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Ross, Skye and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)

Ross, Skye and Lochaber was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The constituency covered a central portion of the Highland council area, and at 12000 km2, it covered the largest area of any House of Commons constituency in Britain. Until the 2015 general election, it was represented by former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy. After that, it was represented by Ian Blackford, the former leader of the Scottish National Party in the House of Commons from 2017 to 2022.

The seat was abolished for the 2024 general election, with its contents being distributed to neighbouring constituencies.

Boundaries
The constituency was created in 2005 by merging an area from Ross, Skye and Inverness West with an area from Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber. Most of the rest of Ross, Skye and Inverness West was merged with the rest of Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber to form Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey. A small area of Ross, Skye and Inverness West was merged into Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.

For representation in the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) the area of the Westminster constituency is divided between Caithness, Sutherland and Ross and Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.

Local government area
The Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency was one of three Westminster constituencies covering the Highland council area, the other two being Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross. Ross, Skye and Lochaber covers a central portion of the council area, with Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey to its south and east and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross to its north. Ross, Skye and Lochaber included the Black Isle on the east coast of Scotland and, in the west, the Hebridean island of Skye.

When created in 2005, the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency covered 26 out of the 80 wards of the council area: 11 wards (Avoch and Fortrose, Black Isle North, Conon and Maryburgh, Dingwall North, Dingwall South, Gairloch, Knockbain and Killearnan, Lochbroom, Lochcarron, Muir of Ord and Strathpeffer and Strathconon) out of the 18 wards of the Ross and Cromarty committee area, all of the six wards of the Skye and Lochalsh area committee, all of the eight wards of the Lochaber committee area and one ward (Beauly and Strathglass) out of the 23 wards of the Inverness area committee.

Ward boundaries were redrawn again in 2007, and the management areas were abolished in favour of three new corporate management areas. The new areas consist of groups of the new wards, and boundaries are similar to those of the Westminster constituencies, as created in 2005. Two areas, the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross area and the Ross, Skye and Lochaber area, have the names of Westminster constituencies. The name of the third area, the Inverness, Nairn, and Badenoch and Strathspey area, is very similar to that of the third constituency.

Abolition
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was abolished for the 2024 general election. Its area was split roughly equally between Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Black Isle and Dingwall) and the new constituency of Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire (Isle of Skye, Mallaig and Fort William). A relatively small area around Ballachullish will be transferred to Argyll and Bute, which is to be renamed Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber.

Elections in the 2010s

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National Police Memorial (United Kingdom)

The National Police Memorial is a memorial in central London, commemorating about 4,000 police officers killed in the course of their duties in the United Kingdom. It was designed by Lord Foster of Thames Bank and Per Arnoldi and unveiled in 2005. The project architect for Foster was Peter Ridley.

Historical background
In 1984, following the shooting of Yvonne Fletcher, film director Michael Winner founded the Police Memorial Trust. Initially the trust concentrated on erecting smaller monuments at the points where officers had died on duty. From the mid-1990s, the trust also lobbied and raised funds for a single, larger scale memorial to commemorate all police officers who had died in the course of their duties. Winner stated that "Memorials to soldiers, sailors and airmen are commonplace, but the police fight a war with no beginning and no end".

Winner donated £500,000 of his own money to the campaign for a national memorial. The remainder of the total cost of £2.3million was met by a public collection. After a ten-year campaign, Westminster City Council granted planning permission in October 2002.

Design and construction
The memorial was built to a design by Lord Foster of Thames Bank and Danish designer Per Arnoldi, on the corner of The Mall and Horse Guards Road, directly outside the Old Admiralty Building. The site was occupied at the time by an air shaft on the Bakerloo line of the London Underground.

On 22 July 2004, a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony took place on the site, performed by Prime Minister Tony Blair, Michael Winner, and officers from the Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police, representing the two forces with the highest number of officers killed in the line of duty.

The memorial was formally unveiled on 26 April 2005 by Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair. Michael Howard and Charles Kennedy, the leaders of the UK's other leading political parties at the time, were also present. A guard of honour was provided by 56 officers wearing the uniforms of each of the UK's police forces. The Queen stated that "It is surely appropriate that this should be positioned in The Mall - an area of London so often associated with our national way of life. When people pass by the memorial, I hope they will pause and reflect on the proud traditions that it represents. The courage and personal sacrifice recorded here will, I am certain, serve as an inspiration to us all."

Despite concerns over the potential cost, construction of the memorial eventually came in at £400,000 under budget, in part because a number of the contractors concerned carried out their work free of charge.

The memorial was a winner of the Royal Institute of British Architects award for 2006.

Architectural elements

The memorial consists of two distinct architectural elements, linked by a terrace of Purbeck stone. A black rectangular creeper-covered enclosure surrounds the air shaft, forming a single block. The northern face of the enclosure is kept free of creepers, and is inscribed with the police badge of office and the text "The National Police Memorial: Honouring Those Who Serve". This face also includes a vitrine in which the Roll of Honour is displayed.

Immediately north of the block, a glass column is sited in a reflecting pool. The column is internally illuminated by fibre optic cables with a faint blue light, symbolising the blue lamp which traditionally hangs outside police stations in the United Kingdom. The column is intended to screen the vitrine from passing traffic on The Mall. The column is 7.4 m high, consisting of 622 stacked sheets of glass, a total surface area of 954 sqm, weighing 28.6tonnes.

Roll of Honour

The memorial contains the UK Police Roll of Honour behind a glass panel, containing the names of approximately 4,000 officers killed whilst on duty, in the course of effecting an arrest or whilst carrying out hazardous duties. The earliest entry is that of Watchman Isaac Smith, who died of injuries in 1680. The book is compiled from the approximately 4,000 names recorded by the Police Roll of Honour Trust, listing all officers who have died in the line of duty.

Criticism
The memorial attracted criticism from some families of officers killed in the line of duty, regarding the high cost, and that the roll of honour lists only those officers killed during arrests or as a result of criminal acts, rather than all officers killed in the line of duty; also that, with the book being behind glass, friends and relatives of the deceased are not able to view the relevant page. Before construction, objections were also raised to the memorial's construction by the London Historical Parks Group and the local residents' association. Concern was also raised by some Irish republicans that the memorial includes the names of those RUC officers killed in The Troubles.

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Truro murders

The Truro murders is the name given to a series of murders uncovered with the discovery in 1978 and 1979 of the remains of a young woman and teenage girl in bushland east of the town of Truro in South Australia. After police searches, the remains of seven women and girls were discovered in total: five at Truro, one at Wingfield, and one at Port Gawler. The victims had been murdered over a two-month period in 1976–1977.

Discovery
On 20 April 1978, William "Bill" Thomas and his brother found what they thought was the bone from the leg of a cow whilst mushrooming in bushland beside Swamp Road near the South Australian town of Truro located about 70 km northeast of Adelaide. Bill's wife Valda had concerns about the find and two days later convinced her husband to have another look. Upon closer inspection, they noted that the bone had a shoe attached; inside the shoe was human skin and painted toenails. Clothes, blood stains, and more bones were found nearby. The remains were later identified as those of Veronica Knight, an 18-year-old woman who had vanished from an Adelaide street two days before Christmas of 1976. The lack of an obvious cause of death along with the location led to a belief that Knight may have gotten lost and died of thirst so the death was not considered suspicious. Almost one year later, on 15 April 1979, police discovered the skeletal remains of 16-year-old Sylvia Pittmann, about 2 km from where Knight's remains had been located. Pittmann had disappeared around the same time as Knight.

There was the strong suggestion of a link between the two dead women found in the Truro bushland and five other young women and teenage girls reported missing in Adelaide at the time, and South Australian police faced the difficult task of piecing together evidence.

Eleven days later a huge search party discovered two more skeletons in a paddock on the opposite side of Swamp Road. They were the remains of Connie Iordanides and Vicki Howell, two of the five missing young women and girls.

Arrest
Christopher Worrell aged 23, described as young, charismatic and sociopathic, and James Miller, a 38-year-old labourer, described as a drifter and homosexual partner of Worrell, are believed to have committed the murders.

Miller and Worrell met when they were in prison together, Miller for breaking and entering, Worrell for rape and breaching a two-year suspended sentence for armed robbery. After release they formed a dominant/submissive relationship and both lived and worked together. Miller was infatuated with Worrell, who would allow Miller to perform sexual acts on him while he read pornographic, and predominantly BDSM, magazines. As Worrell preferred women this later ceased and they became more like brothers.

Worrell and a lady he abducted, Deborah Skuse, were killed in a car crash on 19 February 1977, thus ending the murders. Miller survived the car accident.

Miller suffered depression and became homeless after Worrell's death. Miller's state of mind and a chance comment were to eventually give police a breakthrough when at Worrell's funeral, his former girlfriend, Amelia, told Miller that Worrell had had a suspected blood clot on the brain. This announcement prompted Miller to tell her about Worrell's fascination with thrill killing, suggesting that the clot might possibly have been responsible for the moods that led Worrell to kill.

In May 1979, she collected a $30,000 reward after providing the information to police leading to Miller's arrest and capture. Amelia said that she had not come forward earlier because she had no proof the admission was true and that there was not much point in going to the police as Worrell was dead. It was only after reading of the murders in the newspaper that she came forward. It is highly likely that the murders would have gone unsolved if Amelia had not come forward.

Miller was brought in for questioning on 23 May 1979. Initially he denied knowing anything, but eventually stated that Amelia had "done what I should have" and told detectives that there were three more bodies. Miller was driven under guard to Truro, Port Gawler and the Wingfield dump where he pointed out their locations.

Victims
In 1984, James Miller published an autobiography (ghost-written by Dick Wordley), entitled Don't Call me Killer. It has become the established narrative of how the killings occurred. Miller's account of the murders is as follows: Knight had become separated from her friend while shopping and accepted a ride home. Miller claims they talked her into going for a drive in the Adelaide foothills. Worrell parked while Miller went for a walk. Returning to the car he found Knight dead; Miller alleged that he angrily confronted Worrell, who pulled a knife and threatened him. Worrell was in a black mood and wouldn't talk; Miller helped him dump the body at Truro. They both returned to work the next morning. Miller and Worrell picked Kenny up after she had just arrived in the city after hitchhiking from Victor Harbor. They drove to Miller's sister's home and Miller sat in the car while Worrell and Kenny went inside. Worrell later returned and asked for help. Allegedly an argument occurred and Worrell threatened to kill Miller if he did not help. That night they buried Kenny at Wingfield. Mykyta was waiting at a bus stop after finishing a part-time job in the city when Worrell offered her a lift home. Instead he drove her to Port Wakefield. This time Miller sat in the car while Worrell tied her up. This behaviour was not unusual—"it was Worrell's kink"—so Miller thought nothing of it. Miller alleges he then went to take a walk but turned around after hearing a disturbance. Mykyta was out of the car and falling to the ground. Worrell turned her over and began strangling her. Miller claims that he tried to pull Worrell off, but was not strong enough, and that again Worrell threatened to kill him. Mykyta's remains were also found at Truro. Picked up as she waited for a train at the Adelaide railway station. They drove to the Wingfield area where Miller went for a walk and later helped dispose of Pittmann's body at Truro. When Miller arrived at a local post office, Howell was already with Worrell. Stopping the car, Miller went for a walk; soon after returning, but finding nothing untoward, he then took a longer walk. When he returned, Howell was dead and Worrell was in a rage. Miller claims that he cursed and abused Worrell, expecting to be killed himself, but Worrell said nothing. Howell's body was then taken to Truro. Picked up in the city centre and offered a lift home, Iordanides became frightened when they drove in the wrong direction. Miller stopped at Wingfield and Worrell forced the screaming girl into the back seat while Miller did nothing. He left the car for a while; after returning, they drove to Truro. Lamb was hitchhiking on West Terrace when picked up. They drove to Port Gawler where Miller went for his walk. When he returned to the car, Lamb was absent and Worrell was pushing sand into a hole with his foot. Lamb was later found buried alive at the spot. Skuse was the ex-girlfriend of a friend of the pair. After her break-up, Miller and Worrell took her to Mount Gambier for the weekend, but Worrell got into one of his black moods and they decided to return to Adelaide on the Saturday afternoon. Worrell was driving when the car blew a tyre and rolled several times, throwing all three onto the road. Worrell and Skuse died; Miller broke his shoulder blade.
 * Veronica Knight (23 December 1976; aged 18)
 * Tania Kenny (2 January 1977; aged 15)
 * Juliet Mykyta (21 January 1977; aged 16)
 * Sylvia Michelle Pittmann (6 February 1977; aged 16)
 * Vickie Howell (7 February 1977; aged 26)
 * Connie Iordanides (also known as Connie Jordan; 9 February 1977; aged 16)
 * Deborah Lamb (12 February 1977; aged 20)
 * Deborah Skuse (19 February 1977; killed in the motor accident that claimed Worrell's life)

All the women and girls, except Tania Kenny, were raped and murdered where their bodies were located. Tania Kenny was killed in a house that Miller's sister had been previously renting. Miller initially admitted six of the assaults and murders occurred in situ, but recanted when he realised his honesty was self incriminating; "If Miller and Worrell took them directly to the area around Swamp Road, and they died, he could hardly say he didn't know their fate".

Miller continued to visit Skuse and Worrell at the cemeteries. He could never forget them. One year to the day after their death, Miller placed a few paragraphs in the "In Memoriam" notices in the Adelaide Advertiser which read:

"Worrell, Christopher Robin. Memories of a very close friend who died 12 months ago this week, Your friendship and thoughtfulness and kindness, Chris, will always be remembered by me, mate. What comes after death I can Hope, as I pray we meet again"

All the murder victims had been strangled, although there was a strong suspicion that the last of them, Lamb, had been alive when buried.

Criminologist Paul Wilson has suggested that had Worrell not died, the Truro murders may have become a much more devastating killing spree, as Worrell was following the "established behaviour of some serial killers" with the time between murders getting shorter. Miller himself told Worrell's girlfriend before his arrest that, "It was getting worse lately. It was happening more often. It was perhaps a good thing that Chris died".

Worrell was a "serial psychopathic–sexually sadistic homicide offender" who has been called "Australia's BTK", a reference to the pseudonym of US serial murderer Dennis Rader.

Accused
Miller stood trial for the murders, and was found guilty of six of the seven murders (with the exception of the first murder, Veronica Knight) on 12 March 1980. Unusually, he was convicted of murder despite allegedly having never touched a victim; he was sentenced to the maximum six consecutive terms of life imprisonment.

The testimony at his trial revealed a terrifying story. Miller and Worrell would cruise the city streets every night in Worrell's 1969 blue-and-white Chrysler Valiant (VF) wagon, looking for women that Worrell could have sex with. Worrell was 23, charismatic and good-looking, so Worrell had no trouble in regularly "picking up" local girls for casual sex. Miller would drive Worrell and the woman to a secluded place, where Worrell would have sex with the women, often after tying them up, while Miller waited outside the car. Miller would then drive them back into town and drop them off.

Miller described how the "pick-ups" became more and more terrifying. First, Worrell started occasionally raping the women who refused his advances. Then he started murdering them. Miller was unaware that murder would occur prior to it happening; he stated that it only happened some times and not others. It appeared that as the violence increased, Miller became increasingly fearful of Worrell.

Miller maintained, "They can give me life for knowing about the murders and not reporting them. But they charged me with murder ... It's a load of bullshit". Following the trial one of the jurors hired a lawyer to petition the attorney-general for a retrial. South Australian Chief Justice Len King agreed that Miller should be granted another hearing on the grounds that the judge at his trial, Mr Justice Matheson, had instructed the jury to find Miller guilty of murder. Attorney-General of South Australia, Chris Smner, refused to grant a retrial.

Legally, Miller argued that he never engaged in any murders directly, nor did he explicitly agree prior to going out cruising for women that he would support Worrell in the murders. Nevertheless, he was found guilty of murder because he was found to be a part of a joint criminal enterprise. He was present at the crime scenes and assisted in disposing of the bodies. This created subsequent legal difficulties over the definition of a joint criminal enterprise, but these have largely been resolved on the basis that this was a special—and particularly horrifying—case.

In 1999, Miller applied to have a non-parole period set under new laws, and on 8 February 2000, Chief Justice John Doyle granted a non-parole period of 35 years, making Miller eligible for parole in 2014.

Death
On 21 October 2008, at the age of 68, Miller died of liver failure, as a complication of having hepatitis C. He also suffered from prostate cancer and lung cancer. At that point he was one of the longest-serving prisoners in the state.

Media
An episode of the documentary series Crime Investigation Australia depicted Worrell's and Miller's crime spree.

Australian True Crime released a podcast in 2022 titled Serial Killers at Truro.

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Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood), in use between 1999 and 2011. It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it was one of eight constituencies in the Highlands and Islands electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to eight constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

For the Scottish Parliament election, 2011, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross was redrawn and included as part of Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, along with part of Ross, Skye and Inverness West.

Electoral region
The other seven constituencies of the Highlands and Islands electoral region during the constituency's existence were: Argyll and Bute, Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Moray, Orkney, Ross, Skye and Inverness West, Shetland and the Western Isles.

The region covers most of Argyll and Bute council area, all of the Highland council area, most of the Moray council area, all of the Orkney council area, all of the Shetland council area and all of Na h-Eileanan Siar.

Constituency boundaries and council area
The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of a pre-existing Westminster (House of Commons) constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish Westminster constituencies were generally replaced with new larger constituencies. The Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Westminster constituency was enlarged slightly, to cover an area also covered by the Ross, Skye and Inverness West Holyrood constituency.

Boundary Review
See Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions from 2011

Following their First Periodic review into constituencies to the Scottish Parliament, the Boundary Commission for Scotland formed a newly drawn seat to succeed Caithness, Sutherland, and Easter Ross in time for the 2011 election. The new constituency also includes part of the Ross, Skye and Inverness West constituency, and is known as Caithness, Sutherland, and Ross.

Council area

 * See also Politics of the Highland council area

Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross was the most northerly of three constituencies covering the Highland council area. The other two were Ross, Skye and Inverness West and Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber. All three were within the Highlands and Islands electoral region. Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross has Ross, Skye and Inverness West on its southern boundary. Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber is further south.

When created in 1999 the constituency boundaries were definable with reference to council wards, which were grouped by the Highland Council in relation to eight council management areas. Constituency and management area names have many elements in common, and the management areas had the boundaries of former districts of the Highland region, as abolished in 1996, namely Caithness, Sutherland, Ross and Cromarty, Skye and Lochalsh, Inverness, Nairn, Lochaber and Badenoch and Strathspey.

The management areas were abolished in 2007, and the council introduced three new corporate management areas, defined as groups of new wards. The boundaries of the corporate management areas are similar to those of Westminster constituencies created in 2005. One corporate management area, the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross area, has boundaries, therefore, which are also similar to those of a Holyrood constituency. The boundaries of the other two corporate areas, the Ross, Skye and Lochaber area and the Inverness, Nairn, and Badenoch and Strathspey area, are quite unlike those of any Holyrood constituency.


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Dogwood Arts Festival

The Dogwood Arts Festival is an annual event in Knoxville, Tennessee, sponsored by Dogwood Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote and celebrate regional art, culture, and natural beauty. The event is held in April and celebrates the blooming of the dogwood trees. It includes a parade, a house and garden show, and demonstrations of various Appalachian arts and crafts such as quilting, bluegrass music, and doll-making. Many events are held in Market Square in downtown Knoxville. Additionally, driving trails are marked in Knoxville and the surrounding area for people to view the dogwoods in bloom.

History
The initial impetus for the dogwood festival came from a description of Knoxville by John Gunther in his 1947 book Inside U.S.A. In that best-selling book, Gunther characterized Knoxville as the "ugliest city" in the United States, with what he called "an intense, concentrated, degrading ugliness." Other visitors to the city had also commented negatively on the city's appearance. In reaction to the insulting characterization of the city, Knoxville civic leaders started a community beautification campaign. Beautification efforts began with yard and neighborhood cleanups. In 1955, the first dogwood trail was designated in Sequoyah Hills. A second trail followed in Holston Hills in 1956, and additional trails were designated in 1957 in Fountain City and the Lake Forest neighborhood. In 1959, Knoxville News Sentinel columnist Carson Brewer proposed a dogwood festival, pointing to the successful ramp festival in Cosby, Tennessee, as a model for the potential success of a festival in Knoxville. The city's chamber of commerce and Junior League embraced the idea and contributed $20,000 each to make it a reality, leading to the first annual festival in 1961.

In 1995, journalist Paul Harvey praised the city's beauty during the festival, saying "there’s something about Knoxville that makes dogwood trees grow taller" and describing the dogwoods lining residential streets as "resplendent by day and moonlighted by night." Calling the city "a springtime blizzard of blossoms of dogwood", he noted the presence of other flowers, including violets, iris, May apples, lilacs, narcissus, and flowering fruit trees. He said that the festival attracted a quarter-million visitors each year.

In 2020, the event went virtual for the first time in its 66-year history, as the COVID-19 pandemic concerns caused cancellation of most art events.

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Abell catalogue

The Abell catalog of rich clusters of galaxies is an all-sky catalog of 4,073 rich galaxy clusters of nominal redshift z ≤ 0.2. This catalog supplements a revision of George O. Abell's original "Northern Survey" of 1958, which had only 2,712 clusters, with a further 1,361 clusters – the "Southern Survey" of 1989, published after Abell's death by co-authors Harold G. Corwin and Ronald P. Olowin from those parts of the south celestial hemisphere that had been omitted from the earlier survey.

The Abell catalog, and especially its clusters, are of interest to amateur astronomers as challenge objects to be viewed in dark locations on large aperture amateur telescopes.

The Northern Survey
The original catalog of 2,712 rich clusters of galaxies was published in 1958 by George O. Abell (1927–1983), who was then studying at the California Institute of Technology. The catalog, which formed part of Abell's PhD thesis, was prepared by means of a visual inspection of the red 103a-E plates of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS), for which Abell was one of the principal observers. A. G. Wilson, another of the principal observers, assisted Abell in the initial stages of the survey by routinely inspecting the plates as they were produced. After the completion of the survey, Abell went over the plates again and carried out a more detailed inspection. In both cases inspection was made with a 3.5× magnifying lens.

To qualify for inclusion in the catalog, a cluster had to satisfy four criteria:

 * Richness: A cluster must have a minimum population of 50 members within a magnitude range of m3 to m3+2 (where m3 is the magnitude of the 3rd-brightest member of the cluster). To ensure a healthy margin of error, this criterion was not applied rigorously, and the final catalog included many clusters with fewer than fifty members (though these were excluded from Abell's accompanying statistical study). Abell divided the clusters into six "richness groups", depending on the number of galaxies in a given cluster that lie within the magnitude range m3 to m3+2 (the average number of galaxies per cluster for the entire catalog was 64):
 * Group 0: 30–49 galaxies
 * Group 1: 50–79 galaxies
 * Group 2: 80–129 galaxies
 * Group 3: 130–199 galaxies
 * Group 4: 200–299 galaxies
 * Group 5: more than 299 galaxies
 * Compactness: A cluster must be sufficiently compact that its fifty or more members lie within one "counting radius" of the cluster's centre. This radius, now known as the "Abell radius", may be defined as 1.72/z arcminutes, where z is the cluster's redshift, or as 1.5h−1 Mpc, where the Hubble constant is assumed to beH0 = 100 km s−1 Mpc−1, and h is a dimensionless scale parameter which usually takes value between 0.5 and 1. h = H0/100. The precise value of the Abell radius depends on the value taken for that parameter h. For h = 0.75 (same as H0 = 75 km s−1 Mpc−1), the Abell radius is 2 megaparsecs. This is more than twice the estimate Abell gave in 1958, when H0 was thought to be as high as 180 km s−1 Mpc−1.
 * Distance: A cluster should have a nominal redshift of between 0.02 and 0.2 (i.e. a recessional velocity of between 6,000 and 60,000 km/s). Assuming H0 = 180 km s−1 Mpc−1, these values correspond to distances of about 33 and 330 Mpc respectively; but using today's estimate for H0 (about 71 km s−1 Mpc−1) Abell's upper and lower limits are actually set at about 85 and 850 Mpc. It has since been shown than many of the clusters in the catalog are more remote even than this, some being as far away as z = 0.4 (about 1,700 Mpc). Abell divided the clusters into seven "distance groups" according to the magnitudes of their tenth-brightest members:
 * Group 1: mag 13.3–14.0
 * Group 2: mag 14.1–14.8
 * Group 3: mag 14.9–15.6
 * Group 4: mag 15.7–16.4
 * Group 5: mag 16.5–17.2
 * Group 6: mag 17.3–18.0
 * Group 7: mag > 18.0
 * Galactic latitude: Areas of the sky in the neighbourhood of the Milky Way were excluded from the study because the density of stars in those fields – not to mention interstellar obscuration – made it difficult to positively identify galaxy clusters. Like the richness criterion, this one was not applied rigorously, several clusters in or close to the Galactic Plane being included in the catalog where Abell was satisfied that they were genuine clusters that met the other criteria.

In the catalog as originally published the clusters were listed in increasing order of right ascension. Equatorial coordinates (right ascension and declination) were given for the equinox of 1855 (the epoch of the Bonner Durchmusterung) and galactic coordinates for 1900.

Also listed for each cluster were the following:

 * the cluster's precession rate
 * the magnitude of the cluster's tenth-brightest member
 * the distance group of the cluster
 * the richness group of the cluster

The Southern Survey
The sky-coverage of the 1958 catalog was limited to declinations north of –27°, the original southern limit of POSS. To rectify this and other shortcomings, the original catalog was later revised and supplemented with an additional catalog – the "Southern Survey" – of rich galaxy clusters from those parts of the south celestial hemisphere that had been omitted from the original catalog.

The Southern Survey added a further 1,361 rich clusters to Abell's original Northern Survey. The deep IIIa-J plates of the Southern Sky Survey (SSS) were used in the survey. These photographic plates were taken with the United Kingdom's 1.2-metre Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, in the 1970s. Abell began the survey during a sabbatical year in Edinburgh in 1976. There he enlisted the assistance of Harold G Corwin of the University of Edinburgh, who continued to work on the catalog until 1981, at which time he joined the Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas. By then about half the survey had been completed. An interim paper on the Southern Survey was read at a symposium in 1983, about one month before Abell's death; the catalog was completed by Ronald P Olowin of the University of Oklahoma, and published in 1989.

Abell and Corwin worked from original plates stored at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, scanning the plates visually with a 3x wide-angle magnifier; Olowin used high-quality film copies, which he scanned both visually with a 7x magnifying lens and automatically with a backlit digitizer.

The criteria for inclusion in Abell's Northern Survey were retained, as were Abell's "richness" and "distance" classifications – but with the distance classes now being defined in terms of redshift rather than magnitude. As before, clusters were included if they had at least thirty bright galaxies, as it was estimated that this would all but eliminate the possibility of genuinely rich clusters (i.e. clusters with at least fifty bright members) being omitted. The Southern Survey retains the system of designation devised by Abell for his original catalog, with the numbers running from 2713 to 4076. (The catalog contains three duplicate entries: A3208 = A3207, A3833 = A3832, and A3897 = A2462.) The equatorial co-ordinates are for the equinoxes 1950 and 2000, while the galactic co-ordinates are calculated from the 1950 equatorial co-ordinates.

Abell's original catalog – revised, corrected and updated – was included in the 1989 paper, as was the Abell Supplement, a supplementary catalog of 1,174 clusters from the Southern Survey which were not rich enough or were too distant to be included in the main catalog.

Format
The standard format used to refer to Abell clusters is: Abell X, where X = 1 to 4076. E.g. Abell 1656.

Alternative formats include: ABCG 1656; AC 1656; ACO 1656; A 1656, and A1656. Abell himself preferred the latter, but in recent years ACO 1656 has become the preferred format among professional astronomers and is the one recommended by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (see SIMBAD).

Members
Some notable members of Abell's catalog include:

 * Abell S373, the Fornax Cluster
 * Abell 426, the Perseus Cluster
 * Abell 1367, the Leo Cluster
 * Abell 1656, the Coma Cluster
 * Abell 2151, the Hercules Cluster
 * Abell 2744, Pandora's Cluster
 * Abell 3526, the Centaurus Cluster

About 10% of Abell clusters at redshift z < 0.1 are not genuine rich clusters but, rather, the result of the superposition of sparser groupings. The extremely large and extremely rich Virgo Cluster was excluded from the Abell catalog because it covered too large an area of the sky to appear on a single photographic plate.

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LGBT rights in Chad

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Chad face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Both male and female forms of same-sex sexual activity are illegal in the country. Before the new penal code took effect in August 2017, homosexual activity between adults had never been criminalised. There is no legal protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Law regarding same-sex sexual activity
Same-sex sexual activity is illegal in Chad since 2017. Previous to that there were no restrictions. A bill introduced in 2014 aimed to impose up to 20 years imprisonment for consensual same-sex acts (proposed Article 361bis). However, on 12 December 2016, the National Assembly passed an updated penal code criminalising both male and female same-sex sexual activity by a vote of 111 to 1 (with 4 abstentions), but classing acts between consenting adults as a misdemeanour offence. On 8 May 2017, the new penal code was enacted by the President Idriss Deby.

In supporting the law, the former Prime Minister Delwa Kassiré Coumakoye argued a religious motivation: "Homosexuality is condemned by all religions. We do not have to forgive something that God himself rejects because Westerners have said this or that." His comment was criticized by some LGBT historians who controversially maintain that homophobia was brought to Chad by colonialism, despite the existence of Islamic law in the nation prior to imperial rule. These historians believe that homosexuality was quite commonplace and accepted before the arrival of the Europeans. The US-based Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights called on the President of Chad not to enact the changes to the law, which is linked to a rise in homophobia in Africa in response to the increased visibility and assertiveness of gay lifestyles and politics in Africa, and the engagement of fundamentalist Christians. This includes the financing of anti-gay campaigns by American evangelical churches.

It became law on 1 August 2017.

Chapter II on "Other offenses against decency" of Title VII (relating to sexual offences) of the Penal Code, provides as follows:
 * Article 354. Everyone who has sex with persons of the same sex is liable to imprisonment for three months to two years and a fine of between 50,000 and 500,000 francs.

Chapter III on "Offenses of a sexual nature committed against minors" of Title VIII (relating to offenses against the person or the status of the child) of the Penal Code, provides as follows:
 * Article 360. Anyone who, without violence, maintains a sexual relationship or practices sexual touching on a person of the same sex aged less than eighteen (18) years will be punished with imprisonment of one (1) to three (3) years and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 francs.

Sexual orientation
Article 350(i) of the Penal Code provides imprisonment of ten to twenty years when the rape is committed because of the sexual orientation of the victim.

Recognition of same sex relationships
There is no legal recognition of same-sex couples.

Living conditions
The U.S. Department of State's 2010 Human Rights Report found that "there were no known lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations. There were few reports of violence or discrimination against LGBT persons, in large part because most such persons were discreet about sexual orientation due to social and cultural strictures against homosexuality."

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Lufeng, Guangdong

Lufeng, alternately romanized as Lukfung in Cantonese, is a county-level city in the southeast of Guangdong province, administered as a part of the prefecture-level city of Shanwei. It lies on the mainland on coast of the South China Sea east of Hong Kong.

History
Under the Qing, the area was known as Lufeng County. Together with neighboring Haifeng and the now separated Luhe county now carved out from Lufeng, it formed the short-lived Hailufeng Soviet in 1927. It was later promoted to county-level city status.

The area rose to prominence in the early 21st century as a scene of unrest. Jieshi saw serious inter-village violence over road use in October 2009 and March 2010 and, in September 2011, a series of protests or riots occurred in Wukan Village over allegations of Communist Party members unfairly selling farmers' land for development. Fresh protests broke out in December, when one of the village leaders died in the police custody. The police blocked the roads leading to the village.

Administration
As of 2005 year's end, the city comprises three urban subdistricts and 17 towns. These are organised into 47 neighbourhood committees and 280 village committees.

The city's executive, legislature and judiciary are located in the Donghai Subdistrict, together with the CPC subbranch and PSB suboffice. Wukan Village, site of the Wukan protests, is also located in the Donghai subdistrict.

Urban subdistricts

 * Donghai (东海)
 * Chengdong (城东)
 * Hexi (河西)

Towns

 * Jieshi (碣石)
 * Qiaochong (桥冲)
 * Bomei (博美)
 * Jiazi (Kapchi; Chiatzu) (甲子)
 * Jiadong (甲东)
 * Jiaxi
 * Hudong (湖东)
 * Beiyang (陂洋)
 * Nantang (南塘)
 * Bawan (八万)
 * Tanxi (潭西)
 * Da'an (大安)
 * Jinxiang (金厢)
 * Neihu (内湖)
 * Xinan (西南)
 * Shangying (上英)
 * Hedong (河东)

Demography
Lufeng has a population of 1.7 million, the most of them are Han Chinese. More specifically, a considerable percentage of the population belong to the Minnan sub group; the rest are Teochews, Hakka and Ming Dynasty Jianghuai military speakers. Therefore, dialects of both Min Nan, Teochew and Hakka are spoken, in addition to Mandarin, which is used in official and public life. The Hailufeng dialect, however, only refers to the Hokkien variant.

Transportation
Lufeng railway station on the Xiamen–Shenzhen railway serves the city, though it is located some distance outside the city.

Lufeng East and Lufeng South, both on the Shantou–Shanwei high-speed railway, will serve the city in the future.

Notable people

 * Wen Yuan-ning, also known as Oon Guan-neng, Chinese professor, writer, and diplomat.
 * Wong Yuk-man, Hong Kong politician
 * Charles Heung, actor-turned-film producer and presenter
 * Ada Zhuang, C-pop artist
 * Liu Shan Bang, leader of the 1857 Chinese uprising against James Brooke.

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Angular house

In astrology, an angular house, or cardinal house, is one of four cardinal houses of the horoscope, which are the houses in which the angles of the chart (the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Imum Coeli and the Descendant) are found. The angular houses of the horoscope are considered to be the most ardent, or forceful, and are considered to have the greatest impact in the chart. The influential 17th-century astrologer William Lilly states simply: "Planets in angles do more forcibly show their effects." Angular houses rule those critical things in our life, such as our appearance and how we behave, our family life, our married life or partnerships, and our career.

First house
The first house, which is often (but not always) the Ascendant, signifies the person in the chart, their personality, and their behaviour. Quite often, the Ascendant can overshadow a person's Sun sign. For example, a person who has Leo on the cusp of their first house and Virgo as their Sun sign can be quite dynamic and dramatic, but the fastidious, efficient, self-effacing part of themself will not be readily apparent until people are able to pierce through the persona and see the real person.

Fourth house
The fourth house, of which the cusp is often (but not always) the Imum Coeli, signifies a person's home, security, family, and those things in early life that served as a foundation for them. Sometimes the fourth house also is connected with endings, such as a person's end of life. This house is affiliated often with our parents. For the ancients, it was the House of the Mother, but in modern charts, it tends to have a more general parental significance.

Seventh house
The seventh house, of which the cusp is often (but not always) the Descendant, shows the type of mate the native is likely to be attracted to and all partnerships in general. For Hellenistic astrologers, the seventh house was in general a fortunate one, especially for benefics, but there are some difficulties which may arise from these placements because the house is "the Setting Place" or the place where the Sun falls.

Tenth house
The tenth house, of which the cusp is often (but not always) the Midheaven, refers to our careers, vocations, creative output, and how we would like the world to see us. For Ptolemy, it also was the house where our children's impact can be seen.

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List of hospitals in Iran

This is a list of hospitals in Iran.

Bushehr

 * NAVID hospital
 * Hospital Bentolhoda
 * Persian Gulf Hospital
 * Bushehr Heart Hospital
 * Khatamalanbiya Hospital

East Azarbaijan

 * Amiralmomenin
 * Sina
 * Emam Khomeyni
 * Shohada
 * Ali Nasab
 * Asad Abadi
 * Mahalati
 * Behbud
 * Hakima Nor
 * Alavi
 * Niko Kari
 * Shams
 * Madani
 * Fajr
 * 522 Artesh
 * 7 tir
 * SHAHID BEHESHTI (MARAGHEH)
 * Amiralmomenin (MARAGHEH)
 * SINA (MARAGHEH)
 * Hakim Jorjani

Shiraz

 * Namazi Hospital
 * Poostchi Eye Hospital
 * Khalily Eye Hospital
 * Saadi
 * Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Shiraz, previously called “Shiraz”
 * Hafez
 * Dena
 * Chamran
 * MRI
 * Ordibehesht
 * Shiraz is now called “Shahid Beheshti”
 * Shahid Dastgheib Hospital
 * Pars
 * Kosar
 * Shahr
 * Army 576
 * Kasra is closed
 * Zeynabeyeh Women Hospital
 * Boo Ali Sina Hospital (Shiraz Sadra)
 * Ghotb-e-Din
 * Moslemin
 * Mental Hospital
 * Madar va Koodak (Ghadir)
 * Rajaii (Trauma)
 * Shafa
 * Be'sat
 * Bimarestane Saratane Jonub Keshvar

Ilam Province

 * Kousar General Hospital (kousarhospital.ir) (https://www.instagram.com/ilam.kousar.hospital/)
 * Qaem Hospital
 * Tamin Ejtemayi Hospital
 * Imam Khomeini Hospital
 * Taleghani Hospital
 * Mostafa Khomeini Hospital

Isfahan Province

 * Persian Eye Clinic
 * Amir-al-momenin
 * Hojjatieh
 * Isebn-e-Maryam
 * Dr. Shareiaty Hospital
 * Ayatollah Kashani
 * Zahra-ye Zeinabiyeh
 * Farabi
 * Sina Hospital And Heart Center
 * Amin
 * Hazrat sayyedo shohada
 * Saadi
 * Sepahan
 * Mehregan
 * Imam Khomeini
 * Jorjani
 * Noor & Ali Asghar
 * Shahid Chamran
 * Shahid Modarres
 * Kashani
 * Isfahan clinic
 * Al-Zahra
 * Imam Mousa Kazem
 * shahid Beheshti
 * Feiz
 * Shahid sadughi

Kerman Province

 * Razieh Firouz
 * Javadolaemeh
 * Fatemieh
 * Samenolaemeh
 * Sajadieh
 * Shafa
 * Shahid Bahonar
 * Nourieh Kerman
 * Mehregan
 * Arjmand
 * Afzalipour
 * Hazrat-e-Fatemeh
 * Kashani
 * Gol Gohar

Kermanshah

 * Bistoon Private Hospital
 * Emam Hoseyn
 * Emam Khomeyni
 * Emam Reza new 515-bed hospital
 * Farabi
 * Mahdieh
 * Motazedi
 * Sajad (Aria)
 * Sina
 * Taleqani

Khorasan Razavi

 * Ali Ebne Abi Taleb
 * Aria
 * Artesh
 * Bentolhoda
 * Emam Hadi
 * Emam Javad
 * Emam Reza
 * Emam Sadegh
 * Emam Sajad
 * Emam Zaman
 * Fatemieh
 * Ghamar Bani Hashem
 * Ghaem
 * Hashemi Nezhad
 * Hazrate Abolfazl
 * Hazrate Zeinab
 * Hefdaheh Shahrivar
 * Javadolaemeh
 * Madar
 * Mehr
 * Mousabne Jafar
 * Omid
 * Pasteur
 * Razi
 * Razavi Hospital
 * Shafa
 * Shahid Gandhi
 * Shahinfar
 * Sherkat Naft
 * Sina Hospital Mashhad
 * Taleghani
 * Ommolbanin

Khuzestan

 * Ahvaz Imam Khomeini hospital
 * Ahvaz Abuzar Hospital
 * Ahvaz Razi hospital
 * Ahvaz Golestan Hospital
 * Ahvaz Shafa Hospital
 * Ahvaz Sinai Hospital
 * Ahvaz Salamat hospital
 * Ahvaz Oil hospital
 * Ahvaz Apadana Hospitals
 * Ahvaz Aria Hospital
 * Ahvaz Arvand hospital
 * Ahvaz Mehr Hospital
 * Ahvaz Karami Hospital
 * Ahvaz Boustan Hospital
 * Ahvaz Fatemeh Alzahra Hospital
 * Ahvaz AmirAl Momenin hospital
 * Ahvaz Amir Kabir hospital
 * Ahvaz Rajai Hospital
 * Ahvaz 578 Military Hospital
 * Ahvaz Taleghani hospital
 * Ahvaz Baghaie Hospital
 * Hendijan Shohada Hospital
 * Abadan Imam Khomeini Hospital
 * Abadan Taleghani Hospital
 * Abadan Beheshti Hospital
 * Abadan 17 Shahrivar Hospital
 * Shoshtar Alhadi Hospital
 * Shoshtar Khatam Al-Anbiya Hospital
 * Dezful Ganjavyan Hospital
 * Dezful Nabavi Hospital
 * Dezful Ya Zahra hospital
 * Dezful Afshar Hospital
 * Dezful Paygah 4 Shekary Hospital
 * Bandar Imam Khomeini Rah-Zainab Hospital
 * Omideh Imam Reza hospital
 * Omideh Iranpour Hospital
 * Niyaki martyr army hospital

Markazi

 * Amir Kabir
 * Ayatollah Khansari
 * Ghods
 * Madaen
 * Vali-Asr
 * Rah-ahan

Mazandaran

 * Imam Ali (Amol)
 * Imam Reza (Amol)
 * Shomal (Amol)
 * Rouhani (Babol)
 * Nimeh Shaban Hospital (Sari)
 * Bu Ali Hospital (Sari)
 * Imam Hospital (Sari)
 * Zare'ee Hospital (Sari)
 * Doctor Omidi Hospital (Behshahr)
 * Amir Mazandarani Hospital (Sari)
 * Hekmat Hospital (Sari)
 * Ayatollah Taleghani (Chaloos)

Qazvin

 * Pars Surgical centre for Plastic, reconstructive and other surgeries; Padegan St.
 * Shahid Rajaee hospital, Affiliated to Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, QUMS
 * Pastour Hospital
 * Velayat Hospital
 * Mehregan Hospital
 * Dehkhoda Hospital
 * Booali Hospital

Qom

 * Kamka-Arabnia
 * Hazrate Fateme Masomeh
 * Beheshti University Hospital
 * Nekoee-Hedayati
 * Izadi
 * Alzahra
 * Gholpayeghani
 * Valiasr
 * Aliebnabitaleb

Semnan

 * Ayatollah Shahroudi low population

Sistan and Baluchestan

 * Ali Ebn Abitaleb (Zahedan)
 * Khatam (Zahedan)
 * Social security (Zahedan)
 * Razi (saravan)
 * Farhangian

Tehran Province

 * 22nd of Bahman
 * 502 Artesh
 * 503 Artesh
 * 504 Artesh
 * 505 Artesh
 * 506 Artesh
 * Abu Ali Sina Hospital
 * Akhtar Hospital
 * Alghadir
 * Ali Asghar Hospital
 * Alvand
 * Amir Aalam Hospital
 * Amir Almoamenin Hospital
 * Andarzgo
 * Apadana Hospital
 * Arad General Hospital
 * Arash Hospital
 * Asia Hospital
 * Atieh Hospital
 * Ayatollah Kashani Hospital
 * Ayatollah Khansari
 * Ayatollah Taleghani Hospital
 * Azadi Psychiatric Hospital
 * Baghiyyatollah al-Azam Military Hospital
 * Baharlo
 * Baher Hospital
 * Bahman
 * Bahrami
 * Bank Melli Iran's Hospital
 * Beasat Hospital
 * Boali Hospital
 * Bozorgmehr
 * Chehrazy Hospital
 * Cheshm Pezeshkieh Payambaran (Ophthalmology Clinic)
 * Children Medical Center
 * Dadgostari
 * Dey Hospital
 * Dr Maseeh Daneshvari Hospital
 * Dr. Sapir Hospital and Charity Center
 * Emam Hosein Hospital
 * Ebnesina Hospital
 * Erfan Hospital
 * Esmaili (Psychiatric)
 * Eyvaz Zadeh
 * Fajr Hospital
 * Farabi Hospital (Ophthalmology)
 * Farabi Jadid
 * Fayazbakhsh Hospital
 * Firoozabadi Hospital
 * Ghiyasi
 * Hashemi Nejad
 * Hazrate Fatemeh Zahra
 * Hazrate Mohammad
 * Hefdah-e-Shahrivar
 * Hoseyniyeh Ershad
 * Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex
 * Imam Hossein Hospital
 * Iran Hospital
 * Iranmehr Hospital
 * Jamaran (Cardiology)
 * Jam Hospital
 * Javahery
 * Jorjani Hospital
 * Kasra Hospital
 * Khanevadeh (Artesh)
 * Khatam ol-Anbia Hospital
 * Kyan Hospital (Kyan General Hospital)
 * Kourosh Heart Center
 * Laleh Hospital
 * Labbafinejad Medical Center
 * Loghman-o-Doleh Hakim Hospital (Includes a poison center)
 * Lolagar Hospital
 * Madaen Hospital
 * Madar Hospital
 * Madaran Hospital
 * Mahak
 * Mahdieh
 * Mardom Hospital
 * Marghad Shahr
 * Markaze Ghalbe Tehran (Cardiology)
 * Marvasti Hospital
 * Mehrad Hospital
 * Meymanat
 * Milad Hospital
 * Shahid Modarres Hospital
 * Mofarah Hospital
 * Mofid Hospital
 * Moghoufeh Nouh
 * Moheb Hospitals
 * Najmiyeh
 * Nasr
 * Negah Eye Hospital
 * Nirooye Entezami No.2 Hospital
 * Nirooye Entezami No.1 Hospital
 * Nirooye Daryayi Hospital
 * Nirooye Havaei Hospital
 * No.5 Shahid Fayyazbakhsh Hospital
 * Noor Afshar
 * Noor Saadat
 * Noor Eye Hospital
 * Omid Hospital
 * Panzdah-e-Khordad
 * Pars Hospital
 * Park Clinic
 * Parsian Hospital
 * Pasargad Hospital
 * Payambaran
 * Rajayi
 * Ramtin Cardio-Vascular Research and Treatment Center
 * Razi (Razani)
 * Razi Hospital
 * Resalat Hospital
 * Rezaei (Neuropsychology)
 * Roien Tan Arash
 * Roozbeh Hospital
 * Sarem Women Hospital
 * Sajjad Hospital
 * Sevom Shaban
 * Seyedolshohada Hospital
 * Shafa Yahyaian Hospital
 * Shahid Andarzgou
 * Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani
 * Shahid Dr Chamran
 * Shahid Dr Lavasani
 * Shahid Fahmideh
 * Shahid Mottahari (Burns Center)
 * Shahid Rajayi
 * Shahid Shariat Razavi
 * Shahriar Hospital
 * Shariati Hospital
 * Sherkat Naft Hospital
 * Shohaday Yaft Abad
 * Shohadaye Hafte Tir
 * Shohadaye Larzan
 * Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital
 * Sina Hospital
 * Takhti (Children)
 * Tavanbakhshi-e Malolin-e Zehni (Vezarat Kar and Omur Ejtemai)
 * Tehran Clinic Hospital
 * Tehran Pars
 * Torfeh Hospital
 * Tus Hospital
 * Toos General Hospital
 * Valiasr Hospital
 * Vasei Hospital
 * Yaser Hospital
 * Zayeshgah e Babak (Maternity Unit)
 * Zayeshgah e Amin Sadeghiyeh (Maternity Unit)
 * Zayeshgah-e-Eghbal (Obstetric)
 * Ziaeian

West Azarbaijan

 * Ayatollah Khoyi
 * IMAM REZA
 * AZERBAIJAN
 * MOTAHARI
 * SHAHID AREFIYAN
 * IMAM KHOMEYNI

Yazd

 * Mortaz General Hospital
 * Syedolshohada
 * Goudarz Hospital
 * Ardakan Charity
 * Hazrate Mahdi
 * Ayatollah Mousavi
 * Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences

Zanjan

 * Vali-e Asr
 * Shahid Beheshti
 * Shafiiyeh
 * Ayatollah Mousavi Hospital

Golestan

 * Alejalil Hospital
 * Beski Hospital
 * Dezyani Hospital
 * Sayad Shirazi Hospital
 * 5th Azar Hospital

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Queensberry (hill)

Queensberry is a hill in the Lowther Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The most southerly mountain in the range, it lies in the parish of Kirkpatrick-Juxta and is a prominent landmark throughout Dumfriesshire. It is frequently climbed from the Daer Reservoir to the north and the minor roads to its south and east. As well as being a placename of multiple addresses throughout southern Scotland, the hill also lend its name to the Duke of Queensberry and Marquess of Queensberry peerages and, subsequently, 'Queensberry Rules' in the sport of boxing.

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Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross

Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, may refer to:

 * Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (UK Parliament constituency), a Scottish constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
 * Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Scottish Parliament constituency), a constituency of the Scottish Parliament
 * Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, one of three corporate management areas of the Highland Council, Scotland, created in 2007

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2005 Andorran parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Andorra on 24 April 2005. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party of Andorra, which won 14 of the 28 seats. Its leader, Marc Forné Molné, remained Prime Minister. Voter turnout was 80.4%.

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Talk:Listed buildings in Liverpool

First comments
Why is this page a stub?!?! Its one of the longest pages on wikipedia.

1. This page missing confirmation of copyright. The content appears to be taken directly from the Liverpool City Council webpage referred to at the bottom of the page.

2. The page could usefully be broken down by area and by category. A short description of especially the grade one buildings would be good, with pictures to make the article more interesting.

3. I would suggest breaking up the page into seperate pages for e.g. city centre, Allerton, etc.

4. I'm not sure how frequently this page is monitored. If the original contributors can confirm that they have the right to use the council document referred to, that would be useful. As the link is given, does this huge list serve a purpose? If not, I will undertake radical surgery! Dooley 10:45, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

 * This is an old discussion, but in answer to the question, one purpose served here is to give links to other pages on WP. And no, breaking the list up would be counter-productive; it's far easier to find things this way. Swanny18 (talk) 10:24, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Lewis's
Wasnt Lewis's Department Store (40 Ranelagh Street to 4 Reneshaw)listed. There may be other updates that need to be added. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.19.56 (talk) 17:00, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Ordinary (at best)
Sorry, but this is very ordinary. Namely:
 * Information is hard to use (could be in sortable tables)
 * Horribly over-linking (why are the dates linked for goodness sake?)
 * Pictures should be removed. It's a list page—save the pictures for the articles on individual buildings
 * Confusing: what does the date actually mean? (Slightly rhetorical, but why should I have to try and work it out?)
 * Confusing: what is the "II" marker doing? Is it a separator? Why is there sometimes only "I"? (Okay, I eventually figured out that it means "Grade"—but why should I have to struggle to figure that out?)
 * Confusing: what does the odd "*" mean?
 * If we're not going to do anything except repeat a list, the "List of Listed Buildings (79 pages, PDF)" link is probably sufficient. At least that pdf provides contextual information.
 * (Probably) too long

I'm happy to work on things (as long as there is consensus, and that the vast majority of the links are agreed to be removed).  HWV258  07:07, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Changes required would include putting dates in dd mmm yyyy format (consensus format for United Kingdom), made bold and then separated by a ndash so that it is easily distinguished from the numbers in addresses. Ohconfucius (talk) 07:34, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed, the data is messy now, and I believe it would benefit from being in a table, then we would not need to make the dates bold nor blue colour. Furthermore, one would not know of the specific listing unless one looked hard - in other words, it is not immediately apparent that a building is Grade I or Grade II listed Ohconfucius (talk) 07:43, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * See List of listed buildings in Runcorn for an example of what this list could be. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:59, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * But isn't the problem there are over 2500 listed buildings in Liverpool so tabulating them would create a massive article or require it to be split up into several articles --Daviessimo (talk) 08:05, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm glad someone is taking an interest in this

I can see the value of a simple alphabetical list of all the listed buildings, with links if they have pages; but I can also see the value in a more complete description, like the list, or teh ones for Bristol or Manchester. Also, there is alredy a Merseyside list.

Why not have both?

We could trim this down to an alphabetical list (lose the dates, clarify or get rid of the grades; or group them in I, II*, or II tables: It would act as an index of all the buildings and whether WP has anything on them yet. Then have separate pages for tables showing the buildings, pictures, basic details like the examples above. How about that? Swanny18 (talk) 18:33, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I do like the idea of splitting the buildings up into I, II and II* groups, because the Manchester list looks really good. I also like the idea of keeping this as an index list with nothing but the listed buildings names provided because it will make navigation a lot easier --Daviessimo (talk) 21:21, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Proposed formatting
OK, it seems the discussion on moving this page forward have gone a little stale so I'm going to propose what I feel are two options in taking this forward. I think we can all be agreed that an article listing the Grade I buildings is required and there's certainly a case that a similar list could be made for the Grade II* buildings as well. In my opinion, when these are created we should not get rid of this, but rather keep it as an index (as was mentioned above). However, in its current form it is pretty horrific and needs to be made more user friendly. For me, the prefential option would be keeping all the info currently listed, but tabulating it, say for example, like this:

 * {| class="sortable wikitable" border="1"

! class="sortable" style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" height="17" width="35%" | Location ! class="unsortable" style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" height="17" width="10%" | Postcode ! class="unsortable" style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" height="17" width="35%" | Notes ! class="unsortable" style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" height="17" width="10%" | Year ! class="sortable" style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" height="17" width="10%" | Listing
 * Abercromby Square
 * L7
 * Garden House
 * 1972
 * II
 * Abercromby Square (west side)
 * L7
 * Nos. 1 to 7 (consec) No. 7a
 * 1972
 * II
 * }
 * II
 * }

However, as this article essentially lists every one of the 2500 listed buildings in Liverpool, the size of the article is going to be a major issue. The size is already pretty big (165k) and tabulating everthing is going to push this over the edge. Thus the other option is to trim right down and have a very simple listing like this:

 * Abercromby Square (south side) L7 No. 8
 * Abercromby Square (south side) L7 Nos. 9,10,11 (consec )
 * Abercromby Square (south side) No. 12
 * Abercromby Square (south side) No.13
 * Abercromby Square (south side) L7 No. 14
 * Abercromby Square L7 No. 17
 * }
 * Abercromby Square L7 No. 17
 * }

However, in this form we lose the information that seems to make the article any use (in particular the grade and year of listing)

The only other options I can think are much more radical, like splitting this article up into groups (e.g. A-G H-N O-Z) or creating a new category and listing letters seperately. Anyway it would be good to get other people's thoughts so we can try and get some movement --Daviessimo (talk) 20:41, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I favour the table format. Providing some sensible sorting can lift the reader's experience on the page. From Article length - Occasional exceptions: "Two exceptions are lists and articles summarizing certain fields". There is therefore basis for arguing that list pages should not be treated in the same category as normal "long pages". If there is a natural split, perhaps more than one table could be on the page.  HWV258  22:46, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

 * I would go for the table it may be big but it's a big subject. I'd also recommend integrating the addons at the bottom. I check the stats and before the name change the article was being accessed about 600 times per month, which is significant.--Kitchen Knife (talk) 10:14, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Was there any particular reason they stuck in a section at the end rather than being integrated into the article? Or was it simply a date thing? I do agree that they should be slotted in, in their relevant place thought. Anyway, if that is three in support of the table (inc. me), I think we could probably start making a move. Rather than copying the whole article to a sandbox and working on it all there, I think we should do it section by section (i.e. copy one section, format it, then reinsert back in the article). We should be able to do this under and 'construction tag'.
 * Also regarding the table do you think it will be better to have it full width, rather than the standard 'fit to text' size (as above). It's just that as big white gap on the right, may look a little funny. Also are we going to keep all the date information, or just list the year. I mean does knowing the exact date have a huge impact? --Daviessimo (talk) 10:51, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I think as above is fine. Judging by the dates it is all those done after a certain time that appear in the appendix. What shall we do with the images?--Kitchen Knife (talk) 11:00, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Well if you keep the table as fit-to-text format you could keep them along the right hand side, although if this is an index article I'm not sure if they will be needed, as they should be used in the Grade I and Grade II* listed building articles instead --Daviessimo (talk) 11:12, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I might be able to do it in one go wuth the help of some C. Let me try tonight. I'll post the results here Talk:List of listed buildings in Liverpool/Format 1--Kitchen Knife (talk) 12:53, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * First attempt at Talk:List of listed buildings in Liverpool/Format 1 code at Talk:List of listed buildings in Liverpool/Code--Kitchen Knife (talk) 23:03, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The column formatting needs a % symbol after the width figure, otherwise it won't format the width correctly. At the moment it is like:

 * class="sortable" style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" height="17" width="35" | Location

 * but it should be like:

 * class="sortable" style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" height="17" width="35%" | Location

 * Not sure if you know a way to do throughout the article in one go. cheers --Daviessimo (talk) 08:20, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Ye just rewrite the code. There may be some duplicates in it but I have now updated the sample and the code.--Kitchen Knife (talk) 10:54, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Its showing up full width on my PC, thanks. Do you think it should maybe be sized down to something like 75% or 80%. The Grade I listed buildings in GM is like that and I think it looks pretty good. What do you reckon? --Daviessimo (talk) 11:30, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I think it's ok as it is width wise. If we make it narrower some of the descriptions wil go on to a lot lines. It still needs some tidying by hand especilly in the smithdown area. What I been doing is going to edit selecting all then copying it into a file via notepad, then running a c program that produces another file. Then block copying that back over the original. If you block copy to any editor it makes the editing easier then trying to do it online.--Kitchen Knife (talk) 11:50, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm gonna edit the table format to make it full width throughout in order to maintain clarity. At the moment the table are different widths and it looks funnny. Also by having it full width, it means there should be less entries that cover two lines. Hope that's OK --Daviessimo (talk) 19:06, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Fine by me. I did notice the change in width at L but couldn't see a reason. The Location doesn't need to be as big as it is there is some free space in all entries. Making this a bit smaller would give more space for the description.--Kitchen Knife (talk) 19:38, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Greatest number of listed buildings outside London
I removed the claim about Liverpool having the greatest number of listed buildings outside of London, as Bristol appears to have more - see here. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:22, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

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LGBT rights in Morocco

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Morocco face significant challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.

Both male and female forms of same-sex sexual activity are illegal in Morocco. Gay and lesbian Moroccans face many hardships in the country, as they have limited legal rights. Moroccan police disproportionately target perceived LGBT people, and attitudes towards the wider LGBT community remain mostly negative throughout the nation.

Law regarding same-sex sexual activity
Article 489 of the Penal Code of Morocco criminalises "lewd or unnatural acts with an individual of the same sex". Same-sex sexual activity is illegal in Morocco and can be punished with anything from three to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 1,200 dirhams. The Moroccan government uses the law as a way to police members of the LGBT+ community. When one is arrested in Morocco for a suspected homosexual act, their name is publicized, thus outing the individual before a trial takes place. The legal status of LGBT people living in Morocco stems largely from traditional Islamic morality, which views homosexuality and cross-dressing as signs of immorality.

In 2016, two girls were arrested in Marrakesh after one's cousin took a photo of them kissing. This sparked international outcry and the use of the hashtag #freethegirls. Their case was postponed until December 2016. In early December 2016, the two girls were acquitted.

A 2019 evaluation by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on its partnership with the Moroccan Parliament, called upon Morocco to stop enforcing sections of its criminal code that "criminalise sexual relations between adults of the same sex or between adults of different sexes who are not related by marriage" until their eventual repeal.

Government policy
None of the major or minor political parties have made public statements in favour of LGBT rights and no LGBT rights legislation has been enacted. Government attitudes towards homosexuality tend to be in the interests of the protection of the tradition of the country, in keeping with the culture's traditional gender roles and religious mores. It has banned books on homosexuality and required schools to teach a curriculum that "emphasises...the danger and depravity of ‘unnatural acts’". On 21 March 2008, a statement issued by the Ministry of Interior reinforced the government's intention to "preserve citizens' ethics and defend our society against all irresponsible actions that mar our identity and culture".

In foreign policy, the government opposed the participation of an international gay and lesbian rights representative at the 2001 United Nations Conference on AIDS-HIV. They also opposed a United Nations joint statement condemning violence against LGBT people.

Recognition of same-sex relationships
There is no legal recognition of same-sex couples.

Discrimination protections
There is no law against discrimination or harassment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in Morocco.

Gender identity and expression
Traditional cultural and religious mores tend to associate cross-dressing with homosexuality. Culturally, certain forms of cross-dressing have been tolerated in areas where women were not a part. The initial lack of female actors meant that the roles often went to men, who were generally assumed to be homosexual, but were shown a modicum of tolerance.

In the 1950s, the publicity surrounding French actress and entertainer Coccinelle helped to establish Casablanca as being a place where certain doctors were willing to perform sex change operations, albeit in clandestine circumstances.

Conviction history
Moroccan public opinion towards the LGBT community is generally negative, in alignment with attitudes about LGBT rights in much of the Muslim world. The country has a male-dominated culture, a patriarchal society with traditional gender roles, that prefers a male and a female to get married and have children. The government has sporadically continued to enforce the laws on homosexuality with occasional public arrests carried out in routine fashion.

A court in Ksar el-Kebir, a small city about 120 kilometres south of Tangier, convicted six men on 10 December 2007 of violating article 489 of Morocco's penal code. However, according to the defendants' lawyers, the prosecution failed to present any evidence that the men actually had engaged in the prohibited conduct.

The men were sentenced to varying terms on 17 December 2007, after a video circulated online—including on YouTube—purporting to show a private party, allegedly including the men, taking place in Ksar el-Kebir on 18 November. Press reports claimed the party was a "gay marriage". Following the arrests, dozens of men and women marched through the streets of Ksar el-Kebir, denouncing the men's alleged actions and calling for their punishment.

In 2010, the government permitted openly gay singer Elton John to give a performance during the Mawazine Festival, despite objections from the Justice and Development Party, which was, at the time, the biggest opposition party in parliament. The festival was condoned by King Mohammed VI and was a part of the king's plans to create a more open and modern nation.

Abdellah Taïa and Rachid O., both successful writers, have written openly about gender roles and sexual identity in Morocco, but they do not reside in Morocco. Beyond these writers, the government has tolerated the existence of one magazine for the gay community as well as one gay rights organization. The LGBT publication Mithly has been allowed to be discreetly distributed to adults in Morocco, although the government still will not grant the publication a distribution license and the magazine itself has to be made in neighboring Spain. In a similar sense, the government will not officially recognize the LGBT rights organization, Kif-Kif, but has allowed it to exist and co-sponsor some educational seminars.

In 2017, following the United Nations' Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, Mustafa Ramid, former Minister of Justice and Liberties in Abdelilah Benkirane's and Saadeddine Othmani's governments, called homosexuals "trash" in an interview. This was criticised by local human rights associations which together signed a petition addressed to the Prime Minister of Morocco Othmani to open an investigation of Minister Ramid "on his discriminatory and unconstitutional statements towards sexual minorities".

In the 2018-19 Arab Barometer survey, 21% of the Moroccan respondents said homosexuality is acceptable.

In April, 2020 the Human Rights Watch reported of a campaign of online harassment in Morocco where people would go on same-sex dating apps to out other users, and on April 24, the Moroccan national security stated that the police had opened a "preliminary investigation" for "incitement to hatred and discrimination".

In April 2020, the Moroccan transgender influencer Sofia Talouni, who lives in Turkey and is followed by more than 600,000 people on Instagram, launched a denunciation campaign to outrage Moroccan homosexuals, stating: "You will burn in hell ". She incited her subscribers to create false accounts on gay dating applications and to reveal the identity of those who are there on social networks. The act has been questioned, insofar as Sofia Talouni is herself from the LGBT community. According to sociologist Khalid Mouna, she “tries to make her group undergo the same family rupture by adopting the discourse and the codes of her own detractors. This individual, obviously mentally unstable, wishes to isolate young Moroccan homosexuals by breaking up their family unit”. The journalist Hicham Tahir indicates that he has received “a hundred testimonies from people who were victims or direct witnesses of this campaign”. Some landlords ejected their tenants, while one person allegedly committed suicide. Moroccan LGBT associations denounced the campaign as homophobic. Moroccan police launched a preliminary investigation for "incitement to hatred and discrimination". On May 13, Talouni released a video where she apologized for the campaign. Instagram nevertheless suspended her account.

In November 2022, a trans woman was violently beaten by a group of people in Tangier. Three minors and an adult were subsequently arrested in connection with the assault.

Advocacy for LGBT rights
Kif-Kif is the only organization to advocate on behalf of the LGBT community in Morocco and publishes the Mithly magazine in Spain. Established in 2004, it has not been given legal recognition by the Department of the Interior, but it has been unofficially permitted to organize certain educational seminars. Hajar Moutaouakil, a young Moroccan lesbian, posted a video on YouTube on human rights day calling for love and tolerance, but the video created controversy. She later posted her biography online.

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Stark Raving Mad (2002 film)

Stark Raving Mad is a 2002 film, produced by A Band Apart, about a heist pulled during a rave. The film was directed and written by Drew Daywalt and David Schneider. It stars Seann William Scott, Lou Diamond Phillips, Timm Sharp, Patrick Breen, John B. Crye, Monet Mazur, Suzy Nakamura, C. Ernst Harth, and Dave Foley. The movie featured soundtrack by John Digweed.

Synopsis
The plot follows a linear structure, encompassing the events of one night in a nightclub which has been hired for the night by protagonist Ben (Seann William Scott). The owner is unhappy with noise levels, fearing loss of his license, but noise levels is exactly what they want. The noise is specific cover for an illicit and complex bank heist orchestrated by the main character as a means of stealing a revered, ancient Chinese statuette and clearing his and his late brother's debt with a local Chinese crime lord. Ben must complete this task before dawn in order to spare his own life. As such, he hires three "experienced" bank robbers to perform the actual act, while he and his assistant ensure that the club night runs smoothly and without incident. However, such is not the case. Two FBI agents in the club (actually checking on a drugs deal) further thwart their plan, but a Chinese food delivery boy comes in on the plan and helps out giving cover stories for the loud bangs from the basement.

Ultimately, he clears out money from the bank vault and conspires that both the crime lord and his rival Chinese gang are both in the vault when the alarm goes off. The money belongs to the crime lord under a different name and he is found guilty of stealing his own money.

Cast

 * Seann William Scott as Ben McGewan
 * Timm Sharp as Rikki Simms
 * Patrick Breen as Jeffrey Jay
 * John B. Crye as Jake Nealson (as John Crye)
 * Suzy Nakamura as Betty Shin (as Suzi Nakamura)
 * Lou Diamond Phillips as Gregory
 * Dave Foley as Roy
 * Kavan Smith as Michael Frakes
 * Paul Hungerford as Scott
 * Monet Mazur as Vanessa
 * C. Ernst Harth as Dirk
 * Jody Racicot as D.J.
 * Terry Chen as Jin Sun
 * Yee Jee Tso as Chan (Gang Member #1)
 * Ty Olsson as Nate (Goon)
 * Carl McDonald as Mitchell (Trannie)
 * Reagan Dale Neis as Susan, Roy's under-age daughter known as Kitten
 * Adam Arkin as the nightclub owner

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Jonathan Boucher

Rev. Jonathan Boucher FRSE, FSA (12 March 1738 – 27 April 1804) was an English clergyman, teacher, preacher and philologist.

Early career
Jonathan Boucher was born in Blencogo, near Wigton, Cumberland, and educated at the Wigton Grammar School. After training in Workington, Jonathan became a teacher, at St. Bees School and in 1759 went to Virginia, where he became a private tutor in the families of Virginia planters. Invited to become vicar of a nearby Anglican church, but lacking any religious qualifications, he briefly returned to England, to be ordained by the bishop of London in March 1762. He also carried a cane around the colony.

He landed in America again on 12 July, was associated with the Anglican Church, and remained until 1775 as rector of various Virginia and Maryland parishes, including St. Mary's, Caroline County, Virginia, Hanover, King George County, Virginia, and St Anne's in Annapolis, Maryland and in 1771, St. Barnabas Church, Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

He also kept a school, and among his charges, from 1768, was John Parke Custis, the stepson of George Washington with whom he began a close friendship. Earlier, on Whitsun Monday, 1766, he baptised 350 Black adults at his Caroline County parish, and preached to about 3,000 for about an hour.

Hostility in Maryland
He was widely known as an eloquent preacher, and his scholarly attainments won for him the friendship and esteem of some of the ablest scholars in the colonies. He was also an ardent Tory, believing firmly that protest against Government wrongs should be carried out within the law– but definitely not an uncritical supporter of British policy; for example, he considered the 1765 Stamp Act to be "oppressive, impolitic and illegal", and the Royal proclamation against the Westward Expansion of the thirteen colonies "unjust and impolitic". During his residence in Maryland he vigorously opposed the vestry act, by which the powers and emoluments of the Maryland pastors were greatly diminished. When the struggle between the colonies and the mother country began, although he felt much sympathy for the former, his opposition to any form of illegal obstruction to the Stamp Act and other measures, and his denunciation of a resort to force, created a breach between him and his parish, and for months, he preached with a pair of loaded pistols beside him. In a fiery farewell sermon at St. Barnabas in 1775, to a hostile crowd of 200 men, he preached after the opening of hostilities he stated:

I will continue to pray for the King; and all who are in authority under him ... As long as I live ... will I ... proclaim: God save the King [bold added]

At the conclusion and with pistol in hand, he seized the leader of the crowd, Osborn Sprigg of Northampton, Maryland, and together they walked to Boucher's horse. Both men were allowed to leave without harm.

Return to England
With George Washington forced to make a hard choice between protecting his argumentative friend and showing loyalty to the colonists' cause, in the autumn of 1775 Boucher returned to England with his wife, Eleanor Addison of Oxon Hill, Maryland, where his loyalism was rewarded by a government pension.

In 1784 he became vicar of Epsom in Surrey, where he continued until his death on 27 April 1804, becoming known as one of the most eloquent preachers of his day.

In 1804, shortly before his death, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh but his link to Edinburgh is unclear.

Works
Boucher was an accomplished writer and scholar, contributed largely to William Hutchinson's History of the County of Cumberland (2 vols., 1794 seq.), and published A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution (1797), dedicated to General George Washington, and consisting of thirteen discourses delivered in America between 1763 and 1775; Peter Laslett called Boucher "the arch-conservative of the American Revolution" and the work "pure Filmerism, the ablest exposition of the 'patriarchal system' that had ever been made." His philological studies, to which the last fourteen years of his life were devoted, resulted in the compilation of A Glossary of Provincial and Archaic Words, intended as a supplement to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, but never published except in part, which finally in 1831 passed into the hands of the English compilers of Webster's Dictionary, by whom it was used. His "Reminiscences of an American Loyalist" were also belatedly published, first in serial form in "Notes and Queries" in the 1870s.

Family
He married three times, first in America in 1772 to Eleanor Addison, of which little is known, other than that his wife did not appear to return to Britain with him; they had a daughter named Eleanor Boucher. His second marriage occurred in England in 1787 to Mary Elizabeth Foreman, who died the following year. His last marriage in 1789 was to Elizabeth James (née Hodgson), a widow to Dr. John James. James and Boucher had seven children together, including Barton Boucher.

His son, Barton Boucher (1794–1864), rector of Fonthill Bishop, Wiltshire in 1856, was well known as the author of religious tracts, hymns and novels, whilst his daughter Eleanor married Edward Hawke Locker, Civil Commissioner of the Greenwich Hospital.

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User talk:AmberA

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