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Timeline of 21st-century Muslim history

2001

 * Damascus Spring is brought to an end by the arrest of ten civil society activists who were sentenced to between two and ten years.
 * Over several weeks beginning on March 2, the Taliban began the systematic shelling and dynamiting of two giant sixth century Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Banyam valley in central Afghanistan. Mullah Mohammed Omar justified the destruction of this UNESCO World Heritage Site on the ground that they were idols under Islamic law.
 * On September 11, members of the Al Qaeda terrorist organization attacked the United States by hijacking commercial airliners and flying them into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, killing upwards of three thousand. In response the United States government would declare a war on terror, beginning with the invasion of Afghanistan.
 * The 7.7 Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 13,805–20,023 dead and about 166,800 injured.

2002

 * General elections in Pakistan are held after the 1999 military takeover. PML (Q) led by Mian Muhammad Azhar, a pro-military party, gains majority throughout Pakistan. Mir Zafrullah Khan Jamali became the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
 * The riots between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat, India. More than 5000 reported killed, most of them Muslims.
 * A terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda kills more than 200 people in the 2002 Bali bombings.
 * Chechen rebels take 800 hostages in the Moscow theater hostage crisis.

2003

 * The United States leads the invasion of Iraq, searching for "weapons of mass destruction," starting the second Iraq War. As a result of US De-Ba'athification policy, former Iraqi soldiers and police form secret groups and begin insurgency.
 * Shirin Ebadi becomes the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in promoting human rights.
 * On April 5 Israel conducts the Ain es Saheb airstrike near Damascus, claiming the site was a terrorist training facility for members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
 * Truck bombings in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kill 34.
 * Spanish restaurant and Jewish centers attacked in Casablanca, Morocco, killing 43 people.
 * Attack on hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia kills 10.
 * 52 killed in suicide attacks on British and Jewish targets in Istanbul.

2004

 * The second-largest earthquake ever recorded occurs in the Indian Ocean, triggering the Asian tsunami. Indonesia suffers the heaviest damage with 167,736 dead, 37,063 missing and over 500,000 displaced.
 * Pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution coalition forces hand over sovereignty of Iraq to caretaker government.
 * Photos and documentation reveal extensive torture and abuse of prisoners by US military personnel at Abu Ghraib.
 * US troops assault the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

2005

 * Iraq holds election for National Assembly whose task was to draft constitution, which was ratified by popular vote that same year.
 * Local body elections are held in Pakistan on non-party basis.
 * Saudi Arabia's King Fahd dies. Fahd's brother Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz, who had assumed de facto leadership of the country after King Fahd suffered a debilitating stroke in 1994, is declared king.
 * A powerful, 7.6-magnitude earthquake hits the Azad Kashmir region of Pakistan, killing upwards of 73,000 people.
 * On October 8 an earthquake in Pakistan kills thousands and leaves families homeless in Khyber-Pakhunkha/Hazara region. Multi story apartment building in Islamabad also collapsed.
 * Israel removes Jewish settlers and military personnel from the Gaza Strip in August 2005, but continues control of its borders.
 * Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wins Iranian presidential election.
 * A high turnout among Muslims in Iraq parliamentary elections, despite insurgency.
 * US attacked Iraq & casualties in Iraq pass the 2000 mark.

2006

 * Israel invades part of Lebanon in pursuit of Hezbollah
 * Execution by hanging of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein after being found guilty of crimes against humanity.
 * Muhammad Yunus wins Nobel Peace Prize for successful application of microcredit schemes to poor entrepreneurs in Bangladesh.

2007

 * Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan after 10 years of self-imposed exile.
 * Death of Benazir Bhutto in an attack by terrorist at Liaqat Bagh, Rawalpindi. General elections were rescheduled.

2008

 * In November 2008, 10 Pakistani members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic militant organization, carried out a series of twelve coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai, India.

2009

 * President Barack Obama delivers an address at Cairo University promising "A New Beginning" in US-Muslim relations.

2010

 * Last US combat troops leave Iraq.
 * Rima Fakih becomes the first Miss USA winner to claim the Muslim faith.

2011

 * Tunisian Revolution, an intensive campaign of civil disobedience and protests begun in December 2010, ousts long-time President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali—the first of a series of upheavals known as Arab Spring.
 * January 25 Revolution, a series of demonstrations, civil disobedience and strikes in Egyptian urban areas, part of the Arab Spring movement, resulted in the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, who turned power over to a Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
 * Crack down in Syria on protests inspired by Arab Spring leads to Syrian Civil War. The opposition rebels are largely Sunni Muslims while loyalists are largely Alawites. A refugee crisis ensued with over 2 million Syrian refugees fleeing to Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon.
 * Militant uprising of the professional class, defecting soldiers and Islamists later backed by French, British and US airpower topple administration of Muammar Gaddafi (who is captured and executed), the power of which was assumed by the rebels' organization the National Transitional Council.
 * Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden killed by US Special Forces inside Pakistan.

2012

 * Mohamed Morsi, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, becomes the first democratically elected president in Egyptian history.

2013

 * June 2013 Egyptian protests, a mass public demonstration against the administration of Mohamed Morsi, followed by a military coup d'état in which Morsi was deposed and arrested. After leading protests against the coup, the Muslim Brotherhood is officially banned by the end of the year.
 * 2013 was the year in which the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) adopted that name. The group expanded its territorial control in Syria and began to do so in Iraq also, and committed acts of terrorism in both countries and in Turkey. See also: Timeline of ISIL-related events (2013)

2014

 * Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant invades Northern Iraq.
 * In early 2014, the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) captured extensive territory in Western Iraq in the Anbar campaign, while counter-offensives against it were mounted in Syria. Raqqa in Syria became its headquarters. The Wall Street Journal estimated that eight million people lived under its control in the two countries. In June the group proclaimed a "worldwide caliphate" and shortened its name to just "Islamic State" (IS). See also: Timeline of ISIL-related events (2014)
 * On August, according to statements by the Iraqi government and others, ISIL militants buried alive an undefined number of Yazidi women and children in northern Iraq in an attack that killed 500 people.   Those who escaped across the Tigris River into Kurdish-controlled areas of Syria on 10 August gave accounts of how they had seen individuals also attempting to flee who later died.        Thousands of Yazidi women and girls were forced into sexual slavery by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and thousands of Yazidi men were killed. See also: Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL
 * Islamic extremist group Boko Haram kidnaps 276 female students in northeast Nigeria.
 * Badush prison massacre On 10 June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) killed at least 670 Shia prisoners in an attack on Badush prison. ISIL first separated out the Sunni inmates before executing the remaining prisoners.  Moreover, there were 39 Indian construction workers who were executed in the region.
 * Camp Speicher massacre occurred on 12 June 2014, when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) killed 1,700 or more Iraqi people in an attack on Camp Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq. At the time of the massacre, there were between 5,000 and 10,000 unarmed cadets in the camp, and ISIL fighters selected the Shias and non-Muslims for execution. It is the second deadliest act of terrorism in history.

2015

 * 3 February: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released a video of Jordanian hostage Muath al-Kasasbeh being burned to death while locked in a cage. Also, ISIL launched another incursion into Arsal, Lebanon, from their base in the countryside near the Syrian border to the west of Flitah, making it the deadliest ISIL incursion into Lebanon since their incursion into Arsal in August 2014. See also: Timeline of ISIL-related events (2015)
 * Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen is an intervention launched by Saudi Arabia on 26 March 2015, in response to calls from the pro-Saudi president of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi for military support after he was ousted by the Houthi movement due to economic and political grievances, and fled to Saudi Arabia. The war received widespread criticism and had a dramatic worsening effect on Yemen's humanitarian situation, that reached the level of a "humanitarian disaster" or "humanitarian catastrophe",  and many have labelled it as a genocide.

2016

 * 9 February Iraqi government forces seized the final pocket of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) resistance in the Husayba Al-Sharqiyah District, which was the last ISIL-held village to the east of Ramadi, thus fully expelling ISIL from the area of Ramadi.   See also: Timeline of ISIL-related events (2016)
 * 2016 Karrada bombing On 3 July 2016, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants carried out coordinated bomb attacks in Baghdad that killed 340 civilians and injured hundreds more. a suicide truck-bomb targeted the mainly Shia district of Karrada, busy with late night shoppers for Ramadan. A second roadside bomb was detonated in the suburb of Sha'ab, killing at least five.
 * 17 October a major military campaign launched by the Iraqi Army and the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces to liberate the city of Mosul from the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. See also: Mosul liberation

2017

 * 10 July Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi officially announced the liberation of the city of Mosul from the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. See also: Timeline of ISIL-related events (2017)
 * 9 December Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announce of the complete liberation of Iraqi lands from the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known in the Middle East as Daesh (ISIL).

2018
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned that if the Austrian government closes Mosques and expels Muslims, it could lead to war. He said, “These measures taken by the Austrian prime minister are, I fear, leading the world towards a war between the cross and the crescent, "They say they're going to kick our religious men out of Austria. Do you think we will not react if you do such a thing?” he asked, quoted by AFP. “That means we're going to have to do something".

2019
India lockdown the entire Kashmir valley (a Muslim majority state)

2020

 * 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war from 27 September – 10 November was an armed conflict between Azerbaijan, supported by Turkey, and the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh together with Armenia, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

2023

 * June: Professional ice hockey player Nazem Kadri became the first Muslim to win the Stanley Cup for the Colorado Avalanche team.

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Talk:Kamehameha IV

moving
just like Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. see Wikipedia´s rule on naming monarchs. Antares911 23:56, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It was requested that Kamehameha IV be moved to either Kamehameha IV of Hawai'i, Kamehameha IV, King. I among others oppose such moves. As can be seen above, the poll went stale. Requests denied. Arrigo 13:05, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Instead of having to place opinions on multiple pages, we should follow the example of the users over at the we are so dumb Japan manual of style pages and move all related discussions to one place. Thus, I'm requesting that we move all discussions about the naming conventions of Hawaiian monarchs to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hawaii/Manual of Style. 青い(Aoi) 06:21, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Someone should add personal tragedy to this biography.

Neutrality?
No mention of the fact that his estate was insolvent and essentially had to be rescued by the legislature at his death to preserve property for the next monarch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.105.214.181 (talk) 23:33, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Royal consorts and monarchs
hi there. i´m trying to get a discussion going bit of mess at the moment. maybe you wanna join in and give your opinion? feel free ] 23:57, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Saints banner and category
Based on this individual being included in the Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church in the United States of America), I am adding the Category:Anglican saints and the Saints WikiProject banner to this article. I am awaiting reliable sources which can be used to add the content to the article. John Carter 20:03, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

dragonball z
was this guy the basis for the attack kamehameha? JTBX (talk) 18:11, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No, he was a real historical figure a century and a quarter before video games. W Nowicki (talk) 20:14, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

This is incorrect. The name of the attack was suggested based upon the name of the Hawaiian King. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.102.216.191 (talk) 18:10, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Liholiho II?
An unregistered user added Alexander Liholiho II in the lead with no source. Although he was generally known as "Alexander Liholiho", that is already a subset of the given name, and I cannot find any source of the "II" designation. W Nowicki (talk) 20:14, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I think the user was referring to Kamehameha II being Liholiho I which never was the case. He was named after his uncle but not there was never a "II".--KAVEBEAR (talk) 00:10, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Reign
This section contains one sentence about his having shot somebody, followed by four about a fancy dress ball. Pedantrician (talk) 23:05, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Why would Emma be dressed as the pagan greek goddess Cybele?
 * Also, the infobox says he reigned until 1864, but his death date is 1863. Mark Froelich (talk) 06:44, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

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Early Life
What is meant by the statement "He was the grandson of all the islands."? PurpleChez (talk) 13:27, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Judd’s quote
"It would probably be more accurate to describe the king's feeling as being antimissionary rather than anti-American. Dr. G. P. Judd spoke of this in one of his letters, saying, "The King, educated by the Mission, most of all things dislikes the Mission. Having been compelled to be good when a boy, he is determined not to be good as a man. Driven out by morning prayer meeting, Wednesday evening meeting, monthly concert, Sabbath school, long sermons, and daily exhortations, his heart is hardened to a degree unknown to the heathen. Naturally he chooses associates whose feeling and practices are in union with his own.""

He Ma‘i no ‘Iolani
There is no mention of the King's "birth chant". I know it is not necessary, and it is barely documented, but I thought it would be an interesting thing to add. There is only one credible source I could find on it:https://kaiwakiloumoku.ksbe.edu/article/mele-he-mai-no-iolani. Enzoya (talk) 02:39, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

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File:Westinghousememorial.jpg

This is a picture of the Westinghouse Memorial in Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I shot this photo myself with my camera phone. Jon144k 21:39, 16 April 2005 (UTC)

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User:MooVluvr

April Fredrickson (1978-present); resident of Pullman, Washington. Working at the Daily Grind Coffee House.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Closedown

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was SPEEDY DEL

Closedown
I'm not as familiar with the "This article is actively undergoing a major edit" tag as I probably should be so I left a note on the talk page indicating that I'd be putting it up for vfd. It had been sitting like this for 3 days, which seems like enough time for someone to make something of it if they intended to (especially after "locking" it in this manner). Considering the content I think deleteing it would be appropriate for now and if someone would like to make something of it later they can. Rx StrangeLove 02:49, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete under CSD criterion G2. Uncle G 03:08, 2005 Apr 17 (UTC)
 * Yup, definitely a Speedy candidate. Even though this article is on VfD, is it okay to slap a CSD notice on it? android↔talk 03:47, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * speedeleted. content was OMG BillyH is writing this article! . Mikkalai 04:42, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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Brigitte McMahon

Brigitte McMahon-Huber (born 25 March 1967 in Baar) is an athlete from Switzerland, who competed in triathlon.

McMahon competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She won the gold medal with a total time of 2:00:40.52, which until 2008 was the fastest time for a female in an Olympic triathlon. Her split times were 19:44.58 for the swim, 1:05:42.30 for the cycling and 0:35:13.64 for the run.

McMahon-Huber competed at the second Olympic triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing tenth with a total time of 2:07:07.73.

McMahon tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO) during an out of competition control in June 2005. She maintains that she did not take any doping until well after the 2004 Athens Olympics where she came 10th and that she did it for therapeutic reasons only. After the positive test she was immediately removed from the Swiss national team and was facing a two-year ban from triathlon. As a consequence she retired from the sport. Brigitte McMahon is a teacher at Kollegi Schwyz.

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Talk:Tim Hudak

What is the policy/procedure for replacing Infobox portrait images?
I realize this is a general question, but I'm asking it now because time is of the essence, I think, since an election is in the works in Ontario. The current image of Tim Hudak isn't the best portrait, particularly with the superimposed blue background. Although my photos are a bit grainy, I have just uploaded six portraits of Mr. Hudak, any of which I believe would be an improvement. I don't wish to break the Wikimedia Commons rules, nor do I wish to offend anyone. Thanks for any assistance. Laurel L. Russwurm 02:52, 5 May 2014 (UTC) Laurel L. Russwurm 02:52, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

'Right wing' as PoV
Perhaps we should take this discussion to the Canadian discussion board, rather than getting caught in a revert war.

Until then: the term "right wing" is commonly used on Wikipedia, including on the Conservative Party of Canada page. I don't think anyone would seriously dispute that Hudak is on the right-wing of the Tories. CJCurrie 02:40, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Again, some do not consider Tim Hudak to be right-wing at all, and in fact more moderate than some of the other Tories out there. This is why the description Blue Tory with a link should be provided, as there is a whole article on exactly where his political views are in relation to other tories. --Snickerdo 05:58, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Attending a Canadians for Bush rally and proposing the idea of chain gangs is pretty right-wing. Maybe this wasn't the case in 2005 when Hudak was first on the political scene but he's definitely a right-winger today.TurtleMelody (talk) 03:53, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Who are these people who do not consider Hudak to be right-wing? Please provide some references for this claim. Or are these just some guys down at the pub? Ground Zero | t 10:08, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

 * Hudak self-identifies as a "purple" Tory. MohammedMohammedمحمد 07:16, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Disputed passages
(i)

''[Hudak] was re-elected with a 5,878 vote margin in the redistributed riding of Erie—Lincoln in the 1999 provincial election, and was named Minister of Northern Development and Mines on June 17, 1999. The Globe and Mail noted that Hudak was given this position, in part, because of a lack of representation from Northern Ontario in the Progressive Conservative caucus.(cite: "Ontario Cabinet", Globe and Mail, 18 June 1999, A6.)

Comments: I'm not certain why this is controversial. Tim Hudak represents an electoral division in the Niagara peninsula, far removed from Northern Ontario. He was appointed Minister of Northern Development and Mines at a time when the Ontario PCs had only two members from Northern Ontario: Premier Mike Harris and Deputy Premier Ernie Eves. (One could quibble that only half of Eves's Parry Sound-Muskoka division is in the north, but this is beside the point of the present discussion). It's unusual for a Niagara representative to be named as the minister for Northern Ontario; this fact was noted by the Globe and Mail at the time of Hudak's appointment. Where exactly is the problem here?

(ii)

''In April 2003, [Hudak] accepted an invitation to take part in a "Canadians for Bush|Bush" rally organized by Tristan Emmanuel in support of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. While attending the rally, he nonetheless distanced himself from Emmanuel's controversial remarks about gays and Muslims. (cite: Andrea Baillie, "Ont. cabinet ministers to attend rally; organizer has called gays 'deviant'", Canadian Press, 11 April 2003; "Numbers down at peace rallies across Canada", Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 14 April 2003, A7; Corey Larocque, "Former battleground to be site of rally: Demonstrators to support Bush", Niagara Falls Review, 4 April 2003, A5.)

Comments: I can understand why Hudak would be disinclined to highlight his support for the invasion of Iraq, but the fact remains that he (and Jim Flaherty) accepted Emmanuel's invitation to attend the rally. The presence of two Ontario ministers at the "Canadians for Bush" event was noted in the national press; so to was Hudak's rejection of Emmanuel's rather disturbing opinions on gays and Muslims.

For a more complete context, please consider this passage from a Canadian Press report filed by Andrea Baillie on 11 April 2003:

 * In the July 8, 2002, issue of the Edmonton-based journal The Report, which bills itself as an ``independent newsmagazine, Emmanuel refers to gays as ``sexual deviants.

 * In the Dec. 12, 2002, edition of the California-based Web magazine Razormouth, he wrote: ``Islam is as far from peace, as hell is from heaven.''

 * Despite such writings, Consumer Minister Tim Hudak and Enterprise Minister Jim Flaherty still planned Friday to attend the event.

 * ``(Minister Hudak) totally disagrees ... and distances himself from any of those comments,'' said Chris Eby, a spokesman for Hudak.

 * ``The rally is not about supporting this individual _ the rally is about showing support for our neighbours and the troops in Iraq.''

I would suggest that Tim Hudak's public support for George W. Bush's most important foreign-policy decision is worthy of inclusion on our project, and I would remind other contributors that we don't remove information simply because it might inconvenience the subject. (Btw, I notice that a number of IPs tried to remove the "Canadians For Bush" reference just before the Ontario PCs held their vote on John Tory's leadership. I'll refrain from drawing the obvious conclusion.)

Incidentally, I suspect that it might constitute a conflict of interest for someone working on Hudak's campaign to enter into an edit war over "Canadians For Bush". CJCurrie (talk) 23:08, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

I'll accept the fact that he attended the rally, but the reference to Emmanuel is dragging up mud necessarily. I recall around that point that while the Iraq War was very unpopular outside of the US, there are also some concern that this could damage trade relationships. GoldDragon (talk) 02:41, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Funny thing ... I was just going to say that I was willing to drop the reference to Emmanuel. I don't have a problem with your revised version of this paragraph.
 * Now, can you tell me why you're opposed to including the G&M's observation about a Niagara-area MPP being appointed Northern Affairs Minister? This doesn't strike me as controversial, and I'm genuinely curious as to why you would raise an objection.  CJCurrie (talk) 04:58, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

The fact that the event was organized by Tristan Emmanuel has no place on a description page of Tim Hudak. If it where on a page for Tristan Emmanuel or a page for the event itself it would be fine, but its unnecessary and very poor form to link the two. (Especially if you knew the circumstances behind the event/invitation) Also, you said you would be willing to drop the referance to Tristan,  so stick with your word :) KoDeNichols (talk) 03:35, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

 * My problem with the last edit is that it removed some citations, in addition to the Emmanuel reference. I have no problem with removing the latter, provided the former is retained.  Incidentally, I'm aware that Hudak made an effort to distance himself from Emmanuel in the buildup to the event (he isn't that kind of right-winger), but I'm not familiar with the circumstances behind the actual invitation.  Please enlighten me.  CJCurrie (talk) 04:49, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Well, to my understanding, certain guests weren't informed as to who they would be sharing the stage with. Seemed like kind of a bait-and-switch to me the way I heard it. Sorry for the clumbsy edit, I'm rather new at this :) KoDeNichols (talk) 04:13, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Progressive Conservative Party Leader
Hudak is now leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. However there is little in this article about his views. Could someone please add to the article what his stated positions are. The Four Deuces (talk) 05:19, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

I just saw Hudak speak last night at a function in Richmond Hill, although brief he was inclined to state that he was concerned about the vast majority of unnecessary organizations in Ontario who are primarily funded through taxpayers. He also spoke about the excessively beaurocratic nature or parliamentary positions, some of which he would like to see eliminated and funding redirected to front line services at provincial levels.

POV tag
Added a tag. This article reads like a collection of press releases. Removed a couple of the worst examples of POV under 'official opposition.'Blotto adrift (talk) 03:50, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

I re-added the tag, the section of his time in opposition is filled with weasel word, I will clean it up later. 174.114.87.236 (talk) 23:11, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Marijuana
Added the fact that he smoked marijuana like a cigarette to the personal life section — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.191.137.135 (talk) 03:36, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Seems pretty trivia. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate dump of information. Ground Zero | t 10:34, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

POV-Background
I have added and cited the information that Tim Hudak completed his masters degree on a full scholarship to the University of Washington. I have also removed the phrase "put himself through university" by working as a border patrol agent. The issue here is very simple. Whoever keeps removing the fact that Hudak got a full scholarship to a U.S. school is doing so for partisan reasons. Mr. Hudak has condemned the government for offering scholarships to international students, even though he himself benefited from an international scholarship. It is therefore very clear why the editor in question has removed the scholarship info and used terminology about Hudak putting himself through university, which I find to be biased language. PLEASE HELP ME STOP THIS EDITOR FROM ALTERING TRUE AND CITED INFORMATION FOR POLITICAL REASONS. Thanks. Atswoyc (talk) 14:57, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

I have once again added the information that Tim Hudak received a full scholarship to attend the University of Washington. This info was deleted for reasons I cannot understand. I ask the editor who has been removing this info to explain why Hudak's full academic scholarship is not relevant to his background information. Please make your case. Thanks. Atswoyc (talk) 13:51, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

"Riding" vs "Constituency"
I would suggest that the word "riding" be replaced in this article in the information panel and elsewhere as it is a Canadianism that is not widely used elsewhere. The word "constituency" is more standard English in an international setting.

While one might argue that most people interested in this article would be Canadian and not find "riding" unusual, surely the more widely used term would be appropriate for Wikipedia. 95.209.131.107 (talk) 17:42, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

I disagree. The words riding and constituency are not synonymous, nor even similar. A person's constituency may be within their riding, but their riding is a geographically defined political boundary while their constituency is their voter base. Although I see it far too often, Wikipedia is not supposed to be "dumbed down" to appeal to terms "not widely used elsewhere", despite the fact that riding is a term very widely used in the countries comprising the old British Empire. Ark Royal Toronto 17:37, 13 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pmayall (talk • contribs)

 * I agree, in Canada the term "riding" is used for the electoral district. MohammedMohammedمحمد 07:18, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

I removed POV tags
Two NPOV tags had been put up, in 2010 and 2011, and the article seems to have been corrected since then. I see no POV in the article now.Closedthursday (talk) 22:56, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Person-years math in Hudak's jobs plan
"Economists say bad math led to Tim Hudak’s million jobs projection" http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario_election/2014/05/28/hudak_brushes_aside_criticism_of_jobs_numbers.html

At some point in Hudak's plan the calculation involved a hokey conversion from person years to jobs by multiplying by a factor involving the number of years when the jobs would be created. These jobs were theoretical "if plans worked out"--these jobs should materialize.Oldspammer (talk) 04:12, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Economic outlook if Hudak elected
The economic outlook for most nations is that their debt is ever climbing as is the interest payments due each year to carry that debt. Ontario 2014 debt was high and that is why Hudak wanted to cut Ontario government spending by laying off workers. Increasing debt comes from yearly deficits, and reduced tax revenues when there is high unemployment, and results in commodities price inflation when more money is borrowed to pay the yearly interest owing. Some naive students of economics (possibly Hudak himself) believe that jobs are created by fostering a nice environment for employers, but this is a fallacy without domestic customers with money (an income from a job) willing to pay for the goods or services offered. Without enough gainfully employed customers, the result is forgone--company bankruptcy, money gone down the drain.

Fiat money comes from a customer borrowing it from a bank and promising to pay it back plus interest--it does not come from depositor's cash, but from "credit." Countries like Canada are also borrowers of money from the private banks. The bank creates the money out of nothing and provides the customer with the funds. When all money is borrowed at interest, then money is debt as well as a means of exchange.

At the early stages of the 2014 election campaign Hudak was making speeches saying that he was going to eliminate the debt. If the debt is the money supply or some large component of it, eliminating the debt would require eliminating the money supply or most of it plus any interest owing. It would have been more appropriate if Hudak had said that he was going to shrink the debt to more manageable levels given the employment situation being unable to sustain current spending levels with existing tax revenues. When the money supply is shrunken to minimal levels, market liquidity is eliminated so the stock market goes down, unemployment skyrockets, and an economic depression happens.

If 2014 voters realized the various logical fallacies involved in Hudak's platform, it was likely the cause of his party losing the election since early polls had his party ahead of the others. Oldspammer (talk) 04:19, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

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Category:Triathletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Talk:David Stove

Comments
206.173.47.7 23:59, 27 July 2007 (UTC) It would be very helpful if the article presented appropriate criticism of Stove's position.

I also dispute the point of view of this article. I ran by Stove's views in The Rationlaity of Induction by those interested in such matters. It is a terrible argument. He is "confused indeed" said one. David Stove simply is not a good philospher.

I'd like to see a little more arguments, gentlemen. Here ...

I DISPUTE THE POINT OF VIEW OF THIS ARTICLE FOR SCOTT CAMPBELL IS A FOLLOWER OF DAVID STOVE AND THE BIAS STILL SHOWS : "witty attacks...etc"

... and here. --84.146.40.95 01:36, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Some reply to the comments above is in order.
 * 1. Yes, links to critics are noted on the talk page below, and will be added to the article in due course.
 * 2. I wonder if the anonymous editor's anonymous friends consistitute a peer-review better than Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which cites Stove in five topics. Forgive me if I doubt that "those interested" had five cites between them.
 * Cheers. Alastair Haines (talk) 12:19, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Recent edits
In recently going through and trying to clean up the POV of the older entry, I believe there are several statements, which seem to be the original author's interpretations and not Stove's. For example:

"What he calls the 'Cave Men' theory - a view that T. H. Huxley often resorted to - says that while the "Darwinian struggle" no longer occurs in extant human populations it did so amongst cave-men"

If the statement about Huxley is not part of Stove's argument then it should, it seems to me, have some citation to document that it is correctly attributed to Huxley.

I did not add a section of criticisms of Stove's view, but I agree with the comments at the top of this page that this entry should have such a section, as do most other entries about philosophers.--Calamus 2355 EDT, 31 July 2006

Death
This article implies Stove died of cancer. However I have been told by a reliable source that his death was due to suicide. Does anyone know the full story? -- FP 02:41, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * I've got the full story and added to the article. -- FP 03:02, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)

The addition contained one error, which I (who am David Stove's son) have taken the liberty of correcting. My mother did not predecease Dad; although she had a massive stroke less than a year before Dad's death, she actually survived him by seven years. -- User:Respighi (a.k.a. R. J. Stove), 14:06, May 6, 2006

NPOV?
Could this entry possibly be any more starry-eyed and adoring? I mean come on. Can comeone clean this drool up so it's a little more in line with the NPOV policy?
 * "...easily the wittiest philosopher of all time..."
 * "...witty and devastating..."
 * "...a semi-mythical status in philosophy of science circles..."
 * "...Stove mercilessly and hilariously exposed the methods by which Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyeraband managed to make their philosophies seem respectable..."
 * "...What made Stove a great thinker..."
 * "...brilliantly original argument..."

 * I've edited the text to make it more netural. The anonymous commentator above might like to read it again.
 * Scott Campbell.

 * There's no doubt that Stove could be hilarious. The first part of "Four Modern Irrationalists" is a complete hoot.  It reminds me a bit of the monologues of Australian comedian Paul Hogan.  I actually disagree with Stove about almost everything, but I've never read anything by him that is not instantly engaging, whether delightful or infuriating.

 * I don't know anything about David Stove except what I read in this wikipedia article., but if this is what the "more neutral" version of the article looks like I'd be terrified to see what the previous version was like. It's obviously a good thing for the article to present Mr. Stove's views, at the article as it stands is laudibly comprehensive in that respect. But this is wikipedia, so it needs to be written as [i]descriptions[/i] of Mr. Stove's views, whereas this is just relentless advocacy for Mr. Stove's views. --awk

 * Perhaps you would like to actually provide some examples of "relentless advocacy" in this article if you are going to make such a claim?
 * Dextux 12:24, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

 * In this particular article, I must admit I resent the NPOV requirement, I'm sad to see all those true and verifiable comments about David Stove consigned to the talk page archives. C'est la vie — Ned Kelly. Alastair Haines (talk) 11:37, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

The reason why no sufficient critcisms have yet been added?
Perhaps because Stove is so irrelevant to the global philosophical community that nobody bothers. Those who know of him know he is a crackpot and that he is himself a prime example of his enfant-terriblism. Just a thought.

 * I'm not sure if I agree with the statement that Stove is "irrelevant" or a "crackpot". Look around the internet and you'll find a number of very well educated individuals who have high respect for his philosophical views.

 * LoL, I'm not sure many have managed to come up with criticisms of Stove that cut the mustard in the guild. Several of his friends disagree with him on various issues, both serious analytical issues, and undoubtedly many social issues. However, the thing people seem to most appreciate about him is his ability to "clip the wings" or "burst the bubble" of philosophical excesses. Common sense realism was not what I signed up for when taking philosophy, but they gave me Stove and I got it in spades. I still remember him patiently answering my stupid questions brilliantly, charmingly and entertainingly. He was a real gentleman. How slow I was to learn. Alastair Haines (talk) 11:29, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

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Critical reviews
Alastair Haines (talk • contribs) 10:44, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Scott Campbell, 'Defending Common Sense', review of David Stove, Against the Idols of the Age, in Partisan Review 67 (2000).
 * "[The Plato Cult] captures and records many of [Stove's] best comments, weaving them together into a caustic critique of what regularly passes for academic philosophy." — Andrew D. Irvine, Review of David Stove, The Plato Cult, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 14' (1994): 59–63.
 * "A none-too-gentle shaking does us good, once it was Moore who did the job. Nowadays it is above all Stove, and he does it with devastating wit. Naked emperors beware." — David Lewis
 * "Stove’s essays are elegant, insightful, beautifully crafted and enormously interesting. They are also outrageous, opinionated, occasionally unfair and almost always side-splittingly funny … He says things that need to be said and that others lack the courage — or foolhardiness — to say." — Stephen Stich of Rutgers University
 * "[Reading Stove] is like watching Fred Astaire dance. You don’t wish you were Fred Astaire; you are just glad to have been around to see him in action." — Michael Levin of the City University of New York
 * "As so often and so unfairly happens in intellectual history, [Stove's] reputation has grown considerably since his death. Long before this, though, he had a small circle of admirers, most of whom were academic philosophers, who appreciated not only his intellectual brilliance and the polish of his unadorned prose, but how very funny he invariably was." — Keith Windschuttle

 * Stove's 'Jazz Age' is reprinted in Anthony O'Hear, Karl Popper: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Routledge, 2004.

 * I feel I'm going to have to write up a summary of Popper and After at some stage.

 * I still hear people trumpeting falsifiability as the gold standard, not only of scientific theory, but of personal enterprise in various ways. They're not interested in listening to any other view, of course. If challenged, a smug smile, a straightening of the back, a spring in the step, a warm glow suffuses them. "Ah! Another poor soul who can't get past the counter-intuitive nature of falsificationism," they think. I should "go away and think about it" or "read Kuhn" they suggest.

 * Oh really!

 * Stove was one of many working to educate my generation, as well as his own. They were outnumbered, the results show in a number of places in our society today. Alastair Haines (talk) 15:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

OK, I'm doing a web-trawl for a bibliography.

 * David Charles Stove. The Rationality of Induction. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. @GoogleBooks and @Questia

"There are already signs of the rehabilitation of classical and logical probability, and in particular the principle of indifference and the principle of maximum entropy, by authors such as Stove (1986), Bartha and Johns (2001), Festa (1993), Paris and Vencovská (1997), and Maher (2000, 2001)."
 * Giaquinto, M. "The Rationality of Induction by D. C. Stove". Philosophy of Science 54 (1987): 612–615.
 * —Hajek, Alan. 'Probability: Interpretations of'. In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002.
 * [Notice something here, 1993 (Festa) minus 1986 (Stove) = 7 years, Hajek places Stove 10 years ahead of the rest!]

 * Bipin Indurkhya. "Some remarks on the Rationality of Induction". Synthese 85 (1990): 95–114.
 * Irvine, Andrew D. "Review of David Stove’s The Rationality of Induction", Canadian Philosophical Reviews 7 (1987): 464–466.
 * Rowan, Michael. 'Stove on the Rationality of Induction and the Uniformity Thesis'. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 44 (1993): 561–566.

Stove is cited five (5) times in the online version of the Stanford Encyclopedia, in the articles: He is actually cited twice more ... in the titles of works by other philosophers! (Critics though they are.)
 * 'Interpretations of Probability'
 * 'Karl Popper'
 * 'Miracles'
 * 'Pragmatic Arguments for Belief in God'
 * 'Russell's Moral Philosophy'
 * Brecher, Bob. 'Why Patronize Feminists? A reply to Stove on Mill.' Philosophy 68 (1993): 397-400.
 * Brown, DG. 'Stove's Reading of Mill'. Utilitas: A Journal of Utilitarian Studies 10 (1998): 122-126.

That's a start. There's a lot of cites for DC Stove. Interestingly, there tends to be an emotional element in most of them — respectful and appreciative of ideas and humour on one side, somewhat scathing on the other. That suggests to me "A hit! A hit! A very palpable hit!" Alastair Haines (talk) 10:36, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

I am going to be bold
Citations requested for references to David Stove's passing have not been provided. Unless this is considered worthy of publication in reliable sources, Wiki has no precedent to consider it appropriate, notable or relevant. A source that reported this would presumably also provide sufficient context for an adequate appreciation of any significant and relevant circumstances. In any case, since the text has been challenged, and no published citation provided, over the course of more than a year, I am removing the text. Alastair Haines (talk) 06:08, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

A deletion
I am deleting the sentences: "Rafe Champion has provided a rejoinder to the main claims against Popper, especially the claim that he led the rush to postmodernism. Nobody has been discovered (yet) who became a postmodernist or an irrationalist as a result of learning about critical rationalism and the philosophy of science from Popper or anyone who has a good understanding of his ideas." Stove never claimed that - only that Popper started the branch of the tree of research down which postmodernism lies. Feyerabend lies further along that branch, for instance; he clearly could not have written as he did without Popper's work, and he points very clearly to postmodernism - AG, Stockport. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.53.69.150 (talk) 17:44, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Stove's "Contrariness"
I don't see any reason to use the fawning term "contrariness" to describe Stove's views on race and gender. Why are these views contrary, and not simply bigoted or hateful? Stove said such things as
 * I believe that the intellectual capacity of women is on the whole inferior to that of men. By "on the whole," I do not mean just "on the average"; though I do mean that much. My belief is, if you take any degree of intellectual capacity which is above e average for the human race, as a whole, then a possessor of that degree of intellectual capacity is a good deal more likely to be man than a woman....
 * The question is a perfectly proper one morally and intellectually, and should not be hard to answer....The reasoning involved, then, is reasoning from inferior performance to inferior capacity. It is reasoning of the same general kind, therefore, as that which convinces us, even if we understand nothing of the internal make-up of cars, that Fords are on the whole inferior to Mercedes; or as that which convinces dog-fanciers that Irish setters are not as smart as labradors; or as that which convinces everyone that the intellectual capacity of seven-year-old children is on the whole inferior to that of nine-year-olds. They do not do as well, and we infer from this that they cannot do as well. (The Intellectual Capacity of Women)

This is trashy tabloid prejudice: it is not philosophy. I suggest we change the label of "contrariness" to "prejudices". Dr satsuma (talk) 13:01, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Those who accuse Stove of racism and sexism, besides obviously violating the standard of neutrality, have clearly read little to none of what he wrote. In "Racial and Other Antagonisms," Stove makes the point that "racism," "sexism," etc. are useless words because the statements usually associated with them are true or false regardless of whether they are "racist" or "sexist." (You will specifically find this argument on page 149 of "Against the Idols of the Age.") You can disagree with the positivism that led Stove to this view, but the impulse to accuse him of racism and sexism proves nothing more than the political bias of the critic. (My point here is about the comment in the article that Stove made "bigoted and sexist" comments.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thehumancontraband (talk • contribs) 17:59, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Dr satsuma (talk) 13:01, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

 * Those who accuse Stove of racism and sexism, besides obviously violating the standard of neutrality, have clearly read little to none of what he wrote.

Nonsense. If the man were still alive he's be pissed off at being labeled as a "contrarian". Stove happily embraced being a racist and a sexist and would be horrified to see his clear intent obscured by being called as anything so mealy-mouthed and milquetoast as "contrarian." The man's thinking was a miserable load of horse manure, rife with casual sophistries passed off as wisdom and stunning errors of fact and logic, all intended for the purpose of selling books by offering glib, vaguely intellectual-seeming arguments in support of reactionary ideology. There is no issue, no question, no matter of interest, on which the man can be said to have brought any kind of clarity or light or even answered coherently enough to constitute a good strawman.

But at least give the guy credit for owning his own words. He was racist and sexist. He was proud of it, or at least acted like he was. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.2.129.176 (talk) 14:06, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

He called bullshit on the term "racism", perhaps read it in context so it is hard to argue that in "his own words" he would have used "racist", the category he just rejected as phony, as a self-description. As for "sexist" we don't even have a reference where he uses the term in "his own words", let alone as a self-descriptor. All we have is an opinion on the distribution of "intellectual capacity", in principle verifiable (as long as "intellectual capacity" is reasonably well-defined), I don't see any "-ism" attached to that. I don't know that the claim does check out, though, but there is tons on research going on for decades trying to establish an authoritiative answer on just the point he expressed an opinion on, so it is hard to argue that he was completely outside of what is amenable to reasonable debate. Afaik it turns out the mean intelligence is almost gender-independent, but standard deviation is larger in males -- which (if true) would mean his opinion has been falsified, but in 1990 there wouldn't have been enough data to decide either way. --dab (𒁳) 21:09, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

 * So wait a minute: Stove was not a racist or a sexist because he didn't use those words to describe himself? And despite saying clearly that he thought racism was true?  That's... an almost Stovian argument.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.84.215.34 (talk) 14:31, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * Please note: Dispute resolution recommends first and foremost: "When you find a passage in an article that is biased or inaccurate, improve it if you can; don't delete salvageable text."--Aboudaqn (talk) 03:19, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

 * Over the next week, I undertake to salvage, so please desist from further wholesale deletions.--Aboudaqn (talk) 03:19, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

 * If you believe that there is anything of value in this version of the article, then please restore it piece by piece, in a carefully considered way, rather than engaging in a wholesale restoration of dubious content, as you did here. Large portions of the content you restored were uncited or tagged as possible original research; it definitely was not a helpful or appropriate thing to have done to simply restore all that material. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 05:11, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

 * FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) If you had followed your own advice and restored piece by piece, we wouldn't be here. You could still do so.  I volunteered to help.  I added back information per Wikipedia guidance.  I was coming back to trim (even hack) – but one or more people involved in this matter are too involved to accept any way but their way (even if other ways are Wikipedia's ways).  Over, out, and gone --Aboudaqn (talk) 13:52, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * I'm afraid that didn't go anywhere useful.

 * There's no need for there to be a dispute, much less dispute resolution. The material in question fails to meet Wikipedia inclusion standards in its current form and has been challenged by multiple editors. I understand that User:Aboudaqn would like to work on the material in place, but that's not an acceptable method of working up challenged content. It would be perfectly acceptable, however, for Aboudaqn to make a userspace copy of a past state of the page (with appropriate attribution) and work on improvements there. Leaving a pointer here would allow other interested editors to help. Once the material has been brought up to encyclopedia quality, it could be re-introduced section-by-section (taking care not to lose intervening contributions made in the interval). This will allow a vision of the "whole tree" before pruning, but do it out of the glare of the public eye.  — jmcgnh  (talk) (contribs)  15:43, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

 * Thank you. Just to state the obvious again: I have no objection to the possible restoration of some of the material that was removed so long as it is done in a carefully considered way and there are good reasons for it. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 23:51, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

 * Pass back to you two. There was far too much discourtesy going on for my taste. Besides, I'm getting tired of critics who will not do the work. Knock yourselves out, FreeKnowledgeCreator and jmcgnh! --Aboudaqn (talk) 22:05, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

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Talk:Stranger churches

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This needs editing more thoroughly - have put in a bit about Ochino, but it needs more about Laski...

It is an emerging area of historical scholarship, mainly by british scholars; it comes up in a number of recent essay collections on Foxe. See also the essays in the John Foxe project that mention the SC. Dan Knauss 17:14, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Children's anime and manga

Children's manga (子供向け漫画) and children's anime (子供向けアニメ) refer to manga and anime directed towards children. These series are usually moralistic, often educating children about staying in the right path in life. Each chapter is usually a self-contained story.

History
Manga aimed at children started in the late 19th century with the production of short manga, approximately 15 pages long, printed in magazines. These short manga were created as a part of the Meiji era's attempt to encourage literacy among Japanese youth. A major milestone in the popularity of anime was the creation of Astro Boy by Osamu Tezuka, who is often considered the father of anime.

Children's anime and manga can be divided into four categories. The first category consists of anime and manga adaptations of Western stories, such as World Masterpiece Theater. Most of them are TV series. Despite being popular, they are less representative of traditional Japanese anime. Instead, they are modeled after classical American or Soviet cartoons. The second category consists of adaptations of Japanese media and original works. They use linguistic gags, contain references to Japanese society, and may be harder to understand for non-Japanese audiences. They are in some ways similar to American animation. An example is Doraemon.

The third category, known as joji-muke (女児向け), consists of manga and anime aimed towards young girls, such as Hello Kitty. The fourth category, which is closer to shōnen, has connections with popular video game and toy franchises, and has the greatest commercial success. Kodomo manga magazines such as CoroCoro Comic and Comic BomBom primarily target young boys, especially those in elementary school, though some, such as Pucchigumi, target young girls. Popular kodomo manga is often adapted into anime and accompanied by a plethora of merchandise.

Awards
The annual Shogakukan Manga Award and Kodansha Manga Award each include a category for children's manga. The former first included a category for children's manga in 1981.

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Kingdom of Heaven

Kingdom of Heaven may refer to:

Religious

 * Kingdom of Heaven (Gospel of Matthew)
 * Kingship and kingdom of God, or simply Kingdom of God, the phrase used in the other gospels
 * Kingdom of Heaven (Daviesite), a schismatic sect, founded by William W. Davies, in the Latter Day Saint movement located near Walla Walla, Washington from 1867 to 1881

Songs

 * "Kingdom of Heaven", a song appearing on the 1966 album The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators by the 13th Floor Elevators
 * "Kingdom of Heaven", a song by the band Epica, appearing on their 2009 album Design Your Universe

Other uses

 * Kingdom of Heaven (film), a 2005 film, directed by Ridley Scott
 * Kingdom of Heaven (soundtrack), a soundtrack album from the film
 * Kingdom of Heaven, a partially lost Russian obituary show, that shows obituaries for dead Russians from 1991 to 1994. Played on RTR-1.

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User:Esto

I am proud of my Estonian heritage, but I'm equally proud to be Canadian. My area of expertise is in Canadian and Ontario politics.

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Rover P6

The Rover P6 series (named as the 2000, 2200, or 3500, depending on engine displacement) is a saloon car produced by Rover and subsequently British Leyland from 1963 to 1977 in Solihull, West Midlands, England, UK.

The P6 was the first winner of the European Car of the Year award.

Development
The P6 was announced on 9 October 1963, just before the Earls Court Motor Show. The vehicle was marketed first as the Rover 2000 and was a complete "clean sheet" design intended to appeal to a larger number of buyers than earlier models such as the P4 it replaced. Rover had identified a developing market between the standard '1.5-litre' saloon car class (such as the Ford Consul and the Singer Gazelle) and the accepted 'three-litre' large saloon cars (typified by the Wolseley 6/99 and the Vauxhall Cresta). Younger and increasingly affluent professional workers and executives were seeking out cars that were superior to the normal 1.5-litre models in style, design and luxury but which offered more modern driving dynamics than the big three-litre class and lower purchase and running costs than sports saloons such as the Jaguar Mark 2. Automotive technology had improved significantly in the mid-to-late 1950s, typified by the introduction of cars such as the Citroën DS and Lancia Flavia in Europe and the Chevrolet Corvair in America. The replacement for the traditionally-designed P4 would therefore be a smaller car with a two-litre engine (although a gas turbine was envisioned as power unit in the future) utilising the latest design, engineering and styling, thus making the Rover one of the earliest examples of what would now be classified as an executive car. The P6 would be lower-priced than the P4 and sales volumes were anticipated to be significantly higher. The more upmarket and conservative P5 was sold alongside the P6 until 1973.

The 2000 was advanced for the time with a de Dion tube suspension at the rear, four-wheel disc brakes (inboard on the rear), and a fully synchromesh transmission. The unibody design featured non-stressed panels bolted to a unit frame, inspired by the Citroën DS. The de Dion set-up was unique in that the "tube" was in two parts that could telescope, thereby avoiding the need for sliding splines in the drive shafts, with consequent stiction under drive or braking torque, while still keeping the wheels vertical and parallel in relation to the body.

The Rover 2000 won industry awards for safety when it was introduced and included a carefully designed "safety" interior. One innovative feature was the prism of plastic on the top of the front side lights. This allowed the driver to see the front corner of the car in low-light conditions, and also confirmed that they were operative. The relatively sharp plastic projections did not meet homologation standards in some export markets (including Germany), however, and so a lens with a smooth top was substituted where the law demanded.

One unique feature of the Rover 2000 was the design of the front suspension system, in which a bell crank (an L-shaped rotating bracket trailing the upper hub carrier joint) conveyed the vertical motion of the wheel to a fore-and-aft-horizontally mounted spring fastened to the rear wall of the engine compartment. A single hydraulically damped arm was mounted on the bulkhead for the steering. The front suspension was designed to allow as much width for the engine compartment as possible so that Rover's gas turbine engine could be fitted. The styling outline was first seen in the 1961 prototype T4, a front-engined front-wheel-drive gas turbine saloon, one of a line of gas turbine prototypes built by Rover in the 1950s and 1960s. T4 survives today and can be seen at the British Motor Museum.

In the event, the gas turbine engine was never used for the production vehicle, but the engine compartment width (with slightly amended shape) did facilitate the accommodation of the Buick-derived Rover V8 engine made available in the P6 from April 1968.

Sculptor Flaminio Bertoni's Citroën DS body inspired David Bache. With a nod to the new Kamm tail, the finished Rover appearance incorporated a necessarily enlarged boot filled otherwise by Rover's de Dion rear suspension. It lacked the Citroën shark nose, which it was planned to introduce later as a drooping bonnet with headlamps in pods and projecting sidelights.

Luggage compartment space was limited due to the complex rear suspension and, in Series II vehicles, the boot mounted battery. The spare wheel competed for space also, and was stored either flat on the boot floor or vertically to the side. A later optional 'touring package' allowed the spare to be carried on the boot lid; with a vinyl weatherproof cover. When not in place, the mounting bracket was concealed by a circular Rover badge. Series II models briefly offered Dunlop Denovo Run-flat tyre, eliminating the need for a spare, though this was not commonly selected and is very unusual on surviving examples.

The car's primary competitor on the domestic UK market was the Triumph 2000, also released in October 1963, just one week after the P6. In continental Europe, the Rover 2000 competed in the same sector as the Citroën DS which, like the initial Rover offering, was offered only with a four-cylinder engine – a situation which was resolved in the Rover when the V8 was engineered to fit into the engine bay. The Rover 2000 interior was not as spacious as those of its Triumph and Citroën rivals, especially in the back, where its sculpted two-person rear seat implied that customers wishing to accommodate three in the back of a Rover should opt for the larger and older Rover P5.

2000
The first P6 used a 2.0 L (1978 cc) engine designed specifically for the P6. Although it was announced towards the end of 1963, the car had been in "pilot production" since the beginning of the year, therefore deliveries were able to begin immediately. Original output was in the order of 104 bhp. At the time the engine was unusual in having an overhead camshaft layout. The cylinder head had a perfectly flat surface, and the combustion chambers were cast into the piston crowns (sometimes known as a Heron head). With the rapid construction of motorways around the world, many of which (including those in the United Kingdom in this period) had no upper speed limits, the P6's engine was developed to be efficient, smooth and reliable when driven at high speeds for long periods. It had 'square' dimensions where the cylinder bore and stroke were the same (85.7 mm or 3.4 in) to minimise piston speeds and bearing loads, which was very unusual amongst British saloon cars: these tended to have under-square (long stroke) engines, a lingering legacy of the pre-1947 horsepower tax system and the driving conditions encountered on British roads in the pre-motorway era.

Cars that were built until 1966 are referred to as early cars. The Rover 2000 had many detailed differences that changed over the first 3 years of production. Items such as exhaust systems, gear linkages and most visibly the front valance. It had vertical slats and was curved with no extra bumps which gave the car the nickname "sharks tooth". Also on these cars the boot-shuts and the door-shuts of the base unit were painted body colour. The cars varied very slightly in appearance because radio aerials, a heated rear window and a locking fuel cap were optional extras. Early instrument panels were not made of plastic. The speedometer only went up to 110 mph and the centre console and pedals were different on later cars.

There are a number of very early cars still in existence in some form. The earliest surviving production P6 is 102 FJJ which has a good number of original panels. It is being rebuilt around a 1965 base unit. Three of the FLK cars exist 143, 145 and 149, two of which have been lovingly restored. The gold car or the 100th 2000 off the production line also survives in restored condition.

Rover later developed a derivative of the engine by fitting twin SU carburettors and a redesigned top end and marketed the revised specification vehicles as the 2000 TC. The 2000 TC was launched in March 1966 for export markets in North America and continental Europe. Limited availability of the redesigned induction manifold needed for the twin-carburetter engine was given as one reason for restricting the 2000 TC to overseas sales. The manufacturers also stated pointedly that the UK's recently introduced blanket 70 mph (113 km/h) speed limit would make the extra speed of the new car superfluous on the domestic market. Fortunately for performance-oriented UK buyers, supplies of the redesigned inlet manifold must have improved and the company relented in time for the London Motor Show in October 1966 when the 2000 TC became available for the UK market. The 2000 TC prototypes had run in the Rally of Great Britain as part of their test programme. It featured a bigger starter motor and tachometer as standard and was identifiable by "TC" initials on the bodywork. The power output of the 2000 TC engine was around 110 bhp net. The standard specification engines continued in production in vehicles designated as 2000 SC models. These featured the original single SU.

3500
Rover saw Buick's compact 3.5-litre V8 from the Buick Special as a way to differentiate the P6 from its chief rival, the Triumph 2000. They purchased the rights to the innovative aluminium engine and once it was modified to allow its use by Rover, it became an instant hit. The Rover V8 engine, as it became known, outlived its original host, the P5B, by more than thirty years.

The 3500 was introduced in April 1968 (one year after the Rover company was purchased by Triumph's owner, Leyland) and continued to be offered until 1977. The manufacturer asserted that the light metal V8 engine weighed the same as the four-cylinder unit of the Rover 2000, and the more powerful car's maximum speed of 114 mph (183 km/h) as well as its 10.5-second acceleration time from 0–60 mph (97 km/h) were considered impressive, and usefully faster than most of the cars with which, on the UK market, the car competed on price and specifications. (The glaring exception was the Jaguar 340, which was substantially quicker than the Rover 3500 and was advertised at a 15 per cent lower manufacturer's recommended price, the Jaguar representing exceptional value as a "run-out" model, to be replaced later in 1968 by the Jaguar XJ6.)

In comparison, the Rover 3500 auto tested by Motor magazine in the issue published on 20 April 1968 achieved a maximum speed of 117 mph (mean), 0–60 mph in 9.5 seconds, with a standing quarter-mile in 17.6 seconds.

It was necessary to modify the under-bonnet space to squeeze the V8 engine into the P6 engine bay: the front suspension cross-member had to be relocated forward, while a more visible change was an extra air intake beneath the front bumper to accommodate the larger radiator. There was no longer space under the bonnet for the car's battery, which in the 3500 retreated to a position on the right side of the boot. Nevertheless, the overall length and width of the body were unchanged when compared with the smaller-engined original P6.

Having invested heavily in the car's engine and running gear, the manufacturer left most other aspects of the car unchanged. However, the new Rover 3500 could be readily distinguished from the 2000 thanks to various prominent V8 badges on the outside and beneath the radio. The 3500 was also delivered with a black vinyl covering on the C-pillar, although this decoration later appeared also on four-cylinder cars.

A 3-speed Borg Warner 35 automatic was the only transmission until the 1971 addition of a four-speed manual 3500S model, fitted with a modified version of the gearbox used in the 2000/2200. The letter "S" did not denote "Sport", it was chosen because it stood for something specific on those cars: "Synchromesh". However it is important to note that the 3500S was noticeably quicker than the automatic version of this car with a 0-60 mph time of 9 seconds, compared with 10.1 for the default, i.e. automatic, car. Moreover, due to the fuel-guzzling nature of automatic gearboxes of this era, the manual car's official cycle was 24 mpg compared to the automatic's 22 mpg.

The Rover 3500 was also assembled by Leykor in South Africa. A high compression version was added in 1971, with a high compression version of the V8 producing 184 hp. The P6 continued in South African assembly until being phased out during 1975; the SD1 arrived in 1977.

Series II
The Series II, or Mark II as it was actually named by Rover, was launched in 1970. All variants carried the battery in the boot and had new exterior fixtures such as a plastic front air intake (to replace the alloy version), new bonnet pressings (with V8 blips even for the 4-cylinder-engined cars) and new rear lights. The interior of the 3500 and 2000TC versions was updated with new instrumentation with circular gauges and rotary switches. The old-style instrumentation with a linear speedometer and toggle switches continued on the 2000SC versions.

The final years of the Rover P6 coincided with production problems at British Leyland. This was highlighted in August 1975 when Drive, the magazine of the British Automobile Association awarded a trophy to a Rover 3500 as the worst new car in England. It reported that a Rover 3500 purchased in 1974 had covered 6,000 miles (9,600 kilometres) during its first six months, during which period it had consumed three engines, two gearboxes, two clutch housings and needed a complete new set of electrical cables. The car had spent 114 of its first 165 days in a workshop. The runner-up prize in this rogue's gallery was awarded to an Austin Allegro with forty faults reported over ten months, and a Triumph Stag came in third. The story was picked up and reported in other publications, not only domestically but also in Germany, at the time Europe's largest national car market and an important target export market for the company. Further evidence of poor quality control on the 3500 assembly line at the Solihull plant appeared in a report in Autocar magazine in October 1976, surveying the experiences of company car fleet managers with the model, although the report also suggested, apparently wishing to appear even-handed, that at least part of the problem might have arisen from excessively optimistic expectations of the model.

2200
In order to try to meet exhaust emission requirements particularly in California various changes were made to carburation and exhaust. The engine capacity was increased ten percent to increase torque and minimise the loss in reported power output and the 2200 SC and 2200 TC replaced the 2000 SC and TC. Announced in October 1973 and produced through to the early part of 1977, it used a 2.2 L (2205 cc) version of the 2000 engine with the bore increased from 85.7 mm to 90.5 mm: the stroke was unchanged at 85.7 mm. Gear boxes on the manual transmission cars were strengthened to cope with the increased low speed torque. Nominal output fell to 98 bhp and 115 bhp for the SC (single carburettor) and TC (twin carburettor) versions respectively, on the road largely concealed by the improved torque.

The last 2200 came off the production line on 19 March 1977, a left-hand drive export version that was then converted to right-hand drive by Tourist Trophy Garage, Farnham. The 2200 originally fitted Pirelli Cinturato 165HR14 tyres (CA67) when leaving the factory.

Estates
While Triumph enjoyed considerable success with the estate version of their 2000 saloon, Rover seemed happy to leave that sector of the market entirely open to their old rival. However, Battersea-based coachbuilders FLM Panelcraft picked up Rover's dropped ball and produced their own estate conversion of the P6, called the Estoura. The name is presumably a contraction of the words 'estate' and 'tourer'. Although no actual figure for the production of the estate are known, due to a fire that destroyed the company records, amateur investigations by several Rover enthusiasts show a little over 200 cars were known to have been produced. The first estate was not an approved conversion, but from 1970 onwards the car was marketed (with the factory's blessing) by BL dealers HR Owen Limited and therefore factory warranties were carried forward.

The conversions were completed by H.R. Owen and Crayford Engineering, with bodywork executed by FLM Panelcraft. Crayford's involvement in the project was limited to the interior of the car, and the company had no bearing on the external design of the estate conversion. Nonetheless Crayford badged them as Crayfords for a while (implying that they built them) and only stopped after FLM threatened legal action. Conversions could be carried out at any time in the car's life. Most conversions appear to have been carried out when the cars were 12 months old or older because if a car was converted when new, the conversion would be liable for Purchase Tax like the car itself.

Due to the cost of the conversion (about £800) it would appear that most were carried out on the 3500 rather than on the 2000, with even fewer 2200s made. In comparison with the Triumph 2000 estate, the Rover Estoura was of limited practicality. The quality of the conversion also left a great deal to be desired, with the estate conversion being pop-riveted on to the back end of the modified vehicle, with little rust-proofing or paint applied. As a result, the back end of the vehicles often rusted out, and several estate "pods" were subsequently transferred from one car to another.

NADA models
Rover made an attempt to break into the North American market with the P6, beginning with the Rover 2000 TC. This version was called the NADA (North American Dollar Area) model, equipped to a higher standard than UK cars and meeting federal safety and later also emissions requirements. These are also often referred to as being "Federal Specification". Notable differences on the outside of the 3500S NADA were wraparound bumpers, three air scoops on the top of the bonnet, front and rear wing reflectors and the "Icelert" sensor on the front grill. The "Icelert" system warned the driver of falling outside temperatures and the possibility of ice forming on the road.

Inside, depending on the location, the North American 3500S was also equipped with electric windows, power steering and air conditioning, all of which are extremely unusual in UK market P6 cars. The earlier 2000 and 2000 TC NADA featured the Icelert system and side reflectors only. The NADA P6 introduced features which would later appear on the UK Mark II car, including a new instrument cluster and seat piping.

Despite being badged as "3500S" cars, the export models were all fitted with the Borg Warner 35 automatic transmission. The cars were not popular with American buyers, and a large number ended up being diverted to Continental Europe instead as they were already left-hand drive. Rover discontinued selling the P6 in North America in 1971: in that year the US had taken fewer than 1,500 Rovers. In true British Leyland fashion, several UK cars also ended up with single scoops on their bonnets in an attempt to use up the surplus parts from the now defunct export models. The company told their US dealers that modifying the P6 to meet new US federal safety and pollution requirements would be prohibitively expensive, while experience elsewhere suggests that the Rover's four-cylinder engine was particularly hard to adapt for reduced octane lead-free fuels without an unacceptable reduction in the car's performance.

New Zealand production
The Rover 3500 was assembled in New Zealand from 1971 to 1976, at New Zealand Motor Corporation's assembly plant in Stoke, Nelson, alongside the Triumph 2000/2500, Jaguar XJ6 (Series 1 and 2) and Land Rover (Series 3). A notable factor about the NZMC-built Rover 3500 was that it was exported from New Zealand – 2,400 were shipped to Australia for sale there, in return for CKD kits of the Leyland P76.

Last production model

After a production run of almost 14 years, the last Rover P6 off the production line, registered VVC 700S, was built on 19 March 1977, when it was phased out in favour of the Rover SD1. The SD1 was initially only available with a 3.5 V8 engine from its June 1976 launch, with the 2.3 and 2.6 six-cylinder units joining the range during 1977.

This car was first sent, in August 1977, to the Leyland Historic Vehicle collection, then to Donington Park until 1980, when it was moved to Syon Park along with the rest of the collection, which became the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust Collection. It remained an exhibit at Syon until 1990, when the collection moved to Studley Castle (then owned by Rover) and went into storage until 1993.

In 1993, the collection then moved to its new home, The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust site at Gaydon, now known as the Heritage Motor Centre. VVC 700S was on display until 2003 when it sold at the Bonhams sale of Rover-owned items.

In 2006, VVC 700S revisited Gaydon for the first time since the sale and is still in original condition having never been restored. The car came out of the collection having only ever covered 12300 mi. The last MOT expired in August 2010.

Legacy
The Rover chair, designed by Ron Arad in 1981, incorporated seats from P6 cars.

The P6 was replaced by the Rover SD1.

A Rover P6 and British Police P6 were both included in the Wii, PlayStation 2 and PC game: Classic British Motor Racing, released in 2008.

The character Jack Irish drives a yellow Rover 2000 in the second season of the television series by the same name.

The character George Smiley drives a Rover P6 in the BBC's 1979 mini-series Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. In the 1982 mini-series sequel Smiley's People he drives another Rover P6, a dark brown N-reg model 2200 SC.

Princess Grace of Monaco was driving a Rover P6 with her daughter when she crashed and died in September 1982.

Scale models

 * Corgi Toys; No. 252 (production 1963–66), Rover 2000, approximately O scale (1:44).
 * Corgi Toys; Nos. 275 and 281 (production 1968–70 and 1971–73), Rover 2000 TC, approximately O-scale (1:44).
 * Corgi Toys; No 322 (production 1965–66), Rover 2000 "Monte-Carlo Rally" approximately O-scale (1:44).

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QuickBooks Online
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, QuickBooks Online had the most subscribers for an online accounting platform, with 624,000 subscribers. compared to Xero, which reported 284,000 customers as of July 2014.

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