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Anthony Parker

Anthony Michael Parker (born June 19, 1975) is an American professional basketball executive who is the general manager of the Orlando Magic and former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as well as in Italy and Israel. He is one of the most beloved and successful players in Maccabi Tel Aviv history.

Prior to graduating from Bradley University with a major in liberal arts, he entered the 1997 NBA draft and played briefly in the NBA before plying his trade in Europe. There, Parker spent five seasons with the Israeli Super League basketball club Maccabi Tel Aviv and one season with the Italian Serie A club Lottomatica Roma. With Maccabi he won five Israeli Super League national championships, five Israeli National Cups, three European-wide titles (two EuroLeague Basketball titles, in 2004 and 2005, and the FIBA SuproLeague title in 2001), and was voted two consecutive times EuroLeague MVP. He was also named the 2004 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP.

After returning to the NBA as a free agent in 2006, Parker was the Toronto Raptors' starting shooting guard. In his first season with the Raptors, Parker helped the team clinch their first-ever division title, first NBA playoffs berth in five years, and best regular-season record in franchise history. He helped the Raptors reach the playoffs again in the 2007–08 season, before becoming a free agent in 2009.

On June 27, 2012, Anthony Parker retired after playing nine seasons in the NBA, five seasons in Israel, and one season in Italy. He then became a scout for the Orlando Magic from 2012 to 2017. In 2017, he became the general manager of the Lakeland Magic, the Orlando Magic's NBA G League developmental team. In 2021, he was moved to Orlando as an assistant general manager. In 2023, he was promoted to General Manager of the Magic.

Early basketball career
Parker started out playing high school basketball at Naperville Central High School. He then played college basketball at Bradley University where he established himself as a top player, averaging 18.9 points per game (ppg) and shooting 42% from the three-point line in his third season, earning the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Most Valuable Player and All-MVC first team honors in the same season. His outstanding performances for the Braves ensured that he became one of 15 players honored in Bradley's All-Century basketball team named in 2003. Academically, Parker also excelled. He majored in chemistry before switching to liberal arts and sciences in his senior year, and earned two Major Robert H. Lawrence Jr. Scholarships while at Bradley.

Parker entered the 1997 NBA draft after four years at Bradley and was selected 21st overall by the New Jersey Nets, but he was immediately traded to the Philadelphia 76ers in a multi-player trade. In his two seasons with the 76ers, Parker was largely plagued by injury and played in only 39 regular season games, averaging just over five minutes a game and totaling 74 points and 26 rebounds. He was subsequently traded together with Harvey Grant to the Orlando Magic for Billy Owens before the 1999–2000 season. Parker again struggled at Orlando, playing only 16 games with modest averages of 3.6 ppg and 1.7 rebounds per game (rpg) before being released in January 2000. He finished the remainder of the season with the Quad City Thunder of the Continental Basketball Association where he averaged 11.5 points in 26 games.

European career
Disappointed in his failure to make a breakthrough in the NBA, Parker turned to Europe to resurrect his basketball career, intending to return to the NBA after a good season with a European club. Eventually, he moved to Israel in the 2000–01 season, where he was signed by the Israeli EuroLeague powerhouse Maccabi Tel Aviv. Initially, Parker and his wife were intimidated by the occasional bomb attacks in the city, but they soon settled in and Parker was able to focus on his basketball career.

Within his first season with his new club, he became one of their most pivotal players. Parker was signed to fill the void left by Doron Sheffer's retirement at the shooting guard position, but ended up featuring as both a scorer and play-maker for Maccabi. He immediately brought to the team his ability to score, rebound, block shots, and even entertain the crowds with slam dunks. In Parker's inaugural season, Maccabi won the Israeli domestic championship and the Israeli National Cup, as well as the FIBA SuproLeague Cup.

He continued his fine form for the club in the 2001–02 season, averaging 16.4 points per game and 5.2 rebounds per game as Maccabi again won both domestic titles and even reached the Euroleague 2001–02 Final Four.

Parker left Israel in 2002, and in January 2003 moved to Italy, where he signed with Virtus Roma, playing in 27 Italian Serie A league games and averaging 14.5 points per game and 5.6 rebounds per game.

However, half a year later Parker longed a return to Israel, a country he had grown to love. Back with Maccabi, he helped his team accomplish two more Triple Crowns by winning the Israeli domestic championship, the Israeli National Cup, and the EuroLeague championship in both 2004 and 2005. In the process, he was named the Israeli Basketball Super League MVP and the EuroLeague Final Four MVP of the Euroleague 2003–04 season, as well as the EuroLeague MVP and first-team All-EuroLeague in the Euroleague 2004–05 season.

The 2004–05 season also proved to be a watershed season for Parker, as he averaged career-highs of 18.0 points per game, 5.3 rebounds per game, and 3.6 assists per game.

In his final season with Maccabi, he led the team to another domestic double, but in the Euroleague 2005–06 season's championship game, Maccabi was defeated 73–69 by CSKA Moscow. For his efforts, Parker was named EuroLeague MVP and first team All-EuroLeague for the second consecutive time. After six years of success in Europe however, Parker dreamed of returning to the NBA. Overall, he averaged 13.6 points per game, 4.8 rebounds per game and 1.8 steals per game in his Israeli league career, while averaging 15.8 points per game, 5.7 rebounds per game and 1.6 steals per game in the EuroLeague. He made the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors list in 2008, and the EuroLeague 2000–10 All-Decade Team in 2010.

Parker's experience playing in Israel left a positive impression upon him. He went on to wear jersey number 18 for both Toronto and Cleveland, explaining that: "I played in Israel before I came back to the NBA, and I had such a great time... two of my sons were born while I was playing overseas and one was actually born in Israel. And I just had such a great experience that I wanted to take something from that experience. The number 18, in Judaism, it means 'chai'... and it's the symbol for life and good fortune in Judaism. And I thought that was something to take away from Israel and let them know I'm still representing them."

Toronto Raptors
In October 2005, during a pre-season friendly representing Maccabi against the Toronto Raptors organized by then Israeli Consul-General Cobie Brosh, Parker hit the game-winning shot with less than a second remaining to lead Maccabi to a 105–103 win at the Air Canada Centre. This gave the Raptors fans and management a glimpse of his abilities and in July 2006, Parker was officially signed by Raptors General Manager Bryan Colangelo as a free agent as part of a massive revamp of the 2006–07 Toronto team. He was signed for approximately $12 million (USD) over three years, joining recent European veteran acquisitions Jorge Garbajosa and José Calderón on the team. Adopting a #18 jersey, Parker quickly established himself as the starting shooting guard for Toronto and a well-respected three-point shooter in the NBA, ranking fourth in the league for three-point field goal percentage by the end of the regular season. Overall, in his first season with Toronto, he averaged 12.4 ppg, 3.9 rpg, and 2.1 apg, leading his team in three-point field goal percentage and free throw percentage. Parker's defensive and offensive versatility were credited as instrumental in helping the Raptors clinch their first-ever division title, first NBA playoffs berth in five years, as well as best regular-season record in franchise history.

In the first round of the 2007 NBA Playoffs, Parker was chosen to defend New Jersey Net and former Toronto favorite Vince Carter. Parker was effective in shutting down Carter, restricting him to 13-for-43 shooting in the first two games. However, the Raptors were eliminated by the Nets after Game 6.

On April 4, 2007, the NBA also announced that Parker had been selected by a five-member panel of former players as the divisional winner of 2006–07 NBA Sportsmanship Award. The annual award reflects the ideals of sportsmanship in amateur and professional basketball. In the 2007–08 season, Parker remained—despite the signing of Miami's Jason Kapono—the starting shooting guard for the Raptors, with rookie Jamario Moon completing the wing positions. In a season that was fraught with lengthy injuries to a number of his teammates (such as T. J. Ford and Chris Bosh), he managed to play in all 82 regular season games and ensured that Toronto made the 2008 NBA Playoffs, albeit as the sixth seed. However, the Raptors were eliminated in the first round by the Orlando Magic in five games. Parker was later named by ESPN as one of the best Euroleague players to have graced the NBA.

At the end of the 2007–08 season, he ranked 7th in NBA's all-time leaders in three-point field goal percentage.

Parker played a variety of roles in the following season. First, Kapono was temporarily moved to the starting shooting guard spot after the Raptors fired head coach Sam Mitchell. When Calderón was injured, Parker had to fill in as the starting point guard. After struggling in December, he hit good form in January and helped the Raptors inch towards a better record after the team went 16–28. Although Parker eventually regained his starting spot, Toronto fell further behind the playoff race as a result of changing rosters and inconsistent performances, dropping to 21–34 just before the All-Star break. The shooting guard's offensive output was also erratic throughout the season, and the Raptors all but fell out of the playoffs picture by March. The Raptors eventually concluded the regular season with only 33 wins, with Parker suffering a significant drop in his numbers (shooting percentage and points per game). His future remained uncertain as he was due to become a free agent, but he expressed a desire to return to Toronto for the next season. With Toronto selecting shooting guard DeMar DeRozan in the 2009 NBA draft, that uncertainty was compounded.

Cleveland Cavaliers

On July 13, 2009, Parker signed a two-year, $6 million deal with the LeBron James-led Cleveland Cavaliers, a team that had reached the 2007 NBA Finals and 2009 Conference Finals. Cleveland General Manager Danny Ferry said of Parker: "Anthony will be a solid addition to our roster. He is a very good, intelligent all-around basketball player. Our coaching staff will especially appreciate the good shooting and solid defense that Anthony brings to our team." In a bid to ensure that James had his best shot of winning a title before he could potentially become a free agent after the season, Cleveland also acquired Shaquille O'Neal and subsequently, Antawn Jamison, both of whom were veteran superstars. The new-look Cleveland concluded the regular season with a league-high 61 wins, with Parker starting all 81 games that he played in. In the first round of the playoffs, they defeated Chicago in five games. Cleveland faced the 2008 champions Boston in the next round, and despite expectations to prevail over the aging Celtics, Cleveland lost the series 4–2. Parker started all 11 of Cleveland's playoff games.

During the 2010 NBA offseason, LeBron James and Zydrunas Ilgauskas left Cleveland for the Miami Heat, which led several other veterans to also leave the team. The departures would thrust Parker, Antawn Jamison and Anderson Varejão into the spotlight as the veteran leaders for the young team. While Cleveland only managed a conference-worst 19–63 season, they were able to upset LeBron James' heavily favored Miami Heat on March 29, 2011, in a game where Parker grabbed eight rebounds and scored 20 points.

On June 27, 2012, Parker announced his retirement.

National team career
Parker had a brief stint with the junior United States men's national basketball team, as a college player. He was a member of the Under-22 team alongside future NBA All-Stars Tim Duncan and Paul Pierce. The team defeated host and co-favorite Puerto Rico, twice in the FIBA Americas Under-21 Championship, and captured the gold medal in 1996, en route to qualifying for the 1997 FIBA Under-21 World Cup. In the gold medal game, Parker scored a game-high 19 points, in a win against Canada.

Executive career
Parker was the scout of the Orlando Magic following his retirement in 2012 and fulfilled that role until 2017, when he was promoted to become the G League general manager. He served in that role until 2021 when he became an assistant general manager back with the Orlando team. On July 5 the Magic officially announced that they have promoted Parker as the next General manager replacing John Hammond who was promoted to Senior Advisor to the President of Basketball Operations.

Personal life
Parker was born in Naperville, Illinois. His father played college basketball at the University of Iowa, while his mother was a cheerleader. Parker's younger siblings also played basketball; his brother Marcus played basketball in high school, while his sister Candace played in the WNBA and was the number one pick of the 2008 draft. Early in his professional basketball career, Parker married Tamy, and they had their first child in 2002. Parker is Christian.

Career highs

 * Points: 27 vs. Chicago 04/08/07
 * Rebounds: 11 @ Indiana 02/25/08
 * Assists: 9 3 times
 * Steals: 4 8 times
 * Blocks: 2 11 times

EuroLeague

 * style="text-align:left;"| 2001–02
 * style="text-align:left;"| Maccabi
 * 20 || 19 || 34.6 || .504 || .339 || .726 || 5.2 || 1.6 || 1.6 || .3 || 16.4 || 17.5
 * style="text-align:left;background:#AFE6BA;"| 2003–04†
 * style="text-align:left;"| Maccabi
 * 21 || 21 || 35.1 || .542 || .490 || .870 || 5.8 || 3.5 || 1.2 || .4 || 16.0 || 22.2
 * style="text-align:left;background:#AFE6BA;"| 2004–05†
 * style="text-align:left;"| Maccabi
 * 24 || 24 || 34.7 || .545 || .476 || .856 || 5.3 || 3.6 || 2.0 || .6 || 18.0 || style="background:#CFECEC;"| 24.9
 * style="text-align:left;"| 2005–06
 * style="text-align:left;"| Maccabi
 * 25 || 25 || 35.5 || .522 || .365 || .787 || 6.9 || 3.8 || 1.7 || .2 || 14.8 || style="background:#CFECEC;"| 20.5
 * - class="sortbottom"
 * style="text-align:left;"| Career
 * style="text-align:left;"|
 * 90 || 89 || 35.0 || .528 || .411 || .818 || 5.8 || 3.2 || 1.6 || .4 || 16.3 || 21.4
 * - class="sortbottom"
 * style="text-align:left;"| Career
 * style="text-align:left;"|
 * 90 || 89 || 35.0 || .528 || .411 || .818 || 5.8 || 3.2 || 1.6 || .4 || 16.3 || 21.4

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List of members of the European Parliament (1984–1989)

The second European Parliament election by direct universal suffrage, took place in June 1984. The citizens of nine countries elected overall 518 MEPs for a term of five years.

In 1986, the accession of Spain and Portugal meant the addition of new members from those countries.

MEPs by Country

 * MEPs for Belgium 1984–1989
 * MEPs for Denmark 1984–1989
 * MEPs for France 1984–1989
 * MEPs for Greece 1984–1989
 * MEPs for Ireland 1984–1989
 * MEPs for Italy 1984–1989
 * MEPs for Luxembourg 1984–1989
 * List of members of the European Parliament for the Netherlands, 1984–1989
 * MEPs for Portugal 1987–1989
 * MEPs for Spain 1987–1989
 * MEPs for the UK 1984–1989
 * MEPs for West Germany 1984–1989

A

 * Jean-Pierre Abelin
 * Victor Abens
 * Carlos Aboim
 * Gordon Adam
 * Dimitrios Adamou
 * Jochen van Aerssen
 * Heinrich Aigner
 * Alexandros Alavanos
 * Siegbert Alber
 * Jean-Marie Alexandre
 * Manuel Almeida
 * Giorgio Almirante
 * José María Álvarez de Eulate
 * José Álvarez de Paz
 * Giuseppe Amadei
 * Rui Amaral
 * Werner Amberg
 * Georgios Anastassopoulos
 * Hedy d'Ancona
 * Ettore Andenna
 * Anne André-Léonard
 * Niall Andrews
 * Magdeleine Anglade
 * Dario Antoniozzi
 * Bernard Antony
 * Víctor Manuel Arbeloa
 * Pedro Argüelles
 * Miguel Arias Cañete
 * Rudi Arndt
 * Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas
 * Paraskevas Avgerinos

B

 * Jean-Paul Bachy
 * Monique Badénes
 * Gianni Baget Bozzo
 * Louis Baillot
 * Richard A. Balfe
 * Francisco Pinto Balsemão
 * Juan María Bandrés
 * Mary Elizabeth Banotti
 * Carla Barbarella
 * Otto Bardong
 * Enrique Barón
 * Carlos Barral
 * Sylvester Barrett
 * José Barros
 * Roberto Barzanti
 * Robert Batailly
 * Robert C. Battersby
 * Dominique Baudis
 * Denis Baudouin
 * Charles E. Baur
 * Bernardo Bayona
 * Christopher Beazley
 * Peter Beazley
 * Hans-Joachim Beckmann
 * Luis Filipe Pais Beirôco
 * Maria Belo
 * Carlos Manuel Bencomo
 * Gérard Benhamou
 * Pierre Bernard-Reymond
 * Giovanni Bersani
 * Jean Besse
 * The Lord Nicholas Bethell
 * Vincenzo Bettiza
 * Bouke Beumer
 * Luc Ch. H. Beyer de Ryke
 * John A. W. Bird
 * Philipp von Bismarck
 * Birgit Bjørnvig
 * Undine-Uta Bloch von Blottnitz
 * Roland Blum
 * Erik Bernhard Blumenfeld
 * Gisèle Bochenek-Forray
 * Reinhold L. Bocklet
 * Jørgen Bøgh
 * Alfons Boesmans
 * Alain Bombard
 * Aldo Bonaccini
 * Jens-Peter Bonde
 * Emma Bonino
 * Margherita Boniver
 * Elise C. A. M. Boot
 * Franco Borgo
 * Bodil Boserup
 * Ioannis Boutos
 * Ursula Braun-Moser
 * Georges de Brémond d'Ars
 * Jürgen Brinckmeier
 * José António Brito
 * Elmar Brok
 * Beata Ann Brookes
 * Paulin-Christian Bruné
 * Carlos María Bru
 * Janey O'Neil Buchan
 * Hubert Jean Buchou
 * José Miguel Bueno
 * Martine Buron
 * Antonino Buttafuoco

C

 * Esteban Caamaño
 * Pío Cabanillas Gallas
 * Jesús Cabezón
 * José Cabrera Bazan
 * Rafael Calvo
 * Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo
 * Michel de Camaret
 * Jorge Campinos
 * Eusebio Cano
 * Antonio Nicola Cantalamessa
 * Manuel Cantarero
 * Alain Carignon
 * Angelo Carossino
 * José Vicente Carvalho
 * Carlo Casini
 * Jean-Pierre Cassabel
 * Maria Luisa Cassanmagnago Cerretti
 * Bryan M.D. Cassidy
 * Luciana Castellina
 * Barbara A. Castle
 * Sir Fred Catherwood
 * Marco Cellai
 * José Emilio Cervera
 * Giovanni Cervetti
 * Dominique Chaboche
 * Robert Chambeiron
 * Raphaël M. G. Chanterie
 * Mauro Chiabrando
 * Roger Chinaud
 * Vittorino Chiusano
 * Louis Chopier
 * Nicole Chouraqui
 * Ib Christensen
 * Ejner Hovgård Christiansen
 * Efthymios Christodoulou
 * Michelangelo Ciancaglini
 * Roberto Cicciomessere
 * Maria Lisa Cinciari Rodano
 * Mark Clinton
 * José Coderch
 * Robert Cohen
 * António Antero Coimbra
 * Juan Luis Colino
 * Michel Collinot
 * Kenneth D. Collins
 * Joan Colom
 * Michele Columbu
 * Francesco Compasso
 * Fernando Condesso
 * Petrus A. M. Cornelissen
 * Roberto Costanzo
 * Alfred Coste-Floret
 * Jean-Pierre Cot
 * Richard J. Cottrell
 * John de Courcy Ling
 * Baroness Christine M. Crawley
 * Rodolfo Crespo
 * Lambert V. J. Croux
 * Jean E. Crusol
 * George Robert Cryer
 * David M. Curry

D

 * Joachim Dalsass
 * Margaret E. Daly
 * Pieter Dankert
 * Rika M. R. De Backer
 * Michel Debatisse
 * Karel De Gucht
 * Antonio Del Duca
 * Robert Delorozoy
 * Danielle De March-Waller
 * Ciriaco De Mita
 * Jean-François Deniau
 * Pancrazio De Pasquale
 * Gérard Deprez
 * Stéphane Dermaux
 * Claude J.-M. J. Desama
 * Dimitrios Dessylas
 * Gilbert Devèze
 * Gijs M. de Vries
 * August M. C. De Winter
 * Ramón Díaz del Río
 * Mario Di Bartolomei
 * Mario Didò
 * Carmen Díez de Rivera
 * Nel B. M. van Dijk
 * Chrysanthos Dimitriadis
 * Aristides Dimopoulos
 * Georges H. Donnez
 * The Lord Douro
 * José Manuel Duarte Cendán
 * Daniel Ducarme
 * Bárbara Dührkop
 * Peter Klaus Duetoft
 * Anne-Marie Dupuy
 * Emilio Duran
 * Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida
 * Raymonde M. E. A. Dury

E

 * Manfred Artur Ebel
 * The Baroness Elles
 * James Elles
 * Michael N. Elliott
 * Vassilis Ephremidis
 * Sergio Ercini
 * Arturo Juan Escuder
 * José Antonio Escudero
 * Nicolas Estgen
 * Rafael Estrella
 * Dimitrios Evrigenis
 * Winifred M. Ewing
 * Louis Eyraud

F

 * Sheila Faith
 * Roger Fajardie
 * Alexander C. Falconer
 * Guido Fanti
 * André Fanton
 * Léon Fatous
 * Ludwig Fellermaier
 * António José Fernandes
 * Basil de Ferranti
 * Concepció Ferrer
 * Bruno Ferrero
 * Ove Fich
 * António Jorge de Figueiredo Lopes
 * Konstantinos Filinis
 * Gene Fitzgerald
 * Jim Fitzsimons
 * Seán Flanagan
 * Colette Flesch
 * Elena Flores
 * Gaston Flosse
 * Katharina Focke
 * Nicole Fontaine
 * Glyn Ford
 * Roberto Formigoni
 * André Fourçans
 * Manuel Fraga
 * Otmar Franz
 * Bruno Friedrich
 * Ingo Friedrich
 * Isidor W. Früh
 * Yvette M. Fuillet

G

 * Colette Gadioux
 * Gerardo Gaibisso
 * Yves A. R. Galland
 * Max Gallo
 * Carlo Alberto Galluzzi
 * José Augusto Gama
 * Juan Antonio Gangoiti
 * Carlos Garaikoetxea
 * Vasco Garcia
 * Manuel García Amigo
 * Ludivina García
 * Antonio Garcia-Pagan
 * José Luis García Raya
 * Salvador Garriga Polledo
 * Carles-Alfred Gasòliba
 * Natalino Gatti
 * Roger Gauthier
 * Fritz Gautier
 * Jas Gawronski
 * Nikolaos Gazis
 * Kyriakos Gerontopoulos
 * Marietta Giannakou
 * Giovanni Giavazzi
 * Vincenzo Giummarra
 * Emmanouil Glezos
 * Ernest Glinne
 * Roland Goguillot
 * Fernando Gomes
 * Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf
 * Jacqueline Grand
 * Carlo Alberto Graziani
 * Eva Gredal
 * Maxime François Gremetz
 * Winston James Griffiths
 * Julián Grimaldos
 * Anselmo Guarraci
 * Guy Jean Guermeur
 * Julén Guimon
 * Antoni Gutiérrez

H

 * Otto von Habsburg
 * Wolfgang Hackel
 * Klaus Hänsch
 * Benedikt Härlin
 * Wilhelm F. T. Hahn
 * Else Hammerich
 * José H. G. Happart
 * Brigitte Heinrich
 * Fernand H. J. Herman
 * José Ramón Herrero Merediz
 * Robert Hersant
 * Ien van den Heuvel
 * Michael J. Hindley
 * Rüdiger Hitzigrath
 * Magdalene Hoff
 * Jacqueline Hoffmann
 * Karl-Heinz Hoffmann
 * Geoffrey W. Hoon
 * Paul F. Howell
 * Leslie J. Huckfield
 * Stephen Hughes
 * Jean-Paul Hugot
 * John Hume
 * Alasdair Henry Hutton

I

 * Antonio Iodice
 * Felice Ippolito
 * John Iversen

J

 * Caroline Jackson
 * Christopher Murray Jackson
 * Erhard V. Jakobsen
 * James L. Janssen van Raay
 * Marie Jepsen
 * Lionel Jospin
 * Alain Juppé

K

 * Edward Kellett-Bowman
 * Michael L. Kilby
 * Mark Killilea Jnr
 * Egon A. Klepsch
 * Jan Klinkenborg
 * Michael Klöckner
 * Spiridon Kolokotronis
 * Frode Kristoffersen
 * Willy H. G. J. M. Kuijpers
 * Leonidas Kyrkos

L

 * Antonio Augusto Lacerda
 * José María Lafuente López
 * Leonidas Lagakos
 * Patrick Joseph Lalor
 * Panayotis Lambrias
 * Horst Langes
 * Jessica E. S. Larive
 * Pierre Lataillade
 * Jean A. F. Lecanuet
 * Jean-Marie Le Chevallier
 * Olivier Lefevre d'Ormesson
 * Martine Lehideux
 * Bram van der Lek
 * Eileen Lemass
 * Gerd Ludwig Lemmer
 * Marcelle Lentz-Cornette
 * Marlene Lenz
 * Jean-Marie Le Pen
 * Marie-Noëlle Lienemann
 * Giosuè Ligios
 * Salvatore Lima
 * Rolf Linkohr
 * Anne-Marie A. Lizin
 * Carmen Llorca Vilaplana
 * César Llorens
 * Alfred Lomas
 * Gérard Longuet
 * Charles-Emile Loo
 * Hendrik J. Louwes
 * Francisco Lucas Pires
 * Zenon-José Luis
 * Rudolf Luster
 * Finn Lynge

M

 * John Joseph McCartin
 * Giulio Maceratini
 * Michael McGowan (politician)
 * Hugh McMahon
 * Edward McMillan-Scott
 * Ray MacSharry
 * Luís Filipe Madeira
 * Emmanuel P. M. Maffre-Baugé
 * Thomas Joseph Maher
 * Hanja Maij-Weggen
 * Kurt Malangré
 * Philippe Malaud
 * Christian de La Malène
 * Jacques Mallet
 * Jean-François Mancel
 * Georges Marchais
 * Pol M. E. E. Marck
 * Francesca Marinaro
 * Luís Marinho
 * Alain Marleix
 * António Marques Mendes
 * António José Marques Mendes
 * John Leslie Marshall
 * Claudio Martelli
 * David Martin (Scottish politician)
 * Simone M. M. Martin
 * Renato Massari
 * Vincenzo Mattina
 * Georgios Mavros
 * Sylvie Mayer
 * Federico Mayor
 * José Manuel Medeiros Ferreira
 * Manuel Medina
 * Thomas Megahy
 * Meinolf Mertens
 * Alman Metten
 * Alberto Michelini
 * Karl-Heinrich Mihr
 * Joaquim Miranda
 * Ana Miranda de Lage
 * Alfeo Mizzau
 * Poul Møller
 * Emilio Molinari
 * Andoni Monforte
 * José María Montero
 * James Moorhouse
 * Fernando Morán
 * Alberto Moravia
 * Raúl Morodo
 * Giovanni Moroni
 * David Morris
 * Didier Motchane
 * Jean Mouchel
 * Ernest Mühlen
 * Günther Müller
 * Werner Münch
 * Joaquim Muns
 * Hemmo J. Muntingh
 * François Musso

N

 * Alessandro Natta
 * Giovanni Negri
 * Lore Neugebauer
 * Stanley Newens
 * Eddy Newman
 * Bill Newton Dunn
 * Jørgen Brøndlund Nielsen
 * Tove Nielsen
 * Egbert Nitsch
 * Hans Nord
 * Jean-Thomas Nordmann
 * Sir Tom Normanton
 * Wolfgang von Nostittz
 * Diego Novelli
 * Diego Novelli

O

 * Tom O'Donnell
 * Charles Strachey, 4th Baron O'Hagan
 * Christopher Gerard O'Malley
 * Jeanette Oppenheim
 * Jeanette Oppenheim

P

 * Ian Paisley
 * Giancarlo Pajetta
 * Roger Palmieri
 * Marco Pannella
 * Konstantina Pantazi
 * Nikolaos Papakyriazis
 * Giovanni Papapietro
 * Christiane Papon
 * Christos Papoutsis
 * Eolo Parodi
 * Roger Partrat
 * Jean-Claude Pasty
 * George Benjamin Patterson
 * Andrew Pearce
 * Jorge Pegado
 * Jiří Pelikán
 * Jean J. M. Penders
 * Manuel Pereira
 * Virgílio Pereira
 * José Pereira Lopez
 * Fernando Pérez Royo
 * Luis Guillermo Perinat y Elío
 * Nicole Pery
 * Johannes Wilhelm Peters
 * Francesco Petronio
 * Gabriele Peus
 * Gero Pfennig
 * Pierre Pflimlin
 * Dorothee Piermont
 * Carlos Pimenta
 * Sergio Pininfarina
 * Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo
 * Pedro Augusto Pinto
 * René-Emile Piquet
 * Fritz Pirkl
 * Ferruccio Pisoni
 * Nino Pisoni
 * Terry Pitt
 * Luis Planas
 * Spyridon Plaskovitis
 * The Lord Plumb
 * Hans Poetschki
 * Hans-Gert Pöttering
 * Lydie Polfer
 * Mario Pomilio
 * Michel C. Poniatowski
 * Bernard Pons
 * Josep Enric Pons Grau
 * Gustave A. Pordea
 * Lars Poulsen
 * Derek Prag
 * Pierre-Benjamin Pranchère
 * Peter N. Price
 * Christopher Prout, Baron Kingsland
 * James L. C. Provan
 * Alonso José Puerta
 * Eduardo Punset

Q

 * Joyce G. Quin

R

 * Renate-Charlotte Rabbethge
 * Tom Raftery
 * Andrea Raggio
 * Juan de Dios Ramírez Heredia
 * Alfredo Reichlin
 * Marcel Gh. A. A. Remacle
 * Maria Dolors Renau
 * Mario Rigo
 * Günter Rinsche
 * Dame Shelagh Roberts
 * Carlos Robles Piquer
 * François M. G. A. Ch. F. Roelants du Vivier
 * Dieter Rogalla
 * Rosario Romeo
 * Georgios Romeos
 * Domènec Romera
 * Pino Romualdi
 * Yvonne M. C. Th. van Rooy
 * Walter Rosa
 * Giorgio Rossetti
 * André Rossi
 * Tommaso Rossi
 * Mechtild Rothe
 * Willi Rothley
 * Jean-Pierre Roux
 * Xavier Rubert
 * Richie Ryan

S

 * Henri Saby
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nassim Sahar

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Nassim Sahar
Non-notable, probable vanity. No Google hits. (Delete). — Asbestos | Talk  12:37, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity, not notable. "cuyo's headquarters" doesn't Google either. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  12:49, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep, "cuyo's headquarters" and nassim sahar both have a young web presence, but are notable in Lausanne, Switzerland — Mexicatl | Talk  15:58, 11.4.5
 * Note User's only 2 edits have been to this and the article in question. Watch out for socks. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  14:35, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Clarification True regarding first point, newly registered Wikipedia user, but longtime user, but basis for vote still valid. --mexicatl 15:47, 2005 Apr 11 (UTC)
 * Delete for above reasons. --InShaneee 16:19, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, possible vanity. Megan1967 10:14, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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 * Do not worry about putting an image copyright tag on that one because it is so obvious that it is a . But next time whenever you upload an image, please place an image copyright tag on its image description page. Please see our image use policies for more information. Thanks. Zzyzx11 | Talk 04:52, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Looking at Image:Mr-sparkle.jpg again, if you have an image editing program like Photoshop or Fireworks, I suggest you crop the image and remove the large blue borders. Thanks. Zzyzx11 | Talk 04:57, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Since you uploaded both Image:Mr sparkle.jpg and Image:Mr-sparkle.jpg, I strongly suggest you list one on Images and media for deletion because they seem exactly the same. Thanks. Zzyzx11 | Talk 05:01, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan kenerson

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Dan kenerson
Unverifiable and probably vanity or nonsense. Google search for "dan kenerson" returns 5 hits, none of them related to the content of this article. bbx 12:40, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Baulkham Hills

Baulkham Hills (colloquially known as Baulko) is a suburb in the Hills District of Greater Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located within 30 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district mostly within the local government area of The Hills Shire, of which Baulkham Hills was formerly the administrative seat and namesake of The Hills Shire. A small section of the suburb which is located south of the Hills Motorway-Windsor Road intersection is part of the City of Parramatta.

Geography
Baulkham Hills is predominately a residential suburb of the Hills District. Baulkham Hills Junction is the intersection of three major roads; Windsor Road, Old Northern Road, and Seven Hills Road. The suburb is bounded by Old Windsor Road and the North-West T-way in the west; Junction Road in the south which is parallel to the Hills Motorway, forming part of the National Highway.

History
The land that is now called Baulkham Hills was originally home to the Bidjigal people, who are believed to be a clan of the Darug people, who occupied all the land to the immediate west of Sydney. The best-known Aboriginal person from that time is Pemulwuy, a Bidjigal leader who led the Indigenous resistance movement against the British forces, including sacking farms in Castle Hill, before his eventual capture and execution by the British militia.

The Bidjigal people are today commemorated by Bidjigal Reserve which straddles the suburbs of, Baulkham Hills, , and.

The first European settler in the Baulkham Hills Shire was William Joyce, who arrived in Australia in October, 1791. In December, 1794, he was given a grant of 30 acres (121,000 m2) in what became Baulkham Hills. He built a farmhouse on this land, but it was damaged by a fire in 1804, so he rebuilt it. The house still stands; however, it is now on a 2,055 m2 property which backs onto Old Windsor Road. The suburb was largely made up of land grants until the mid 19th century, when many of these started to be subdivided into farms. This was accelerated by the construction of the Rogans Hill Railway Line. Urban developments were expedited from the 1960s. The name Baulkham Hills was given to the area by Andrew McDougall, a settler from Buckholm Hills, County of Roxburgh, Scotland. The name, which reminded McDougall of his homeland, was officially recognised in 1802. Baulkham Hills Post Office opened on 1 April 1856.

On 29 June 2018, northern portions of the suburb of Baulkham Hills were proclaimed as parts of the new suburbs of and. This area contained the commercial district of Norwest Business Park, which is no longer within Baulkham Hills.

Heritage listings
Baulkham Hills has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 * Seven Hills Road, Bella Vista: Pearce Family Cemetery

Demographics
According to the, there were 37,415 residents in Baulkham Hills. 56.8% of residents were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were China 8.2%, India 7.5%, England 2.3%, South Korea 2.1% and Sri Lanka 1.7%. 55.6% of residents spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 10.2%, Cantonese 4.2%, Hindi 3.2%, Korean 2.8% and Tamil 2.1%. The most common responses for religious affiliation were No Religion, so described 29.7%, Catholic 23.4%, Anglican 10.8% and Hinduism 8.9%.

Transport
Express bus services and the new Sydney Metro North West line services the suburb.

At the intersection known as Baulkham Hills Junction several major roads meet including: Seven Hills Road, Old Northern Road and Windsor Road. The fastest route from the Sydney CBD is via the M2 Hills Motorway, exiting at Windsor Road.

Buses are run by CDC NSW, providing services to the nearby commercial centres and railway stations of Castle Hill, Parramatta and frequent services to the Sydney CBD. Routes 610X (formerly route M61), 614X and 615X are express buses to the City which run via bus lanes on the M2 motorway. Route 612X services to and route 619 services to  also use the M2 motorway. Route 613X is a Hillsbus express route from Chanel Lane in Baulkham Hills to the Queen Victoria Building near Town Hall Station.

Route 600 (formerly route M60) provides a high-frequency service to the areas around Parramatta, Pennant Hills and Hornsby.

In the past, the Rogans Hill railway line connected the suburb to Parramatta. Railway Street near Baulkham Hills Junction is a reminder of this. It was closed down in 1930 due to traffic problems on Windsor Road and large financial losses. Land owned by the rail authority was sold to the Hills Bowling Club in the mid-1970s to build their two front bowling greens.

Commercial area
Grove Square is a shopping centre located between Windsor Road and Old Northern Road, and covers the entire northern expanse of Olive Street. It features supermarkets operated by Coles, Woolworths, and Aldi plus 70 specialty shops. A redevelopment was completed in 2008 to significantly expand the floor space of the centre.

Hospital
The Hills Private Hospital on Windsor Road (near the corner of Merindah Road) was redeveloped into a rehabilitation and mental health hospital, after the hospital's owners, Healthscope, moved its operations to the nearby Norwest Business Park. After the acute Hospital was reopened in the Norwest Business Park (Norwest Private Hospital), The Hills Private Hospital was then converted into a rehabilitation and mental health hospital. The hospital includes a 86-bed rehabilitation unit and a 25-bed mental health unit, providing both inpatient and day program services.

Parks and reserves
Baulkham Hills features a number of parks and reserves, such as the Bidjigal Reserve (previously known as Excelsior Reserve), with native fauna such as koalas, swamp wallabies, echidnas, and eastern water dragons. Smaller reserves include the Sophia Doyle reserve and the Crestwood Reserve, which are habitat to brushtail and ringtail possums and a wide range of birds and lizards.

The Baulkham Hills Shire Bushland Conservation Committee is a voluntary committee of Council that assists with the management of the Shire's bushland.

Schools
Baulkham Hills High School also has an Army Cadet Unit, which is open only to students at Baulkham Hills High School.
 * Matthew Pearce Public School
 * Crestwood High School
 * Crestwood Public School
 * Baulkham Hills High School
 * Model Farms High School
 * Baulkham Hills North Public School
 * Jasper Road Public School
 * St. Michael's Primary School
 * Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School

Places of worship
Baulkham Hills has some 15 places of worship belonging to various Christian denominations including:
 * St. Michaels Catholic Church
 * Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
 * Holy Trinity Anglican Church
 * Crossway Anglican Church
 * St Matthews Uniting Church
 * The headquarters of Hillsong
 * Norwest Anglican Church (Chapel Lane is the evening congregation )
 * Africa Inland Mission International

A Baha'i Spiritual Assembly is also located in the suburb.

Culture
Baulkham Hills has a public library. It does not have a theatre or a cinema; although these are found in the adjacent suburb of Castle Hill where many residents make use of them. The regions community radio station, Alive 90.5, broadcasts from studios and a transmission tower in the suburb.

Events
The annual Orange Blossom Festival is held in Baulkham Hills Shire each September. The HYPE Festival is held every April during National Youth Week and again in September during the Orange Blossom festival and attracts large crowds of youths each year. It has featured high-profile Australian music acts such as Gerling, Something With Numbers, Parkway Drive, and The Getaway Plan.

Notable residents

 * Doug Bollinger, cricketer
 * Tom Burton, Sailor and Olympic Gold Medalist
 * Delta Goodrem, pop singer and actress.
 * Denise Hofman, co-author of "Forever Nine'', a study of Michael Guider
 * Nick Phipps, rugby union player
 * Jana Pittman, Olympic athlete
 * Mitchell Starc, Australian cricketer
 * Ray Warren, TV personality and football commentator

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User talk:65.12.194.210

Neo-nazi propaganda
Hi, I wonder if you're aware that many of the external links you've been installing in various Wikipedia articles this morning are neo-nazi propaganda. The link in Winston Churchill, for instance, used a term only ever used by extreme racist and anti-semites, "ZOG", which apparently means "Zionist Occupation Government" or something similar. I've looked at your edits this morning and reverted every single one because they all look rather iffy. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 12:41, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Moreover, you labelled the link you added to Leo Frank "compiled by Leo Frank's grand daughter" but on that page there is no indication that that is the case. This looks very suspicous. -- Viajero 16:33, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

What constitues Nazis propaganda ? How the hell does a webpage that has a bio on Winston Churchill be considered a neo nazi site ?

 * The description of a biographer as a zionist puppet is a bit of a giveaway. I've only ever seen that term "ZOG" used by far-gone neo-nazis. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 10:34, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

You deleted my Churchill site
I got a message it was gone but no reason

 * Not sure what you mean. I did revert most of your edits for reasons I've given above, is that what you mean? --Tony Sidaway|Talk 11:59, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

judicial-inc.biz
Holocaust denial sites are not encyclopedic sources; any cites to them will be expunged. May as well not waste your time and ours. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 06:53, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

It is just a news site - I wont use --mark twain[[

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Please do not make personal attacks on other contributors. Wikipedia has a policy against personal attacks. In some cases, users who engage in personal attacks may be blocked from editing by admins or banned by the arbitration committee. Comment on content, not on the contributor. --cj | talk 01:42, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

All right --[[User:mark twain
 * cj]]

Why G_d did they attack me
I don't deserve this

Block
You've been temporarily blocked from editing for repeatedly posting links to an anti-Semitic website, and you'll be blocked again if you do it again. SlimVirgin (talk) 04:19, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Slim Virgin, when do I become unblocked?

 * Your block expires in a few hours - for the exact time, see here. --Latinus 23:49, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Blocked again for the same thing. SlimVirgin (talk) 16:37, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Crandall article
I'm going to revert your edit to the Crandall article because it is unverifiable. There is nothing in the article to indicate that Crandall is Jewish, and the statement itself is unsourced. If you had a reliable source news article that stated that he qualified under the Act (not a blog), then I think it could be mentioned, but not as a seperate section. It could be edited into the appropriate section. But for now, it could be a violation of WP:BLP to leave it in. - Crockspot 00:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Sock
-- It's a Hitlerite/Hitlerian holocaust denying neo-Nazi troll just like him and his other form- User:Saintrotter. --86.29.137.15 (talk) 20:13, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

BLP
Your implication of foul play by a crematorium is wholly unacceptable without sources to back it up.—Kww(talk) 21:03, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Agreed. Please be aware that we will only accept sourced, referenced material in this article.  You may not like that it does not include your pet theory, but it is probably the best, most neutral, comprehensive resource on Holloway out there.  That includes the works of fiction issued by the various involvees.--Wehwalt (talk) 02:09, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Holloway's body is missing, and there is no hard evidence as to how it was disposed of. Some 'theorize' she was thrown in the ocean, others say a pond, others say she is a sex slave, some claim she hidden in a cave, and others say she was cremated. My point is - "They are all theories". I thought this page is for 'User discussion'? professor Boris65.12.194.210 (talk) 15:26, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

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User:Bostonian71

I'm an arts-lover, sports nut (go Sox!), and an Internet addict. I live in Boston, Massachusetts with my wife. When I'm not on the web, I can be found curled up with a good book (lately I've been on a Terry Pratchett kick), watching a movie, or hanging out with my wife and/or friends.

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Christian Order

Christian Order is a British-based monthly magazine for Traditionalist Catholics which was described by John Beaumont of Fidelity magazine in 1996 as "most influential of the conservative Catholic journals in the United Kingdom".

It was originally devoted to the Catholic response to social issues, taking a distributist stance sceptical of the welfare state. In the 1970s a number of contributors were attracted such as George Telford (former vice-chairman and Secretary to the Catechetical Commission of the Bishops of England and Wales) and the lay author Michael Davies.

The magazine's rationale is presented in confrontational terms: "Unless the Church is militant, She cannot thrive and flourish. Thus Christian Order is a militant antidote to the secular "live and let live" attitude which has brought the Church low. For forty years it has embodied that uncompromising spirit demanded by Pope Leo XIII, who contended that in times of necessity each Catholic is "under obligation to show forth his faith to instruct and encourage other of the Faithful" (Sapientiae Christianae)."

The Neocatechumenal Way is criticized in the magazine as "heretical" (Lutheran) and a "Trojan horse" in the Church. In an article published in the magazine, CJ O'Hehir described Ireland as "the most anti-Catholic Catholic country in the world, and the most monolithically liberal of the world's democracies." The magazine has republished articles from Daylight, the magazine of the Catholic creationist Daylight Origins Society.

It has been criticised by Searchlight magazine for having among its contributors "extremists" (including John Vennari), a "race-baiter" (E. Michael Jones) and an "antisemitic conspiracist" (Robert Sungenis), and the website Catholic Culture suggests that its contents should be looked at in "a critical light" due to "a bias against Church leaders, Vatican II, and the New Mass."

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Red Letter Days

Red Letter Days is a UK company which was an early adopter of the concept of giving experience day vouchers as gifts and corporate rewards, based in Farringdon, London in the offices of its parent company, Moonpig Group.

The company is now owned by Moonpig Group, who offer also own the Buyagift, Moonpig and Greetz brands.

History
The company was founded by former Dragons' Den entrepreneur Rachel Elnaugh, who developed the idea for Red Letter Days after creatively packaging cricket tickets to give to her father. She saw the opportunity for packaging intangible experiences as gifts and established Red Letter Days in 1989.

The business began to take off after placing brochure inserts into national newspapers and magazines in the lead-up to Christmas 1990.

Red Letter Days struggled after a "disastrous over-expansion in 2002."

In 2005, Sir Rodney Walker was listed as chairman in anticipation of listing on the Alternative Investment Market, hoping to float on the stock market later that year.

Administration
After expanding via supermarket distribution, Red Letter Days went into administration on 1 August 2005; the remaining assets and inventory were bought by fellow Dragons' Den entrepreneurs Theo Paphitis and Peter Jones. They revealed on Alan Carr: Chatty Man that they made the decision to purchase the company whilst under the influence of alcohol. Following the acquisition, Jones and Paphitis said that all vouchers bought on a credit card or by corporate customers had been honoured.

Although Elnaugh was at the helm before and at the time of the company's failure just days after the birth of her fourth child, she blames the problems on the actions of a previous CEO, Simon Vincent, whom she appointed in 2002 but who had left the company in early 2003, while she was in a non-executive role.

ITV1's Tonight Programme offered a more critical explanation of the demise of Red Letter Days, citing unpaid suppliers and disappointed purchasers. The programme suggested that the business model failed to escrow or earmark supplier payment equity, instead using it for working capital. Elnaugh blamed the company's bankers, who placed £3 million in a bond they refused to release for use by the firm, despite the fact that some of it may have related to vouchers that had expired and were not recoverable against the business. It was the funds held by the credit card company under this bond that enabled the new owners to honour vouchers issued prior to the company falling into administration. Mrs. Elnaugh admitted in her book Business Nightmares that her finance team had lost track of the company's voucher liabilities and its debts to suppliers. After Red Letter Days went into administration with a balance sheet deficiency approaching £9 million, Elnaugh left the Dragons' Den.

Restart
Since 2005, Red Letter Days has continued to offer a wide range of experiences, including car racing, skydiving, white water rafting, hot air ballooning, paintball, bungee jumping, and spa days. Under Paphitis and Jones' ownership, the company went from administration to an annual turnover of over £20 million. They sold the now profitable Red Letter Days to Buyagift for an undisclosed price, claiming that "the time felt right and the sale will ensure an exciting and progressive next chapter in Red Letter Days' evolvement".

Buyout
Red Letter Days was bought by the French multinational company Smart&co S.A.S in 2017, joining other brands like Buyagift, Dakotabox and Odisseias. In June 2019, ownership of the company was transferred to Buyagift plc, and the limited company was put into voluntary liquidation with a declaration of solvency. SmartBox founder Pierre-Edouard Sterin and CEO John Perkins resigned, and a new CEO, Olivier Fajour, was appointed.

Moonpig Group
In July 2022, the Red Letter Days and Buyagift brands were bought by the Moonpig Group.

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The Polish Regents 1916-1918

From wikipedia.de Old photograph from 1916, in: Bogdan Graf von Hutten-Czapski, Sechzig Jahre Politik und Gesellschaft, Berlin 1936. Scan by User:Alexvonf. Also to be found in de:Regentschaftskönigreich Polen.

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Chris Kaman

Christopher Zane Kaman (born April 28, 1982) is a German-American former professional basketball player. Kaman stands 7'0" (2.13 m) and played the center position. He was selected sixth overall in the first round of the 2003 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Clippers, after a college basketball career at Central Michigan University.

High school and college career
Kaman attended Tri-unity Christian School in Wyoming, Michigan, leading his high school varsity to the state Class D quarterfinals in 2000, before losing to Lenawee Christian School. He went on to play for three seasons at Central Michigan University, leading them to a Mid-American Conference Championship and an NCAA tournament first-round win in 2003. He then garnered Associated Press Honorable Mention All-America honors before declaring for the 2003 NBA draft, where the Clippers selected him sixth overall. Kaman claims he decided to enter the NBA draft a year early so he could fund a chicken farm in his home state of Michigan.

Los Angeles Clippers (2003–2011)
In his rookie year, Kaman averaged 6.1 points, 5.6 rebounds, 0.89 blocks and 22.5 minutes in 82 games played (61 starts). He was the only Clipper to play all 82 games. Kaman became only the second rookie in franchise history (Michael Brooks, 1980–81) to play in all 82 games in his rookie season. He finished the season ranked second among all rookies in blocked shots per game (.89 bpg), third in field goal percentage (.460) and fourth in rebounds per game (5.6 rpg), earning the starting Center position on the NBA Rookie All-Star Team. He tallied eight points (4–7 FG) and seven rebounds in 19 minutes played, though the Rookies lost to the Sophomore team.

A year after his rookie season, Chris Kaman improved his play by averaging 9.1 points, 6.7 rebounds and 25.9 minutes in 63 games (50 starts). He had missed 12 games due to injury, including the first 11 games of the season due to a left ankle sprain. Kaman continued to create milestones in his career as he scored in double-figures in 30 games and recorded four games with 20 or more points. Kaman recorded 14 point-rebound double-doubles and led the team in rebounds in 16 games and in blocks 19 times. Despite the Clippers missing the playoffs again for the eighth year in a row, Kaman continued to show progress in his play.

By the end of the '05–'06 season, Kaman averaged 11.9 points, 9.6 rebounds and 1.38 blocks in 32.8 minutes per game, appearing in 78 games (78 starts). He missed two games with a sprained left ankle (2/27 and March 1) and one game with a sore left knee (4/16) He finished the regular season ranked 9th in the NBA in rebounds per game (9.6), 12th in FG% (.523) and 24th in blocks per game (1.38). Kaman recorded 49 games of scoring in double figures with 10 of those games scoring 20 points or more. Kaman also recorded 36 games with 10 or more rebounds. Kaman finished the season with 29 games having points-rebounds double-doubles.

The Clippers achieved their first winning record in 14 seasons and clinched their first playoff spot since 1997. By the end of the season, the Clippers finished sixth in the Western Conference, with a record of 47–35 (their best finish since the team left Buffalo), set to face the Denver Nuggets in the first round. The Clippers beat the Nuggets, but during the series against Denver, opposing player Reggie Evans reached in and yanked Kaman's testicles. Evans was later fined $10,000 for his actions. The Clippers went on to lose to the Suns in the next round.

Kaman had raised his points and rebounds averages each season since he came into the league, and signed a five-year contract worth $52.5 million in October 2006. Thus 2006–2007, especially after a strong playoff run, was supposed to be a season of high expectations. However, Kaman only managed to average 10.1 points, 7.8 rebounds and 1.5 blocks in 29 minutes per game, appearing in 75 games. One possible explanation was that Kaman had been slowed down by a hamstring injury in training camp, limiting his mobility. This had resulted in a difficulty to get into a game rhythm and contribute offensively. The Clippers finished the season 40–42, missing the playoffs by one game.

After losing Shaun Livingston and Elton Brand for the majority of the 2007–08 season due to a dislocated knee and ruptured achilles tendon, respectively, the Clippers had very little expectations to be as competitive as they were two years prior. However, Kaman emerged as one of the most dominant centers in the NBA, averaging 15.7 points, 12.7 rebounds, and 2.8 blocks per game. Although he did not play in enough games to qualify for the league's statistical leaders, his rebound and block averages would have both ranked third in the league. Kaman demonstrated his ability to perform without Brand alongside him.

Kaman was selected to his first All-Star Game as a reserve. Kaman finished the season with almost a double-double, averaging a career high 18.5 PPG and 9.3 RPG. Still, the Los Angeles Clippers finished with one of the worst records in the western conference, with a record of 29–53.

New Orleans Hornets (2011–2012)
On December 14, 2011, the Clippers traded Kaman, Al-Farouq Aminu, Eric Gordon and a 2012 first-round pick (previously acquired from the Minnesota Timberwolves) to the New Orleans Hornets in exchange for Chris Paul and two future second-round picks. In his first ever game as a Hornet, Kaman recorded 10 points and 5 rebounds. Five days later he recorded a season-high 15 rebounds.

On January 28, 2012, the Hornets announced that they were looking to trade Kaman, who was their oldest player at the time, to a contending team as they wanted to give more minutes to their younger players. They deactivated him as they searched for a trade partner, but decided to bring him back to the team after a week of being unable to find a suitable deal. In his first game back, he played 22 minutes off the bench, and had 10 points and 12 rebounds against the Kings, and followed that performance up with a 17 points, nine rebounds outing against the Bulls in 30 minutes of action.

On February 14, 2012, Kaman scored 27 points and 13 rebounds in a win over the Utah Jazz, just ahead of the trade deadline. Though observers speculated his recent performances would reopen trade discussions, New Orleans ultimately decided to keep Kaman for the rest of the season.

Dallas Mavericks (2012–2013)
In July 2012, Kaman signed with the Dallas Mavericks, joining his former Olympic teammate Dirk Nowitzki. Kaman and the Mavericks agreed on a one-year deal worth 8 million dollars. He would average 10.5 points and 5.6 rebounds per game in 20.7 minutes per game in 66 games, starting 52 of them. The Mavericks finished 41–41 and missed the playoffs for the first time since the 1999–2000 season.

Los Angeles Lakers (2013–2014)
On July 12, 2013, Kaman signed a one-year deal with the Los Angeles Lakers. He managed just 39 games for the Lakers because of a crowded frontcourt and a few maladies that started (food poisoning) and a (calf strain) which ended his season. He averaged 10.4 points and 5.9 rebounds per game.

Portland Trail Blazers (2014–2016)
On July 10, 2014, Kaman signed with the Portland Trail Blazers. Kaman appeared in 74 games for Portland his first season, remaining mostly healthy as the primary backup and occasional starter behind Robin Lopez. In his second season with the Trail Blazers, Kaman played in just 16 games, also logging minutes in Portland's first round playoff victory over the Los Angeles Clippers. Kaman made his biggest impact in the locker room, and Head Coach Terry Stotts was complimentary of Kaman's veteran leadership.

Kaman's final NBA game was played in Game 4 of the 2016 Western Conference First Round on April 25, 2016. In that game, the Trail Blazers would defeat the Clippers 98 – 84 with Kaman recording 1 rebound, 1 turnover and 2 fouls.

National team career
Kaman played for the first time for the German national basketball team in the qualifying tournament leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In his debut with Germany, he posted a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds against Cape Verde. He was chosen the most valuable player by journalists.

Kaman rejoined the German national team for EuroBasket 2011.

Personal life
Kaman is a dual citizen; he is a citizen of the United States and of Germany. Although he did not speak any German at the time, he acquired German citizenship in July 2008 (his great-grandparents were German), to play on the Germany national basketball team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Kaman belongs to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

On December 27, 2014, Kaman's wife, Emilie VilleMonte, gave birth to the couple's first child, a son named Barrett Christopher Kaman.

Kaman started the YouTube channel "Exploring Kaman" where he and his friends go on fishing and hunting adventures.

On July 13, 2024, Kaman played in a Gus Macker basketball tournament in Sault Ste. Marie, MI.

Spokesman for diagnosis of ADHD
In January 2008, Kaman revealed that he was misdiagnosed with Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder at age 2½. Kaman spent much of his childhood on a farm and as a child he used to tear shingles off neighbors' rooftops and misbehave in school. His apparent ADHD affected his play in high school, and he took Ritalin to treat the condition.

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The seven cities were actually the German cities of Sibiu (Hermannstadt), Bistrita (Bistritz), Brasov (Kronstadt), Cluj (Klausenburg), Medias (Mediasch), Sebes (Mühlbach) and Sighisoara (Schässburg). bogdan ʤjuʃkə | Talk 12:51, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sceptre or mace
The sceptre resembles more of a mace. -- Obradović Goran ( t al k  00:38, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree, the so-called "sceptre" is in fact Michael the Brave's mace, and the depicted sword is Stephen the Great's. The 1st Article of the Law 102/21.09.1992 (The Coat of Arms and the Seal of Romania Law) clearly states: "[...]Scutul mare, pe albastru, are o acvilă de aur cu capul spre dreapta, cu ciocul şi ghearele roşii, cu aripile deschise, ţinînd în cioc o cruce ortodoxă de aur, în gheara dreaptă o sabie, iar în gheara stîngă un buzdugan.[...]" ("The big shield, against a blue background, shows a right-headed golden eagle, with red beak and claws, open wings, holding in its beak an Orthodox golden cross, in its right claw a sword and its left claw a mace.") Mentatus 08:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Description section
This whole section was copied word-for-word from the Presidency of Romania website. Mentatus 08:34, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

And the picture is...?
Where is the picture of the coat of arms in this article? I am unable to see it! 89.137.36.86 20:38, 4 February 2007 (UTC) (ES Vic)

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Reg Ansett

Sir Reginald Myles Ansett KBE (13 February 1909 – 23 December 1981) was an Australian businessman and aviator. He was best known for founding Ansett Transport Industries, which owned one of Australia's two leading domestic airlines between 1957 and 2001. He also established a number of other business enterprises including Ansett Pioneer coachlines, Ansett Freight Express, Ansair coachbuilders, Gateway Hotels, Diners Club Australia, Biro Bic Australia and the ATV-0 television station in Melbourne and TVQ-0 in Brisbane which later became part of Network Ten. ATI also bought out Avis Rent a Car and had a 49% interest in Associated Securities Limited (ASL). In late 1979, mainly due to the collapse of ASL, Ansett lost control of the company to Peter Abeles of TNT and Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation who became joint managing directors.

Early life
Reginald Myles Ansett was born in Inglewood, Victoria, on 13 February 1909. His father owned a garage before World War I when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. After the war, his father established a knitting factory in Camberwell and Ansett gained qualifications as a knitting-machine mechanic at Swinburne Technical College. He was an enthusiastic private pilot, having obtained his licence in 1926 (No. 419).

Career
He went north to work as an axeman in a Northern Territory survey team. For a time, he entertained the idea of buying land in the territory to grow peanuts. He found himself unemployed when the Commonwealth government cut off the funds for the survey. On returning to Victoria in December 1931, with his savings he purchased a second-hand Studebaker and began a service car operation between Ballarat and Maryborough carrying passengers and small items of freight. When this proved uneconomic, he switched the Ansett Motors operation to a Ballarat to Hamilton service. The wealthy graziers of Victoria's western district proved to be a much better market. Within a few years he had a small fleet of service cars operating to towns in western Victoria.

Ansett Airways 1936–1946
By 1935, Ansett Motors and other operators were proving a thorn in the side of Victorian Railways, taking both passenger and freight revenue. The Victorian Transport Minister and Attorney General Robert Menzies pushed a bill through the state parliament prohibiting service cars from competing with Victorian Railways, slashing Ansett Motors' revenue overnight. Looking around for an alternative, Ansett decided to try an air service. What made this attractive was that air services were controlled by the Commonwealth government, so the state could not intervene.

On 17 February 1936 Ansett Airways Pty Ltd inaugurated its first service, from Hamilton to Melbourne using a diminutive six-seater Fokker F.XI Universal. The flights operated daily each way, Monday to Friday. The service was a modest success and the Fokker was joined by an Airspeed A.6 Envoy. To help boost his funds, he entered, but failed to win, the Brisbane to Adelaide air race in 1936, losing to C. D. Pratt overall, and to Mr & Mrs J. W. F Collins in the speed section (also being beaten by Ivy May Pearce, one of a number of female competitors). On weekends he took the Universal on barnstorming tours of Victoria giving joyflights to paying customers.

To fund its expansion, he listed the company on the Melbourne Stock Exchange on 14 April 1937, offering 250 000 shares at £1 ($2) each. A base, including a flying school, was established in a hangar at Melbourne's Essendon Airport. He found selling the shares hard going. A number of aircraft crashes, notably the loss of Airlines of Australia's Stinson in southern Queensland in 1937, had dampened public enthusiasm for airline investments. Underwriters refused to handle the float so he had to find investors himself. It was a difficult time but he eventually interested enough wealthy individuals in the western district.

Needing new aircraft, he ordered three Lockheed L.10A Electras. Under the Empire Preference Scheme, aircraft from Britain could be imported duty-free; Aircraft from anywhere else paid import duties. Ansett Airways Limited had posted a £30 000 ($60 000) loss in its first year and its shares had more than halved in value. His bankers refused to advance the money to pay Lockheed £50 000 ($100 000) for the Electras which were being held in bond awaiting payment of £14 000 ($28 000) in duty. His first priority was to get the aircraft released, so he lobbied T W White, Minister for Customs in the Lyons government. He argued there was no British equivalent aircraft available and that British airlines had ordered them for their own fleets. White accepted the argument and the duty was waived.

To pay Lockheed, he went back to the banks who agreed to finance the purchase providing his wealthy grazier investors guaranteed the loan. The investors backed him, but at the price of Ansett handing over most of his personal shares in Ansett Airways. Australian National Airways (ANA), the major Australian airline at the time, headed by Ivan Holyman and backed by five British shipping companies, made a takeover bid for Ansett in 1938. While Holyman did not take Ansett Airways seriously, he was attempting to create a major airline monopoly in Australia. Ansett was one more opponent to be eliminated by takeover. At this stage Ansett Airways shares had dropped to 8s (80 cents). The Ansett chairman Ernest O'Sullivan was a banker with no experience in the airline business. When Holyman offered 9s (90 cents) per share for Ansett Airways, he and the board of directors jumped at it. Determined not to lose his fledgling business, Ansett called an extraordinary meeting of shareholders. In the heated confrontation he convinced enough shareholders to back him and the bid failed. O'Sullivan resigned on the spot.

No sooner was this battle won that Ansett Airways came close to disaster. On 22 February 1939, a fire broke out in the Essendon hangar. The Fokker Universal and one of the Electras were destroyed. Surveying the wreckage in the light of day, Ansett told his staff he was determined to continue. By the end of 1939, Ansett Airways was flying from Melbourne to Adelaide via Mildura and Renmark; from Sydney to Adelaide via Mildura and Broken Hill and Melbourne to Sydney via Narrandera. The company also continued with the original Melbourne-Hamilton service. Around this time, Ansett Airways continued to receive a subsidy payment of around £16 000 ($32 000) per annum from the Commonwealth government.

World War II was a time of boundless opportunities for Ansett. In 1942, he abandoned all his airline routes except Melbourne-Hamilton and concentrated on performing engineering work and charter flights for the United States Army Air Corps. The Essendon hangar was expanded and by war's end the tiny Ansett organisation was employing around 2,000 people. The Ansett organisation finished the war flush with cash but facing trouble trying to regain its airline routes which had been taken over by ANA.

In 1943, the Commonwealth Department of Civil Aviation released a discussion paper Post-war Reorganization: Proposal Outline of a Plan for Civil Aviation. The Curtin Labor government was developing plans for various nationalised industries when the war ended. One industry in their sights was the airlines. Apart from the United States, most countries had adopted a policy of state ownership of airlines. On 22 December 1944, acting prime minister Frank Forde announced the government would legislate to nationalise all interstate airlines. Their prime target was Australian National Airways (ANA). Following the passage of the Australian National Airlines Act on 16 August 1945 the private enterprise airlines mounted a challenge in the High Court. When this was successful the government changed its strategy and formed the Australian National Airlines Commission which was to operate as Trans Australia Airlines (TAA), competing directly with ANA.

Postwar Expansion 1946–1956
Faced with being caught in the middle of a titanic struggle between Australian National Airlines and the new government owned airline, he offered to sell Ansett Airways to the Commonwealth government as a going concern. Although the idea had some attraction to the Chifley government, nothing came of the proposed deal. Ansett decided to continue his airline business while building up the Ansett Motors side.

As he gradually obtained new routes out of Melbourne, he made the decision to position Ansett Airways as a low cost competitor offering no-frills flights between the major capitals. He cut the standard fare being offered by ANA and TAA by 20 per cent. Douglas DC-3 aircraft normally seated 21 passengers, three abreast. He installed narrower seats to create a four abreast 28 passenger layout. There was little in the way of catering or other amenities. The strategy was a success, although TAA quickly adopted the lower price he was offering. ANA ignored him and suffered for it. TAA introduced the new 'Tourist Class' offer on its Vickers Viscount aircraft in 1955.

Both the coachline and road freight businesses were highly successful businesses and by 1962, Pioneer Coaches was running 245 buses throughout the country. In 1956, he established an airfreight business using Aviation Traders Carvairs which were Douglas DC-4s converted to enable cargo to be loaded through the nose.

Ansett was the first Australian airline to move into the package holiday business. In 1947, Ansett started offering services to resorts on the Great Barrier Reef using Catalina flying boats. These services established the Great Barrier Reef as a destination for tourists. ATI subsequently took over its rival, Barrier Reef Airways. Ansett developed Hayman Island into a major holiday resort in the Whitsunday region. BRA's Short S.25 Sandringham flying boats were later used by Ansett Flying Boat Services on the Sydney-Lord Howe Island route. The service, from Rose Bay Base on Sydney Harbour, was maintained until 1974.

Takeover and consolidation of ANA 1957–1969
On 18 January 1957, Ivan Holyman, managing director of ANA, died in Honolulu. ANA had only kept going because of Holyman's determination not to give up. The five British shipping companies that owned the airline had been trying to get out for several years. The ANA board tried to get the Commonwealth to buy the airline and merge it with TAA, however, their asking price was considered ludicrous.

Ansett saw his opportunity. He made an offer of £3.3 million ($6.6 million) which the ANA board promptly rejected. Questions were asked about where Ansett would obtain the funds. There were stories about backing from two major oil companies. Later that year, on 23 August, ANA accepted the original offer. The ailing ANA operation was taken over by Ansett Transport Industries to create a new national airline: Ansett-ANA. Ansett was now in the big time, but he still had to make Ansett-ANA competitive with the government airline, TAA, which was much better managed and had a superior aircraft fleet.

Ansett acquired ANA's fleet of Douglas DC-6s and acquired six Vickers Viscounts in order to better compete with TAA. After the acquisition, Reg Ansett suddenly became a firm supporter of the two-airline policy. It became more restrictive after the passage of the Airlines Equipment Act in 1958 prescribing what aircraft each airline could buy and much else besides. Reg Ansett had advocated the act to stop TAA from buying French Sud Aviation Caravelle aircraft which would have been the first jets imported into Australia.

During the late 1950s and 1960s, Ansett purchased a number of regional airlines including MacRobertson Miller Airlines, Guinea Airways, and Butler Air Transport. Ansett also offered services to New Guinea. In 1964, Reg Ansett would import the first Boeing 727s following a coin toss with the managing director of TAA as to which company would import them first. In 1968, Reg Ansett changed the name of Ansett-ANA to Ansett Airlines of Australia. By 1969, Ansett had become Australia's leading domestic airline and its market share would rise as high as 55%.

He expanded his business interests into television in the 1960s. In April 1963, his Austarama Television company was granted a television licence to operate Melbourne's third commercial television station ATV-0, starting constructing studios in Nunawading a few months later. ATV-0's first official broadcast was on 1 August 1964. Ansett expanded his television interests to become a major shareholder in Universal Telecasters, licencees of TVQ-0 Brisbane, in 1965 and buying out the station entirely in 1970. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1969. At that point, he was managing director of Australia's biggest airline and the biggest transport company in the southern hemisphere. Because of its regional services, Ansett was the world's biggest operator of Fokker Friendships.

Challenges in the 1970s
In 1972, Peter Abeles' Thomas Nationwide Transport launched a takeover bid for Ansett Transport Industries. This bid was thwarted with the assistance of Victorian Premier Sir Henry Bolte. This was due to both a longstanding friendship between Bolte and Reg Ansett. Moreover, Bolte was keen to save a Victorian company from being taken over by a NSW firm. After Bolte's retirement, he would become a director of Ansett Transport Industries.

His views on women in aviation were widely viewed as sexist. He once described stewardesses over 30 as old boilers and claimed that women were unsuitable to be pilots because of their menstrual cycles. In 1978, Deborah Wardley took the company to the Victorian Equal Opportunity Board for discrimination. Wardley was a charter pilot who claimed that she was better qualified to be hired than other male pilots that had been hired. Ansett claimed that they hadn't discriminated against her because she was a woman but because she had the potential to fall pregnant. On 29 June 1979, the Equal Opportunity Board ruled in favour of Wardley and directed that Ansett Airlines should recruit her at the next intake. Ansett delayed its training intake and appealed to the Supreme Court of Victoria but the appeal was dismissed. Ansett appealed the Supreme Court decision to the High Court of Australia in October 1979, but employed Wardley pending the outcome of the case. The High Court dismissed Ansett's appeal in March 1980.

In late 1979, Abeles and Rupert Murdoch launched a successful takeover of Ansett Transport Industries. Under the new management structure, Abeles and Murdoch would be joint managing directors with Reg Ansett as chairman. Murdoch would take over ATV-0 and merge with Ten-10 in Sydney to effectively give him control of what is now the Ten Network. Abeles would merge the freight operations with TNT and run the airline.

In 1980, Ansett sold TVQ-0 to a joint venture between petrol company Ampol and Sydney radio station 2SM.

Personal life
He married twice. From his first marriage, to Grace, he had two sons, John and Robert (Bob). After their divorce, Grace took the boys to live in the USA. He married Joan Adams in 1944 and they adopted three daughters, Jane, Janet and Jill. The new family lived on the Ansett estate at Mount Eliza. From the early 1960s Ansett travelled to and from the office by helicopter each day, a remarkable thing to do in the days when few Australian CEOs even had chauffeured cars. Bob Ansett returned from the US in the 1960s to work for his dad; and eventually, after his dad denied him work, purchased an established hire car company, Budget Rent a Car. However, Reg Ansett never acknowledged his son's presence in Australia. In later years they were to become bitter business rivals as Ansett Transport Industries owned a competing company, Avis, which at the time held a monopoly on hire car services at Australian airports. The ABC documentary, Dynasties: The Ansett Family, revealed that the family of Lady Joan Ansett – who died in 2003 – was still in legal turmoil.

Death
Ansett fell ill several months before his death, and returned home from the Peninsula Private Hospital at Frankston to spend Christmas with his family. First indications of the seriousness of his illness came at the annual meeting of Ansett Transport Industries Ltd in November when, for the first time in 44 years, he failed to attend and give his chairman's address. He died on 23 December 1981 at his personal estate in Mount Eliza.

Legacy
The Ansett House at Peninsula Grammar was named after Sir Reginald Ansett and continues to hold his name as of 2022.

A Qantas Airbus A380, registration VH-OQH, was named Reginald Ansett in his honour.

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Kfar Tavor

Kfar Tavor (כְּפַר תָּבוֹר, كفر تافور) is a village in the Lower Galilee region of Northern Israel, at the foot of Mount Tabor. Founded in 1901, it was awarded local council status in 1949. In it had a population of. As of 2017, nearly all of its citizens are Jewish.

History
Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.

In the early 9th century, under Abbasid rule, Abu Salih Khayr al-Khadim, a eunuch of Caliph al-Mu’tazz b’illah, left all his property in Kfar Tavor (then called Kafr Tabaria) and another Galilee village, Kafr Kanna, to a waqf (religious endowment). The endowments were supposed to be eternal, but were presumably ended by the conquest of the Crusaders in 1099.

Arab village
In the Ottoman era there was a village here called Mes'ha. In 1596 the village appeared under the name of "Masha" in the tax registers as part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Tabariyya in the Sanjak (district) of Safad. It was noted as "hali"(=empty), but a  fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural product was paid. These products included wheat, barley and cotton; the taxes totalled 3,300 akçe. In 1799 it appeared as Mechi  on the map Pierre Jacotin compiled that year.

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described "Meshah" village with a population of 100 Muslims, with houses chiefly of basalt stone, and a few of adobe and stone. The village was situated on an arable plain, without trees. The water supply was from a cistern in the village.

Jewish village
Kfar Tavor was established in 1901 by pioneers of the First Aliya under the auspices of the Jewish Colonization Association. Twenty-eight farmers settled in the area with the assistance of the philanthropist Baron Edmond de Rothschild. The new settlement was originally known as Mes'ha, the name of the nearby Arab village. It was renamed in 1903 at the urging of Zionist leader Menachem Ussishkin who visited the site and was surprised to find it had no Hebrew name. At first, there was some debate over whether to use the term kfar ("village"), which some residents thought would bode badly for future growth. Ussishkin responded that he had visited the German town of Düsseldorf, which had also originated as a Dorf, or village, but was now a full-fledged city. The Rothschild administration determined that the site was ideal for cultivating grapes. The vineyards of Kfar Tavor became a supplier of grapes to the country's wineries.

On 12 April 1909 a group of Bar Giora members left Sejera, were they had been based, and met in secret at Kfar Tavor. Led by Israel Shochat and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi it was decided to establish an armed militia - Hashomer. Its members were to act as guards for Jewish colonies and work as laboured towards establishing further colonies.

British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Mesha (Kufr Tabur) had a population of 274; all Jews. The 1931 census of Palestine recorded 328 persons in Mas-ha living in 54 houses: 304 Jews, 20 Muslims and 4 Christians.

In the 1945 statistics  Kfar Tavor had 230 inhabitants, all Jews. Mas-ha was noted as an alternative name.

Landmarks
In the Hameyasdim neighborhood, the core of the village, there is a museum and other sites, including the HaShomer house, the first school and teacher's house (now a library) and a synagogue that was built in 1937. Another school, built in 1911, now serves as the Shenkar Tzfira Music Center. The main street of the neighborhood has houses left from the village's early days, as well as parts of the wall that surrounded it.

Notable residents

 * Yigal Allon (1918–80), politician, commander of the Palmach, and general in the IDF, was born in Kfar Tavor.
 * Micha Goldman (born 1948), politician, was born in Kfar Tavor
 * Oz Blayzer (born 1992), basketball player
 * Itay Segev (born 1995), basketball player

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Psychocandy

Psychocandy is the debut studio album by Scottish rock band the Jesus and Mary Chain. It was released in November 1985 on Blanco y Negro Records. The album is considered a landmark recording: its combination of guitar feedback and noise with traditional pop melody and structure proved influential on the forthcoming shoegaze genre and alternative rock in general.

The album reached No. 31 on the UK Albums Chart and was preceded by three charting 1985 singles: "Never Understand", "You Trip Me Up", and "Just Like Honey". The band moved away from its abrasive sound with their follow-up album, 1987's Darklands.

Background and recording
After quitting their jobs in 1980, brothers Jim and William Reid formed The Jesus and Mary Chain with bass player Douglas Hart. Taking inspiration from German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten, girl group the Shangri-Las and The Velvet Underground & Nico, they bought a Portastudio in 1983 when their father lost his job in a local factory and gave the brothers £300 from his redundancy money. The band recorded a demo tape containing the songs "Upside Down" and "Never Understand" which was heard by Glaswegian musician Bobby Gillespie, who in turn passed it on to his friend Alan McGee of Creation Records. McGee was impressed with the tape and invited the band to play at a Creation Records showcase event in London, becoming the band's manager shortly afterwards.

Following more London concerts, the Jesus and Mary Chain entered Alaska Studios in Waterloo, South London and recorded their debut single, "Upside Down". Released by Creation Records in November 1984 and featuring a B-side produced by Slaughter Joe, "Upside Down" sold out its initial pressing and ended the year by being placed at number 37 in John Peel's Festive Fifty. After recruiting Gillespie as their drummer in late 1984, the Jesus and Mary Chain signed to the WEA subsidiary label Blanco y Negro, which had been established by Rough Trade founder Geoff Travis. The band entered Island Studios to record with engineer Stephen Street but the sessions proved to be fruitless and the band returned to Alaska Studios for the recording of their second single, "Never Understand". The single was released by Blanco y Negro in February 1985, and in March that year they began recording their debut album with engineer John Loder at Southern Studios in Wood Green, North London. Psychocandy was recorded in six weeks and totalled £17,000 in recording and production costs.

Music and lyrics
Psychocandy contains fourteen tracks with a total running time of thirty-nine minutes. The music has been described as "bubblegum pop drowned in feedback", that fused "melody with obnoxious bursts of white noise." Critics have noted the influence of classic '60s pop groups such as the Beach Boys   and the Rolling Stones alongside the work of rock bands the Velvet Underground,   the Stooges  and Suicide on the album.

Lead vocals are handled by Jim Reid on this album, with the exception of "It's So Hard", sung by William Reid.

Release
The album includes the singles "Never Understand", "You Trip Me Up" and "Just Like Honey". Following reissue on CD in August 1986, the bonus track "Some Candy Talking", which was originally released on the namesake EP, was included on the album, only on the UK Blanco y Negro CDs released in 1986 and 1997; in the US, it was released on CD by Reprise in 1986 and American Recordings in 1993 without the bonus track. In 2006, the album was remastered and released in DualDisc format without "Some Candy Talking" to conform with the original playlist. In 2011, it was re-released (along with the other five studio albums) by Edsel in collaboration with Rhino as a two-CD set with extra tracks (singles, B-sides, demos and Peel Sessions) and a DVD (NTSC, all-region).

Reception and legacy
On release Psychocandy received favourable reviews. Writing for NME, Andy Gill described the album as "a great searing citadel of beauty whose wall of noise, once scaled, offers access to endless vistas of melody and emotion", while William Shaw of Smash Hits called it "a wonderful LP which should bring the Scottish brats the success they've missed out on so far". Tim Holmes of Rolling Stone praised the band as "a perfect recombinant of every Edge City outlaw ethic ever espoused in rock." In the end of year-roundups, the album placed at number two in NME ' s list of best albums of 1985,  number 3 in The Face, and number 5 in Melody Maker.

Subsequently, the album has frequently appeared in "best ever" album lists, such as Q magazine's "100 Greatest British Albums Ever", where it placed at number 88 in 2000. In 2006, Q magazine placed the album at number 23 in its "40 Best Albums of the '80s" list. In 2003, the album was ranked number 268 on Rolling Stone magazine's "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list, and 269 in a 2012 revised list. The magazine also ranked the album number 45 on its list of the 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time. AllMusic described the album as one that "created a movement without meaning to."

In 2002 Pitchfork listed Psychocandy as the 23rd best album of the 1980s. In their 2018 update of the list, the album was listed at number 40. Slant Magazine listed the album at number 38 in its "Best Albums of the 1980s" list, saying, "Shaping fuzz into a potent, tactile instrument, The Jesus and Mary Chain helped establish the style of distortion-laden fogginess that would eventually become the foundation for shoegaze." The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. PopMatters included Psychocandy in their list of the "12 Essential 1980s Alternative Rock Albums" saying, "it may still be the only noise pop LP anyone ever really needs to own".

Track listing
Note: the 1986 CD release contains the extra track "Some Candy Talking", between "Taste of Cindy" and "Never Understand".

Personnel
All personnel credits adapted from Psychocandy's liner notes.

The Jesus and Mary Chain
 * Jim Reid – vocals, guitar
 * William Reid – vocals, guitar
 * Douglas Hart – bass
 * Bobby Gillespie – drums

Additional musicians
 * Karen Parker – backing vocals (1)
 * Laurence Verfaillie – backing vocals (7)

Technical
 * The Jesus and Mary Chain – production
 * John Loder – engineering
 * Flood – engineer (8)
 * Alan Moulder – assistant engineer (8)

Design
 * Greg Allen – art direction
 * Alastair Indge – sleeve photography
 * Bleddyn Butcher – sleeve photography
 * Chris Clown – sleeve photography
 * Mike Laye – sleeve photography
 * Rona McIntosh – sleeve photography
 * Stuart Cassidy – sleeve photography

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Michael Sweetney

Michael Damien Sweetney (born October 25, 1982) is an American former professional basketball player. He is now the assistant coach of the Yeshiva University Men's basketball team and head coach of the girls varsity basketball team at New York's Ramaz School.

High school and college careers
Sweetney went to Oxon Hill for high school, where he was named Washington Post All Met Basketball Player of the Year. He continued the tradition of highly skilled big men at Georgetown University, averaging 18.2 points while shooting nearly 55% over his three-year collegiate career. He was especially dominant over his junior year, in which he was named Honorable Mention All-America by AP, as well as being a Naismith College Player of the Year finalist and a candidate for the John R. Wooden Award.

That year, Sweetney was the only player in the nation to rank in the top 20 in scoring and rebounding. Despite playing only three seasons, he ranks seventh on Georgetown's career scoring list (1,750), fifth in rebounds (887) and sixth in blocks (180).

Professional career
Sweetney was selected by the New York Knicks with the 9th overall pick, in the 2003 NBA draft. After a two-year stint with only 42 regular season contests in his rookie year, he was traded to the Chicago Bulls on October 4, 2005, alongside Tim Thomas and Jermaine Jackson, for Eddy Curry and Antonio Davis.

Sweetney has battled weight issues throughout his life and career. It was reported in The Chicago Tribune that, if Sweetney did not lose a certain amount of weight, his career could be in danger.

Sweetney's final NBA game ever ended up being in Game 2 of the 2007 Eastern Conference Semifinals on May 7, 2007. In that game, the Bulls would lose 87 - 108 to the Detroit Pistons while Sweetney recorded 2 points in 3 minutes of playing time.

In the summer of 2009 he played with the Boston Celtics summer league team. He was invited to attend training camp in October 2009 to try out with the Celtics and attempt to resume an NBA career. He was waived on October 22. In early December 2011, Sweetney rejoined the Boston Celtics for training camp, but he was cut on December 22, 2011.

On January 13, 2012, Sweetney agreed to a deal with the Vaqueros de Bayamon of the BSN, Puerto Rico's basketball league. In February 2013, he signed a one-month deal with the Venezuelan team Guaiqueríes de Margarita. After his contract expired, he returned to the Vaqueros de Bayamon. In February 2014, he signed with Club Atlético Atenas.

On May 1, 2014, he signed with Brujos de Guayama. He was waived on July 1, 2014.

In November 2015, after more than a year off, Sweetney signed a contract in Uruguay with Urunday Universitario.

Sweetney competed for Team City of Gods in The Basketball Tournament. He was a center on the 2015 team who made it to the semifinals, losing to Overseas Elite 84-71. Sweetney has since run Tamir Goodman's basketball camp.

Coaching career
In 2019, Sweetney became an assistant coach for the Yeshiva University men's basketball team and head coach of the girls' varsity basketball team at Ramaz School.

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