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Tring Park School for the Performing Arts

Tring Park School or Tring Park School for the Performing Arts is a co-educational, independent day and boarding school in Tring, Hertfordshire, England. The school combines academia with vocational courses in the Performing Arts for pupils aged 8–19. All prospective pupils are required to attend an audition to determine admission, with the exception of those in the Prep School.

The school comprises a Prep School, a Lower School, a Middle School and a Sixth Form. Originally known as the Arts Educational School, Tring Park, it was founded as the sister school of the Arts Educational School, London. In 2009 it became independent of the London school and was renamed Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.

Tring Park School charges up to £43,722 per year (£14,574 per term, with three terms in the academic year). However, as one of the leading schools for the performing arts in the United Kingdom, it is one of only twenty-one schools selected to allocate Dance and Drama Awards and one of eight schools selected to allocate Music and Dance Scheme Awards, both government funded scholarship schemes established to subsidise the cost of professional dance and drama training for talented pupils at leading institutions. The school also offers its own scholarships awarded exclusively in recognition of talent during auditions.

Overview
Tring Park School for the Performing Arts is an independent, co-educational boarding and day school for pupils aged 8–19 years. The school in divided into 4 levels consisting of a preparatory school (years 3–6), a Lower School (years 7–9), a Middle School (years 10–11), and an Upper School/Sixth Form (years 12–13). Recognised as a specialist provider of vocational training in the performing arts, students combine their academic studies with a specialised course of one of the following; dance, acting, commercial music, or musical theatre. Thus, vocational studies are supported by a full academic syllabus from prep to A-level.

History
The school was first founded in 1939 and was originally known as the Cone–Ripman School. It was formed as a result of a merger between the Cone School of Dancing founded in 1919 by Grace Cone, and the Ripman School founded in 1922 by Olive Ripman.

The schools were initially in two parts, the Cone studio located above Lilly & Skinner's shoe shop on Oxford Street and the Ripman in Baker Street. Cone-Ripman School was then based in premises at Stratford Place in London, but following the outbreak of World War II, it was relocated to Tring in Hertfordshire, using various rented buildings. In 1941, the school reopened in London, but a second school continued to operate in Tring. In 1945, the Rothschild Bank vacated the mansion at Tring Park, which had been its temporary base during the war, and the Rothschild family permitted the school to use the premises on a permanent basis. Tring Park remains the school's sole campus to this day and in 1947, the school was renamed the Arts Educational School, Tring Park, with the London school becoming the Arts Educational School, London. In 1970, the school acquired the freehold of the mansion and grounds and began a redevelopment of the site, financed by the sale of unused land. The refurbished building was officially opened in 1976 by the Duchess of Kent. The school was later extended in 1990, with the opening of the Markova Theatre by The Prince Edward. In 1993, the school purchased the former St Francis de Sales Convent for use as offsite boarding accommodation for senior pupils. A second house was purchased for use as boarding accommodation in 1994.

Later in 1994, the Arts Educational Schools Trust decided that it was in the best interests of both the London and Tring schools, for them to be run separately. This led to the formation of the AES Tring Park School Trust, which acquired the school and is now solely responsible for its ongoing management. In 2009, to further identify the school as an independent institution, it changed its name to Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. The London school continues to operate, and is commonly known as ArtsEd.

For many years, the school's president was the renowned Prima Ballerina Assoluta, Dame Alicia Markova. After her death, Leopold David de Rothschild CBE became president and the vice presidents are Irek Mukhamedov OBE and Howard Goodall CBE.

History of the mansion
The current Tring Park Mansion was built to a design of Sir Christopher Wren in 1685, for Sir Henry Guy.

Sir William Gore, Lord Mayor of London, bought the house in 1705 and it remained in his family for two subsequent generations. in 1786, it was sold to Sir Drummond Smith, a London banker, who refurbished the interior in Georgian style and remodelled the park in the fashion made popular by "Capability" Brown. William Kay, a Manchester textile magnate, bought the estate in 1823.

In 1838, Nathan de Rothschild began renting Tring Park as a summer residence. When the property was sold in 1872, Lionel de Rothschild bought it as a wedding present for his son, Sir Nathaniel (later Lord) de Rothschild. Lord Rothschild's family grew up and lived at Tring Park until the death of the dowager Lady Rothschild in 1935.

The house was used by the NM Rothschild & Sons bank during World War II before being taken over by the Arts Educational School in 1945.

Filming Location
Tring Park School has been a filming location for multiple film and T.V. productions. Some of the most notable include;

 * Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). The schools mansion was used to portray a prestigious Russian ballet school, seen most notably during the Red Room scene - Black Widow's vision.
 * Judy (2019). Directed by Rupert Goold, the school was used to depict Judy Garland's time in England.

Notable Alumni

 * Glynis Johns, Actress, dancer, musician and singer
 * Dame Julie Andrews, DBE Actress best known for films Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music
 * Joe Ashman, Actor, known for Free Rein, Doctors and Get Even
 * Dame Beryl Bainbridge, DBE, Actress/writer
 * Aeronwy Thomas, Writer/translator of Italian poetry and daughter of Dylan Thomas
 * Jane Seymour, OBE, actress, best known for playing Bond girl Solitaire in the film Live And Let Die, and the TV series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
 * Michael Learned, Actress, best known for her role in The Waltons
 * Thandie Newton, Hollywood actress and star of films such as; The Pursuit of Happyness, Run Fatboy Run, Mission: Impossible 2 and Crash
 * Zienia Merton, Actress, played Sandra Benes in Space 1999
 * Bart Edwards, Actor, best known for TV series Lykkeland
 * Jessica Brown Findlay, Actress, best known for TV series Downton Abbey as a lead character: Lady Sybil Crawley (2010/11)
 * Amy Nuttall, Actress and singer, best known for West End musical Guys and Dolls, TV series Emmerdale & Downton Abbey (2011)
 * Emma Cunniffe, Actress, best known for BBC TV's series The Lakes
 * Caroline Quentin, Actress and comedian, best known for TV series Men Behaving Badly, Blue Murder and BBC's Life of Riley
 * Valerie Singleton, OBE, Former BBC TV co-presenter of Blue Peter, Nationwide, ''The Money Programme'.
 * Lesley Judd, Former TV co-presenter of Blue Peter
 * Geraldine Somerville, Actress known for her role of; Lily Potter in the Harry Potter films and the film Gosford Park
 * Louise Griffiths, Songwriter/Singer/Actress, best known for BBC TV's Fame Academy (2003)
 * Anna Carteret, actress best known for her role of Kate Longton in BBC's Juliet Bravo.
 * Claire Trévien, poet, author of The Shipwrecked House
 * Daisy Ridley, actress best known for her leading role of 'Rey' in the Star Wars sequel trilogy
 * Aimee Kelly, actress best known in leading roles of 'Maddy Smith' in CBBC's Wolfblood and 'Kayla Richards' in 2011 movie, Sket
 * Lily James, actress best known for Downton Abbey, Cinderella (2015 Disney film) and Baby Driver (2017) and War and Peace (2015)
 * Ella Henderson, singer/songwriter and Brit award winner.
 * Jordan Bolger, actor best known for Peaky Blinders, The 100, and The Woman King
 * Sarah Brightman, Operatic singer, dancer and actress
 * Stephanie Lawrence, musical theatre actress, celebrated star of;Lloyd Webber's Evita and original cast lead of Starlight Express
 * Charlie Bruce (Charlotte), Jazz Dancer/West End performer (Dirty Dancing) and winner of BBC1's, So You Think You Can Dance (UK) Season 1, (2010)
 * Regan Gascoigne, dancer, singer and actor. Winner of the 14th season of Dancing on Ice in 2022
 * John Gilpin, Classical ballet dancer, founder member of Festival Ballet (now English National Ballet)
 * Rupert Pennefather, Principal Dancer of The Royal Ballet


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Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform

Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform (C-FAR) is one of a number of groups run by neo-Nazi and white supremacist Paul Fromm. It was founded in 1976 by Fromm after he had left the white supremacist Western Guard organization. C-FAR became closely linked to Canadian Association for Free Expression (CAFE), another one of Fromm's groups, which he founded in 1981. The main issue on C-FAR's agenda has been the promotion of an ultra-right wing agenda that is opposed to foreign aid and immigration.

In 1987, the Toronto Star newspaper described C-FAR as part of a "spider web" of ultra-right wing activists. Apart from foreign aid and immigration, C-FAR's publications also support white supremacy, gun rights, and environmentalism.

It appears that the activities of C-FAR have decreased after Fromm was fired from his position with the Peel Board of Education as a result of his involvement in racist activities.

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Naples yellow

Naples yellow, also called antimony yellow or lead antimonate yellow, is an inorganic pigment that largely replaced lead-tin-yellow and has been used in European paintings since the seventeenth century. While the mineral orpiment is considered to be the oldest yellow pigment, Naples yellow, like Egyptian blue, is one of the oldest known synthetic pigments. Naples yellow was used in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, finding widespread application during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Prior to its earliest occurrences in European paintings, the pigment was commonly employed in pottery, glazes, enamels, and glass. The pigment ranged in hue from a muted, earthy, reddish yellow to a bright light yellow.

A Latin treatise from the late 17th century by Andrea Pozzo referred to the pigment as luteolum napolitanum, which is the first recorded use of the term "Naples yellow"; its English name first appeared in print in 1738. Naples yellow originally referred to the chemical compound lead antimonate (Pb2Sb2O7), but by the middle of the nineteenth century, a majority of manufacturers had stopped producing pure lead antimonate. Since then, writers and artists have incorrectly used Naples yellow to refer to other lead-based yellows. The related mineral of lead antimonate is bindheimite. However, this natural version was rarely employed as a pigment. After 1800, Naples yellow was superseded by chrome yellow (lead chromate) cadmium sulfide, and cobalt yellow.

History
Naples yellow is one of the earliest synthetic pigments, its earliest uses dating from the period between the sixteenth and fourteenth century BC in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Traces of Naples yellow have been discovered on glass fragments, glazed bricks, and glazed tiles from these ancient civilizations. Since its basic components, such as lead oxide and antimony oxide, had to be chemically manufactured, its early production would have required a high level of knowledge and skill. Early color theorists speculated that Naples yellow had originated from Naples or Italy's Mount Vesuvius. It was not until the late eighteenth century that Naples yellow was generally recognized as a synthetic pigment of lead antimonate.

The Italians first adopted Naples yellow as an enamel for tin-glazed pottery, or maiolica, from the beginning of the sixteenth century. The pigment then started to appear in European paintings, and between 1750 and 1850, when it achieved greater popularity in the art world. "Naples yellow" was a phrase that was first used in a treatise on frescos by Andrea Pozzo, published in Rome between 1693 and 1700. There, Pozzo refers to Naples yellow as luteolum napolitanum. By 1850, Naples yellow was sold in a variety of shades, such as French Naples yellow. Manufacturers like C. Roberson and Co. produced Naples yellow until 1885. However, its popularity declined and it was progressively replaced by other yellow pigments like lead chromate and cadmium sulfide. Manufacturers today typically produce Naples yellow in combination with other pigments, such as  ochre, iron oxide, lead white, titanium white, or zinc white, rather than pure lead antimonate.

Visual characteristics
Naples yellow is a saturated yellow, occasionally with pink or off-white hues. It has a strong hiding power and effectively covers other pigments. Temperature during production affects its hue. A more vibrant lemon-yellow is produced at higher temperatures, whereas an orange-yellow is produced at lower temperatures. Some manufacturers also note that there are six different shades of Naples yellow, ranging from a greenish yellow to a pinkish orange yellow.

Permanence
Naples yellow is not a stable pigment. It is susceptible to discoloration in humid air. George Field warned that Naples yellow can turn black. Naples yellow can also discolor in the presence of iron. Field therefore advised artists to use a palette knife made of ivory or horn, not metal.

Notable occurrences
Naples yellow was frequently used in ancient times to glaze pottery and glass. A piece of glass from the site of Amenhotep II's palace at Thebes (now at the Victoria and Albert Museum) is one of the earliest known examples. Naples yellow has frequently appeared on the palettes of European painters such as Anton Raphael Mengs, Francisco Goya, Jacques-Louis-David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Eugène Delacroix, and Paul Cézanne. The earliest occurrence of Naples yellow in European art is Matthias Stom's Arrest of Christ.

Literature

 * Wainwright, I.N.M., Taylor, J.M. and Harley, R.D. Lead Antimonate yellow, in Artists' Pigments. A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics, Vol. 1: Feller, R.L. (Ed.) Oxford University Press 1986, p. 219 – 254

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Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. Please note that this is the English language Wikipedia. There is a French language one at http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki You will need to create a new login account there. DJ Clayworth 15:40, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Articles francais dans la wikipedia anglaise
Je ne suis pas sûr si vous comprenez l'anglais, c'est pour ca que j'ai choisi de vous écrire en francais. Excusez toute faute commise.

Merci pour vos contributions à la wikipedia anglaise (surtout les images), mais vous continuez a y mettre seulement des articles en francais; c'est plutôt difficile pour nous de les traduire (ou même de vérifier si ce soient des infringements de copyright ou non), et en plus, les thèmes de vos articles sont très spécialisés (architecture etc.). Est-ce que vous pourrez nous laisser savoir si vos images sont sous copyright ou non? Lectonar 10:26, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Washington (tree)

Photograph
If anyone has a decent photo of this tree before it was damaged by the 2003 fire, please add it to the page. —Eoghanacht 15:38, 2005 Apr 7 (UTC)

 * I don't have one, but you can ask at Requested images. -- hike395 15:55, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks, added it under N. American places. —Eoghanacht 16:05, 2005 Apr 7 (UTC)

 * I found two photos and linked to the page under External Links. Hope this helps. Rossumcapek 02:57, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Location
Thanks for finding the tree location. The best I could do was locate the grove, which is why I placed the lat/long where I had. I split the first sentence just to clarify that the lat/long is for the tree itself. —Eoghanacht 17:32, 2005 Apr 7 (UTC)

trees
i cant find any info on trees

Requested move
This article has been renamed from Washington tree to Washington Tree as the result of a move request. - uncontested move. Keith D (talk) 22:23, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Washington tree → Washington Tree — Both external links and the intro to this article use capital "T." —LeSnail (talk) 02:38, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

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 * Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with  or  , then sign your comment with  . Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.

 * Support. Appropriate capitalisation. Andrewa (talk) 13:59, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Support since it is not just any tree, it is the name of one tree. Tigeron (talk) 23:00, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Support, as per nominator and Andrewa. --203.94.135.134 (talk) 03:46, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Pope-elect Stephen

Capitalize "pope"?
Should the word Pope be capitalized? The article contained both usages when I got here. Jdavidb 15:39, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I don't think it should, except when it stands before a name. I'm not 100% sure, though. Alensha 20:13, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Article List of 10 shortest-reigning popes states quite contrary to this article. It states that S. II was not listed, and that he is listed now in offical list of popes. Which article is correct? Saigon_from_europe
 * Saigon, this article is correct. And now, the other one is, too.  GeeZee 19:31, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

This article doesn't really talk about Pope-elect Stephen that much. It introduces him briefly, then goes off on a tangent (which comprises the majority of the article) about naming conventions for subsequent popes in subsequent centuries. Major edit needed by a well-informed writer --Bucky 00:10, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

JPII?
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 * Pope John Paul II did not recognize Pope Stephen II as a past pope so many decided to follow him.

Since the article says that Stephen II was "delisted" by the Vatican in 1959, 20 years before JPII became pope, I've removed this. --Jfruh 17:08, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

--I would like to see the citation for the claim that he was delisted "at the Second Vatican Council". That would be remarkable, if true -- which it is not. More likely, his name did not appear in one of the Libri that the Holy See releases. If so, this would not indicate even a Pontifical judgment, and far less a Conciliar judgment. The question of the validity of Pope-elect Stephen would thus still be an open question within Catholic Theology. The source cited ( http://books.google.com/books?id=4-R8SSzKLewC&pg=PA13&dq=Stephen+elected+Pope+died+752&cd=7#v=onepage&q=Stephen%20elected%20Pope%20died%20752&f=false ) is unscholarly, does not cite sources, and contains information known by myself to be false (such as stating that perhaps Catholic theology would consider some Bishops to be invalidly ordained because Pope Sergius III nullified the clerical orders of those ordained by Pope Formosus. The lack of understanding of Catholic theology implicit in such a claim is astounding). I would suggest eliminating this as a source and finding something more solid.--76.226.205.129 (talk) 04:53, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Article's title
Discussions about this article's title can be seen here : Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_%28names_and_titles%29. Švitrigaila 17:18, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Fork
I agree with the above poster: this article has very little to do with the Pope-elect. Most of this article should be forked into something else. Probably Naming of Popes named Stephen, or something along those lines. — Music Maker  03:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I wrote it. I wrote a long detailed article about the regnal names of the popes too... in French! (fr:Nom de règne des papes) I'm very proud of it, even if it may not deserve it's bronze star. If someone wants to translate it, he's welcome.
 * You say this article has very little to do with the pope-elect. Yes, but all what is known about him is in the article: "Stephen, a priest of Rome elected pope in March of 752 to succeed Pope Zachary, died of apoplexy three days later, before being ordained a bishop." And that's all. There is nothing else in the better sources (Philippe Levillain (editor),  The Papacy: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, 2002, 1780 p. ISBN 0-415-93752-3). I don't see the point to make another page Naming of popes named Stephen. No one will ever find it directly. This page will only be reached by links from other pages. And since the first sentence of the article is necessary to understand the following, what's the advantage to have a long article beginning by this setence, and a second short one containing only this sentence?
 * I am always very glad to have the others' opinion about what I write. Švitrigaila 12:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I don't think this is a bad article, by any means. However, it doesn't stay on topic.  Since I don't speak French, I'm not going to attempt to read your article on the French Wikipedia, but perhaps you might want to translate it into English and post it at Regal naming of Popes.  You're right, I think having an article just on the naming of Popes named Stephen is a little too strict a topic.  No one will directly search for "Naming of Popes named Stephen", but having so much information in an article on someone who isn't officially a Pope, who won't come up on any lists of Popes, and is basically an interesting historical footnote isn't necessarily helping anyone, either.  If this article is only two sentences, that's perfectly okay: unfortunately, that's all history should accord this man.  In its current state, I think the article is burying information that's interesting and important to several other articles.
 * I've just been reading some of your other posts on this subject -- I didn't realize that the naming of the articles on Popes named Stephen had been subject of such debate! I truly hate to stick my nose into this subject (about which, admittedly, I know very little), but I feel kind of strongly about this article being widely off-topic.
 * Should you decide to translate the other article -- and, again, I think that's the best course of action -- I will be more than happy to give it a read for you once it's complete. I think some other editors may have scared you off from contributing in English; don't let them!  If you can get the French article to a functional translation, I'll happily help you to get it idiomatic and conversational.  —  Music Maker  06:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for this long answer. It's always a pleasure to discover one day that all the time I lost writing those stupid articles was not totally vain and that some people actually read them. I was looking for an adjective to discribe my state of mind on the English Wikipedia... and I found it when I looked at your own User page: wikibonked! I'm very tired of it. On the French Wikipedia I succeded to impose some of my points of view, but it's too difficult on the English one. You can see the time and energy I've lost just in order too convince three users that Pope Stephen IX was called Stephen IX and not Stephen X. I have other wind mills like this one, and I'm far from winning those fights. So I don't want to translate myself my French Nom de règne des papes for three reasons: 1) my English is not good enough, 2) I don't want to loose again to much time on one topic, 3) I want to keep the control on what I write. I can check regularly the French article and revert any non pertinent edit I see. I deeply trust the translators who translated it into German and Italian. But I fear everybody will make a mess of this work on the English Wikipedia if it were translated.
 * In general, I am deeply concerned about onomastics. That includes every naming conventions on Wikipedia. I am a fierce opponent of a wildly spread principle on Wikipedia: "article naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize". I think that could be the last criterion to name an article, not the first one. It gives the priority to the received idea upon the fact, as if the role of an encyclopedia was to reinforce the reader's certainty rather than to teach him what he doesn't already know an to correct him if his knowledge is false! Before participating to this project, I was sure everybody would share my opinion. They don't. A lot of users think it's scandalous to be contradicted by a fact. To give just one example, the next to last emperor of Japan is officially called Emperor Shōwa in every official source and on the website of the imperial family. But since he is better known as Hirohito in the West, the article is named Hirohito, even if this nickname may be derogatory in Japan.
 * But I lose myself. Let's come back to the pope-elect. You say about him "someone who isn't officially a Pope, who won't come up on any lists of Popes". It's not really true since he was on every list of popes up to 1960. He's not totally an unknown man, despite we don't know anything about him. Some people may look for informations about him. Maybe it could be better to add in the article after the first sentence: that's all we know about him. I still think it's interresting to keep all the informations in one article because, if you are looking for an information about him, the only interresting one is the fact that the question about his legitimacy caused a mess in the numbering of popes called Stephen. Had you ever heard of it before reading this article? I like the principle to learn a fact you are not looking for, and you never would because you have never heard of it. On the other hand, if you are looking for informations about the Popes Stephens' numbering mess, you can't avoid the tiny personnal data about the pope-elect in the article, since it's the base of the problem.
 * I don't think "the article is burying information that's interesting and important to several other articles". This article can be reached very simply from every Pope Stephen articles. Look for exemple at the first line of Pope Stephen IV. Whatever the name you want to give to this article, it won't change the way to reach it.
 * So I still think it's better to keep all in one article. But it can be improved by letting the first lines on his personnal data, by adding a remark that it's all we have about him, and by making a sub-section with a title to explain in details the numbering problem. It's not worth to divide the informations on two articles. Either you'd have to click on links to have the following of the story, or you'll have to copy all the facts of one of the two articles into the other. And that's very unusefull; Wkipedia has automatic redirects, let's use them.
 * Švitrigaila 11:16, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Quote:
 * I am a fierce opponent of a wildly spread principle on Wikipedia: "article naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize". I think that could be the last criterion to name an article, not the first one.
 * I couldn't disagree more. I understand your point that an encyclopaedia should enlighten people, and I'm pretty sure that's how most people use Wikipedia - to learn something they didn't already know. However, people will search for articles under the names that they already do know - I know I do. Most people in the West don't know that Hirohito's "official" imperial name was Showa, so they will look up Hirohito - and the article will then inform them of the naming conventions of Japanese emperors, or link to another article that does.
 * There is no reason to confuse people anymore than need be. Sometimes is confusing enough for me to see the English names (In Danish, John Paul is Johannes Paul, kings named Henry are Henrik etc.), but in an English language encyclopaedia, the anglicized forms should be used. In the Danish wiki, we use the Danish forms, in the French wiki you use the French forms etc. --dllu 22:25, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * ...they will look up Hirohito - and the article will then inform them of the naming conventions of Japanese emperors, or link to another article that does.
 * I prefer to say: ...they will look up Hirohito - and the program redirects them directly to the "Emperor Shōwa" page without any effort. Wikipedia has a huge advantage on classic paper encyclopedias: the REDIRECT fonction. I can't see the point of a redirect in the other direction. That means you look at Emperor Shōwa, then a redirect bring you on the Hirohito page, and then you read that his "good" name is "Emperor Shōwa" and not "Hirohito"! That's against all logic. Redirects must allways be from erroneous, unaccurate or unprecise article names to correct ones.
 * And once again, "Hirohito" is not the "English name" of Empereor Shōwa, neither it is his "anglicized name". It's his personnal name, like George Bush's personnal name is George. And it is as unappropriate to call the emperor "Hirohito" than to call George Bush "George", if not more. "Fujiyama" is not the "English name" of Fujisan. "Hara-kiri" is not the "English name" of seppuku. I fight the expression "English name" every time I see it on Wikipedia misused in an unappropriate context, and it happend very often. I'm tired to read here and then than "Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov" is the "English name" of Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow, and so on. Švitrigaila 11:01, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Never a Pope
I've removed the Papal Infobox and the Papal succession box, from this article. Stephen (as the title clearly states), was never Pope. GoodDay 20:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

--This is not clearly demonstrated by the article. According to the predominant school in Catholic theology, someone becomes Pope at the moment of election, even if that person is not yet consecrated Bishop [see, for instance, Pope Pius XII on October 5, 1957 in an audience on the lay apostolate: "Even if a layman were elected pope, he could accept the election only if he were ready and willing to be ordained. But the power to teach and govern, as well as the divine gift of infallibility, would be granted to him from the very moment he accepted election, even before his ordination."]. Pope-elect Stephen was also listed in the Liber Pontificarius until recently. I do not believe that it is Wikipedia's role to judge that he is not Pope whom scholars in the field have a historically been divided about. Pope-elect Stephen should have the Papal Infobox and the Papal succession box. Even anti-Popes have a box [cf. anti-Pope John XXIII]. --76.226.205.129 (talk) 05:08, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Confused discussion of canonical issues
This article gives the impression that the idea of a Pope becoming Pope upon accepting election has been abandoned by the Catholic Church post-1960. On the contrary, the 1983 Code of Canon Law states:
 * Can. 332 ß1 The Roman Pontiff acquires full and supreme power in the Church when, together with episcopal consecration, he has been lawfully elected and has accepted the election. Accordingly, if he already has the episcopal character, he receives this power from the moment he accepts election to the supreme pontificate. If he does not have the episcopal character, he is immediately to be ordained Bishop.

Removing Stephen II from the list has nothing to do with abandoning the position that a Pope becomes Pope upon acceptance of election, but rather from the fact the Stephen was not a bishop at the time of election, so he would have needed to be ordained to the order of bishop in order to become Pope.

Also, it is hardly the place of Wikipedia to declare anything "settled", especially since Britannica and other reputable sources regard this matter as ambiguous. Unsubstantiated statements such as this are not helpful:

 * Contrary to a widespread idea, the removal of pope Stephen from the list is accepted by most historians[!!] and is no longer a matter of debate within the Church

This is a pitiful attempt to add authority to the editor's opinion. The inclusion or exclusion of Stephen from the Church's list of recognized popes is not a concern of historians, but a question of canon law. The historical facts of the case have never been in dispute, but rather the application of canon law to these facts. JoeFink (talk) 03:17, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't say the contrary. When I wrote the article, I meant clearly what you say : "Removing Stephen II from the list has nothing to do with abandoning the position that a Pope becomes Pope upon acceptance of election, but rather from the fact the Stephen was not a bishop at the time of election, so he would have needed to be ordained to the order of bishop in order to become Pope." If you think the article is not clear or poorly written, don't hesitate to modify it. Up to now, I'm nearly the only contributor of it, and I would be glad if other users could add new facts or improvements. As for the sentence about historians, you can erase it if you think it's anappropriate. Švitrigaila (talk) 12:15, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

 * This article should explain why the Vatican delisted him. At the moment it only states that he was removed from the list, nut gives no explanation. Also we still need some biographical information about the man himself, 18 months after somebody first raised this. Richard75 (talk) 17:15, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't know exactly why Stephen was erased from the Annuario pontificio's lists at this time exactly. Neither do I know why antipope Christopher was erased in the 20th century and not earlier or later. I don't know why pope Silvester III is still considered a valid pope and not an antipope (I have an opinion about it, but no facts). So I can't invent. About Stephen's life, nothing is known except what is already in the first line of the article! Švitrigaila (talk) 12:15, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Per your suggestion, I rewrote the paragraph regarding Stephen's current status. The Annuario pontificio lists generally don't provide an explanation of why someone is included or excluded, and these decisions have been reversed on more than one occasion, so it is a mistake to suggest that the issue of Stephen's legitimacy has been permanently settled.

 * The earlier paragraphs try to recapitulate the history of canonical views on papal legitimacy. I'm not sure how accurate this account is, or even if it's appropriate for such a big topic to be covered in this specific article, but it smacks of original research, as I am not aware of any secondary source that pretends to have a definitive answer to these issues. JoeFink (talk) 15:59, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Another view
Ok, I know that we are not going to change objective reality here in an encyclopedia and the Church will do what the Church does but let us consider this in light of Peter. We can not be sure of exactly moment in time Peter became what we think of as a bishop. Was it when he was called, was it later when Jesus specifically sent him and the others out on the little mini missions that they went on or was it at the moment of giving the keys. It may well have been at the last supper.

It could be possible that Peter was the Pope, as in the non divine leader of all true Christians on the planet, and still have yet to be a bishop or even a priest in the sacramental sense. I don´t know that to be true and would certainly like someone who knows more about this to inform me but from what I know it seems like it might be possible. I suppose the real question would be if people were looking to Stephen as the leader yet or not. We could also think of this as the Holy Spirit´s way of not giving us a bad Pope but to say that might be to seem very negative. In any case the Church has spoken on the issue but I just would like to know what this means in the nature of the papacy.

Long Live Pope Benedict XVI. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.47.44.217 (talk) 12:13, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Capitalize the word "Pope"
As a specific title within the Roman Catholic Church, "Pope" is a proper noun. -The Mysterious El Willstro 71.181.144.209 (talk) 06:20, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

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Wimbledon Park tube station

Wimbledon Park is a London Underground station in Wimbledon. The station is on the District line and is between Southfields and Wimbledon stations. The station is located on Arthur Road close to the junction with Melrose Avenue close to the eastern side of Wimbledon Park. It is about 200 m west of Durnsford Road (A218) and is in Travelcard Zone 3.

History
The station was opened by the District Railway (DR, now the District line) on 3 June 1889 on an extension from to. The extension was built by the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) which, starting on 1 July 1889, ran its own trains over the line from a connection at East Putney to its Clapham Junction to Barnes line.

The section of the District line from Putney Bridge to Wimbledon was the last part of the line to be converted from steam operation to electric. Electric trains began running on 27 August 1905.

Main line services through Wimbledon Park ended on 4 May 1941. By then, the station was on a line of the Southern Railway (successor to the L&SWR), although the line remained in British Rail ownership until 1 April 1994 when it was transferred to London Underground. Until the transfer, the station was branded as a British Rail station. The route from Wimbledon to Wandsworth Town (Point Pleasant Junction) is still used by South Western Railway for empty stock movements and occasional service train diversions, as well as three daily South Western Railway services which run to and from Waterloo via the route in the early hours of the morning; so South Western Railway trains pass through Wimbledon Park station on a daily basis, but without stopping. There are very infrequent movements of Network Rail engineering trains and light engine movements through the station as well.

On 18 June 2012, Surrey cricketer Tom Maynard was electrocuted and hit by a London Underground train while trying to escape from police near Wimbledon Park station.

In 2018, it was announced that the station would gain step free access by 2022, as part of a £200m investment to increase the number of accessible stations on the Tube. Step-free access was achieved in September 2021.

Connections

 * London Buses route 156 serve the station.

Past plans
Wimbledon Park was a proposed stop on the Chelsea-Hackney Line, now known as Crossrail 2. It was envisioned that the station's District line services would have been replaced by the new line.

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Southfields tube station

Southfields is a London Underground station in Southfields in the London Borough of Wandsworth. The station is on the District line between and  stations. The station is located on Wimbledon Park Road at the junction with Augustus Road and Replingham Road. It is in Travelcard Zone 3.

Southfields is the most convenient station from which to reach the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, venue of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships; station is slightly closer as the crow flies but requires a longer walk. During the tournament, more than three times the usual numbers of passengers pass through the station.

History
The station was opened by the District Railway (DR, now the District line) on 3 June 1889 on an extension from Putney Bridge station to Wimbledon. The extension was built by the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) which, starting on 1 July 1889, ran its own trains over the line from a connection at East Putney to its Clapham Junction to Barnes line.

The section of the District line from Putney Bridge to Wimbledon was the last part of the line to be converted from steam operation to electric. Electric trains began running on 27 August 1905.

Main line services through Southfields were ended by the Southern Railway (successor to the L&SWR) on 4 May 1941, although the line remained in British Rail ownership until 1 April 1994 when it was transferred to London Underground. Until the transfer, the station was branded as a British Rail station.

The route from Wimbledon to Wandsworth Town (Point Pleasant Junction) is still used by South Western Railway for empty stock movements and occasional service train diversions, as well as three daily SWR services which run to and from Waterloo via the route in the early hours of the morning without stopping at Southfields. There are very infrequent movements of Network Rail engineering trains and light engine movements through the station as well.

It was once planned that the potential Chelsea–Hackney line would call at Southfields, by supplementing or replacing the existing District line service. These plans have since been superseded by the planned Crossrail 2 line, which would serve Wimbledon.

Station upgrade
The station was upgraded in the early 2010s, with a new lift providing step free access. This work was done in preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games, when the Olympic Tennis Tournament was held at the All England Club. The upgrade will also improve access to the annual Wimbledon tennis tournament.

Overall refurbishment and extension works to the station started in March 2009, and finished in late 2010. The shops formerly located on the eastern side of the street-level building were demolished and the site used for a new ticket office, relocated from the western side of the booking hall. A lift runs from the booking hall to platform level, making the station step free. A new standard Underground ticket gateline was also installed.

Design changes
Southfields Station and station are of almost identical original design, although a mirror image of one another, but both stations have since been altered. Southfields Station has changed the most due to high passenger traffic during Wimbledon Tennis. The left side of the staircase at Southfields was widened (with the extension being built out of wood rather than brick construction) the pillar in the left side of the staircase was originally an external feature. A second doorway was opened up to the west of the original doorway into the ticket office area and a short footbridge was built from the top of the staircase over the railway to Wimbledon Park Road. (In recent times the footbridge had been closed and used as a storage area but after London Underground took over the station they reopened it as an exit.) The southern end of the waiting room on the platform has been converted into a kiosk and the rest of the building is used for LUL staff accommodation. There is therefore no enclosed public waiting facility on the platform.

After Southfields Station was transferred from British Rail to London Underground in 1994 a temporary ticket office was built to the west of the station on a heavy steel frame above the track and the parapet wall of the bridge was removed to allow public access to the ticket office from the pavement whilst extensive alterations were carried out to the booking hall area. The temporary ticket office was taken down once no longer required and the brick parapet wall reinstated, but the steelwork was retained for several years and used to support a number of temporary structures in connection with later station refurbishment works before finally being dismantled in June 2013.

The station platform undergoes a makeover each year to coincide with the tournament, funded by a particular company for advertising purposes. For instance, in 2006, the station platform was covered in red flooring, as were the benches, because of American Express's advertising campaign for a credit card that supports an AIDS charity. In 2005, Televisions were installed and played non-stop adverts, also for American Express. In 2009, the makeover was funded by HSBC. In 2010 it was funded by Asda and advertised their strawberries.

Connections

 * London Buses routes 39, 493 (which has a bus stop at the AELTC) and 639 serve the station.
 * During the two weeks of Wimbledon Tennis a shuttle bus runs from Southfields Station to the tennis courts. Travelcards and bus passes are not accepted on this bus.

Automated train announcements state that Southfields is the station at which to alight for the "Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Club" (rather than the club's actual name, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club) as it is an easy 10–15 minutes' walk along a main road to the club and Southfields is better set up for large crowds than Wimbledon Park station.

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Fireman (steam engine)

A fireman, stoker or boilerman, is a person whose occupation it is to tend the fire for the running of a boiler, heating a building, or powering a steam engine. Much of the job is hard physical labor, such as shoveling fuel, typically coal, into the boiler's firebox. On steam locomotives the title fireman is usually used, while on steamships and stationary steam engines, such as those driving saw mills, the title is usually stoker (although the British Merchant Navy did use fireman). The German word Heizer is equivalent and in Dutch the word stoker is mostly used too. The United States Navy referred to them as watertenders.

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy used the rank structure stoker 2nd class, stoker 1st Class, leading stoker, stoker petty officer and chief stoker. The non-substantive (trade) badge for stokers was a ship's propeller. Stoker remains the colloquial term used to refer to a marine engineering rating, despite the decommissioning of the last coal-fired naval vessel many years ago.

Large coal-fueled vessels also had individuals working as coal trimmers, who delivered coal from the coal bunkers to the stokers. They were responsible for all coal handling with the exception of the actual fueling of the boilers.

Royal Canadian Navy
The Royal Canadian Navy had coal-fired ships, the last of which were replenishment ships. All marine engineers in the RCN, regardless of their platform (CPF, 280 or AOR) are nicknamed stokers.

United States Navy
In the United States Navy, watertender (abbreviated WT) was a petty officer rating which existed from 1884 to 1948. Watertenders held a paygrade equivalent to today's petty officer first class. A chief watertender (CWT) paygrade was established in 1903. In 1921, the lower paygrade was split into watertender first class (WT1 or WT1c) and watertender second class (WT2 or WT2c). Another lower paygrade, watertender third class (WT3 or WT3c), was established in 1943. The watertender and boilermaker ratings were merged into a new "Boilerman" rating in 1948 and continued to 1976 when the rating was changed to "Boiler Technician" and subsequently merged into the "Machinist's Mate" rating in 1996.

Railways
On steam locomotives, firemen were not usually responsible for initially preparing locomotives and lighting their fires. As a locomotive boiler takes several hours to heat up, and a too-rapid fire-raising can cause excess wear on a boiler, this task was usually performed by fire lighters working some hours before the fireman's main shift started. Only on small railways, or on narrow-gauge locomotives with smaller and faster-warming boilers, was the fire lit by the fireman.

Whoever was responsible for fire-starting would clear the ash from the firebox ashpan prior to lighting the fire, adding water to the engine's boiler, making sure there is a proper supply of fuel for the engine aboard before starting journeys, starting the fire, raising or banking the fire as appropriate for the amount of power needed along particular parts of the route, and performing other tasks for maintaining the locomotive according to the orders of the engineer (US) or driver (UK). The engine itself was cleaned by an engine cleaner instead of the fireman. Some firemen served these duties as a form of apprenticeship, aspiring to be locomotive engineers themselves. In the present day, the position of fireman still exists on the Union Pacific Railroad, but it refers to an engineer in training. The fireman may operate the locomotive under the direct supervision of the engineer. When the fireman is not operating the locomotive, the fireman assists the engineer and monitors the controls.

Mechanical stoker
A mechanical stoker is a device which feeds coal into the firebox of a boiler. It is standard equipment on large stationary boilers and was also fitted to large steam locomotives to ease the burden of the fireman. The locomotive type has a screw conveyor (driven by an auxiliary steam engine) which feeds the coal into the firebox. The coal is then distributed across the grate by steam jets, controlled by the fireman. Power stations usually use pulverized coal-fired boilers.

Notable stokers
Vladimir Lenin, disguised as Konstantin Petrovich Ivanov, escaped to Finland in 1917 on train 293 from Udelnaya Station. Hugo Jalava, a co-conspirator and the train's driver, helped to further conceal Lenin by having him work as his stoker. Jalava later recalled that Lenin shovelled with gusto as he fed the engine, making the train run fast.

There were approximately 176 stokers on board the coal-fed ocean liner RMS Titanic. During the sinking of the ship, these men disregarded their own safety and stayed below deck to keep the steam-driven electric generators running for the radiotelegraph, lighting, and water pumps. Only 48 of them survived.

Simeon T. Webb was the fireman on the Cannonball Express when it was destroyed in the legendary wreck that killed engineer Casey Jones. Jones's last words were "Jump, Sim, jump!" and Webb did jump, survived, and became a primary source for information about the famous wreck.

KFC founder Colonel Sanders worked as a railroad stoker when he was 16 or 17.

A 14-year-old Martin Luther King Sr. worked as a fireman on the Atlanta railroad.

Art

 * Torsten Billman, a Swedish graphic artist, drawer, and mural painter - himself coal trimmer and stoker on various merchant ships from 1926 to 1932 - has portrayed the hard work in coal bunkers and stokeholes.

Events

 * Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson acted as stoker on the steam locomotive No. 60163 Tornado while performing a Race to the North against Richard Hammond and James May. It was an homage to the historical Race to the North, a rivalry between British steam engines, trains and men of different companies between London and Edinburgh.

Film

 * The lead character Bill Roberts (George Bancroft) in Josef von Sternberg's motion picture The Docks of New York (1928) is a stoker.
 * The lead character in Aleksei Balabanov's 2010 film The Stoker, Ivan Matveyevich Skryabin, is a stoker.

Literature

 * The first chapter of Franz Kafka's novel Amerika (published posthumously in 1927) is entitled "The Stoker".
 * Mat Burke, a principal role in Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie (1921) is a ship's stoker.
 * Yank, the protagonist of Eugene O'Neill's play The Hairy Ape (1922), is a stoker on a ship.

Music

 * "Casey Jones”, a song by the American rock band the Grateful Dead, is about a railroad engineer who is on the verge of a train wreck due to his train going too fast, a sleeping switch man, and another train being on the same track and headed for him. The last two lines of the song reference the train's fireman: “Come round the bend, you know it’s the end. The fireman screams and the engine just gleams.”
 * "Stoker Dreams" and "Stoker Love" are songs by the Russian indie group Chimera.
 * The RMS Mauretania (1906) is remembered in a song, "The fireman's lament" or "Firing the Mauretania", collected by Redd Sullivan. The song starts "In 19 hundred and 24, I ... got a job on the Mauretania"; but then goes on to say "shovelling coal from morn till night" (not possible in 1924 as she was oil-fired by then). The number of "fires" is said to be 64. Hughie Jones also recorded the song but the last verse of Hughie's version calls upon "all you trimmers" whereas Redd Sullivan's version calls upon "stokers".

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Daniel Doan

Daniel Doan (February 23, 1914 – September 24, 1993) is best known for his classic hiking books, 50 Hikes in the White Mountains and 50 More Hikes in New Hampshire. He is also the author of two novels, The Crystal Years and Amos Jackman, and a memoir, Our Last Backpack.

His North Country history, Indian Stream Republic: Settling a New England Frontier, 1785–1842, grew out of his explorations in the Pittsburg area. Reviewing the book in the December 1997 issue of Appalachia, Gene Daniell wrote that it "'gives an excellent account of the history of the Indian Stream Republic, and it also provides an evocative picture of the life of the settlements, a life hard but curiously satisfying to those who had the will and the luck to make good. The reader will gain a great deal of insight into the lives of the people who settled the frontier regions of New England, most of whom are memorialized only by a weathered stone in a cemetery near a church or along a back road. In a real sense, this book is their living memorial.'"

Doan was born in Summit, New Jersey, the son of Frank Carleton Doan, a Unitarian minister. The family's summer home was in Orford, New Hampshire, where Doan's grandmother had been born. This area had a great influence on him, nurturing his love of the woods and mountains, hiking, and fishing. After his father's death in Winchester, Massachusetts, when Doan was fifteen, he moved with his mother to Hanover, New Hampshire, and lived in New Hampshire for the rest of his life.

Doan graduated from the Clark Preparatory School in Hanover in 1932 and Dartmouth College in 1936. Doan then went into farming with his wife, Ernestine Crone, in Orford and subsequently in Belmont. He also wrote short stories and articles. In 1939 his daughter Ruth was born, and in 1941 his daughter Penelope. The family moved to Laconia, New Hampshire, where Dan worked for a manufacturing company and continued writing, hiking, and fishing.

After Ernestine's death in 1982, he married Marjorie Marran and they moved to Jefferson, New Hampshire.

In July 1993, the Dartmouth Outing Club named a Smarts Mountain trail in Orford the Daniel Doan Trail, "in recognition of Daniel Doan's efforts to stimulate interest and involvement in hiking and the out-of-doors". Doan died on September 24 of that year in Lancaster, New Hampshire. The New Hampshire Writers' Project honored him posthumously with its 1994 Lifetime Achievement Award. His papers are archived at Dartmouth College, and daughter Ruth has continued to compile later editions of the hiking guidebooks under the original titles.

Doan's papers are held at Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College.

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East Putney tube station

East Putney is a London Underground station in Putney in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is on the Wimbledon branch of the District line, between and, and is on the boundary between Travelcard Zones 2 and 3. The entrance to the station is on Upper Richmond Road (A205).

History
The station was opened by the District Railway (DR, now the District line) on 3 June 1889 as part of an extension from Putney Bridge station to Wimbledon. The extension was built by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR), which from 1 July 1889 ran its own trains over the line via connecting tracks from its Waterloo to Reading line at Point Pleasant Junction, just west of Wandsworth station (now Wandsworth Town), to East Putney.

The section of the District line from Putney Bridge to Wimbledon was the last part of the line to be converted from steam operation to electric. Electric trains began running on 27 August 1905.

Regular passenger services between Waterloo and Wimbledon through East Putney were ended by the Southern Railway (successor to the LSWR) on 4 May 1941, although the line remained in British Rail ownership until 1 April 1994 when it was sold to London Underground for the nominal sum of £1. Until the sale, the station was branded as a British Rail station. The route from Wandsworth Town to Wimbledon, including the connection between Point Pleasant Junction and East Putney (largely reduced to single track in 1990 ), is still used by South Western Railway for empty stock movements and occasional service train diversions, as well as three daily SWR services which run to and from Waterloo via the route in the early hours of the morning (to maintain train crews' knowledge of the route) without stopping at East Putney. There are very infrequent movements of Network Rail engineering trains and light engine movements through the station as well.

Station layout

The junction between the District line and the connection to the Waterloo–Reading line is immediately to the south of the station, with the District line tracks on the western side of the station and the connection's tracks on the eastern side. The station is thus laid out as follows, from west to east: a side platform for northbound District line trains, a Y-shaped central island platform for southbound District line trains and eastbound main line trains, and a side platform for westbound main line trains. The street-level station entrance and buildings lie between the two arms of the island platform.

The side platform for westbound main line trains has been out of use since regular services between Waterloo and Wimbledon through the station were ended in 1941, and is overgrown, while a barrier seals off the right arm of the island platform, previously used by eastbound main line trains. The rest of the eastern side of the island platform remains in working order, and although not served by regular trains is very occasionally used for terminating services from Wimbledon in connection with engineering works.

The station has four staircases, two up to the island platform and one up to each side platform, although the one up to the disused side platform for westbound main line trains is not accessible to the public.

The connection to the Waterloo–Reading line was originally double track throughout, with the eastbound track diverging from the westbound track north-east of East Putney to cross over the Waterloo–Reading line on a viaduct, then running parallel to the line before joining it at Point Pleasant Junction. In 1990, this track was lifted between the divergence point and Point Pleasant Junction, and the decking over the Waterloo–Reading line was removed, although the central piers and abutments of the viaduct remain intact. The westbound track is now bi-directional between Point Pleasant Junction and the former divergence point. South Western Railway continues to use the connection for empty stock movements and occasional train service diversions.

Services
The typical offpeak service on a Monday to Friday at this station in trains per hour (tph) is as follows:

 * 6tph Southbound to Wimbledon
 * 6tph Northbound to Tower Hill, of which 3 continue to Barking

Connections
London Buses routes 37 and 337 serve the station.

Past plans
East Putney was a proposed stop on the Chelsea-Hackney Line (now Crossrail 2). It was envisaged that the station's District line service would have been replaced by the new line.

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Banded coral shrimp

Banded coral shrimp
Although the Banded coral shrimp looks like a shrimp and even has the word shrimp in its name, it is not a real shrimp. It belongs to the order of Stenopodidea instead. I took this picture a few weeks ago at ten meters below sea level on the coral reef of Bonaire. - Janderk 15:45, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Nominate and support. - Janderk 15:45, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose - the shrimp is not quite in focus and too small in the frame. The rest of the pic is out of focus and very "fussy". Just not quite good enough for Featured - Adrian Pingstone 19:16, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Even if it's not a real shrimp, it looks equally funny and cute. Animal in focus, nice colored background showing its coral habitat. Support. I wouldn't mind a bit of cropping though. Mgm|(talk) 19:22, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The picture looks like mishmash. -Hapsiainen 21:33, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose, too busy. —Korath (Talk) 02:45, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose, too much background. Nice, but nothing really special. --Bricktop 10:50, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Bad exposure, poor focus, background inhibits the subject. Alight 19:35, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Jonas Olson 20:27, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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Date of Death ???
The dates given are contradictory: Died March 23, 1909 // disappeared March 27, 1909.
 * The "Missing" poster from the Penzance police says the 23rd. Mike Hayes (talk) 16:08, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

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Parsons Green tube station

Parsons Green is an above-ground London Underground station on the branch of the District line that opened in 1880. It is between and  stations and is in Zone 2. There are entrances on Parsons Green Lane and in Beaconsfield Walk. The station is a short distance north of the green itself. It was previously a train-operator depot, until functions were transferred to.

History
Designed by a Mr Clemence under the supervision of John Wolfe-Barry, the station was opened on 1 March 1880 when the Metropolitan District Railway (now the District line) extended its line south from to.

Past plans
Parsons Green was a proposed stop on the Chelsea-Hackney Line, known now as Crossrail 2. It would have either supplemented or replaced the existing District line service on much of the Wimbledon Branch.

North of the station, the line would have branched off into a new tunnelled section that could carry it into station, via a new station on the Kings Road,  station. Crossrail 2 will be built to National Rail standards and will go to Wimbledon via Clapham Junction instead. The route was safeguarded in 1991 and again in 2007.

Bombing
On 15 September 2017, around 8:20 am BST, an explosion inspired by ISIL on a train carriage at the station injured 30 people. No fatalities were reported. The explosion was treated by the Metropolitan Police as a terrorist incident.

The attacker, Ahmed Hassan, was tried for attempted murder in March 2018. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and must serve a minimum of 34 years. On 6 April 2019 it was announced that Lt. Col. Craig Palmer, a passenger on the affected tube train, had been awarded the Queen's Commendation for Bravery for his part in helping to bring the bomber to trial and conviction.

Sidings
Parsons Green is an intermediate terminating point for both District line services. Below are the seven sidings explained:
 * Two sidings east of the station:
 * One is only accessible from the eastbound running line, and can accommodate two D Stock or two S Stock trains
 * The second is only accessible from the westbound running line and can accommodate one D Stock or one S Stock train
 * Five sidings west of the station:
 * Two sidings west of the eastbound platform. These are accessible from the westbound platform and accommodate one D Stock or S Stock train
 * Two sidings west of the westbound, also accessible from the westbound platform.
 * There is a siding just behind the westbound platform, which could only fit a C Stock train. As C Stock trains are no longer in use on the system, this siding is out of commission.

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Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Israel
Hello Netan'el: Please contact User:Humus sapiens who wishes to start a Wikiportal/Israel See his request below. Thanks IZAK 06:39, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi IZAK (and everyone else here :), Do you think it's time to create Wikiportal/Israel similar to Wikiportal/India, Wikiportal/New Zealand and other Category:Wikiportals? I'm writing this here because it was you who made those wonderful templates and we don't have a portal yet where we could communicate. What do you think? ←Humus sapiens←Talk 05:26, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi Humus, it's only me here, but I will pass your message on to "everyone". Yes, your suggestion is excellent, it is certainly time for what you describe, but I have no experience with Wikipedia portals, and if you know how, go ahead and start an Israel portal and I am sure editors of Israel-related articles will support you and join in the effort/s. Behatzlachah. IZAK 05:33, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Joseph Perl
Hi, I also created an English language page for the novel Revealer of Secrets, said to be the first modern Hebrew novel. --Metzenberg 13:01, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * OK. But there is no parallel Hebrew article, so I cannot add an interwiki link. Netan'el 09:03, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

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Jiulongpo, Chongqing

Jiulongpo is a district forming part of the western part of the Chongqing urban core (重庆主城区). Its total population is around 675,000, while its urban city population is nearly 650,000 (2005).

Location
Jiulongpo is one of the main districts in Chongqing, around which are Yuzhong, Shapingba and Dadukou, while Banan and Nan'an are separated from Jiulongpo with rivers. The government of Jiulongpo is in Yangjiaping.

Schools
The following schools are in Jiulongpo District:

 * Chongqing Yucai Middle School
 * Chongqing Qinghua Middle School

Metro
Jiulongpo is currently served by two metro lines operated by Chongqing Rail Transit:
 * - Xietaizi, Shiqiaopu
 * - Yuanjiagang, Xiejiawan, Yangjiaping, Chongqing Zoo, Dayancun, Mawangchang

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NYX (comics)

NYX is a limited series of comic books by Marvel Comics, consisting of seven issues, published between 2003 and 2005. It is written by Joe Quesada with art by Joshua Middleton (issues #1–4) and Rob Teranishi (issues #5–7). NYX stands for District X, New York City.

The series features homeless teenage mutants in New York City: time-freezing Kiden, shape-shifting Tatiana, body-shifting Bobby, his mysterious brother Lil Bro, the female clone of Wolverine (X-23), and Cameron, a woman with no powers. The third issue of the series featured the first comic book appearance of X-23, a character originally created on the X-Men: Evolution cartoon. Although the series was cancelled in 2005, a sequel 6-issue miniseries titled NYX: No Way Home was released in 2009.

A second volume is scheduled to release in July 2024 as part of the X-Men: From the Ashes event which relaunches the X-Men line. The series will focus on former X-Men students and Kamala Khan as they adapt to life in New York City in the post-Krakoan Age when mutants are hated and feared even more due to the actions of Orchis. Laura Kinney (formerly X-23) is the only announced returning character.

Publication history
In 2001 writer Brian Wood developed a concept of the series for Marvel with artist David Choe that was to launch Marvel's MAX imprint. The ongoing series, focusing on the characters and how their powers affect their lives, friends and family, was to star Gambit, Rogue, and Jubilee, as well as Angie and Purge, two new characters Wood had created for the series. After Marvel aborted the project, deeming it not suitable for their audience, Wood used parts of this concept for his series Demo.

NYX was planned as an ongoing series, but later was shortened to a miniseries. Throughout the entire publication, there were often long delays between issues because Quesada had always been late with scripts. The first five issues of the series were reprinted in two Marvel Must Haves issues in the summer of 2005, before the sixth issue was released in July. The seventh and last issue was released in September 2005.

Failed spin-off
A second series of NYX was planned for release in 2007, but never materialized.

No Way Home
At the 2008 New York Comic Con, a new NYX series was officially announced to launch in August 2008. NYX: No Way Home is written by Marjorie M. Liu, with art by Kalman Andrasofszky.

Cecilia Reyes makes an appearance in NYX: No Way Home #4.

X-Men: From the Ashes relaunch
A second volume of NYX is scheduled to start in July 2024 as part of the X-Men line relaunch. It will be written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing with art by Francesco Mortarino. The series will center on Kamala Khan (codename Ms. Marvel), Laura Kinney (codename Wolverine), Anole, Prodigy and Sophie Cuckoo as the mutant community in New York City adapts to the post-Krakoan Age.

Wannabe
The series starts with a flashback during which Kiden's father is killed during a drive-by shooting while he and Kiden are getting ice cream. Switching to the present, we see Kiden as an emotionally disturbed teenager who gets into an altercation with another student who is a Latin King gangbanger. She manifests her mutant power during a fight and unintentionally breaks the student's arm. He returns with a gun and she freezes time again before the bullet hits her, but it hits her teacher, Mrs. Cameron, instead. Several months later Mrs. Cameron, whose life has fallen apart as a result of the incident, attempts to commit suicide. Kiden shows up and rescues her after receiving a warning from the ghost of her father. A second vision tells them to visit the Hotel Brasil, where they find X-23, who is working as a prostitute, in a compromising position: standing over her john whose suicide she has just witnessed. The three escape together, but X-23's pimp is upset and sends a hit squad to Mrs. Cameron's apartment. Again, the ghost of Kiden's father warns them, just in time, to leave. Later they bump into Tatiana, who has turned into a dog-beast after touching a puppy that was hit by a car. Tatiana is able to scare away a mob after killing a cat and turning into a werecat. The runaways form a crew and live on the streets, begging for money and dumpsterdiving for food. Eventually they decide to return to Mrs. Cameron's apartment to find money and leave town. X-23's pimp, Zebra Daddy, tracks them down with the help of a banger named Felon, but again Kiden's father appears and warns them. During the confrontation at Mrs. Cameron's apartment, X-23 kills most of the pimp's gang before getting gunned down by Zebra Daddy. Mrs. Cameron falls out her apartment window, and Kiden then must decide whether to kill Zebra Daddy (who it turns out was her father's shooter) or save Mrs. Cameron. Remembering how Mrs. Cameron had taken a bullet for her, she opts to save her. Zebra Daddy is about to kill them but X-23 heals from her wounds and executes him. The team leaves together. In the denouement, it turns out Felon's little brother is also a mutant, and it was he who created the apparitions of Kiden's father. Kiden sends a letter to her mother, but the postman just misses her as she is moving out of NYC.

No Way Home
This series starts with Kiden, Tatiana, Bobby, and Lil' Bro living with Mrs. Cameron. Kiden is still looking for her parents. They come home one day to find Mrs. Cameron's apartment empty, ransacked, and covered in blood. They escape before the police arrive, but Kiden returns and finds clues to local gang banger D'Sean. While investigating his apartment, a scuffle breaks out. Tatiana bites D'Sean and shapeshifts into his likeness, then gets shot by D'Sean. Bobby knocks him out, but his gang comes in and starts a shoot-out. Kiden freezes time while holding Bobby, Lil' Bro, and Tatiana, who are able, then, to join her in the time-freeze. They take Tatiana to a hospital. The doctors realize she is a mutant when a blood transfusion makes her change shape into the donor, then call S.H.I.E.L.D. Kiden and Bobby find the gang leader. Bobby is forced to use his power to subdue him, but then loses most of his memories. Kiden, Bobby, and Lil' Bro then return to the hospital to rescue Tatiana. She hasn't fully recovered from her injuries, so they turn to Doc Reyes for help, but run away after they grow suspicious of her. Kiden then decides to track down Mrs. Palmer on her own after confronting a mysterious lady who is immune to Kiden's time-freezing powers. It turns out that Mrs. Palmer was used as bait to trap the team and exploit their mutant powers, assisted by the ghost of Kiden's dead father. As her father died, he saw into the future and realized that there is only one possible future in which Kiden survives, so he comes back to Earth as a ghost. He makes a deal with a mysterious organization to ensure her survival, but their plan is that only Kiden will survive. Tatiana is able to sneak out by drinking the blood of a mysterious "Sniper Chick" and posing as her. Lil' Bro kills her using one of his apparitions. It turns out the mysterious woman is also the daughter of the leader of the secret facility. Mr. Nixon's ghost apologizes for Kiden killing his daughter, and the man seems indifferent to his own daughter's death since he was able to see Lil' Bro's apparitions cause physical harm. He promises not to hurt Kiden, but will continue to monitor the team. The team escapes the facility and drops Mrs. Palmer at a hospital. They then vow to stay together and to "keep surviving".

Volume 1

 * Kiden Nixon – Mutant with the ability to slow down time and/or speed up her personal time line. Also sometimes thought to have precognitive abilities because Felon's "lil bro" used his abilities of projection to manipulate her during the story.
 * Tatiana Caban – Mutant with the ability to shapeshift into any animal or human whose blood she touches.
 * Cameron Palmer - Kiden Nixon's former teacher. She is a human. When she attempted suicide, Kiden saved her and roped her into the X-23 situation.
 * Bobby Soul – Mutant with the ability to project his consciousness into other individuals and take control of their bodies. A side effect is that he suffers from varying degrees of amnesia after returning to his own body. He is also known as Felon.
 * Lil' Bro – Bobby Soul's mute, autistic little brother. He is shown to have unknown psionic abilities that are somehow connected to Kiden's visions of the ghost of her dead father. It is insinuated that he became non-responsive after having been sexually abused by one of his mother's boyfriends.
 * X-23 – Mutant with adamantium claws and regenerative healing factor. She works as a prostitute who specializes in cutting masochistic patrons. She rarely speaks and is known to engage in self-abuse (specifically, cutting).
 * Zebra Daddy – X-23's pimp. He claims to love her more than any of his other 'merchandise', but he doesn't even know her name and ultimately views her as disposable property.
 * Hector Morales – Kiden's school enemy, who repeatedly attacks her, though always failing to make an impact, and even tries (and fails) to kill her. He winds up in prison.
 * Sniper Chick – A new character introduced in the second volume. Not much is known about her except that she is immune to Kiden's time-freezing powers and is the daughter of the head of the organization that attempts to kidnap the team.
 * Nick Nixon – Kiden's police officer father, killed during a drive-by. He returns from the dead and initiates the events that bring the teens together; some of the visions of him are as a ghost, as explained in No Way Home, and some are Lil' Bro's psychic projections (in Wannabe).

Volume 2

 * Kamala Khan – A mutant/Inhuman hybrid also known as Ms. Marvel who has recently relocated from Jersey City to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
 * Laura Kinney – The former X-23 who now goes by the codename Wolverine; she will be a hero in Brooklyn focused on "saving mutants from harm on the streets of Bushwick".
 * Anole – A former X-Men student who becomes "a bartender at the city's most popular bar".
 * Prodigy – A former X-Men student who becomes "a historical record keeper of mutant history".
 * Sophie Cuckoo – A former X-Men student attempting to find her way without her identical sisters.

Reception
The series' initial portrayal of Laura Kinney as an underage prostitute was poorly received by fans and critics, with the character's creator Craig Kyle also criticizing the creative decision.

Critics from IGN reviewed the series NYX: No Way Home. Daniel Crown gave issue #1 a score of 6.3 out of 10. Jesse Schedeen gave issue #2 a score of 7.8 out of 10. Jesse Schedeen also reviewed issue 3 giving it a score of 8.5 out of 10.

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