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Wogan

Wogan is a British television talk show which was broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 to 1992 and presented by Terry Wogan. It was usually broadcast live from the BBC Television Theatre in Shepherd's Bush, London, until 1991. It was then broadcast from the BBC Television Centre (TVC). Some shows were pre-recorded and then broadcast unedited "as live". Wogan ended its run in July 1992 and was replaced in the schedule by the soap opera Eldorado.

History
Wogan's first foray into TV interviewing, and indeed to British television, was in 1972 on Lunchtime with Wogan on ITV. In 1973, he left ITV and joined the BBC. In 1980, he was given another chat show; What's On, Wogan? running for 9 episodes in the spring of that year, primarily on Saturday evenings. In 1981, he had a chance to host a one-off chat show, Saturday Live. Among his guests on this show were Larry Hagman, promoting SOB, and Frank Hall. The show received a high profile with Hagman at the height of his fame starring as J. R. Ewing on Dallas. A year later, Wogan was given his own chat show, Wogan, initially broadcast on a Tuesday evening, the series was moved the following year to Saturday nights to replace Parkinson.

When BBC1 was relaunched on 18 February 1985, the show was moved to weekday evenings at 7:00pm, three nights per week, and inter-scheduled with their new soap EastEnders to help streamline and maintain viewers throughout the course of the evening, as designed by the then-controller of BBC One, Michael Grade. Grade said: "When I took over BBC1, I discovered there were wonderful things, it was just a case of where to put them." Grade also said "The series would bring a much needed element of surprise and unpredictability to BBC Television".

Cancellation
By December 1991, Wogan had lost 4 million viewers, and the show was axed. During this time, BBC Scotland often moved the Friday edition to a late night slot. The final edition was broadcast on 3 July 1992, and replaced with the ill-fated soap Eldorado.

Wogan briefly hosted a new weekly late night chat show, Terry Wogan's Friday Night, which started on 2 October 1992. However the new series was not a success and was cancelled after 20 episodes, ultimately leading to Wogan returning to radio in his Radio 2 breakfast slot. The series ended on 5 March 1993.

In 1996, Wogan criticised the BBC over its handling of the show since the BBC had refused his wish to give up the series in 1991, instead carrying on for a further year. Wogan said "I felt peeved by the insensitivity – no, incompetence of how it was handled".

In March 2015, BBC Two launched a new compilation series, Wogan: the Best Of featuring selected interview segments and music performances from Wogan's past chat series, linked by new introductions.

Wogan Now and Then
Wogan presented Wogan Now and Then in 2006, for UKTV Gold and produced by Spun Gold Television. Wogan spoke again with former guests from original series along with new guests. Thirteen hour-long episodes were made.

Guest hosts
Over the course of the show's run, when Wogan himself was unavailable to host the show, guest presenters were brought in, with Selina Scott being the first stand-in in 1985. Others included David Frost (in 1986), Kenneth Williams (in 1986), Ben Elton (in 1989), Joanna Lumley (in 1989), Selina Scott (again in 1991), Jonathan Ross (in 1990), Gloria Hunniford (in 1991), Felicity Kendal, Esther Rantzen and Bruce Forsyth. The most successful stand in was Sue Lawley (in 1988) who became the most frequent replacement for the host and indeed for some time was Wogan's 'official' stand in. When Lawley gained her own late night chat show Saturday Matters with Sue Lawley on BBC1 in 1989, other celebrities again took it in turns to stand in for Wogan.

Notable interviews
A number of interviews on the show are well-remembered, and have featured on compilation clip shows. Some examples include:
 * Anne Bancroft was only told that the show was being broadcast live right before her interview, which made her extremely uncomfortable. As she was announced, she stopped and counted to ten before proceeding to walk down the steps onto the stage and then restricted many of her answers to monosyllabic replies.
 * Ronnie Barker announced his retirement from show business in 1988.
 * George Best appeared on the show while drunk and used swear words.
 * Cilla Black appeared as a guest in 1983. By this point, Black's career had been largely reduced to performing cabaret in clubs. According to Christopher Biggins in his autobiography, she "stormed back into the public consciousness with a barnstorming performance as a guest on Wogan in 1983, proving that we can all have second chances". After her appearance, people were "desperately trying to find her the right comeback vehicle".
 * David Bowie refused to co-operate during an impromptu interview following a performance by his band Tin Machine. As Wogan put it: "David Bowie, well, he probably wasn't at his best when I interviewed him. But I thought a solid slap would have helped the situation. I didn't hit him, of course, but it came close. For some reason best known to him, he came on the show unwilling to talk."
 * Nicolas Cage appeared on the show in 1990, doing somersaults and karate kicks as he came onto the stage, and then took his T-shirt off during the interview and gave it to Wogan as a gift.
 * Chevy Chase remaining silent through his interview.
 * Margi Clarke appeared on the show in the late 1980s wearing a scarf with the slogan "Media Sickness – More Contagious Than Aids" (coined by her then-partner Jamie Reid.) During the interview, Clarke asked Wogan what he thought of "media sickness". This was a ploy on Clarke's part to get Wogan to say the phrase. As Clarke intended, Wogan responded "Media Sickness?" An off-air recording of Wogan speaking the words "media sickness" was duly sampled by Clarke and Reid and used as a dance record.
 * Jackie Collins and Barbara Cartland appeared as joint guests in 1987, in which 86-year-old Cartland proceeded to slam Collins' novels for their racy content. Actor Ed Asner was also a guest and sat silently watching from the end of the couch as Collins and Cartland verbally sparred.
 * Joan Collins was often announced as a potential guest, but always seemed to cancel at short notice, giving rise to media speculation that she was avoiding appearing on the show. When a special Christmas Day edition of the show featuring the cast of Dynasty was broadcast in 1985, Collins again refused to appear, though she did appear on the rival Des O'Connor Tonight show, which was broadcast by ITV at the same time that evening. Eventually, in 1988, she did appear on Wogan, in a special programme dedicated to her. However, a subsequent appearance to promote one of her novels led to an extremely irritated exchange with the host.
 * Fanny Cradock made her last BBC TV appearance on the show in 1986 and jovially told Wogan his questioning was "very rude" and "very English".
 * Patti Davis, daughter of Ronald Reagan, got into a heated argument with Wogan when he continually interrupted her and refused to allow her to make a point. She told him later in the interview that she was extremely angry at his behaviour.
 * Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, in her late nineties, reciting Juliet's death scene from Romeo and Juliet, a role she had first performed over eighty years ago.
 * Simon Hayward. The BBC stopped an interview in 1989 with Simon Hayward, a former captain with the Life Guards, just hours before he was due to appear on the Wogan show. Hayward insisted that he was innocent of drug smuggling offences. The decision was taken by the then Controller of BBC 1, Jonathan Powell, after protests from several MPs. However, the BBC was accused of censorship and a Conservative MP, John Gorst, described the decision to ban Hayward from Wogan as "outrageous".
 * Rock Hudson appeared on the show in 1984 in one of his last public interviews, as he died of AIDS-related complications the following year.
 * David Icke appeared on the show in a turquoise tracksuit claiming to be "a son of the Godhead". When the studio audience began to laugh hysterically, Wogan responded: "They're not laughing with you; they're laughing at you." However, in the 2000s when Wogan interviewed Icke again on television, he said that he regretted his stance on the interview and offered Icke an apology.
 * Madonna appeared in a special show, Wogan Meets Madonna in 1991, in which Wogan interviewed her in Cannes. She had requested that the interview was filmed in black and white but was refused. The interview was watched by 6.81 million people.
 * Victoria Principal gave a feisty interview in 1984 and was herself crying with laughter at Wogan's mocking of her series, Dallas. The two became friends and Principal made further appearances on the show via satellite.
 * Vivienne Westwood appearing on the show in 1988 when it was being guest-hosted by Sue Lawley, and displaying her latest medically inspired collection. When the audience began to laugh at the outlandish designs, an offended Westwood told Lawley that if they didn't stop laughing, she would tell the models to stop coming out. This interview would later be parodied in the fictional Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge. Russell Harty was one of the other guests present in one of his final TV appearances.
 * Raquel Welch appeared on the Saturday night series to promote her exercise video, but was angered when she was told that the producers would not show a clip from the video as part of the interview and was quite hostile to Wogan's questioning as a result. At one point, she feigned to forget his name and asked him who he was, which clearly irritated the host.

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Clostridium acetobutylicum

Clostridium acetobutylicum, ATCC 824, is a commercially valuable bacterium sometimes called the "Weizmann Organism", after Jewish Russian-born biochemist Chaim Weizmann. A senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, England, he used them in 1916 as a bio-chemical tool to produce at the same time,  jointly, acetone, ethanol, and n-butanol from starch. The method has been described since as the ABE process, (Acetone Butanol Ethanol fermentation process), yielding 3 parts of acetone, 6 of n-butanol, and 1 of ethanol. Acetone was used in the important wartime task of casting cordite. The alcohols were used to produce vehicle fuels and synthetic rubber.

Unlike yeast, which can digest only some sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide, C. acetobutylicum and other Clostridia can digest whey, sugar, starch, cellulose and perhaps certain types of lignin, yielding n-butanol, propionic acid, ether, and glycerin.

In genetic engineering
In 2008, a strain of Escherichia coli was genetically engineered to synthesize butanol; the genes were derived from Clostridium acetobutylicum. In 2013, the first microbial production of short-chain alkanes was reported - which is a considerable step toward the production of gasoline. One of the crucial enzymes - a fatty acyl-CoA reductase - came from Clostridium acetobutylicum.

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List of the Daily Show guests AFD
Since you voted on the previous AFD (here) I thought you may wish to vote again on the article's second AFD: Articles for deletion/List of The Daily Show guests (2nd nomination). Cburnett 01:09, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Bill Brasky, and others.
Thanks. Sure, I'll check them out. I'll try to do what I can to keep them down. (I don't know much about the subjects, or what is going on there, but I will do what I can.) I will add the articles to my watchlist, and try to keep a watchfull eye. Thanks again for your consideration. It's nice to be appreciated here (for once). Wavy G 08:50, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Binary Semaphore
Hi, I added some comments about the difference between binary semaphore and mutex. You undid that comments. Can you explain is there anything wrong in the comments that's why u undid it or is there any other reason?? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Vinluvin (talk • contribs) 06:31, 15 March 2007 (UTC).

 * You wrote something like "a mutex can be unlocked only by the thread that locked it, while a semaphore can be unlocked by any thread." This may be true for some implementations of mutexes or semaphores, on some platforms, but it's obviously not true in general, and specific threading-security models don't really have any relevance to the theoretical concept of "semaphore".

 * If you are talking specifically about POSIX semaphores, then I'd buy it. In that case, you should have qualified your statement something like, "POSIX specifies a semaphore interface in which any process can lock or unlock any named semaphore in the system, as opposed to the POSIX mutex interface, in which attempting to unlock a mutex owned by another thread produces undefined behavior." (But then again, the biggest difference between semaphores and mutexes in POSIX seems to be that semaphores are designed to work at the process level and mutexes at the thread level. And that's even further removed from the theoretical discussion.) --Quuxplusone 17:32, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! got it.. essentially from theoretical point of view there is no comparison between mutex and semaphore.. both are meant for different uses.. right?? I thought the discussion is from programming point of view (as mentioned in the title) and I checked the point I added in three different implementation of Operating systems practically by writing the programs and I observed all behaved the same, that's why I added the comments:). - Vinluvin

Cwatsets
Hello, Quuxplusone.

I see that you've nominated cwatset for deletion. I've read your comments on the associated talk page. Apparently you're not real big on abstract algebra, so I thought I'd clear a couple of things up for you.

The addition used in the article is modulo two. That is,
 * 0 + 0 = 0
 * 0 + 1 = 1
 * 1 + 0 = 1
 * 1 + 1 = 0

You may be more familiar with the concept of exclusive or, or exclusive disjunction.

Anyway, there's a huge and very deep field of mathematics, the theory of finite fields (of order 2n), which is entirely based on binary arithmetic modulo two. Most of the theory of error correcting codes is traditionally expressed in terms of these finite fields. So the kind of "addition" you found so odd in cwatset is in fact quite widely used by mathematicians. DavidCBryant 12:02, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks. I'm aware of addition mod two, and yes, being a programmer, I'd call it "XOR" or "addition without carry". (And I'd say, IMHO, using the "+" sign to denote it, instead of $$\oplus$$, is more than a little misleading, since it doesn't behave much like regular addition from a layman's perspective.) Anyway, my opinion on the Cwatset article now is not so much that it's nonsense per se, as that it's so obscured and abbreviated (for example, by using the word "addition" where "addition without carry" is meant) as to be nonsensical to the average reader. (And of course it was still a copyvio.) The rewrite is helping, though, and I bet it'll be kept. I'll try to help it along by cleaning up some obscure language right now. --Quuxplusone 05:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:Smallcaps.png listed for deletion
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Katabasis
If you want to merge pars of Katabasis into Descent to the underworld then I suggest you do it. However if you want to leave the template in place, please add the opposite template "mergefrom" to the article "Descent to the underworld" and add a section to the appropriate talk page so that people can discuss it. --Philip Baird Shearer 11:10, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
How do you figure that Rynn killed Mrs. Hallet -- either intentionally or unintentionally -- in the film version of the story? (Remember, the synopsis refers only to the film version.) Mrs. Hallet walked down to the cellar (despite Rynn's repeated warnings), accidentally tripped the prop on her way up, and caused the door to slam on her head. I don't see how Rynn was directly involved at all in this process.

The added Trivia note also states that Mrs. Hallet was *accidentally* killed in the film version. I think the synopsis should be changed to avoid confusion with the events in the novel. Jphillst 00:50, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

SPARC
I am a little confused by what happened to this page SPARC - Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Corporation you changed to a redirect yesterday --I see the speedy for the redirect but I did not notice the speedy or other deletion process for the original. In any case i want to recreate it as it is one of the things I know about & I'm sure i could do a proper article whatever may have been wrong with the first--If you're an admin could you restore it to my user space for the purpose?DGG 00:25, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the advice and help. If there's nothing worth restoring, that's fine. (And personally I think my librarian friends were not very wise in the first place when they chose to use an acronym that was so well known as meaning something else entirely in a slightly related field.) DGG 02:41, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Image restoration
Hey. I don't know if you have followed these matters, but there was a reason I remove the pictures at Parthian Shot. As far as this goes, I removed the Shapur II picture because its supposed source according to its description page does not feature this picture at all. So it is completely unwarranted to call it 'Shapur II' or more importantly, a "Parthian Shot".

As far as the Amazon, the source, CAIS, has been determined as a non-RS committing copyvios per a number of discussions, and really the pictures are going to be removed entirely sometime. Certainly such a picture is not appropriate in any article, so I removed it.

I ask that you please undo your action. Also, next time please use an edit summary so I know why you undid my edit. Thanks. The Behnam 16:34, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Your edit simply removed two images from the Parthian shot article. (Two images that were of Parthian shots, according to the definition of "Parthian shot".) I put them back. Since I thought that was obvious, I didn't bother to change the automatically supplied edit summary.

 * The Amazon image (from CAIS) is licensed under the GFDL, according to its image page and according to the CAIS page linked there. If you believe CAIS is lying about the license, that's fine, but you should take it up with WP:CP or something. Does Assume Good Faith apply to our dealings with organizations that aren't Wikipedia editors? :)    If "the pictures are going to be removed entirely sometime", then we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, but there's no point in removing informative pictures from an article just because you think they might disappear sometime.

 * The Sassanid image is more problematic. As you say, it doesn't actually appear at the URL given in its description page, so there's a problem there no matter what its copyright status may be — we have no source for the claim that it's Shapur II being depicted. I've commented on the bogus source at User talk:Amir85 and on the image page, Image:E3 5 4a sassanian.jpg. Hopefully Amir85 will clear up the source of the image; otherwise, I could see its getting deleted pretty soon, and when it does, obviously the dead link will have to be removed from the Parthian shot article.

 * Hope this helps. Good luck getting those images' copyrights clarified! --Quuxplusone 20:52, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Well I mention CAIS because there have been a number of discussions and admins have stated that the source cannot be trusted. So really AGF doesn't apply here.  I'll look around and try to find links to the CAIS-related discussions.  The Behnam 20:56, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Could you help?
Hello! I noticed you fixed the problem when somebody had moved 311 to 311 (year). I noticed that somebody had done the same fault to 411 (moving it to 411 (year). I tried to move it back, but it didn't work out quite as I wanted it (the history wasn't moved). Now, I wonder, if you could fix this too. I would be much obliged if you did. I'm rather desperate, since 411 is now blank. Secondly, is it only admins who can move a page back or can I, who's only an ordinary user, do this as well? Thanks in advance! /Ludde23 Talk Contrib 08:52, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Ordinary users, such as you and me, can move pages using the "move" tab (between "history" and "watch" at the top of the page, in the default page style), but only if the destination page is blank or has never contained anything but a redirect. Unregistered users can't move pages at all (I think). Admins (I am not one) can move pages pretty much anywhere, I think. Anyway, it looks like the system worked in this case; by the time I saw your message this morning, someone else had already fixed the problem. :) --Quuxplusone 16:19, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Source tag
← ''I noticed your recent AWB change to Singleton pattern, replacing the after inlining. (If you're lucky, any use of a dubious-looking cast will alert the compiler to turn off optimizations that rely on strict can't-alias rules — if the compiler is complicated enough to have any such optimizations in the first place.)

 * The really Standard C way to solve the problem, of course, is to  the bit pattern into an array of  . That's extremely slow, compared to the ways we're discussing, but it is guaranteed to get the job done. All these other type punning methods depend on implementation-defined or undefined behavior, which makes them fragile. --Quuxplusone (talk) 03:09, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Hmm! N869 paragraph 6.5.2.1 corresponded to one of the paragraphs of 6.3.2.3 in C90, but it has disappeared in C99. C99 does appear to completely condone this use of unions (except for one bullet point in the informative Annex J: "The value of a union member other than the last one stored into (6.2.6.1)" is listed as an example of unspecified behavior). C++2003's paragraph 9.5/1 says that if a union contains several POD-structs with common initial sequences, then "it is permitted to inspect the common initial sequence of any of [those] POD-struct members" — from which I infer that it's not "permitted" to type-pun in any other cases; C90 and C99 have similar wording.

 * I'll make some tweaks to the article based on what I've said here, but I still mistrust this use of unions. Of course, this is still a wiki; I don't own the article, despite appearances. ;)  I'm willing to tone down the objections to the union method, but I don't want to claim that unions are 100% safe for this purpose if they're not. See above re   for the Safe way to do it, which is the way I'd advise anyone to do it if they cared about compiling with more than one compiler, or long-term portability. (Then again, if you care about portability, you shouldn't be type-punning at all, ever, in the first place!) --Quuxplusone (talk) 17:13, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

The United States Steel Hour
Hi. I came back to the The United States Steel Hour article today and noticed you reverted my change of the tense (it was over a month ago so no worries if you don't remember the edit). The reason I changed "was" to "is" has to do with WP:TENSE which states that works of fiction should be referred to in the present tense. I work on a bunch of television articles, but since I'm not familiar with this particular series, is there a reason why it shouldn't fall under the policy as well? I haven't changed the tense back because I wanted to touch base with you first. Thanks.  Pinkadelica Say it...  03:40, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

An AfD you will be interested in
See Articles for deletion/Die Glocke. AWT (talk) 19:50, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Request
Hello. I am the writer of the SimpleProgrammingTutorials.com website and I would like to ask you to review some articles from this resource and, if you suppose they are of appropriate quality, add links to corresponding articles of WikiPedia. You can contact me at denis.kulagin@simpleprogrammingtutorials.com. Thanks in advance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Denis.Kulagin (talk • contribs) 18:49, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

You can quote me on that...
On your user page, you say: "Naturally, I won't edit an article solely to change its spacing or quotation style, but I will make such changes while editing for other purposes." But you reverted my edits to Count Zero solely to change my quotation style, and you were not editing that article for other purposes! Where do I go to file a complaint???

Actually, that's just a weak joke -- in fact, I'd like to thank you for alerting me to the Wikipedia policy on quotation marks. I cringe to think about how many articles I've edited incorrectly over the last couple of years. (But even if those articles are now incorrect, at least they're consistent!) As a writer, I've never never cared for the "American" style of using quotation marks, but I've been stuck with it, anyway. So actually I'm pleased to see that Wikipedia has opted for something that's more sensible... while at the same time I have to try not to think about how much time I've spent thinking that I was correcting articles only to find out that I've actually been de-correcting them :( HMishkoff (talk) 01:26, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of OBI
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Kdiff3 deletion
I think your criteria for a software product being encyclopedic is a reasonable test, but am curious why kdiff3 was singled out. From looking at the Comparison_of_file_comparison_tools article I think the same can be said for many of the entries there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.11.182.63 (talk) 17:27, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Other stuff exists, yeah. I haven't been very active on Wikipedia lately, but even if I were, it's not like I would have gone on a crusade against non-notable software products. I just happened to get involved with the Kdiff3 article one day, and then copied my "criteria" over to my user page... there's no good reason that kdiff3 happened to get singled out. Sorry. :) --Quuxplusone (talk) 07:21, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:Wonton noodle
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CFD nomination of Category:Second Life residents
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Hi Quuxplusone. Not sure whether this is what you meant by "ping my talk page", but hopefully you'll be notified --- I just replied to your comment on the zero-knowledge talk page. Cheers --- Cal-linux (talk) 01:20, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Ping --- added reply to your comment on the zero-knowledge talk page. Cheers, Cal-linux (talk) 19:49, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Quuxplusone,

Just wanted to let you know that you are the creator of the 5,555,555th English-Language Wikipedia article, Jerusalemhaus! This is a very random title to hold, but a cool one nonetheless. Congratulations!

-siliconred — Preceding unsigned comment added by Siliconred (talk • contribs) 21:08, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

 * I saw someone commented that on Talk:Jerusalemhaus earlier today, and was pleasantly surprised. :) --Quuxplusone (talk) 05:55, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Teredo and Teredo Navalis
Greetings. With reference to the Wikipedia article on Teredo (the IPv6 tunneling protocol) and its namesake creature. I think your edit was an improvement over my change, except for your reintroduction of the term "Teredo Navalis".

I had removed "Teredo Navalis" because:

 * Teredo was obviously named after "Teredo", a genus of shipworm.
 * Neither the genus nor the tunneling protocol is named "Teredo Navalis".

Unfortunately, the combined effect of our edits gives two false impressions:
 * 1) that Teredo was named after "Teredo Navalis" (but I claim otherwise), and
 * 2) that "Teredo Navalis" is a genus of shipworm (which it is not).

If (1) were true, wouldn't the protocol be called Teredo Navalis? And as can be seen here, "Teredo Navalis" is just one of dozens of species within the "Teredo" genus.

I didn't remove "... Navalis" myself because this may well be the lamest topic for an edit war in the history of Wikipedia. Thank you for the rest of your edit, though. ChrisJBenson (talk) 05:19, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

 * Christian Huitema's email (linked in the footnote to the first part of that sentence) reads in full:

One of the comments I often get on the name Shipworm is that it evokes malicious software such as Nimda or Ramen, that we don't really need another worm in the Internet, and that many will refuse to use this name in product documentation. In short, many people would like to see us use another name.

I would like to propose an alternative name, "Teredo" -- as the beast's zoological name is "Teredo Navalis". Can we agree on that?
 * I'll try to move or copy the footnote marker to cover the "navalis" part as well.

 * I also noticed that Wikipedia's article Shipworm is just a redirect to Teredo navalis; the article on the Teredo genus as a whole is at Shipworms. I guess that this is because "shipworm" is the common name of Teredo navalis, but I'm not a marine-biology expert. --Quuxplusone (talk) 17:47, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

 * Shipworm (and shipworms) can refer to any of the 36 recognized species of the Teredo genus of clams (including "Teredo navalis", which is the most common species of shipworm/Teredo).

 * The offending (to me) sentence in the IPv6 tunneling protocol article currently reads:
 * "To avoid confusion with computer worms,[10] Huitema later changed the protocol's name from Shipworm to Teredo, after the genus name of the shipworm Teredo navalis.[10] "
 * but Teredo navalis is a species, not a genus. To be both factual and verifiable, I suggest this text instead:
 * "To avoid confusion with computer worms, Huitema later changed the protocol's name from Shipworm to Teredo, after Teredo navalis, a species of shipworm.[10] "
 * Or to sound less like a marine biology lesson: "... after Teredo navalis, a type of shipworm.[10] "

 * Any phrase that doesn't portray Teredo navalis as a genus (or a moth!) will be fine with me.
 * --ChrisJBenson (talk) 06:05, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

 * But Teredo is the genus name of the shipworm species Teredo navalis! The species name is navalis and the genus name is Teredo. I may not be a marine biologist, but I do at least know this much about taxonomic names! You can check out the shipworm's kingdom/phylum/class/order/family/genus/species names in the right sidebar of the Teredo navalis article. (Your suggested rewrites are fine with me, actually, but they seem like disimprovements, given that Huitema's new name "Teredo" was specifically literally the genus name of Teredo navalis. He didn't name the protocol after the full name of the species — if someone referred to "the Teredo navalis protocol" they would be simply wrong. The protocol is named specifically after the genus part of the scientific name of the shipworm Teredo navalis. --Quuxplusone (talk) 18:43, 3 February 2018 (UTC) P.P.S.— google the phrase "the genus name of" to see how people use this phrase elsewhere on the Internet.
 * My apologies, ++quux. I wasn't questioning your knowledge. I thought the phrase:
 * "... after the genus name of the shipworm Teredo navalis."
 * might seem synonymous with:
 * "... after the genus name, which is Teredo navalis."
 * to a reader who was not familiar with the partitioning in Linnaeus's binomial nomenclature.
 * --ChrisJBenson (talk) 05:00, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

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So, the thing I thought was my Wikipedia password no longer works. (It's possible that I changed it a long time ago to something else, and then forgot both that I changed it and what I changed it to.) I've been logged in on my personal laptop for ever, hence how I'm writing this message; but I can no longer log in on new devices. And there's no email address associated with my Wikipedia account. I'm hopeful that an admin would have the power to attach a recovery email address to this account and then I could take it from there.

I'm aware of the options
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 * Also, it just occurred to me that if retaining the username is what you're really after, you can try and request an account name change while you still have access to it, and then create a new account and WP:USURP your old name as it would at that point have no editing history attached to it. 78.28.45.127 (talk) 20:01, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 78.28.45.127: Thanks, I'll give that a try, via User talk:Quuxplusone2 and Steward requests/Username changes.

And I'm back! For the sake of posterity, here's the story: I opened a usurp request following the instructions on meta:Steward requests, which resulted in a Steward opening Phabricator issue T194929, which resulted in another Steward manually resetting my password via the command line. So I managed to get back into my "Quuxplusone" account, contributions and all, without any usurp-related shenanigans! (Thanks again to all who helped out, including but not limited to ZfJames, Chrissymad, 78.28.45.127, علاء, Boing! said Zebedee, and JSutherland (WMF).) --Quuxplusone (talk) 22:41, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
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"Somewhat unrestrained"
Thanks for your edit at Fat Leonard scandal. I think the terminology I chose was accurate, but your comment produced food for thought. I've been wondering if there was a WP category of "political corruption" so I looked to see if there was, and would have proposed to create one, were there not. It turned out there is one, but as I looked, I found this under the same title:The activities that constitute illegal corruption differ depending on the country or jurisdiction. For instance, some political funding practices that are legal in one place may be illegal in another. In some cases, government officials have broad or ill-defined powers, which make it difficult to distinguish between legal and illegal actions. Worldwide, bribery alone is estimated to involve over 1 trillion US dollars annually.[1] A state of unrestrained political corruption is known as a kleptocracy, literally meaning "rule by thieves". So it would appear my instincts and characterization was correct. I'll restore it, unless you have further thoughts. Activist (talk) 09:13, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

 * I'm going off the English meanings of the words. "unrestrained: immoderate; not restrained or held in check." Synonyms from Google Dictionary: "uncontrolled, rampant, runaway, unconstrained, unrestricted, unreserved, unchecked, unbridled, unlimited, unfettered, uninhibited, full-on, unbounded, unmufflered, undisciplined." Saying that costs were "somewhat unrestrained" is an oxymoron — which can be done for humorous effect, as in The Grand Duke's "Now let us be modestly merry" — but humor (even understated British humor) doesn't really conform with WP:TONE. If the costs were actually escalating in an unrestrained (uncontrolled, unchecked) manner, then say so, and add a source that says so. If the costs were escalating in a manner that might or might not be called "unrestrained," then just say "escalating." Don't WP:WEASEL-word it as "arguably unrestrained" or "somewhat unrestrained"; just drop the adjective altogether. Or if you think the sentence needs an adjective for color (—I don't, but—) then pick a more defensible adjective! Maybe you can't find a source to say that the escalation in cost was "uncontrolled," but can you find a source to say that the escalation was "alarming"? (The reason I don't think an adjective is required here is that the context makes it clear that the Navy was concerned about the escalating costs.) Anyway, I think the sentence reads just fine as is: The escalating costs prompted the Navy to build a logistics team... --Quuxplusone (talk) 15:57, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your response. I don't agree, but I don't think there's sufficient reason to change your edit. The costs in the Pacific escalated, thanks to the pervasive bribery which meant that Leonard could essentially charge almost whatever he wanted. I gather that there were some Navy staffers involved who put the brakes on the larceny, though Leonard got one transferred. He used bogus shell companies to bid contracts, so it appeared he was the low bidder. He bought off contractors who should have put the brakes on his awards. He had moles who let him know what his dwindling number of competitors were bidding. The checks on contracts and purchases weren't absent regarding all the contracts which were let in the theater, but the competition was dying in those areas where GMDA was bidding. It went on for over eight years. Public corruption is of particular interest to me. I'm aware of an RFP that almost certainly was being written by major bidder, in one instance of a mammoth government contact, where industry competitors declined to prepare a competitive bid. I suspected at the time that it was in the presence of some understanding that geographically or otherwise limited competition. I metaphorically referred to one such apparent instance at the time by likening it to the Treaty of Tordesillas, where Pope Alexander VI gave license to Spain to exploit all territory west of a mid-ocean meridian, and to the Portuguese, what was east of that demarcation. That's how the latter got to colonize Brazil, the northeast coast of which fell largely to the east of the line. If we had a U.S. government by either party that really paid attention, people would have gone to jail who were otherwise protected and/or promoted. I suspect that same malaise is pervasive in much of the world. Activist (talk) 23:33, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

 * All of that sounds plausible to me (and seems to match what's detailed in the Fat Leonard scandal article). The only thing I objected to, and changed, was the use of the oxymoronic phrase "somewhat unrestrained." :) --Quuxplusone (talk) 01:08, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

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KROC (AM)

KROC (1340 kHz) is an American news/talk AM radio station located in Rochester, Minnesota. The station was organized in 1934 by Gregory Gentling as the Southern Minnesota Broadcasting Company. The station went on the air on September 30, 1935. Gentling's other accomplishments included co-founding the Wm McCoy American Legion Post in 1919, originated Soldier's Field Park in 1926, co-owned The Rochester Daily Bulletin, helped arrange the 1934 visit to Rochester by President Franklin D Roosevelt, and managed several political campaigns during the 1920s, including Allen Furlow for Congress, and Arthur E. Nelson for Senate. KROC broadcasts many nationally syndicated talk shows as well as several shows with local personalities.

On August 30, 2013, a deal was announced in which Townsquare Media would acquire 53 stations from Cumulus Media, including KROC, for $238 million. The deal is part of Cumulus' acquisition of Dial Global; Townsquare and Dial Global are both controlled by Oaktree Capital Management. The sale to Townsquare was completed on November 14, 2013.

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Pendas Fields

Pendas Fields, or Penda's Fields is a private, suburban housing estate in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is considered part of Cross Gates, as is Manston. Swarcliffe is close, and Cock Beck runs nearby. The area falls within the Cross Gates and Whinmoor wards of the Leeds Metropolitan Council.

Pendas Fields and Barnbow Wood are associated with the Battle of the Winwaed in 655 AD (with "Pendas Fields" named for Penda of Mercia, the king who died at the battle).

It has its own sports centre and secondary school – John Smeaton Academy, named after 18th-century civil engineer John Smeaton.

Penda's Way railway station (opened in 1939) on the Cross Gates to Wetherby Line was in the area but closed in 1964 before the Pendas Fields estate was built in the 1980s.

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Ichabod Goodwin

Ichabod Goodwin (October 8, 1794 –July 4, 1882) was the 27th governor of New Hampshire from 1859 to 1861.

Life and career
Goodwin was born in 1794 in the community of Berwick, Massachusetts (which is today known as North Berwick, Maine). He became a merchant in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, working in the counting house of Samuel Lord, becoming master and part owner of several ships, and eventually the owner of two railroads, two banks, and a textile factory. In 1827 he married Sarah Parker Rice. Their daughter Susan married admiral George Dewey.

Goodwin was elected a State Representative, running as a Whig, in 1838, 1843, 1844, 1850, 1854, and 1856. In 1856 he ran, and lost, as the last Whig candidate for Governor of New Hampshire. He switched parties, becoming a Republican, and won his bid for governor in 1859, and again in 1860. He was a delegate at large from New Hampshire to the national conventions at which Henry Clay, Zachary Taylor, and Winfield Scott were nominated by the Whigs for the presidency, serving as vice-president of the first two bodies.

During his tenure, the New Hampshire legislature did away with the Courts of Common Pleas, transferring their duties to the State Supreme Court. Goodwin supported a legislative resolution opposing the extension of slavery, and an anti-immigrant act aimed at the defining of police courts' powers to suppress "intemperance." He also supported efforts to regulate railroads.

Goodwin's business interests were heavily interlinked with raw materials, such as cotton, produced by slaves in the Southern States and elsewhere.

In May 1861, as the Civil War began, Goodwin responded to the first calls for soldiers by borrowing funds against his own name to equip two regiments. The legislature affirmed the Governor's action when they came into session the following month.

He died in Portsmouth on July 4, 1882.

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Talk:Clostridium acetobutylicum

"Biobutanol"
I think the term "Bio" in front of butanol should be removed for many if not all cases as redudent and and confusing in some cases, for example: "Biobutanol has a higher octane fuel value than gasoline with increased low-end torque." is confusing as butanol no matter it source has these properties, it makes biobutanol seem like it physically different from normal n-butanol. I am going to make these corrections now.--BerserkerBen 22:34, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Biodiesel does not require modifications to diesel engines, so I made the appropriate changes. DanD 05:50, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Move butanol/biodiesel material to, well, Butanol and Biodiesel
Much of the last three paragraphs belongs in the articles on butanol and/or biodiesel....but not in the C. acetobutylicum entry. I suggest relocation - any comments? MarcoTolo 03:41, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

 * It's been a few weeks - if no one voices any objections in the next week I'll begin porting the above-mentioned sections to the appropriate articles (i.e. Biodiesel and Butanol). MarcoTolo 03:17, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Cellulose Degradation?
Is there a reference for the claim that C. acetobutylicum can convert cellulose? All I find are some references to attempts to genetically modify this bacterium to process cellulose. --Benjamindees 23:31, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

 * http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=6786219&dopt=Abstract --BerserkerBen 04:47, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree with you. From this article: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=99537&blobtype=pdf

"In work analyzing the cellulolytic activities of C. acetobutylicum strains, it was found that NRRL B 527 could hydrolyze Avicel and acid-swollen cellulose but C. acetobutylicum ATCC 824 could not (42)" Mrdarrett (talk) 22:29, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

butanol has a higher octane fuel value than gasoline with increased low-end torque.
butanol has a higher octane fuel value than gasoline with increased low-end torque. How can this be correct?

From butanol.com Higher energy content (110,000 Btu’s per gallon for butanol vs. 84,000 Btu per gallon for ethanol). Gasoline contains about 115,000 Btu’s per gallon.

Butanol is irrelevant here
Is this article about butanol or about the bacteria that helps to create butanol? I suggest that the lengthy section relating to butanol be shortened or removed. Tiny.ian 05:00, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

A.B.E process entry not about A.B.E.
The A.B.E. Process entry here does not provide details about the process, but is merely a repetition of BioButanol and Butanol information. I'd like to see the actual process. Bobkeyes (talk) 21:17, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup needed
This Article is quite a mess, the Butanol section is way to long then what would be justified (just link to Butanol and Biobutanol and don't copy the contents?). Also I can't get whan these two statements mean:

Butanol can be produced for less than fossil-based vehicle fuels. Butanol reduces vehicular emissions.

Please clarify, I'm removing them for now. 143.50.183.196 (talk) 15:29, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

References needed/Factual Errors
Page states "Apart from the need for temperature control, the A.B.E. synthesis process is relatively simple. The products are formed in layers that are easy to separate." In fact, pH needs to be controlled during acetogenesis to prevent "acid crash." In addition, the product is an aqueous solution of n-butanol, ethanol and acetone. Since the products are so dilute in water and miscible, the separations required are anything but simple. And though butanol does partition from the water, the ethanol and acetone are pretty miscible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.159.143 (talk) 23:21, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

The above poster is absolutely correct. I have just designed an ABE plant as part of my senior design project at Mississippi State University and I can assure you the separations are not simple at all. The above poster is correct that the solvents are miscable in Water at those concentrations. In addition Ethanol and Water as well as Butanol and water both form an azeotrope, making separations even more difficult. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.18.83.222 (talk) 20:27, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Tried some fixing up
Hi there. I took a stab at reorganizing the article to match some others I saw (for consistency, at least) and re-worded some sentences, added some useful (hopefully) links, and deleted the non-encyclopedic title in front of the introduction. I'm sure I butchered something or other in the process, so let me know about or fix-up anything you notice. The article is still relatively messy, particularly with respect to the references... no citations!!! It sounds like the person above me (who worked in an ABE plant) could do a good job fixing up the section on feasibility for butanol fuel, or at least trimming it down (I'm not knowledgeable enough to do this). That section is a little goofy as-is, since we've already got an article on butanol fuel. Jasper Cook (talk) 17:22, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Incorrectly states that 2013 was the year alkane production was first noted in microbes
" In 2013, the first microbial production of short-chain alkanes was reported[3] - which is a considerable step toward the production of gasoline. One of the crucial enzymes - a fatty acyl-CoA reductase - came from Clostridium acetobutylicum."

Whereas Schirmer, A., Rude, M. A., Li, X., Popova,E. and del Cardayrem S. B. (2010) Microbial Biosynthesis of Alkanes. Science, 329:559-562 clearly demonstrates the microbial production of alkanes, which is certainly before 2013. As such I have made a change to the article.

--101.98.150.230 (talk) 14:34, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Actually, just ignore me, it specifically mentions "short-chain" rather than "long-chain" which is what was noted by Schirmer et al. The production of gasoline requires the production of long-chain alkanes however as far as I know. I will leave it to others to make changes though if they see fit to do so.

--101.98.150.230 (talk) 14:38, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

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Naval Air Station Patuxent River
Should add information about the Naval Air Station located there. Has been the home of many Naval test pilots. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 00:49, 23 April 2005 (talk • contribs) Pcdolinger

Done as /*See also*/ Toddstreat1 00:39, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Deepest River
Can anybody confirm that the Patuxent River is the deepest river in the world? Pauldarbyiii 13:12, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

 * It is not the deepest in the world. The Yangtze River may be over 450 feet deep. At the Patuxent's mouth, where the bridge crosses at Solomons Island, 126 feet is one of (the?) deepest spots in the Chesapeake Bay. -- Stbalbach 17:00, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

 * And it wouldn't count as deepest river anyway. River depth records are for actual rivers by geomorphological definition, not tidal estuaries like the Solomons area.DLinth 17:13, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Environmental concern
By the way, Stbalbach, not that I really care much, but I noticed that twice you were motivated to make a single change of that one paragraph about the economic development brought by rec. boating and by the Naval Station out of history and into "environment", which seems out of place to me. How about we leave it under history?...it provides a much more relevant "modern history" details than just leaving the current history with the building of the reservoirs (half a century or so ago.) DLinth 17:13, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Hmm the sentence seems intentionally ambiguous (I didn't write it) but it appears the "impact" that "boating and recreation" has on the "natural settings" is an "environmental concern" - no? Given the context of its placement under the environmental concern section, this seems to make the most sense - more than just history. -- Stbalbach 19:18, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I did write it, partly due to the suggestion at the top (above.) The economic impacts of Pax. R. NAS and of rec. boating are a large, increasing part (some would say most important part) of the river's recent history, and talking about their economic impact does not belong under "environment."  Having said that, it could be noted that probably more has been written and discussed over the past 30 years about the Patuxent's environment than any other aspect of the river, so I think it would be fine if you wanted to research and add under "environment" more on that topic, including even perhaps the impact of rec. boating and certainly Pax. R. NAS (!) on the environment of the river.  Might be a good addition.  DLinth 19:58, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Overly quick 12-03-07 edits by Tedickey
This user, cited previously for "disruptive edits" has twice deleted, without comment other than "the references are not authoritative (!), references by:

1) Penn State University, documenting the Patuxent extent of John Smith's second 1608 voyage

2) An article on the National Park Service Bay Gateways site by the premier Chesapeake Kent Mountford (see his 100+ academic articles at the www.bayjournal.com site) who says that the Patuxent was first seen by westerner in 1588 by Spaniard Vicente Gonzalez

3) An historic chronology of Mid-Atlantic waterways posted by the US Army Corps of Engineers

and apparently does not agree with the status of Bernie Fowler as the premier Patuxent River environmentalist over the past four decades despite affirmations to that fact by several Md. governors of both parties and by his WP page.

I have replaced the references. Further deletions will be reported to an administrator. DLinth (user link above) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.142.130.18 (talk) 01:24, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

 * hmm: none of the deleted material had any possibility of being developed into NPOV reliable topic:
 * The John Smith map is discussed in more than one place, pointing out the limitations of that source for identifying precisely where he went. You may wish to cite one of the articles which uses it, but the map alone doesn't work.
 * "google Kent Mountford premier" won't find anything, etc. By his name alone, there are some hits noting that he writes books.
 * "google Bernie Fowler premier" won't find anything, nor is there a reliable source at hand to give that ranking.
 * cordially Tedickey 01:46, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Please take the time to do deeper research than the couple Google searches that you cite above
 * 1- The map alone works quite well; otherwise Penn State University would not have published it as authoritative... it shows quite reliably the general area (Lyons Creek) of John Smith's furthest point up the Patuxent, as does the concurrence in both map and text form by the academic work published by Tidewater Publishers on the Patuxent, "Tidewater Time Capsule", by the top Patuxent historian and underwater archaeologist Donald Shomette who has published a dozen books. I recommend you pick that up at any Maryland Borders or Barnes and Noble.  As a professional cartographer and geographer for a few decades, I can assure you that the maps in these sources are authoritative analyses of John Smith's original map.
 * 2- You missed my suggestion to check Kent Mountford's 110 articles published under "Past as Prologue" on www.bayjournal.com in addition to his books.
 * 3- You could talk to any government official and most residents of Calvert County and find out that Bernie Fowler is universally regarded as the Patuxent's premier environmentalist over the past four decades.....his WP article provides more than enough references and evidence for that.
 * Having met all three experts above personally (not John Smith!), I would urge you to contact them via their online contact info and/or publishers if, for some reason, you continue to feel that their publications and those of Penn State, Chesapeake Gateways, and the US Army Corps of Engineers are, as you said, for some reason, "not reliable." Until you produce some evidence of the unreliability of your sources, I would urge you to not continue to delete these sources from the article.
 * cordially, DLinth (not logged in at moment)...see above for user info —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.142.130.18 (talk) 02:13, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

 * None of those comments are a reliable source as per wikipedia guidelines. (self-publishing as in the 2nd case doesn't constitute notability).  Tedickey 11:16, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

 * You're kidding, right? First you just wildly delete. Then a nonsensical, "NPOV" claim about published fact.  Now, all you can muster is one sentence slandering as "unreliable sources" the three foremost authorities on history and the environment of this WP subject, published online and/or in print by two federal agencies and a well known university (plus, in the "2nd case", the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay had you bothered to go there.)  And for the fourth time you've deleted the references then stuck your  "need references" template at the top.
 * Suggestions, anyone, for how to deal with this??.....DLinth —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.171.0.147 (talk) 02:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I added more references, from the Smithsonian Institution, Maryland Historical Society, Chesapeake Bay Program, Chesapeake Gateways Program, and a direct published quote from US Congressman Steny Hoyer. More "unreliable sources"??...DLinth (see user signature above)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.171.0.147 (talk) 04:04, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Economy and commerce
I'm not sure what this sentence is supposed to explain. (So there's nothing "obvious" about it.)

 * Including boating on the main river and the reservoirs, the impact that recreation in natural settings now has on the river's economy is obvious.

If no one rewrites and cites it, it should probably be deleted.

Actually, that entire last paragraph would benefit from a rewrite. Perhaps one sentence discussing the air station, another boating and tourism.

- Zulu Kane (talk) 00:05, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Pronunciation?
Is it pronounced "PUH-TUHKS-UHNT"? "PAH-TOO-ZENT"? Or some other variation? -75.57.4.183 (talk) 17:02, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

 * Here's one that sounds reasonably close: http://www.forvo.com/word/patuxent_parkway/

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