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Frontier in Space

Frontier in Space is the third serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The serial was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 24 February to 31 March 1973. It was the last serial to feature Roger Delgado in the role of the Master.

The serial is set on the Earth, the Moon, Draconia, and the home planet of the Ogrons in the 26th century. In the serial, the Daleks employ the Master to provoke a war between the humans and the Draconians' galactic empires.

Plot
As the Earth cargo ship C982 moves through hyperspace, it narrowly avoids a collision with the TARDIS. As the Third Doctor determines that they are in the 26th century, Jo sees a ship come alongside. It shimmers, changing shape, turning into a Draconian Galaxy-class battlecruiser. The two pilots, Stewart and Hardy, send out a distress signal and prepare for battle. When Hardy goes to get weapons, he meets the Doctor, but sees him and Jo as Draconians. Hardy escorts them at gunpoint to the ship.

On Earth, the President and the Draconian ambassador (who is also the Emperor's son) accuse each other of attacking the other's ships and violating the frontier established by treaty between the two empires. General Williams reports to the President that a mission to rescue C982 is being prepared. Williams's hostility against the Draconians is well known — it was his actions that started the original war between the two sides and the Prince believes Williams wants war again, a war the Prince warns the President that will see Earth destroyed. News of the attack spreads and anti-Draconian riots break out on Earth, with the opposition calling for the government to take action.

Locked up in C982's hold, the Doctor deduces that the strange sound was some kind of sonic hypnosis device that caused Hardy to hallucinate and see what he most feared. As the enemy boarding party burns its way through the airlocks, Hardy gets the Doctor and Jo to use as hostages, but when the airlock door bursts open, the boarders are not Draconians, but Ogrons. The Ogrons' energy weapons stun the two pilots and the Doctor. They then tie Jo up, taking the ship's cargo and the TARDIS as they leave. When the Doctor revives and releases Jo, she tells him what the Ogrons did, and wonders if they are working for the Daleks, as they were when she first met them. The Doctor points out that the Ogrons are mercenaries.

When the rescue party arrives, Hardy and Stewart have stopped hallucinating, but with their memories garbled, accuse the Doctor and Jo of being Draconian spies...

The two travellers get locked up again as C982 heads back to Earth. General Williams believes they are human agents planted by the Draconians to sabotage any war effort by Earth. He brings the two travellers to confront the Draconian Prince, but the Doctor denies working for the Draconians. He tries to convince the President that a third party is trying to provoke the two empires into war. However, as he can provide no reason why someone would want to, Williams orders the Doctor and Jo be taken away and vows he will get the truth out of them.

In the Draconian embassy, the Prince arranges to help Jo and the Doctor "escape" so that they can be questioned. As they are escorted from their cell to be brought to the President, a Draconian squad attacks, taking the Doctor prisoner. When Jo tries to get more guards to help, she is arrested instead. The Draconians question the Doctor, believing that he is involved in a plot with Williams to provoke a new war. The Doctor escapes the embassy, but is recaptured in the compound by Earth troops. Once back in the cell with Jo, however, she hears the same sound as on C982. Outside, the Ogrons raid the prison, being seen as Draconians thanks to the hypnosound. They break into the Doctor's cell and order him to go with them.

The second escape goes no better than the first: the Doctor is recaptured again and the Ogrons disappear. This second "rescue attempt" cements Williams' suspicions, making him demand that the President give him the authority to strike first against the Draconians. The President agrees to break off diplomatic relations but will not go further without conclusive proof.

Williams places the Doctor under a mind probe, but it indicates the Doctor is telling the truth. Refusing to believe it, Williams orders increased power, but eventually the probe overloads. The President orders that the Doctor be sent to the Lunar Penal Colony where political prisoners are exiled for life, while Jo remains on Earth. Williams and the President receive records from the Dominion government of Sirius IV, an Earth colony planet that has achieved a degree of autonomy from Earth. The records "prove" the Doctor and Jo are citizens of Sirius IV as well as career criminals. A commissioner from the Dominion has arrived to claim jurisdiction — who is in actuality the Doctor's old enemy, the Master.

On the Moon, the Doctor meets Professor Dale of the Peace Party, who shows him around. The Doctor tries to get Dale to trust him and include him in his plans for escape. On Earth, Jo of course recognises the Master immediately, and surmises correctly that he was behind the Ogron attacks. The Master found out about the Doctor and Jo's presence when the Ogrons brought him the TARDIS. Given the unsavoury choice of going with the Master or staying in her cell, Jo agrees to go with him to fetch the Doctor.

Despite his fantastic story, Dale believes the Doctor. The peace with the Draconians lasted many years, but suddenly devolved into senseless acts of hostility. The Doctor's story would explain a great deal. Dale outlines the escape plan: Cross, one of the overseers, will leave two spacesuits near an airlock, and they will walk across the lunar surface to steal a spaceship. Dale offers to take the Doctor back to Earth where he can tell his story to Dale's contacts in the press and government. However, once inside the airlock, they find oxygen tanks for the suits are empty. Cross has double-crossed them, and the room is depressurising.

At the last moment, the Master arrives and restores the room's atmosphere. The Master obtains custody of the Doctor, and gets the Doctor to come along quietly by revealing that he has Jo. Reunited with Jo in a cell in the Master's ship, the Doctor wonders why he is still alive. The Master explains that his employers are very interested in the Doctor. The Master sets the automatic controls for the Ogron homeworld. Under the cover of telling Jo stories of his life, the Doctor uses a hidden steel wire to file his way through the hinges of the cell. While Jo blocks the security camera and natters on, pretending to continue their conversation, the Doctor sneaks out. Donning a spacesuit, the Doctor exits the ship and makes his way to the flight deck. The Master puts Jo in an airlock, threatening to eject her into space if the Doctor does not surrender, but the Doctor takes him by surprise. As the two face off, they do not notice a Draconian battlecruiser approaching. It docks, and enters the airlock where Jo is located.

The Draconian captain informs them that, as all diplomatic relations with Earth have been severed, violating Draconian space is punishable by death. The Doctor says he has vital evidence for the Emperor and asks to speak to him. The captain decides to lock up all three of them and take them back to Draconia. However, the Master secretly activates a device whose signal is picked up by the Ogrons.

As the ship arrives on Draconia, the Prince is speaking with his father, asking him for permission to strike first at Earth. The Emperor, like the President, is hesitant, as he knows such a war could bring down both empires.

The Doctor, Jo and the Master are presented to the Emperor and the Doctor gives the ritual greeting, "My life at your command." The Prince is incensed that the Doctor has the temerity to address the Emperor like a Draconian noble, but the Doctor says that he is a noble of Draconia — the title was given him by the 15th Emperor, five centuries before when he aided Draconia against a plague from outer space. The Doctor accuses the Master of trying to instigate a war between Earth and Draconia using Ogrons and the hypnosound device. As the Emperor considers this, a courtier announces that an Earth spaceship has arrived. Jo hears the sound of the sonic device, and realises it is the Ogrons. They burst in, guns blazing, and retreat with the Master, leaving several dead Draconians in their wake. One Ogron has been knocked out by the Doctor, and as the effects of the hypnosound fade, the Emperor sees the "Earthman" before him transform into its true form. He then realises the Doctor is speaking the truth.

The Emperor determines that the Ogron must be shown to the Earth authorities, but as a Draconian ship would be shot down, the Prince, the Doctor and Jo will take the Master's police ship. As they cross the frontier into Earth space, they spot another ship following them. However, by the time they identify it as the Ogron ship, it has already launched its missiles. As the Doctor takes evasive action, the captive Ogron breaks out of its cell, overpowering its Draconian guard. It enters the flight deck and in the struggle cuts the ship's speed. The Prince and the Doctor subdue the Ogron, but the Master's ship catches up and a party boards the police ship. A firefight breaks out on the flight deck, just as an Earth battlecruiser shows up. The Master recalls the boarding party, who take Jo captive along with rescuing the Ogron prisoner, and their ship zips away. The Earth battlercruiser places the Doctor's ship under arrest.

Without the Ogron, the President is not convinced. The Doctor suggests an expedition to the Ogron homeworld, but Williams thinks it is a Draconian trick to divide Earth's forces. The Prince expects such a response from Williams — after all, he started the first war. Williams protests, but the Prince reveals what is in the Draconian court records. Twenty years before, the Draconians sent a battlecruiser to meet the Earth Empire on a diplomatic mission. When the Draconian ship did not answer the Earth ship's hails, Williams gave the order to attack, believing that the Draconian ship was about to attack his damaged vessel. The battlecruiser was unarmed, its missile banks empty, and the reason it did not answer was because its communications systems were destroyed in a neutron storm, the same storm that had damaged Williams's ship. Williams is shaken by the Prince's revelation and apologises for the wrong he had done to the Draconians. Williams now intends to lead the expedition to the Ogron planet himself.

The Master brings Jo to a bunker on the Ogron homeworld, where he shows her the TARDIS, which he plans to use as bait for the Doctor in addition to Jo herself. He tries to hypnotise Jo, first with his own powers and then with the hypnosound.

However, Jo's mind is strong enough to resist, and the Master orders her to be taken away. An Ogron reports that one of their ships found and attacked two Earth cargo ships, destroying one. The Master is delighted, as this means that war is not far off, and indeed, demands for war from Earth are at a fever pitch.

Williams prepares his personal scout ship, with the Doctor and the Prince accompanying and heads at maximum speed to the coordinates the Doctor took from the Master's ship. Jo manages to dig her way into the next, unlocked cell and sneak further into the bunker as Williams's ship enters orbit. She pockets the hypnosound, then finds a pad with the coordinates of the planet and bunker on it and transmits a distress signal with the information. The Master shows up, revealing that the signal was muted, and the only person who could have picked it up was the Doctor, whose ship he detected in orbit around the planet. When the Doctor comes, the trap will be sprung.

Williams's crew lands the scout nearby, not knowing the Ogrons have set up an ambush. The Ogrons open fire on the landing party, but are frightened away by an orange, slug-like lizard they call the Eater. The Master is furious, and warns the Ogrons that their masters are coming, which makes them even more terrified than they were of the monster. Williams's party hears the roar of a spaceship landing, and when they look up on the ridge, they see the Master... accompanied by several Daleks, who exterminate Williams's men before they can even fire. The Daleks want to exterminate the Doctor immediately, but the Master proposes that the Doctor be placed in his hands, to be allowed to see the galaxy and Earth in ruins before they kill him. The Gold Dalek agrees, and leaves for its ship, to go and prepare the Dalek army on another planet.

Answering the Prince's question, the Doctor explains that the Daleks want a war between Earth and Draconia so both empires will destroy each other, and then the Daleks can pick up the pieces. The Doctor modifies the stolen hypnosound, making the Ogron guard see him as the Gold Dalek, and in fear, it unlocks the gate to the cell. The Doctor tells Williams and the Prince to get the word back to their respective governments and mount a joint expedition against the base on the Ogron planet. The Doctor and Jo find their way to the TARDIS, but are surrounded by the Ogrons and the Master, who trains a blaster on the Doctor. The Doctor activates the hypnosound, panicking the Ogrons. One knocks the Master's arm, making him fire, the shot grazing the Doctor's head. The Master and the Ogrons scatter.

The Doctor, barely conscious, asks Jo to help him into the TARDIS. He staggers over to the console, dematerialising the ship then pressing his palms to the telepathic circuits. He is sending a message to the Time Lords.

Production
The titles for Frontier in Space were prepared, alongside the previous serial, Carnival of Monsters, with a new arrangement of the theme music performed by Paddy Kingsland on a synthesiser. Known as the "Delaware" arrangement (the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was based on Delaware Road in west London), it proved unpopular with BBC executives, so the original Delia Derbyshire theme was restored, although an early edit of episode 5 still contains the "Delaware" music and was used for the VHS release. This early edit of episode 5 with the Delaware theme featured a longer reprise at the beginning of the episode compared to the broadcast version of episode 5.

The 3 Daleks which appear in the final episode were the same props which had been used in Day of the Daleks.

The final sequence in the Master's headquarters was intended to contain the giant Ogron-eating monster, but director Paul Bernard did not like the costume and omitted it, leaving the scene with just frightened Ogrons running away from something unseen. Producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks felt the sequence lacked impact and a new ending was filmed in the TARDIS as part of the first production block of the following story, Planet of the Daleks. Frontier in Space was Paul Bernard's last Doctor Who work.

Jon Pertwee considered the Draconians to be his favourite monster as the rubber and latex masks used allowed the actors playing them to employ a full range of facial expressions. Recalling the production of this story he noted that filming near the Hayward Gallery at the South Bank was made difficult due to a number of "homeless people and drunks" lying around the area. According to Pertwee, Paul Bernard asked the stuntmen and actors who were on location in costume as Ogrons to ask these people to move to allow filming to proceed.

When the wiping of episodes ended in 1978 it was discovered that episodes 1, 2, 3 & 6 had only survived as black and white telerecordings for overseas sales. In 1983, PAL copies were returned from ABC Television in Australia.

Cast notes
This would be the last appearance of Roger Delgado as the Master, his final scene being the confusion outside the TARDIS with his shooting the Doctor, perhaps accidentally, then disappearing with the panicking Ogrons. Roger Delgado was killed in a car crash in Turkey less than three months after this episode's UK broadcast.

John Woodnutt had previously played Hibbert in Spearhead from Space (1970) and would later play the dual roles of Broton and the Duke of Forgill in Terror of the Zygons (1975) as well as Seron in The Keeper of Traken (1981). Luan Peters had previously appeared in The Macra Terror (1967) under her stage name Karol Keyes. Caroline Hunt previously appeared in The Reign of Terror (1964). Louis Mahoney later appeared as Ponti in Planet of Evil (1975) and as Billy Shipton in Blink (2007).

Harold Goldblatt had previously appeared with Jon Pertwee in a 1938 radio production in Belfast entitled Lillibullero, which was one of Pertwee's earliest radio performances.

Broadcast and reception
According to the BBC's Audience Research Report, Frontier in Space was well received by viewers at the time of broadcast. Paul Cornell, Martin Day, and Keith Topping wrote of the serial in The Discontinuity Guide (1995), "Worthy, very well directed and designed to the hilt with a solid costuming policy for both empires. However, it's obviously padded in parts." In The Television Companion (1998), David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker stated that the story worked "brilliantly", with the production design "[putting] the whole thing on a suitably grand scale".

In 2010, Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times awarded it four stars out of five and recalled that it was "surprising and exciting" on first viewing, though in retrospect it seemed to be "a lumbering wannabe-epic with screeds of padding, duff cliffhangers and endless scenes of the Doctor and Jo banged up". He praised the Draconians and Ogrons, but felt that "the fact that the heroes spend perhaps two-thirds of the story locked up is tiresome and cannot be overlooked". DVD Talk's John Sinnott noted that the story was "talky" and had a lot of padding, but that it got "much better" when the Master was revealed. In the book Doctor Who: The Episode Guide, Mark Campbell awarded it four out of ten, describing it as "an overlong and uninteresting space opera—a genre Doctor Who has never done well. Delgado's exit is particularly badly handled."

It is one of Peter Capaldi, the 12th Doctor's, favourite serials of the classic seasons

In print
A novelisation of this serial, written by Malcolm Hulke, was published by Target Books in September 1976 under the title Doctor Who and the Space War. This was the last time Target would give a novelisation a substantially different title than that of the serial on which it was based. The novel abandons the cliffhanger ending of the televised program and has the Doctor simply leaving the Master on the Ogron world to pursue the Daleks. An unabridged reading of the novelisation by actor Geoffrey Beevers was released on CD in February 2008 by BBC Audiobooks.

Home media
The story was released on VHS in August 1995. Episode 5 uses the "Delaware" music mentioned above. The final episode of this story was also issued on The Pertwee Years VHS release, along with the final episodes of both Inferno (1970) and The Dæmons (1971). The serial was released on DVD on 5 October 2009 as part of the box set "Dalek War", alongside Planet of the Daleks. It was released on Blu-ray as part of "The Collection - Season 10" boxed set in July 2019.

Target novelisation

 * On Target — Doctor Who and the Space War
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France at the 1992 Summer Olympics

France competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 339 competitors, 241 men and 98 women, took part in 196 events in 25 sports.

Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Archery
In France's fifth appearance in modern Olympic archery, the individual archers went 7-3 in head-to-head competition, buoyed by Sebastien Flute's 5-0 record as he advanced to the final and won the gold medal. It was the first medal the French had won in modern Olympic archery. Both teams won the first two rounds before being defeated in the semifinals. They also both lost their bronze medal matches.

 * Men

 * Women

Athletics

 * Men
 * Track and road events

 * Field events

 * Combined events – Decathlon

 * Women
 * Track and road events

 * Field events

 * Combined event – Heptathlon

Badminton

 * Men

 * Women

Sprint

 * Men

 * Women

Cycling
18 cyclists, 14 men and 4 women, represented France in 1992. Jeannie Longo won silver in the women's road race and the men won bronze in the team time trial.

Road

 * Men

 * Women

Track

 * Sprint

 * Time trial

 * Pursuit

 * Points race

Diving

 * Men

Fencing
20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women represented France in 1992.

 * Individual
 * Pool stage

 * Elimination phase

 * Team

Men

 * Qualification

 * Individual finals

Women

 * Team

 * Individual finals

Handball
Key:
 * Summary
 * ET: After extra time
 * P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Men's tournament

 * Team roster
 * Philippe Debureau
 * Philippe Gardent
 * Denis Lathoud
 * Pascal Mahé
 * Philippe Médard
 * Gaël Monthurel
 * Laurent Munier
 * Frédéric Perez
 * Alain Portes
 * Thierry Perreux
 * Éric Quintin
 * Jackson Richardson
 * Stéphane Stoecklin
 * Jean-Luc Thiébaut
 * Denis Tristant
 * Frédéric Volle
 * Head coach: Daniel Constantini

 * Group play

 * Semifinal

 * Bronze medal match

Judo

 * Men

 * Women

Modern pentathlon
Three male pentathletes represented France in 1992.

Rowing

 * Men

 * Women

Sailing

 * Men

 * Women

 * Open
 * Fleet racing

Shooting

 * Men

 * Women

 * Open

Swimming

 * Men

 * Women

Synchronized swimming
Three synchronized swimmers represented France in 1992.

Table tennis

 * Men

 * Women

Tennis

 * Men

 * Women

Volleyball

 * Summary

Men's tournament

 * Team roster
 * Rivo Andriamamonjy
 * Eric Bouvier
 * Laurent Chambertin
 * Arnaud Josserand
 * Olivier Lecat
 * Luc Marquet
 * Christophe Meneau
 * David Romann
 * Olivier Rossard
 * Philippe Salvan
 * Laurent Tillie
 * Eric Wolfer

 * Group play

 * 11th place match

Water polo
Key:
 * Summary
 * FT – After full time.

 * Team roster
 * Thierry Alimondo
 * Pierre Garsau
 * Nicolas Jeleff
 * François Besson
 * Emmanuel Charlot
 * Vincent De Nardi
 * Emmanuel Ducher
 * Christophe Gautier
 * Christian Grimaldi
 * Pascal Lousteanu
 * Gilles Madelenat
 * Jean-Marie Olivon
 * Patrice Tillie

 * Group play

 * Classification round 9th-12th place

Wrestling

 * Greco-Roman

 * Freestyle

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was an early feminist American author and intellectual who challenged traditional Christian beliefs of the afterlife, challenged women's traditional roles in marriage and family, and advocated clothing reform for women.

In 1868, three years after the Civil War ended, she published The Gates Ajar, which depicted the afterlife as a place replete with the comforts of domestic life and where families would be reunited—along with family pets—through eternity.

In her 40s, Phelps broke convention again when she married a man 17 years her junior. Later in life she urged women to burn their corsets. Her later writing focused on feminine ideals and women's financial dependence on men in marriage. She was the first woman to present a lecture series at Boston University. During her lifetime she was the author of 57 volumes of fiction, poetry and essays. In all of these works, she challenged the prevailing view that woman's place and fulfilment resided in the home. Instead, Phelps' work depicted women as succeeding in nontraditional careers as physicians, ministers, and artists.

Near the end of her life, Phelps became very active in the animal rights movement. Her novel, Trixy, published in 1904, was constructed around the topic of vivisection and the effect this kind of training had on doctors. The book became a standard polemic against experimentation on animals.

Early life
Elizabeth (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was born in Boston, Massachusetts to  American Congregational minister Austin Phelps and Elizabeth Wooster Stuart Phelps (1815–1852). Her baptismal name was Mary Gray Phelps, after a close friend of her mother's. Her mother wrote the Kitty Brown series of books for girls under the pen name H. Trusta. Her brother, Moses Stuart Phelps, was born in 1849. Her mother was the eldest daughter of Moses Stuart, the well-known professor of Sacred Literature at Andover Theological Seminary. Her mother was intermittently ill for most of her adult life and died of brain fever shortly after the birth of their third child, Amos, on November 20, 1852, Then eight years old, Mary Gray asked to be renamed in honor of her mother.

Her father Austin Phelps was a widely respected Congregational minister and educator. He was pastor of the Pine Street Congregational Church until 1848, when he accepted a position as the Chair of Rhetoric at Andover Theological Seminary. He met Elizabeth Phelps that same year and they were married in the fall. The family moved to Boston and in 1869 he became President of the Andover Theological Seminary, where he served in that role for 10 years. His writings became standard textbooks for Christian theological education and remain in print today.

Two years after her mother' death, Elizabeth's father married her mother's sister, Mary Stuart. She was also a writer but died of tuberculosis only 18 months later. Less than six months later her father married Mary Ann Johnson, the sister to a minister, and they had two sons, Francis Johnson (1860) and Edward Johnson (1863).

Phelps received an upper class education, attending the Abbot Academy and Mrs. Edwards' School for Young Ladies. She had a gift for telling stories as a child. One source noted, "She spun amazing yarns for the children she played with... and her schoolmates of the time a little farther on talk with vivid interest of the stories she used to improvise for their entertainment. At thirteen, she had a story published in Youth's Companion and other stories appeared in Sunday School publications.

Writing
In most of her writings she used her mother's name "Elizabeth Stuart Phelps" as a pseudonym, both before and after her marriage in 1888 to Herbert Dickinson Ward, a journalist seventeen years younger. She also used the pseudonym Mary Adams. She gained recognition early in life from prominent literary figures including Thomas Wentworth Higginson and John Greenleaf Whittier.

At age 19 she sent a Civil War story titled "A Sacrifice Consumed" to Harper's Magazine. The magazine editor warmly received her contribution and sent her a generous payment along with a note asking her to write for them again. In 1864 Harpers published her first adult fiction. She then began writing her first books for children which became known as the "Tiny series". She followed these with the four-volume Gypsy Breynton series, which was later recognized as her best-known juvenile writing. She also published two books that depicted the realistic adventures of a four-year-old boy named Trotty, The Trotty Book (1870) and Trotty's Wedding Tour, and Story-book (1873). Her story "The Tenth of January" appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in March 1868. It was about the death of scores of girls in the Pemberton Mill collapse and fire in Lawrence, Massachusetts on January 10, 1860.

Spiritualist novels
Ward wrote three Spiritualist novels. The first, The Gates Ajar, became her most famous. It took her two years to write. She wrote later that after she spent more than two years revising it, "I could have said it by heart." The book was finally published after the end of the Civil War. In it, she writes about a girl named Mary Cabot, whose brother was killed during the Civil War. The grief-stricken girl becomes convinced that she and her brother will be reunited in an afterlife in which people retain their physical shapes and personalities.

The book became very popular, in part from its positive portrayal of death shortly after the Civil War, during which more than 400,000 individuals lost their lives. It also received a great deal of criticism for the way Phelps depicted heaven as less a place to greet God than to be reunited with loved ones. It rejected the traditional Calvinist view of Heaven. The controversy only stimulated sales, and within a few weeks after its release, her publisher sent her a payment for $600 (about $0 in today's dollars) and a note, “Your book is moving grandly. It has already reached a sale of 4,000 copies.”

Over 100,000 copies were sold in the United States and England and it was translated and reprinted at least four other languages.

She received thousands of letters in response to the first book. She wrote two more books on the same topic, Between the Gates and Beyond the Gates. She then wrote a novella about animal rights titled Loveliness. Phelps said she wrote The Gates Ajar to comfort a generation of women who were devastated by the losses of their loved ones following the Civil War and who found no comfort in traditional religion. Phelps' vision of heaven made the book a run-away best seller. She later built on the success of the first Gates book with a series of other books that featured the word "Gates" in their titles and which continued to reinforce her views of the afterlife as a place with gardens, comfortable front porches, and finely built houses.

The Gates Ajar inspired works by other authors in the following decades, such as Mark Twain's parody "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" (1909) and Louis B. Pendleton's Wedding Garment: A Tale of the Afterlife (1894). The final novel in the Gates series was also adapted into a stage play in 1901 titled Within the Gates.

Advocate for social reform
While writing these and other popular stories, she became an advocate through her lectures and other work for social reform, temperance, and the women's emancipation. She was also involved in clothing reform for women, and in 1874 urged them to burn their corsets.

"Burn up the corsets! ... No, nor do you save the whalebones, you will never need whalebones again. Make a bonfire of the cruel steels that have lorded it over your thorax and abdomens for so many years and heave a sigh of relief, for your emancipation I assure you, from this moment has begun."

A key influence on her writings on women's rights, especially her beliefs regarding marriage, were the works of John Stuart Mill, such as Mill's 1869 essay The Subjection of Women. Though Phelps was an avid writer on reform issues, she was not actively involved with women's rights organizations or other reform groups of the time. The progressive deterioration of her health from the 1870s onward kept her contributions mostly literary in nature rather than public.

In 1877 she published a novel, The Story of Avis, that was ahead of its time. The work focuses on many of the early feminist issues of her era. In it she portrayed a woman's struggle to balance her married life and associated domestic responsibilities with her passion to become a painter. The protagonist is an independent, extraordinary woman in her time who initially decides her goals will not be constrained by marriage and financial dependence on a husband, although she eventually ends up marrying anyhow. She may have been reflecting her mother's life when she described the impossibility of pursuing both her artistic ambitions and adhering to her domestic responsibilities. Elizabeth's novel was largely influenced by Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh. Phelps's unfavorable depiction of men's and women's roles in marriage was controversial.

In 1876 Phelps became the first woman to present a lecture series at Boston University. Her presentations were titled "Representative Modern Fiction" and they analyzed the works of George Eliot.

Social advocacy was also incorporated in Phelp's various children's literature publications as she did not attempt to conceal the inequities of the era's class structure. In stories such as "Bobbit's Hotel", "One Way to Get An Education", and "Mary Elizabeth", Phelps directly illustrates the impact of poverty on children. In "Bobbit's Hotel", the title character dies in an effort to shelter two young orphans. "Mary Elizabeth" depicts a young homeless girl's choices between theft and begging as a means of survival. "One Way to Get An Education" depicts a child laborer's desire for a better life than mill work and subsequent decision to self-injure in order to attain an education.

Later work
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and her husband co-authored two Biblical romances in 1890 and 1891. Her autobiography, Chapters from a Life, was published in 1896 after being serialized in McClure's. She also wrote a large number of essays for Harper's Magazine.

Phelps continued to write short stories and novels into the twentieth century. Her novel Trixy (1904) focused on antivivisection, a cause she supported later in life. Writer, feminist, and animal rights advocate Carol J. Adams describes the novel as "important and timely." Her last work, Comrades (1911) was published posthumously. Phelps died January 28, 1911, in Newton Center, Massachusetts.

Selected works

 * Ellen's Idol (1864)
 * Gypsy Breynton and three sequels (1866–1867)
 * Mercy Gliddon's Work (1866)
 * The Gates Ajar (1868)
 * Men, Women, and Ghosts (1869)
 * The Trotty Book (1870)
 * Hedged In (1870)
 * The Silent Partner (1871)
 * What to Wear (1873)
 * Poetic Studies (1875)
 * The Story of Avis (1877)
 * An Old Maid's Paradise (1879)
 * Sealed Orders (1879)
 * Doctor Zay (1882)
 * Beyond the Gates (1883)
 * Songs of the Silent World (1884)
 * The Madonna of the Tubs (1886)
 * Jack the Fisherman (1887)
 * The Gates Between (1887)
 * The struggle for Immortality (1889)
 * Austin Phelps, A Memoir (1891)
 * Donald Marcy (1893)
 * A Singular Life (1895)
 * Chapters from a Life (1896)
 * The Supply at Saint Agatha's (1896)
 * The Story of Jesus Christ (1897)
 * Within the Gates (1901)
 * Avery (1902)
 * Trixy (1904)
 * Walled In (1907)
 * The Whole Family (collaborative novel with eleven other authors, 1908)
 * Jonathan and David (1909)
 * The Empty House and Other Stories (1910)

With Herbert Dickinson Ward

 * Come Forth (1891)
 * A Lost Hero (1890)
 * The Master of the Magicians (1890)

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Johnny Downie

John Dennis Downie (19 July 1925 – 19 February 2013) was a Scottish footballer. He was born in Lanark, and played as an inside forward. Downie played football as a member of the Lanark Air Training Corps, but joined Bradford Park Avenue as an amateur in August 1942. After spending time working in a colliery in Bradford, he turned professional in December 1944, and made his debut when football restarted after the Second World War.

After 33 goals in 86 league appearances for Bradford Park Avenue, he joined Manchester United in March 1949 for a club record £18,000 as a replacement for the departing Johnny Morris. Downie scored 37 goals (including five in the FA Cup) in 116 appearances for the club, before leaving for Luton Town for £10,000 in 1953.

Downie also played league football for Hull City, Mansfield Town and Darlington, and spent time in the non-league with King's Lynn, Wisbech Town, Hyde United, Mossley and Stalybridge Celtic. After retiring from football, Downie worked as a newsagent in Bradford. He later lived in Tynemouth and regularly watched local teams North Shields and Whitley Bay, and also played snooker. He died in Tynemouth on 19 February 2013.

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Districts
Hi, I don't have an opinion on whether to use emdashes. When I first stated creating district articles, I used them, but someone changed them. Then all of a sudden, they changed back. So, it's probably something you should bring up with the other Canadians at the Canadian wikiboard. -- Earl Andrew - talk 02:36, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

electoral districts
Hi, Fawcett5. Your criticism is fair and well taken. Truth be told, I wasn't giving the articles sufficient attention when I made the changes. I will try to be more diligent in the future. All the best! -- PullUpYourSocks 03:09, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Louis Riel
Thanks for the heads up about the Louis Riel article making it on the home page. That is awesome. I just got back from Winnipeg last night. Christie and I happened to make it to St. Boniface. I have pictures of Riel's grave and the tortured statue. Hopefully they will turn out. I will have to get them on Wikipedia before the article is featured. -- JamesTeterenko 15:27, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Ditto on the thanks for the heads up. I can't wait to see it as the featured article! I'll be sure to keep a lookout for vandalism during that time and after. CWood 01:33, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Nova Scotians by Occupation
yeah, read your message Fawcett5 and will do as you suggest. Mayumashu 11:55, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Mayumashu, I hope its not too much trouble, but over sub-catting just makes the categories less and less useful as things begin to approach the atomic level... Fawcett5 11:58, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Canadian Confederation clutter
The "clutter" you removed was supposed to be the following: a green tick next to each "yes", a red x-mark next to each "no". It seems that either the fonts or Unicode or something didn't display properly in your system, but either way you probably did right to revert it, since a problem faced by you will also be faced by a number of others. Perhaps I should think about replacing the unicode-dependent ticks and marks in my Template:Yes and Template:No with tiny images instead. And then it'll still be up to the people contributing in each article to decide whether they want them or not. Aris Katsaris 21:27, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * I have now changed the templates to carry tiny images instead of Unicode characters. Please check if you think that Canadian Confederation table now looks better or not. Aris Katsaris 23:47, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

James Knight
I'm a bit puzzled by your edits to James Knight — why link to the ambiguous Fort Albany and Churchill River instead of the precise Fort Albany, Ontario and Churchill River (Hudson Bay)? Gdr 19:49, 2005 May 6 (UTC) :Don't like em? Fix em. Fawcett5 19:53, 6 May 2005 (UTC) Yes, looks like a server bug in which edits get out of order. Gdr 20:58, 2005 May 6 (UTC)

North West Territories Act of 1880
Hi there! I had some slow moments at work today and just discovered we actually had the statutes of Canada for 1880 in our office (It's amazing what you find when you're cleaning out cupboards!). Anyways, I took a look at that Act, which was one to consolidate the old acts of 1870, 1873 and 1875 into one new Act. It does not mention the transfer of the northern islands to Canada although does mention Keewatin, which was made a territory in 1880 when the islands got transferred, I think? Anyways, this actual transfer most certainly would have been done under a British Act of Parliament, but I just can't find anything online at this time. So I think my point is - the transfer of the northern islands don't fall under the 1880 NWT Act as you initially suspected. I don't have a clue if this makes sense, it is Friday afternoon and all. :) CWood 22:45, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Vaughan—King—Aurora
I'm curious why you created this page, given you also contributed to Vaughan-King-Aurora; why not move the latter instead? I've requested that the old page move to the new location, so we don't end up with a fork on the subject. (Note that the original article's title was created incorrectly by me.) Mindmatrix 22:52, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Frederick Chase Capreol
Hmmm, my knowledge of CN's history doesn't quite go back that far, but based on a quick web search it appears that the Toronto, Simcoe & Lake Huron Union Railroad Company changed its name to the Ontario, Simcoe & Lake Huron Union Railroad Company (for example, see ). It's still not clear to me whether it's "railway" or "railroad" or "rail-road". I have to go somewhere now but maybe I'll do a bit of digging tomorrow regarding the spelling. JYolkowski // talk 20:35, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks JY, any help is much appreciated. Fawcett5 02:23, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * The names were given as "Toronto, Simcoe and Lake Huron Union Railroad" and "Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Union Railroad" in Stevens' Canadian National Railways so I changed the article to match. JYolkowski // talk 22:56, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Battle of the Plains of Abraham
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham is very much a part of U.S. history, as well as Canadian and British history: American colonial troops were involved. If it's all the same to you, I'll restore the Category:U.S. history images to Image:Death-wolfe.jpg. You, of course, are free to add a Canadian tag to it as well. If I'm missing something here, let me know. -- Mwanner 02:19, May 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * M, that's fine by me. Fawcett5 02:21, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Socialist Party (England and Wales)/meta/shortname speedy deletion
Since I created this page, I can't remove the tag. However, it's a utility page used with the Template:Election box candidate with party link, and having it marked for delete is really messing with the expansion I'm trying to do at Cardiff South and Penarth (UK Parliament constituency). Would you mind removing it, please? :) Vashti 18:34, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I will remove it, but I don't believe that this is a suitable mechanism for creating utility pages. If it is for a private template, perhaps something in your user heirarchy? Fawcett5 18:37, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * This template is used by every UK constituency page that I'm aware of - compare Cardiff Central (UK Parliament constituency), Bethnal Green and Bow (UK Parliament constituency), or just go to Results of the United Kingdom general election, 2005 and click around there for a little while to see how extensively it's used. It may be wrong, I wouldn't know; I didn't create the template, I'm just using it.  Thank you for your quick response, however... now to move on to the color metadata, which has also been marked for deletion. :) Vashti 18:48, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Vashti, sorry, I didn't mark the colour metadata for deletion, so I'm not comfortable removing the tag. You really need to figure out where the appropriate place to create these utility pages is. Fawcett5 18:51, 8 May 2005 (UTC) I think you need to move them out of the main namespace and into template space. Fawcett5 19:01, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, you're probably right, but the metadata for the Labour Party (UK) and the Conservative Party (UK), just to take the two largest parties, are also in Main: and this is where the documentation for the template says to create them. I'll add something to the template's talk page about it. Vashti 19:05, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Athlete cats
hello. i read your message concerning adding, i believe it was, canadian track athletes cat to canadian sportspeople cat and not occupation by nationality. i can t seem to find where that was the case, although there were, i think, duplicate cats for canadian track athletes (likely owing some ambiguity with the word 'athletes' and how its used in american and british english). at any rate, i believe i ve got cat the sportspeople cats a bit better now. thanks again for the earlier message on not going to fine with provincial cats. regards, Mayumashu 05:11, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Samantha Smith
Sorry, the Smith article is today's featured article. I just thought a link to a semi-famous person might be appropriate on the airplane's page. func (talk) 20:38, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Honourable/Right Honourable
I don't know why it is, but look at any list of PMs...like this one for example. Mackenzie, Abbott, and Bowell are only "Honourable." Adam Bishop 15:07, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Did you know?
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Isobel Gunn, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page.

DoCB
Hi Fawcett5,

I'm glad to be able to assist. I enjoy this kind of thing. However I don't think I will do many new bios only verification. My own personal project is to try to add all the people who were awarded the Companion of the Order of Canada. Your project is an easier way to get my fix of Wiki and not have to research as much. I guess I should sign up for your project.

--YUL89YYZ 19:47, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, the "external links" is a pet pieve of mine since there is only usually one. Can you explain the difference between subst:lived and lived. How does MediaWiki deal with these two? --YUL89YYZ 20:34, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Fawcett5,

Thank you for the award you put on my user page, it is much appreciated. Your DoCB project has got me too addicted to Wikipedia when I should be doing paying work. I was just looking for some Yukon historical figures when I stumbled upon it. And then, having been subjected to seven elementary school years of the Quebec version of Canadian History in the '60s in Montreal, I kept running into names I knew had to have articles. One question though, just out of curiosity. Why do you want regular dashes replaced with "ndash" in the dates? Or maybe you can point me to some reference in Wikipedia? Luigizanasi 18:32, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Father of Confederation
Ye gods! I'm terribly sorry. This is what I get for not double-checking myself. I meant to pipe the links to Canadian Confederation. (I'm a little tired, you'll have to excuse me.) Thanks for catching me on that. I'll go fix it. User:Premeditated Chaos 03:54, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

OK
OK, I blocked them for a week. By the way, my name is not "Cryptodirk". CryptoDerk 17:36, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

Professors of Dalhousie University
You seem to have erroneously removed several of the most notable members of the Dalhousie faculty from the Notable faculty list. Is there a good reason for assuming that these faculty members are not notable? For the majority, I can argue otherwise. Please leave me a note on my talk page if you want to continue, as for now I am reverting your change. Danielfong 20:47, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

PD images?
Hi Zanium, I noticed that for some images you have cropped, (such as ), you have slapped a PD tag on them and say that you "release it into the public domain". But you just cannot DO that. You did not create the content, you just created a derivative work over which you probably have no rights. You should probably go back to each of these and put a suitable tag on them, presumably the same as for the originals, and provide also a link to the original images.... Cheers, Fawcett5 20:28, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
 * The attribution has been corrected. --  user:zanimum

Speedy deletions

 * 1) I'm happy to receive messages, but there's no need to write them in triplicate.
 * 2) I take a list with three names, none linked, and no information, to be a reasonable speedy-deletion candidate, as the person who marked it as speedy also thought (total content: "Ebola, Marburg, AIDS"). If you want to create a genuine article on the subject, feel free to create one. Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 14:44, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I realised that the triplicate thing was a glitch — my remark was supposed to be light-hearted; sorry if it didn't come over that way.

With regard to speedies, I suppose that I have a number of things in mind: first, does it have the makings of an article? secondly, would doing all the checking (is there a suitable article under a different name? etc.) take more time than the creator put into creating it? I'm not saying that this is the conscious process that I actually go through, but it's more than an after-the-fact excuse.

In this case, though I checked Marburg and AIDS, I couldn't find reference to the former as a disease, and the latter isn't strictly speaking a blood-borne disease either. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 15:46, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Ridings
I feel it is best to combine as many ridings as possible into each article as merging ridings makes it far easier for the reader. For instance the riding covering downtown Toronto, now named Toronto Centre, has had several names and in theory could be split into a half dozen different articles. It makes it far easier to follow the history when it is all placed in one article, however. Of the several hundred riding articles that existed before you began adding your stubs the majority contained the history of more than one riding and it would take a vast amount of work to untangle them. Moreover the List of Canadian federal electoral districts series already has the official list so there is no need for the categories to copy this. - SimonP 22:24, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

Wayner reference on RDC page
Doh! Must have just added it as the last line without looking at the section headings. Good catch. I've been reading through that book and using it to verify and add information on various pages. slambo 23:41, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

RFC
Hello. Persuant to your actions on his user page, I have created a second RFC against Lulu. It is at Requests for comment/Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 2. Perhaps you could check it out. Cheers, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 11:21, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Deletion of Alexander MacGregor
There have been complaints about this article from Alexander MacGregor's attorneys. If it is recreated all information in it should be well referenced and carefully attributed. Fred Bauder 10:11, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia: Todd Brendan Fahey
Fawcett5,

This page was "tagged" for potential "copyright violation" yesterday by "Fawcett"; however, the page of origination (the original text) IS Wikipedia's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Brendan_Fahey

Many other sites Web-wide have taken Wikipedia's draft and transferred the text to their own. A stamp-of-approval, it seems, for Wikipedia.

This is to let you know that the entry for "Todd Brendan Fahey" was first posted (and then "Wikified" at Wikipedia.org. There has been no copyright infringement.

(The page seems to be under periodic vandal attack, as the "History" page reveals. But that's another story.)

PLEASE RETAIN THE CURRENT DRAFT of the Wikipedia entry for "Todd Brendan Fahey." It is accurate and has already been "approved" and "Wikified" by your Admins.

Thx.
 * OK, I see now that Biography.ms is an unauthorized mirror of wikipedia that fails to provide proper GFDL notification. But what could you possibly mean by "approved" by "my" "Admins". What poppycock. I will look into this further. Fawcett5 02:21, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Pearson Death
JimWae reverted your edit of Pearson's date of death, saying that the DCB must be "in a different time zone" because it alone had the date as 28 December. I reverted it to the way you had it, but once my edit was posted, JimWae's disappeared from the history list. Now it looks like I'm reacting to your edit, when actually, I am agreeing with (and reinforcing) it. HistoryBA 14:21, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Your user page
Hi, Fawcett5. No problem – I caught it on my watchlist. Pesky vandals! Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 17:07, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi again, Fawcett5. I noticed your edit summary on your user page, and had a brief look through your contributions.  I think you look excellent material for adminship – would you like me to nominate you? Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 09:55, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I think (repeat, think, my connection not being great today) that I have completed the nomination. See it at Requests for adminship/Fawcett5.  Good luck! Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 15:41, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Purple vs. violet
Someone has rewritten Purple vs. violet which is up on VFD. You may wish to reconsider your vote. Mgm|(talk) 10:09, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

I'm back.... occasionally
I had to laugh when I saw you welcome me back in the comment on Nestor Dmytriw. Yeah, I have been busy lately. And it will probably continue for a while. You see, Christie and I just got engaged last weekend and we are trying to pull off a decent size (I say 300 people is average, Christie thinks it's huge) wedding for the Thanksgiving weekend. Throw in her move to Calgary and the fact that we are getting married in a city neither of us live in, and we will have a busy four months. I will try to pop in here every once in a while to contribute, but obviously it will not be my highest priority. I love the DCB project you started. I will probably start with writing up on all of the Ukrainians in the bunch. This will then give me the knowledge to beef up the Ukrainian Canadian page with the early history. -- JamesTeterenko 04:50, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks, and congratulations to you too. Both for your pending nuptuals as well as your pending adminship.  I think 300 people will make a great party!  -- JamesTeterenko 22:09, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Please do delete Singers_who_can_access_the_whistle_register
Sorry, I was trying to create a category (and that wasn't it). Unfortunately, I haven't learned how to self-delete mistakes. Sorry about that. I've been here six months, and my magic spells don't always work!

Antares33712 16:20, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Done, just make it go away :-) Antares33712 16:24, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bagdad Café
Thanks — I should have realised that the truck stop article wouldn't be hyphenated. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:52, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Edward Thring

Edward Thring (29 November 1821 – 22 October 1887) was a celebrated British educator. He was headmaster of Uppingham School (1853–1887) and founded the Headmasters' Conference in 1869.

Life
Thring was born at Alford, Somerset, the son of the rector, the Rev John Gale Dalton Thring and Sarah née Jenkyns. He was brother of Theodore Thring (1816-1891), Henry, Lord Thring, a noted jurist and Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury, hymn writer Godfrey Thring, and John Charles Thring, a master at Uppingham School and deviser of the Simplest Game rules for football; he also had two sisters. The family is commemorated in the Church of All Saints, Alford by carved choir seats in the chancel and two memorial windows.

Thring was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a Fellowship in 1844. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1846 and served in various curacies until in 1853 he began his true life work by an appointment to the headmastership of Uppingham School.

Thring is Uppingham's best-known headmaster, remaining in the post until 1887. He raised the school to a high state of efficiency, and stamped it with the qualities of his own strong personality, as did Thomas Arnold at Rugby. He made many innovative changes to the school's curriculum which were later adopted in other English schools. During his headship the school was forced to move temporarily to Borth in Wales after an outbreak of typhoid ravaged the student body.

In 1869, Edward Thring formed the Headmasters' Conference after inviting thirty-seven of his fellow headmasters to meet at his house to consider establishing such an annual meeting.

He was an original thinker and writer on education and various educational works.

Thring's methods
Thring was the headmaster of Uppingham between 1853 and 1887; here he turned a poor provincial grammar school of 25 boys into a top public school within ten years. Thring insisted on confining the school to around 300 boys to maintain a small, "tight-knit" Christian community. Thring believed that every boy was good for something. His early experience teaching Gloucester National elementary schools had convinced him that "to teach the slow and ignorant with success is the only test of proficiency and intellectual power." In addition to being a believer in teaching the classics, Thring broadened the overall curriculum at Uppingham by ensuring that the moral, aesthetic, and physical aspects meet the needs of the students. Although Uppingham was a huge achievement in itself, Thring's achievements extended beyond Uppingham as he was co-founder of the Headmasters' Conference (HMC) and he produced his Theory and Practice of Teaching.

Education for the lower classes
Thring had a negative attitude to the education for those unable to pay fees:

"You cannot break the laws of nature which have made the work and powers of men vary in value. This is what I mean when I ask why should I maintain my neighbour's illegitimate child ? I mean by illegitimate, every child brought into the world who demands more than his parents can give him, or to whom the Government makes a present of money.  The School Boards are promising to be an excellent example of public robbery."

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Elaine Morgan (singer)

Elaine Morgan (born 1960, Cardiff) is a Welsh folk singer. She was a member of Dan Ar Braz's group L'Heritage des Celtes, and often sang lead vocals, either alone or jointly with Karen Matheson. Morgan and Matheson received much acclaim for their performance on the Breton-language song Diwanit Bugale, France's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1996. Formed her own folk-rock band Rose among Thorns together with her husband Derek and produced several albums throughout the nineties. Currently involved in the running of the Rumney Folk Club in Cardiff. Has also worked with members of Fairport Convention and featured with them at their annual Cropredy gathering.

Personal life
Elaine is the youngest of three sisters.

Discography

 * 1989: First Blush
 * 199x: Rose Among Thorns
 * 199x: This Time It's Real
 * 199x: Butterfly Dreams
 * 1996: Highlights (compilation)
 * 2002: Shine On

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Poste Air Cargo

Poste Air Cargo, named Mistral Air until 30 September 2019, is an Italian cargo and former passenger airline headquartered in Rome and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Poste italiane. Its hubs are Brescia Airport and Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport in Rome. The airline used to serve domestic scheduled and international charter passenger services which it ceased in mid 2018 while focusing on cargo operations since then.

History
Mistral Air was established in 1981 by actor and former swimmer Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli) and started operations in 1984.

It was wholly owned by TNT N.V. until March 2002 when TNT sold a 75% stake to Poste Italiane. The airline has also been contracted by the Holy See of the Vatican to fly Pilgrims to holy sites such as Lourdes, Fátima, Santiago de Compostela, Medjugorje across Mostar, Israel/Palestine (Holy Land), Poland and Mexico. The first flight went from Rome to Lourdes on 27 August 2007 transporting the vicar of Rome, Cardinal Camillo Ruini.

In May 2018, owner Poste Italiane announced that Mistral Air will cease all scheduled and charter passenger flights to focus on cargo operations from now on. The airline has been loss-making for years and recently lost a PSO contract for Italian domestic services as well.

Since October 1, 2019, Mistral Air was rebranded in Poste Air Cargo.

Destinations
As of April 2021, Poste Air Cargo operates scheduled cargo flights to the following domestic destinations as well as 7 international services from their hub in Rome:

Latest passenger destinations served by Mistral Air brand were Cagliari, Catania, Naples, Palermo, Perugia, Brescia and Pescara in Italy as well as Tirana in Albania which all ceased by August 2018.

Fleet
As of May 2023, the Poste Air Cargo fleet consists of the following aircraft:

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File:Verveepalbumcover.jpg

Summary

Fair use rationale for Verve EP

 * It is believed that the use of this image on the English-language Wikipedia to illustrate an article on the audio recording in question falls under the "Non-profit educational" clause of the Fair Use doctrine currently upheld by United States law. (17 U.S.C. § 107)
 * The image is irreplaceable; a free analogue is impossible to produce as the original will be covered by copyright for the foreseeable future
 * Owing to the limited web-resolution of the image, only a small portion of a copyrighted work is used
 * For the same reasons, the portion of the copyrighted work used is of inherently lower quality than the original, reducing the risk of competitiveness and therefore the effects of this copy on the market for or value of versions held by the owner of the copyright

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Edward Cocker

Edward Cocker (1631 – 22 August 1676) was an English engraver, who also taught writing and arithmetic.

Cocker was the reputed author of the famous Arithmetick, the popularity of which has added a phrase ("according to Cocker") to the list of English proverbialisms. He is credited with the authorship and execution of some fourteen sets of copy slips, one of which, Daniel's Copy-Book, ingraven by Edward Cocker, Philomath (1664), is preserved in the British Museum. Samuel Pepys, in his Diary, makes very favourable mention of Cocker, who appears to have displayed great skill in his art.

Cocker's Arithmetick, the fifty-second edition of which appeared in 1748, and which passed through over 100 editions in all, was not published during the lifetime of its reputed author, the first impression being dated 1678. Augustus De Morgan in his Arithmetical Books (1847) argues that the work was a forgery of the editor and publisher, John Hawkins. Ruth Wallis, in 1997, wrote an article in Annals of Science, claiming De Morgan's analysis was flawed and Cocker was the real author.

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Campeonato Capixaba

The Campeonato Capixaba is the football league of the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo.

History
From 1917 to 1929, it was disputed the Campeonato da Cidade de Vitória (Vitória City Championship), a competition contested only by Vitória city clubs. In 1930, this competition was replaced by the current competition, the Campeonato Capixaba, which is disputed by clubs from the Espírito Santo state.

Format
As in any other Brazilian football championship, the format can change every year.

Current clubs

 * 2024 First Division

List of champions
Following is the list with all the champions of Campeonato Capixaba:

Titles by team
Teams in bold still active.

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Talk:SNK (disambiguation)

History
If someone can fill in the history sections, that'll be peachy. I would myself, except I have trouble focusing my thoughts. I'm also a little scant on details from the early '90s and earlier. I feel a little uncomfortable speaking in any authoritative way about that era. What these sections should contain are details such as the Aruze buyout, the reasons behind it, and the immediate and long-term effects on both companies. Aruze kept Sacnoth, for instance, renaming them Nautilus.

Merger
Since the two articles overbleed, they are probably best suited to be merged together. Any thoughts?--Mitsukai 13:18, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

I agree, there don't need to be two articles. I think there should be ONE page, probably titled SNK-Playmore, since that's the companies current name, that would include background about the company's days as SNk, the banktrupcy and the subsequent dealings that ended up creating the SNK-Playmore of today. I don't really know how to go about making the merger happen myself, maybe someone else can do it?

Speedy deletion
Links to this page are for the game company, it is highly unlikely that average EN users would type in SNK and expect to end up at Government of the Soviet Union. JohnnyMrNinja 21:01, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

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Windows Template Library

Windows Template Library (WTL) is a free software, object-oriented C++ template library for Win32 development. WTL was created by Microsoft employee Nenad Stefanovic for internal use and later released as an unsupported add-on to Visual Studio and the Win32 Framework SDK. It was developed primarily as a light-weight alternative to the Microsoft Foundation Classes and builds upon Microsoft's ATL, another lightweight API widely used to create COM and ActiveX libraries.

Overview
WTL provides support for implementing various user interface elements, from frame and popup windows, to MDI, standard and common controls, common dialogs, property sheets and pages, GDI objects, and other common UI elements, such as scrollable windows, splitter windows, toolbars and command bars. WTL's main objective is to deliver small and efficient code, close in size and speed to "straight" SDK programs while providing a higher-level and more flexible object model to developers. Other classes such as a string wrapper that is syntax-compatible with MFC's  and some templated collections are also included.

Most of the WTL API is a mirror of the standard Win32 calls, so the interface tends to be familiar to most Windows programmers. Although no official documentation from Microsoft exists, the WTL Documentation Project is attempting to create a comprehensive reference for the library. The WTL is not supported by Microsoft Product Support Services.

Licensing
While WTL is a template library and therefore code-based, the original license was similar to the one used for the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) source code, although it contained no usage or distribution restrictions. In 2004 Microsoft made the complete source code available under the Common Public License and released it through SourceForge. Since version 9.1, the library is licensed under the Microsoft Public License.

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User:Wangoverseas

American born Chinese of Hakka parents from Taiwan, the Republic of China. Brought up and raised in Maryland until 18 while traveling back to Taipei each summer, finally decided to come over to Tokyo for undergrad during my HS sophomore summer, however currently planning to transfer back to the East Coast. Pan Blue Family but staunchly supports the ideals of the Republic of China and its cause of Dr. Sun's 3 Principles of the People. Would love to hear your valuable thoughts and opinions. ->

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Talk:Chattanooga, Tennessee

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Https is here.
Hello. I'm going to change ALL links to https. Please make all future links https so i don't have to do it again in a few years. Chewie1138 (talk) 06:15, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

 * I assume you've checked all the links you've changed to make sure they're still functional after the change? BilCat (talk) 06:41, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

I will. After i'm done. Thanks for reminding me. I almost forgot. Chewie1138 (talk) 07:17, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Marion County
We have to have a reliable published source to state that the city limits of Chattanooga extends into Marion County. If this is true, it shouldn't be hard to cite a source for it. So far, I have not been able to find proof online. Also, a mailing address that lists Chattanooga, Tennessee, but is in Marion County, is not proof of the city limits. The official mailing address for East Ridge is "Chattanooga, TN 37412", but East Ridge is still its own city. BilCat (talk) 01:07, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:The King of Fighters

Lies from fanboys
I´m removing this part:

The King of Fighters introduced the 3-on-3 team battle system to the fighting game genre along with other sub-systems, such as "attack deflector" (dodging) and "emergency escape" (rolling), running, short jumps, "super desperation moves", autoguarding attacks, and multiple control formats. Many subsequent fighting games adapted these features and helped establish The King of Fighters as one of the most recognized fighting game series of all time.

Explanation: The King of Fighter did not introduce those features.

3 on 3: Games such as Fatal Fury and Street Fighter already allowed the use of more than one character in team battles, just check the snes ports.

Attack deflector: Art of Fighting 1 and Fatal Fury 2 already had it.

Emergency escape: Vega in Street Fighter 2 had it. One feature does not have to be shared by all characters. AOF1 already had desperation moves, but only 2 fighters could perform it. Sf2 had double jump, but only for Vega and Chun-Li.

running: AOF1 and 2 had it. Samurai Shodown 1 and 2 also had it.

short jumps: Play Fatal Fury 3.

MCF: I don´t know what does that mean: Is it related to the advanced and extra from KOF 97? Last Blade 1 had it. Also, Super Street Turbo used a similar system, in which the person could choose to play by the rules used in the previous version.

SDMs: Fatal Fury 3 and Real Bout 1 had them.

autoguard: AOF had it.

I renamed this section, because you sound like a KOF hater. Maybe you're Badmash from GameFAQs or something 24.14.120.92 03:15, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Why? I simply said those were lies. What does it have to do with being a hater of the series? Besides, as i stated (and you removed) the user Moryasmug edited my text without giving any explanation. It´s not my fault that the information you guys posted was wrong. Live with it.

Then stop acting like such a hater. 24.14.120.92 06:05, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

What do you mean by that? What did I do that sounded (to you) as a Kof hater?

I just wanted to make a note about clarity. I'm sure this is just an oversight, but in the main article it states "The King of Fighters 2000 was released on July 26, 2000, with the addition of several new character that would only work as Strikers.[7]". The new characters (Vanessa, Ramon, Lin, Seth, Hinako) were not limited to being strikers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.204.237.23 (talk) 07:43, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

KoF '94 ports?
Was King of Fighters '94 really released on the Saturn or Playstation? I can't find any information on the game or any copies on either format. (Galvy 14:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC))

Nope. KoF '95 was the first one ported to the Saturn & Playstation. The S 02:32, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

New info: A new KOF for mobile phones appears to be based (judging by the pictures) on Kof94.

This paragraph is confusing:
 * The game was remade in 2004 for the PS2 as The King of Fighters '94 Re-Bout in Japan; however, it had problems getting released it in the US. According to Ben Herman, the president of SNK Playmore USA, bug fixing would have taken too long, resulting in missing the holiday season [1]. The game was then announced to be released on the Xbox; however, the game was ultimately cancelled in March 2006 (the month of it's scheduled release). No announcements were ever made as to why the Xbox version was cancelled. It would have had completely new features like online play, team edit, a playable Rugal Bernstein, and the addition of Saisyu Kusanagi.

Was it that the PS2 version was denied due to price issue while the X-Box version was cancelled because of the bugs in the online component, according to Ben Herman?

I think this passage needs to be clean, sound confusing. Nauto 20:01, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

By the beart of Zeus
Can someone fill in the overall description of each plot arc, in the space before the individual games are listed? Also, I'm not sure offhand what all of the ports are like. It's probably a good idea to list what home systems each game is available for, and what significant differences there are from the original version. Kyo is the most people favourite character from KOF.

By the beart of Zeus, why is the plot summary so LONG? It even appears to have short stories placed in a few spots... I think a little culling is in order. I appreciate the filling in of the plot arc, but this is a bit too much...

buliding off zeus... Will someone PLEASE seperate kof into it's apropriate enumaration (94, 95, 96, 97 etc). It will help reduce the clutter, and seriously, each game is different from the last, especially in the recent ones.

Let's vote to achieve consensus on the validity of the hizokus section, I think it's just speculative and stupidly fanboyish garbage that doesn't belong anywhere in this article, perhaps in it's own article but not here.

It's not speculative, it's official. SNK talk about it on their KoF 10 year site! It's the longest running storyline in KoF. By your reasoning we should take away anything to do with storylines altogether. Sign your messages!!! Bowen 14:33, 11 January 2006 (UTC) http://www.snkplaymore.jp/official/kof2003/english/story/t-story_hero.html <- Main character story talks of Flying Brigands, most people don't know what fuck that is. SNK say it's important so stop taking it out PabloG you cunt!

Either you make a new article or you leave it in! Bowen 05:33, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * There is a Lin article now. It'd probally be best to add it to there if you still want it on Wikipedia. Kid Drac 21:00, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Beart? Is that a pun on Mignon? The S 19:20, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Why is there two?
Why is there two articles on the KOF series (King of Fighters (series) and King of Fighters series)? Shouldn't they be merged? ---> Sagitario
 * My word. I never noticed that... Yes, they should be. -ZeroTalk 05:58, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Individual Game Articles
I strongly believe each KOF game (at least from the main series) should have it's own article. Has anyone ever argued against the idea, or is it just a matter of no one creating them? Were they ever in existence and then deleted? --Do Not Talk About Feitclub (contributions) 11:46, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, the main article gives an explanatory thesis regarding the games. If we made seperate articles, we'd have to remove large chunks of this article, and each individual article might end up as stubs.

 * However, I made the seperate Tekken articles a while ago, and they turned out quite well and were very informative. I'll do some research, and determine if each article warrents enough information; if so, I'll begin construction. -ZeroTalk 16:52, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * In theory, we could at least devote articles to the "story arcs" which are laid out here (94-97, 99-01, etc) but in my opinion each game has enough differences from the others to fill out eleven (so far) individual entries. --Do Not Talk About Feitclub (contributions) 07:59, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

 * How did your research end up? There'd be plenty of information for the infoboxes, each article could have its own shot of the title screen, etc… I'm not saying I'd die to have those articles but I'd welcome the opportunity to contribute to them… elias.hc 18:36, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Oh I looked into it. I don't believe it to be a worthy endeavor. I dismissed this earlier as I had begun preparing them in my sandbox, but looked at our main article here and other articles about the net. I came to the conclusion that the games are similar extentions of each other and the main article works quite well. If a overwhelming community concensus queries for it, I'll go ahead and make them, but I doubt that.-ZeroTalk 17:52, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Yeah right... that's like saying Tekken 4 and Tekken 5 are similar. Do ACTUAL research next time. 24.14.120.92 06:23, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Has Geese Flown the Coop?
I just revised the continuity section and came across this: "Sometimes, however, even major events fail to impact other series. For instance, although recent Fatal Fury games depend on Geese Howard having been dead for years, he lives on in the most recent KOF installments." Other than a tweak, I left this statement alone for now. However, it's my understanding that though Geese made an appearance in KOF '96, he certainly hasn't appeared in "the most recent KOF installments." In fact, if KOF: Another Day has any bearing upon KOF's plot, Geese indeed has been dead for awhile now. I'd say that if Geese isn't clearly still alive in KOF (and I've been known to miss the obvious, so I'm bringing this before all of you to verify), this example for a big event making no impact in any other relevant series needs to be changed. RemiCogan 06:22, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

 * He is alive and well. Fatal Fury and King of Fighters are not the same series, but occur in different continuitys, with similar events. Geese's status is now as behind-the-secenes mobster, still attempting to take over Southtown. He is the one who commands the Outlaw Team in KOF 2003. -ZeroTalk 06:31, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

 * If Geese isn't dead in KoF, then how did Terry end up adopting Rock? The S 02:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * In Fatal Fury universe, Terry adopted Rock since the ending of FF3 (but Geese was dead in RB1).--58.9.111.230 15:25, 28 July 2006 (UTC) The point I tried to say is Geese abandoned Marie and Rock in the first place (just like Geese's father done to Geese).--Freak on Board 15:40, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * They don't know he's alive in KOF. The only character that knows Geese is alive is Billy, Gato, and Yamazaki. Rock is already with Terry by KOF2001. Besides, how do we really know Geese is dead in FF series? I mean he comes back more often that cockroaches lol. 24.14.120.92 06:28, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * In 2003, Terry's winquote againts Billy is "Tell your boss: after KOF, I'm coming after him!". About Rock stayed with Terry in 2001, Terry is 24 years old in that games, and in FF3 he's 23 (the game took place in the early of 95).
 * Regarding Geese's death, MOTW's story stated that.  --Freak on Board 02:44, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Region 2 and English
In the 'Spinoffs' section, regarding the KOF: Another Day DVD, this line pops up: "The DVD is notable in that it contains an English subtitle track, as well as an English dub audio track for all four episodes, in spite of only being coded for playback in Region 2 players." However, the UK is in region 2 and most UK DVD players can happily accept the disc (provided the TV can accept an NTSC picture). Perhaps this should be reworded?
 * Fair enough. I'll touch it up. --MoriyaMug 18:08, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Mr.Karate
Mr.Karate appeared on KoF 96's GB version,don't remove him from template! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by KnighTeen87 (talk • contribs) 21:27, 17 December 2006 (UTC).

Clean up ideas
Okay, I've been meaning to take a look at this series' article and how to clean it up. I've got a few ideas, and I'm throwing it out to the community here to see what you all think of the ideas.

 * The first thing that comes to mind is the lengthy Games section. While the games are important to the KoF series, the list is excessively long and clutters up most of the page. Looking at Final Fantasy, it's countless games and spinoffs are documented in a separate List of Final Fantasy games article. I am thinking of creating a separate List of King of Fighters games article with the contents of the current "Games" section (with some major clean-up, of course).
 * The second idea would be to kill the trivia section, per the guideline WP:TRIVIA. Two of the trivia bits are uncited fancruft; another is cited but is still cruft, and the last point can be integrated into the article itself.
 * Third, per the guidelines at WP:CVG there needs to be more information about the history of how the series was created and the general impact the series has had; in other words, clarify why the series is notable. And it can't be just "I'm a member of an SNK forum which has X number of members; that's the kind of impact it has"; any claims must be verifiable and come from reliable sources - in other words, no fan forums.

So, does anyone else have any input on these plans? Or does anyone have any other ideas to help improve this article? NeoChaosX (talk, walk) 22:41, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Elisabeth & Rugal
I have moved their articles to Elisabeth (King of Fighters) and Rugal as no surnames are given in the games only in additional sources. Surnames are still given in first sentence of the article. Please do not change back as per Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2006-12-21_Street_Fighter_character_articles and Talk:E. Honda. Thank you. Mr.bonus 17:45, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Page name

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the . Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

PAGE MOVED -- as there was a consensus for the move per discussion below. --Philip Baird Shearer 14:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

I think it's pretty clear that the series is known as The King of Fighters and feel that it should be moved to such a page. The logo has the "The", every game in the series has the "The", and the lead includes the "The". The current location is as wrong as Clockwork Orange or Jerk would be. This survey also affects other articles such as List of King of Fighters games. I don't think there would be much disagreement here, but I don't fill completely confident with requesting a "uncontroversial" move.--SeizureDog 12:51, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Add  # Support   on a new line in the appropriate section followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion using ~ .  Please remember that this survey is not a vote, and please provide an explanation for your recommendation.

Move article to The King of Fighters

 * 1) Support per comments above.--SeizureDog 12:51, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support per Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name). This is a title of a work and the logo shows that it's a part of the title. --Kusunose 04:38, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Suppport - Of the 1.4 million Ghits for "King of Fighters", 1.1 million contain the whole phrase "The King of Fighters". WP:NCD seems to support nominator per the above comment. -- Exitmoose 23:39, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support for this article, but oppose for disambiguating notes on character articles. Brevity is important there and the parenthetical notes are for Wikipedia's purposes only, so just as United States is often abbreviated to US, no reason not to abbreviate them as well.  SnowFire 22:56, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep article at King of Fighters

 * 1) Oppose, per WP:NC, which states that we do not use usually put articles at the beginning of titles other than in a few exceptional cases. Chris cheese whine 02:50, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, and one of those cases is when the article is a part of the name itself. A cursory glance at King of Fighters will reveal that this is the case. -- Exitmoose 01:55, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

 * 1) Oppose, it's KOF not TKOF. 70.55.87.154 02:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Discussion

 * King of Fighters → The King of Fighters —(Discuss)— Another massive move request by me. I think it's pretty clear that the series is known as The King of Fighters and feel that it should be moved to such a page. The logo has the "The", every game in the series has the "The", and the lead includes the "The". The current location is as wrong as Clockwork Orange or Jerk would be. I don't think there would be much disagreement here, but I don't fill completely confident with requesting a "uncontroversial" move. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * List of King of Fighters games → List of The King of Fighter games —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * List of characters from King of Fighters → List of characters from The King of Fighters —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * List of KOF Teams → List of The King of Fighters teams —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * List of King of Fighters: Maximum Impact characters → List of The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact characters —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Oswald (King of Fighters) → Oswald (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Angel (King of Fighters) → Angel (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Elisabeth (King of Fighters) → Elisabeth (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Chris (King of Fighters) → Chris (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Foxy (King of Fighters) → Foxy (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Lin (King of Fighters) → Lin (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Malin (King of Fighters) → Malin (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Mature (King of Fighters) → Mature (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Maxima (King of Fighters) → Maxima (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Orochi (King of Fighters) → Orochi (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Ramon (King of Fighters) → Ramon (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Ron (King of Fighters) → Ron (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Seth (King of Fighters) → Seth (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Striker (KOF) → Striker (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Vanessa (King of Fighters) → Vanessa (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Vice (King of Fighters) → Vice (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Whip (King of Fighters) → Whip (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yuki (King of Fighters) → Yuki  (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Vanessa (King of Fighters) → Vanessa (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— See above. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

SeizureDog I am not going to move them you can do it. If there are any which you can not move for technical reasons then please leave a message on my Talk page and I'll lend a hand. All so in this case you did not make it very clear that a mass move was intended, so do not be suprised if some of the moves are raise objections --Philip Baird Shearer 14:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

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Could someone copyedit Mai Shiranui?
I'd like to make her a GA, kthx. --Niemti (talk) 21:05, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Early games released outside Japan
The article currently states that "The first games of the series were only available in Japan with the exception of The King of Fighters '95 which saw a U.S. release on the PlayStation and a European release on the Sega Saturn in 1996. However, in 1999 when SNK was expanded to North America, the games were also released there." This is incorrect as all KOF games prior to The King of Fighters XI were originally developed for SNK's Neo-Geo system, which includes both the MVS arcade cabinets and AES home console. MVS and AES were both available in countries outside Japan and all Neo-Geo KoF titles were multi-lingual from the get-go, often including Spanish and Portuguese language choices in addition to Japanese and English.

Thus, the above excerpt is erroneous and I shall be removing it. It might very well be that the original Neo-Geo games were not ported to other systems outside Japan before 1999, save for KOF '95, so if someone wants to rephrase the excerpt to reflect this and add it back in, be my guest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.234.180.209 (talk) 20:52, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

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