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Devi Lal

Devi Lal (born Devi Dayal; 25 September 1914 – 6 April 2001), also known as Chaudhary Devi Lal, was an Indian statesman and politician who served as 6th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and from 1990 to 1991. Lal emerged as farmer leader from the state of Haryana, and served as the Chief Minister of Haryana from 1977 to 1979 and then from 1987 to 1989. He was the founder of Indian National Lok Dal. He was popularly known as Tau, meaning uncle.

Personal life
Devi Lal was born on 25 September 1914 in Teja Khera village of Sirsa district in present-day Haryana. His mother's name was Shugna Devi and father's name was Lekh Ram Sihag. Lekh Ram was a Jat of Chautala village and he owned 2750 bighas of land. He received education up to middle-school. His son Om Prakash Chautala has also served as Haryana's chief minister four times.

Lal's ancestral roots lie in Bikaner, Rajasthan, from where his great-grandfather Tejaram had migrated. His father Lekhram relocated to Chautala village in 1919 when Lal was five years old. In 1928 at the age of 16 Lal participated in demonstration by Lala Lajpat Rai. He was a student of "Dev Samaj Public High School Moga" in Moga during his 10th class, at that time was arrested at Congress office in 1930, he quit studies and joined freedom movement. He also took wrestling lesson at an Akhara in Badal village of Punjab. He was first elected MLA in 1952.

Lal comes from a prolific political dynasty of Haryana. His elder brother Sahib Ram Sihag was the first politician from the family who became Congress MLA from Hisar in 1938 and 1947. Lal had four sons, Partap Singh, Om Prakash Chautala, Ranjit Singh and Jagdish Chander. All joined politics except Jagdish who died at a young age. His eldest son, Partap Singh, was an MLA from Indian National Lok Dal in the 1960s.

Independence movement
Lal was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi and was involved in the struggle for India's independence from the British Raj.He left his studies unfinished to take part in the freedom movement.

For this, he was sentenced to one year rigorous imprisonment and sent to Hissar jail on 8 October 1930. He took part in the movement of 1932 and was kept in Sadar Delhi Thana. In 1938 he was selected delegate of All-India Congress Committee. In March 1938 his elder brother was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly in a by-election on the Congress party ticket. In January 1940, Sahib Ram courted arrest as a satyagrahi in the presence of Lal and over ten thousand people. He was fined Rs 100 and sentenced to 9 months imprisonment.

Lal was arrested on 5 October 1942 and kept in jail for two years for taking part in the 1942 Quit India movement. He was released from prison in October 1943 and he negotiated parole for his elder brother. In August 1944, Chhotu Ram, the then Revenue Minister, visited Chautala village. He, along with Lajpat Rai Alakhpura, made efforts to woo both Sahib Ram and Lal to desert Congress and join the Unionist Party. But both workers, being dedicated freedom fighters, refused to leave the Congress Party.

Pre-1960: Punjab Assembly politics
After independence, Lal emerged as a popular farmer leader in the 1950s and started a farmers' movement, for which he was arrested along with his 500 workers. After some time, then chief minister, Gopi Chand Bhargava, made an agreement and the Muzzara Act was amended. He was elected a member of the Punjab Assembly in 1952 and President of the Punjab Congress in 1956. In 1958, he was elected from Sirsa.

Pre-1980: Haryana Assembly politics
He played an active and decisive role in the formation of Haryana as a separate state. In 1971 he left Congress. In 1972 vidhan sabha elections, he contested unsuccessfully against the two Congress heavyweights, Bansi Lal in Tosham constituency and Bhajan Lal in Adampur seat. In 1974 he successfully contested in the Rori constituency. In 1975, Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency and Lal along with all opposition leaders were jailed for 19 months. In 1977, the emergency ended and general elections were held. He was elected on the Janata Party ticket from Bhattu Kalan and became the Chief Minister of Haryana.

Post-1980: national and state politics
He remained a Member of Parliament from 1980 to 1982 and was a member of State assembly between 1982 and 1987. He formed Lok Dal and started Nyaya Yuddh (en. battle for justice), under the banner of Haryana Sangharsh Samiti, and became hugely popular among masses. In the 1987 state elections, the alliance led by Lal won a record victory winning 85 seats in the 90 member house. Congress won the other five seats. Lal became the chief minister of Haryana for the second time. In the 1989 parliamentary election, he was simultaneously elected, both from Sikar, Rajasthan and Rohtak, Haryana.On 1 December 1989, VP Singh nominated Devi Lal for the post of Prime Minister in the middle house of Parliament, despite Singh himself being nominated as a pure alternative prime ministerial candidate. But the Jat leader of Haryana refused to accept the post of Prime Minister and magnanimously nominated VP Singh for the post of Prime Minister. But the refusal to give the prime ministership to Devilal's close friend Chandrasekhar, who was VP Singh's prime ministerial rival within the Janata Dal, caused surprise among many party members. Because some leaders told him that Devilal will come as the prime ministerial candidate. VP Singh was working honestly in many positions in the Congress and found many allegations of corruption against the government of Rajiv Gandhi. After declaring Singh as a qualified candidate for Prime Minister, Devi Lal walked out of the assembly and refused to participate in the cabinet. He became deputy prime minister of the country from 1989 to 1991 in the non-Congress governments of VP Singh and Chandra Shekhar He was elected to Rajya Sabha in August 1998. Later, his son Om Prakash Chautala also became the chief minister of Haryana.

Lal died on 6 April 2001 at the age of 85. He was cremated at Sangarsh Sthal on the banks of the river Yamuna in New Delhi. "Kisan Ghat" is the samadhi of another popular leader of the farmers, Charan Singh, the fifth Prime Minister of India.

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USS Wadleigh

USS Wadleigh (DD-689) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Rear Admiral George H. Wadleigh (1842–1927). Wadleigh was laid down on 5 April 1943 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works; launched on 7 August 1943; sponsored by Miss Clara F. Wadleigh, daughter of RAdm. Wadleigh; and commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on 19 October 1943.

World War II
Following shakedown training in the West Indies, Wadleigh rendezvoused in the mid-Atlantic with USS Iowa (BB-61), USS Halsey Powell (DD-686), and USS Marshall (DD-676). The three destroyers escorted the battleship as she carried president Franklin D. Roosevelt back to the United States from talks with other Allied leaders at the Cairo Conference.

1944
Soon after her return from this special escort duty, Wadleigh got underway from Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 3 January 1944 and steamed via Panama to Pearl Harbor.

Her baptism of fire came on 20 March 1944 during the Marshall Islands campaign. Assigned shore-bombardment duties, Wadleigh—in company with USS McCalla (DD-488) and USS Sage (AM-111) —supported LCIs and LSTs during the landings on Ailinglapalap and expended 478 rounds of 5 inch shells which destroyed an enemy-held village. Three days later, the new destroyer again took part in shooting up Japanese defenses, shelling a weather station and a radio station on Ebon Island, helping to clear the way for the 1,500 marines who soon took the island.

The ship returned to the Hawaiian Islands for further operational training in preparation for the upcoming conquest of the Marianas. Assigned to Task Group 52.4 (TG 52.4), Wadleigh arrived off Roi Island in the Marshalls on 10 June, five days before D-Day for the invasion of Saipan Island. The day before the first landings, the warship closed Saipan and commenced fire early in the morning, beginning her part in the operations designed to "soften up" the enemy defenses.

On D-Day, Wadleigh lay offshore, providing predawn gunfire support for underwater demolition teams (UDTs) and for the initial waves of troops. After spending the day in shelling enemy positions, she retired seaward to conduct screening patrols. While thus engaged, Wadleigh and USS Melvin (DD-680) both picked up strong sonar contacts with a submarine west of Tinian. Both ships went to general quarters and attacked, dropping depth charges with deadly precision. A heavy explosion, followed by a widening slick of oil and debris, indicated that whatever had been down there had been heavily hit. Postwar accounting revealed that the two destroyers had teamed to sink the Japanese submarine JAPANESE SUBMARINE Ro-114.

Assigned to bombard Garapan, the capital city of Saipan, Wadleigh encountered heavy activity of all types in this area, from both friend and foe alike, while expending some 1,700 rounds of 5 inch shells against the Japanese-held island. Not only was Wadleigh fired on by a Japanese shore battery, but the doughty destroyer was also straddled by a stick of bombs from a Japanese plane, mistaken for a low-flying aircraft by American forces, and again taken under fire from shore—all within a hair-raising space of 15 minutes! During the latter days of the campaign Wadleigh shot enemy snipers out of caves, trees, and cliffs; picked up an occasional Japanese prisoner, and rescued downed American aircrews shot down near her position.

Following escort runs to Eniwetok and Guadalcanal, Wadleigh was assigned to support the invasion of the Palaus. On 15 September, she patrolled north of the islands on radar picket duty, standing ready to provide early warning if Japanese planes were sighted. On the following day, Wadleigh steamed to Kossol Roads to begin assisting minesweepers in clearing the sealanes there. Floating mines swept up by the minesweepers provided the destroyers with "game", and Wadleigh destroyed 22 with 40-millimeter fire. The 23d, however, was deadly. While approaching one mine, the destroyer brushed horns with another, an unswept mine which burst amidships. The explosion ripped into the bowels of the ship, killing three men and injuring 20, while flooding three engineering compartments and one living space. As the crew raced to general quarters, the ship settled five feet by the stern, and listed seven degrees to starboard. Wadleigh, now sporting a 40-foot rend in her bottom, came to an even keel as the crew manhandled all movable weight from starboard to port to correct the list.

USS Bennett (DD-473) passed a towline and towed the stricken destroyer out of danger. The crippled ship, now sagging noticeably amidships, "worked" noticeably in the swells, prompting initial fears that the ship was breaking in two. In addition, the shock of the blast snapped one radar antenna and jarred both 26-foot motor whaleboats from their blocks.

1945
After temporary repairs, the ship painfully made her way back to Pear l Harbor and thence proceeded to the west coast to enter the Mare Island Navy Yard for repairs. Nearly rebuilt from the keel up, Wadleigh emerged from Mare Island on 20 February 1945 for speed trials and gunnery shoots. She departed San Diego, California, on 19 April and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 25 April, in company with USS Charrette (DD-581), to conduct type-training exercises in the Hawaiian Islands.

She departed Pearl Harbor on 3 May, bound for Ulithi, and arrived there after an 11-day passage. Rejoining her old unit—Destroyer Squadron 54 (DesRon 54)—the destroyer sortied with other 5th Fleet units on 25 May. After serving several tours on radar picket stations with the Fleet, Wadleigh weathered heavy typhoons from 5 to 7 June and subsequently accompanied USS Alaska (CB-1) and USS Guam (CB-2) in a shore bombardment mission to Minami Daito Shima (Rasa Island) on the 9th, demolishing radar installations and buildings.

After a rest period in the Philippines, Wadleigh sailed again for Japanese waters to screen the aircraft carriers as they continued to pound the Japanese home islands. On 10 July, the ship embarked a party of dignitaries—including Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, John L. Sullivan, and Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, for transportation to Iwo Jima.

Rendezvousing with USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) at Guam, she rejoined her task force on 21 July to support offensive operations off Japan's doorstep. While serving on occasion 50 miles from the enemy shore, Wadleigh rescued two downed Navy aircrewmen who had been shot down during a strike on Tokyo.

The destroyer slowed to destroy a derelict mine on 10 August, but excessive turbine vibrations forced the ship to shut down her starboard engine. Detached from the task force, Wadleigh limped back to Ulithi, in a convoy of replenishment ships and tankers, for repairs. While en route, she received word of the Japanese capitulation.

Departing Ulithi on 23 August and hoping to rejoin the Fleet in time for the triumphal entry into Tokyo Bay, Wadleigh stopped at Iwo Jima en route for passengers and mail and arrived 24 hours after the first ships had entered the bay. Ordered to proceed directly to Sagami Wan, Wadleigh went to general quarters in company with USS Benevolence (AH-13) as the ships passed beneath the once-menacing shore batteries along the Urage Strait. They soon arrived at their destination, the Yokosuka Naval Base, on 29 August.

As the first American troops went ashore at Yokohama and Yokosuka, Wadleigh headed out to sea and rendezvoused with incoming carrier groups. She returned to her anchorage, near USS Missouri (BB-63), on 2 September—in time to be on hand when the official surrender accords were signed that day.

Back at sea with the carriers once more, Wadleigh patrolled off the Japanese coast for two weeks, before she departed Nipponese waters on 16 September and proceeded via Eniwetok to Saipan in company with USS Bennington (CV-20) and USS Lexington (CV-16) for air group replacements. The destroyer returned to Tokyo Bay after a week at Saipan and arrived on 13 October, escorting USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) and Lexington.

Departing Japanese waters on 20 October, bound for the Hawaiian Islands, Wadleigh carried a load of men eligible for discharge upon their return to the United States. After a 48-hour layover in the Hawaiian Islands, she pressed on for San Francisco, arriving on 5 November 1945. She commenced a preinactivation overhaul on 5 December and sailed for San Diego, California, on 27 January 1946, for inactivation. The destroyer was placed out of commission, in reserve, in the San Diego group of the Pacific Reserve Fleet, in January 1947.

1951 – 1962
Wadleigh remained in reserve until she was reactivated during the Korean War. On 3 October 1951, Wadleigh was recommissioned at San Diego. She departed San Diego on 4 January 1952, bound for duty with the Atlantic Fleet. She transited the Panama Canal on 14 January—in company with USS Hazelwood (DD-531), USS Heermann (DD-532), USS Cassin Young (DD-793), and USS Cowell (DD-547)—and, upon arrival at her new home port of Newport, Rhode Island, became flagship for Destroyer Division 342.

After participating in various Fleet exercises, Wadleigh arrived at Pensacola, Florida, on 17 August, to commence four weeks of plane-guard duty for USS Cabot (CVL-28). She rescued three downed aviators from the Gulf of Mexico during this tour. Next, the destroyer sailed north for an overhaul at the Boston Naval Shipyard—during which time the ship received a battery of 3 inch guns—replacing the older 40-millimeter mounts. On 3 May 1954, Wadleigh departed Newport, bound via the Panama Canal, Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Guam for the Western Pacific (WestPac), and arrived at Yokosuka, Japan, on 7 June 1954. After initially operating in the Philippine Islands, the destroyer shifted to the waters off the east coast of Korea, assisting in monitoring the Armistice Agreement reached at Panmunjom the year before. While in Subic Bay, Wadleigh was put on alert and ordered to rendezvous with Task Group 70.2 (TG 70.2). Once she joined with the group, TG 70.2 proceeded to the southern coast of Formosa in a precautionary move by the United States to forestall possible Chinese communist intentions towards the American-supported Nationalist Chinese regime on the island. While en route to Formosa, the ship struck an underwater object which inflicted minor damage to both screws. Returning to Subic Bay, the ship repaired the damage and sailed to rejoin the group. Once back on station, she spent 20 tense but uneventful days on patrol off Formosa and, soon thereafter, proceeded back to Sasebo, Japan, to prepare to return to the United States.

Wadleigh returned to Newport—via Hong Kong, Singapore, Colombo, and various Mediterranean ports— and arrived at her home port on 28 November 1954. Shifting to the Caribbean, she operated both in these waters and off the east coast, on antisubmarine warfare (ASW) exercises and local operations, through the end of 1955. She then deployed three times to the Mediterranean.

During the third of these deployments, in July 1958, tensions flared in Lebanon, and civil strife threatened American lives and property. Accordingly, the United States landed troops to restore order. Wadleigh was among the first American ships to arrive on the scene, with another much-decorated Fletcher-class destroyer, USS The Sullivans (DD-537), arriving simultaneously. During the Lebanese crisis, she conducted eastern Mediterranean patrols as a unit of TF 61.

She returned to the east coast soon thereafter to operate along the Atlantic seaboard and into the Caribbean through the fall of 1958 before deploying to the Mediterranean for a fourth time in June 1959. While homeward-bound to Newport in September of that year, she served as one of the chain of ships beneath the aerial route of president Dwight D. Eisenhower's return to the United States after his summit conferences in Europe.

During the period in which the ship continued to be based out of Newport, she conducted ASW exercises and local operations through the end of the year and into 1960. On 19 March 1960, Wadleigh sped to the scene of a collision between USS Darby (DE-218) and a Swedish tanker off Cape Henry. Commander, Destroyer Squadron 20 (DesRon 20), embarked in Wadleigh, was on-scene commander and directed the successful effort to take Darby under tow.

Returning to a schedule of local operations, Wadleigh conducted a midshipman's training cruise, ASW patrols, and exercises. During a deployment to European waters in the fall of 1960, she conducted NATO fall exercises in the North Sea and across the Arctic Circle. Deploying to the Mediterranean for the fifth time, Wadleigh transited the Suez Canal and participated in CENTO Exercise Midlink III, in which the naval forces of five nations participated. In November 1960, the ship returned to Mediterranean and western European waters, and took part in ASW Exercises "Hay-strike" and "Jetstream" with French Navy units before returning to Newport on 15 December 1960.

She then conducted ASW exercises out of Mayport, Florida, and practiced recovery techniques for participation in Project Mercury, the first American manned spaceflight program. Attached to TG 140.8, Wadleigh was on station on 5 May 1961 when Comdr. Alan Shepard conducted his history-making flight. A second participation by Wadleigh in the Project Mercury program came in August of that year, but unfavorable weather "scrubbed" the launch, and the destroyer was detached to return to Newport.

Late in the following fall, Wadleigh sailed for European waters once more and participated in Exercise Line Jug II—extensive ASW exercises with Royal Navy units. She topped this deployment with visits to ports in the British Isles like Londonderry and Southampton before returning to her home port on 22 February 1962. She conducted routine local operations until departing Newport on 22 June for Norfolk, Virginia. There, the ship was decommissioned and placed in reserve on 28 June 1962.

Honors and awards
Wadleigh received six battle stars for her service in World War II.

Chilean service
Wadleigh was transferred to Chile under the Military Aid Program in 1963. The ship was renamed Blanco Encalada and was given identification number 14.

Blanco Encalada was decommissioned and stricken in 1982, and on 28 September 1991 was sunk off southern Chile by a Harpoon missile launched from the Spruance-class destroyer USS O'Bannon (DD-987) during an Operation Unitas XXXII exercise.

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Jasper Rine

Jasper Donald Rine (born 1953) is an American scientist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at the University of California, Berkeley.

Rine received his B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany in 1975 and his Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the University of Oregon in 1979. He then joined the Berkeley faculty in 1982. He is also a former director of the Human Genome Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, an honorific leadership group of the American Society for Microbiology. As a graduate student with Ira Herskowitz Rine codiscovered yeast SIR proteins, conserved chromatin organizing proteins that modulate gene expression across taxa. As a professor, Rine was also one of the organizers of the Dog Genome Project. He was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor in 2006. His work focuses on epigenetics and understanding the impact of human genetic variation.

Stolen laptop incident
In 2005, a video was posted online depicting Rine speaking before a class and explaining that his laptop had been stolen. He warned the thief, whom Rine believed to be one of the students, that there was extremely sensitive data on the laptop from various sources, and that as a result the thief could end up serving time in federal prison.

Honors and awards

 * 2015 president of the Genetics Society of America

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User:Brookie/The bizarre

Bizarre Adjective - very strange or unusual, especially so as to cause interest or amusement [edit]

Flying frozen chickens
In Newcastle (north of Sydney, Australia) the town has been suffering from the strange phenomena of being bombarded by flying frozen chickens.

Premier Bob Carr said of the event, "Sometimes the unexpected happens...and frozen chickens hurtling through the stratosphere, then smashing through roof tiles into people's houses, is just one of the mysteries of existence. I can't explain it, I had no role in it."

There had been a number of recent incidents in which frozen chickens have been seen plummeting earthwards at high speeds and punching their way through the roofs of local houses. Senior police constable Tony Tamplin said, "...the carcasses are hitting these homes with great force. I don't want to make light of this, but these are battery hens in more senses than one."

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Flying Frozen Sausages
The Times on 20 April 2005 reported that a motorist from South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, England was recovering from a broken nose after being hit by a flying frozen sausage. The projectile apparently attacked him after coming through his open window. [edit]

Mike the headless chicken
Mike the headless chicken lived for 18 months in America, in the 1940's after his head was chopped off by his owner Lloyd Olson. The lack of this organ did not appear to have been noticed by Mike, who carried on much as usual until he choked to death one day.

Fishing boat sunk by flying cow
It is reported that the dazed crew of a Japanese trawler were plucked of the Sea of Japan clinging to the wreckage of their sunken ship. Their rescue, however, was followed by the imprisonment of the boat's crew once authorities started to question the sailors on their ship's loss. They all maintained that a cow, falling out of a clear sky, had struck the trawler amidships, shattering its hull and sinking the vessel within minutes.

No one believed them, suspecting them of drunkenness or worse and so they remained in prison for several weeks, until the Russian Air Force reluctantly informed Japanese authorities that the crew of one of its cargo planes had apparently stolen a cow wandering at the edge of a Siberian airfield, forced the cow into the plane's hold and rather rashly then taken off for home. Unprepared for live cargo, the Russian crew was ill-equipped to manage a now rampaging and fed-up cow within its hold. To save the aircraft and themselves, they pushed the animal out of the cargo hold as they crossed the Sea of Japan at an altitude of 30,000 feet.

The cow story is an urban legend that may have started as long ago as 1965.

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Ong Keng Yong

Ong Keng Yong (born 6 January 1954) is a Singaporean diplomat who served as the 11th secretary-general of ASEAN between 2003 and 2007. He is currently the Executive Deputy Chairman of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at the Nanyang Technological University.

Education
Ong graduated from the University of Singapore (now the National University of Singapore) in 1979 with a Bachelor of Laws with honours degree. He subsequently went on to complete a Master of Arts degree in Arab studies at Georgetown University.

Career
Ambassador Ong Keng Yong is Executive Deputy Chairman of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is concurrently Director of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS) and Head of International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) at RSIS.

Ong continues to hold the position of Ambassador-at-Large at the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is also Singapore’s Non-Resident High Commissioner to Pakistan and Non-Resident Ambassador to Iran. Mr Ong was the Chairman of the Singapore International Foundation (SIF) from 2015 to 2023.

Ong was High Commissioner of Singapore to Malaysia from 2011 to 2014. He served as High Commissioner of Singapore to India and concurrently Singapore’s Ambassador to Nepal from 1996 to 1998.

Ong served as the 11th Secretary-General of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), based in Jakarta, Indonesia, for 5 years from January 2003.

Ong started his diplomatic career in 1979 and was posted to the Singapore Embassies in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and the United States of America between 1984 and 1994. From September 1998 to December 2002, he was Press Secretary to the then Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr Goh Chok Tong, while holding senior appointments in the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, and the People’s Association in Singapore. From 2008 to 2011, he served as Director of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

In 2022, then Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen took issue with remarks made by Ong in relation to a visit by Hun Sen to Myanmar.

Awards
Ong had received several awards throughout his career. He was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 1997, the Long Service Award in 2002 and the Meritorious Service Medal in 2008 by the Singapore Government. He also received the Medal of Friendship from Laos in 2007, and the Medal of Sahametrei from Cambodia in 2007.

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Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran

Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran ; 19 February 1845 – 22 September 1914) also spelt Kerala Varma Valiya Koilthampuran and known as Kerala Varma, was a Malayalam - language poet and translator who had an equal facility in writing in English and Sanskrit from the Indian state of Kerala. He was a prince of Parappanad, and consort to the Senior Rani of Attingal and Maharani of Travancore, Bharani Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi, intended to father future sovereigns of Travancore, although the couple was childless, necessitating the adoption of Lakshmi Bayi's grand-nieces. Kerala Varma is also known as the Kalidasa of Kerala, and was both brother-in-law and cousin to painter Raja Ravi Varma, also a prince of Parappanad, though from the Kilimanoor branch, whom he presented with his first oil paints. A third Parappanad prince, his grammarian nephew A. R. Raja Raja Varma, is known as the Panini of Kerala.

Kerala Varma has been called "a colossal Renaissance figure in 19th century Kerala" and "perhaps the first of the major [Malayalam language] writers who consciously and deliberately began to absorb and celebrate the Western influence" on his native literature. He advocated resuscitation of Malayalam literature by absorbing selected Western influences combined with native Sanskritic elements in poetry, drama and prose.

Life
He was born in Changanacherry at the Lakshmipuram Palace on 19 February 1845 (6 Kumbham 1020) in Pooyam star. His mother was Pooram Nal Devi Amba Thampuratti while his father was Cheriyoor Mullapally Narayanan Namboothiri of Perinchelloor Gramam in Taliparamba, in Kannur. His family had fled Malabar and sought refuge in Travancore during the invasion of Tipu Sultan towards the end of the 18th century. After peace was restored, however, the Parappanad Royal family agreed to accept a pension from the British government and also from that of Travancore, in which several branches would remain, from among which future princes consort of the seniormost two females in the Travancore royal family, Senior and Junior Rani of Attingal, each a Maharani of Travancore, were drawn.

Although the Koil Thampuran was born at Changanacherry, his family subsequently moved to Haripad and settled at the Ananthapuram Palace. In 1859 he was married to Her Highness Bharani Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi, the adopted niece of Uthram Thirunal, then Maharajah of Travancore. His marriage to the Senior Rani thus brought him into close association with the Travancore Royal Family. Later, however, through palace intrigues and personal disaffection with the Maharajah Ayilyam Thirunal he was confined at Haripad forcefully in 1875, only to be released and reunited with his wife in 1880 by Maharajah Visakham Thirunal. He wrote an apology letter to Ayilyam Tihirunal on 26 January 1877 admitting all charges including being in league with Visakham Thirunal and writing a letter to the diwan and later lying that he never wrote such a letter. He also admitted of being attracted to Christianity and addicted to Bhang. He was awarded with the Companion of the Order of the Star of India in 1885 by the British Government. After the death of his consort Rani Lakshmi Bayi in 1901 he was appointed the guardian of her two grandnieces, the Senior and Junior Ranis of Travancore, including Maharani Sethu Lakshmi Bayi. He died in a car accident in September 1914. At that time, cars were rare in India, and only rich people like him had cars. According to the sources, Kerala Varma was going to Vaikom Mahadeva Temple with his nephew and disciple A. R. Rajaraja Varma, another great scholar, called as 'Kerala Panini'. On the way of return, he stayed at Ananthapuram Palace, Haripad. The next day, while going to Thiruvananthapuram, his car got crashed, and he succumbed to his injuries two days later.

People from various spheres mourned his death. He was cremated with full state honours at his home in Changanassery.

Literary works
Kerala Varma was in close touch with literary movements in both northern and southern parts of Kerala, including Bhashaposhini Sabha and magazines such as Vidya Vinodini and Malayala Manorama.

His work Abhijnana Sakunthalam(1898), a translation of Kalidasa's Sakunthalam, is one of the most acclaimed works of poetry in Malayalam from that period. It influenced a number of other translations of Sanskrit classics into Malayalam and was a success on the stage. The subsequent spate of translations from English and Sanskrit into Malayalam was an important feature of Malayalam literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He has also written Mayoorasandesham (also spelt Mayura Sandesam; 1894 ) on the line of Kalidasa's MeghaDooth(aka Meghaduta). In this poetry he has used the peacocks of Haripad temple to send his messages to his wife, the Maharani, in Trivandrum. His celebrated work Visakhavijaya was written after his release by Visakham Thirunal.

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School chemistry experiments and demonstrations
Tranwiki to Wikibooks, and merged with existing wikibook wikibooks:Constructing school science lab equipment (probably with a new wikibook title). Along with (probably) all the articles listed. -- Egil 07:33, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/School physics experiments and demonstrations

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School physics experiments and demonstrations
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The bizarre

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The bizarre
This is a collection of some strange stories that, as of the time I am writing this, involve chickens and a sausage. There isn't any unifying concept other than how likely it is that they will be seen as...bizarre. I just can't see any way this constitutes an article. Delete. Postdlf 07:38, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Should have speedy deleted it while I had the chance. Moncrief 07:42, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * I did speedy it once, but after the contributor (who is not a newbie, btw) recreated it and expanded it further, I thought this would be a better resolution. I also don't know that it's technically nonsense.  I don't think the stories are hoaxes, they just don't really relate to each other beyond tone, and I don't think any of them on their own are notable.  Postdlf 07:46, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not suitable material for an encyclopedia.-gadfium 08:25, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep- the author of the infamous article here - admittedly it needs some work - but I don't see why with some work it can't evolve into something more interesting and useful. Jumping on the article within seconds of its creation doesn't really give it much of a change to breath and have exposure to the Wiki community who will no doubt be able to expand on it. The subject of the bizarre - which at the moment isn't represented is a bona fide subject and could do with some exposure. The topic is no more ridiculous than many of the other unusual articles on WIki especially as on the Unusual articles section. The few bits in the article are well sourced and actual bizarre events - Lighten up and give the article a chance! Brookie 08:59, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * You've summarized a Times news report from 2005-04-20 (yesterday) and summarized an AFP news report from 2005-02-10. Brookie, news summaries are one of the things that the newspaper explicitly does and Wikinews:Category:Wackynews is calling to you, loudly and clearly.  It hasn't seen enough activity of late.  Wikinews needs you! Uncle G 14:23, 2005 Apr 21 (UTC)
 * I don't see the need for this article, but its subsections (such as Mike the headless chicken, which to my surprise turned out to be true) may be interesting elsewhere (see WP:UA). Or in a section of Wikinews. Delete. Radiant_* 10:49, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - whacky and a bit raw - but something to work on here. There is a story about a Japanese fishing boat sunk by a flying cow - which would go well in here - I'm with Bookie on this. McGnasher 12:48, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd forgotten about that one - updated the article for it.
 * This isn't an encyclopaedia article, it's a collection of news summaries (with a reference to Mike the headless chicken added for flavour). Maybe there's an encyclopaedia article to be had on the bizarre as a concept, although I suspect that it will be tremendously difficult to pin down what the concept actually is.  This isn't such an article, though.  As it stands, this is just Wackynews stories in the encyclopaedia, rather than in the newspaper where they belong.  As Radiant! points out, we already have WP:UA for a list of bizarre, off-beat, and unusual encyclopaedia articles.  And in all of the time that we've had it no-one has yet pinned down an encyclopaedia article on the unusual. Delete, and strongly encourage the author and McGnasher to come and to contribute to the section of Wikinews devoted to taking just this sort of this stuff. Uncle G 14:23, 2005 Apr 21 (UTC)
 * Brookie here - I will investigate the Wikinews which I haven't really looked at to date. On another point, how can stuff get into WP:UA if the articles to go in there are deleted! Brookie 14:43, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * From your article here, it looks like Wackynews will be right up your street. As for the latter question: Mike the Headless Chicken, which you've done a lot of work on, is already listed in WP:UA, and hasn't been deleted.  So the question is somewhat moot. Uncle G 15:44, 2005 Apr 21 (UTC)
 * It does look pretty cool, but we already have this covered in Unusual articles, right? Merge this article onto that list. --Idont Havaname 14:54, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * This page as I understand is only a clearing house for the more wacky articles - not a place where the articles live unsupported. There's always Bad_jokes_and_other_deleted_nonsense Brookie 15:53, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Not encyclopedic. Delete. - Mike Rosoft 16:20, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I can see Unusual articles, but as summerized above, this just doesn't belong here. --InShaneee 19:05, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It is more suited for Wikinews. Zzyzx11 | Talk 19:37, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, unencyclopedic. Kill it before it expands.  RickK 20:02, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, so you are indicating that it CAN become unequivicably encyclopedic, and thus immune to deletion, but somehow that offends you. - Pioneer-12 15:51, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Feco 21:11, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's not an encyclopedia article.  Rossami (talk) 05:20, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for so many reasons: nonencyclopedic, partly dicdef, partly unverifiable, potentially POV (what seems bizarre to one person may not seem so to another), the list goes on and on... --Angr/comhrá 05:30, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Moncrief should have speedy deleted it while s/he had the chance. El_C 07:28, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki into Wikinews and delete - Skysmith 08:56, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Wikipedia is big enough for the bizzare. Klonimus
 * Delete. Wikipedia is neither Wikinews nor an Odditorium. --Carnildo 22:17, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, trivial, not encyclopaedic. Megan1967 06:04, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Definate Keep I do not see what is wrong with the article, it is perfectly factual, I found the article amusing and quite interesting. Definatly KEEP Electricmoose 14:11, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete while the content may be factual its not placed in any coherent context. Its like an episode of Mythbusters. Andypasto 08:42, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Bizarre is a complex concept worthy of Wikipedia and worthy of serious study. Bizarre is a statement of being extremely unusual, to the point of seeming to bend reality. Ripley's Believe It or Not! has a whole chain of museums on the subject. The article does need some improvement, though. - Pioneer-12 14:24, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not encyclopedic, utterly unsourced, unverifiable. CDC   (talk)  23:31, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-encyclopedic. Unverifiable. utcursch | talk 11:44, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete zellin 20:35, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
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Scalped (comics)

Scalped is a 60-issue crime/western comic book series written by Jason Aaron and illustrated by R. M. Guéra, published monthly by Vertigo Comics. Issue #1 was published on January 3, 2007.

The series focuses on the Oglala Lakota inhabitants of the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation in modern-day South Dakota as they grapple with organized crime, rampant poverty, drug addiction and alcoholism, local politics and the preservation of their cultural identity.

Inspiration
Scalped originally began as a prospective relaunch of Scalphunter, an older DC character. As development proceeded, much of the original concept was abandoned in favor of the current plot.

Jason Aaron has said the plot of the comic is partly inspired by Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who was arrested for the murder of two FBI agents in a reservation shootout in 1975.

Indian Country
After fifteen years of absence, Dashiell Bad Horse returns to the "Rez" and is promptly arrested and taken to Lincoln Red Crow, President of the Oglala Tribal Council and Sheriff of the Tribal Police. Red Crow, bemoaning the prevalence of "half-breed" Indians and desiring more enforcers to counteract the nativists protesting his new Crazy Horse Casino, hires Bad Horse onto the Tribal Police Force. After raiding a number of meth labs to clean up the Reservations' public image before the opening of the casino, it would appear Bad Horse has cemented his reputation as a ruthless and effective Tribal officer. In reality, Bad Horse is an undercover FBI agent, overseen by SAC Agent Baylis Earl Nitz and ordered to find evidence linking Red Crow to the murder of two FBI agents thirty years ago, during Red Crow's time as a member of Native-American rights organization, co-run with Dashiell's estranged mother, Gina Bad Horse.

Dashiell's initial doubts about the undercover operation are exacerbated when he and his partner, Officer Falls Down, are sent by Red Crow to raid a meth house without backup. Bursting into the house, the pair are ambushed by a gang of gunmen, which succeed in wounding Falls Down but are all killed by the ruthless Dashiell. Confronting Nitz at a pre-staged meeting point, Dashiell angrily argues with him before breaking away in disgust, realizing his job is far from over. Declaring Dashiell an arrogant, reckless, stubborn, out-of-control "borderline sociopath with deep-seated anger", Nitz remains convinced that he's perfect for the undercover assignment.

Hoka Hey
In issues #4 and #5, the relationship between Gina and Red Crow is explored in flashback as Gina hunts for Dash before leaving town to visit Lawrence Belcourt, the man charged with the 1975 murder of two FBI Agents. Meanwhile, Dash runs off all of Carol's lovers before sleeping with her. We learn more about how Dash was recruited into the FBI, and at the end, Gina's body is shown scalped and abandoned in the wilderness. The term "Hoka Hey" is used by Catcher as a toast to the Dog Soldiers.

Casino Boogie
Issues #6 through #11 are each devoted to a single character, providing information about their histories and their motivations in the present: Dash arrests Diesel and has a strange conversation with Catcher, who reveals that he knows Dash is FBI. Red Crow also has an encounter with Catcher, as a result of which Diesel, who has ransacked Red Crow's office and murdered his dogs, escapes; Red Crow also learns that Johnny Tongue's gang whose money helped build the casino has sent "Mr. Brass". Diesel's background is explored, especially his desire to be treated as an Indian despite his blond hair and white appearance; in the end, it is revealed that Diesel is the other FBI agent and that he has stolen two the scalps of FBI Agent Steve L. Berntson and Robert M. Bayer from Red Crow for Nitz. Catcher has a long conversation with Granny about his need to speak with Gina. It is also shown that he can see other people's animal totems, such as Red Crow's elk totem, Dash's spider totem, Granny's bear totem, and his own owl totem (this is summed up by Granny Poor Bear saying that "Just cause you got drunk and started seeing things Catcher ain't mean you can see peoples spirit totems"). Catcher calls Gina but has a terrifying vision before he can say anything to her. Dino's homelife is shown, along with his desire to leave the reservation; while cleaning up Diesel's vandalism at the casino, he gains the sympathy of Red Crow, who gives him money. Gina's actions in 1975 are explored, as well as her conversation with Belcourt at his prison; at the end of her issue, her body is discovered by Dino and his friends.

Dreaming Himself into the Real World
In the single-issue storyline "Dreaming Himself into the Real World", Dash, an FBI agent, confronts his fears of being discovered while exploring his hidden Indian heritage. Through a transformative dream, guided by his deceased mother, Dash journeys through significant moments in Lakota history, inspiring him to embrace his cultural identity and face his fears. This exploration leads Dash to a newfound sense of purpose and self-acceptance as he integrates his FBI career with his Indian heritage.

Dead Mothers
Issues #13 through #17: after raiding a meth house, Dash assumes control of a homicide investigation after discovering Diesel strangled an addict as her children slept in the next room. Red Crow, filled with grief and anger over Gina's murder, finds his affairs complicated with the arrival of Mr. Brass, a ruthless enforcer sent by gang leader Johnny Tongue to purge the reservation of perceived threats to the casino.

Dash is informed of his mother's death and chooses instead to focus on the deceased addict's homicide case, in the process playing surrogate father to her eldest teenage son Shelton, taking him camping and teaching him to shoot. Mr. Brass tortures Dash's witness and learns Diesel's location, which he provides to an incredulous Dash. Dash canvases White Haven, Nebraska, where he is rebuffed by Sheriff Wooster Karnow, the corrupt law enforcement official ruling over White Haven.

As the investigation seemingly hits a dead end, Dash sends Shelton to live with his relatives in Canada. During a routine traffic stop, Dash discovers the occupants of the car have sold Shelton a firearm and offered directions to Nebraska. Dash arrives at a trailer park to find Shelton dead from gunshot wounds, his killer Diesel already in Sheriff Karnow's custody.

Realizing he is the only person interested in discovering Gina Bad Horse's murderer, Red Crow approaches Officer Falls Down and asks him to conduct an independent investigation. Burdened by Shelton's death, Dash instigates a bar fight and drunkenly stumbles down the road, arriving at his deceased mother's home. Overwhelmed by guilt and the loss of his mother, Dash breaks down, and spends the night in his old bedroom.

The Gravel in Your Guts
Dino Poor Bear, finally able to afford the necessary automotive parts, takes his partially restored Camaro on the highway and is promptly pulled over by the corrupt Reservation Police, who task him with delivering a package over state lines to a meth dealer. Upon arriving at his destination, Dino is surprised when the dealer offers him a regular job making illicit deliveries.

Red Crow is approached by Grandma Poor Bear, who gives him Gina's soul bundle. Per Lakota tradition, the guardian of the bundle must maintain a harmonious life for a year, to properly purify the soul in the bundle to allow it to travel the spirit path. This task proves challenging to Red Crow, prompting him to abstain from his typical criminal dealings while also forcing him to remember his turbulent past with Gina and the sins and evils he's perpetrated on the journey to opening his casino.

Mr. Brass, classifying the Reservation occupants as inferior animals, treats them as such, routinely torturing or murdering Red Crow's employees for dealing drugs, weapons, and various other minor crimes whose prosecution could lead to an investigation into the casino. One night, Brass and his bodyguards follow a pair of corrupt Reservation police into a bar, killing them and cornering their delivery boy, Dino Poor Bear, gouging out his eye to punish him for his crimes. Red Crow, who refused to deal with Brass because of his pledge to Gina's soul bundle, whispers a heartfelt apology to it before entering the bar, killing both of Brass's bodyguards and arresting Brass.

With Brass in jail and Dino in the hospital, Red Crow returns the soul bundle to Grandma Poor Bear.

High Lonesome
Wesley Willeford, a career con-artist and robber, arrives at the Prairie Rose Reservation to count cards, having squandered his career earnings and opportunities following his expulsion from most major casinos. Bemoaning his lack of luck and dire financial straits, he recognizes Dashiel Bad Horse as the FBI Agent who busted him years ago in Alabama. Assembling his old crew, Willeford threatens to reveal Dash's FBI undercover status to Red Crow unless he helps them rob the casino. The robbery goes awry and Dash tracks down and murders the robbers. Returning to Carol's apartment and on the verge of a meltdown, Dash reveals to her that he is an undercover FBI agent.

Diesel's past is revealed as a childhood of broken dreams, an absent mother, an alcoholic father and a constant struggle with his racial identity, ultimately leading him to orchestrate his abusive father's death at the hands of several Indian thugs. Baylis Earl Nitz's motivations are revealed as loyalty to the two deceased FBI agents Bayer and Berntson, both of whom were shot and scalped on reservation land, and whom Nitz vowed to avenge by pursuing and convicting their murderers. Officer Falls Down continues his investigation into Gina Bad Horse's homicide, which he believes is connected to the death of Bayer and Berntson. In prison, Lawrence Belcourt, a close friend of Gina convicted for Bayer and Berntson's murders, reflects on the events that day, revealing the murderer of the FBI agents to be Catcher.

At Gina's grave, Catcher apologizes for murdering her, promising to save her son and help him lead the Lakota people.

The Gnawing
In White Haven, Sheriff Karnow refuses to transfer Diesel into Bad Horse's custody, instead giving him Catcher, drunk from the night before. On their ride back to Prairie Rose, Catcher prophesizes Bad Horse as a Lakota warrior meant to save the reservation, and offers his assistance. At the Tribal Police Station, as Mr. Brass sits in his cell, Red Crow tasks Bad Horse with finding the undercover FBI Agent on his reservation, not realizing it is Bad Horse. Johnny Tongue, livid with the imprisonment of Mr. Brass, threatens Red Crow, who in turn shoots Mr. Brass and hangs up on Johnny Tongue. Unbeknownst to Red Crow at the time is Ben White Elk, a local dealer in the next cell who witnessed the shooting, a loose end Shunka vows to fix later.

Johnny Tongue, driven by rage, assembles his gang and begins the long drive to Prairie Rose. Hearing about the witness to Mr. Brass's death, Agent Nitz orders Bad Horse to keep White Elk alive so Nitz can take him into custody. In the restroom, White Elk recognizes Bad Horse as one of his customers, and threatens to tell Red Crow about his heroin habit if he doesn't help him escape. Bad Horse helps White Elk out of the station, but loses custody of him when he escapes. The lone witness now missing, both Nitz and Red Crow call in reinforcements and begin a statewide manhunt.

At Nitz's headquarters, Bad Horse learns from Agent Newsome that Diesel will be transferred to a mental facility for imprisonment, a revelation he passes to a livid Diesel. In White Haven, Bad Horse finds Catcher and asks a favor. As the FBI narrows their search to the mountains, White Elk is horrified when Shunka finds him first. Held at knifepoint and ready to reveal who helped him escape, White Elk is abruptly shot from a distance. The gunman, Catcher, escapes detection. As Agent Newsome drives Diesel to his destination, Diesel kills him and pulls onto the side of the road to meet Bad Horse in the brush. At the Tribal Police Station, Johnny Tongue and his men arrive, as Red Crow appears, alone and unarmed. He offers no resistance as Johnny Tongue fiercely beats him.

As Bad Horse and Diesel travel deeper into the brush, Bad Horse wounds Diesel with a gunshot, disarms him and calmly yet slowly murders him with tens of bullets, revenge for killing the young boy. At the Tribal Police Station, Red Crow is bandaged, his beating over and Johnny Tongue and his men gone, having inflicted their punishment for Red Crow's insubordination. Falls Down enters Catcher's residence where he discovers physical evidence confirming him to be Gina's murderer, just as Catcher knocks him out. Johnny Tongue returns to his penthouse to find everyone dead. From the shadows, Red Crow and Shunka, who rode their helicopter ahead of Tongue's motorcade, murder Tongue and his men.

At Prairie Rose, Bad Horse offers Red Crow photographs of Diesel's corpse and reveals him as the undercover FBI Agent, an assertion that Red Crow's intelligence backs up.

In the hospital, Carol discovers she is pregnant with Bad Horse's child.

Rez Blues
A look is given into the histories of both Carol Ellroy's history back to when her mother, Claudine, tried two times self-abort her and Red Crow convincing her not to. But after an unknown amount of time Claudine leaves both Red Crow and Carol. It is also revealed that Gina Bad Horse, Dashiell's mother, aborted a child a few years after Dashiell was born and shows her leaving Dashiell's father immediately after leaving the abortion clinic. It also shows Carol contemplating suicide before Granny Poor Bear tells her that having a baby is a good thing and also convinces her to join a rehabilitation clinic and move in with her. Carol joins the rehab center and burns down her own house. Parallel to these events Dashiell is kidnapped by Red Crow, wanting to make Dashiell detox, takes him and leaves him in a tent where he hallucinates and wanders to his mother's grave. Before this Dashiell's father Wade comes to the Rez, apparently on account of Gina's funeral. Wade rescues Dashiell from the cold and brings him to the hospital. Later Wade tells Dashiell that his real purpose of coming back was to catch Gina's killer. Carol and Dashiell meet and both think of revealing every thing (Dasheill that he is in love with her and Carol that she is pregnant) but they don't and agree not to meet up later. The next day Carol aborts her child while Dashiell waits where he had agreed with Wade to meet but on the way there Wade is stopped by Agent Nitz who doesn't want Dashiell and Wade to meet. Wade soon realizes that Dashiell's identity as a Federal Investigator. Carol reveals to Granny Poor Bear that she didn't keep the baby and Granny takes her under her wing and trains to care for her house after she dies. The story arc completes with Dashiell sitting near his mother grave.

Characters
Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse (Lakota: Sunkawakan Sica), a.k.a. Dashiell Bradford, is a full-blooded Oglala Lakota who left the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation at the age of thirteen before returning with a vengeance in 2007. Although happy to have left the reservation, he resents his mother for sending him away, believing she chose activist causes over the welfare of her only child. The fifteen years in between were spent on contact sports, learning Jeet Kune Do and Boxing, and serving with the U.S. Army in the Kosovo War before becoming an FBI agent. A fiery brawler that taps into his anger during fights, he has defeated hordes of enemies at a time, but is not the sort of man to kill in cold blood. He shaves his head and wears several earrings. His cold, withdrawn, anti-social demeanor contrasts with his propensity to start fights with little provocation or reason. Described by FBI Special Agent Baylis Nitz as a "borderline sociopath", his motivation for returning to the reservation is at first unknown, but later revealed to be legal troubles which Nitz has promised to erase if Dashiell successfully completes his mission.

IGN ranked Dashiell Bad Horse as the 62nd greatest comic book hero of all time stating "that Bad Horse shows us how dark you can go with an anti-hero to still make us root for him".

Chief Lincoln Red Crow (Lakota: Kangi Sa), a.k.a. John Rayfield Bustill, a bullish Lakota elder in his fifties, Red Crow's professional demeanor conceals a cold determination to elevate his Reservation beyond their dire surroundings, no matter the cost. A "big man" on the reservation with fingers in many pies, he is President of the Oglala Tribal Council, Sheriff of the Tribal Police Force and managing director of the Crazy Horse, his chief project since leaving the Native American Rights movement. The need to balance feuding parties with conflicting interests, as well as raising the necessary funds, has led him into a position of a local crime lord, managing his interests in drugs, prostitution and arms dealing. Publicly and privately, Red Crow is not shy about drawing attention to the overwhelming problems of the reservation, or his efforts to reduce them, statements dismissed by his critics who claim he's merely a mob boss presiding over a criminal empire feeding off the reservation.

Red Crow has unresolved romantic feelings for Gina Bad Horse, with whom he shares a history during their times as militant Native American rights activists. His estranged daughter Carol refuses to speak to him civilly, and he becomes concerned with Dashiell's obsession with her. As the series continues, his attempts at redemption are met with mixed results, idealism clashing against the cold reality of life on the Rez.

Gina Bad Horse: Dashiell's estranged mother, and a longtime activist pushing for the rights of Native Americans. With Lincoln Red Crow and Lawrence Belcourt, she participated in the ambush and murder of two FBI agents who entered the reservation one night in 1975. While she initially held the wounded agents under the gun, Red Crow took the pistol from her and was hinted to have executed them himself initially, saying that she didn't want to have the killing on her conscience. In the present time, she and her band of protesters now oppose Red Crow's plans to open the casino. Her murder drives much of the plot of the series, as it touches the lives not only of Dash and Red Crow, but of Belcourt, Catcher, Nitz, and Wade.

Britt "Diesel" Fillenworth: Gina Bad Horse's boyfriend/companion, a skilled hand-to-hand combatant, with a reputation for violence and erratic, near-sociopathic behavior. It is often remarked (generally contemptuously) that he is white, although he reacts badly to this, claiming to be 1/16 West Texas Kickapoo. In Gina's absence, he breaks into Red Crow's office at the casino, steals something critical (which he later hands off to FBI agent Nitz), trashes the office and kills Red Crow's dogs. After a long, drawn-out fight with Dashiell he is arrested, only to escape before Red Crow and his men can take any action against him. He lived with his abusive father until he decided he wasn't going to take it anymore and set up his father to be robbed and killed. The items he stole from Red Crow have recently been revealed to be the scalps of the two murdered FBI agents. Diesel is eventually released from jail by Nitz, who plans to have him eliminated under the guise of being taken to a safehouse. Informed of this plan by Dash, he kills Nitz's assistant Newsome before being himself killed by Dash.

FBI SAC Baylis Earl Nitz: A vengeful, unscrupulous and amoral FBI Agent who was present at Dashiell's birth and had had his eye on him for some time, insisting that he be made an FBI Field Agent when it seemed his mother's record would prevent that. He is driven by a desire to see Red Crow behind bars for murder, something that has eluded him since the seventies when Red Crow and Gina got away scot free from the murder of two FBI Agents. He will do anything to get what he wants, even if it means sacrificing Dashiell. He left the two scalps of the murdered agents on their graves, rather than using them as evidence (which may have been impossible anyway, since he obtained them illegally). After his agents Newsome and Diesel are killed, he is relieved of duty, only to be restored to duty after he accidentally wipes out an entire gang of Jordanian terrorists. Given a new set of team members, he returns to his quest to take down Red Crow.

Carol Ellroy (née Red Crow): Married to someone called Ellroy, although she doesn't much care about the fact. She probably married him (a non-Indian) just to spite her father. Pretty much exactly Dashiell's age, the two shared their first erotic experience at the age of thirteen, when she let him watch her urinate. Now that Dashiell has returned, he is repelled by her promiscuity yet attracted by her beauty. It is unclear whether she is a femme fatale or a damsel in distress. She and Dash become lovers, and she gets him hooked on drugs. But when he tells her he is FBI, she kicks him out. She eventually learns that she is pregnant with Dash's child, and tries to start a new life with Granny. Eventually she decides to abort the baby without ever telling Dash about the pregnancy. Still, Granny wants her to take her place as the reservation healer. She also forms a friendship with Dino, although her continued feelings for Dash prevent for recognizing Dino as a potential love interest.

Dino Poor Bear: A young man struggling to make a living on the reservation. He encounters Dashiell at a meth lab which Dashiell is shutting down. Poor Bear wants a better life for himself and his daughter, and would like to leave the reservation. He works as a janitor for the Crazy Horse casino and eventually gets money from Red Crow to fix up his car. He is eventually pressed back into a life of crime as a drug-delivery boy. When Carol moves in with him and Granny, he begins to think that she could be his girlfriend; he even turns in his friends after discovering they are responsible for the hit-and-run death of a reservation girl. He uses the reward money to buy Carol a pair of earrings she liked, but when she continues to talk about her feelings for Dash, he tosses the earrings. It is implied by Catcher that Dino will be taking a dark and violent path.

Arthur J. "Catcher" Pendergrass, born 1952 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, was a man of Red Crow's generation; he was present when the federal agents died, but he has never said a word about his role in the murders. Upon seeing Gina, whom he had loved his entire life, kiss Red Crow passionately he snaps and kills the two agents, who were being held at gunpoint. Years later, when confronted by an angry Gina, he kills and scalps her, possibly to prevent being turned in for the crime. He makes up for it by talking to himself (or, rather, his horse named Festus) as present events progress, providing us with a running commentary. His reactions to other characters are particularly insightful, as he believes he can see their spirit animals. His own totem is an owl. When Officer Falls Down realizes his guilt, he kidnaps him and puts him through a tortuous "spiritual" test, which Falls Down passes with the help of Gina's spirit. Catcher then visits Dash and gives him the choice to save Officer Falls Down or find Gina's killer; Catcher hopes Dash will choose well, but Dash chooses to find the killer, and does not realize from Catcher's words that Catcher is himself the killer. Catcher shoots at Dash in the truck, but just at that moment Dash swerves to avoid hitting Officer Falls Down (still handcuffed and blindfolded and stumbling through the woods); Dash and Cather shoot at each other. Catcher escapes, while Dash and Officer Falls Down find Festus and get back to the reservation.

Uday "Shunka" Sartana: Chief Red Crow's bodyguard and closest associate. In a two-part arc focusing on Shunka, it is revealed that he is a closeted homosexual who has to deal with widespread homophobia in his line of work, including from Red Crow himself. Shunka is distrustful of Dash and their rivalry heats up as the series progresses. Though he is always referred to his nickname, which is "dog" in Lakota, his mostly unknown real name suggests he was born elsewhere. He is revealed to be in love with Red Crow when he kisses him just as Red Crow exiles him from the Rez. He immediately confronts Dash after leaving the rez and despite winning the confrontation, he is killed by an arriving Red Crow, but not before confessing his love for him.

Officer Franklin Falls Down: The single straight cop on the rez. He was assigned to cover Gina's murder and may be getting more information than he expected as he begins to investigate. His wife, Sherry, was killed in a car accident by Parker Louvin, a notorious alcoholic on the rez. He talks with Belcourt and eventually finds Catcher's trailer, where he realizes Catcher is the killer. Catcher kidnaps him and puts him through a tortuous trial, which Falls Down passes with the help of Gina's spirit.

Agnes "Granny" Poor Bear (Iyotiyemato): The eldest of the Poor Bear family, this old woman seems to be the only source of true guidance on the Rez. Skilled in the old medicine, she offers spiritual counseling to many of the characters. Though she has no biological children of her own, she has fostered several, and continues to take care of the Poor Bear family. Her totem is a huge bear, one of the very few "strong" totems that have been revealed. She has taken Carol in to her home, and has asked her to be her successor on the reservation.

Dog Soldier Society: The DSS was a Native American activist group on the Oglala Reservation in the 1970s. Named after the famous warriors of Crazy Horse, they fought the Federal government for the rights of the indigenous people of America. Members included Lincoln Red Crow, Gina Bad Horse, Catcher, Lawrence Belcourt, and Reginald Standing Rock.

Reginald Standing Rock: One of the activists on the rez back in the day, he was suspected of being an informant for the FBI. Red Crow confronted him alone and although Reggie didn't confirm his status, he didn't deny it. Standing Rock was Red Crow's first murder victim - he choked Standing Rock for 11 minutes. Standing Rock's status as an informant is debated still by members of the Rez, including his wife, who denies it. It is later revealed that Gina's husband (Dash's father) Wade was the FBI agent, although no one else in the story knows this.

Lawrence Belcourt: A Dog Soldier who was present the night the two FBI agents were murdered. Although Belcourt barely participated, he was convicted of the crime when others were acquitted. He is serving life in a Federal prison, where he is under the protection of an African-American prison gang. Red Crow pays for this service until Belcourt tells him about his last conversation with Gina and tells him he no longer needs his protection. Belcourt physically resemble Leonard Pelltier.

Phuong Yii Brass: A member of the Hmong's criminal organization sent by Johnny Tongue to ensure the security of his investment, the Crazy Horse Casino. An older man with visible scars and missing his left arm, no doubt from his shady dealings. Does not like to ask questions twice and punishes his captives through extreme torture. He is a sadist who is not a stranger to using murder or rape to get what he wants. He was incarcerated by Red Crow as a hostage, until Red Crow assassinated him as a way of getting back at the Hmongs.

Johnny Tongue: The leader of a predominantly Hmong crime syndicate in Minneapolis/St. Paul who was an illicit investor in Lincoln Red Crow's business ventures in Prairie Rose, including the casino. Johnny sends his most vicious enforcer, Mr. Brass, to assert dominance over Red Crow and his operations and shape up his associates. Bristling at the interference, and revolted by Mr. Brass' revealed bloodlust and perversions, Red Crow eventually murders Brass, starting a war between his and Johnny Tongue's crews. After an apparent victory and assertion of dominance over Red Crow, Tongue and his crew are ambushed and murdered by Red Crow and Shunka.

Sheriff Wooster T. Karnow: The sheriff of neighboring White Haven, Nebraska. He claims to have played for the Cornhuskers and been a member of a special forces group but has a propensity for gross exaggeration. Karnow doesn't care about the methamphetamine being run out the rez so long as it doesn't affect his liquor sales. After a U.S. Marshal demonstrates Karnow's incompetence, Karnow begins to crack down on Red Crow's criminal side activities.

Wesley Willeford: An African American con man and card counter who used many aliases. He was taking down Red Crow's casino when he was spotted and thrown out. As he was leaving, he recognized Dashiell as an FBI agent—Dashiell once busted him—and blackmailed him into helping set up the casino for a robbery. The robbery went bad and Willeford died, along with the other members of the gang he put together for the robbery. Before setting up the robbery, Willeford murdered an Indian stripper to conceal his identity. Falls Down is researching that murder, too. Willeford accidentally dies of an overdose after being stuck with a needle of poisoned drugs intended for Dash.

Wade Rouleau: Dash's father, whom Gina kicked out during Dash's childhood but who returns when he hears of Gina's death. Wade is shown to have miraculously survived numerous deadly scrapes in Vietnam, and for that reason he was recruited by two of his war colleagues to be the FBI's mole in the Dog Soldiers. Dash brushes off Wade's return to the reservation, but agrees to work with him to discover the identity of Gina's murderer; however, before they can meet, Wade is picked up by Nitz and imprisoned on false pretenses in order to keep him away from Dash. He is locked up in the same cell with Catcher and is strangled by him to death in self-defence after learning Catcher was indeed the killer he was looking for.

Reception
Scalped has been met with near-universal praise throughout its run. Comic Book Resources referred to it as "one of the few comics capable of evoking real, visceral emotion from the reader", and Newsarama called the final issue an "awe inspiring conclusion" and gave the issue a score of 10 out of 10.

Collected editions
Scalped has been collected into the following trade paperbacks:

Scalped has also been released in deluxe editions:

Adaptation
Warner Horizon and DC Entertainment were developing for WGN America a live action Scalped TV pilot with Doug Jung writing and executive producing the series. Although the pilot was filmed in New Mexico in early April 2017, WGN decided to pass on the series in November after they saw the pilot episode.

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Talk:List of common Chinese surnames/Archive 1

Vietnamese spellings
Vietnamese spellings were added for all surnames by 66.167.192.167. Do all these surnames exist in Vietnam? Or just that they're the spellings of the same words in Vietnamese? :-D — Instantnood 07:38, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Vietnamese is very much related to Chinese, especially considering Vietnamese was once writtern using Chinese script. I dont see why the addition is something to question about?--Huaiwei 07:42, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, Vietnamese is not genetically related to Chinese, since it is technically part of another language family. However, it has incorporated a majority of its vocabulary from Chinese, including its naming system.  This situation is similar to Korean, which is also in a separate language family, but has also incorporated most of its vocabulary from Chinese.  Back to the point, since the names are originally of Chinese origin, there's no reason why they shouldn't be mentioned in the last column.  --Umofomia 07:58, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Are all these surnames of Vietnamese people? Some Han Chinese surnames are not found among Koreans, and I am not sure if it's also the case for Vietnamese. — Instantnood 08:11, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * This site shows the correspondence between certain Chinese characters and their equivalents in Vietnamese. I don't have the time to double-check all the names given (plus not all of the characters are in that site), but the ones I have checked looked okay.  You raised a good point though, and I'm not sure if they're all used by Vietnamese.  We'll have to find a Vietnamese person to confirm.  --Umofomia 08:19, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Seems like there aren't many Vietnamese editing on Wikipedia. :-D — Instantnood 14:49, May 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * I actually asked Vietnamese members in a forum, and they said its correct. Hardly scientific thou, but I would think they are alright to remain till anyone could validiy this convincingly.--Huaiwei 15:22, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Ethnic Chinese in Vietnam (Sino-Vietnamese) commonly write their surname using the Vietnamese writing system. In Vietnam, Mr. Chen might be known as Mr. Tran, and the romanization would carry over when Mr. Tran migrates to a country that uses the Latin alphabet. The presence of Vietnamese spellings of Chinese surnames doesn't neccessarily imply they're Vietnamese surnames. While many surnames are shared, some like Nguyen are unique to Vietnamese or very rare to Chinese, and I'm sure the opposite is true as well. --Yuje 22:41, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Nguyen (spelt Yuen in Hong Kong, Yuan according to Pinyin) is found in Guangdong, and probably in Guangxi. Some might have partial and distant Vietnamese or Kinh ancestry tho. — Instantnood 05:23, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Use this tool to find the Vietnamese pronunciation of Chinese characters. Many of these names are common in Vietnam, others are found only in the Hoa minority group.  There are in fact many Vietnamese speakers editing in Wikipedia, you'll just have to know where to look.  Just ask your question at vi:Wikipedia:Guestbook_for_non-Vietnamese_speakers and somebody will answer you.  This list of Vietnamese-speaking Wikipedians at the English Wikipedia is also growing. DHN 11:19, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Rankings by province/region
Is there any rankings by province or by region? It would be interesting to see the picture how some surnames are concentrated in certain regions. I've tried looking up on the internet but seems there isn't any. — Instantnood 23:58, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Some info (very limited) is given on Chinese surname. --Dpr 08:15, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Redundancy
Does the column for simplified character need to be filled in cases (of which there are several), in which the traditional and simplified form are identical? --Dpr 07:57, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

I also think that it is unnecessary; furthermore, it makes difficult to visualize which surnamens REALLY have simplified versions. 201.6.253.247 14:03, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I have just solved the redundancy issue. See if that works. -- Felix Wan 21:09, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Korean surnames
Most, if not all of the statistics I've seen list Kim as the most common Korean surname, but it is not indicated as such here. Instead, Lee/Yi is noted as the most common. Why? 82.123.155.250 18:25, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

 * This is a list of the top 100 Chinese surnames, and Li/Lee is the most common Chinese surname overall (7.9% of the population). Obviously, you can expect regional variations among populations.  For instance, in Taiwan, the most common is Chen (11%), and Lee drops to #4, as you can see here.  Kim ranks #1 in Korea (20% there) but is not as common among the Chinese (ranking #56 in the current list).  For Korean names you may want to check the List of Korean family names.  HYC 04:20, 22 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Han names only or all people in China?
Does the list have only Han surnames? Is it in order of the commonest? LDHan 21:10, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Alphabetical order
Wouldn´t it be better in ocidental alphabetical order (of course, respecting each section), just like the chinese page? 201.6.253.247 14:07, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * This is a list of the 100 most common names listed by frequency, while the Chinese page 中文姓氏列表 is a simply list of all Chinese surnames. The two pages serve different purposes and are not equivalent to one another. -- HYC 10:44, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Time to update the list
The top 100 surnames have changed according to a study just published in 2006:
 * 李王张刘陈杨黄赵周吴
 * 徐孙朱马胡郭林何高梁
 * 郑罗宋谢唐韩曹许邓萧
 * 冯曾程蔡彭潘袁于董余
 * 苏叶吕魏蒋田杜丁沈姜
 * 范江傅钟卢汪戴崔任陆
 * 廖姚方金邱夏谭韦贾邹
 * 石熊孟秦阎薛侯雷白龙
 * 段郝孔邵史毛常万顾赖
 * 武康贺严尹钱施牛洪龚

The reference is a news article, which may disappear after some time. If someone know the primary source or a more stable link, please post it here. While I am working on the list in User:Felix Wan/Draft/List of common Chinese surnames, discussion on the proposed change is also welcome. -- Felix Wan 20:03, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Done. -- Felix Wan 06:34, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Populations in general are fairly steady, and I wouldn't have expected great changes in just 15 years (such as a name listed #26 in 1990 being completely dropped out of the top 100 in just 16 years, as it has been the case). I believe much of the discrepances are due to the inadequate sampling.  For instance, it is said in Chinese surname that, overall, Li is the most common Chinese name, while Wang predominates in Northern China and Chen in Southern China. If that is true, then the referenced 1990 study, with a sample of 174900 persons (which represents only 0.013% of the total population in PRC) could well have been skewed totards Northern China, for instance.

 * I would like to see more details about this 2006 study included, either in the article or in the discussion, if possible (details like sampling, design of the study, geographical representation, agency responsible, how data was obtained, etc.). If the data comes from the Census Bureau, it probably would be more reliable. -- HYC 08:25, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

 * The news article says that the study was led by Yuan Yida of the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The sampling size was 296,000,000, covering 1100 counties and cities all over China. (There are 2862 county-level divisions according to Political divisions of China. The population is about 1,300,000,000.) Collected data were adjusted according to population proportion of counties, districts and provinces. -- Felix Wan 08:21, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

 * This article says that Yuan's study in 1987 concluded the first three to be Li, Wang and Zhang. The sample size was 570,000. That is more consistent with the current result than the quoted 1990 study is. -- Felix Wan 08:55, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I think positions can be a bit misleading without looking at the numbers of people or % of the population, as names could have similar numbers of people but positioned widely apart. Some of the names in the 1990 list does seem a bit odd, eg 26, Shé, people have told me that it's not a common surname. LDHan 11:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, Shé "佘" is odd to be old #26. I suspect some count could have come by mistake from Yú "余" (old #61 new #40). I doubt the accuracy of the 1990 study. Yuan Yida's study appears to be more accurate. -- Felix Wan 01:07, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I would suggest dropping the 1990 study and using instead the 1987 one for comparison with that of 2006. I also like the suggestion of adding the % of the population (or maybe the ‰).  Is such info available on the 2006 study? --HYC 06:56, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree with you, but I do not have such info. We will need help from other Wikipedians. The 1990 data is kept just to maintain a continuity in the discussion. We may consider dropping it later with or without the 1987 replacement. -- Felix Wan 22:52, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

There seems to be a great disparity in some of the 1990 and 2006 rankings... for example 葉 dropped from 11th in 1990 to 42nd in 2006... Did all the 葉s die off in these 16 years? More likely is that one of the censuses (censi?) is inaccurate. Same with 呂. --  Миборовский  23:52, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Mistake in Romanized surname 陸
--Rapunzel77gil 16:43, 14 April 2006 (UTC)The problem with romanizing the surnames is that it creates many variations. In justifying my statement, I noted an error in the 60th popular surname 陸. I share this surname and am a Cantonese. In the Romanized version, my surname is spelled as Loke. No doubt about the spelling. The Cantonese pronunciation for 陸 can either be Luk or Loke. A large majority in Singapore with the romanized surname Loke are Cantonese. The Hokkien Romanized version for 陸 however, is spelled as Lek not Loke.

Font
The text in the table is showing up in Times Roman. Can the font be changed to Arial so that it's not forced into Times? Thank you, Badagnani 08:42, 12 October 2006 (UTC)


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Thomas Babington

Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple (18 December 1758 – 21 November 1837) was an English philanthropist and politician. He was a member of the Clapham Sect, alongside more famous abolitionists such as William Wilberforce and Hannah More. An active anti-slavery campaigner, he had reservations about the participation of women associations in the movement.

Early life and education
He was the eldest son of Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, from whom he inherited Rothley and other land in Leicestershire in 1776. A member of the Babington family, he was educated at Rugby School and St John's College, Cambridge where he met William Wilberforce and other prominent anti-slavery agitators.

Anti-slavery and philanthropy
Babington was an evangelical Christian of independent means who devoted himself to a number of good causes. His home at Rothley Temple was regularly used by Wilberforce and associates for abolitionist meetings, and it was where the bill to abolish slavery was drafted. There is a stone memorial to commemorate to this on the front lawn of Rothley which still stands today.

Babington's base in London was 17 Downing Street. He shared use of this residence with his brother-in-law, General Colin Macaulay who was similarly active in the abolitionist cause.

In addition to his anti-slavery work, he also offered to pay half the cost of smallpox inoculation for people in Rothley in 1784–5. He set up a local Friendly Society to purchase corn for sale to the poor at a lower price to improve the lives and diet of his estate workers. Trusts he set up to provide housing in local villages still exist today. Babington was active politically, and supported moves to extend voting rights to more people. He was High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1780 and MP for Leicester from 1800 to 1818.

Family
On 8 October 1787 Babington married Jean Macaulay, daughter of the Rev. John Macaulay (1720-1789) of Cardross, Dumbartonshire. Jean came from a family who like Babington, were prominently involved in the anti-slavery movement. This included two brothers Zachary Macaulay, and General Colin Macaulay: Thomas Babington Macaulay was Jean's nephew. Thomas and Jean had six sons and four daughters:

 * Thomas Gisborne Babington (1788–1871)
 * Rev. John Babington (1791–?)
 * Matthew Babington, JP (1792–?)
 * George Gisborne Babington, FRCS (1794–1856)
 * William Henry Babington, E.I.C.C.S (1803–1867)
 * Lieutenant Charles Roos Babington (1806–1826)
 * Lydia Rose Babington
 * Jean Babington (–1839)
 * Mary Babington (1799–1858), wife of Sir James Parker, Vice-Chancellor
 * Margaret Anne Babington (–1819)

Babington died at Rothley Temple in 1837 at the age of 78, and is buried in the chapel there. His wife Jean died on 21 September 1845.

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Talk:Six Arrows

I removed this note from the bottom of the article:

"Note: (please do not change the content of the article, except necessary error corrections)"

Sorry, but even if everything you've written is true, no one owns an article and shouldn't request that no one change the content. That's the nature of Wikipedia. If this was an attempt to prevent vandalism, then it won't work, and any vandalism that occurs will be dealt with.

TaintedMustard 07:41, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wording
Was the wording regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, race, sect, sexual preference, philosophical idea or belief really used by Mustafa Kemal in ? It sounds as copied from modern US newspaper, not as text century old. Is this article valid at all?

REPLY FROM THE FIRST NARRATOR OF THE ARTICLE
In the last Turkish constitution adopted in 1982, discrimination based on gender, race, sect, ethnicity, philosophical idea or belief is forbidden. Mustafa Kemal's original belief was "Every person who feels him/herself as Turk is really Turk, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religious or philosophical sect or belief".

Since you do not have sufficient knowledge about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, I do not agree that you have the right to criticize the content of the article. If you want to change the grammar, of course I am not an "English language and literature scholar", and there can always be grammar or spelling mistakes.

However, for the content please do not create a discussion if you are not a scholar of the issue. I am a Turkish citizen, I am a member of CHP (the 82-year-old party established by Atatürk that carries the Six Arrows as its symbol and continues Atatürk tradition), and I have been taking courses of "History of the Turkish Republic" and "Principles of Atatürk" for 10 years. (In Turkey those courses are given in primary, secondary levels of education and also obligatorily in all universities of Turkey) Therefore I am not open to discussion with people who lack the knowledge about the meanings of those six principles.

PS - Have you ever read any US newspapers? I do not prefer, because I do not agree with the American way of egalitarianism since there are thousands of homeless and poor people in the US.

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Samyuktha Varma

Samyuktha Varma (born 28 November 1979) is a former Indian actress who was active in Malayalam films from 1999 to 2002. She made her debut in 1999 as female lead in the movie Veendum Chila Veettukaryangal for which she won her first Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress, since then she has acted in a total of 18 films. Varma has won two Kerala State Film Awards for Best Actress and two Filmfare Award for Best Actress. She is married to Malayalam actor Biju Menon since 2002.

Early life
She was born on 28 November 1979 to Ravi Varma and Uma Varma. When she was studying at Sree Kerala Varma college, Thrissur, she got an offer to do female lead role in Veendum Chila Veettukaryangal.

Film career
Her debut was in Veendum Chila Veettukaryangal in 1999, followed by Vazhunnor and Chandranudikkunna Dikkil in 2000.

In 2000 she acted in Nadanpennum Naattupramaaniyum directed by Rajasenan, Fazil's production Life is Beautiful, Angene Oru Avadhikkalathu directed by Mohan, Mazha directed by Lenin Rajendran based on a short story by Madhavikutty followed by Madhuranombarakaattu and Swayamvara Panthal.

At the end of 2002, she was cast in Rafi-Mecartin's Thenkasi Pattanam and Rajasenan's Megasandesam.

She was also approached to play the female lead in Baba opposite Rajinikanth, but she declined as she did not wish to work post marriage.

Personal life
She married Biju Menon on 23 November 2002. The couple have a son, Daksh Dharmik, born 14 September 2006.

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User:Edgeprod

Hello, I'm Dom the Wop, coder of an automated traffic generation system that enables webmasters and SEO professionals to rapidly deploy a network of keyword-targeted blogs onto a variety of platforms. These platforms may include sites running the WordPress content management software, as well as blogs hosted at services such as BlogSome, WordPress.com, and others.

I am frequently engaged to build enterprise-level applications for technology companies. Many of these projects I'm unable to talk about, but one in particular is going to set the world on fire with a new advertising paradigm.

Although I'm a Yankee originally from Connecticut, I've lived in a number of other places, including Silicon Valley, California during the dot-com fiasco of the late 90's. Currently, I live on Lake Gaston, on the North Carolina and Virginia border. The view from my house is spectacular and relaxing.

Some of my interests include Quantum Physics, especially the sub-fields of Quantum entanglement, Chemical thermodynamics, and Quantum teleportation. I also enjoy playing with Photoshop and rooting for the New York Yankees.

Earlier in my career, I served as the Vice President of Business Development for a Silicon Valley company called BeOpen. They hired the team that created the Python programming language, and released Python 2.0. Python is a widely utilized language today, boasting such users as Google, Nasa, Disney, IBM, Red Hat, HP, and many others.

For a few seasons, I played defensive end for the New England Knights, a minor league football team. I had the pleasure of being on the team during a fantastic championship season, where we allowed only a single touchdown over the entire regular season schedule.

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North Thurston High School

North Thurston High School (NTHS), located in the North Thurston Public Schools District in Lacey, Washington, United States, is a comprehensive high school which opened in 1955. North Thurston serves a portion of Lacey and northeast Thurston County. The school is accredited by the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The principal is Nick Greenwell.

Facility
The current North Thurston High School campus was constructed in 1983; South Sound Stadium was added in 1985 and the Auditorium was added in 1995. NTHS' central building easily hit capacity within the first few years after being constructed. A flood of portables were brought in during the mid 80's to handle the student enrollment growth along with the 1993 construction of River Ridge High School. Several portables are still in use to handle the over-capacity demand on the NTHS campus.

The original North Thurston High School campus used to be located on what is now the student parking lot. This campus was constructed in 1954 and torn down in 1984. The old campus hosted Chinook Middle School students during the 1983-1984 year while Chinook's building went through a building remodel. Three original building from the old NTHS campus; NTPS' Bower Learning Center (the old high school library), the auto shop, and the school swimming pool were part of the old high school campus and are still in use. With the exception of the auto shop building, the pool and Bower Learning Center were recently remodeled in 2003.

As of 2011, a re-modernization project to remodel the 27-year-old North Thurston High School building is currently under development by North Thurston Public Schools and awaits funding. The project would take place in various yearly stages with students on campus. Some ideas being considered are a new gymnasium with expanded capacity, expansion of the current commons area into the current gymnasium, increased parking, additional building expansion to replace 27 portables, and modernization and safety upgrades of current classroom, hallway, and unused spaces.

History
On April 27, 2015, a 16-year-old male student at the school fired twice in the crowded high school commons before a teacher, who was a military veteran, grabbed him. The Lacey police officer on duty at the school had not been able to fire because students were in his line of fire and the teacher reached the shooter before the officer thought he could get a clear shot at the shooter. The shooter said he never wanted to hurt any students, but fired his gun only to get the school resource officer to him.

Notable alumni

 * Gary Wright, class of '64, anti-Vietnam War protester who emigrated to Canada and became mayor of New Denver, British Columbia
 * Darcy Fast, class of '65, Former MLB player (Chicago Cubs)
 * Gabriel Gudding, class of '84, poet and essayist, translator
 * Kasey Keller, class of '88, US National Soccer team goalkeeper in 1990, 1998, 2002 and 2006 World Cup tournaments, former Goalie for Seattle Sounders FC. A street near North Thurston is named after him.
 * Jason Dunn, class of '90, former professional soccer player with 3 caps for the USMNT
 * Michael Sellers, class of '93, a retired NFL Pro-bowler (2008), formerly with the Washington Redskins
 * Brian Kendrick, class of '97, Professional wrestler

Sports
North Thurston High School is a 3A-division member of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association. It is a member of the Narrows League, which includes a combination of 4A and 3A schools.

State Championships, 2nd place:

Baseball - 1976, 1987; Boys Soccer - 1985; Girls Swimming - 1984; Boys Tennis - 1987; Boys Track and Field - 1987; Girls Track and Field - 1994; Volleyball - 2012

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