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Debra Paget

Debra Paget (born Debralee Griffin; August 19, 1933) is an American retired actress and entertainer. She is perhaps best known for her performances in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1956) and in Elvis Presley's film debut, Love Me Tender (1956), as well as for the risqué (for the time) snake dance scene in The Indian Tomb (1959).

Early life
Paget Was born in Denver, Colorado, one of five children of Margaret Allen (née Gibson), a former actress (one source says "ex-burlesque queen" ) and Frank Henry Griffin, a painter. The family moved to Los Angeles, California, in the 1930s to be close to the film industry. Paget was enrolled in the Hollywood Professional School when she was 11. Margaret was determined that Debra and her siblings would also make their careers in show business. Three of Paget's siblings, Marcia (Teala Loring), Leslie (Lisa Gaye), and Frank (Ruell Shayne), entered show business.

Paget had her first professional job at age 8, and acquired some stage experience at 13 when she acted in a 1946 production of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

20th Century Fox

Paget's first notable film role was as Teena Riconti in Cry of the City, a 1948 film noir directed by Robert Siodmak for 20th Century Fox, where the 14 year-old actress played the girlfriend of a hoodlum played by 38 year-old Richard Conte.

Fox liked her and signed her to a long-term contract. She had small roles in Mother Is a Freshman (1949), It Happens Every Spring (1949) and House of Strangers (1949).

Broken Arrow
Paget’s first vehicle for Fox was the successful Broken Arrow with James Stewart. At the age of 16, Paget played a Native American maiden, Sonseeahray ("morningstar"), who falls in love with Stewart's character. Stewart was 42 at the time.

From 1950 to 1956, she took part in six original radio plays for Family Theater. During those same years, she read parts in four episodes of Lux Radio Theater, sharing the microphone with such actors as Burt Lancaster, Tyrone Power, Cesar Romero, Ronald Colman, and Robert Stack. The latter set included dramatizations of two of her feature films.

Paget had a sizable role in Fourteen Hours (1951) and was reunited with Broken Arrow director Delmer Daves and star Jeff Chandler in Bird of Paradise (1951), playing a role similar to Broken Arrow.

Paget was the second female lead in Anne of the Indies (1951). She was third billed in Belles on Their Toes (1952) and second billed in Les Misérables (1952), playing Cosette.

Paget was Robert Wagner's love interest in Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) and Prince Valiant (1954). In 1953, wearing a blonde wig, she auditioned along with Anita Ekberg and Irish McCalla, among others, for the starring role in Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, which went to McCalla.

Princess of the Nile
Fox finally gave Paget top billing with the swashbuckler Princess of the Nile (1954), co-starring Jeffrey Hunter. The film was not a notable success at the box office. However, during the year after Princess of the Nile was released, the fan mail Paget received at 20th Century-Fox was topped only by that for Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable.

Paget had a substantial supporting role in Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954), a massive commercial success. She was Dale Robertson's love interest in The Gambler from Natchez (1954) and played another Native American in White Feather (1955), playing the sister of Jeffrey Hunter's character, and lover of Robert Wagner's character.

Fox loaned Paget and Hunter to Allied Artists to appear in Seven Angry Men (1955). At MGM, when Anne Bancroft was injured during filming The Last Hunt (1956), the studio borrowed Paget to play her role, another Native American.

The Ten Commandments
Paramount Pictures borrowed her from 20th Century Fox for the part of Lilia, the water girl, in Cecil B. DeMille's biblical epic The Ten Commandments (1956), her most successful film. She had to wear brown contact lenses to hide her blue eyes; she said that "If it hadn't been for the lenses I wouldn't have gotten the part". However, she also said that the lenses were "awful to work in because the klieg lights heat[ed] them up".

The film was a huge success, as was Paget's Fox western, Love Me Tender (1956) alongside Elvis Presley; Paget and Richard Egan were billed above Presley, but it was the singer's popularity and charisma that made the film so successful.

The River's Edge (1957) was the last film she made for Fox.

Post-Fox
After that, Paget's career began to decline. She went to Paramount to play Cornel Wilde's love interest in Omar Khayyam (1957). She was the juvenile lead in From the Earth to the Moon (1958). A talented dancer and singer, Paget also had a successful nightclub act at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas.

Europe
In 1958, she traveled to Germany to headline the cast of Fritz Lang's two-film adventure saga, The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb (1959), a role that recalled her character in Princess of the Nile.

In 1959, Paget appeared as Lela Russell in the episode "The Unwilling" of the NBC Western television series, Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin. In the story line, Dan Simpson, played by Eddie Albert, attempts to open a general store despite a raid from pirates who stole $20,000 in merchandise. Russell Johnson appears in this episode as Darius. In 1959 she played a Mexican revolutionary in an episode of Wagon Train

In 1960, she appeared as Laura Ashley in the episode "Incident of the Garden of Eden" on CBS's Western series, Rawhide. That same year, she had played an author, Agnes St. John, the only surviving witness to a brutal stagecoach robbery in another CBS Western, Johnny Ringo, starring Don Durant in the title role. In 1962, she returned to Rawhide to play the part of Azuela in the episode "Hostage Child" along with James Coburn.

Paget appeared in Cleopatra's Daughter (1960) shot in Italy, Why Must I Die? (1960) for American International Pictures, Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961), and Rome 1585 (1961) again in Italy.

AIP
Her final two films were for Roger Corman at American International Pictures: Tales of Terror (1963) and The Haunted Palace (1963).

She did television work throughout her career. Her last performance in this medium came in a December 1965 episode of ABC's Burke's Law, starring Gene Barry. She retired from entertainment in 1965, after marrying a wealthy oil executive, by whom she had one son, her only child.

Later career
Paget became a born-again Christian. She hosted her own show, An Interlude with Debra Paget, on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), a Christian network, in the early 1990s, and also was involved in Praise the Lord. She occasionally appears on TBN as a guest.

In 1987, the Motion Picture and Television Fund presented Paget with its Golden Boot Award, which is awarded to those actors, writers, directors, and stunt crew who "have contributed so much to the development and preservation of the western tradition in film and television."

Independent filmmaker Mark Rappaport paid tribute to her in his 2016 documentary essay, Debra Paget, For Example.

Personal life
During production of Love Me Tender (1956), Elvis Presley became smitten with Paget, who in 1997 said that he had proposed marriage. At the time, however, the media reported that she was romantically linked with Howard Hughes and nothing came of this infatuation. A 1956 article quoted Paget's comments about Hughes: "I was in love with Howard for two years, and I don't care who knows it... I was never alone with him in the whole two years. Mother was always with us... I haven't seen Howard for a long time now, because I'm a one-man woman, and I've got to have a one-woman man... But I'll always remember Howard with fondness."

Paget married actor and singer David Street on January 14, 1958, but she obtained a divorce on April 11, 1958.

On March 27, 1960, she married Budd Boetticher, a director, in Tijuana, Mexico. They separated after 22 days, and their divorce became official in 1961.

Paget left the entertainment industry in 1964 after marrying Ling C. Kung (孔令傑) on April 19, 1962. Kung was a Chinese-American oil industry executive. His parents were banker and politician H. H. Kung and businesswoman Soong Ai-ling. His maternal aunts were Soong Mei-ling, wife of Chiang Kai-shek and First Lady of the Republic of China, and political figure Soong Ching-ling. Paget and Kung had one son, Gregory Teh-chi Kung. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1980.

Family Theater

 * 1950-11-29 "The Clown" – Debra Paget, Stephen Dunn
 * 1952-01-23 "The Thinking Machine" – Donald O'Connor, Debra Paget
 * 1953-02-11 "The Indispensable Man" – Lisa Gaye, Robert Stack, Debra Paget
 * 1953-12-09 "The Legend of High Chin Bob" – Debra Paget, Walter Brennan
 * 1955-07-27 "Fairy Tale" – Debra Paget, Jack Haley
 * 1956-11-07 "Integrity" – Debra Paget, Cesar Romero

Lux Radio Theatre

 * 1951-01-22 "Broken Arrow" – Burt Lancaster, Debra Paget
 * 1952-09-22 "I'll Never Forget You" – Tyrone Power, Debra Paget, Michael Pate
 * 1952-12-22 "Les Misérables" – Ronald Colman, Debra Paget, Robert Newton
 * 1953-04-20 "Deadline USA" – Dan Dailey, Debra Paget, William Conrad

Stars over Hollywood

 * 1953-02-21 "The Wonderful Miss Prinn" – Debra Paget

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Guo

"Guo", written in Chinese: 郭, is one of the most common Chinese surnames and means "the wall that surrounds a city" in Chinese. It can also be transliterated as Cok, Gou, Quo, Quach, Quek, Que, Keh, Kuo, Kwo, Kuoch, Kok, Koc, Kwee, Kwek, Kwik, Kwok, Kuok, Kuek, Gock, Koay, or Ker. The Korean equivalent is spelled Kwak; the Vietnamese equivalent is Quách.

The different ways of spelling this surname indicate the origin of the family. For example, the Cantonese "Kwok" originated in Hong Kong and the surrounding area. In the Philippines, the spelling is "Que", "Ke", "Quepe", and "Kepa". In 2019, Guo was the 16th most common surname in mainland China.

Origins
There are eight legendary origins of the Guo surname, which include a Persian (Hui) origin, a Korean origin, and a Mongolian origin, as a result of sinicization. However, the majority of people bearing the surname Guo are descended from the Han Chinese.

Hui surname
One of the Guo family is from the Hui clans around Quanzhou in Fujian.

Early in the 14th century, a Persian Al-Qudsan Al-Dhaghan Nam (伊本·庫斯·德廣貢·納姆) was sent to Quanzhou by Külüg Khan for assisting grain transportation by sea. He failed to return to Khanbaliq due to war, then got married and settled at Quanzhou. Because his Persian surname Qudsan pronounces similar to Chinese Guo, Al-Qudsan Al-Dhaghan Nam's grandsons began to change their surname to Guo in order to assimilate with local Han Chinese. It was politically expedient to claim they were descendants of Guo Ziyi in order to be better accommodated by local people and later the Ming dynasty government. After Haijin policy applied and the Portuguese began to dominate the China-Middle East maritime trade, they were more localized and recognized as descendants as Guo Ziyi by themselves and by local people.

Due to more people of these clans identifying as Hui, the population of Hui has grown. All these clans needed was evidence of ancestry from Arab, Persian, or other Muslim ancestors to be recognized as Hui, and they did not need to practice Islam. The Communist party and its policies encouraged the definition of Hui as a nationality or ethnicity. The Chinese government's Historic Artifacts Bureau preserved tombs of Arabs and Persians whom Hui are descended from around Quanzhou. Many of these Hui worship their village guardian deities and are non-Muslims; they include Buddhists, Taoists, followers of Chinese Folk Religions, secularists, and Christians. Many clans with thousands of members in numerous villages across Fujian recorded their genealogies and had Muslim ancestry. Hui clans originating in Fujian have a strong sense of unity among their members, despite being scattered across a wide area in Asia, such as Fujian, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, and Philippines.

In Taiwan there are also descendants of Hui who came with Koxinga who no longer observe Islam, the Taiwan branch of the Guo (romanized as Kuo in Taiwan) family are non-Muslims, but maintain a tradition of not offering pork at ancestral shrines. The Chinese Muslim Association counts these people as Muslims. The Taiwanese Guo clan view their Hui identity as irrelevant and don't assert that they are Hui.

Various different accounts are given as to whom the Hui Guo clan is descended from. Several of the Guo claimed descent from Han chinese General Guo Ziyi. They were then distressed and disturbed at the fact that their claim of descent from Guo Ziyi contradicted their being Hui, which required foreign ancestry. The Encyclopædia Iranica claims the ancestor of the Guo clan in Baiqi was the Persian Ebn Tur (Daqqaq).

Historical

 * Guo Chongtao, General of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Later Tang (and Later Tang's predecessor state Jin)
 * Guo Chun, painter during the Early Ming dynasty
 * Guo Chuwang, patriot at the end of the Song dynasty
 * Guo Daiju, Official and Chancellor of the Tang dynasty
 * Guo Huai, Military General of Cao Wei
 * Guo Jia, Official and Adviser under Warlord Cao Cao
 * Guo Kan, a famed Chinese general that served under the Mongols
 * Guo Nuwang, First Empress of Cao Wei
 * Guo Pu, writer and scholar of the Eastern Jin
 * Guo Rong, Second Emperor of Later Zhou also known as Chai Rong
 * Guo Shengtong, First Empress of Emperor Guangwu
 * Guo Shoujing, astronomer, engineer, and mathematician who lived during the Yuan dynasty
 * Guo Si, General who serve under Warlord Dong Zhuo during the Late Han dynasty
 * Guo Tu, adviser under Warlord Yuan Shao
 * Guo Wei, Founding Emperor of Later Zhou
 * Guo Xi, Chinese Painter of the Song dynasty
 * Guo Xiang Taoist of the Early Jin dynasty
 * Guo Xun, General of The Han dynasty
 * Guo Yuanzhen, General Official and Chancellor of the Tang dynasty
 * Guo Zhengyi, Official and Chancellor of the Tang dynasty
 * Guo Zhongshu, painter and scholar during the Song dynasty
 * Guo Ziyi (697–781), general of Tang China who ended the Anshi Rebellion

Modern

 * Terry Gou (郭台銘, born 1950), Taiwanese billionaire, founder and chairman of Foxconn
 * Guo Ailun (born 1993), Chinese basketball player
 * Frant Gwo or Guo Fan (郭帆, born 1980), Chinese film director
 * Guo Guangchang (born 1967), Chinese billionaire, founder and chairman of Fosun International
 * Guo Jingjing (born 1981), Chinese Olympic diver
 * Guo Jingming (born 1983), Chinese author and pop idol
 * Guo Mei (born 1968), Chinese haematologist
 * Guo Moruo (1892–1978), Chinese author, poet, historian, archaeologist and government official
 * Guo Qi (born 1995), Chinese chess player
 * Guo Songtao (1818–1891), Chinese diplomat and statesman during the Qing dynasty
 * Guo Wengui (born 1967), Chinese billionaire businessman and political activist
 * Guo Wenli (born 1989), Chinese curler
 * Guo Xinwa (born 2000), Chinese badminton player
 * Guo Ying (born 1991), Chinese singer and rapper, member of girl group Rocket Girls 101
 * Guo Yonghuai (1909–1968), aerodynamics expert and a leader of China's atomic and hydrogen bomb projects
 * Tina Guo (born 1985), Chinese-American cellist and erhuist
 * Xiaolu Guo (born 1973), Chinese-British novelist and filmmaker
 * Alice Guo, Filipino-Chinese businesswoman and mayor of Bamban, Tarlac
 * Hean Tat Keh, Professor of Marketing at Monash University
 * Herman Keh (born 1996), Singaporean actor and model
 * Teresa Kok (born 1964), Malaysian politician
 * Kuo Fang-yu (born 1952), Minister of Labor of the Republic of China (2016–2017)
 * Kuo Hsing-chun (born 1993), Taiwanese Olympic weightlifter
 * Kuo Kuo-wen (born 1967), Deputy Minister of Labor of the Republic of China (2016–2017)
 * Kuo Ping-Wen (1880–1969), Chinese educator
 * Robert Kuok (born 1923), Malaysian born Chinese, Hong Kong billionaire, chairman of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts
 * Phillip Kwok (born 1951) Hong Kong-based Taiwanese actor, martial artist, and stuntman.
 * Didik Nini Thowok (born Kwee Tjoen An, 1954), Indonesian dancer
 * Kwik Kian Gie (born 1935), Indonesian politicians
 * Kwek Leng Beng (born 1940), Singaporean billionaire, executive chairman of Hong Leong Group
 * Sherman Kwek (born 1975/76), Singaporean businessman, son of Kwek Leng Beng
 * Kwok Wing-kin (born 1986), Hong Kong politician, leader of the Labour Party
 * Aaron Kwok (born 1965), Hong Kong singer, dancer, and actor
 * Kenix Kwok (born 1969), Hong Kong actress
 * Sonija Kwok (born 1974), Hong Kong actress
 * Roger Kwok (born 1964), Hong Kong actor
 * Walter Kwok (1950–2018), Hong Kong billionaire, former CEO of Sun Hung Kai Properties
 * Burt Kwouk (1930–2016), British actor
 * Phyllis Quek (born 1973), Malaysian actress based in Singapore
 * Sam Quek (born 1988), British field hockey player and gold medal winner at the 2016 Summer Olympics
 * Quek Leng Chan (born 1941), Malaysian billionaire, co-founder of Hong Leong Group Malaysia
 * Keh Chin Ann (郭振安; born 1974, disappeared in 1986), a twelve-year-old schoolboy who went missing in Singapore
 * Quek Kee Siong 郭祺祥, a child rapist and murderer in Singapore

Fictional people

 * Guo Jing, protagonist in The Legend of the Condor Heroes

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Positively Phranc

Positively Phranc is an album by the American musician Phranc, released in 1991. Phranc promoted the album by touring with Morrissey. Phranc was dropped by Island Records after the album's release.

Production
"Gertrude Stein" is Phranc's cover version of Jonathan Richman's "Pablo Picasso"; D.J. Bonebrake played drums on the song. "Tipton" is a tribute to transgender jazz musician Billy Tipton. "Surfer Girl", a duet with Syd Straw, is a cover of the Beach Boys song. "Outta Here" is about the deaths of friends due to AIDS. Dave Alvin played guitar on "Hitchcock". Two Nice Girls sang on "I'm Not Romantic".

Critical reception
The Gazette wrote that "Phranc proves that all anyone really needs is six strings and a point of view." The Chicago Tribune opined that Positively Phranc "is miles ahead of her first two albums, offering wit, a sense of balance, musical diversity and polished artistry that simply wasn't there before."

Trouser Press noted that the album "intermittently brings tasteful electric accompaniment into the picture while narrowing the lyrical focus to mostly concentrate on romance." Entertainment Weekly lamented that "Phranc pens ironic little ditties, high on giggles but low on the insights that should come out of a lesbian's daily life in the straight world." Robert Christgau considered "'64 Ford" to be the album's best track.

Track listing
All tracks composed by Phranc; except where indicated
 * 1) "I Like You"
 * 2) "I'm Not Romantic"
 * 3) "'64 Ford"
 * 4) "Hitchcock"
 * 5) "Tipton"
 * 6) "Dress Code"
 * 7) "Why?"
 * 8) "Gertrude Stein" (Jonathan Richman)
 * 9) "Surfer Girl" (Brian Wilson)
 * 10) "Outta Here"

Personnel

 * Phranc - Producer, vocals, guitar
 * Warren Bruleigh - Producer

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Šentjur

Šentjur ( or ; Sankt Georgen ) is a town in eastern Slovenia. It is the seat, and largest settlement, of the Municipality of Šentjur. The town lies on the Voglajna River east southeast of Celje. The settlement, and the entire municipality, are included in the Savinja Statistical Region, which is in the Slovenian portion of the historical Duchy of Styria.

Name
The name of the settlement was changed from Sveti Jurij pri Celju (literally, 'Saint George near Celje') to Šentjur pri Celju in 1952. The town was renamed again from Šentjur pri Celju to Šentjur in 1990.

Church
The parish church, which the settlement gets its name from, is dedicated to Saint George (sveti Jurij, colloquially šent Jur(ij)) and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Celje. It was built between 1708 and 1721.

Notable residents

 * Dušan Kveder

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Orense

Orense may refer to:
 * Ourense, a city in northwestern Spain, named Orense in Spanish
 * Province of Ourense, a province in northwestern Spain
 * Valle del Miño-Orense, a wine region in northwestern Spain

 * Orense S.C., an Ecuadorian association football club
 * Orense Street, a junction on the EDSA highway in Manila, Philippines

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Jim Baker (frontiersman)

Jim Baker (1818–1898), known as "Honest Jim Baker", was a frontiersman, trapper, hunter, army scout, interpreter, and rancher. He was first a trapper and hunter. The decline of the fur trade in the early 1840s drove many trappers to quit, but Baker remained in the business until 1855. During that time he was a friend of Jim Bridger, Kit Carson and John C. Frémont. On August 21, 1841, he was among a group of twenty three trappers who were attacked by Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Sioux on what became known as Battle Mountain. After Henry Fraeb was killed, Baker organized the trappers against the Native Americans in a multiple-day fight.

While he was a trapper, he developed expertise as a guide, leader, marksman, and interpreter with Native Americans. He operated a ferry and trading post along the Green River. He served the military as a tracker and guide, including during the Mormon Utah War, following the Meeker Massacre, and during the Battle of the Rosebud in present day Big Horn County, Montana.

He had at least three Native American wives and fourteen children. He homesteaded on what is now Clear Creek near Denver on July 3, 1859. The area became known as Baker's Crossing, and he established several businesses there. He raised cattle, operated a stone coal (anthracite) mine, a toll bridge on the Denver Boulder Wagon Road, and a store operated by two of his wives. In 1873, Baker built a cabin with a guard tower near the Little Snake River in Wyoming, where he raised livestock until his death in 1898. His cabin is currently on display at the Little Snake River Museum in Savery, Wyoming. Baker's grave is marked with a stone at Baker Cemetery near Savery.

Early life
James Baker was born on December 19, 1818, in Belleville, St. Clair County, Illinois, a few miles from St. Louis, Missouri. His parents were Phoebe Neeley and William Baker, who were Scot-Irish farmers from the Nashville, Tennessee, area. They were both born in Tennessee and moved to Illinois as young adults. They had eight children, one born in Belleville and the rest in Sangamon County. His parents operated a mill along the Sangamon River.

Baker had sisters Eliza, Elizabeth, and Adelia and a brother John. He learned to hunt for game with a gun and fish as a child. He and his siblings had little education. When he was seventeen, his father sent him to his grandfather at St. Louis for schooling, but he was sent home when it was clear he had no interest in education. Interested in living a life on the frontier, he went to the American Fur Company in St. Louis to sign up to be a trapper.

Fur trapper and hunter
Baker was hired by Jim Bridger to work for the American Fur Company for 18 months, for which he received $465. On May 15, 1838, he left St. Louis by boat and traveled up the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to the Uinta Mountains of present day Utah and Wyoming. Baker led a pack train to the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous in the Wind River Valley for Jim Bridger. He hunted with Bridger and Kit Carson and in 1840 returned home to Illinois and St. Louis after his contract expired. He then signed up for another several years with the fur company.

Baker traveled on the steamer St. Peter upriver to Westport on May 22, 1839. With missionaries and 75 men, Baker was on an eight-day expedition that traveled through lands of the Arikara, who were known for their hostility. Led by Thomas Fitzpatrick, it was bound for Fort Bonneville in what is now west-central Wyoming.

Baker traveled with the Bartleson–Bidwell Party headed for California in May 1841. It was the first wagon train to travel overland on the Oregon Trail. Baker traveled from the Green River, to Bridger's camp at the Henry's Fork, arriving in early August. Bridger, who was worried about his overdue associate Henry Fraeb, sent Baker and others to search for the lost party and to warn them of increased hostility among the Plains Indians. Fraeb was found at the base of Squaw Mountain on the banks of the Little Snake River and Battle Creek, near what is now the border between Wyoming and Colorado. Baker hunted near Fraeb's camp on August 21, 1841. Twenty three trappers were attacked by 500 Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Sioux. After Fraeb was killed, Baker took charge of the battle that extended over two to six days. The trappers hid behind stumps, dug pits, and created a defensive barrier of dead horses and logs. The battle ended after a Native American chief's horse was shot and fell over. Four trappers were killed. Most of the trappers' horses were killed, with more than 100 horses dead from both sides. Legend has it that 35 or 100 Native Americans were killed, but those numbers may be exaggerated. Baker and other survivors returned to Bridger's camp on the Green River on August 27. The mountain was later renamed Battle Mountain.

Baker continued to hunt and trap in the Henry's Fork area independent of a fur company. He was often with Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, his brother John Baker, and others. They got along well with the Shoshone, but the Arapaho and Snake people sometimes stole their collection of furs that they collected over a summer. He became known for his skills as a frontiersman: "Next to Jim Bridger, he was the most intrepid, skillful, and accomplished plainsman and mountaineer in all that region. He was a generous, noble-hearted specimen of the trapper type, who would peril his life for a friend at any time, or divide with him his last morsel of food."

His younger brother John, called "Beaver John" on the frontier, was also a trapper, hunter, and scout. He hunted and trapped with his brother Jim, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger and Jack Robinson. His brother married a Shoshone woman and established a cattle ranch near Henry's Fork in Wyoming.

Jim Baker was known for his skills as a marksman, archer, horseman, tracker, hunter, and lariat thrower. When hunting with a group of people, Baker generally took the lead and was the fastest rider of the men. He was also a competent Native American sign language communicator and spoke a number of Native American languages. He was known for his ability to guide, even where there were no evident trails. He had a good knowledge of the geography of the west, guiding others around rivers, lakes, canyons, and other geographical features. Based upon his reputation, he became a good friend of John C. Frémont.

Baker camped with the Shoshone in the Wind River area, assuming the clothing and lifestyle of the Native Americans. They lived near present-day Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Marina, the daughter of the band's chief, and a girl named Winona were kidnapped by a group of Blackfeet. Baker rescued the young women and was married to Marina in October 1847. She gave her groom an emblem of bravery, a bear claw necklace. Baker continued to live with his wife's tribe, as was common when mountain men married Native American woman. Baker was adopted into the Shoshone tribe and given the name "Red-Haired Shoshone" in 1847. He was engaged in conflicts with Cheyenne, Sioux, and Crows. He was said to have never been wounded in battle, yet it was also said that his body was covered with scars from battles, bear fights, and riding accidents.

It became increasingly difficult to make a living trapping and hunting furs. Beaver had been fairly well trapped out by the 1840s. In addition, there was shift in fashion away from fur and to silk hats, so there was not much of a demand for beaver hats.

Baker operated at least one trading post and ferry stop on the Oregon - California - Mormon Trails along the Green River south to Salt Lake City. As Mormons moved into the area, they established towns. Shoshone, Utes, Mormons, mountain men, and new immigrants vied for land and resources.

Baker hunted with Baker and Carson into the fall of 1852. They traveled through what are now the states of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and back to New Mexico. It was their last trip together and he ended his career as a trapper and hunter in 1855.

Scout
Baker was a guide and interpreter between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean for 34 years. In 1845, he helped herd 4,000 wild horses from Mexican land in what is now Southern California. In 1847, Baker was in the Salt Lake City, Utah, region, where he worked for a railroad party as a scout and guide.

In 1855, Baker was the chief scout at Fort Laramie, serving under General William Harney. Two years later, he guided Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston and his troops in a column against the Mormons and to Fort Bridger during the Mormon Utah War (1857–1858). The Mormon militia had run off or stole the fort's livestock. Baker led Captain R.B. Marcy's detachment through Colorado to New Mexico to purchase mules at Fort Union or Fort Massachusetts. They were challenged by frigid weather and deep snow. Marcy later said that the party would have died of hunger and the treacherous weather without the expert scout's leadership. On their return, the troops passed through present-day Denver area and discovered gold at Cherry Creek in early 1858.

While practicing with his Spencer carbine weapon, the magazine exploded, which injured his face and blew his right thumb off its hand. His lips, tongue, chin, and teeth were lacerated. He was also injured in the chest and his right lung. The injury occurred along Cherry Creek, about 20 miles from present-day Denver, where he was taken and was treated by a surgeon.

Colorado and Wyoming
On July 3, 1859, Baker took up a homestead west of Denver along Vasquez Creek (now Clear Creek). The area became known as Baker's Crossing, where he established several businesses, at what is now 53rd and Tennyson in northwest Denver. He built an adobe house and raised cattle. He operated a stone coal (anthracite) mine, a toll bridge on the Denver Boulder Wagon Road, and a store operated by his two wives. His customers were European American settlers and Native Americans.

In 1864, Baker was appointed a captain in the Colorado Militia along with John Chivington, who later lead the Colorado Territorial forces in the infamous Sand Creek Massacre. He worked for Indian Agent Daniel Chessman Oakes as a guide. Horses and mules has been stolen by Southern Arapahoe. In retaliation, Baker and others raided Little Raven and his band.

He led a railroad survey party to Salt Lake in 1872. In 1873, Baker left Colorado and bought a ranch in the Little Snake River Valley near Savery, Wyoming. He built a hand-hewn log cabin, that looked like and served as a fort for settlers following the Meeker Massacre (September 29, 1879). Baker raised cattle, which he branded with "JB".

He guided an Indian agent and separately guided Colonel Wesley Merritt following the massacre. As European American gold prospectors encroached on Oglala Lakota’s land at French Creek in the Badlands, tensions grew about who had rights to the land. Baker served under General George Armstrong Custer during the Battle of the Rosebud in the Black Hills against Crazy Horse, the Oglala Lakota chief in 1876. Following the Meeker Massacre, the United States Cavalry pursued the Utes responsible for the attack. Baker was hired by Major Thomas Tipton Thornburgh as a guide to track the Utes. Fourteen soldiers were killed at a battle at Milk Creek.

Personal life and death
Jim Baker was married three or more times, perhaps with as many as six wives, including women from the Shoshone, Snake, Bannock, and Flathood tribes. He fathered 14 children.

Baker was first married to Marina, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Shoshone chief Washakie, in October 1847. They had three children: Jennieve Jane, William and Joseph. Marina died while Baker was away on an extended hunting trip in 1852. She and some of Baker's children died of smallpox.

Baker fell in love with Flying Fawn, a Sioux woman and daughter of Long Lance. They were about to be married when Flash of Fire, her cousin, prepared to shoot an arrow at Baker out of jealousy. Long Lance killed Flash of Fire, saving Baker's life. It is not known if Baker and Flying Fawn were married. It was also said that Baker saved a Sioux woman from starvation in the 1850s.

His wife Meeteetse (Little Traveler), who Baker called Mary, was a Shoshone woman. They had ten children: Thomas, Buck, Jim, Mary, Isabel, Madeline, Nancy Kate, Liza, and Elsie. With his wife Eliza Yanetse, they had a daughter Jennie. Eliza had twins in 1856, but only one of them survived, and was named James C. Baker. On July 3, 1859, Baker and his family settled at a place known as Baker's Crossing, west of Denver along Clear Creek).

Baker moved near Savery, present-day Carbon County, Wyoming, in 1873, where he had a two-story cabin known as Jim Baker Cabin near the Little Snake River. The family lived on the first level the second floor was used for storage, or where Baker would sleep after pulling up the ladder from the ground floor. Until 1881, there was a watchtower cupola on top of the second floor, where there was a "commanding view" of the Little Snake River Valley. Shoshone, Ute, and Snake people lived in tipis in the area. By that time, none of his wives were with him and there were only six children who settled with him:
 * William homesteaded where the town of Dixon, Wyoming now stands and died in 1893.
 * Joseph lived with Baker in 1880 and moved to the Shoshone Reservation at Lander, Wyoming
 * Mary married John Runnels, a miner and died at Hahn's Peak, CO in 1880.
 * Isabelle lived with Baker in 1880 and married N.B. Kinnear.
 * Madeline lived with Baker in 1880 and married Frank Adams.
 * Jennie lived with Baker in 1880 and married August Rischke.

Baker continued to live out his life at his cattle ranch and cabin. On May 15, 1898, Baker died at the Jim Baker Cabin. His body was buried in a family cemetery at the base of the mountain named after him, Baker's Peak.

Legacy
In 1917, the Baker Cabin was removed from Savery and taken to Frontier Park in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In July 1976, the home of Jim Baker was returned to Savery, Wyoming and is now located at the Little Snake River Museum. The cabin was reconstructed under the direction of Jim Baker's great-grandson, Paul McAllister of Dixon, Wyoming. Westminster, Colorado, commissioned a statue of Baker. His portrait was created in a stained glass window for the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver.

Jim Mountain in northwest Wyoming is named after him.

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Red Grooms

Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of Provincetown's Sun Gallery) when he was starting out as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Provincetown and was studying with Hans Hofmann.

Background and education
Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee during the middle of the Great Depression. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, then at Nashville's Peabody College. In 1956, Grooms moved to New York City, to enroll at the New School for Social Research. A year later, Grooms attended a summer session at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts. There he met experimental animation pioneer Yvonne Andersen, with whom he collaborated on several short films.

Red Grooms belongs to a generation of artists who, in G. R. Swenson's words, "took the world too seriously not to be amused by it." As Judith Stein notes, "At times Grooms's humor has an absurdist streak, full of the impetuous energy and preposterous puns of the Marx Brothers. He shares a comic sense with Bob and Ray whose straight-man/funny-man teamwork plays off against the mundane conventions of daily life. As an empiricist with a keen political sense and a retentive memory for visual facts, Grooms follows in the tradition of William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier, who were canny commentators on the human condition."

In 1969, Peter Schjeldahl compared Grooms to Marcel Duchamp, because both embodied "a movement of one man that is open to everybody."

Early work
In the spring of 1958, Grooms, Yvonne Andersen and Lester Johnson each painted twelve-foot by twelve-foot panels, which they erected with telephone poles on a parking lot adjacent an amusement park in Salisbury, MA.."

Inspired by artist-run spaces such as New York's Hansa Gallery and Phoenix, and Provincetown's Sun Gallery, Grooms and painter Jay Milder opened the City Gallery in Grooms' second-floor loft in the Flatiron District. When Phoenix refused to show Claes Oldenburg, Grooms and Milder dropped out of Phoenix and City Gallery presented Oldenberg's first New York exhibition, as well as that of Jim Dine. Other artists who showed at City Gallery include Stephen Durkee, Mimi Gross, Bob Thompson, Lester Johnson, and Alex Katz. Grooms recalls, "We were reacting to Tenth Street. In '58 and '59, Tenth Street was sort of like SoHo is now, and it was getting all the lively attention of everyone downtown....We were just kids in our twenties..and had a flair for attracting people to our openings."

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Grooms made a number of "Happenings". The best known was The Burning Building, staged at his studio (dubbed "The Delancey Street Museum" for the occasion) at 148 Delancey Street in New York's Lower East Side between December 4 and 11, 1959.

Inspired by George Méliès's 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, Grooms' early film Shoot the Moon (1962) features celebrants played by Edwin Denby, Alex Katz and Grooms seen shredding library books to make confetti." Other Grooms films include:The Big Sneeze (1962), a hand-drawn comic filmed by Rudy Burckhardt; Before an' After (1964), a sadomasochistic comedy that casts Mimi Gross as part dominatrix/part healthclub operator; Fat Feet (1966), a collaboration with Mimi Gross, Yvonne Andersen and Dominic Falcone that begins where Shoot the Moon ends; Tapping Toes (1968-70), which uses his first sculpto-pictorama City of Chicago (1967) as its set; Conquest of Libya by Italy (1912-13) (1972-3), a black and white animation that spoofs that era's newsreels; Hippodrome Hardware (1973), based on Grooms' 1972 live performance of the same name, whose main character Mr. Ruckus is played by Grooms; Grow Great (1974), a live-action short that features Mimi Gross as the household consumer; Little Red Riding Hood (1978), which features his daughter Saskia; and Man Walking Up (1984).

Today Grooms is recognized as a pioneer of site-specific sculpture and installation art. City of Chicago (1967), a room-sized, walk-through "sculpto-pictorama," features sky-scraper-proportioned sculptures of Mayor Daley and Hugh Hefner "joined by such historical figures as Abraham Lincoln, Al Capone, and fan-dancer Sally Rand, accompanied by a sound track featuring gunfire and burlesque music. Grooms's genius for rendering the intricacies of architectural ornament is vividly apparent in several three-dimensional vistas of Chicago's famous buildings. Evident here and in the numerous other cityscapes Grooms has created is his extraordinary ability to capture a sense of place with a great sensitivity to detail."

Another sculpto-pictorama, Ruckus Manhattan (1975) exemplifies the mixed-media installations that would become his signature craft. These vibrant three-dimensional constructions melded painting and sculpture, to create immersive works of art that invited interaction from the viewer. The pieces were often populated with colorful, cartoon-like characters, from varied walks of life. His satirical environmental installation The Discount Store was shown at VCU's Anderson Gallery in 1979. One of his biggest themes is the use of painting people, often using other artists or their styles to show his appreciation for their works.

Mature work
Regarding his large wall relief, William Penn Shaking Hands with the Indians (1967), based on a similarly titled painting by Benjamin West, Grooms remarked, "To tell the truth I did [the work] more because of Mr Benjamin West than Mr. Penn. Benjamin West is a hero for American Art. ... As I understand he set up the whole tableau for The Treaty on his estate using actors from a touring Shakespeare company Then he had an easel installed in the basket of a hot air balloon tethered at 60 feet, and with the help of sandwiches and birch beer hauled up to him by his wife, painted this great masterpiece in six days. To me, this is exemplary American behavior."

Grooms's two most notable installations—The City of Chicago (1967) and Ruckus Manhattan (1975)—were enormously popular with the public. These works were executed in collaboration with then-wife, the artist Mimi Gross. Along with Gross, he starred in Mike Kuchar's Secret of Wendel Samson (1966), which tells the story of a closeted gay artist torn between two relationships. In the 1990s Grooms returned to his Tennessee roots, creating likenesses of 36 figures from Nashville history for the Tennessee Foxtrot Carousel (1998).

Grooms' sculpture The Shootout, which depicts a cowboy and an Indian shooting at one another, drew protests by Native American activists when it was unveiled in Denver in 1982. The sculpture was evicted from two locations in downtown Denver after protesters threatened to deface it. In 1983 the sculpture was moved to the grounds of the Denver Art Museum, and now sits on the roof of the museum restaurant. Grooms commented "Denver is beginning to rival Grumpsville, Tennessee, as one of the great sourpuss towns."

Other media
Besides painting and sculpture, Grooms is also known for his prolific printmaking. He has experimented with numerous techniques, creating woodblock prints, spray-painted stencils, soft-ground etchings, and elaborate three-dimensional lithograph constructions.

His 1973 purchase of a hot-glue gun facilitated several masterpieces of paper sculpture; for example, Sam, a portrait of Sam Reily who appeared in Fat Feet; and Gretchen's Fruit, a tour-de-force still life. In 1979, Grooms spent a week teaching at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, where he first started working in bronze. Regarding the several western and football themes made in metal, Grooms told Grace Glueck: "It looks just like my regular stuff, but it's for the ages. . . It turns out to be easier to work with than less durable materials." The monumental Lumberjack (1977–1984), cast from a whimsical woodsman Red made as a gift for artist Neil Welliver, demonstrates his facility with the lost-wax method of casting.

Collections and honors
Grooms' work has been exhibited in galleries across the United States, as well as Europe, and Japan. His art is included in the collections of thirty-nine museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Knoxville Museum of Art. In 2018 a gift from Walter and Sarah Knestrick of Nashville of 238 graphic works by Grooms will be installed in new galleries of the Tennessee State Museum.

In 2003, Grooms was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Academy of Design.

Personal life
Grooms currently lives and works in New York City in a studio in lower Manhattan at the intersection of Tribeca and Chinatown, where he has lived for around 40 years. He has one daughter, Saskia Grooms.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Max Tresmond

 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. – ABCD 20:47, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Max Tresmond
Vanity. Xezbeth 16:07, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete or merge with List of cult leaders named Max. "For the past for years," indeed. --Asriel86 16:41, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete it is clearly a vanity. --Anonymous Cow 17:30, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete lamer vanity. Fawcett5 16:57, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * User:MaxTresmond has made no other contributions at all, ruling out Userfy. Delete. Uncle G 17:44, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC)

I wish to keep this page, as I have started a Logic Project. As I have been very busy, I am adding to this page as I get the chance. Please do not remove this page, as I believe I deserve a right to publish an article in regards to my area in the acedemic arena.

Actually, now that I think about it, the page should be deleted, and I will write an article one the project itself.
 * Delete. And, I would not recommend writing a Wikipedia article about your project either. Wikipedia is not the place to publish original research. FreplySpang (talk) 22:34, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete - I (--JimWae 22:48, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC)) have already deleted his vanity insertions into
 * Vienna Circle
 * List of deists
 * Hamburg (village), New York

 * Delete - vanity -- Solipsist 01:20, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Charles Matthews 15:50, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Template talk:MTL Metro Orange

Sorry I reverted, but I think the size should be a standard nine so that all the templates are the same size on the page. Páll 16:11, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

We should find somekind of way to replace the colours, because the yellow makes it very hard to read UQAM. --Deenoe 22:04, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 * done Grstain | Talk 12:56, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erik K.

 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. - Mailer Diablo 16:56, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Erik K.
Looks like nonsense. If by some bizarre twist of fate it is true then it's unverifiable/non-notable. Xezbeth 16:12, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. If he really is a hitman, then we're doing him a disservice by making this information available to the public. --Asriel86 16:39, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete fabrication/hoax. Fawcett5 16:56, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, hoax. Megan1967 20:00, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Street-performing-hitmancruft. -- 8^D gab 20:41, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC)

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User:RebelScum

RebelScum is the handle used by Paul Morrison, a 36 y.o technical developer/manager who lives in the S.E of England. He enjoys mostly computer realated things, including writing and editing wikipedia articles. Big fan of Star Trek and Star Wars, hence the nickname Rebel Scum which is a line from one of the films.

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User talk:Trio

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia!

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PROD Grin Report
Sorry if the scary notice about spam put off readers, but I put on a bigger one for a PROD (proposed deletion). I hope you join in the discussion at Talk:Grin Report to say why this should not be deleted; I have a more detailed discussion at Languages_of_the_European_Union.

In short, it is in my opinion WP:COPYVIO, WP:PRIMARY, WP:CLEANUP, fails WP:N and WP:RS, and pushing a WP:POV.

I'd appreciate if you contribute to the article discussion to say why it should not be deleted.

Best wishes, and sincerely thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Si Trew (talk) 19:49, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

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Zalec

Zalec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mrągowo, within Mrągowo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 9 km north-east of Mrągowo and 62 km east of the regional capital Olsztyn.

title: Zalec