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Dzūkija

Dzūkija or Dainava is one of five ethnographic regions of Lithuania. Dzūkija is a cultural region defined by traditional lifestyles and dialects of the local Lithuanian population (mostly rural farmers) and has never been defined as a political or administrative unit. Traditionally, Alytus is regarded as the capital of the region and largest city. Although Vilnius is surrounded by Dzūkija, the city itself is not considered as a part of any ethnographic region in most cases.

Geography
Dzūkija is situated in southeastern Lithuania, and consists of Alytus County and southern Vilnius County. Historically, it extended into what is now northeastern Poland (Podlaskie Voivodeship) and northwestern Belarus (Grodno Region).

Large parts of Dzūkija have light sandy soil, unsuited for agriculture. Therefore, the region is densely covered with pine forests, one of which is Dainava Forest, the largest in Lithuania. The Čepkeliai Marsh, the largest swamp in Lithuania, is situated in the region, near the border with Belarus. Dzūkija is also the most sparsely populated region in Lithuania, with average population density dropping below 15 people per square kilometer in Varėna district municipality. Due to lower harvests in infertile soil, the region was relatively poorer than the rest of Lithuania. Farmers had to supplement their yields with edible mushrooms and berries collected in the forests. Mushroom hunting remains an important part of the local economy.

Two of the five national parks in Lithuania are to be found in Dzūkija: Dzūkija National Park east of Varėna (established there in 1991), and Trakai National Historic Park near Trakai (1992).

Demographics
The largest settlements (by population) are:
 * Vilnius - 559,122
 * Alytus – 53,514
 * Druskininkai – 13,170
 * Elektrėnai – 11,009
 * Varėna – 8,021
 * Šalčininkai – 6,857
 * Nemenčinė – 4,831
 * Pabradė – 4,837
 * Trakai – 4,141
 * Skaidiškės – 4,051

Language
People in Dzūkija traditionally speak the Dzūkian dialect (also known as South Aukštaitian), which is a sub-dialect of the Aukštaitian dialect. As elsewhere in Lithuania, local dialects such as these are dying out in bigger as people adopt the standard Lithuanian through schools and mass media, but still used by older generation in smaller villages like Marcinkonys, Zervynos and others.

The very first Lithuanian handwritten texts from the early 16th century show traits of the Dzūkian dialect.

The north-eastern half speaks Polish and spoke Belarusian for several centuries.

Coat of arms
The coat of arms of Dzūkija pictures a white armored warrior with a pollaxe in a blue shield. The blue color symbolizes loyalty and strength. The grand coat of arms is supported by two lynxes and has a Latin motto Ex gente bellicosissima populus laboriosus (Out of most warring tribe – industrious people). These symbols were created by heraldic artist Arvydas Každailis in 2003 using the historical symbols of Trakai. Dzūkija was part of the Duchy of Trakai and later Trakai Voivodeship from the 14th to late 18th century. The same image was used for the coat of arms of Alytus County, officially adopted in 2004. The coat of arms is a modified version of the coat of arms of Trakai district, which depicts a knight with a spear in a red shield. This symbol was taken from a seal used by Duke of Trakai Kęstutis (died in 1382). The motto honors the memory of the Yotvingians, one of the ancient Baltic tribes which were considered fine warriors that lived in what is now Dzūkija.

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Talk:Mark Johnson (ice hockey)

Mark Johnson and the Soviet goalie
I changed the wording; it originally said that Mark Johnson scored against the Soviets in the 1st period, and this "forced" the Soviet coach to switch goalies. I don't see how this "forced" the Soviet coach to do anything; no one was putting a gun to his head. I change it to this goal "directly led to" the switching of goalkeepers.

It also claimed that the switching of goalkeepers was a "mistake". Its not encyclopedic to claim this unsourced. Many have called this a mistake, or questioned the move over the years, or said this helped the USA to win but "mistake" is an opinion, not a fact. If someone or notable persons is/are quoted as saying this was a mistake, then they need to be cited, as opposed to just calling it a "mistake". There's no guarantee the Soviets would've won if they hadn't made the switch. I changed the language from "a mistake" to "questionable"; this is not satisfactory, but an improvement over calling it a "mistake"; certainly people over the years have questioned the move. It is pertinent to the article; if the switch helped the USA to win, then Mark Johnson's goal was the catalyst.

I asked a question on the "Miracle On Ice" article talk section about whether anyone could validate whether Soviet players dispute that this goal was legitimate (over the issue of the clock winding down); someone told me in a documentary that they did. That would have impact on this article as well.John ISEM (talk) 21:31, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

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Pitu Guli

Pitu Guli (1865–1903) was an Aromanian revolutionary in Ottoman Macedonia, a local leader of what is commonly referred to as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).

Life
He was born to a poor family in Kruševo (Crushuva) in the Ottoman Empire (now North Macedonia). Guli demonstrated an independent and rebellious nature early in life. He left his home in Macedonia at the age of 17 in search of wealth in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. In 1885, he returned to Macedonia, as part of a rebel squad of the revolutionary movement against the Ottoman Empire, led by Adam Kalmikov. He was captured and exiled to eastern Anatolia for a period of eight years, seven years of which were spent in the prison in Trabzon. In 1895, he again returned to Kruševo and became a member of IMARO. From this time on, he was fully committed to the autonomy of Macedonia from Turkish rule. Between 1897 and 1902 he was again in Sofia, where he also held an eating house.

In March 1903, he began commanding a revolutionary squad, crossing the Bulgarian-Ottoman border heading for Kruševo. From April to August 1903, he trained and prepared his irregulars for the upcoming Ilinden Uprising. He died in Kruševo, defending the Kruševo Republic.

Family
Except for Bulgarian Exarchist Aromanians, as Guli's family, who were Bulgarophiles,  most members of other ethnicities dismissed the IMRO as pro-Bulgarian. His sons were: • Tashko Gulev (Shula Guli), a soldier of the Bulgarian Army who died in 1913 in the battle of Bregalnica against the Serbs, during the Second Balkan War.

• Nikola Gulev (Lakia Guli), IMRO revolutionary and one of the people closest to Todor Alexandrov. He was arrested by the police of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and died in custody after being tortured in 1924.

• Steryo Gulev (Sterya Guli), who took part in the military units formed by former IMRO activists in Vardar Macedonia during the Bulgarian administration in World War II, to fight the communist Yugoslav Partisans. He reportedly shot himself after Bulgaria switched sides and withdrew from Yugoslavia in 1944, upon the arrival of Tito's partisans in Kruševo, in despair over what he saw as a second period of Serbian dominance in Macedonia.

Legacy
Pitu Guli is a national hero in North Macedonia and Bulgaria, and remembered as having fought heroically at Mečkin Kamen (Bear's Rock) near Kruševo, where he was killed during the Ilinden Uprising in defense of the Macedonian Kruševo Republic. A Macedonian Partisan Brigade was named after him. The Macedonian partisan Kuzman Josifovski took the alias "Pitu" after him. He is also celebrated in folk songs and poetry throughout the region of Macedonia, being mentioned in the national anthem of North Macedonia ("Denes nad Makedonija", "Today over Macedonia"). An Aromanian-language song about him, Cãnticlu al Pitu Guli ("The Song of Pitu Guli"), has also been composed.

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Travis Early College High School

Travis Early College High School is a high school located in south Austin, Texas, United States, which is part of the Austin Independent School District. It was opened in 1953 and is named after William B. Travis, who was one of the commanding officers at the Battle of the Alamo. It is Austin's oldest high school south of the Colorado River.

As of November 2009, there were over 1,400 students enrolled. Travis' athletic teams are known as the Rebels, and their school colors are red and grey. The Navy JROTC program at THS is the largest ROTC program in Austin and currently has the best shooting team out of all the JROTC units in the state of Texas. As of February 2015, the JROTC program, for the first time, has qualified for state competition under the command of C/LCDR Martinez, the commanding officer. The school has also been selected as a mentor school by the Texas Education Agency.

In 2002, an Institute of Hospitality & Culinary Arts was opened at Travis.

History
In 1966 the first five African-American students began attending Travis as part of desegregation; a total of 13 black students attended white high schools in AISD at that time.

Rivals
Travis' biggest rivalry is with fellow AISD school McCallum. The two schools meet annually in many different sports, the largest being an annual football game known as the "Battle of the Bell", in which the winning school is given possession of a 50-pound locomotive bell that has been fought over for decades. During the game, "The Bell" will spend the first half on the defending school's side; at half time it will travel to the opponent's side (usually carried by the cheerleaders, student council, or journalism departments of both schools) where it will sit until the outcome of the game. "The Bell" is usually rung by the winning team in the middle of the field after victory, and at the winning team's school until midnight, at which time it will be stored until the next year's game. The winning school also engraves the date and score of the year's game on the bell, keeping track of the history of the rivalry. Most years, the outcome of this game highly affects which team is named District 26-4A Champions.

In 2010, the Rebels defeated the McCallum Knights for  the first time in over a decade. "The Bell" was awarded to Travis, who defended it for the first time in 11 years at the 2011 game.

Another Travis rival is the AISD school David Crockett High School, a game in which the winner is tagged "Kings of the South".

Travis High in popular media
Travis High School has been featured in two full-length motion pictures. Its hallways were featured in the 2004 football drama Friday Night Lights. Also, the THS Band annually participates in the filming of the NBC TV series based on the movie, participating as extras and featured as the visiting team band at football games (See Friday Night Lights (TV Series)). The school was also the main setting in the 2006 comedy-mockumentary Chalk It has also been featured in several documentaries.

Travis High School was featured on Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas 19: Immigration Problems. Travis' Ethnic Studies class and teacher, Andrew Gonzales, were interviewed regarding immigration and Texas public schools.

NJROTC: 200–2019
The Travis NJROTC Unit was established in 2001 by agreement between Austin ISD and the United States Navy. One of the main tenets of the program was towards developing excellent citizens/leaders of our great Nation. Over the course of the last 18 years, the NJROTC has represented William B. Travis High school in many local and State Drill meets and supported countless community service events to the Austin area. Academic year 2018/2019 marked the final year of the program due to extremely low enrollment. The School and District declined the Navy's offer to transition to the smaller version of the program known as a Navy National Defense Cadet Corps.

Notable alumni
Psychedelic-rock cult legend Roky Erickson attended Travis High School beginning in 1962, but dropped out in 1965, one month before graduating, rather than cut his hair to conform to the school dress code.

Country music singer-songwriter Rusty Wier, a South Austin legend and a symbol of Austin's "Cosmic Cowboy" scene of the 1970s who was best known for his hit "Don't It Make You Wanna Dance," attended Travis High. Wier, who was part of Austin's "Cosmic Cowboy scene in the 1970s, is a member of the Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame.

Former Major League Baseball player Ken Boswell, a member of the New York Mets' World Series championship team in 1969, played baseball at Travis and was in the Class of 1964.

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Talk:Impulse buying

There was 800,000+ google hits for this article name. This article will have valuable information. --SuperDude 18:50, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Could someone clarify the connection between impulse buying and spontaneous combustion? If the only connection is that one is unprepared for both, I think it should be removed. — Knowledge Seeker দ 20:22, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * The connection is a hyperactive troll. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 20:16, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm going to take a whack at this with purely original thought. Feel free to revert anything that comes off as such.  I promise to be careful. - Lucky 6.9 07:02, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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USS Hart (DD-594)

USS Hart (DD-594), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy of that name, in honor of Lieutenant Patrick H. Hart (1912–1942), who posthumously received the Navy Cross for heroism during the Battle of Midway.

Namesake
Patrick Henry Hart was born on 31 May 1915 in New York City. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1937. He served on board USS Colorado (BB-45) and USS West Virginia (BB-48) before becoming a naval aviator in 1940. Appointed Lieutenant in 1942, he was killed on 4 June 1942 in the Battle of Midway while a member of Torpedo Squadron 3. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for heroism in attacking the Japanese aircraft carriers.

Construction and commissioning
Hart, originally designated Mansfield and renamed Hart 21 March 1944, was launched 25 September 1944 by Puget Sound Navy Yard; sponsored by Lieutenant Hart's mother, Mrs. Emma Hart; and commissioned 4 November 1944.

Service history
Hart conducted her regular shakedown cruise off California and during her training participated in experimental high-speed refueling exercises with USS Kaskaskia (AO-27). From 12–23 December, the destroyer refueled at sea some 50 times under all conditions of sea and weather gaining vital information on how to improve this key wartime operation. Ending her regular shakedown on 31 January 1945, the ship departed on 19 February for Pearl Harbor. From 27 February to 3 March she escorted USS Intrepid (CV-11) in gunnery and aircraft operations, departing for Ulithi on 5 March.

Arriving at Ulithi 16 March, Hart joined the assembled task forces for the Okinawa operation. From 24 March to 12 April, the ship was assigned as part of the screen for escort carriers furnishing close air support for the landings and preinvasion neutralization of neighboring Japanese air strips. Detached on 12 April, she assumed duty as an escort for transports for 2 days and then commenced protective patrol duties during landings near Okinawa.

Hart was detached from 5th Fleet on 19 April and proceeded to the Philippines to join 7th Fleet for the Borneo landings. She arrived off Brunei Bay on 9 June 1945 and commenced a patrol of the South China Sea to guard against possible interference from the remains of the Japanese Fleet at Singapore. Hart also carried out shore bombardment beginning 11 June in support of Australian troops landing at Brunei Bay. On 14 June, she shot down her first Japanese aircraft during an attempted bombing. During the period of 19–21 June, she provided close support for further landings on the coast of Borneo near Brunei Bay, and then departed for Balikpapan and other amphibious operations. While there, Hart patrolled, provided star shell illumination, and directed minesweeping vessels through the treacherous enemy minefields off the beaches. Australian troops went ashore on 1 July, under cover of fire from Hart and other ships; during the operation Hart destroyed two mines and a 75 mm gun emplacement ashore.

Temporarily leaving the landing areas, Hart was assigned as part of the escort for Major General Douglas MacArthur in USS Cleveland (CL-55), steaming to Manila with the General and then proceeding to Leyte on 5 July. She next moved to Subic Bay for training exercises and escort duty, and after the surrender of Japan on 15 August was assigned to the newly formed North China Force.

Hart departed on 5 September 1945 to support the landing of Army occupation forces at Jinsen, Korea. The force threaded its way through many mines en route, and after arrival, Hart sent boarding parties on board Japanese merchantmen in the harbor for inspection and disarming. This duty completed, Hart sailed for China, escorting Cruiser Division 6 in an important show of force off the coast. She continued through the next few months to aid in the landings of American Marines, calling at Port Arthur, Tsingtao, and Taku.

The veteran destroyer sailed for the United States 9 February 1946, decommissioned 31 May 1946, and was placed in reserve at Long Beach, California. She was later moved to Mare Island Naval Shipyard, and then Stockton, California.

Hart was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register 15 April 1973, was sold on 3 December 1973, and broken up for scrap.

Awards
Hart received two battle stars for her service in World War II.

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Atta Muhammad Nur

Atta Muhammad Nur (also spelled Ata Mohammed Noor; ; born 1964) is an Afghan exiled politician and former Mujahid Leader who served as the Governor of Balkh Province in Afghanistan from 2004 to January 25, 2018. An ethnic Tajik, he worked to educate the Mujahideen after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, gaining the nickname "The Teacher". He then became a mujahideen resistance commander for the Jamiat-e Islami against the Soviets.

When the Taliban government took power in late 1996, Noor served as a commander in the United Front (Northern Alliance) under Ahmad Shah Massoud against the Taliban. He led operations in the Balkh area. In 2004, President Hamid Karzai appointed him as the governor of Balkh province. He has been described by The Economist as being "immensely wealthy." He was removed from the position of Provincial Governor by President Ashraf Ghani in January 2018.

During the 2021 Taliban offensive, Nur, along with Abdul Rashid Dostum, fled Mazar-e-Sharif to Uzbekistan in August 2021.

Early life
Atta Muhammad Nur, was born in 1964 in Mazar-e-Sharif city of Balkh province.

Mujahideen and Northern Alliance
Atta Muhammad Nur joined the mujahideen fighting the Soviet presence in Afghanistan in the 1980s and became affiliated with the Jamiat-e Islami party. By 1992, he had become one of the most powerful Mujahideen commanders in Northern Afghanistan.

Following the fall of Mohammed Najibullah's Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, while remaining a Jamiat commander, he also joined Abdul Rashid Dostum's National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, becoming a deputy leader of that movement during its first congress on June 1, 1992. However, ideological differences with Dostum soon emerged, and in 1993, he split from Dostum. In January 1994, Atta Noor fought to consolidate the Islamic State of Afghanistan's control over the capital of Balkh, Mazar-i-Sharif, against Dostum's Junbish militia. But Dostum struck first, mobilizing 10,000 men and defeating Atta's forces.

When the Taliban took power in late 1997, Atta Noor served as a commander in the anti-Taliban United Front (Northern Alliance) under Ahmad Shah Massoud. Atta Noor led operations in the Balkh area. Dostum had turned into an ally against the Taliban. On November 9, 2001, Atta Noor's forces and those of Dostum drove the Taliban from Mazar-i-Sharif.

Islamic Republic
After the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan under the Hamid Karzai administration, Ustad Atta's forces clashed with those of Dostum several times. From 2002 onwards, with the support of Jamiat-e Islami allies occupying key positions in the Afghan Transitional Administration and the support of the international community which tried to marginalize Dostum for his dubious record, Atta Noor expanded his influence in Northern Afghanistan. He managed to seize Mazar-i-Sharif using little force, only the Khulmi District was taken by force. Atta subsequently attempted to buy the loyalty of local leaders in Faryab, Jowzjan, and Balkh provinces. In October 2003, Dostum launched an offensive, and managed to retake many of the positions he had lost since 2002. Near Mazar, Dostum outmanoeuvred Atta's armoured forces, and captured all the key positions around the city. The fighting initiated by Dostum around Mazar involved tanks and artillery, and resulted in the death of approximately 60 people. Both Dostum and Atta were, however, coming under increasing pressure from the international community and the central government in Kabul to stop the fighting. Atta and Dostum worked out a power-sharing agreement in which Dostum conceded Mazar and most of Balkh province to Atta, who in turn renounced his intention of contesting Dostum's influence elsewhere in Northern Afghanistan.

Noor has married once and has five sons and two daughters. His eldest son, Khalid Noor, graduated from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst of London in 2014. Tariq Noor is studying Public Administration at the American University in Dubai. His other children are Belal Noor, Suhaib Noor, and Seyar Noor.

Governor of Balkh province
In Late 2004, Atta was appointed governor of Balkh Province by Hamid Karzai. By installing commanders with Whom he had fought in the 1980s and 1990s in local government positions, thus turning them away from destabilizing activities, he created a loyal and disciplined local administration. As a result, he acquired a monopoly on violence, and achieved relative security and stability even in the most remote districts, at the cost of authoritarian methods. The security in Balkh Province permitted significant reconstruction and the development of considerable economic activity. Atta Noor is credited for maintaining political control and economic development and security for Balkh province including its largest city, Mazar-i-Sharif. Atta's opium poppy eradication program between 2005 and 2007, advised by consultants from Adam Smith International, successfully reduced poppy cultivation in Balkh Province from 7,200 hectares in 2005 to zero by 2007.

Governor Atta Mohammad Noor supported Karzai's main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, in the August 2009 presidential election.

Atta Mohammad Noor, is widely recognized as the main source of political power in the Province, and has exercised a high degree of control over politics in Balkh. He has used that influence to grow rich through business deals during his time in power. No meaningful business in the Province is Transacted without his approval and major real estate in the provincial capital, Mazar-e Sharif, is in the hands of companies Atta owns or controls. He is a key player in the transport industry in Afghanistan's north, including the development of the rail line from Uzbekistan to Mazar-e Sharif. Having transplanted his militia leaders into powerful positions throughout the provincial administration, he maintains a monopoly over violence as well as control over illicit activity. Atta exercises near-complete control over the security organizations and political operations of the Province.

Nationally, the Province's administration was well regarded. Consequently, it received additional funding and positions through the civil service priority restructuring program and some payments from the Ministry of Counter-Narcotics through the U.S.-funded Good Performance Initiative. Historically, his local political strategy has been to dominate the Province using informal power, rules, and networks. His reputation as a strongman who doesn't tolerate opposition in any form has made him very influential in the area. While his power base does not lend itself to a rule based democracy, given Afghanistan's history of weak central power and its limited resources, the form of governance represented by Atta may be the best compromise at present in Afghanistan.

Opponents of Atta view him as a corrupt power figure whose loyalty from the populace is motivated more by fear than adoration. The President appoints the country's 34 governors, but many believed that President Karzai was too weak to remove Governor Atta. Karzai's opposition raised concerns of violence and rebellion from the populace if the central government were to attempt to reign in Atta's power. Governor Atta Mohammad Noor himself boldly asserts that he will decide whether he remains governor of Balkh Province, not Kabul. Indeed, in 2014 the current Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, fired all 34 Afghan provincial governors, but Atta repeatedly refused to give up the role. He was removed from the position of Provincial Governor by President Ashraf Ghani in January 2018.

Although largely supported by the U.S., Atta has publicly spoken out against the U.S. exit strategy from Afghanistan. Atta is vehemently opposed to bringing the Taliban back into negotiations and opposes reconciliation with his former archenemies. Additionally, Atta does not support any permanent American bases in Afghanistan, and reiterates his regional loyalty. Speculation exists that Atta's colorful rhetoric may be linked to the possibility of him running for president, or at the least seeking the leadership of his local political party.

He and Dostum fled across the Amu Darya when the Taliban advanced on to Mazar-i-Sharif on August 14, 2021. In October 2021, Ata, Dostum, and others including Yunus Qanuni and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf formed the Supreme Council of National Resistance of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in opposition to the new Taliban regime.

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Talk:Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics

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I have editted this page to make the Women's section similar to the Men's. Marcus1060 04:29, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Do we have any reports as to the idnetities of the players who trashed the hotel. This team had stars like Mike Modano and Billy Guerin and maybe the Hull kid, right? Can someone post the team roster so all the names are known. Then we can search to see if anyone has ratted anyone out in the intervening 8 years? John wesley 14:05, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone have the tournament point leaders for the women??

I can't believe this. Since Wikipedia should be an objective source of information, "men's tournament" contains only stuff about US and Canada although none of them reached a medal. I'm of course free to edit the page and some day I'll do it since there's no mention about Finland winning Canada in the bronze medal game in the main text. SerpentChimera (talk) 21:48, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

qualification
if anyone understands the method used for aligning the pre-qualification tournaments I would love to know.18abruce (talk) 18:06, 13 May 2011 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anarchia

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. — Xezbeth 11:08, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

anarchia
Broken out of anarchy and anarchism by Viajero, apparently unaware of the fact that we can just interwiki link to the dictionary for articles on words (anarchia, &). A redirect seems pointless. This is a "New" Latin word, not an English one. And it's not the Greek word at all. Wiktionary gets the alphabet right, moreover. ☺ Uncle G 18:52, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)
 * Ok, fine with me. -- Viajero 19:01, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy since the sole contributor to the text of the article agrees. Dsmdgold 20:40, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to anarchy or just delete. -Sean Curtin 00:10, Apr 24, 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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Talk:John MacLean (ice hockey)

Texas
Putting WikiProject Texas here so the bot won't retag it

Move to John MacLean (ice hockey)
This page should be moved because standard wiki disambig procedure with respect to ice hockey players requires that any name be followed with (ice hockey), not (hockey), not (hockey player) or any other derivation thereof. Anthony Hit me up... 13:29, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
 * This page has been moved from John MacLean (hockey) to John MacLean (ice hockey) as the result of an uncontroversial move request. Dekimasu よ! 00:19, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Coaching record
MacLean's record as a head coach needs to be included on his page, just as his playing record is. Trb333 (talk) 20:47, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, I've put up a coaching record section. It's a start but need to have bit to it on the post-season record. Trb333 (talk) 21:12, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:Sting (wrestler)

Sting is no longer listed as a WWE Legend action figure on Target's website
See here.. As a result of the social media, rumors about him leaving for the AEW need to be addressed sooner or later on Wikipedia as well. 2601:447:4100:C120:7D75:1A80:2A90:CC79 (talk) 01:24, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Pro Wrestling Sheet Sources Confirm It
Sting is in fact no longer under contract with the WWE.2601:447:4100:C120:7D75:1A80:2A90:CC79 (talk) 21:04, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Updated, thanks.LM2000 (talk) 00:04, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Personal life question
Why does it say that "since retiring from wrestling he traveled the world with Impact Wrestling"? He was with WWE since retiring and wasn't working for Impact at all so that needs edited User112889 (talk) 00:11, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

He is best known for his role as Nick "Crusher" Crushetti in The Encounter starring Bruce Marchiano as Jesus
I doubt it lmaoMuur (talk) 02:55, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Editors claiming he is out of retirement due to AEW deal
Sting retired on April 2, 2016, and has never rescinded that announcement. Signing with AEW does not mean he is out of retirement, see: Arn Anderson, Taz, Dean Malenko et al. Dory Funk (talk) 00:26, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Agree. He's retired. Things can change, and often do when it comes to wrestler retirements, but as of now he's sill retired.LM2000 (talk) 01:00, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

There are lots of old guys signed to deals with WWE and AEW who are still clearly retired. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.216.50 (talk) 22:49, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Sting is listed as an active wrestler with his own record on AEWs website. https://www.allelitewrestling.com/roster — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.91.252.96 (talk) 23:40, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

 * Sting publicly declared himself retired. His mere appearance on a roster page that features no prose whatsoever, is much too vague to use as confirmation that he is again an active wrestler. It would be a different story were he to announce a match or, you know, say "I am out of retirement"... Dory Funk (talk) 23:49, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

"Retired American"
The article says Sting is a "retired American professional wrestler". Sting is still American and lives in America no matter his wrestling status. "American retired professional wrestler" is a better description for the top page of Sting, which also seems to be that way for other retired wrestlers right now 2603:6011:9D3C:19:DD91:206F:CBD6:E614 (talk) 06:55, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, "retired" or "former" goes after citizenship. See Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, Kevin Garnett, etc. oncamera  (talk page) 22:55, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Nick Yanez1.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 19:04, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

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Is this the same guy that attacked reporter John Stossel on TV? This article is linked from John Stossel, but here there is no mention of the attack, if indeed this is the same person.

 * Definitely not the same person. David "Dr. D" Schultz of the WWF

Dave Schultz the freestyle wrestler JustDerek 00:14, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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Somehow this page got changed completely from the initial page. So, there is an erroneous link now between Goo Goo Dolls and this page.

Just one state title?
I'm pretty sure he had more then one state, title, I'll check tomorrow (I go to the same high school as he did).

 * I checked pretty thoroughly when I did the list of the titles he won, etc., so I'm 99.9% sure that he did only win state once... oh, and p.s. I went to Paly, too. :-) JustDerek, Class of '89 20 Oct 2005, 21:14 (UTC)

Neutral point of view
I have a feeling the Wiki NPOV might be needed here - the first paragraphy of the article is exceedingly glowing with praise; even if accurate. BronzeWarrior 09:19, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

He did attack John Stossel
Here is a video clip of him attacking John Stossel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqfKJQzKtgk&mode=related&search=

This is Dave Schultz WWF wrestler NOT Dave Schultz amateure wrestler and Olympic wrestler.

"amateur wrestler"?
The article claims he was an Olympian. Wouldn't "Olympic wrestler" make a lot more sense than "amateur"? Also, what's with the "duPont" spelling? 74.137.108.185 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 12:05, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

In other media
I'm wondering if this citation doesn't represent some egregious self-promotion: "Tim Huddleston's true crime book, Wrestling with Madness (2013), explores the events related to the shooting. This is self-published.[7]"; wanting to delete it. Beadmatrix (talk) 13:02, 18 November 2014 (UTC)Beadmatrix
 * I removed this as promotional. There were similar placements for self-published book by the same author in about a dozen articles. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 13:33, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

This article purports to be about a murdered champion athlete. So-same question about this: "directed by Academy Award-nominee Bennett Miller". What does that have to do with this champion and murder victim? I want to delete it. I will wait 48 hours before so doing in the absence of convincing rationale of why it should stay as-is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.3.129.225 (talk • contribs) 06:31, December 19, 2014
 * No need to wait. I've yanked it as peacockery. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 13:29, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: Moved to Dave Schultz (amateur wrestler) per nom. The original title redirected to David Schultz dab page. No such user (talk) 13:59, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Dave Schultz (wrestler) → Dave Schultz (amateur wrestler) – Further disambiguation is needed due to the existence of David Schultz (professional wrestler). Both amateur and professional wrestlers are normally disambiguated using (wrestler); per WP:PDAB, we should only partially disambiguate in exceptional circumstances. 162 etc. (talk) 14:32, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Is disambiguation really necessary, given that one is named Dave and the other David? Assuming these titles reflect their common names, of course. It seems to me that the current situation with hatnotes is fine. If the move were to happen, however, I think I'd prefer "freestyle wrestler" over "amateur wrestler", because it seems strange to refer to an Olympic and world champion as "amateur". Lennart97 (talk) 15:22, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Schultz the professional wrestler is often known as David, but also Dave; see this promo photo or these videos where Mean Gene introduces him as "Dave the Redneck Schultz".  To your second point, amateur wrestling is a well-known term to describe freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. Dave Schultz (freestyle wrestler) would be a bit inaccurate, as he was also a champion Greco-Roman wrestler (2x U.S. National Open champion, 1x Pan American Games champion.) 162 etc. (talk) 15:45, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, both points are pretty convincing (and I had totally overlooked the Greco-Roman titles). Support as proposed. Lennart97 (talk) 17:54, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:Moncton Wildcats

Out of date
I updated the current roster using http://www.moncton-wildcats.com/roster/index/team/1/season/181 but that didn't show me what to put in the "drafted" column, so I left that column like it was.

Several other sections need to be brought up to date.

Also, this page has been a vandalism-magnet lately. If this keeps up, I will ask for some level of protection on the page so that edits by new accounts and non-logged-in editors are either held pending approval or are rejected outright. Please do not vandalize Wikipedia articles. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  23:21, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Disco ball

AKA "specular sphere"?
My edit has been reverted but isn't this another name for them?

...
Someone added text that i cop-ed-ed:
 * With the appearance of infrared networks, disco balls have found a new application, as a method of dispersing the infrared signals.

But IMO having it rotate would serve no purpose except where the coverage is spotty, and the application is such as to make transforming spottiness in time more acceptable that in space. E.g., don't rotate it if you plan to use it for telephony. Experts, please? --Jerzy (t) 18:55, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)

 * Don't know about the rotating, but I think the mirrors aren't flat in disco balls used for infra red communications. // Liftarn

The names i added other than "Disco ball" reflect current marketing, but i note that Frank McCourt, in 'Tis, writing about his thoughts in the early or mid 1950s says, without further elaboration, "crystal ball" (where the context seems clear). Do we have any other evidence of pre-disco terminology? --Jerzy·t 00:48, 2005 August 11 (UTC)

"producing a complicated and hard-to-anticipate display" - I wouldn't say so. If a single light is pointed at the ball, the usual pattern is of an array of spots that move steadily with the ball's rotation, and of course change apparent size with distance from the ball. Naturally multiple light sources will make things a little more complex, but the overall pattern remains fairly simple really. 128.232.250.254 22:59, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

How to set up a disco ball?
I got a disco ball, but I have no idea what I need to get it to rotate? --212.200.210.133 12:29, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Who invented the disco ball?
When was the FIRST disco ball made and for what purpose?

I found an uncited source that suggested mirror balls had been used to repel witches in Europe. However, a "mirror ball" could have either a smooth surface (e.g., ceremonial south pole), or small square planes of mirrors (like a disco ball).

Snowgecko 19:27, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Could the disco ball also be called a bonspiel?
Back in the 70's I used to frequent a club called The Bonspiel Room. I was told that the name of the club reflected the proper name for the disco ball. I can't find any information to substantiate that information. I told a friend that it was the proper name for the disco ball, and now I'm wondering if that could be true.

BooCar159 04:19, 11 October 2007 (UTC)BooCar159

im deleting the line "The world's largest rotating disco ball is situated in the ABC Nightclub in Glasgow, Scotland. " and its cited source. this is an unsubstantiated comment that upon further inquiry proves to be false. in addition it appears this comment was added to be an advertisement for the club. however the club has no mirror balls in any of their pages on their homesite or in articles about them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.97.21.36 (talk) 02:47, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Mirror- stik... invented by  Bachrach  and  Finklestein
Although it  might  be  true  that  the  mirrored  ball  existed  in  Germany in  the  1020s  as  one  poster  states  I  remember my father  Michael Bachrach  and  his  partner  Irving  Finklestein  inventing  sheets  of  mosaic  mirrors with  adhesive  backing  called  Mirror-stik. The product was  used  in  set  designs  of  many  TV  shows  (  i.e. Perry  Como  Show)  in the  late  50s  and  early  60s  and  later  re-appeared  as  the  disco  ball. They were  forced  to  sell  the  patent  for  very  little  money  due  to  financial need  after  only a  few years  but  I  have  fond  memories  of  going to  the  TV  sets  and  meeting  some  stars  as a  little  girl. I do  not  know  who owns  the  patent  now. I have  seen the  product  on  buildings  in Epcot Center  and  other places,   and  hope  my dad  and  his  partner  are  looking  down  from heaven  to  see  that  thier  work  lives  on.

69.121.198.165 (talk) 22:20, 14 June 2008 (UTC) Andrea Bachrach

Rewriting History - Glitter Ball or Disco Ball
I was surprised that the Glitter ball has been listed on here as the "disco ball" in the title section. I do not ever recall it being referred to as such in the youth culture of the 1960s (when discotechques emerged), 1970s, 1980s or 1990s. The fact that they are called "disco balls" today in some quarters surely in no way indicates that the "glitter ball" name has been eclipsed? I'd never heard of the term "disco ball" until I read this article, and I'm fifty two years old! The use of the glitter ball in dance halls for decades (since at least the 1930s) has been largely ignored in this article. In our UK TV programme "Strictly Come Dancing", a "Glitter Ball trophy" is awarded each series.

I think this is a strange and misleading article - and an attempt to rewrite pop culture history.

Might I suggest that the article title is changed to "Glitter ball/Disco ball" and that somebody does rather more research into the history of dance halls across the decades and the glitter/disco ball's place in them?

(Solidsandie (talk) 18:03, 16 January 2010 (UTC))

Bogus Section: Resonant Discotheque?
Can someone confirm if the following section is valid? It seems to me that from "resulting in a Q-switched ..." onwards it is a spoof entry that would not be out of place in THHGTTG.

"Disco balls with first-surface mirrors can be used in combination with excimer lasers and Nd:YVO4 crystals to produce hemispherical DPSS orbital optical cavities, resulting in a Q-switched fully resonant discotheque experience oft used in Stockholm, Helsinki and less often, Madrid. This system is called "The Helsinki Venus Pump"."

I think it is bogus. "The Helsinki Venus Pump" can only be found at wikipedia and nowhere else. I think this part should be deleted! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.63.173.202 (talk) 09:59, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Actually the Helsinki Venus Pump (usually referred to by the acronym HVDP) uses a Yttrium aluminium garnet laser. Though you can also dope them with erbium to get a higher power output per joule. The process was also used in Ibiza in 2003 and reached a synchronous output of over 12joules per watt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.54.200.21 (talk) 18:53, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: page not moved.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 14:38, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Disco ball → Mirror ball – If the subject of this article predates disco music by 50 years, then it should really be referred to by a more generic term, such as mirror ball, which identifies physical, unchanging properties of the device. 70.123.152.102 (talk) 03:17, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose WP:UCN -- Mirror ball (and variants) Mghits ; Disco ball 5.1 Mghits . Also this device is a spherical ball with flat-mirrors as attached facets, which is not the same thing as a mirrored ball, that is smooth and spherical, or other forms of mirror bearing or reflective balls. 70.24.244.20 (talk) 14:07, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I agree with 70.24.244.20. Whether it was originally called a mirror ball is irrelevant; Wikipedia naming works by using the most common name and "disco ball" is the clear common name. Jenks24 (talk) 15:12, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose agree per above. While started as a neologism, now by far the most common term for the object in English. Infrogmation (talk) 22:47, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
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used on a norwegian circus
the circus is called merano and have used it at least since 2010 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.59.120 (talk) 21:48, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

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as solar projectors
Would it be relevant to talk about discoballs as solar projectors and pinhead mirrors?

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6552/ad1fa0

https://www.space.com/watch-ring-of-fire-eclipse-with-disco-ball

https://www.iflscience.com/you-could-use-a-disco-ball-to-watch-the-ring-of-fire-eclipse-70945

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Talk:IIHF World Women's Championship

Links to tournaments instead of years?
Wouldn't it be better if this article linked to the articles on each tournament instead of to the years in which they took place? --x-Flare-x 04:43, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * This has been done sometime in the past. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 12:04, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Hosts of future championships
Some future host countries out to 2020 are known.

 * 2011
 * WWC: TBD (Switzerland [Zurich and Winterthur] is an applicant )
 * Div I: TBD (China [Beijing] and Germany [Ravensburg] are applicants)
 * Div II: TBD (France [Cannes or Bordeaux] is an applicant)
 * 2012: USA
 * 2013: Canada
 * 2014: No tournament (2014 Winter Olympics)
 * 2015: TBD
 * 2016: Canada
 * 2017: TBD
 * 2018: No tournament (2018 Winter Olympics)
 * 2019: TBD
 * 2020: Canada

There is, of course, no need to create articles for these tournaments at this time. Next year's championship could probably use an article once the host countries and cities are announced. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 06:15, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

In lieu of?
A curious statement, particularly with no mention of the european championships. In 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, and 1996 there were sanctioned iihf european championships. Though I cannot find an actual reference, the results would indicate that they determed which european countries qualified for the worlds. In addition, there was an asian qualifier in 1996 for the 1997 worlds.174.90.245.169 (talk) 15:48, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

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Peel P50

The Peel P50 is a three-wheeled microcar originally made from 1962 to 1965 by the Peel Engineering Company on the Isle of Man, and then from 2010 to present. It was listed in the 2010 Guinness World Records as the smallest production car ever made. The original model has no reverse gear, but a handle at the rear allows the very lightweight car to be maneuvered physically when required.

Designed as a city car, it was advertised in the 1960s as capable of seating "one adult and a shopping bag." The vehicle's only door was on its left side and equipment included a single windscreen wiper and one headlight. Standard colours were Daytona White, Dragon Red, and Dark Blue. The 1963 model retailed for £199 when new (about £ in 2021). The company produced 50 P50s, of which 27 are known to still exist, one of which was sold for a record US$176,000 at a Sotheby's auction in March 2016.

In 2010 Peel Engineering Ltd. in England reinstated manufacturing of the P50 and Trident models from its premises in Sutton-in-Ashfield, England. Externally this car is very similar to the original, with the same dimensions and kerb weight as the original, but with mechanical differences in the suspension, steering, and drive-train, and a fully functioning reverse gear, ensuring they are road-legal under today's rules. Production included petrol models with a 49 cc four-stroke engine and electric models with an electric moped motor and gelled-electrolyte batteries. The top speed of both cars is about 28 mph.

Statistics
At 54 in long and 39 in wide and with an unladen weight of 130 lb, the P50 holds the record as the smallest car ever to go into production. The Peel P50's diminutive size and width means that it can quite easily fit through doorways and enter buildings, as demonstrated by Jeremy Clarkson where, during a 2007 episode of Top Gear, he drove a blue P50 through the BBC's Television Centre.He later proceed to create the P45, a technically smaller 1 seater car that obviously never made it into production or in the world guiness book of records, even though it was fully street legal and qualified as a car with 4 wheels.

1962–1965
The original P50 used a 3 CID DKW single-cylinder engine, which gave it a top speed of approximately 60 km/h, and was equipped with a three-speed manual transmission that had no reverse. Consequently, turning in a confined area could be achieved only by pushing, or lifting the car using the handle on the rear and physically pulling it round. The makers and users claim fuel consumption of 100 mpgimp.

In 1963, as a publicity stunt, a Peel P50 was taken to the top of Blackpool Tower in the lift and driven around the observation balcony.

At least one prototype, the Peel P55 Saloon Scooter, has also survived. Unlike the production Peel P50 (along with all developments and replicas thereof), this prototype used the less stable layout of a single wheel at the front and two at the back.

Approximately 47 Peel P50s were sold at £299 each.

On 15 February 2013 at the Bruce Weiner RM Auction a genuine 1964 Peel P50 (Registration number ARX 37B) achieved in excess of US$120,000 (GB£80000).

Since 2011
In 2011 businessmen Gary Hillman and Faizal Khan went to the Dragons' Den asking for £80,000. They got the investment and started a new company to put their revised models into production. Three replica models were available initially: Gas, Eco and Fun. The line was later reduced to two: the Petrol and Electric models. These are hand-built to order in Sutton-in-Ashfield by Micro Car Specialists for the domestic and export markets.

In 2018 it was reported that Peel Engineering sells around fifteen P50s annually, plus ten or so continuations of its bigger sister, the two-seat bubblecar Peel Trident. The conventional piston engined P50 is more requested in the UK, priced at £14,879 – whereas greater demand for the Peel comes from the US, where the electric model (at £13,679) helps owners to comply with emissions regulations.

Legal status
The original Peel P50 has always been road-legal in the UK, though the many replica versions are classed as Kitcar and as such, require MSVA inspection for 3 wheel Moped or 4 wheel Quadricycle. It is street-legal in the US. Cars were exported to other countries, sometimes being classified as a moped (e.g. the P50 that went to Finland). In the Netherlands there are two original Peel Tridents registered as tricycles, but the Trident replica with the 50cc engine and 59 km/h top speed was registered as a moped. In Amsterdam the Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum has one. Due to local traffic rules it may not be driven on the cycle path. In Wassenaar the Louwman Museum had an original P50 on display; it was on the poster of the "Dwarfcar" themed exhibition.

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Hooghly

Hooghly or Hughli can refer to:

Places

 * Hooghly, West Bengal, colonial port town now part of Hugli-Chinsura
 * Hooghly railway station
 * Hooghly district, established 1795, containing the above town
 * Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency)
 * Hooghly River

Ships

 * Hooghly (1819 ship), a British merchant ship, launched in 1819
 * Hooghly-class fuel barge, watercraft of the Indian Navy
 * HMIS Hooghly (K330), an Indian pilot vessel and former Canadian frigate

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Talk:USA Hockey

Vandalism
Hey, 64.26.167.97, if you're gonna vandalize a Wikipedia article (not that I'm for it), maybe try logging in? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ezlo4 (talk • contribs) 01:11, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Translation into Chinese Wikipedia
The version 14:45, 24 February 2020 Flibirigit of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia.--Wing (talk) 11:20, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Deletion
An editor deleted highly notable recent news - a letter to USA Hockey from a senior US Senator. This is highly notable. It is clearly appropriate, per wp:recentism. We don't delete recent news of this level of relevance on the basis of IDONTLIKEIT. --2603:7000:2143:8500:D98D:5F53:E76A:9FB (talk) 05:21, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
 * The "potential interference" is not encyclopedic and violates recentism. Flibirigit (talk) 10:48, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

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Talk:Epigoni (play)

Note
Although an article about the Greek myth on Epigonoi already exists, I created this article for the play specifically, since more about it will (hopefully) come to light as Oxford continues to study the documents. Following other examples (see The Birds (play) and The Clouds), I named the article in English rather than in Greek.--Canoeguy81 18:56, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Identification as part of The Progeny
How are the scholars able to identify the small fragment found as part of that play by that particular author?

 * I imagine it's always somewhat conjectural, though many such things are in related fields too (going through RISM (music)'s manuscripts and published works, the identification of composer or text author is often "ascertained" rather than definitely on the score, e.g. and sometimes more conjectural than that. Similarly, I know from eg reading the Arden edition of "As You Like It" and its interesting preface, that a lot of editorial judgment has had to go into creating critical texts of most Shakespeare plays, something that I should have realized anyway...) I wouldn't mind an article here just about how this new technology is applied to expanding the corpus of ancient texts, though; it seems fascinating. (I mean that entirely sincerely, if there's any hint of doubt.) ELSchissel (talk) 14:23, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Name
The original author above gives the reasoning for giving a translation of the title as title of the entry—Aristophanes plays are sometimes called by their translated name. This doesn't apply to the Epigoni as it is an established mythological and literary term. Hence the name change. The Cardiff Chestnut (talk) 21:37, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I thought this was about Aeschylus - ah, no, Sophocles, my mistake. ELSchissel (talk) 14:24, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:Ian Laperrière

Diacritics
If his name really is Ian Laperrière, shouldn't this article be moved to that as the rest of the players? (See Teemu Selänne, Marek Svatoš, Samuel Påhlsson, Ossi Väänänen and so on...)--Serte [ Talk · Contrib ] 19:09, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

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He resigned
IIRC, he wasn't fired. He quit after his only full season as head coach, unable to deal with an abusive Montreal media...Ranma9617 05:41, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Restaurant sold
According to this link it was sold in 2021. https://lerbmt.ca/histoire/ Halmass (talk) 10:30, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

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Bernard Shapiro

Bernard Jack Shapiro, (born June 8, 1935) is a Canadian academic, civil servant, former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University from 1994 to 2004, and the first Ethics Commissioner of Canada between May 17, 2004 and March 29, 2007.

Biography
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in 1956. In 1967 he received a Doctorate in Education from Harvard University. He then joined the faculty of Boston University and later became Associate Dean of the School of Education. In 1976 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario and became Vice-President (Academic) and Provost in 1978. From 1980 until 1986 he was the Director of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and in 1984 published The Report of The Commission on Private Schools in Ontario for the Ministry of Education of Ontario.

In 1986 he joined the Ontario public service serving as Deputy Minister of Education, Deputy Minister of Skills Development, Deputy Secretary of Cabinet, Deputy Minister and Secretary of Management Board and Deputy Minister of Colleges and Universities. From 1992 until 1994 he was Professor of Education and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. From 1994 until 2004 he was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University. In May 2004 he was appointed the first Ethics Commissioner of Canada. His term was marked by controversy and then MP for Ottawa Centre, Ed Broadbent repeatedly called for his resignation.

He is the twin brother of Harold T. Shapiro, President Emeritus of Princeton University.

Honours

 * In 1999 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
 * In 2004 he was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec.
 * He has received honorary degrees from McGill University, University of Toronto, University of Ottawa, Yeshiva University, McMaster University, Université de Montréal, University of Edinburgh, Bishop's University, Nipissing University, University of Melbourne and University of Glasgow.

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Jean-Claude Mézières

Jean-Claude Mézières (23 September 1938 – 23 January 2022) was a French bandes dessinées artist and illustrator. Born in Paris and raised in nearby Saint-Mandé, he was introduced to drawing by his elder brother and influenced by comics artists such as Hergé, Andre Franquin and Morris and later by Jijé and Jack Davis. Educated at the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art, he worked upon graduation as an illustrator for books and magazines as well as in advertising. A lifelong interest in the Wild West led him to travel to the United States in 1965 in search of adventure as a cowboy, an experience that would prove influential on his later work.

Returning to France, Mézières teamed up with his childhood friend, Pierre Christin, to create Valérian and Laureline, the popular, long-running science fiction comics series for which he is best known and which influenced many science fiction and fantasy films, including Star Wars. Mézières contributed as a conceptual designer on several motion picture projects, most notably the 1997 Luc Besson film, The Fifth Element, as well as continuing to work as an illustrator for newspapers, magazines and in advertising. He also taught courses on the production of comics at the University of Paris VIII: Vincennes—Saint-Denis.

Mézières received international recognition through numerous awards, most notably the 1984 Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême.

Early life and career
Raised in the Saint-Mandé area in the suburbs of Paris, Jean-Claude Mézières met his friend and frequent collaborator Pierre Christin at the age of two in an air-raid shelter during World War II. He was first inspired to draw by the influence of his elder brother who, aged fourteen, had a drawing published in the magazine OK. Mézières' initial inspiration came from such OK strips as Arys Buck by Uderzo, Kaza the Martian by Kline and Crochemaille by Erik. Later he was exposed to Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin, Franquin's period on Spirou et Fantasio and, his favourite of all, Morris' Lucky Luke. He had his first drawings published in 1951, at the age of thirteen, in the magazine Le journal des jeunes, published by Le Figaro. A year later, "completely fascinated by Tintin", he created an eleven-page strip, Tintin in California, which features an unusually muscle-bound Arys Buck-influenced Tintin. This was followed, at the age of sixteen, by La Grande Poursuite, a Western influenced by Tintin, Lucky Luke and Roy Rogers which he sent to Hergé in the hope of getting published. Hergé sent a reply encouraging him to keep up his efforts.

In 1953, the fifteen years old Mézières enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art for four years. His class there included two other aspiring artists who would go on to find success in the field of comics – Patrick (Pat) Mallet and Jean "Moebius" Giraud. With Giraud in particular, he developed a life-long friendship due to their shared interest in Westerns and science fiction (both men later worked together as production illustrators on Besson's The Fifth Element). At this time he also rekindled his friendship with Pierre Christin, who was coincidentally attending the high school next door to the Arts Appliqués, the pair bonding over a mutual interest in jazz and cinema. While at college, Mézières, like Giraud, published illustrations and strips for publications such as Coeurs Valliants,  Fripounet et Marisette and Spirou magazine.

Following art college, Mézières entered military service, which at the time lasted twenty-eight months, including a tour of duty based in Tlemcen, Algeria, during the Algerian War, returning to France just fifteen days before the Algiers putsch.

Answering an advertisement in Le Figaro after his discharge from the army, Mézières was employed by the publishing house Hachette as an illustrator on a series of books titled Histoire des Civilizations (History of Civilization), for which he brought in Giraud to help him out with the well-paid chore. Intended to run to twenty volumes, Histoire des Civilizations folded after just five.

Introduced to Benoit Gillain (son of the famous comics artist Jijé) by Giraud, Mézières entered into a partnership with Gillain and they opened a studio in 1963. Working mainly in advertising, Mézières acted as a photographer, model maker and graphic designer. He also assisted Gillain with the setting up of Totale Journal, a publication he would later work for again upon his return from America.

Work in the United States
Mézières had been fascinated by the American Old West since he was a little boy through exposure to Western genre films starring the likes of Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster and James Stewart and comics such as Lucky Luke and Jerry Spring. At the age of sixteen, he had attempted to travel to Mexico with Jean Giraud, whose mother lived there, but was prevented by his parents. In 1965, Mézières arranged a working visa through a friend of Jijé's who had a factory in Houston, Texas. In the end, however, he never took up the job in Houston. After staying in New York for a few months, the call of the West proved too strong and eventually he ended up hitchhiking across the country, first to Seattle and then to Montana (where he worked on a ranch driving tractors, laying posts and cleaning stables) before ending up in San Francisco. His initial plan was to find work in an advertising agency in San Francisco but he ran foul of the Immigration Service who told him that his visa was good for working in the factory in Houston and nowhere else. He quickly left San Francisco in search of an authentic "Wild West" cowboy experience. Arriving in Salt Lake City, Utah with no money, he sought out Pierre Christin, who was living there while teaching at the University of Utah, and turned up on his doorstep asking him if he could sleep on his settee. To make ends meet, Mézières produced some illustrations for a small advertising agency in Salt Lake City and for a Mormon children's magazine called Children's Friend as well as selling some photographs he had taken while working on the ranch in Montana. After a few months, he found work on a ranch in Utah: this time succeeding in his aspiration of living the life of a cowboy, an experience he described as "better than in my dreams".

When winter came and there was no work available on the ranches, he collaborated with Christin on a six-page strip called Le Rhum du Punch, a copy of which he sent to Jean Giraud who was by now writing and illustrating Blueberry for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote. Giraud showed the strip to Pilote's editor, Rene Goscinny, who agreed to publish it (issue 335, 24 March 1966). This was followed by another collaboration titled Comment réussir en affaires en se donnant un mal fou (How to succeed in business by almost killing oneself through hard work) which was also published in Pilote (issue 351, 14 July 1966). By this stage Mézières visa was almost expired and so he used the money from these strips to pay for his ticket home. In leaving America, Mézières also left behind a young woman, Linda, one of Christin's students: she followed him to France some months later and became his wife.

Mézières' experiences in the United States have provided the inspiration for several magazine articles published in Pilote, Tintin, and GEO magazines as well as two books – Olivier chez les cow-boys (Olivier with the Cowboys), a children's book written by Pierre Christin with photographs and illustrations by Mézières about a visit Christin's son Olivier paid to the ranch Mézières worked on in Utah and Adieu, rêve américain... (Farewell, American dreams...), again written by Christin with photographs and illustrations by Mézières, a nostalgic look back at their time in the United States.

Valérian
On his return from the United States, Mézières visited the offices of Pilote magazine to see René Goscinny and Jean-Michel Charlier. Goscinny put him to work on L'extraordinaire et Troublante Aventure de Mr. August Faust (The Extraordinary and Troubling Adventure of Mr August Faust), written by Fred. This would be the first serialised strip that Mézières would work on. Due to the lack of artistic freedom he was given (because Fred's script came with all the strip panels already blocked out), Mézières found this a difficult assignment.

By this time Pierre Christin was dividing his time between Paris and Bordeaux, where he was working on founding the school of journalism at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT). Meeting up with Mézières one day, Christin suggested that they work on creating a comic strip together. Both had their experiences in the American West to draw upon but felt, thanks to Lucky Luke, Jerry Spring and Blueberry, that the market for Westerns was already crowded. Instead, Christin suggested that they turn their hands to science fiction, a genre that, at that time, was not prevalent in French comics. Although Goscinny was not a science fiction fan, he wanted to promote innovation and originality in Pilote and so commissioned them to produce a strip.

Drawing on influences from literary science fiction, Mézières and Christin devised the character of Valérian, a spatio-temporal agent from the 28th century employed by Galaxity, the capital of the future Earth, to protect space and time from interference. Neither Mézières nor Christin had any interest in making Valérian into a clean-cut hero of the type that appeared in French comics of the time. Instead they sought to create an anti-hero, "a banal character [without] any extraordinary means of action".

The first Valérian adventure, Les Mauvais Rêves (Bad Dreams) appeared in Pilote in 1967, with the first installment of the story published on 9 November in issue 420, and ran for fifteen issues, concluding in issue 434 on 15 February 1968. Bad Dreams shares an artistic style similar to that of Mézières and Christin's earlier collaborations for Pilote, with influences from Franquin, Morris and Mad magazine artist Jack Davis. Also introduced in this story was Laureline, a peasant girl from the Middle Ages. Originally intended to appear in only one story, the popular reaction to the character meant that she was retained for subsequent stories and she has since become elevated to the main star of the series.

Bad Dreams was followed by La Cité des Eaux Mouvantes (The City of Moving Waters) and its sequel Terre en Flammes (Earth in Flames) in 1968 and 1969 respectively. These two stories show some evolution in Mézières' art but also retain the cartoonish influences of Bad Dreams. Jean-Pierre Andrevon best sums up Mézières' style at this time in his 1970 review of the story where he describes Valérian as a "kind of Lucky Luke of space-time". The City of Shifting Waters and Earth in Flames were collected together in one volume in 1970 under the title The City of Shifting Waters. This became the first Valérian album – Bad Dreams was skipped because of its short length – thirty pages – relative to the usual album length of around 46 pages. Every Valérian story up to and including The Rage of Hypsis in 1985 would debut in serial form in Pilote before being published as an album.

L'Empire des Mille Planètes (Empire of a Thousand Planets) premiered in Pilote in 1969 and marked a further development for the Valérian series and for Mézières art. This story was the series' first full-blown attempt at space opera and it set out for the first time the two main signature elements of Valérian: the use of science fiction as a political allegory and Mézières' meticulously detailed depictions of alien worlds. The follow-up story World Without Stars saw the final evolution of Mézières' art into the style that became prevalent in the Valerian stories of the 1970s and 1980s, with the first realistic renderings of Valérian and Laureline, as opposed to the caricatures of the earlier stories.

Valérian is Mézières' best-known work, translated into at least thirteen languages: the last album,  L'Ouvre Temps, was published in January 2010. It is one of publisher Dargaud's top five best-selling comics series. Various attempts were made from the late 1970s onwards to adapt Valérian for film or television and an animated series, entitled Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline, made its debut in 2007.

Work in film and television
Mézières was always as interested in the cinema as he was in drawing. In 1957, he began work with Jean Giraud on creating an animated Western. Dissatisfied with the results, the project was abandoned after 45 seconds of animation had been completed. The same year he shot a short, ten-minute, 8 mm film,  La vie d'un Rêve (Life is a Dream), with Pierre Christin.

The success of Valérian led to Mézières becoming involved in several, mainly science fiction, film and television projects. The first of these was Billet Doux (Love Letter), a 1984 television series starring Pierre Mondy as a comic strip editor for which Mézières mocked up comic book covers and characters. Also in 1984 he produced designs for director Jeremy Kagan who was attempting to adapt René Barjavel's novel La Nuit des temps (The Ice People). Due to difficulties experienced by the film's Iranian producer as a result of the Islamic revolution in Iran, the film was never made. Some of Mézières' production art was published in Les Extras de Mézières.

In October 1985, Mézières was contacted by the German director Peter Fleischmann who proposed to adapt Russians Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's 1964 novel Hard to Be a God into a film. This was to be the first major German-Soviet co-production. Mézières travelled to Moscow to join the production team and also to Uzbekistan where it was proposed to shoot the film. Travelling from there to Munich, he produced several concept drawings and paintings over a three-month period before the project was suspended due to funding difficulties. At this point Mézières left the production and returned to France. Filming was eventually scheduled to begin in April 1986 in Kyiv and Mézières re-joined the production, creating storyboards for some scenes. However, at this time the Chernobyl disaster occurred only 100 km from Kyiv and production was again halted. The film was eventually finished in 1989, but Mézières' concepts were barely used. Again, many of Mézières' designs were later published in Les Extras de Mézières.

In December 1991, Mézières was approached by director Luc Besson, a lifelong fan of Valérian, who wanted Mézières to work on designs for a science fiction film called Zaltman Bléros. Along with his old friend Jean Giraud, who had also been approached by Besson, he began work producing concepts of buildings and vehicles for the futuristic New York depicted in the script. Interested by the flying taxi cabs that appeared in some of the drawings, Besson asked Mézières to draw more taxis and also a flying police car. By the start of 1993, production had stalled and Besson moved to the United States to work on the film Léon. Mézières returned to Valérian for the album The Circles of Power, published in 1994. This album made use of some of the concepts Mézières had worked on for Zaltman Bléros and featured a character, S'Traks, who drove a flying taxi around a great metropolis on the planet Rubanis. Mézières sent a copy of the album to Besson when it was finished. The commercial success of Léon led to Zaltman Bléros, now re-titled The Fifth Element, being green-lit for production. Mézières returned to the production and was amused to discover that the occupation of Korben Dallas, the film's main protagonist, had been changed from a worker in a rocket-ship factory to that of a taxi driver – obviously inspired by Mézières' drawings for the film and by The Circles of Power. Mézières produced further designs for the film including more taxis as well as spaceships and sets including the Fhloston Paradise liner seen in the latter part of the film. The Fifth Element was finally completed and released in 1997. Mézières published many of his concept drawings for the film in  Les Extras de Mézières No. 2: Mon Cinquieme Element.

Other works
At the same time as he was working on Valérian and various film and television projects, Mézières also worked extensively producing illustrations and comic strips for magazines and newspapers such as Pilote, Métal Hurlant and Le Monde, as well as covers for books and art for advertising campaigns. For Le Monde, in 1993, he was a regular illustrator for the Heures Locales column.

Mézières was also involved at one point in giving hands-on courses on the production of comic strips at the University of Paris, Vincennes. Graduates of his course include André Juillard and Régis Loisel.

He collaborated with Pierre Christin on a number of non-Valérian projects. The first of these was Lady Polaris in 1987, an illustrated novel about the mysterious disappearance of a cargo vessel, the Lady Polaris. The narrative comprises various documents related to the lost ship: comic strips, log books, even an investigative journalism account by a fictionalised Mézières and Christin. The action takes place against the backdrop of many of the great seaports of Europe. Mézières undertook considerable research in putting together this book, visiting the ports of Liverpool, Copenhagen, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Lübeck, Bordeaux, Bilbao and Genoa.

Another collaboration with Christin was Canal Choc, a series of four albums about a television news team investigating strange phenomena. Mézières did not draw these albums but supervised a team of artists including Philippe Aymond and Hugues Labiano.

In 2001, Mézières was approached by the city of Lille, which had been designated European Capital of Culture of 2004, to produce something for the celebrations. He created a series of futuristic arches, called Chemin des Etoiles (The Way of the Stars) along the Rue Faidherbe in the city, similar to those seen at the Port Abyss spaceport depicted in the Valérian album At the Edge of the Great Void which was first published the same year.

Death
Mézières died on 23 January 2022, at the age of 83.

Legacy
Mézières' arrival on the French comics scene with Valérian was contemporaneous with the debuts of other notable French science-fiction strips including Luc Orient by Greg and Eddy Paape and Lone Sloane by Philippe Druillet. The success of these strips eventually led to the creation of Métal Hurlant, the highly influential French comics magazine dedicated to science fiction. Mézières' influence has been noticed in such strips as  (by Víctor Mora and Carlos Giménez) and Gigantik (by Mora and José Maria Cardona). His visual style also influenced some American comics artists, notably Walt Simonson and Gil Kane. On occasion this went beyond mere influence – following a complaint by Mézières, the artist Angus McKie admitted that several panels of his strip So Beautiful and So Dangerous were copied from the Valérian album Ambassador of the Shadows.

Outside of comics, Mézières' art has been especially influential on science fiction and fantasy film. In particular, several commentators, such as Kim Thompson, Jean-Philippe Guerand and the newspaper Libération, have noted certain similarities between the Valérian albums and the Star Wars film series. Both series are noted for the "lived-in" look given to their various settings and for the diverse alien creatures they feature. Mézières' response upon seeing Star Wars was that he was "dazzled, jealous... and furious!". As a riposte, he produced an illustration for Pilote magazine in 1983 depicting the Star Wars characters Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa meeting Valérian and Laureline in a bar surrounded by a bestiary of alien creatures typical of that seen in both series. "Fancy meeting you here!" says Leia. "Oh, we've been hanging around here for a long time!" retorts Laureline. Mézières has since been informed that Doug Chiang, design director on The Phantom Menace, kept a set of Valérian albums and Les Extras de Mézières in his library.

Mézières also noticed similarities between some of the sets in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian and the planet seen in Birds of the Master and between some of the production sketches for the alien fighters in the 1996 film Independence Day and Valérian and Laureline's astroship.

Awards

 * 1984: Winner, Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême, the most prestigious award given at the annual Angoulême International Comics Festival
 * 1987: Winner, with Pierre Christin, European Science Fiction Society award for Valérian
 * 1992: Special mention by the jury, with Pierre Christin, Prix Jeunesse 9–12 ans (Youth Prize 9–12 years), at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, for Les Habitants du Ciel, an encyclopaedia of the alien creatures that have appeared in the Valérian series
 * 1995: Nominated, with Pierre Christin, for the Haxtur Award for Best Short Comic Strip, at the Salón Internacional del Cómic del Principado de Asturias (International Comics Convention of the Principality of Asturia, Spain), for the Valérian album The Circles of Power
 * 1997: Winner, with Pierre Christin, Tournesol Award given to the comic that best reflects the ideals of the French Green Party, for the Valérian album Hostages of the Ultralum
 * 2018: Max & Moritz Prize from Comic-Salon Erlangen (Germany) for Special Prize for outstanding life's work

Selected publications

 * The Valérian and Laureline (1967–2019) – drawn by Mézières, written by Pierre Christin. The classic comic strip series depicting the adventures of spatio-temporal agent Valérian and his feisty redhead companion, Laureline, as they travel through space and time is Mézières' most widely known and best-selling work. With the exception of the short stories originally published in the digest-sized Super Pocket Pilote spin-off publication of Pilote, all albums have been translated into English.
 * Mon Amérique à moi (My Very Own America) (1974) – an 8-page autobiographical strip, first published in Pilote, recounting Mézières' time in America in the mid-1960s.
 * An English translation was published in black and white in 1996 as a part of European Readings of American Popular Culture an academic publication edited by John Dean and Jean-Paul Gabillet. ISBN 9780313294297
 * Mezi avant Mézières (1981) – a collection of Mézières' early work for magazines such as Pilote.
 * Mézières et Christin avec... (1983) – compilation of early work, including the first publication of the Valérian story Bad Dreams in an album as well as Mon Amérique à moi and the strips Mézières produced for Métal Hurlant. ISBN 9782205025132
 * Lady Polaris (1987) – an illustrated novel written by Pierre Christin, set against the backdrop of the great seaports of Europe, about the mysterious sinking of the cargo vessel, the Lady Polaris. ISBN 2862602035
 * Les Extras de Mézières (Mézières' Extras) (1995) – a miscellaneous collection of works Mézières produced in the 1980s and early 1990s. Includes examples of Mézières' advertising work as well as concept designs for film projects. ISBN 978-2205044430
 * Les Extras de Mézières No. 2: Mon Cinquieme Element (Mézières' Extras No. 2: My Fifth Element) (1998) – a collection of the concept drawings Mézières produced for the film The Fifth Element. ISBN 978-2205047516
 * Adieu rêve américain (Farewell American Dreams) – part of the Correspondences de Pierre Christin series. Mézières and Christin reminisce about their American adventures. ISBN 978-2205049046

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Future-Drama

"Future-Drama" is the fifteenth episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. The 350th episode overall, it originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 17, 2005. In the episode, Bart and Lisa stumble into Professor Frink's basement, and he gives them a look into their future as teenagers getting ready for their high school graduation.

Matt Selman wrote the episode, and Mike B. Anderson served as director. Amy Poehler and John DiMaggio guest-starred as the characters of Jenda and Bender, respectively.

Plot
In the midst of one of their arguments, Bart and Lisa fall into Professor Frink's basement. Frink uses an astrology-based machine to show the kids their future as teenagers.

Eight years in the future (2013), Bart and Lisa are getting ready for their high school graduation and Homer and Marge have separated after Homer blew the family savings on an undersea home. Lisa is graduating two years early and has a scholarship to Yale University, while dating a muscular Milhouse and Bart dates a skateboarder named Jenda. He also shows them a picture of Lisa at age 12 (2009) after she was saved by Milhouse from a fire, which she later learns that he started. After the prom, Jenda wants to have sex with Bart, but Bart has no plans for the future and wants Jenda to marry him and live an aimless life, so she breaks up with him.

Bart unsuccessfully seeks advice from Homer on dating. He then shows Lisa a hologram of the prom, and tells her love can be painful; she agrees, noting she broke up with Milhouse and he had an Incredible Hulk-style meltdown. Lisa suggests that to get Jenda back, he must show her he can provide for her. Bart decides to take Lisa's advice and gets a job at the Kwik-E-Mart. While delivering groceries to Mr. Burns, he rescues him from a robbery by Snake Jailbird. As a reward, Burns gives Lisa's scholarship to Bart. He accepts it, seeing it as a way to get Jenda back. He then tells Lisa about the scholarship causing present and future Lisa to both get angry at Bart. Bart reconciles with Jenda, and now has a good future. That night, Jenda again wants to have sex with Bart, but then he goes into Professor Frink's basement and sees Lisa's bleak future with Milhouse on Frink's machine. Jenda is furious at Bart (she notes she never had any problems sparking romance with Todd Flanders), and gives him an ultimatum: leave and they are finished. Bart does head out and saves Lisa from accepting Milhouse's dismal proposal, then tells his sister he is giving her scholarship back and will find a woman who loves him for himself. Professor Frink then tells present Bart he will get one at age 83, then die one minute later, and his brain would be buried in a pauper's grave.

Meanwhile, Marge has dumped Krusty and reunites with Homer in the underwater home. During the credits, Bart is shown to find the sequence boring, and instead watches Cletus Spuckler's future as the Vice President of the United States on his way to a funeral for the Sultan of Brunei.

Production

The episode was written by Matt Selman, his thirteenth writing credit for The Simpsons. The episode was the third season sixteen episode that Mike B. Anderson directed, following "Fat Man and Little Boy" and "Pranksta Rap". It was the third future-themed episode of The Simpsons, following the season six episode "Lisa's Wedding" and the season eleven episode "Bart to the Future".

Even though this is the 350th episode broadcast on FOX, the 350th in production order is "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star" (which was temporarily shelved following Pope John Paul II's death, and was originally supposed to air after "Don't Fear the Roofer").

In an interview, Selman stated that the story of the episode originated when he asked himself what if people saw Bart and Lisa grow up as "ugly teenagers".

Cultural references
The episode's title is a parody of the TV series Futurama, which was also created by Simpsons creator Matt Groening. The character Bender makes a cameo appearance when Homer and Bart pass through a quantum tunnel; voice actor John DiMaggio reprised his role voicing Bender. The song playing while Homer and Bart cruise through the former's hovercar is "I.G.Y." by Donald Fagen. The songs "Take On Me" by a-ha, "Bizarre Love Triangle" by New Order, "Incense and Peppermints" by Strawberry Alarm Clock, and "True" by Spandau Ballet are played during Bart and Lisa's prom. "Sea of Love" by Phil Phillips plays while Homer and Marge kiss in the former's aquatic home. "Lenny's Super Pet" bears a strong resemblance to Superman's pet dog, Krypto the Superdog.

Reception
In its original American broadcast, "Future-Drama" garnered roughly 8.3 million viewers. The show finished third in its original timeslot.

The episode has garnered positive reviews from critics.

Hayden Childs of The A.V. Club wrote in 2011 that the episode was "full of sweetness and funny", but he thought "Holidays of Future Passed" was better.

The episode was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) in 2005.

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Ebright Azimuth

The Ebright Azimuth is the point with the highest benchmark monument elevation in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is marked with a geodetic benchmark monument and has an elevation of 447.85 ft above sea level. The only state high-point with a lower elevation is Britton Hill in the state of Florida at 345 ft above sea level.

Description
The Ebright Azimuth is located about 6.5 mi north of downtown Wilmington, Delaware, in far northern New Castle County, within a few feet of the Pennsylvania state line. It is near Concord High School, to the north of Naamans Road, at the middle of the intersection of Ebright Road and Ramblewood Drive. This is an entrance to the Dartmouth Woods development.

Surveying by Delaware Geological Survey personnel indicates that the mobile home park just west of Ebright Road is at least 2 ft higher than the benchmark.

Ebright Azimuth is named after James and Grant Ebright, who owned the property on which the benchmark was placed. An azimuth is an angular measurement in a spherical coordinate system.

Since the schematic photograph was taken the blue and yellow monument sign has been moved across the street closer to the geodetic marker. A curb extension has been installed, and the area around the sign has been modestly landscaped.

Radio tower history
The self-supporting radio tower just south of the benchmark was constructed in 1947 by Western Union as part of a historic C-band microwave radio relay system that linked New York City and Washington, D.C. This site was assigned the name "Brandywine" in recognition of Brandywine Creek located several kilometers to the west and was licensed with the call sign KGB29. Western Union's engineers specified a heavy-duty prefabricated fire tower structure, which allowed the microwave transmitters and receivers to be installed inside the cab. "Dish" antennas, mounted behind the window openings, were aimed towards the adjacent relay stations at Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, 33.8 mi to the northeast, and Elk Neck near Elkton, Maryland, 30.5 mi to the southwest.

Like most of their early microwave relay sites, Western Union decommissioned the Brandywine installation near Ebright Azimuth as more-reliable broadband fiber systems were developed. The structure now supports several VHF and UHF land mobile radio antennas.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edgar the Butler

 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 merge with The Aristocats Sjakkalle 13:32, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Edgar the Butler
No offense, but this sounds like a 10-year-old's school essay on a character in a cartoon movie. Besides the poor writing, the subject is not notable. I hope this author continues to be interested in Wikipedia and to contribute some better articles when he or she is older! RussBlau 19:00, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. "Edgar's last name Balthazar is not mentioned in his only film" - then how do you know that's his last name? Merge, as suggested below - minor characters in films should be kept on the film's page. -- 8^D gab 19:20, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)
 * From the script, of course. Lurtz's name is never mentioned in the film either. Radiant_* 12:51, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, and cleanup as necessary. He's the main villain, and this page is interesting to fans of the films and fictional butlers. Kappa 21:14, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Clarify please - do you mean the page is interesting to fictional butlers? Or do you mean the page is interesting to fans of fictional butlers? Do we have a fictional butlers catagory? -- 8^D gab 00:43, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
 * I meant fans of fictional butlers, though presumably fictional butlers themselves would enjoy reading it too. Butler has a short list of them. Kappa 02:25, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, turns out there's a category for fictional servants... close enough. -- 8^D gab 05:03, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
 * Merge whatever can be salvaged and redirect to The Aristocats. Weird that this is the only character someone wanted to write about. The guy's last name is original research, however. —Wahoofive | Talk 21:34, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * FWIW, the guy's last name is actually mentioned in The Aristocats article. No vote. --Calton | Talk 11:55, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per WP:FICT. Radiant_* 12:54, Apr 19, 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.