :) ... so if a Admin here can vote to add my site, "without removing it from blacklist" as i know some people just dont learn! Msolution (talk) 14:06, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Please Pronounce
The most obvious way, it seems, is "Who is?", since that is obviously where the term comes from.

However I have also heard people prounounce it as a one syllable word, that kind of rhymes with "Joyce" or "Voice" -> "woyce" or "woice".

which one is correct? --Ted Jones 15:46, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

 * i've never heard anything other than the obvious "who is" pronounciation. UkPaolo 21:07, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I've never heard anything other than the obvious "who is" pronounciation. -- Reinyday, 01:30, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It's pronounced "who is". Pronouncing it as "whoice" is a sign of trying to hard. Jeff The Riffer 18:07, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Article title
The article sat quietly for 2 years uner the lowcase title Whois until a smartass anon made a forbidden cut and paste move to WHOIS on January 18, 2006 and nobody noticed that. I fixed it (merged the article histories).

Now you watch out, and by the way decide which artcile name is preferrable? mikka (t) 03:32, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually, WHOIS is probably the historically accurate term to use. While it's not a true acronym, it is an explicitly defined protocol and protocol names are often capitalized (i.e. HTTP, SMTP, POP, etc). I think both are appropriate, and one of them should just auto-forward to the other. Which is what it appears to do currently...

--Jeff The Riffer 01:23, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

All of your examples are acronyms (or at least initials). Whois is neither and should not be capitalized as such. --Bearheart 20:30, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Example Query
In the Example query section, several e-mail addresses are sitting there in plain text, and I think they're just waiting to be collected by spambots if they haven't been already. Should these addresses be obfuscated? ScottyWZ 02:56, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * They are part of the whois record anyway, so I assume they are already listed. But conforming to RFC 2606, the example maybe should cover example.com Dork. 00:43, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Confusing pronoun reference
In the passage (under "History"), "A month later it had self-detecting CGI support so that the same program could operate a web-based WHOIS lookup...", what does it refer to? --orlady 15:49, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

That prose was cut-and-pasted from the documentation for my [BW Whois] client, notably not by me nor with my permission. Therefor "it" refers to [BW Whois].

This may have happened because BW Whois was the first client to support thin whois servers after the big change in Dec 1999.

Nutshell box
I added a Nutshell box (Template:Easier_Version:WHOIS) here and removed the "May be confusing" box as I tried to make it as easy and clear for Wikireaders that may not understand the complexity of the article. JoshEdgar 23:46, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Web based clients ordered by TLD
A lot of TLD doesn't provide direct WHOIS service for example .ar .bm .firm etc etc. I think it would be perfect if we will provide an External Link to some whois web based servers ordered by TLD like this Whois servers ordered by TLD Adrian13 09:55, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Correct?
Registrant City:St. Petersburg Is that correct? 83.226.116.7 11:43, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Content of the reply
Is the content of the reply described in some RFC? I don't mean the formatting (that's quite different from whois server to whois server), but what fields are supposed to be included in the reply, and what they should contain. One example: whois.godaddy.com contain phone numbers without international prefix, while whois.dotster.com usually lists phone numbers with their international prefix. So the data presented there can be rather difficult to interpret, even if they are meant for human beings. Any hints? Cordula's Web 19:12, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

See also and External links sections
The See also section should not contain External links (WP:ALSO). Those External links should be deleted or moved to the External links section. (See, e.g., WP:EL and WP:EL.)

The links to obsolete RFCs don't give the reader a clue about their notability. Those links might be better used as references for the History section; otherwise, they should be deleted (they are already available from the rfc-editor.org link).

The "Request for Comments" entry should not be a See also sub-section; it should be a simple bullet entry there; a header shouldn't be a link (WP:MOS-L).

Rich Janis 18:43, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Rewrite!
"If a WHOIS client does not he WHOIS client understood how to deal with this situation, it would display the full information from the registrar."

This sentence doesn't make sense but I don't know enough about WHOIS to rewrite it. Anyone want to take a stab? Nwjerseyliz (talk) 18:02, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

WHOIS Scams
From this article: http://www.securitynewsletter.com/news/attacks/icann-front-running

"The domain names authority warns of possible scam when checking domains availability. Malicious operators could be intercepting the requests and buying the domain names first." —Preceding unsigned comment added by James Lednik (talk • contribs) 20:50, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Geolocation
Is there a similar way to geolocate an IP address, analogous to WHOIS? I couldn't find any mention of it in this article or the geolocation article. I've always been curious about it myself, and I believe it would be useful somewhere in this article, as well. 76.85.144.126 (talk) 05:35, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Internationalization problems
Why are internationalized domain names a problem? It is the responsibility of the client, not the user, to convert domain names in a local encoding to the punycode form. There are probably libraries available, so that this would be a question about whether the maintainers of the program care about the issue. The other records may be problematic if there is no standard way to tell that an encoding other than ASCII is used, but isn't there? --LPfi (talk) 06:20, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Red links in the See also section are based on the following...
--124.78.208.136 (talk) 10:28, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=whois+search&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdts=5&hl=en

--222.67.201.249 (talk) 06:00, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Talk:Verification and validation

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:54, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

WHOIS →
 * Wikipedia manual of style suggests the title should be Whois as it is the style that most closely resembles standard English. Furthermore Whois or "WHOIS" is not an acronym and shouldn't be written as one. Hm2k (talk) 15:33, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The Manual of Style has nothing to do with article titles, which is just as well. Nor should we invent something based on our feelings for English (because we will disagree; to me who-is or WhoIs seem natural). But whois seems to be what the sources use; is there some other reason to use all-caps? Septentrionalis PMAnderson 16:14, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Do you have any evidence that the MOS has nothing to do with article tiles. The MOSTM has been used in numerous requested move discussions and as far as I know no one has claimed that it was invlaid to use.--174.90.78.3 (talk) 17:34, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * WP:AT is our article title policy; but MOSTM is one of the exceptional pieces of MOS which does actually have general consensus - and is repeated in essence at Article_titles. So is WP:ENGVAR. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:08, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The reference comes from WP:MOSTM. It's not absurd to apply this to names of protocols too. --Hm2k (talk) 20:56, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Also, as per this discussion Talk:WHOIS and the Telnet article as an example it should probably Whois, not WHOIS. --Hm2k (talk) 22:58, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * If internet maintainers (and before that telegraphists) have been calling it WHOIS for many years, perhaps we should keep on calling it WHOIS. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:35, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Much like a trademark, a protocol often has official formatting, while outside of technical specifications it is referred to using the style that most closely resembles standard English. ICANN for example, refers to the protocol as Whois. Besides, the legacy style should have little influence on a Wikipedia article title. --Hm2k (talk) 11:29, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Support move per WP:MOSTM: Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization rules, even if the trademark owner considers nonstandard formatting "official": (avoid: REALTOR®, TIME, KISS instead, use: Realtor, Time, Kiss)  on  camera (t)  00:13, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Who uses telnet?
In reply to Kbrose "who in all honesty uses telnet to query WHOIS":

--Hm2k (talk) 07:16, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * In books, there's plenty of good examples of using telnet to whois servers. It's common practice.
 * You'll also find plenty of online articles about whois that show examples of using telnet to whois.

 * The question is rather which one is more helpful for the readers. telnet often shows more of the protocols (although not really in this example), while a specialized application, like whois, shows the things important to the (non-technical, using whois!) user. Another point is that telnet should be available even on Windows machines, while I wouldn't expect a command line whois in the default configuration (perhaps prejudice, I don't have any Windows box around to check). Thus the telnet version would allow readers to test for themselves. --LPfi (talk) 19:48, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

 * This is true. Telnet shows how the protocol works, while the whois command only shows how the whois command works. This article is primarily about the protocol, not the command. --Hm2k (talk) 20:59, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

 * No this is completely false, data is stored in text records and the telnet protocol has no way of adding additional information, what is in the database gets displayed record by record. You need to inform yourself before making such assertions. This article is not about just the protocol, as it should be obvious, because until now is has not even attempted to describe the protocol. It talked about all aspects, the software, the data model, the problems, the law. Kbrose (talk) 21:18, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

 * This is amusing. Where did you get this information? Telnet just allows you to create a raw tcp connection to the appropriate whois server on the default port and call the desired record, as per the RFC. You will find that this article is in the "Internet protocols" category, which means it is an article about the whois Internet protocol. You should avoid editing articles you know very little about. --Hm2k (talk) 07:44, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Jargon in the History Section
What is a "thin WHOIS model", which the History section refers to? In general, that section needs to do a better job explaining technical jargon, or even better, avoid it (where possible). --Danielx (talk) 02:17, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Response standard?
Is there any standard regarding the layout of a whois response? Or are the semantics of the response to be defined by the whois server operator? --Abdull (talk) 01:09, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

ICANN plans to destroy whois -- really?
This headline seems overly emotive and doesn't (of this writing) actually reference any ICANN policy statement that supports this assertion. It would be better to point to the actual ICANN policy statements, and studies that are in progress . RichardLetts (talk) 09:28, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

 * Even with the changed title, the section is still misleading and hopelessly outdated. The EWG has published updates on its work: https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40175189. Also, the inflamatory reamark about journalism refers to an article that was published 9 years ago. Note that it's even older then the EWG report reference in the preceeding sentence. It should be removed or replaced by a seperate section incorporating any and all kinds of crtitque of the proposals if warranted by references. Personally, I think the section should be reduced to something along the lines of "The EWG works on something..." unless someone has the time to regularily update its contents. Also, as RichardLetts seems to suggest, the section should probably reflect the fact (via official EWG reference) that ICANN hasn't proposed anything yet - The EWG is an internal working group consisting of volunteers with backgrounds in the corporate sector and research. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.224.17.114 (talk) 17:17, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Improve claim "Some registries use DNS SRV records"
I recently read the WHOIS article, which stated that "Some registries use DNS SRV records". That's not awfully specific, so I figured I'd do some research on how many registries publish SRV records for their WHOIS service, in order to make this claim less vague. Here's my article on the use of SRV records by registries' WHOIS services, and here's the original article.

After updating the main article, @Jmccormac reverted it to the previous version, with this comment: "Rm promotional link. Circleid is considered a Reliable Source. Wikipedia is not a web directory./ Undid revision 1154926647". I do think the main article would be improved by making "some" more specific, and backing it up with data. How could we achieve that in a way that is in line with Wikipedia's guidelines?

Thanks, Ruurtjan (talk) 06:41, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia has a number of policies on adding personal sites. There is also a policy on original research WP:NOR. Links should be notable and Reliable Sources. CircleID is considered a reliable source in Wikipedia terms. If the link to the findings and article were cited by reliable sources, such as CircleID, then it might be possible to add it. There may also be a potential conflct of interest in adding a personal site. Jmccormac (talk) 11:54, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

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Reto Hug

Reto Hug (born 24 January 1975 in Marthalen) is a former athlete from Switzerland, who competed in the triathlon.

Olympics
Hug competed in his first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took eighth place with a total time of 1:49:21.30. At the following games, Hug competed again in the triathlon competition, placing 40th with a time of 2:01:40.43. In 2008, Hug returned to the Olympics and placed 29th in triathlon with a time of 1:52:04.93.

ITU events
In International Triathlon Union (ITU), Hug has taken 2nd at the 2005 ITU Triathlon World Championships and placed 3rd at the 2008 ITU Triathlon World Championships. He is also the 1999 ETU Triathlon European Champion.

Following the end of 2012 season he retired from professional sport. He is married to Swiss triathlete Nicola Spirig. They have a son, born in 2013 and a daughter, born 2017.

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JLA: The Nail series

JLA: The Nail is a three-issue comic book mini-series published by DC Comics in 1998 under its Elseworlds imprint. The story, written and drawn by Alan Davis, is set in a parallel universe where Jonathan and Martha Kent's truck experiences a flat tire caused by a nail, which stops them from discovering a Kryptonian spaceship outside Smallville containing the baby Kal-El, negating Superman. It was later followed by a sequel, JLA: Another Nail, a three-issue mini-series published in 2004 which wrapped up several loose ends from the original mini-series, such as the war between the New Gods and the Green Lantern Corps and Oliver Queen's public betrayal of the Justice League.

The story's theme is set in the first paragraph:

"For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, for want of a horse the knight was lost, for want of a knight the battle was lost. So it was a kingdom was lost – all for want of a nail."

The Nail
Twenty-four years ago, farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent experience a flat tire on their truck caused by a nail, which stops them from discovering a Kryptonian spaceship containing the baby Kal-El. In the present day, the Justice League consists of Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Flash, Hawkwoman, the Atom, Martian Manhunter and Green Lantern.

Journalist Perry White conducts an anti-metahuman propaganda campaign along with mayor of Metropolis Lex Luthor and deputy mayor Jimmy Olsen. After a battle with Amazo which resulted in the death of Hawkman, Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) became a bitter paraplegic who claims that the Justice League are aliens who are conspiring against humanity. Metahumans are eliminated or captured one by one: first the supervillains and then teams such as the Doom Patrol and the Outsiders.

The Joker liberates the prisoners in Arkham Asylum with energy-generating gauntlets which he uses to trap Batman and kill Robin and Batgirl. Catwoman attacks the Joker and frees Batman, who then damages the Joker's gauntlets and snaps his neck on live television as Arkham explodes. Batman retreats to the Batcave with Catwoman while the Joker's murder tarnishes the Justice League's reputation.

Metamorpho is brainwashed into killing the Thinker and Perry White and dies while trying to tell Martian Manhunter what happened. Green Lantern encounters the orbiting corpse of Adam Strange and discovers a force field around Earth that prevents anything from leaving the planet. The Flash saves Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins from an attack by Amazo while seeking the mastermind behind all of these events.

Wonder Woman is framed for the destruction of the White House. Riots erupt soon afterwards and Luthor takes control of the United States, using flying masked robots called the Liberators to enforce the law. The members of the Justice League are captured by the Liberators (who are shown to be Bizarro-like clones of Kal-El) until Batman, the Flash and the Atom are left.

Lois Lane, a journalist investigating the anti-metahuman propaganda campaign, suspects a conspiracy. At a metahuman research facility, Lois meets Dr. Lana Lang, who sends her to Smallville where the Kents help shelter escaped metahumans. Returning to Metropolis and discovering Luthor in an unresponsive fugue state, Lois confronts Jimmy, who reveals that LexCorp discovered Kal-El's empty spaceship and found traces of his DNA within it. Luthor used the alien DNA to create Bizarro clones and turn Jimmy into a Kryptonian-human hybrid. Metahumans have been imprisoned and harvested for their DNA in order to convert humans into Kryptonians and create a Kryptonian society ruled by Jimmy.

Batman, Batwoman (formerly Catwoman), the Atom, and the Flash free the captive Justice League members and destroy the Liberators, only to be confronted by a super-powered Jimmy. Jimmy defeats the League due to their inexperience with Kryptonian powers as the fight spreads to an Amish community. As Jimmy is about to kill Batman, he is stopped by a farmer who tries to reason with him; Jimmy unsuccessfully tries to incinerate the farmer with his heat vision.

The farmer is revealed to be Kal-El, who was found as a baby by an Amish couple and raised as their son. Jimmy attempts to persuade Kal to join him while his adoptive parents try to persuade him from getting involved in worldly affairs, but Kal refuses both of them, unable to ignore his conscience. Jimmy then kills Kal's adoptive parents in front of him with his heat vision and engages Kal in a fight. Despite the two of them being evenly matched, the stress of the fight causes Jimmy’s DNA graft to fail and his body to disintegrate. With Jimmy and the Liberators defeated, the Justice League (without Batman, who resigns from the League after he is acquitted of the Joker's murder) regains public confidence with the help of its newest member: Superman.

Another Nail
A year earlier, Apokolips goes to war with New Genesis, and the Green Lantern Corps is dispatched to stem the loss of life. One Green Lantern is killed, and her power ring selects Big Barda as its new host. Barda and Mister Miracle manage to reverse the effects of a device designed to vaporize all matter within millions of light years, causing Darkseid to disintegrate into nothingness and be scattered across the universe instead. Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) reveals to the Justice League that the Central Power Battery on Oa is weakening. Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) is dying from injuries caused by Amazo in the same fight that claimed Hawkman's life.

Kal-El is adjusting to his new life as Superman, devoting himself full-time to heroics with little rest. During a mission in Peru with the Martian Manhunter, Superman's strength begins to fade as he tries to save a village from an attack by Despero and Evil Star. Kal takes a sabbatical and bonds with Jonathan and Martha Kent, as well as Lois Lane, as they create a new secret identity for him.

The members of the Justice League investigate various disturbances in spacetime. Batman, who continues to fight crime separately from the League along with Batwoman (formerly Catwoman), encounters Deadman, who reveals that demons are escaping Hell and invading Earth. Batman is then attacked by a demonically-powered Joker.

Using the resources of New Genesis and the Green Lantern Corps, Barda and Mr. Miracle discover that the disturbances are coming from an entity known as the Limbo Cell, an organism that feeds on all matter and energy. Superman attempts to fly a bomb into the cell's nucleus, but is left helpless when the cell absorbs his energy. As he is about to die, Kal is rescued and revitalized by Amazo, now equipped with Oliver Queen's brain. Queen sacrifices his life to detonate the bomb in the cell's nucleus. With the Limbo Cell destroyed, reality heals and the disturbances in space and time are repaired.

Batman descends into Hell and drags the Joker with him. As they fall into the abyss, the Joker is swept away by an unseen force while Batman is rescued by the spirits of Robin and Batgirl. Batman is able to put the past behind him and rejoins the Justice League.

Collected editions
The three issues of JLA: The Nail were collected into a trade paperback in 1998 by DC Comics and 1999 by Titan Books. The three issues of JLA: Another Nail were collected into a trade paperback in 2005 by DC Comics and Titan Books.

In October 2017, DC Comics released JLA: The Nail/Another Nail: Deluxe Edition, which reprinted both miniseries in one book.

Awards
In 1999, JLA: The Nail was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Limited Series.

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User talk:Gliukozka

re: your question at talk:European English. My guess is that the article is original research, judging from the external link. I haven't had the time to verify that however. If that is the case, then the page is a candidate for Votes for deletion, but probably not for a speedy delete. Blank Verse  ∅  23:18, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Simon Lessing

Simon Christopher Lessing, MBE, (born 12 February 1971) is a British triathlete who won five International Triathlon Union (ITU) world titles (1992, 1995(2), 1996 and 1998). He also won races at 70.3 (Half Ironman), ITU long distance and Ironman-distance events. He set an Olympic-distance world record in 1996, and is noted for his 2004 Ironman Lake Placid win, where he set a course record of 8:23:12. In 2008 he retired from professional racing. Simon resides in Boulder, Colorado, United States, where he operates Boulder Coaching with Darren de Reuck.

He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to triathlon.

Early years
Born in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa, Lessing completed school at Kloof High School in Kloof near Durban. Table Mountain was the backdrop to his formative years. His father and mother (who was a swim coach) supported him. By the end of his fifth year at school, he had won honours in swimming, sailing and biathlon and was known as a cross-country runner. When Lessing was 9, his family moved to Durban, a port city set on the East Coast.

Growing up, surfing and rugby were two of the major sports in Durban, but Lessing resisted the pressure to make the change to these activities. He trained an average of 3 hours a day in his areas of interest: sailing, swimming, track, cross-country and duathlon. He developed an interest in hiking and hiked in the Drakensberg Mountain range. His swim coach, David McCarney, encouraged Lessing to try a family oriented race he organised at Kloof High School. In 1988, Lessing was the South African triathlon champion. He was selected to represent South Africa in a biathlon but suffered a broken leg in an accident during a local triathlon.

Lessing moved to Britain at age 18 and continued his international sporting career in Europe. He was entitled to dual citizenship because his mother was born in England.

Professional racing
During the 1990s he and rival Spencer Smith, were among some of the most successful athletes in Olympic distance triathlon. Lessing won the ITU Olympic Distance Triathlon World Championship in 1992, 1995, 1996, and 1998. In 1996, Lessing broke the Olympic distance triathlon world record with a time of 1 hour, 39 minutes, 50 seconds in 1996 at the ITU Triathlon World Championships in Cleveland.

Lessing competed in the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon held annually in San Francisco Bay. He has won the men's elite division there three times: 1996, 2003 and 2004. Lessing competed at the first Olympic games triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took ninth place with a total time of 1:49:24.32. Simon was Inducted into the International Triathlon Union Hall of Fame in 2014 and Inducted into the Boulder Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.

Long course racing
Lessing's first attempt at long course triathlon took place in 1993 on the Nice triathlon course, in the Côte d'Azur. In the race he stayed with 9-time defending champion Mark Allen until within 5 kilometres of the finish. He went on to win the Nice race in 1995.

Lessing has won numerous Ironman 70.3 races, including the inaugural Ironman 70.3 Florida in 2004, and again in 2005. In 2005, he set a then course record at the Wildflower triathlon. The next year he took first place at the Ironman 70.3 Vineman. In August 2007 Lessing won the Ironman Timberman 70.3.

Ironman
In July 2004, Lessing qualified for the 2004 Ironman World Championships with a win and course record of 8:23:12 at Ironman Lake Placid. In his first appearance at the Ironman World Championships (2004) he dropped out halfway into the bike leg, due to the high winds and problems with his back.

Lessing did not complete the marathon at the 2005 Ironman Coeur d'Alene and failed to qualify there for Ironman World Championship. He raced again the same summer and qualified for the World Championships by taking 4th place at Ironman Canada in Penticton in a time of 8:43:13. He did not complete the marathon at the 2005 World Championships.

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Andriy Glushchenko

Andriy Glushchenko (born 23 October 1977) is a Ukrainian triathlete.

Glushchenko competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took eleventh place with a total time of 1:49:30.17. Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Glushchenko competed again but was unable to finish the competition. In 1997, Glushchenko won the Junior Men ITU Triathlon World Championships in Perth.

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Andreas Raelert

Andreas Raelert (born 11 August 1976) is a German triathlete. His younger brother, Michael Raelert, is also a triathlete.

On 10 July 2011, Raelert broke the world record time for an Ironman Triathlon distance race at the Challenge Roth event in Roth, Germany. Finishing in a time of 7 hours, 41 minutes and 33 seconds, he beat Marino Vanhoenacker's record time of 7:45:58 set just a week before. However, since Raelert’s time was not at an official Ironman event, Vanhoenacker’s time remains the fastest at an Ironman-sanctioned event.

Raelert competed in the first Olympic triathlon event at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He took twelfth place with a total time of 1:49:31.28. He competed again four years later, at the 2004 Athens Olympics. This time, he achieved sixth place with a time of 1:52:35.62 on the more difficult course.

In 2008, Raelert won the silver at the 2008 70.3 Ironman World Championships.

Raelert finished 2nd in the 2010, 2012 and 2015 Ironman World Championships. He also collected a 3rd-place finish at the 2011 Championship event.

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Vanastra, Ontario

Vanastra is a dispersed rural community and unincorporated place in the municipality of Huron East, Huron County in southwestern Ontario, Canada,   3 km southeast of the community of Clinton. It is located on the former property of a top secret Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) station used to train and supply over 7,000 radar technicians and support staff for American, British and Canadian forces during World War II.

The base was renamed Canadian Forces Base Clinton in 1966 and experienced remarkable growth and development as a peacetime training facility for wireless telegraphy. Expansion of the base included recreational facilities, clubs and local sports teams. Following the closure of the base in 1971 the 250 acre property valued at 40 million dollars, was purchased by a developer for $468,000. It was sold piece by piece to private home owners and businesses over the next several years. The recreation centre, parkland and the curling club were deeded to the Township.

As a result of amalgamation in 2001, Vanastra became one of many communities to make up the Municipality of Huron East. In 2013 the municipality and the residents launched the Vanastra Revival Plan to honour the historical international contribution made by CFB Clinton, and to plan for a community revival.

Name
The name is derived from a combination of the name of local real estate developer John Van Gastel and of the RCAF motto,. Van Gastel had purchased four decommissioned Canadian Forces bases, including CFB Clinton, CFS Armstrong, CFS Foymount and CFS Ramore. He held a contest to rename the CFB Clinton and find a new name for the town. Mrs. Margaret Rudd, a resident of Clinton, submitted the winning name Vanastra and received a free home.

History
The initial air base was established by the Royal Air Force (RAF) with the purchase of Norman Tyndall’s 100-acre farm located at Lot 46 Concession 1 in Tuckersmith Township (now part of Huron East, Ontario since 2001), in the spring of 1941 under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.

The high bluffs overlooking Lake Huron, ten miles away, was thought to be the perfect place to simulate the coastal conditions in Britain. The objective of radar was to intercept German aircraft before they reached the coast of England. British radar training facilities were always under threat of German bombing, so an alternative training site was necessary.

The site went from farmland to start-up of training in only fourteen weeks. Roads and over 40 buildings were built. The school was ready so quickly that the first group of RCAF trainees had not yet completed their University of Toronto course, and so the first students were American Forces personnel. By the end of the war, over 5,000 Canadian airmen and 750 officers, as well as some 2,000 Americans, were trained in radar technology at Clinton. An August 1945 Time magazine article said: “The United States students, most of them university men, thought so highly of the school that it later became the model for U.S training centers … [it is] the most modern electronics training centre on the continent”.

The base was like a village in itself. There were 217 housing units, a fire station, a school, a hospital, a theatre, two churches, and facilities for ice skating, curling, swimming and bowling. When it first opened, the base was known as Royal Air Force (RAF #31 Clinton) Range and Direction Finding (RDF was the British cover name for radar).

In 1943, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF Clinton) took over and the school was renamed #5 Radio School. In June 1944 the BCATP began to scale back and No 5 Radio School was transferred to the RCAF's Home War Operations Training command.

Although threatened with closure following World War II, RCAF Station Clinton was, in fact, saved and authorized as a peacetime RCAF Signals School. In November 1945 it became home to the No. 1 Radar and Communications School (No. 1 R&CS), which it co-hosted with nearby RCAF Station Centralia. With military forces’ integration in 1966, the base experienced remarkable growth and development over the next 24 years including married quarters and barracks supporting recreational facilities, clubs and sports teams.

During the Cold War, RCAF Station Clinton hosted other units, including No. 12 Examination Unit, No. 1 Air Radio Officer School, School of Food Services (1945–67), and the Aerospace Engineering (AERE) Officer School, the School of Instructional Technique (1962–71), and the Guided Missile School (1958-early 1960s).

After the 1 February 1968 merger of the RCAF with the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Army to form the Canadian Forces, RCAF Station Clinton's name was changed to Canadian Forces Base Clinton or CFB Clinton. With the merger, the Canadian Forces were rationalized and many of its facilities consolidated to avoid duplication. CFB Clinton was closed by 1971, and its remaining units distributed to other facilities.

Following the closure of the base, the buildings were sold to real estate developer John Van Gastel and now make up the small village.

Transportation
Ontario Highway 4 or London Road is the main road that runs through Vanastra between Clinton and Exeter.

There are no airports located within Vanastra; the closest major airport is located in London, Ontario.

There is no local or regional bus servicing Vanastra. A pre-registered door to door transportation services operates within Huron County and Perth County.

Notoriety
In 1959 a local resident, Steven Truscott (aged 14 years at the time) was falsely convicted for the murder of Lynne Harper and sentenced to be executed. After a 48-year struggle to clear his name, Truscott was acquitted by the Ontario Court of Appeal on August 28, 2007.

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Martin Krňávek

(born 11 April 1974) is a former triathlete from the Czech Republic. He is the first Czech to win a race at the World Triathlon Cup. As well as taking part in the triathlon in two Summer Olympic Games, he won bronze medals in two Europe Triathlon Championships.

Career
Krňávek became the first Czech to win a race at the World Triathlon Cup, in 2000. He competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He took thirteenth place with a total time of 1:49:38.01. Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Krňávek competed again. He dropped to forty-second place with a time of 2:02:54.59. He was a substitute for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but did not race.

Krňávek twice won bronze medals at the Europe Triathlon Championships, from the 1999 event in Funchal, as well as the 2003 event in Czech city Karlovy Vary. He finished fourth in the 2006 event held in the French town of Autun, missing out on another medal with a thirteen second gap to third place.

Krňávek finished third in the Hungary race of the 2010 ITU Triathlon World Cup, racing for the Brno Ekol team. He then placed fifth at the 2012 World Triathlon Long Distance Championships, held in the Spanish city of Vitoria-Gasteiz.

After finishing third in the 2012 Czech Republic national championship held in Brno, Krňávek announced his retirement from participation in triathlons.

Personal life
Krňávek is married with two children. After retiring from triathlon, he focused his attention on his chocolate business.

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Leandro Macedo

Leandro Corrieri de Macedo (born March 18, 1968, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul) is an athlete from Brazil, who competes in triathlon. He won the inaugural event at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata.

Macedo competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took fourteenth place with a total time of 1:49:50.69.

Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Macedo competed again. He placed thirty-first with a time of 1:57:39.36.

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Putting People First

Putting People First may refer to:
 * Bill Clinton's Presidential campaign slogan, and the name of a campaign book co-authored by Clinton and Al Gore
 * A UK government paper key to the Person Centred Planning approach.
 * A minor political party with representation on Southampton City Council

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Craig Watson (triathlete)

Craig Robert Watson (born 2 June 1971 in Invercargill) is an athlete from the New Zealand, who competed in triathlon.

Watson competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took sixteenth place with a total time of 1:50:01.16. In 2001 he placed 3rd at the World Championships at Edmonton, Canada. He also won the ITU World Cup race in Rennes, France and for a time was ranked number one in the world.

Watson retired from the sport after narrowly failing to win an automatic spot on the New Zealand Olympic team for Athens 2004, after finishing 6th at the 2003 World Championships in Queenstown, New Zealand.

Watson lived and raced in Europe, based in France for many years and now lives in Pau with his French wife Héléne Salomon herself a successful triathlete. Together they have two daughters Juliet and Leilani and run a triathlon race wear business called Kiwami.

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Theresa Rebeck

Theresa Rebeck (born February 19, 1958) is an American playwright, television writer, and novelist. Her work has appeared on the Broadway and Off-Broadway stage, in film, and on television. Among her awards are the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award. In 2012, she received the Athena Film Festival Award for Excellence as a Playwright and Author of Films, Books, and Television. She is a 2009 recipient of the Alex Awards. Her works have influenced American playwrights by bringing a feminist edge in her old works.

Early life and education
Rebeck was born in Kenwood, Ohio, and graduated from Cincinnati's Ursuline Academy in 1976. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame in 1980, and followed that with three degrees from Brandeis University: an MA in English 1983, a MFA in Playwriting in 1986, and a PhD in Victorian era melodrama, awarded in 1989.

Career
Past New York productions of her work include Mauritius on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre in a Manhattan Theater Club production; The Scene, The Water's Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann and Spike Heels at Second Stage Theatre; Bad Dates and The Butterfly Collection at Playwrights Horizons; and View of the Dome at New York Theatre Workshop. Omnium Gatherum (co-written, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2003) was featured at the Humana Festival, and had a commercial run at the Variety Arts Theatre in 2003. Her play The Understudy, premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the summer of 2008, with a cast including Reg Rogers, Bradley Cooper and Kristen Johnson, and ran in New York at the Roundabout Theatre from October 2009 – January 2010, featuring Julie White, Justin Kirk, and Mark-Paul Gosselaar in the cast. The off-Broadway and regional theatre hit comedy premiered in 2015 at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland. Rebeck was attached as a book writer for the new musical Ever After, based on the Drew Barrymore movie of the same name. That show was expected to start pre-Broadway tryouts in San Francisco in April 2009, but was postponed. Her play, Mauritius, ran at the Pasadena Playhouse in California from March 27 through April 26, 2009.

Her play Seminar played on Broadway starting in October 2011, and starred Alan Rickman. In May 2014 Seminar premiered in San Francisco at San Francisco Playhouse receiving outstanding reviews. Her play Fool premiered at the Alley Theatre, Houston, Texas, in February 2014. The theme of the play Seminar was women empowerment through sexuality and the struggles of what it is to be a female in an industry dominated by men.

Her play Poor Behavior opened Off-Broadway at Primary Stages in August 2014. The play premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in 2011.

In an article in The New York Times in September 2007, she said that her plays were about "betrayal and treason and poor behavior. A lot of poor behavior." Rebeck's other publications include Free Fire Zone, a book of comedic essays about writing and show business. She has written for American Theatre magazine and has had excerpts of her plays published in the Harvard Review. Rebeck's first novel, Three Girls and Their Brother, was published in 2008 by Random House/Shaye Areheart Books.

She has received awards including the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award, the Writers Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama, the Hispanic Images Imagen Award, and the Peabody Award, all for her work on NYPD Blue. She has won the National Theatre Conference Award (for The Family of Mann), and was awarded the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award in 2003 for The Bells. Mauritius was originally produced at Boston's Huntington Theatre, where it received the 2007 IRNE Award for Best New Play as well as the Elliot Norton Award. In 2010, Rebeck was honored with the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American playwright in mid-career.

In television, Rebeck has written for Dream On, Brooklyn Bridge, L.A. Law, American Dreamer, Maximum Bob, First Wave, and Third Watch. She has been a writer/producer for Canterbury's Law, Smith, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and NYPD Blue. Through March 2012 she was one of the executive producers for the NBC musical series Smash, which she created, and which also debuted on February 6, 2012. Her produced feature film screenplays include Harriet the Spy, Gossip, and the independent feature Sunday on the Rocks.

Academic
Rebeck is Distinguished Professor of Playwriting and holds the Lyndall Finley Wortham Chair in the Performing Arts at the University of Houston.

Rebeck is a board member of The Dramatists Guild and the Lark Play Development Center in New York City, and has taught at Brandeis University and Columbia University. From 2014 through 2023 she was a Distinguished Professor of Playwriting and the Lyndall Finley Wortham Chair in the Performing Arts in the McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston.

Personal life
Rebeck is married, residing with her husband, Jess Lynn, and two children, Cooper and Cleo in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Three Girls and their Brother is dedicated to both Cooper and Cleo.

Theatre
Her other work as a playwright includes:

Fiction

 * I'm Glad About You (2016)
 * Twelve Rooms with a View (2011)
 * Three Girls and Their Brother: A Novel by Theresa Rebeck (2009)

Non-fiction

 * "Free Fire Zone: A Playwright's Adventures on the Creative Battlefields of Film, TV, and Theater" (2007)

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Young Bond

Young Bond is a series of young adult spy novels featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond as a young teenage boy attending school at Eton College in the 1930s. The series, written by Charlie Higson, was originally planned to include only five novels; however, after the release of the fifth novel, Higson considered the possibility of a second series. In October 2013 it was confirmed that a second series of four novels was in development, with the first novel due for release in Q3 2014, but it would be penned by Steve Cole while Higson continued work on his young adult zombie series, The Enemy.

Since the release of the first novel, SilverFin, in 2005, the series has become very successful and has led to further works including games, a graphic novel and a supplemental travel guide.

English-language versions of the books are published by Puffin Books in the United Kingdom and Hyperion Books For Children in the United States.

Charlie Higson's books
According to Charlie Higson, Ian Fleming Publications initially planned for him to only write one novel and that every subsequent novel would be written by a rotating author. This plan fell apart and Higson agreed to author future books in the series. However, following Higson's five books, subsequent books have been written by Steve Cole.

Main series

 * SilverFin (2005): In 1933, thirteen-year-old James Bond arrives at Eton College for boys for the first time to continue his schooling. There, he meets an American bully and his arms dealing father, Lord Randolph Hellebore. While on Easter break, Bond's adventure continues in the Highlands of Scotland. Teaming up with Red Kelly, James finally reaches a castle and a loch and discovers a deadly secret.
 * Blood Fever (2006): In 1933, James Bond is back at Eton where he is now a member of a secret risk-taking club known as the Danger Society. When summer vacation arrives, Bond goes on a field trip to the Italian island of Sardinia where he stays with his much older cousin Victor. While there, James investigates a Roman secret society known as the Millenaria that has planned throughout history to restore the Roman Empire. It seems the Millenaria are still active and are led by the sinister Count Ugo Carnifex.
 * Double or Die (2007): The third Young Bond novel is set entirely in England during Christmas and finds James searching for a missing schoolmaster in the darkest corners of London. The book involves Russian spies attempting to build an early computer. The title of the book was chosen by fans via an online poll and kept secret until the day of publication.
 * Hurricane Gold (2007): The fourth Young Bond novel, Hurricane Gold, is set in Mexico and the Caribbean. The book was released on 6 September 2007 in the UK. The plot is centred on Bond trying to foil the robbery of a team of professional criminals, only to end up following them around Mexico and eventually to a mysterious Caribbean island called Lagrimas Negras. The book contains many references to Mayan mythology and much of the end is focused on it.
 * By Royal Command (2008): The fifth Young Bond novel was released in the UK on 3 September 2008. In this book, James Bond falls in love with his Irish maid, Roan. Bond leaves Eton College due to the incident with the maid, as mentioned in Ian Fleming's novel You Only Live Twice. This book is set in multiple European countries including Austria, England, France, Germany and Switzerland. The Royal Family and the British secret service also play a part in the plot (revealing that Bond's tutor is a British spy).

Supplementary books

 * The Young Bond Rough Guide to London, Puffin Books/Rough Guides (2007)
 * 64-page booklet featuring London locations from Double or Die.

 * Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier, Puffin Books (2009)
 * Complete and definitive guide to the world and adventures of Young Bond. It includes the Young Bond short story "A Hard Man to Kill" by Charlie Higson. Release date: 29 October 2009.

Short story
An original Young Bond short story by Charlie Higson titled "A Hard Man to Kill" was published in the companion book Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier on 29 October 2009. The story is set between the books Hurricane Gold and By Royal Command and involves Young Bond travelling back to London aboard the French ocean liner SS Colombie. An extract from the story appeared in some later paperback editions of By Royal Command. It is the longest James Bond short story yet written.

Steve Cole's books
On 9 October 2013 Ian Fleming Publications announced that a new series of four Young Bond books were in development, written by Astrosaurs creator, Steve Cole. Cole's novels will follow on from Higson's last entry, By Royal Command and the aftermath of Bond's expulsion from Eton. The first novel will be published in the UK by Random House in the autumn of 2014. A lifelong fan of the original Bond novels, Cole described the task as "a thrilling privilege and an exciting challenge".

In an interview with the Bucks Herald, Cole confirmed that Bond would be 14–15 years old in his novels and that the books would show how the adult Bond was formed. As part of the process for securing the position, Cole was tasked with creating a pitch for a story arc that would stretch across all four books. In May 2014, it was announced that Cole's book, titled Shoot to Kill would be released on 6 November 2014.

In October 2015 at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in England, Cole revealed the cover art for his second novel in the series, titled Heads You Die, which will be published by an imprint of Random House called Red Fox and the book will be released on 5 May 2016.

In May 2016, Cole's third book in the series is revealed to be titled Strike Lightning, scheduled to come out sometime during Fall later in the year.

In September 2016, the title of Cole's fourth and final Young Bond novel was revealed to be Red Nemesis.

Main series

 * Shoot to Kill (2014): The sixth Young Bond novel explores the aftermath of Bond's expulsion from Eton, taking him to Hollywood, Los Angeles where he investigates the mystery behind some disturbing film footage discovered by a friend and a fellow adventurer. It's the first book in the series not to be published by Puffin Books but Random House instead in the UK, and was released on 6 November 2014.
 * Heads You Die (2016): The seventh Young Bond novel sees Bond travelling to Cuba on holiday which turns into a nightmare mission to save an old friend from a villain who has perfected 1,000 ways to kill. With corrupt cops and hired assassins hot on his heels, Bond must travel through Havana and brave Caribbean waters to stop a countdown to mass murder.
 * Strike Lightning (2016): Set at the end of 1934, while Bond is at Fettes College in Scotland, his father's school. When James stumbles upon a horrific sight, he knows things are not what they seem. His school is determined to make him believe what happened was an accident, but James believes what he saw was murder. The significance of the events at school only come to light in the course of an adventure that takes James across Europe and puts him within range of a warmongering villain. Has James got what it takes to triumph over this man, the worst kind of enemy, who boasts a new kind of weapon?
 * Red Nemesis (2017): James is on home soil when he receives a package with a message from beyond the grave. The package's mysterious contents put James at the heart of a long-running plot that, if it runs its course, will paint London's streets red with blood. Not only will James have to fight to stay alive and save the country he loves, but to clear the Bond family name, which he holds so dear. The stakes couldn't be higher, and James doesn't know who he can trust . ..

Pre-release criticism
Prior to the release of SilverFin, the idea of a Young Bond series had not gone over too well with the fans of the more traditional Bond literature and had come under heavy fire, with some fans comparing it to an unsuccessful 1960s attempt by Bond's publishers to launch a youth-oriented line of fiction that resulted in only one book: The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ written by the pseudonymous R. D. Mascott. There was also a moderately successful James Bond Jr. television series in the early 1990s aimed at children that dealt with Bond's supposed nephew.

John Gardner, who had written fourteen original novels and two novelisations featuring the adult Bond, was also critical of the series prior to the release of the first book. He stated:

"It's just the last desperate attempt to draw in a new audience. The films have little to do with the Bond we used to know, and now the books are going the same way."

Higson, for his part, has been on record as stating that he intends to stay true to the backstory Ian Fleming created for Bond, though this in many ways contradicts the popular James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 by John Pearson.

Post-release reaction
When SilverFin was published in March 2005, reviews of the novel were good. This, in addition to a large marketing campaign in the United Kingdom, elevated SilverFin to the number eight spot on the Booksellers list of best-selling children's books in the UK. By November 2005, SilverFin had already sold 500,000 copies worldwide.

A second book in the Young Bond series, Blood Fever, was released on 5 January 2006 in the UK having been delayed from an initial release in October 2005. The book reached the number one spot on the Booksellers list of best-selling children's books in the UK in its second week of release and held the spot for eleven weeks.

Double or Die, the third book in the series, was released in the UK on 4 January 2007, having had its title announced the day before. The title was voted on in a national poll on the official Young Bond website; the other two titles to choose from were N.E.M.E.S.I.S. and The Deadlock Cipher. After the first three days of Double or Die's release it took the number two spot on the Booksellers list of best-selling children's books in the UK and number fourteen in the overall UK Top 50 list. A week later it had climbed to number one on the children's list and the number twelve spot overall.

As of March 2009 the Young Bond novels have sold over 5 million copies and have been translated into 25 languages.

In December 2010 all five Young Bond books were released as eBooks by Ian Fleming Publications.

On 5 May 2011 Puffin Books released two special editions of SilverFin

The five book Young Bond series will be re-released in the UK on 5 April 2012 with all new cover art by Hyperion Books.

US publication
In June 2004 it was announced that the Young Bond series would be published by Miramax Books, then still a part of Disney. The acquisition was announced by Miramax co-chair Harvey Weinstein and Miramax Books president & editor in chief Jonathan Burnham. The deal's price tag was not disclosed, but was understood to be in the six-figure range. Miramax, in conjunction with Disney's Hyperion Books for Children label, published SilverFin in 2005 and Blood Fever in 2006. Following Miramax's split from Disney, Ian Fleming Publications struck a new deal for the remaining books with Hyperion Books for Children. This created a gap between publication of the books in the UK and US, with the third book, Double or Die not appearing in the US until April 2008. Book Four, Hurricane Gold, was published by Disney-Hyperion in April 2009. Also in 2009, Disney-Hyperion re-released SilverFin and Blood Fever with new cover art by artist Kev Walker. By Royal Command and SilverFin: The Graphic Novel were released in the US on 18 May 2010.

Games
With the release of the Hurricane Gold book TAMBA and Fleming media released the Avenue of Death game which is based on one of the chapters in the book.

On 11 August 2008 Puffin Books announced the first Young Bond alternate reality game (ARG), The Shadow War. The online game started on 23 August, when Charlie Higson set the first mission during his appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. In the game, players around the world use a range of media, including the Young Bond books themselves and the World Wide Web, to complete the missions and influence the outcome of the game. Charlie Higson took part in a live online event that concluded the game on 8 October 2008.

Illustrations
On 23 April 2005, Ian Fleming Publications released the first illustration of the thirteen-year-old James Bond drawn by Kev Walker. Walker illustrations have also been used on the covers of the U.S. hardback editions of Blood Fever and Double or Die. Walker also illustrated the SilverFin graphic novel released in the UK on 2 October 2008.

Graphic novels
In 2008, SilverFin: The Graphic Novel, was released as a graphic novel on 2 October 2008 by Puffin Books. The book was written by Charlie Higson and illustrated by renowned comic book artist Kev Walker. It was released by Disney Publishing in the US as both a hardcover and paperback in 2010 and was awarded the 2011 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award the following year.

Movie
Due to the success of SilverFin and Blood Fever, Hollywood has been interested in adapting these novels to film; however, Ian Fleming Publications and Charlie Higson have said they hope to release a few more books before possibly considering it. Today, it is believed the film rights to James Bond on film reside exclusively with Danjaq, LLC, the parent company of Eon Productions, however, according to Charlie Higson this is not exactly the case.

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Hunter Kemper

Hunter Craig Kemper (born May 4, 1976) is a triathlete from the United States. He won the silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games, behind Venezuela's Gilberto González, followed by winning gold four years later at the 2003 Pan American Games. Kemper was on four U.S. Olympic teams as a triathlete, competing at the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012.

College
He attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he was a 4-year member of the Men's Cross Country and Track & Field teams. Kemper graduated in 1998 with a degree in Business Administration.

Triathlete career
Kemper competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He took seventeenth place with a total time of 1:50:05.56.

Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Kemper competed again. He moved up to ninth place with a time of 1:52:46.33 on the more rigorous course.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he finished in seventh place with a time of 1:49:48.75.

At the ITU San Diego Triathlon in 2012, he placed fifth with a time of 1:49:18 qualifying him for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London for the USA Olympic team. He placed fourteenth in those games to lead the U.S. triathlon team.

Kemper is one of only two American male triathletes ever to be ranked world #1 by the International Triathlon Union (ITU) (American Mark Fretta also held the world #1 rank for 4 months in 2006). In July 2006, he won the Life Time Fitness Triathlon in Minneapolis, MN, winning what was at the time the largest purse in professional triathlon competition.

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Wikipedia:Wikifun/Round 8/Answers/Question 8

According to spacetime, ds² = dx² + dy² + dz² − c²dt², where t is an interval in time - so I want the distance-equivalence of 1.5 years. According to speed of light, c = 299,752,458 m/s². So -(299,752,458)²(1.5*365.25*86400) (converting years to seconds) is approximately -4.3x1024 meters. (Yes, negative.)

Or you could be talking about six degrees of separation between Here and... somewhere else?

Or: where was Wikipedia 1.5 years ago? Were its servers somewhere else? I can't find this on Wikipedia.

Nickptar 23:24, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Wait, no, that should be sqrt(-(299,752,458)²(1.5*365.25*86400)²), or 1.418x1016i meters. (Yes, imaginary). I doubt that changes the correctness, though. Nickptar 23:15, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Well, it all depends where you place the origin of your co-ordinate system. Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour... So: So, take your pick... -- ALoan (Talk) 12:47, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * 18 months ago, the Earth would have been roughly on the other side of its orbit around the Sun, roughly 2 Astronomical Units, or 300 million kilometres, away;
 * the Sun would have be roughly 10 billion km back on its orbit around the centre of the Milky Way (18 months×217 km/s);
 * the Milky Way would have been roughly 30 billion km away (assuming the velocity of around 700 km/s derived from the dipole detected in the cosmic microwave background radiation is correct).

We, royally speaking, were right here, and haven't moved at all. You all may have moved around me. Oh wait: The universe does not revolve around you. Never mind. FreplySpang (talk) 20:42, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * ''These aren't the answers I'm looking for, but they are interesting nonetheless. It may be worthwhile to visit the articles that are linked to in the answers above; the correct answer can be found at one of them... Eugene van der Pijll 21:25, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ah, were we are http://www.wikipedia.com ? -- ALoan (Talk) 09:53, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * ...what is the distance between .com and .org? 15 letters + 3 letters - 6 letters = 12 letters further on. -- ALoan (Talk) 10:41, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

As stated in sun, mean distance between the Earth and the sun is 149.6 x 106 kilometers. This is equal to the radius of the Earth's roughly circular orbit. If Earth completes one orbit every year, 1.5 years ago, we would be at an opposite point in our orbit. Therefore, the distance between here, then and here, now is the diameter of the earth's orbit, or twice its radius, or 299.2 x 106 kilometers. - Bryan is Bantman 00:02, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

 * ''Hint: to find the answer to this question, you'll first have to know what "here" means... Eugene van der Pijll 12:24, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

O-kay. Where was Here 18 months ago? Well, for one thing it was on VFD. But I'm not a good enough philosopher to tell you the distance from Earth to VFD. (On some days it's pretty far though.) Hmmm, now there's a picture of the Earth at Here but the eighteen-month-old version has a missing image named "Here.jpg". It was labeled "You are here" - a pretty clear indicator. Walking through the edit history, the person who removed that image on 26 Oct 2003 said, "I don't know about you, but I'm not in the Andromeda Galaxy..." So apparently, eighteen months ago Here spent a few days in the Andromeda Galaxy. Which, according to that article, is '''"at a distance of approximately 2.9 million light years or 900 kpc, in the direction of the constellation Andromeda." ''' I guess it's like they say, wherever you go, there you are. -- FreplySpang (talk) 18:58, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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One and a half years? Is that the answer? Found by use of common sense. Rentastrawberry 20:24, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * ''Nope, the correct answer was 2.9 million light years. See also Talk:Here. I think we were in the Andromeda Galaxy from the beginning of the Here article, so that's more than "a few days". Eugene van der Pijll 20:39, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Actually, now that I'm double-checking, it wasn't even a few days. The image was added on 25 Oct 2003 and removed about 23 hours later. FreplySpang (talk) 20:49, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I had not checked, but yes, you're right. But 25 Oct was very close to the start of the article anyway (at least, as a halfway "sensible" article)... It returned a few days later, for a while. IIRC, it was a photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy, with a big red arrow pointing at the supposed location of the solar system. Eugene van der Pijll 20:57, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)