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Merapi is in Central Java!!
The "Gunung Merapi" mentioned here cannot be the one in the referenced article, since Ijen is in East Java and Merapi is in Central Java!

I've removed the link and added a comment to avoid confusion.

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Judeo-Shirazi

Judeo-Shirazi is a variety of Fars. Some Judeo-Shirazi speakers refer to the language as Jidi, though Jidi is normally a designation used by speakers of Judeo-Esfahani. It is spoken mostly by Persian Jews living in Shiraz and surrounding areas of the Fars Province in Iran.

History
Judeo-Shirazi is descended from Medieval Shirazi. In 1900, there were an estimated 10,000 speakers of Judeo-Shirazi, but in 2023 that estimate has dwindled to less than 200. Like speakers of other Jewish-Iranian languages, many Judeo-Shirazi speakers immigrated to Israel or North America in the late 20th century. Today, around 4,000 individuals of Shirazi descent are living in Brooklyn, New York.

Unlike other Judeo-Iranian languages, Judeo-Shirazi has history of literature.

Vocabulary
Unlike the other Judeo-Iranian languages, which are part of the Median languages, Judeo-Shirazi is a Southwest Iranian language, like Persian. Highlighting this are the lexical isoglosses Judeo-Shirazi exhibits, such as go- “say” and geyra “weeping”. Despite this affiliation, Judeo-Shirazi is distinct from Persian in its grammar.

The following list of words indicates a few isoglosses distinguishing Judeo-Shirazi from the dialect of Judeo-Esfahani.

Features
Judeo-Shirazi displays several features of Southwest Iranian languages, as well as several features of Old Shirazi which has now been replaces by Persian. Judeo-Shirazi has little mutual intelligiblity with Persian.

Grammar
Judeo-Shirazi displays split ergativity in the past tenses of transitive verbs. This feature is a common link between Fars varieties. Additionally, Judeo-Shirazi marks person in the past transitive using a proclitic, which otherwise functions as an oblique pronominal suffix. Other grammatical features of note:
 * The preposition a, derived from Middle Persian ō (lost in New Persian), with a primary ablative function in Judeo-Shirazi, e.g., Isof-râ . . . a Mesr-eš
 * mibren “they take Joseph to Egypt.” Past participle marker -eθ- (< -est-), used in perfective forms: Judeo- Shirazi vâgešteθâ bodom “I had returned,” cf. Davāni amesse beδe, “I had come.”

Phonology
Judeo-Shirazi articulates sibilants (s, z) as intra-dental (θ, ð). Given that Persian, and other Southwest Iranian languages, distinguished these phonemes, it is suggested that Judeo-Shirazi came from the old dialect of Shiraz. The systematic replacement of /s z/ by /θ ð/ in Judeo-Shirazi may be a result of two processes: the post-vocalic fricativatization found in other Fars dialects, like Davāni, and the original phoneme /θ/ stemming from proto-Shirazi.

Though it has been to some extent influenced by Persian, over the years, Judeo-Shirazi has remained relatively stable. The language resembled the 14th century national poet Hafiz more than Standard New Persian does, suggesting that Judeo-Shirazi preserved many characteristics of Old Persian. Other phonological features contribute to evidence of its descendance from proto-Shirazi and other old Fars dialects:
 * Judeo-Shirazi present stem toδ- (< toz-) “burn,” attested in Medieval Shirazi texts as toz- and θoz-
 * Judeo-Shirazi teš “louse,” also attested in Medieval Shirazi and a number of dialects spoken to the south, southeast, and east of Shiraz, is rooted in proto-Iranian *tswiš(ā)-,
 * Judeo-Shirazi tanȷ-̌ “drink” must correspond with Medieval Shirazi tanz-, which is defined by the cognate Persian word sanȷ-̌

Additional features similar to Fars dialects include the fronting of back vowels and final -a and -e.

Status
Judeo-Shirazi is now Moribund with only 200 speakers as of 2023. The language is poorly documented but there is currently linguistic study being done by the Endangered Language Alliance, among the Shirazi jewish community of New York.

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R. V. Young

Robert V. Young, Jr. (born 1947) is a professor of Renaissance Literature and Literary Criticism in the English Department of North Carolina State University, co-founder and co-editor (with M. Thomas Hester) of the John Donne Journal, and author of multiple books and articles primarily related to the study of literature. He became the editor of the conservative quarterly Modern Age in 2007.

He has served as director of graduate studies in the English Department at NCSU, as well as continuing to teach multiple courses in the department, especially regarding Renaissance and medieval literature. His articles on English literature and education have appeared in multiple journals and periodicals, including the John Donne Journal, Ben Jonson Journal, First Things, The Weekly Standard, National Review, and Culture Wars. He is also a member of and has served as president (1998–1999) of the John Donne Society, receiving its 2002 Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies for his book Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry. He is a senior editor of Touchstone magazine.

His published essays and public lectures cover a wide variety of moral and religious topics as well as Renaissance, Medieval and twentieth-century literary theory and criticism. He is particularly well known for his writing on the works of 17th century English poets John Donne, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, and George Herbert.

Dr. Young received his B.A. in English from Rollins College and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He is also a fluent reader and translator of Latin, as well as a convert to the Roman Catholic faith.

Author

 * At War with the Word: Literary Theory and Liberal Education (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1999) (ISBN 1-882926-27-7)
 * Doctrine & Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan (Boydell & Brewer, 2000) (ISBN 0-85991-569-7)
 * Richard Crashaw and the Spanish Golden Age (Yale studies in English) (Yale University Press, 1982) (ISBN 0-300-02766-4)
 * A Student's Guide to Literature (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2000) (ISBN 1-882926-40-4)

Translator

 * Principles of Letter-Writing: A Bilingual Text of Justi Lipsii Epistolica Institutio (Southern Illinois University Press, 1996) (ISBN 0-8093-1958-6)

Articles

 * "The Bard, the Black, the Jew" in First Things 141 (March 2004): 22-29
 * "Before Foucault", a book review in First Things 72 (April 1997): 50-52
 * "Dante's New Guide", book review in Touchstone Magazine
 * "The Gay Invention", a feature article in Touchstone Magazine (December 2005)
 * Book review of Henry Howard the Poet Earl of Surrey: A Life in the South Atlantic Review
 * "Herbert and the Real Presence" in Renascence, Spring '93, Vol. 45, Issue 3
 * "John Donne, Richard Crashaw, and the Mystery of God's Grace", in Catholic Dossier (March/April 2002)
 * "Nature and Grace in the Character of Western Man", from Christianity and Western Civilization. Christopher Dawson’s Insight: Can a Culture Survive the Loss of Its Religious Roots?, papers Presented at a Conference Sponsored by the Wethersfield Institute New York City, October 15, 1993 (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1993): 37–56.
 * "The Old New Criticism and its Critics" in First Things 35 (August/September 1993): 38-44
 * "The Universities and the Transmission of Culture", a speech given at the Cleveland Regional Meeting of The Philadelphia Society (Sept. 21, 2002)

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Raymund Schwager

Raymund Schwager (1935–2004) was a Swiss Roman Catholic priest and theologian, and member of the Society of Jesus.

Life
Schwager was born on 11 November 1935 in Balterswil into a Swiss farming family as the second of seven children. After primary and secondary school he joined the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in 1955. Following Jesuit custom, he studied philosophy (1957–1960 in Pullach near Munich, Germany) and theology (1963–1967 in Lyon-Fourvière, France), separated by educational work as a prefect in a Jesuit boarding school (1960–1963, "Stella Matutina" in Feldkrich, Austria).

Schwager was ordained a priest on 31 July 1966 and completed his formal education with a doctorate in theology (1967–1969 in Fribourg, Switzerland). During those years he also spent some time in Spain, the home country of the Jesuits' Basque founder, Ignatius of Loyola, on whom he wrote his thesis.

For seven years (1970–1977) Schwager was a member of the editors of the journal Orientierung in Zurich and travelled, giving speeches and presentations. In 1977 he became Professor of Dogmatic and Ecumenical Theology at the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Innsbruck, Austria. From 1985 to 1987, and again from 1999 to 2003, he was dean of that faculty. He was a co-founder of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion (1991), its first president (1991–1995) and an honorary member of its advisory board from 1999 until his unexpected death on 27 February 2004.

Theology
Schwager's thinking was above all inspired by three sources: First, his deep Christian faith and spirituality in the tradition of Ignatius of Loyola and nourished by the biblical writings; second: a mode of arguing he called "dramatic", a term he took from Hans Urs von Balthasar but to which he gave new meaning in his theology; third: mimetic theory and the friendship he sustained with its author, René Girard.

In theology, Schwager took up controversial questions like sacrifice and substitution and relentlessly worked to clarify the way we are to conceive of God. By tackling questions that others tried to avoid, Schwager advanced theological thinking and facilitated solutions that previously had not been thought of. He reached these goals via his hallmark "Dramatic Theology": The history of revelation, as it has been recorded in the biblical writings, is not linear. Divine revelation, therefore, is not like a theoretical treatise. History is made up of a web of different interdependent actions – initiatives and responses – by different agents – human and divine. Thus we have to read the Bible like a drama that captures this dramatic back and forth, and each act in the drama of salvation gives new meaning to every cue-line and to the whole play. Only retrospectively can we infer what it is all about and come to a theory, yet a theory that remains always dependent on the whole drama and its acts; separated from it, it petrifies and loses validity.

Also inter-religious dialogue and symbolic actions for peace by world religious leaders ranked high on Schwager's list of important events. He especially valued Pope John Paul II's activities in this respect: his travels and encounters with other religious leaders, his prayer meetings in Assisi and his confession of guilt for the church on the First Sunday of Lent in 2000. Acknowledging the shortcomings of oneself and one’s own community without scapegoating others or the past of one’s own community is a prerequisite for true and lasting peace, Raymund Schwager was convinced.

Writings
Among his numerous writings in books and articles Schwager’s most important works in English translation are:
 * Must There Be Scapegoats? Violence and Redemption in the Bible. (German: Brauchen wir einen Sündenbock?) Transl. by M. L. Assad. Crossroad, New York, N. Y., 2000. ISBN 0-8245-1867-5
 * Jesus of Nazareth: How He Understood His Life. New York: Crossroad Pub. Co, 1998. Trans. J. G. Williams. ISBN 0-8245-1711-3
 * Jesus in the Drama of Salvation. Toward a Biblical Doctrine of Redemption. Trans. J. G. Williams & P. Haddon (Ger.: Jesus im Heilsdrama. Entwurf einer biblischen Erlösungslehre). New York: Crossroad 1999. ISBN 0-8245-1796-2
 * Banished from Eden: Original Sin and Evolutionary Theory in the Drama of Salvation London: Gracewing, 2006. Trans. J. G. Williams. (Ger.: Erbsünde und Heilsdrama: Im Kontext von Evolution, Gentechnik und Apokalyptik. Münster: LIT Verlag, 1997.) ISBN 0-85244-606-3

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Proximus

Proximus (stylised as pro⌘imus; formerly known as Belgacom Mobile) is the largest of Belgium's three mobile telecommunications companies and is a part of Proximus Group (previously Belgacom Group). It competes with Orange Belgium and Base.

History
Proximus was founded in 1994 as a joint venture between Belgacom, 75%, and AirTouch, 25%, respectively. AirTouch was later merged with Vodafone. In 2006, Belgacom bought the remaining Vodafone shares.

Starting January 1994, Proximus took over the operatorship of the old MOB2 analogue network, as well as the new second generation GSM network, originally only in the GSM 900 range. The obsolete MOB2 network was retired in 1999. When necessary, Proximus can also use GSM 1800 to complement its network.

It was originally a de facto monopoly, but after deregulation Mobistar (now Orange Belgium), a second GSM 900 operator soon joined the game in 1998, followed by BASE – then known as KPN-Orange UK – in 1999.

Proximus has just a little over 45% of the market, which is now considered as saturated.

In 2014 Belgacom included its Pay-TV business under the Proximus brand name which then would include its landline and mobile telephone services as well as all of its broadband services.

Company
Proximus mobile was a subsidiary of Belgacom, which had an IPO in 2004 but remains more than 50% state owned. A 25% share was owned by the Vodafone Group until 2006, when Vodafone agreed to sell its stake to Belgacom. In 2004, it had a revenue of €2,239 million and an EBITDA of €1,135 million. In 2014, Belgacom was rebranded to Proximus, under the leadership of Dominique Leroy. As of January 2015, Belgacom continued partnership with Vodafone, even after sold to Belgacom. Proximus mobile is now fully integrated in the Proximus Group and is no longer a subsidiary.

Proximus uses the brand name Tango in Luxembourg.

Technical information
The operator's display logo is PROXIMUS (sometimes displayed as BEL PROXIMUS or Proximus), the net code is 206 01 and operates under GSM 900/1800 MHz, UMTS  900/2100 MHz and LTE 1800 MHz frequencies. Its prepaid service is called Pay&Go.

Mobile virtual network operator
The Proximus network is used by a number of Mobile Virtual Network Operators such as TMF Mobile (MTV Networks Benelux), Mobisud, RSCA Mobile, Dommel and PostMobile (bpost).

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Jane Austin

Jane Austin may refer to:

 * Misspelling of Jane Austen (1775–1817), English writer
 * Jane G. Austin (1831–1894), American writer
 * Jane Austin McCurtain (née Austin, 1842–1924), Choctaw teacher

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Rockingham County Botanical Garden

The Rockingham County Botanical Garden was a botanical garden in Brentwood, New Hampshire, United States.

The garden began in 1996 as an idea of the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners in Rockingham County. In subsequent years, the group obtained 10 acre of county land, formed a nonprofit organization, and developed the garden.

This land has been returned to Rockingham County. Currently the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension Master Gardener volunteers bring education about gardening, plants, soil, insects and more to the people of New Hampshire through community projects, public presentations and the Ask UNH Extension InfoLine.

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Dapping

Dapping in nature, workshop practice, and in angling describes special examples of dipping, dabbing, or bouncing actions.

Usage
The Oxford English Dictionary defined dap in part as follows: "daps" meaning "ways, modes of action"; hence in dialect, "likeness, image". A dap can be a bounce of a ball, etc. Correspondingly, as a verb, "dap" or "dape", is apparently parallel to "dab", the final "p" expressing a lighter touch. It can mean to fish by letting the bait dip and bob lightly onto the water. Also generally to rebound. In modern practice the term "dapping" is not commonly used except in specific senses.

Technology
It can refer to the metalworking techniques known as "sinking", and in angling as letting the bait or lure bob lightly and repetitively down onto the water surface in the manner of certain behaviour patterns of gracile flying insects such as crane flies, mayflies, or caddisflies and others.

Natural history
In natural history dapping is the motion that many aquatic flying insects engage in when laying their eggs. This is a mode of oviposition related to certain ecological strategies of reproduction. Among those best known for such behaviour are some Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies), many Trichoptera (caddisflies), craneflies, mosquitoes, and Ephemeroptera (mayflies). This action is highly attractive to certain fishes, and anglers try to imitate the effect.

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Baptist Health Sciences University

Baptist Health Sciences University, formerly Baptist College of Health Sciences, is a private college in Memphis, Tennessee. It is operated by Baptist Memorial Health Care. The school was created through the expansion of the School of Nursing (est. 1912) and School of Radiologic Technology (est. 1956) from diploma programs into a college in 1994. It offers Bachelor's degrees in healthcare. They recently expand their programs to include a school of Osteopathic Medicine with classes expected to begin in fall 2024.

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Boom Chicago

Boom Chicago is an international creative group based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that writes and performs sketch and improvisational comedy at their theater on the Rozengracht.

The group performs their own shows and hosts outside productions at their theater on the Rozengracht. The venue with three theaters also houses Boom Chicago for Business, and the Boom Chicago Academy and InterActing, their program for teenagers with autism.

Shows performed at Boom Chicago examine a range of subjects including privacy, the role of technology, Europe, the extreme right, Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, 9/11, social media, the gig economy, AI and the Metaverse.

Comedy Central News (CCN), a news show on the Dutch Comedy Central TV channel, was created by Boom Chicago.

The group is currently owned by Andrew Moskos, Pep Rosenfeld and Saskia Maas.

History
1993: Andrew Moskos, Pep Rosenfeld and Ken Schaefle open Boom Chicago, naming it after their hometown. The first venue is at the Iboya, Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 41, with 85 seats. Saskia Maas joins the company.

1994: The group moves to the 180-seat Studio 100 (later the Sugar Factory, now called Lovelee) on Lijnbaansgracht 238.

1998: The group moves into the 270-seat Leidseplein Theater. Boom Chicago renovates the theater, adding a kitchen, bar, and rock show sound and lighting. Ken Schaefle leaves the group and Saskia Maas becomes CEO.

2000: Boom Chicago hires their first video director, Jamie Wright, and introduces multimedia to the shows. Cameras are fitted in the theater (and the Leidseplein outside). Soon[when?] green screen studios and live internet will be introduced.

2002: Comedy Swap with The Second City in Chicago. The mainstage casts of The Second City and Boom Chicago perform on each other's stages in each other's cities. This was the first (and only) time a visiting comedy group plays on Second City's mainstage.

2004: Boom Chicago Video Productions launches. Boom Chicago release the Florida Voting Machine Video, where an American citizen tries to vote for Kerry, but the rigged machine only allows him to vote for George Bush.

2006: The show Me, MySpace and iPod opens. In addition, Boom Chicago releases their first internet and mobile shows Full Frontal News (Greg Shapiro and Becky Nelson) and Slacker Fantasy Football (Michael Orton-Toliver, Brian Jack, Matt Chapman). The Unlikely Fan (Brendan Hunt, Matt Chapman), a daily video series about the FIFA World Cup, is featured on MSN.

2007: Comedy Central Netherlands launches "Comedy Central News" (75 episodes). "Highly Dubious News" shines at MIPCOM. "SpongeBob SquarePants in China" goes viral on YouTube (22 million views), sparking political controversy. 2008: 15 year anniversary, April 24. CCN returns as a weekly show in April on Comedy Central (NL).

2009: Yankee Come Back opens the City of Amsterdam's 400 Year celebration of the Dutch settlement of New York. During autumn, coinciding with New York's celebration, the group performs Holland Globetrotters at the New Island Festival, a coproduction of de Parade, Oerol and the Netherlands Theater Institute.

2010: Dutch entrepreneur Maurice de Hond makes his on-stage comedy debut in Political Party. With Pep Rosenfeld, Greg Shapiro and director Andrew Moskos he creates a show that combines politics, political discussion and A-list politicians who also perform in comedy scenes.

2011: The Leidseplein Theater becomes the Chicago Social Club. Together with Casper Reinders (Jimmy Woo) and Pieter de Koning and Joris Bakker (Bitterzoet), the venue undergoes a thorough upgrade and increases its club programming.

2012: Pep Rosenfeld speaks at TEDx Amsterdam: "Fight, Flight or Be Funny" and hosts TEDx Binnenhof where he makes fun of Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima, who are in the audience. Saskia Maas speaks at TEDx Education.

2013: Boom Chicago moves from the Leidseplein to the Rozentheater, where they celebrate 20 years in Amsterdam with a show, The 7 Deadly Dutch Sins. The Chicago Social Club continues at Leidseplein.

2013: Nightmare on the Rozengracht runs during October, a 30-minute walk-through haunted house and pop up bar for adults.

2014: To promote What's Up With Those Beards?, Boom Chicago attempts to break the Guinness Book of World Records for most beards in one room. They only break the Dutch record.[citation needed]

2016: For the first ever Dutch Correspondents' Dinner, Boom Chicago's Andrew Moskos and Wilko Terwijn help write the comedy speech for and coach Prime Minister Rutte. Boom Chicago performs a show called Angry White Men: Trump Up the Volume.

2017: Angry White Men: Trump Up the Volume (now Trump Up the Volume) becomes one of the longest running shows at Boom Chicago. Boom Chicago renovates their second theatre and launches The Upstairs Theater. Sunday Night Live take residency there and marks the return of long form improv to Boom Chicago. Pep Rosenfeld, Greg Shapiro, and director Andrew Moskos present The Year in Search, a video in partnership with Google.

2018: Andrew Moskos takes over as Artistic Director. The 25th anniversary show Bango! opens in May, starring Tamar Broadbent, Karel Ebergen, Simon Lukacs, Rhys Collier, Cene Hale, Emil Struijker-Boudier, Sacha Hoedemaker and directed by Andrew Moskos. The 25th anniversary year peaks on July 14 with two shows at Carré and the release of their book, The 25 Most Important Years in Dutch History. The Boom Chicago Academy starts teaching the FA's[who?] long-form curriculum. Escape Through the Movies, an escape room experience, opens at the Rozentheater. Saskia Maas launches InterActing, Boom Chicago's program for teenagers with autism.

2019: Boom Chicago performs The Future is Here ...And it's Slightly Annoying!. The show includes programming a robot to improvise with the cast onstage using machine learning. Boom Chicago partners with American beer brand Budweiser, and the Rozentheater is a launch location for AB InBev's introduction of Budweiser in the Netherlands.

2020: Boom Chicago produces six episodes of live comedy shows (Trump up the Volume and Going Steady). It raises more than €10.000 in ticket sales for the actors and crew. Later in June, Boom Chicago plays at live festival HEMtuin. Boom Chicago also expands into digital corporate shows.

2021: Boom Chicago creates and launches a new curriculum for The Boom Chicago Academy and launches house teams.

2021: The first Boom Chicago Comedy Festival launches. Alumni Seth Meyers, Jordan Peele, Kay Cannon, Colton Dunn, Josh Meyers, Ike Barinholtz and Brendan Hunt give live Q&A interviews. Arjen Lubach reunites with his old improv group Op Sterk Water. They and Shantira Jackson & Stacey Smith win the first two Bud Kings of Comedy Prizes for best festival shows.

2022: After shooting a week in Amsterdam with Ted Lasso (including playing against Ajax), Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt retake the Boom stage at the Shot of Improv and closing night party.

2022: Stacey Smith takes over as artistic director.

2022: Pep Rosenfeld and Greg Shapiro are joined by Stacey Smith, Emil Struijker-Boudier and Sacha Hoedemaker to create a show called Pep & Greg Save America.

2023: Boom Chicago's 30th anniversary festival drops, including multiple performances at the Tuschinksi by Seth Meyers and Brendan Hunt. Brendan remounted his 2006 hit Five Years in Amsterdam and also performed the world premiere of The Movement You Need. Other performers included Amber Ruffin, Heather Anne Campbell, Arjen Lubach, Ruben van der Meer, year one cast member Neil McNamara, and Mayor Femke Halsema.

2023: In America, Akashic Books published Boom Chicago Presents The Thirty Most Important Years in Dutch History, an oral history of the comedy club.

Notable alumni
Seth Meyers (Late Night with Seth Meyers, Saturday Night Live) was a member of Boom Chicago in the late 1990s. He wrote, directed and starred in Boom productions in Amsterdam, Chicago, London and Edinburgh.

Oscar winner Jordan Peele

Three Boom Chicago alumni, Jason Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt and Joe Kelly, created, wrote, starred in, and directed the Emmy award winning TV show Ted Lasso

Amber Ruffin (The Amber Ruffin Show, writer/performer for Late Night with Seth Meyers), in addition to her TV fame, wrote two books on race in America.

Ike Barinholtz stars in, writes and produces movies and TV shows including (History of the World Part II, Mindy Project, Suicide Squad, Bad Neighbors, and The Hunt. He also won the Celebrity Jeopardy championship in 2023.

Kay Cannon wrote for many film and TV shows, including the Pitch Perfect films. She directed a Boom-filled cast in Blockers and wrote and directed a re-imagining of Cinderella for Sony in 2021.

Tami Sagher was a writer-producer for Orange is the New Black. She also writes and stars in TV shows like Inside Amy Schumer, 30 Rock, Broad City, and the (improv!) film Don't Think Twice. She was a writer-executive producer on the Hulu series Shrill.

Colton Dunn starred in the NBC sitcom Superstore during its six-year run. He wrote many scenes on Key & Peele and was also in Blockers.

Heather Ann Campbell, is an executive producer and writer for Rick and Morty. Earlier she wrote for Saturday Night Live and was a cast member of Whose Line is it Anyway? She has appeared any many other TV shows and is one of the hosts of the podcast Get Played!.

Other alumni include Dan Oster (MADtv), Liz Cackowski (SNL), Allison Silverman (Daily Show, Colbert Report), Pete Grosz, Matt Jones (Breaking Bad), Suzi Barrett (Drunk History), Jessica Lowe (Wrecked), E.R. Fightmaster (Grey's Anatomy), Ally Beardsley (Dimension 20 and Game Changer) and Carl Tart (MadTV, Party Over Here, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine).

The British mockumentary Borderline was created by Mike Orton-Toliver, and directed by Matt Jones. Greg Shapiro was Boom Chicago's anchorman on CCN, Comedy Central News (Netherlands) and played Donald Trump in the video America First, The Netherlands Second.

On Broadway in 2023, Pete Grosz performs in Good Night, Oscar. Nicole Parker starred with Martin Short in Fame Becomes Me in 2009 and in Wicked in 2010. Tarik Davis performed in Freestyle Love Supreme from 2019–2022 (As well as on The Amber Ruffin Show on TV). Josh Meyers (Red Oaks, The Awesomes) starred with Paul Rubens in Pee Wees Playhouse in 2010–2011 and in the accompanying HBO special. Spencer Kayden co-created and starred in Urinetown in the 1990s and was nominated for a 2012 Tony award in Don't Dress for Dinner. In 2006–2007, Lisa Jolley appeared in Hairspray.

Current ensemble

 * Matt Castellvi
 * Louie Cordon
 * Simon Feilder
 * Simon Lukacs
 * Katie Nixon
 * Raquel Palmas
 * Stacey Smith (and artistic director)
 * Chelsea Gill (understudy)
 * Rob Andrist-Plourde
 * Sacha Hoedemaker (musical and tech director)
 * Jesse Brouwer (musician)
 * Emil Struijker-Boudier (technician)
 * Steve Labedz (technician)
 * Andrew Moskos (co-owner)
 * Pep Rosenfeld (director of creative content/co-owner)
 * Saskia Maas (CEO and co-owner)

Productions
1993 Andrew Moskos, Pep Rosenfeld, Neil McNamara, Lindley Curry, Miriam Tolan, Pam Gutteridge, Doreen Calderon + Ken Schaefle

1994 Boom / Chicago Andrew Moskos, Pep Rosenfeld, Pam Gutteridge, Emilie Beck, Josie O'Reilly, Greg Shore (Shapiro) + Ken Schaefle

1995 Great Moments in Creation/Culture Shock Therapy Andrew Moskos, Pep Rosenfeld, Pam Gutteridge, Greg Shore (Shapiro), Lillian Frances (née Hubscher), Tami Sagher, Scott Jones, Lesley Bevan, Sue Gillan (née Gillan) + Ken Schaefle

1996 Boom Chicago's Laatste Nieuws / Best of Boom Andrew Moskos, Pep Rosenfeld, Greg Shore (Shapiro), Rob AndristPlourde, Jason Meyer, Karin McKie, Lesley Bevan, Sue Gillan, Jeremy Hornik, Spencer Kayden, + Ken Schaefle + Shane Oman, + Gary Shepard, + Michael Diederich

1997 boomchicago.nl: the internet and other modern frustrations Andrew Moskos, Pep Rosenfeld, Greg Shore (Shapiro), Rob AndristPlourde, Pete Grosz, Seth Meyers, Phill Arensberg, Allison Silverman, Gwendolyn Druyor, Lisa Jolley, Josie O'Reilly + Ken Schaefle

1998 Think Quick Andrew Moskos, Pep Rosenfeld, Greg Shapiro-Shore, Rob AndristPlourde, Seth Meyers, Jill Benjamin, Holly Walker, John Stoops, Jethro Nolen, Sue Peale, Josh Meyers, Kristy Entwistle Nolen, Josie O'Reilly, + Jon Schickedanz + Steven Svymbersky

1999 Pick-ups & Hiccups Seth Meyers, Jill Benjamin

1999 Everything's Going to Be All Right—and Other Lies Andrew Moskos, Greg Shore-Shapiro, Rob AndristPlourde, Holly Walker, Josh Meyers, Brendan Hunt, Ike Barinholtz, Joe Canale, Juliet Curry, Jethro Nolen, Kristy Entwistle Nolen, Dave Asher, Liz Cackowski, + Ron West, + Josie O'Reilly, + Gerbrand van Kolck + Steven Svymbersky

1999 Two Thousand Years Down the Drain: From Jesus Christ to Jerry Springer Andrew Moskos, Greg Shore-Shapiro, Rob AndristPlourde, Holly Walker, Josh Meyers, Brendan Hunt, Ike Barinholtz, Joe Canale, Juliet Curry, Jethro Nolen, Kristy Entwistle Nolen, Dave Asher, Liz Cackowski, + Ron West, + Josie O'Reilly, + Jon Schickedanz + Steven Svymbersky

2000 Live at the Leidseplein: Your Privacy Is Our Business (Boom Chicago is Watching Edinburgh Production) Andrew Moskos, Greg Shapiro, Rob AndristPlourde, Dave Asher, Holly Walker, Josh Meyers, Brendan Hunt, Ike Barinholtz, Liz Cackowski, Jason Sudeikis, Kay Cannon, Bumper Caroll, Jennifer Bills, David Buckman, + Dave Razowsky + Jamie Wright, + Gerbrand van Kolck + Steven Svymbersky

2001 Europe: We've Created a Monster Greg Shapiro, Rob AndristPlourde, Rachel Miller, Holly Walker, Josh Meyers, Brendan Hunt, Dave Asher, Lauren Dowden, Nicole Parker, Jordan Peele, Becky Drysdale, Joe Kelly, + Ron West, + Andrew Moskos, + Dave Buckman, + Jamie Wright, + Gerbrand van Kolck + Steven Svymbersky

2001 Ironic Yanks Seth Meyers, Brendan Hunt, + Andrew Moskos

2001 Nieuwjaarsconference Pep Rosenfeld, Greg Shapiro, + Gerbrand van Kolck + Steven Svymbersky

2002 Rock Stars Greg Shapiro, Rob AndristPlourde, Rachel Miller, Randall Harr, Kristi Casey, Joe Kelly, Dani Sher, Colton Dunn, Brendan Hunt, Melody Nife, Lauren Dowden, Nicole Parker, Jordan Peele, + Dave Razowsky + Pep Rosenfeld, + Andrew Moskos, + Jamie Wright, + Gerbrand van Kolck + Steven Svymbersky + Rebecca Hone

2002 Here Comes the Neighborhood (Edinburgh Production) Brendan Hunt, Jordan Peele, + Joe Kelly, + Andrew Moskos

2002 Yankee Go Home: Americans and Why You Love to Hate Us Pep Rosenfeld, Greg Shapiro, + Andrew Moskos, + Gerbrand van Kolck + Rebecca Hone

2003 Boom Chicago Saves the World (Sorry about the Mess) Greg Shapiro, Rob AndristPlourde, Brendan Hunt, Jordan Peele, Colton Dunn, Dani Sher, Rachel Miller, Suzi Barrett, Heather Campbell, Jim Woods, + Pep Rosenfeld, + Andrew Moskos, + Jamie Wright, + Gerbrand van Kolck + Steven Svymbersky

2003 Going Down: A Comedy Show About Pessimism Pep Rosenfeld, Greg Shapiro, + Andrew Moskos, + Jamie Wright, + David Schmoll

'''2004 Why Aren't You Happy Yet? ''' Greg Shapiro, Rob AndristPlourde, Rachel Miller, Suzi Barrett, Heather Campbell, Jim Woods, Tim Sniffen, Ryan Archibald, Tarik Davis, Amber Ruffin, + Pep Rosenfeld, + Andrew Moskos, + Jamie Wright, + David Schmoll, + Steven Svymbersky

2004 Mr. America Contest: A Comedy Show about the U.S. Presidential Race Pep Rosenfeld, Greg Shapiro, Andrew Moskos, Jamie Wright, David Schmoll

2005 Bite the Bullet! Suzi Barrett, Heather Campbell, Tarik Davis, Matt Jones, Amber Ruffin, Tim Sniffen, Jim Woods, + Andrew Moskos, + Pep Rosenfeld, + Greg Shapiro, + Rob AndristPlourde, + Rachel Miller, + Jamie Wright, + David Schmoll, + Steven Svymbersky

2005 Best of Boom 2005 Ryan Archibald, Suzi Barrett, Heather Campbell, Tarik Davis, Matt Jones, Tim Sniffen, Jim Woods, + Andrew Moskos, + Pep Rosenfeld, + Greg Shapiro, + Rob AndristPlourde, + Rachel Miller, + Amber Ruffin, + Jamie Wright, + David Schmoll, + Steven Svymbersky

2006 Best of Boom 2006 Rob AndristPlourde, Hilary Bauman, Tarik Davis, Lauren Flans, Ryan Gowland, Brian Jack, Matt Jones, Dan Oster, Greg Shapiro, + Andrew Moskos, + Pep Rosenfeld, + Laurel Coppock, + David Schmoll, + Vladimir Berkhemer + Steven Svymbersky

2006 Kick This: A World Cup Comedy with Balls Pep Rosenfeld, Brendan Hunt, Andrew Moskos, Jamie Wright, David Schmoll

2006 Me MySpace and iPod Hilary Bauman, Lauren Flans, Brian Jack, Matt Jones, Dan Oster + Andrew Moskos + Pep Rosenfeld + Mike Orton-Toliver, + Rob AndristPlourde, + Jennifer Burton, + Michael Diederich, + Gregory Shapiro, + Steven Svymbersky + Dave Schmoll, + Vladimir Berkhemer, + Matt Chapman, + Becky Nelson

2007 Boom Chicago's Wild West Comedy and Gun Show—Featuring One Real Indian Jennifer Burton, Lauren Flans, Mike Orton-Toliver, Jim Woods, Joe Kelly + Pep Rosenfeld +  Andrew Moskos + Rob AndristPlourde, + Suzi Barrett, + Hilary Bauman, + Brian Jack + Michael Diederich, + Dan Oster + Gregory Shapiro, + Steven Svymbersky + Dave Schmoll, + Vladimir Berkhemer, + Matt Chapman, + Becky Nelson

2007 Five Years in Amsterdam (Edinburgh Production) Brendan Hunt + Andrew Moskos

2008 Last One to Leave the Planet, Turn Out the Lights Ryan Archibald, Hilary Bauman, Lauren Flans, James Kirkland, Mike Orton-Toliver, Pep Rosenfeld, David Schmoll, Steven Svymbersky, Ash Lim + Andrew Moskos, + Rob AndristPlourde, + Lolu Ajayi, + Michael Diederich, + Hans Holsen, + Gregory Shapiro, + Andel Sudik, + Julie Nichols, + Neil Towsey, + Brendan Hunt, + Matt Chapman, + Becky Nelson

2008 Screw the Planet; Save the Oil (Best of Boom 2009) Lolu Ajayi, Ryan Archibald, Liz Bolton, Amber Ruffin, Dave Schmoll, Steven Svymbersky, Pep Rosenfeld, Shane Oman, + Andrew Moskos, + Rob AndristPlourde, + Michael Diederich, +Hans Holsen, + James Kirkland, + Mike Orton-Toliver, + Andel Sudik, + Julie Nichols, + Brian Tjon Ajong, + Neil Townsey, + Matt Chapman, + Becky Nelson

2008 Bye-Bye Bush Pep Rosenfeld, Gregory Shapiro, Mike Orton-Toliver, Andrew Moskos, Steven Svymbersky, Julie Nichols + Matt Chapman, + Becky Nelson

2009 Yankee Come Back Hans Holsen, Liz Bolton, Amber Ruffin, James Kirkland, Mike Orton-Toliver, Julie Nichols, Brian Tjon Ajong, Neil Townsey, Pep Rosenfeld, Shane Oman, + Andrew Moskos + Lolu Ajayi, + Rob AndristPlourde, + Michael Diederich, + Andel Sudick, + Dave Schmoll, + Steven Svymbersky, + Matt Chapman

2009 Holland Globetrotters (New York Production) Liz Bolton, James Kirkland, Amber Ruffin, Jordan Peele, Julie Nichols, Pep Rosenfeld, Andrew Moskos, Steven Svymbersky

2009 Upgrade or Die! Rob AndristPlourde, Liz Bolton, Amber Ruffin, James Kirkland, Brian Tjon Ajong, Neil Townsey, Dave Schmoll, Pep Rosenfeld, Shane Oman, + Andrew Moskos + Lolu Ajayi, + Michael Diederich, + Matt Chapman, + Jessica Lowe, + Steven Svymbersky

2010 Political Party Maurice de Hond, Pep Rosenfeld, Greg Shapiro + Andrew Moskos + Brian Tjon Ajong

2010 Your Worst Fears Lolu Ajayi, Amber Ruffin, Pep Rosenfeld, Dave Schmoll + Rob AndristPlourde, Michael Diederich + Jessica Lowe + Matt Chapman + Brian Tjon Ajong, + Shane Oman, + Andrew Moskos + Steven Svymbersky

2010 There's No Such Thing as Sinterklaas Pep Rosenfeld, Greg Shapiro, Andrew Moskos + Brian Tjon Ajong + James Winder + Steven Svymbersky + Dave Schmoll

2011 Social Media Circus Lolu Ajayi, Amber Ruffin, Jessica Lowe, Matt Chapman, Jim Woods, Pep Rosenfeld, Andrew Moskos, Dave Schmoll + Rob AndristPlourde, + Haley Mancini + Mike Orton-Toliver + Michael Diederich + Brian Tjon Ajong, + Shane Oman, + Steven Svymbersky

2011 9/11 Forever Pep Rosenfeld, Greg Shapiro, Mike Orton-Toliver, Andrew Moskos + Brian Tjon Ajong + James Winder + Dave Schmoll

2012 Branded for Life Lolu Ajayi, Cari Leslie, Drew DiFonzo Marks, Mike Orton-Toliver, Jim Woods, Pep Rosenfeld, Andrew Moskos, Dave Schmoll + Rob AndristPlourde, + Laura Chinn + Michael Diederich + Marcy Minton + Sam Super + Brian Tjon Ajong, + Shane Oman, + James Winder, + Steven Svymbersky

2012 My Big Fat American Election Mike Orton-Toliver, Pep Rosenfeld, Greg Shapiro + Andrew Moskos, + Dave Schmoll

2012 Deep Undercover Andrew Moskos, Mike Orton-Toliver, Pep Rosenfeld, + Michael Diederich, + Ellie Orton-Toliver + Finn Moskos + Sam Super plus other actors and citizens of Amsterdam

2013 Baby I Like It Raw Lolu Ajayi, Cari Leslie, Jim Woods, Rob AndristPlourde, Michael Diederich, Sam Super + Pep Rosenfeld + Andrew Moskos + Dave Schmoll + Brian Tjon Ajong + Steven Svymbersky

2013 Seven Deadly Dutch Sins Lolu Ajayi, Jim Woods, Pep Rosenfeld, Andrew Moskos + Michael Diederich + Cari Leslie + Sam Super + Brian Tjon Ajong + Steven Svymbersky

2013 20th Anniversary Best of Boom Lolu Ajayi, Ryan Archibald, Rob AndristPlourde, Suzi Barrett, Heather Campbell, Horace Cohen, Michael Diederich, Becky Drysdale, James Kirkland, Brendan Hunt, Matt Jones, Cari Leslie, Ruben van der Meer, Andrew Moskos, Haley Mancini, Pep Rosenfeld, David Schmoll, Greg Shapiro, Sam Super, Neil Towsey, Brian Tjong Ajong, Jim Woods + Sasha Hoedemaker + Joe Kelly + Gerbrand van Kolck + Becky Nelson + Jamie Wright

2013 Nightmare on the Rozengracht (haunted house)

2013 Delete Zwarte Piet Niet Pep Rosenfeld, Greg Shapiro, Andrew Moskos + Lolu Ajayi + Brian Tjon Ajong + Steven Svymbersky

2014 What's Up with Those Beards? Lolu Ajayi, Ally Beardsley, Sam Super, Carl Tart, Jim Woods, + Pep Rosenfeld, + Andrew Moskos + Brian Tjon Ajong + Steven Svymbersky + Rob AndristPlourde + Michael Diederich + Eleanor Hollingsworth + David Schmoll

2014 Freak Circus (haunted house)

2015 New Kids on the Gracht Lolu Ajayi, Ally Beardsley, E.R.(Emily) Fightmaster, Woody Fu, Sacha Hoedemaker, Ian Owens, Sue Gillan, Piero Procaccini, + Greg Mills, + Andrew Moskos, + Pep Rosenfeld + Brian Tjon Ajong + Steven Svymbersky

2015 Rob it Like it's Hot Rob AndristPlourde, Michael Diederich, + Brian Tjon Ajong

2015 Escape Through Time (Escape adventure) Andrew Moskos, Pep Rosenfeld + Rob AndristPlourde + Bobby Makariev + Finn Moskos + Isaac Simon + Tanne van der Waal + Rixt Weer

2016 Haunted Warehouse (haunted house at Roest)

2016 VR Winter Wonderland Lolu Ajayi, Karel Ebergen, Cene Hale, Josh Rachford, Else Soelling + Jim Woods + Brian Tjon Ajong + Sacha Hoedemaker + Emil Struijker-Boudier

2016 Angry White Men: Trump Up the Volume Pep Rosenfeld, Greg Shapiro, Andrew Moskos + Brian Tjon Ajong

2017 Facetime Your Fears Karel Ebergen, Cene Hale, Ace Manning, Josh Rachford, Else Soelling, Jim Woods + Pep Rosenfeld, + Brian Tjon Ajong + Sacha Hoedemaker + Emil Struijker-Boudier

2017 Legends of Rob Rob AndristPlourde, Michael Diederich, + Emil Struijker-Boudier + Sacha Hoedemaker

2017 Sunday Night Live Karel Ebergen, Cene Hale, Ace Manning, Josh Rachford, Else Soelling, Jim Woods + Brian Tjon Ajong + Sacha Hoedemaker + Emil Struijker-Boudier

2018 Escape Through The Movies (Escape adventure) Andrew Moskos, Pep Rosenfeld, Toan Mai (TMPRo), Rick Bon (Props), Sacha Hoedemaker (music), Emil Struijker-Boudier, Jenna Koda,

2018 Bango! Tamar Broadbent, Rhys Collier, Karel Ebergen, Cene Hale, Lizz (Biddy) Kemery, Simon Lukacs, Sacha Hoedemaker, Emil Struijker-Boudier, Andrew Moskos, Michael Orton-Toliver + Tyrone Dierksen

2018 Boom Chicago's 25th Anniversary Show at Carre Lolu Ajayi, Rob AndristPlourde, Ryan Archibald, Ike Barinholtz, Suzi Barrett, Hilary Bauman, Jill Benjamin, Dave Buckman, Liz Cackowski, Heather Campbell, Kristi Casey, Horace Cohen, Rhys Colliers, Michael Diederich, Tyrone Dierksen, Lauren Dowden, Gwendolyn Druyor, Colton Dunn, Karel Ebergen, Lauren Flans, Woody Fu, Pete Grosz, Cene Hale, Sacha Hoedemaker, Brendan Hunt, Brian Jack, Lisa Jolley, Matt Jones, Lizz (Biddy) Kemery, Jessica Lowe, Simon Lukacs, Drew DiFonzo Marks, Ruben van de Meer, Andrew Moskos, Neil McNamara, Josh Meyers, Seth Meyers, Ryan Millar, Rachel Miller, Marcy Minton, Jethro Nolen Kristy Nolen, Josie O'Reilly, Mike Orton-Toliver, Ian Owens, Pep Rosenfeld, Amber Ruffin, Greg Shapiro, Dani Sher, Jon Shickendans, Emil Struijker-Boudier, Andel Sudik, Sam Super, Holly Walker, Jamie Wright.

Plus the Extended Boom family: Tijl Beckland, Jelka van Houten, Arjen Lubach, Ruben Nicolai, Wilko Terwijn. (Ruben and Horace are in the other list!)

'''2019 The Future is Here... And it is Slightly Annoying''' Tamar Broadbent, Dave Buckman, Tyler Groce, Lizz Kemery, Simon Feilder, Simon Lukacs, Sid Singh, Andrew Moskos, Sacha Hoedemaker, Tom Clutterbuck, Emil Struijker-Boudier

2020 Sitcom Matt Castellvi, Simon Feilder, Simon Lukacs, Biddy (Lizz) Kemery, Stacey Smith, Sacha Hoedemaker, Emil Struijker-Boudier. Directed by Andrew Moskos.

2021 Boom Chicago Comedy Festival Arjen Lubach, Seth Meyers, Jordan Peele, Brendan Hunt, Shantira Jackson, Matt Castellvi, Simon Feilder, Simon Lukacs, Biddy (Lizz) Kemery, Stacey Smith, Andrew Moskos, Sacha Hoedemaker, Kay Cannon, Colton Dunn, Ike Barinholtz, Josh Meyers and many many more! Festival Director Stacey Smith.

2022 Boom Chicago into the Metaverse: Meta Luck Next Time Matt Castellvi, Simon Lukacs, Terrance Lamonte Jr., Katie Nixon, Stacey Smith, Sacha Hoedemaker, Emil Struijker-Boudier, Andrew Moskos + Simon Feilder. Directed by Sam Super.

2023 Tragedy + Time = Comedy Matt Castellvi, Louie Cordon, Simon Lukacs, Katie Nixon, Raquel Palmas, Stacey Smith, Sacha Hoedemaker, Emil Struijker-Boudier, Andrew Moskos. + Simon Feilder. Directed by Simon Lukacs.

2023 Amsterdam Roasted Matt Castellvi, Louie Cordon, Katie Nixon, Raquel Palmas, Stacey Smith, Sacha Hoedemaker, Emil Struijker-Boudier, Andrew Moskos. Directed by Ryan Archibald.

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Talk:John Philip Holland

Birth Date
Since there is no information supporting the birth date of 29 February 1840, and because the biography of John Holland that is linked suggests a birth date of 24 Feb 1841, I have changed the date and removed the category "Category:Leap day births|Holland, John Philip". If there is support for the leap day birth, we can put it back.Dpv 14:19, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Ref for date, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22470/john-phillip-holland
 * Birth:   28 Feb 1841,     Liscannor, County Clare, Ireland
 * Death:    12 Aug 1914 (aged 73)     Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
 * Burial    Holy Sepulchre Cemetery and Mausoleum,  Totowa, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA

"african American" edit
Maybe the guy misinterpreted the term Black Irish. Gzuckier 17:11, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Other developments
Can somebody clarify the dating of Holland II & III? As I recall, they predate Adder (which was Holland VI or VII, I think). Also, something should be said about his rivalry (or the competition) with Simon Lake. Trekphiler 08:02, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Made a Holland Torpedo Boat Company and Holland IV page:
 * Holland I 1878
 * Holland II (named Fenian Ram) 1881
 * Holland III –1883
 * Holland IV (known as the Zalinski Boat) 1885.
 * Plunger (1897) - Holland V - 1897
 * Holland VI - USS Holland (SS-1) built 1897 sold 1900

Telecine Guy (talk) 22:03, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Farsical?
"including a farcical experience with the U.S. Navy" is the sort of statement that cries out for explanation and/or a reference. -- Kbh3rd 22:34, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Removed sometime ago. Thank you. 22:06, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Irish language name and mother
Surely if he only learned English in school, then he would have had an Irish speaking father also? Or that his father wasn't present while he was growing up. Also, if it's known that he only learned English at school, surely we would know for definite his surname in Irish rather than having two versions at the top of the page. Can someone please correct/ fill in these details. - 188.141.61.64 (talk) 02:06, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

People often just use the english versions of their name, even today a lot of older native irish speakers prefer to use the english version of their name. holland being an english name was probably just kept as such. His father probably spoke irish to him considering he lived in a gaelteacht area — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.97.254.150 (talk) 13:31, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * His father John Holland, a lighthouse keeper and coastguardsman, and his mother, Mary (Scanlan) Holland, were both native Irish speakers. John Philip Holland learned England as a teenager.  Mary (Scanlan) Holland died on 17 Mar 1884. Telecine Guy (talk) 22:13, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

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Thomas Anthony Dooley III

Thomas Anthony Dooley III (January 17, 1927 – January 18, 1961) was an American physician who worked in Southeast Asia at the outset of American involvement in the Vietnam War. While serving as a physician in the United States Navy and afterwards, he became known for his humanitarian and anti-communist political activities up until his early death from cancer. After his death, the public learned that he had been recruited as an intelligence operative by the Central Intelligence Agency, and numerous descriptions of atrocities by the Viet Minh in his book Deliver Us From Evil had been fabricated.

Dooley has been called "a key agent in the first disinformation campaign of the Vietnam War," garnering support for the US government's growing involvement there. Dooley, one critic said, is an example of "celebrity sainthood" and the "intersection of show business and mysticism occupied the space where Tom Dooley was perhaps most at home"; nevertheless, he "helped to pull American Catholicism away from its insular, angry anti-Communism" and he lived a life that does not "invite facile judgment."

Dooley authored three popular books that described his activities in Vietnam and Laos: Deliver Us From Evil, The Edge of Tomorrow, and The Night They Burned the Mountain.

Early life
Dooley was born January 17, 1927, in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in a prominent Roman Catholic Irish-American household. He attended St. Roch Catholic Elementary School and St. Louis University High School; at both he was a classmate of Michael Harrington. He then went to college at the University of Notre Dame, but completed only five semesters of course work. In 1944, he enlisted as a hospital corpsman in the United States Navy, serving in a naval hospital in New York City. In 1946, he returned to Notre Dame, but left without receiving a degree. Later, on June 5, 1960, Notre Dame presented him with an honorary degree. He entered the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. When he graduated in 1953, after repeating his final year of medical school, he joined the Navy. He completed his residency at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, and then at Yokosuka, Japan. In 1954, he was assigned to the USS Montague, which was traveling to Vietnam.

Humanitarian, author, and intelligence operative
In May 1954, the Geneva Agreements divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel north into two political zones. People north of the 17th parallel lived under the Viet Minh government, and those south of the 17th parallel lived under the government of Ngo Dinh Diem. Hanoi and Haiphong remained free zones until May 1955. In August 1954, Dooley transferred to Task Force Ninety, a unit participating in the evacuation of over 600,000 North Vietnamese known as Operation Passage to Freedom. Here he served as a French interpreter and medical officer for a Preventive Medicine Unit in Haiphong. He eventually oversaw the building and maintenance of refugee camps in Haiphong until May 1955, when the Viet Minh took over the city. He returned to Yokosuka, Japan in June 1955.

CIA recruitment and Deliver Us From Evil
Dooley was assigned to the medical intelligence task force sponsored by the Military Advisory Assistance Group, whose leader, Lt. Gen. John W. O'Daniel, was an active ally of Ngo Dinh Diem. His official duties involved collecting samples for epidemiological work, "but his primary role was as a liaison between the refugee campaign...Operation Passage to Freedom and American reporters and politicians with an interest in Southeast Asia." In return for his work as a "spokesman", the doctor was awarded the highest presidential honor by Diem. During this period, he wrote numerous letters to his mother, many of which she shared with reporters; the letters were then printed in the local press, including the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Most of the letters exaggerated his personal contribution to the refugee work. Despite his self-promotion, he "was indefatigable in taking care of his patients." Concerning the "self-aggrandizement" aspect of his personality, he said that to be a humanitarian in the modern world "you've gotta run it like a business. You've gotta have Madison Avenue, press relations, TV, radio...and of course you get condemned for being a publicity seeker"; he argued that being able to care for 100 people per day, between 1954 and 1958, with MEDICO later treating 2,000 per day, justified this approach to humanitarianism.

Dooley was soon recruited as an operative by Lieutenant Colonel Edward G. Lansdale, head of the CIA office in Saigon. He was chosen as a symbol of Vietnamese-American cooperation, and was encouraged to write about his experiences in the refugee camps. The CIA, USAID, and several other agencies "conducted fund-raising campaigns for the refugees" later described in his books. The Pentagon Papers would later note that he "significantly aided" in the gathering of intelligence information.

William Lederer, author of The Ugly American, helped initiate this phase of Dooley's career. Lederer, who was at the time serving as a Navy press officer, attached to the admiralty, appreciated the eloquence of Dooley's situation reports, and suggested that he write a book. After his first draft was complete, he and Lederer spent two weeks living together polishing the manuscript. Lederer was also on "special assignment" for the CIA during this period.

In 1956, Dooley's book Deliver Us from Evil was released and became a best-seller, establishing him as an icon of American humanitarian and anti-communist activities abroad. His vivid accounts of communist atrocities committed on Catholic refugees appear to have been either fabricated or exaggerated. It has been alleged that Dooley was passing along descriptions of events that had been created by Landsdale and his team. In 1956, U.S. officials who were stationed in the Hanoi-Haiphong area during his tour of duty submitted a lengthy report to the U.S. Information Agency holding that Deliver Us from Evil was "not the truth" and that the accounts of Viet Minh atrocities were "nonfactual and exaggerated." However, the US government kept the report classified for nearly thirty years. James Fisher allows that the U.S. Information Agency report was "valid," but he also argues it "must be viewed with some suspicion" because they were preparing to "discredit Dooley" as "an insurance policy against a renewed outbreak of anti-internationalism."

Dooley's book featured exceptionally gory tales of religious persecution. The doctor claimed the Viet Minh jammed chopsticks into the ears of children to keep them from hearing the Lord's Prayer and regularly mutilated Catholic instructors. Most sensationally, he fabricated a story of the Viet Minh pounding nails into the head of a priest—"a communist version of the crown of thorns, once forced on the Savior of whom he preached." He also claimed that Ho Chi Minh's forces had "disemboweled more than 1,000 native women in Hanoi." Thirty years after his death, in response to a journalist's question, Lederer said that "the atrocities the doctor described 'never took place.'" At the time, however, Lederer brokered a deal with Reader's Digest to publish Dooley's claims to their massive audience; and, he used him as the "real-life model" for Father John Finian, a heroic character in The Ugly American.

Commenting on these allegations, Seth Jacobs wrote that although Dooley "may have exaggerated or fabricated", this was not done to make his book more sensational. Instead, these atrocity stories grew out of a period of immersion in the refugee drama, from September 1954 to May 1955, a period during which he drove himself so mercilessly that he went from 180 to 120 pounds, "nearly died of malarial fever, acquired four types of intestinal worms, and suffered so acutely from sleep deprivation that he frequently hallucinated." Jacobs speculated that something more than careerism or sentimentality, a "growing empathy", was motivating him, because before he had always avoided responsibility but now "he could not get enough of it": he was in charge of a network of clinics that treated up to 500 people per day; he regularly performed major surgery; he lobbied pharmaceutical companies for antibiotics; and, "in large part due to his vigilance, not a single epidemic broke out in Haiphong or on the ships leaving for Saigon."

Naval discharge and Laotian activities
Dooley was on a promotional tour for this book when he was investigated for participating in homosexual activities. It seems that what the Navy discovered about his private life resulted in a negotiated agreement that he would announce he was leaving the Navy in order to serve the people of Vietnam.

After leaving the Navy, Dooley and three former Navy corpsmen established a hospital near Luang Namtha, Laos, with the sponsorship of the International Rescue Committee. At this time, the International Rescue Committee had a secret working relationship with the CIA in Southeast Asia, coordinated by Joseph Buttinger. In an article entitled "Why I'm A Jungle Medic," printed in Think magazine, June 1958, he said they chose Laos because the country, with 3,000,000 people, had only one "bonafide" doctor. He explained to the Laotian Minister of Health that he wished to work in an area near the Chinese border because "there are sick people there and furthermore people who had been flooded with potent draughts of anti-Western propaganda from Red China."

Dooley founded the Medical International Cooperation Organization (MEDICO) under the auspices of which he built hospitals at Nam Tha, Muong Sing (five miles south of the Chinese border), and Ban Houei Sa. The plan for MEDICO was that it would build, stock, supply, and train staff for small hospitals; after 16 months, MEDICO planned to turn over these hospitals to the host country's government. During this same time period, he wrote two books, The Edge of Tomorrow and The Night They Burned the Mountain, about his experience in Laos, including further descriptions of atrocities he said were committed by communist soldiers. In the latter book, he voiced strong political opinions about the Laotian crisis of 1960, defending the right-wing coup led by "one of his closest friends," Phoumi Nosavan. He also wrote that the rigging of elections "cut through the red tape and kibbosh you get involved with in Asia," asserting that "Democracy, as championed in the US, does not translate well into Lao...Not yet."

While Dooley was providing medical care to Lao refugees, he also collected intelligence for the CIA, tracking civilian movements, and he provided cover for United States Special Forces medics who posed as civilian doctors. Dennis Shephard, a physician who worked with him, claimed that he would round up as many of his former patients as he could whenever potential sponsors came to tour the Vientiane clinic, giving the impression that he had a full and active clinic. Shephard remembered local CIA officers coming by often to find out if Dooley had picked up anything about the movement of Chinese troops, as well as to ensure that the weapons he had brought up with his medical supplies were well-hidden and secure. Shephard helped him establish a clinic at Vang Vieng; His obituary records that he was a guest when he was featured on This Is Your Life and that he traveled with him "from village to village, where they treated illness and injuries, and taught Laotians about sanitation and medication."

Televised cancer surgery, death, and Peace Corps
In 1959, Dooley returned to the United States for cancer treatment. He agreed to Fred W. Friendly's request that his melanoma surgery be the subject of a CBS News documentary. On April 21, 1960, Biography of a Cancer was broadcast; it was hosted by Howard K. Smith, and included the surgery and an interview with him. In response to Smith's suggestion that his attitude toward his cancer was "blithe", he replied: "I'm scared to death of this thing becoming maudlin; I'm scared to death of somebody saying 'a clutching, agonizing sort of a thing'...I don't want anyone to get sloppy over this; I don't like anything that says 'a dying doctor's anguish bit'; that's stupid." He proceeded to say that he agreed to the televising of his surgery to help reduce American ignorance and fear of cancer, and so that he could promote Medico. After the surgery was performed, he described it candidly and revealed that his prognosis was bad; he died less than a year later.

According to James Fisher's comprehensive biography, Dooley remained a devout Catholic until his death. At his funeral, U.S. Sen. Stuart Symington described him as "One of those rare Americans who is truly a citizen of the world." After his death, John F. Kennedy cited his example when he launched the Peace Corps. He was also awarded a Congressional Gold Medal after his death. He was buried in Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis.

Importance and legacy
A 1959 Gallup Poll named Dooley the 7th most admired man in the world according to the American public. In 1961, he ranked third, behind only President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Pope. But thereafter, his legacy became intertwined with the political controversy surrounding the Vietnam War. As a result, writers continue to struggle with the doctor's record of philanthropy and the later American war in Southeast Asia.

During the height of the Vietnam War, when attention began to be given to the propaganda aspect of Dooley's work, one journalist charged that he was responsible "for helping to create 'a climate of public misunderstanding that made the war in Vietnam possible.'" More than a decade later, after examining more than 500 unclassified CIA documents, another writer argued that although he did provide the CIA with some information, he never initiated contact with them, he took no money, his motivation was patriotism, and he hoped this would afford him "more freedom to do his work and a little less harassment."

Despite Dooley's problematic descriptions of Southeast Asia, Prince Souphan of Laos said that he was "known to his grateful Lao admirers as 'Thanh Mo America' (Dr. America)". He himself was frequently critical of United States actions in the region. He observed: "We are hated in most of the Orient. ... They think freedom means freedom of the capitalist to exploit the Oriental people. No Americans have ever gotten down to their level." At the same time, he opposed concrete reforms to foreign aid in Laos when Congress proposed them, defending the "first-class administrators" at the US embassy. He also rejected all compromises with communists, even when the Laotian public supported them, going so far as calling the popular neutralist leader Kong Le "an idiot."

MEDICO depended primarily upon volunteers and private donations; by 1960 over 2000 physicians had applied to serve as volunteers, and new teams for medical assistance were established in Haiti, Cambodia, and Afghanistan. According to Ted Hesburgh, Dooley refused Dwight D. Eisenhower's offer to use government funds to assist in his work. Eisenhower did, however, personally fundraise for MEDICO. After Dooley died, funds for MEDICO dried up and it was taken over by CARE. Dooley's principal biographer, James Fisher, wrote that he "tried never to forget what this man's toil and suffering meant to untold people of all backgrounds...that his spirit endures in acts of charity and mercy performed across the world by those he touched." Nearly four years after his death, The New York Times wrote that his work was "more active than it was even at the time of his death." Numerous people have been inspired by Dooley to do similar work:
 * Dr. Verne Chaney, a surgeon who worked with him, founded the Dooley Intermed International – Medical Aid Around the World, an organization that provides medical equipment, supplies, personnel and financial support for the improvement of health services in underdeveloped countries.
 * Betty Tisdale, who met him and was inspired by his work, founded H.A.L.O.(Helping And Loving Orphans). Just prior to the fall of Vietnam, she orchestrated the evacuation and adoption of 219 Vietnamese orphans to homes in the US. Today, Betty Tisdale and H.A.L.O. continue his work around the world, with people of all religions, to help orphans and at-risk children not only in Vietnam, but also in Mexico, Colombia, Indonesia and Afghanistan.
 * Teresa Gallagher, a volunteer who worked with him, along with his brother, Malcolm, established The Dr Tom Dooley Foundation that is dedicated to delivering medical care to people of the Third World. Dr. Jerry Brown, a 2013 graduate of an affiliated program in Cameroon was among the "Ebola Fighters" named as the Time Person of the Year for 2014.
 * Dr. Davida Coady, an activist pediatrician, who was also inspired by Dooley, devoted herself to caring for impoverished people in Africa, Central America, Asia; she was involved in the famine relief efforts in Biafra, the hunting down of the last smallpox cases in India, and the rebuilding of medical infrastructure in Nicaragua.

The Dr Tom Dooley Foundation has an endowed scholarship at the St. Louis University Medical School called the Dr. Tom Dooley Memorial Scholarship Program and is intended "to inspire students to follow the footsteps of Dr. Tom Dooley...in caring for thousands of refugees in Southeast Asia."

Dooley is memorialized at the University of Notre Dame's Grotto of Our Lady, with a statue as well as an engraved copy of a letter he wrote to former Notre Dame president Ted Hesburgh.

Decorations

 * Congressional Gold Medal: On May 27, 1961, Congress authorized the issuance of a gold medal to honor Dooley and his work. President John F. Kennedy presented the medal to Dooley's mother, Agnes Dooley, in a White House ceremony on June 7, 1962. Kennedy commended him for providing a model of American compassion before the rest of the world.
 * Legion of Merit
 * National Order of Vietnam, 4th Class (Degree of Officer)
 * The Saint Francis Xavier Medal: Distinguished achievement award of Xavier University
 * Key to the City of Mishawaka, Indiana
 * Rotary Club of Hong Kong Pennant
 * Key to the City of South Bend, Indiana
 * Key to the City of Baltimore, Maryland
 * Key to the City of Worcester
 * Christopher Award: 1958
 * Christopher Award: 1961
 * Mutual of Omaha-Criss Award - 1959: Dr Criss was the CEO of Mutual of Omaha from 1933 to 1953. When he retired Mutual of Omaha established an award in his honor. At the awards dinner in Omaha, the speakers were General James Doolittle, Fred Astaire, and Dr. Charles Mayo, son of one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic.  The awards ceremony was televised nationally by ABC and Dr. Dooley was awarded $10,000.  The original show is published on the website thedrtomdooleyfoundation.org
 * University of Notre Dame Plaque
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt Award: awarded by Midwood High
 * Seal of Boston College, 4th Class (Degree of Officer)
 * Canisius College - Medal of Honor: New York, March 1961
 * Very Important Person Award: Plaque, - 1960
 * St. Louis College of Pharmacy & Allied Sciences
 * Notre Dame Alumni Assoc. Distinguished Service Award
 * Claude Bernard Medal
 * The City of New York Medal: 1960
 * Barat Hall - Man of the Year Award: 1970
 * The Religious Heritage of America, Inc., Churchman of the Year: 1960
 * The Dr. Tom Dooley Foundation: 1960
 * Tulsa Jr. Chamber of Commerce Appreciation Certificate
 * Legion of Merit Citation
 * St. Louis Medical Society Honorary Membership
 * The Chesterton Club: Youngstown, Ohio, Honorary Membership
 * Dr. Dooley Day Proclamation, St. Louis, Missouri: 1959
 * Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, University of Notre Dame] Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana - 1960
 * Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, Loyola University: 1959
 * Honorary Citizen Award; Nashville, Tennessee: 1959
 * Good Shipmate Certificate USS Montague: August, 1954. This award was given to the most valuable enlisted man of the month, and Dr. Dooley is the only officer to ever have received this award.
 * Honorary Membership, St. Louis Jr. Chamber of Commerce: 1958
 * Honorary Citizen Award, Fort Worth, Texas: 1958
 * Catholic Physicians' Guild of Pittsburgh Recognition Award, 4th Class (Degree of Officer)
 * Honorary Citizen Award, Lubbock, Texas: 1958
 * Lincoln, Indiana, Meritorious Service Citation: 1961
 * Jr. Chamber International Senate Membership: 1960
 * Jr. Chinese Catholic Club of Honolulu Honorary Membership: 1958
 * National Order of Viet-Nam Conferral, Deptartment of Navy: 1960
 * United States Navy; Honorable Discharge: 1956
 * Allegheny County Council of AMVETS; Award: 1957
 * St. Louis University; Honor Citation: 1959
 * TWA Ambassadors Club Membership Certificate: 1959
 * AMVETS; Certificate of Merit
 * City of Worcester; Recognition Certificate: October 26, 1959
 * National Press Club Certificate of Appreciation, Washington, D.C.: 1960

Media appearances

 * On November 22, 1959, Dooley was a guest on the long-running television program, What's My Line? where he was presented with a $5,000 check by host John Daly on behalf of the Damon Runyon Foundation to support his work in Laos.
 * Dooley was also a guest on Jack Paar's The Tonight Show, Ralph Edwards' This Is Your Life, and Arthur Godfrey's radio show.
 * From 1959-1960, he hosted a weekly, Sunday night radio program, That Free Men May Live, for KMOX.
 * Dooley was profiled by Time magazine, Life magazine, and Look magazine.
 * In about 1959, Dooley was a guest on the Irv Kupcinet Interview Show broadcast in Chicago

Publications

 * Dooley, Thomas A., Deliver Us from Evil: The Story of Vietnam's Flight to Freedom (New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956)
 * Dooley, Thomas A., The Edge of Tomorrow (New York, New York : New American Library, 1958) ISBN 0-374-14648-9
 * Dooley, Thomas A., The Night They Burned the Mountain (New York : Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1960) ISBN 0-374-22212-6

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Traction powerstation

A traction power station is a power station that produces only traction current, that is, electric current used for railways, trams, trolleybuses or other conveyances. Pure traction power stations are rare and there are many more power stations that generate current for other purposes, such as standard three-phase alternating current (AC), in addition to traction current.

Australia

 * Former Newport A Power Station, operated by the Victorian Railways in Melbourne.

Germany

 * Muldenstein Bahnkraftwerk Muldenstein (German), in the former East Germany
 * Nuclear power station Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Plant (GKN Block 1) The only nuclear power station that produces traction current directly with the world's largest generator for single phase AC.
 * Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station, Bavaria.
 * Pump storage power station Langenprozelten.
 * Großkraftwerk Power Station in Mannheim.

Norway

 * Hakavik Power Station
 * Kjofossen Power Station

United Kingdom

 * Former Lots Road Power Station in Chelsea, London. Provided power to London Underground from 1905 to 2002.

United States

 * Conowingo Dam, and Holtwood Dam on the Susquehanna River provide 25 Hz traction power for the Northeast Corridor in the United States

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Talk:1984 (number)

AE vs. BE
Just recently, someone changed this article from "factorization" to "factorisation". Is this logical in any real way given that this is neither a specifically US article nor a specifically UK article?? Georgia guy 14:21, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Is this page even neccessary?
I mean it seems a little useless to me. Having a page for numbers seems kinda... I dunno. I mean, I can understand certain numbers, like Mersenne primes or something, but does 1984 have any mathematial significance? Crovax 08:32, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

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Possession (Byatt novel)

Possession: A Romance is a 1990 best-selling novel by English writer A. S. Byatt that won the 1990 Booker Prize for Fiction. The novel explores the postmodern concerns of similar novels, which are often categorised as historiographic metafiction, a genre that blends approaches from both historical fiction and metafiction.

The novel follows two modern-day academics as they research the paper trail around the previously unknown love life between famous fictional poets Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte. Possession is set both in the present day and the Victorian era, contrasting the two time periods, as well as echoing similarities and satirising modern academia and mating rituals. The structure of the novel incorporates many different styles, including fictional diary entries, letters and poetry, and uses these styles and other devices to explore the postmodern concerns of the authority of textual narratives. The title Possession highlights many of the major themes in the novel: questions of ownership and independence between lovers; the practice of collecting historically significant cultural artefacts; and the possession that biographers feel toward their subjects.

The novel was adapted as a feature film by the same name in 2002, and a serialised radio play that ran from 2011 to 2012 on BBC Radio 4. In 2005 Time Magazine included the novel in its list of 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. In 2003 the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

Background
The novel concerns the relationship between two fictional Victorian poets, Randolph Henry Ash (whose life and work are loosely based on those of the English poet Robert Browning, or Alfred, Lord Tennyson, whose work is more consonant with the themes expressed by Ash, as well as Tennyson's having been poet-laureate to Queen Victoria) and Christabel LaMotte (based on Christina Rossetti), as uncovered by present-day academics Roland Michell and Maud Bailey. Following a trail of clues from letters and journals, they collaborate to uncover the truth about Ash and LaMotte's relationship, before it is discovered by rival colleagues. Byatt provides extensive letters, poetry and diaries by major characters in addition to the narrative, including poetry attributed to the fictional Ash and LaMotte.

A. S. Byatt, in part, wrote Possession in response to John Fowles' novel The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969). In an essay in Byatt's nonfiction book, On Histories and Stories, she wrote: "Fowles has said that the nineteenth-century narrator was assuming the omniscience of a god. I think rather the opposite is the case—this kind of fictive narrator can creep closer to the feelings and inner life of characters—as well as providing a Greek chorus—than any first-person mimicry. In 'Possession' I used this kind of narrator deliberately three times in the historical narrative—always to tell what the historians and biographers of my fiction never discovered, always to heighten the reader's imaginative entry into the world of the text."

Plot summary
Obscure scholar Roland Michell, researching in the London Library, discovers handwritten drafts of a letter by the eminent Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash, which lead him to suspect that the married Ash had a hitherto unknown romance. He secretly takes away the documents – a highly unprofessional act for a scholar – and begins to investigate. The trail leads him to Christabel LaMotte, a minor poet and contemporary of Ash, and to Dr. Maud Bailey, an established modern LaMotte scholar and distant relative of LaMotte. Protective of LaMotte, Bailey is drawn into helping Michell with the unfolding mystery. The two scholars find more letters and evidence of a love affair between the poets (with evidence of a holiday together during which – they suspect – the relationship may have been consummated); they become obsessed with discovering the truth. At the same time, their own romantic lives – neither of which is satisfactory – develop, and they become romantically entwined in an echo of Ash and LaMotte. The stories of the two couples are told in parallel, and include letters and poetry by the poets.

The revelation of an affair between Ash and LaMotte would make headlines and reputations in academia because of the prominence of the poets, and colleagues of Roland and Maud become competitors in the race to discover the truth, for all manner of motives. Ash's marriage is revealed to have been unconsummated, although he loved and remained devoted to his wife. He and LaMotte had a short, passionate affair; it led to the suicide of LaMotte's companion (and possibly lover), Blanche Glover, and the secret birth of LaMotte's illegitimate daughter during a year spent in Brittany. LaMotte left the girl with her sister to be raised and passed off as her own. Ash was never informed that he and LaMotte had a child.

As the Great Storm of 1987 strikes England, the interested modern characters come together at Ash's grave, where they intend to exhume documents buried with Ash by his wife, which they believe hold the final key to the mystery. They also uncover a lock of hair. Reading the documents, Maud Bailey learns that rather than being related to LaMotte's sister, as she has always believed, she is directly descended from LaMotte and Ash's illegitimate daughter. Maud is thus heir to the correspondence by the poets. Now that the original letters are in her possession, Roland Michell escapes the potential dire consequences of having stolen the original drafts from the library. He sees an academic career open up before him. Bailey, who has spent her adult life emotionally untouchable, sees possible future happiness with Michell.

In an epilogue, Ash has an encounter with his daughter Maia in the countryside. Maia talks with Ash for a brief time. Ash makes her a crown of flowers, and asks for a lock of her hair. This lock of hair is the one buried with Ash which was discovered by the scholars, who believed it to be LaMotte’s. Thus it is revealed that both the modern and historical characters (and hence the reader), have, for the latter half of the book, misunderstood the significance of one of Ash's key mementoes. Ash asks the girl to give LaMotte a message that he has moved on from their relationship and is happy. After he walks away, Maia returns home, breaks the crown of flowers while playing, and forgets to pass the message on to LaMotte.

Reception
American writer Jay Parini in The New York Times, wrote "a plenitude of surprises awaits the reader of this gorgeously written novel. A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because Possession is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight." Also "The most dazzling aspect of Possession is Ms. Byatt's canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century".

Critic Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, writing in The New York Times, noted that what he describes as the "wonderfully extravagant novel" is "pointedly subtitled 'A Romance'." He says it is at once "a detective story" and "an adultery novel."

Writing in the Guardian online, Sam Jordison, who described himself as "a longstanding Byatt sceptic", wrote that he was: "caught off-guard by Possession's warmth and wit" ... "Anyone and everything that falls under Byatt's gaze is a source of fun." Commenting on the invented 'historical' texts he said their "effect is dazzling – and similarly ludic erudition is on display throughout." ... "Yet more impressive are in excess of 1,700 lines of original poetry". "In short, the whole book is a gigantic tease – which is certainly satisfying on an intellectual level" but, "Possession's true centre is a big, red, beating heart. It's the warmth and spirit that Byatt has breathed into her characters rather than their cerebral pursuits that makes us care". Concluding, "There's real magic behind all the brainy trickery and an emotional journey on top of the academic quest. So I loved it."

Awards and nominations

 * 1990 Booker Prize
 * 1990 Irish Times-Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize

Adaptations
The novel was adapted as a 2002 feature film by the same name, starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Maud Bailey; Aaron Eckhart as Roland Michell; and Jeremy Northam and Jennifer Ehle as the fictional poets Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte, respectively. The film differs considerably from the novel.

The novel was also adapted as a radio play, serialised in 15 parts between 19 December 2011 and 6 January 2012, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. it featured Jemma Redgrave as Maud, Harry Hadden-Paton as Roland, James D'Arcy as Ash and Rachael Stirling as LaMotte.

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Good Vibrations (disambiguation)

"Good Vibrations" is a 1966 song by the Beach Boys that was written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love.

Good Vibration(s) may also refer to:

Music

 * Good Vibrations (record label), established in Northern Ireland in the 1970s
 * Good Vibrations (musical), a 2005 stage show

Albums and songs

 * Good Vibrations, a 1970 Beach Boys greatest hits compilation
 * Good Vibrations – Best of The Beach Boys, 1975
 * "Good Vibrations" (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch song), 1991
 * Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys, 1993
 * Good Vibrations (Party Animals album), 1996

Books

 * Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy, 2016 autobiography by Mike Love
 * Good Vibrations: My Autobiography, by percussionist Evelyn Glennie

Other

 * Good Vibrations (sex shop), a sex-toy business operating from San Francisco since 1977
 * Good Vibrations (miniseries), a 1992 Australian miniseries
 * Good Vibrations (film), a 2013 film about the foundation of the record label

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Jesse Hepler Lilac Arboretum

The Jesse Hepler Lilac Arboretum was located on the University of New Hampshire campus in Durham, New Hampshire, USA, at 4 Library Way, from 1940 to 1980.

Jesse R. Hepler was acting chairman of the horticulture department in 1938, and suggested establishing a lilac arboretum on the slope behind Thompson Hall, a site that became known as Lilac Hill. It was dedicated in 1940, and in 1948 many of the research species were relocated there. It had 100 varieties of lilac (Syringa species) in seven color classes. By 1980, the genetic range had diminished due to cross breeding, and the decision was taken to uproot the arboretum. The lilac is the state flower of New Hampshire, and the plants were offered to the campus community. Lilac lovers wanting plants for their gardens cleared the site within 90 minutes. The continuing research into lilacs was moved to the UNH Horticultural Research facility at Woodman Farm, Spinney Lane, in Durham (at 43.1513°N, -70.944°W).

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Good Vibrations (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch song)

"Good Vibrations" is a song by American group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch featuring Loleatta Holloway. It was released in July 1991 as the lead single from their debut album, Music for the People (1991). The song became a number-one hit in the United States, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland.

Background
"Good Vibrations" was co-written by Amir Shakir (credited on the release as "Spice"), with his good friends Donnie and Mark Wahlberg. Amir also wrote and produced "Wildside" and three other songs for Mark Wahlberg's debut album, as well as four songs on Wahlberg's second LP. "Good Vibrations" features a sample of American singer Loleatta Holloway singing "Love Sensation", written by Dan Hartman, and Hartman was given co-writer credits on later releases of Wahlberg's song.

Critical reception
Bill Lamb from About.com said Mark Wahlberg had a history of scrapes with the law as a teenager, "but his ready-for-video buffed body and good looks, combined with energetic dance beats and Loleatta Holloway's diva-esque vocals, made for a smash pop hit." AllMusic editor Steve Huey noted that the rapper's "aggressively delivered raps were fairly simplistic, but not comical; one of the main hooks was a simple piano sample that ascended, descended, and reascended." He added that "Good Vibrations" "was easily the most infectious song Marky Mark ever recorded". J.D. Considine from The Baltimore Sun felt that when Mark rides the rhythm, "it's easy to forgive his derivative rhymes, particularly when the beat is as strong as it is on "Good Vibrations"." Billboard magazine named it one of the "pick tracks" from the Music for the People album, noting that it features "canny sampling", and adding that Marky Mark "enters Vanilla Ice territory with a lightweight pop/rap track."

Dave Sholin from the Gavin Report wrote that "bustin' out of Boston", Donnie Wahlberg's younger brother "is kickin' it and makin' one serious debut! The Wahlberg Brothers wrote and produced this hot track—something they deserve to point to with pride. Credit Loleatta Holloway with takin' it up more than a few notches on a chorus nothing short of incredible." A reviewer from Music Week commented, "Sampling is also an art form dear to Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch. But, to their credit, their debut single acknowledges their debut to Loleatta Holloway's now-familiar "It's such a good vibration". This may not be a big hit, but with 20-year-old Marky's rhythmic rapping, good looks and bad-boy image, it's chartbound." Johnny Dee from Smash Hits said "it sounds uncannily like "Ride On Time" by Black Box with a couple of raps over the top. But! As Marky puts it, this is "designed to make your behind move" and it does."

Music video
A black and white music video was produced to promote the single. It featured Marky Mark working out and boxing barechested, and making out with Traci Bingham on a bed. Boxer Micky Ward is credited for helping with the boxing technique and training used for this video. Loleatta Holloway also made an appearance performing the chorus. Mark Wahlberg first met Micky Ward when he was 18 and later played him on the big screen in the 2010 film The Fighter. The music video was produced by David Horgan and directed by Scott Kalvert.

Impact and legacy
In 2017, BuzzFeed ranked "Good Vibrations" number 43 in their list of "The 101 Greatest Dance Songs of the '90s". In 2019, Billboard placed it at number 115 in their ranking of "Billboard's Top Songs of the '90s". In 2021, it was ranked number 35 by BuzzFeed in their list of "The 50 Best '90s Songs of Summer". -

Track listings

 * 7-inch single
 * 1) "Good Vibrations" – 4:29
 * 2) "So What Chu Sayin" – 4:41

 * CD maxi
 * 1) "Good Vibrations" (club dub) – 5:22
 * 2) "Good Vibrations" – 4:29
 * 3) "Good Vibrations" (instrumental dub) – 5:02
 * 4) "So What Chu Sayin" – 4:41


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Saskia van Rijswijk

Saskia Merk van Rijswijk (Amsterdam, 1961) is a Dutch Muay Thai champion and actress. Currently she works as a hypnotherapist, mental coach and psychologist.

Biography
She started martial arts with full contact karate at the Chakuriki Gym in the Van Hallstraat in Amsterdam. While training at Chakuriki, her focus would shift to kickboxing and Muay Thai. In the 1980s she became Women's world champion in Muay Thai after beating a Thai female champion, Yupin Chotchai from Rayong Thailand, in the second round. In mid-1980s, she was in a relationship with the Chakuriki Gym head coach Thom Harinck. After four months in possession of the world title, she turned to things other than Muay Thai.

She would work as a contest jury in various different competitions in Japan, Australia, the Netherlands Antilles and the United States. She also engaged in dancing, singing and acting. She played a small role in the Dutch film Grijpstra & De Gier and danced in the Lido in Amsterdam and in the Fiesta Tropical Show with Los Alegres. She appeared in Playboy magazine in 1987.

In late 1980s, she began acting in movies. She played a leading role in the movie "Fatal Mission", in which she performed all the fight and stunt scenes herself.

In 1995, Saskia married Ted Merk. At the end of the 1990s, she presented "De Wedstrijd van de Week" (The Match of the Week) for RTL for a season, in which the matches from the World Wrestling Federation were broadcast.

Saskia van Rijswijk started teaching self-defense for women and youths. She developed sports programs for the judiciary and gave sports lessons to detainees at the nl:Huis van bewaring. She also did aerobics clinics (video made in 1987) and many martial arts demonstrations abroad.

At a later age she started studying psychology and now has been working for years as a psychologist, mental coach and hypnotherapist and for more than 20 years as an occupational reintegration consultant.

She has her own practice for Hypnotherapy, Psychology, Coaching and Training in Groet (Municipality of Bergen Noord-Holland) and works for organizations in the reintegration industry. In 2009, a special about Saskia was broadcast by TROS, in the program: "The most beautiful girl in the class".

Films
Saskia van Rijswijk acted in the following movies:
 * Final Run (1989)
 * China White, also known as Deadly Sin (1989)
 * Fatal Mission (1991)

title: Saskia van Rijswijk