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Janelly Fourtou

Janelly Fourtou (born 4 February 1939 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for central France. She is a member of the Union for French Democracy, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions and its Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

She is also a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs, a member of the delegation to the EU–Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.

Career
In 1972 Fourtou received a Master's degree in language and literature. She works as an assistant at the Paris Chamber of Commerce from 1960 to 1964, then was in charge of bookshop Maison de la Presse in Paris from 1965 to 1969.

She was elected as a member of Neuilly Municipal Council in 1983, and had responsibility for housing from 1989 to 1995, and responsibility for employment from 1995. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 1999.

Fourtou has been active in the EU Parliaments decisions regarding intellectual property rights. In 2004, she led the passage of a directive "after unofficial meetings with the Council working group and the Commission", suggesting among many other things up to four years of imprisonment for illegal file sharing. The directive also included an introduction of private police forces to enforce the law (in the EU member countries that should adopt the directive as-is).

Personal life
Fourtou is married to Jean-René Fourtou, the CEO of Vivendi Universal.

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Labrador City

Labrador City is a town in western Labrador (part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador), near the Quebec border. With a population of 7,412 as of 2021, it is the second-largest population centre in Labrador, behind Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Neighbouring Labrador City is Wabush, a smaller town with a population of approximately 1,964 as of 2021. Together, the "twin towns" are known as Labrador West.

In the 1960s, Labrador City was founded to accommodate employees of the Iron Ore Company of Canada, and iron ore mining continues to be the primary industry in the town.

The Labrador City town motto is Kamistiatusset, a Naskapi word meaning "land of the hard-working people." The Labrador City town crest is that of a snowy owl holding a scroll atop a black spade on a mound of red earth. The symbol represents iron ore mining. The spade is flanked by two caribou. Both snowy owls and caribou are native to the Labrador City area.

Government
Since a 2013 by-election, the federal riding of Labrador seat has been held by Yvonne Jones, a Liberal Party member, while New Democrat Jordan Brown has represented Labrador West in the provincial House of Assembly since 2019.

Economy
Labrador City was built around the rich iron ore deposits of the Labrador Trough by the Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) in the 1960s. The Carol Project is the major iron ore mining operation for the area. In 2008, IOC and their parent company Rio Tinto announced they would spend $800 million to develop additional mines in the region. However, only a few months after announcing the second phase of their expansion, the project was shelved due to the economic recession and low demand for steel. With the world recovering from the economic crisis, it is believed that IOC will go ahead with their expansion in the near future.

The town is serviced by the Wabush Airport, and the airlines flying out of the airport are Provincial Airlines, Air Inuit and Pascan Aviation. Additionally, the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway provides freight rail transportation to and from Sept-Îles. The Trans-Labrador Highway (Route 500) serves as the only road connection to Labrador City, connecting it with the rest of Labrador as well as the neighbouring province of Quebec, becoming Quebec Route 389 at the border.

The town contains many amenities found in larger locations thanks to investments by the mining companies who established the area including an ice arena, curling, downhill & cross country ski clubs. The White wolf snowmobile club connects with a larger trail network across the region and is home to the Cain's Quest Snowmobile Endurance Race.

The main shopping mall in the town, the 246,923 sqft Labrador Mall, includes a Walmart, Canadian Tire & Mark's. The mall opened in 1978 and is the largest shopping mall in Labrador; it is also the only enclosed mall.

There is a Masonic lodge in Labrador City, Lodge Anik No 1707 of the District Grand Lodge of Newfoundland and Labrador of the Grand Lodge of Scotland.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Labrador City had a population of $7,412$ living in $3,070$ of its $3,368$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $7,220$. With a land area of 34.11 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Attractions

 * Basilica of our Lady of Perpetual Help

Climate
Wabush and Labrador City has a continental subarctic climate (Köppen: Dfc), with mild summers and severely cold winters. Precipitation is heavy year round (although higher in summer) due to the strong Icelandic Low to the east driving cold, moist and unstable air onto the region. Snowfall, as is typical for the province, is very heavy for seven months each year and depths can reach as high as 218 cm. Despite its latitude around the same as cities like Berlin, London, and Amsterdam, its annual mean temperature is 13 C-change   colder.

Notable residents
Notable former residents of Labrador City include:

 * Damhnait Doyle, singer-songwriter
 * Margot Kidder, actress
 * Dan LaCosta, National Hockey League goaltender
 * Pascal Pelletier, National Hockey League player
 * Chad Penney, National Hockey League player
 * Mark Nichols, 2006 Turin Olympics gold medallist curler

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Pampigny

Pampigny is a former municipality in the district of Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2021 the former municipalities of Apples, Cottens, Pampigny, Sévery, Bussy-Chardonney and Reverolle merged into the new municipality of Hautemorges.

History
Pampigny is first mentioned in 1141 as Pampiniaco.

Geography
Pampigny had an area,, of 11.09 km2. Of this area, 6.4 km2 or 57.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.05 km2 or 36.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.56 km2 or 5.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km2 or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.07 km2 or 0.6% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.7%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 49.4% is used for growing crops and 8.1% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.

The former municipality was part of the Cossonay District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Pampigny became part of the new district of Morges.

The former municipality is located at the foot of the Jura Mountains.

Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, two Crosses in slatire Argent, surrounded by four Acorns Or.

Demographics
Pampigny had a population (as of 2019) of 1,103. , 9.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 20.6%. It has changed at a rate of 14.9% due to migration and at a rate of 5.1% due to births and deaths.

Most of the population speaks French (765 or 92.4%), with German being second most common (33 or 4.0%) and English being third (12 or 1.4%). There are 4 people who speak Italian.

Of the population in the municipality 269 or about 32.5% were born in Pampigny and lived there in 2000. There were 299 or 36.1% who were born in the same canton, while 154 or 18.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 96 or 11.6% were born outside of Switzerland.

In there were 9 live births to Swiss citizens and 2 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 6 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 3 while the foreign population increased by 2. There was 1 Swiss man and 3 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 5 non-Swiss men and 3 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 62 and the non-Swiss population increased by 18 people. This represents a population growth rate of 8.8%.

The age distribution,, in Pampigny is; 118 children or 11.9% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 154 teenagers or 15.5% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 101 people or 10.2% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 152 people or 15.3% are between 30 and 39, 188 people or 19.0% are between 40 and 49, and 129 people or 13.0% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 85 people or 8.6% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 33 people or 3.3% are between 70 and 79, there are 28 people or 2.8% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 4 people or 0.4% who are 90 and older.

, there were 376 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 374 married individuals, 40 widows or widowers and 38 individuals who are divorced.

, there were 301 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 70 households that consist of only one person and 32 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 304 households that answered this question, 23.0% were households made up of just one person and there was 1 adult who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 65 married couples without children, 132 married couples with children There were 27 single parents with a child or children. There were 6 households that were made up of unrelated people and 3 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.

there were 90 single family homes (or 48.4% of the total) out of a total of 186 inhabited buildings. There were 42 multi-family buildings (22.6%), along with 40 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (21.5%) and 14 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (7.5%). Of the single family homes 26 were built before 1919, while 29 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (27) were built between 1991 and 1995. The most multi-family homes (18) were built before 1919 and the next most (6) were built between 1981 and 1990. There were 2 multi-family houses built between 1996 and 2000.

there were 327 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 93. There were 12 single room apartments and 117 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 287 apartments (87.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 21 apartments (6.4%) were seasonally occupied and 19 apartments (5.8%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 40.2 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality,, was 0%.

The historical population is given in the following chart:

Sights
The entire village of Pampigny is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 26.25% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (20.44%), the Green Party (15.28%) and the FDP (12.76%). In the federal election, a total of 230 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 37.5%.

Economy
, Pampigny had an unemployment rate of 3.8%. , there were 60 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 23 businesses involved in this sector. 51 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 11 businesses in this sector. 75 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 24 businesses in this sector. There were 388 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.3% of the workforce.

the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 155. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 48, of which 39 were in agriculture and 9 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 47 of which 44 or (93.6%) were in manufacturing and 3 (6.4%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 60. In the tertiary sector; 13 or 21.7% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 12 or 20.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 8 or 13.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 9 or 15.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 6 or 10.0% were in education and 2 or 3.3% were in health care.

, there were 64 workers who commuted into the municipality and 259 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 4.0 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 6.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.8% used a private car.

Religion
From the, 145 or 17.5% were Roman Catholic, while 480 or 58.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 2 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.24% of the population), and there were 118 individuals (or about 14.25% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 2 individuals (or about 0.24% of the population) who were Jewish, and there was 1 individual who was Islamic. There were 2 individuals who were Buddhist. 123 (or about 14.86% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 14 individuals (or about 1.69% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education
In Pampigny about 270 or (32.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 126 or (15.2%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 126 who completed tertiary schooling, 58.7% were Swiss men, 27.0% were Swiss women, 7.1% were non-Swiss men and 7.1% were non-Swiss women.

In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 157 students in the Pampigny school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 631 children of which 203 children (32.2%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 78 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 75 students in those schools. There were also 4 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.

, there were 35 students in Pampigny who came from another municipality, while 144 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

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Marielle de Sarnez

Marielle de Sarnez (27 March 1951 –13 January 2021) was a French politician who served as Secretary of State for European Affairs under Prime Minister Édouard Philippe.

A member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) until 2008 when she joined the Democratic Movement (MoDem), de Sarnez was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 until her appointment as Minister for European Affairs in the Phillipe government in 2017. De Sarnez resigned after a month due to a scandal involving alleged payment for work she did not perform, but was elected a few days later to represent the 11th constituency of Paris in the National Assembly. She was a committed Europeanist and centrist, pushing the MoDem to resist currents on each end of the political spectrum. De Sarnez was a longtime collaborator to party president and three-time candidate for the presidency of France, François Bayrou.

Early life
Marielle de Sarnez was born in the 8th arrondissement of Paris on 27 March 1951 and grew up in a family with close ties to the French political establishment. From 1961 to 1967, her Gaullist father Olivier de Sarnez, who had been in the French Resistance, was chief of staff to Roger Frey, Interior Minister, and her mother was responsible for floral arrangements at the Élysée Palace. Nevertheless de Sarnez joined the May 1968 protests while still a high school student, was kicked out of Lycée Sainte-Marie de Passy Catholic girls school and participated in the occupation of neighboring boys school Lycée Jean-Baptiste Say. (Her father was elected as a deputy to the National Assembly on the Gaullist conservative Union of Democrats for the Republic—UDR—ticket a month later.) After earning her baccalaureate from Lycée La Fontaine, de Sarnez began working in retail.

Early career
In 1973, Ladislas Wroblewski, who cofounded the Independent Republicans (RI) party with Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, offered de Sarnez a part-time role as secretary of the Young RI arm. At RI, she met Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who went on to become prime minister; Dominique Bussereau, who became president of the Assembly of the Departments of France; and eventual Minister of Justice Pascal Clément. She was involved in the Presidential campaign the next year, creating popular "Giscard à la barre" ("Giscard at the helm”) t-shirts. Giscard d'Estaing was elected and de Sarnez rose quickly through the ranks. Later de Sarnez grew disappointed by the rightward turn, especially the anti-abortion politics, that the new administration adopted, and wished Giscard d'Estaing had taken the opportunity to break from the right-wing UDR (predecessor to the Rally for the Republic, RPR) and form a majority government without them. Failure to do so, she later said, left the Giscardians "hostages" to the right. Simone Veil offered de Sarnez a slot on her list for the European elections in 1979 (when Veil became president of the European Parliament). De Sarnez, who had a ten-month-old daughter and a son on the way, declined at that time, later saying she was glad to have waited for a more compatible political partner.

Giscard d'Estaing was defeated in the 1981 French presidential election. De Sarnez later said that despite personal disappointment, she did not entirely regret the political changes brought by President François Mitterrand, of the Socialist Party (PS).

Work with François Bayrou
In 1978, de Sarnez co-founded the Union for French Democracy (UDF), aimed at developing a center-right coalition to back Giscard d'Estaing and provide a counterweight to the Gaullist right. From 1986 to 1989, she served as special advisor to the chair of the UDF group in the National Assembly, Jean-Claude Gaudin.

In this milieu she met François Bayrou, with whom she worked closely for the next 40 years. The two became close working on Raymond Barre's campaign for President in 1988 and were soon inseparable. "Elle, c'est moi, et moi, c'est elle" ("I'm her and she is me") he told those who occasionally tried to drive a wedge between them. When Bayrou became Secretary General of the UDF in 1989, she joined him as his deputy, then likewise at the Ministry of National Education (1993 to 1997) in the government of Alain Juppé. Initially she was an adviser, but then became Director of his Private Office, the first French woman to hold such a senior role without a degree from the École nationale d'administration. From 1997 to 1998, she was the secretary-general of the UDF group in the National Assembly. After the Plural Left won the 1997 legislative elections, in 1989 through 1993 de Sarnez became Secretary-General of the opposition general assembly, while Bayrou was President of UDF. She went on to become national secretary of the UDF, from 2003 to 2007.

De Sarnez, who earned a reputation as an outstanding organizer—Raffarin described her as a "gifted politician" —also served as campaign manager for Bayrou's 2007 and 2012 presidential campaigns. Each time, Bayrou, a center-right candidate running under the UDF banner, failed to advance to the second (final) round. In 2002, they earned 6.84% of the first-round vote, a fourth-place finish while the neo-Gaullist right-wing (RPR) and extreme-right (National Front, FN) candidates Jacques Chirac and Jean-Marie Le Pen, respectively, advanced. Along with much of the political establishment, Bayrou threw his support behind Chirac. In 2007, it was 18.57% (Nicolas Sarkozy, a right-wing candidate then running with the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and Socialist Party (PS) candidate Ségolène Royal advanced) and 9.13% in 2012 (Sarkozy and PS candidate François Hollande advanced). The 2007 election loss nevertheless marked a significant turning point, as Bayrou announced publicly he would not vote for Sarkozy, breaking from the dominant right-wing UMP to form the centrist Democratic Movement (MoDem). De Sarnez became its First Vice-President. The UMP's successor the Republicans (LR) blamed Bayrou (and retaliated) for Sarkozy's loss and a number of UDF members split to create the New Centre party to support Sarkozy, leaving only three MoDem deputies in the National Assembly, including Bayrou, not enough to form their own group in the legislature. Ex-comrades accused de Sarnez of having creating a vacuum around Bayrou. A 2007 profile in Le Monde describes de Sarnez's role with Bayrou: "Nothing is done without her consent."

In the 2016 presidential primary held by LR, de Sarnez endorsed Alain Juppé over Sarkozy, but both lost in a surprise upset by François Fillon. Bayrou, in consultation with de Sarnez, decided not to run in the 2017 French presidential election and they both instead supported Emmanuel Macron of La République En Marche! as an alternative centrist candidate, ultimately successful.

Role in Europe
While de Sarnez made her name as "the woman who made Bayrou", he also encouraged her to strike out as a candidate herself, insisting, "She's not a number two. She's a number one." Devoted to the cause of a unified Europe, she began her elected career in 1999 as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Île-de-France, heading the UDF list in 2004 and serving until 2017. A member of the UDF before 2008 and MoDem after 2008, de Sarnez served as vice-chair of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education. She was in the forefront for Orange Revolution in Ukraine, and it inspired the choice to make orange the signature color of MoDem. She also took a particular interest in the EU's Erasmus Mundus, expanding on the popular Erasmus program to create opportunities for students outside Europe to study in its universities as well. In the contentious 2005 French referendum on the European Constitution on ratifying the European Constitution, de Sarnez supported ratification. Although the measure failed, de Sarnez praised the "democratic moment" of the entire nation reading and debating the text. In 2009, she published a short book called Petit dictionnaire pour faire aimer l'Europe (A Brief Dictionary for Loving Europe). The book covers 80-odd subjects in 250 pages, appealing to a vision of Europe that centers equity in its relationship with the rest of the world.

De Sarnez was a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a member of the delegation for relations with South Africa, and a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee. In 2016, she served as the parliament's rapporteur on a plan to lend Tunisia €500 million on favourable terms to help it reduce its external debt and consolidate its democratic mechanisms. In addition to her committee assignments, de Sarnez was a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Children's Rights.

In May 2017, de Sarnez left the European Parliament upon her appointment as French Minister for European Affairs. Reporting from Le Canard enchaîné shortly thereafter alleged that de Sarnez had been paid for work she had not actually done, embroiling her and Bayrou in a jobs scandal. Prosecutors opened an investigation into whether assistants to de Sarnez as an MEP had actually been paid for work done for the MoDem party in Paris. Both she and Bayrou (the new Minister of Justice) resigned, just before the 2017 legislative election in which de Sarnez was a candidate with Emmanuel Macron's newly formed party, La République En Marche! Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced that Bayrou would not be a part of the government. On 21 June 2017, Nathalie Loiseau succeeded de Sarnez as the minister for European affairs.

Representative of Paris

Despite the timing of the scandal, de Sarnez, who was also a councillor (joint RPR-UDF slate) for the 14th arrondissement of Paris from 2001 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2020, was elected Deputy to the National Assembly for the 11th constituency of Paris on 18 June 2017.

De Sarnez became chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, serving in that capacity from 2017 to 2021.

On 24 April 2018, De Sarnez was among the guests invited to the state dinner hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump in honor of President Emmanuel Macron at the White House.

On 31 May 2019, she led a delegation of the committee on a visit to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and the Syrian Democratic Council in Ayn Issa. After de Sarnez’s death in 2021, she was succeeded as deputy by Maud Gatel.

Personal life
De Sarnez married Philippe Augier (later Mayor of Deauville) and had two children, circa 1979. She separated from Augier in 1988. A private person, de Sarnez kept a small circle of friends and strictly enforced her preference that her personal life stay out of the media spotlight. She was known for her uniform of jeans and Converse sneakers.

De Sarnez died of leukemia in Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris on 13 January 2021, at age 69. French leaders across the political spectrum sent public messages mourning her death, including President Macron and his rivals in the 2017 election, extreme-right FN candidate Marine Le Pen and hard left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon; as well as current Prime Minister Jean Castex and de Sarnez's longtime professional partner Bayrou. The National Assembly observed a minute of silence and Le Monde wrote, "One of the pillars of the house of centrism has fallen."

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Raghuvaṃśa

 (Devanagari: रघुवंशम्, lit. 'lineage of Raghu') is a Sanskrit epic poem (mahakavya) by the celebrated Sanskrit poet Kalidasa. Though an exact date of composition is unknown, the poet is presumed to have flourished in the 5th century CE. It narrates, in 19 sargas (cantos), the stories related to the Raghu dynasty, namely the family of Dilipa and his descendants up to Agnivarna, who include Raghu, Dasharatha and Rama.

The earliest surviving commentary written on the work is that of the 10th-century Kashmiri scholar Vallabhadeva. The most popular and widely available commentary, however, is the Sanjivani, written by Mallinatha (ca.1350–1450).

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The Raghuvaṃśa is a mahākāvya (roughly, epic poem) containing 1564 stanzas. It describes the line of kings of the Raghu dynasty (also known as the sūryavaṃśa or the solar dynasty) that includes Raghu. It is written in 19 sargas (cantos), that can be regarded as being divided into three parts:

 * Ancestors of Rāma: Dilīpa, Raghu, Aja, and Daśaratha (Cantos 1 to 9)
 * The story of the Ramayana (Cantos 10 to 15)
 * Descendants of Rāma (Cantos 16 to 19)

Dilīpa (Cantos 1, 2)
The work begins with a prayer:
 * Canto 1 – King Dilīpa's journey to Vasiṣṭha's hermitage

"vāgarthāviva saṁpṛktau vāgarthapratipattaye / jagataḥ pitarau vande pārvatīparameśvarau //"

"To Parvati and Parameshvara, the parents of the world, who are united like word and meaning, I pray, for the gift of speech fit with appropriate meaning."

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After some stanzas expressing the poet's humility and the greatness of the dynasty, King Dilipa and his reign are described. Dilipa has one great sorrow, which is that he has no child. With his queen Sudakshina he journeys to the hermitage of the sage Vasiṣṭha, to seek his advice. Vasiṣṭha reveals that King Dilipa had once offended the divine cow Surabhi and has been cursed by her, and instructs him to care for her daughter calf, Nandini.

The king spends his days in service of the calf, accompanying it on its wanderings and protecting it from danger. One day a lion appears, and when Dilipa raises his hand to draw an arrow and protect the calf, he finds himself magically frozen. He begs the lion to take his own life instead of the calf's, even in the face of the lion's arguments against doing so, after which this is all revealed to be an illusion and Nandini grants him a boon of having a son. He returns with his queen to his capital.
 * Canto 2 – King Dilipa and the calf Nandini

Raghu (Cantos 3, 4, 5)
Queen Sudakshina gives birth to a baby boy who is named Raghu. The boy's childhood and education are described. When his father the king Dilipa performs the Ashvamedha yajña and the god Indra captures his wandering horse, Raghu fights Indra who is impressed with him. His father crowns him king, and retires to the forest.
 * A bazaar-art print, c.1910.jpg 3 – Raghu is born, grows up, and becomes king

The reign of Raghu is described. He sets out in all four directions to conquer, and in this chapter much of India is described.
 * Canto 4 – Raghu as king, and his conquest

Just after Raghu has performed a sacrifice and given away all his wealth, a freshly graduated student named Kautsa arrives and asks him for an immense amount of wealth, to give as guru-dakshina to his teacher. To grant his wish, Raghu resolves to go to war against the god of wealth Kubera himself, and just as he resolves to do so, Kubera rains a shower of gold to fill his treasury. Both Raghu, who presses on Kautsa much more than he asked, and Kautsa, who accepts nothing more than what he needs to repay his teacher, win praise from all the people.
 * Canto 5 – Raghu's gift to Kautsa, and the birth and youth of Aja

A son is born to Raghu and is named Aja, who grows into adulthood and goes to the svayamvara of princess Indumati.

Aja and Indumati (Cantos 6, 7, 8)
Many princes from all regions are at Indumati's svayamvara hoping to be chosen by her. Their qualities and kingdoms are described. Indumati passes by many of them, and finally chooses Aja.
 * Canto 6 – Indumati's svayamvara

Aja is married to Indumati, but on his way home he is attacked by the disappointed rival princes. He defeats them all and returns home, at which his father Raghu crowns him king and retires to the forest.
 * Canto 7 – Aja's wedding and ambush

Indumati gives birth to a son Dasharatha. One day, Indumati is killed by a freak accident (when a garland of flowers falls on her), and Aja laments at length on losing her. He lives in grief for eight years till his son comes of age, then gives up his body and is reunited after death with his wife.
 * Canto 8 – Indumati's death and Aja's lament

Dasharatha (Canto 9)
The reign of King Dasharatha and his three queens is described. Once he goes hunting in the forest, during which a fatal hunting accident takes place: Dasharatha kills a boy, and is cursed by the boy's parents that he too will in old age die of grief for his son.
 * Canto 9 – Dasharatha, and the accidental death of Shravana Kumara

Rama (Cantos 10 to 15)
These cantos 10 to 15 tell the story of the Ramayana, but the parts from Valmiki well known to Indian readers are abridged.

The gods, tormented by Ravana, pray to Vishnu. Dasharatha performs a yajña and is blessed with four children: Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughna.
 * Canto 10 – The gods pray to Vishnu, who is incarnated as Rama

Rama and Lakshmana accompany the sage Vishvamitra and kill the demon Tataka. They arrive at Mithila, where at the svayamvara of princess Sita, Rama strings and breaks the bow, and is married to her. On their way back to Ayodhya they encounter Parashurama, and Rama emerges victorious in this challenge.
 * Canto 11 – Sita's svayamvara, and the defeat of Parashurama

This canto narrates the story of most of the Ramayana (its kāṇdas 2 to 6) in short, ending with the death of Ravana in Lanka at the hands of Rama.
 * Canto 12 – Rama exiled, Shurpanakha humiliated, Sita kidnapped, and Ravana killed

From Lanka, Rama and Sita return to Ayodhya in the Pushpaka Vimana, and as they fly through the air, Rama points out to Sita many points of interest on the ground.
 * Canto 13 – The return by aerial route

On their return to Ayodhya, Rama is crowned king, and their joy increases when Sita becomes pregnant. She expresses a wish to see the forest again. But on hearing that the people of the kingdom murmur about the queen's character, Rama after some internal struggle decides to exile his beloved wife. He asks Lakshmana to leave Sita in the forest. She is devastated, but taken care of by the sage Valmiki.
 * Canto 14 – Sita's exile

In the sage's hermitage, Sita gives birth to two sons Lava and Kusha, who grow up and are taught the Ramayana by Valmiki. As they grow into youths, they come into the presence of Rama, who learns they are his children, and then Sita chooses to be swallowed up by the earth, her mother. Rama divides the kingdom among his brothers and children, and himself ascends to heaven.
 * Canto 15 – The birth of Rama's sons, and the passing of Rama

Descendants of Rama (Cantos 16 to 19)
One night, Kusha is visited by the deity of the now-abandoned city Ayodhya, who begs him to return to it. He does so, and there he marries Kumudvati.
 * Canto 16 – Kusha's return to Ayodhya and marriage

Kusha's son is Atithi, and his reign is described.
 * Canto 17 – King Atithi

The dynasty continues, with a line of twenty one kings who succeeded Atithi.
 * Canto 18 – Later kings

The last described king, Agnivarna, gives in to a hedonistic life of pleasure, leaving the kingdom to his ministers to run. Even when he is required to make a presence before his subjects, he merely hangs his left foot out of a window. This canto serves as contrast to the earlier cantos describing glorious kings. He is consumed by disease and dies. His pregnant queen mounts the throne, and the people hope for a better future.
 * Canto 19 – Agnivarna

Geographical and historical references
The warrior Raghu leads a military expedition to Transoxiana. He defeats and subjugates local people along the way (presumably on his march through Central Asia) until he reaches the Vakshu, as the ancient Indians called the Oxus River. There, Raghu's army battles the Hepthalites, or White Huns, whom the Indians called Hunas and Mlecchas (barbarians). The Hepthalites are defeated, and the Raghuvaṃśa boasts of "The exploits of Raghu, whose valor expressed itself amongst the husbands of the Huna women, became manifest in the scarlet colour of their cheeks."

After crossing the Oxus, Raghu and his army encountered the Kambojas, an ancient Indo-Scythian people often mentioned in Indian texts. The Kambojas submitted to Raghu and offered him gifts and treasures. Evidently, the Kambojas dwelt in the vicinity of the Pamirs. Kalidasa describes the preponderance of walnut trees in the Oxus country, this particular region is still known for the cultivation of walnuts.

Metres used in the epic
The epic is composed in 21 Sanskrit metres, namely Anuṣṭubh, Indravajrā, Upajāti, Upendravajrā, Aupacchandasika, Toṭaka, Drutavilambita, Puṣpitāgrā, Praharṣiṇī, Mañjubhāṣiṇī, Mattamayūra, Mandākrāntā, Mālinī, Rathoddhatā, Vaṃśastha, Vasantatilakā, Vaitālīya, Śārdūlavikrīḍita, Śālinī, Svāgatā, Hariṇī.

Editions and translations
The Raghuvaṃśa has been published and translated many times.

 * . Part 1: Cantos 1-6(Alt), Part 3: Cantos 14-19
 * Parab (1888) The Raghuvamsha of Kâlidâsa: with the commentary of Mallinatha
 * English prose translation (author unknown) in
 * P. de Lacy Johnstone (1902), The Raghuvança, the story of Raghu's line
 * Arthur W. Ryder (1914), Translations of Shakuntala, and Other Works (113 verses are translated, the rest are summarised in prose)
 * Carlo Formichi (1917), La Stirpe Di Raghu (Italian translation)
 * M. R. Kale (ed, 1922), The Raghuvamsa of Kalidasa: with the commentary (the Samjivani) of Mallinatha ; Cantos I-X
 * Rewa Prasad Dwivedi (ed, 1973), Raghuvaṃśa-Darpaṇa: Raghuvaṃśa commentary by Hemādri, Vol 1 (Cantos 1–12) Vol 2 (Cantos 13–19)
 * Tapasvi Nandi (ed, 1989), Jinasamudra's commentary on the Raghuvaṃśa of Kālidāsa
 * The Lineage of the Raghus (2024), edited and translated by Csaba Dezső, Dominic Goodall, and Harunaga Isaacson

External links to the text

 * Transliterated Sanskrit text at GRETIL
 * Complete translation and commentary along with word meanings by Desiraju Hanumanta Rao

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sunset High School (Portland)

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. ugen 64 20:14, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sunset High School (Portland), Southridge High School and Westview High School (Beaverton)
This page has been repeatedly blanked and redirected to Beaverton School District. In order to get a consensus on the school and stop the revert war, I listed it here. --BaronLarf 01:56, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * The article was never blanked. It was redirected. Kingturtle 03:25, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Note that revert debates are more properly listed on WP:RFC. Since you don't want the article to be deleted, you shouldn't put it here. Radiant_* 09:01, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Agree. Vote below. Andrewa 13:46, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I didn't put it here. just for the record. Kingturtle 20:58, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Keep (talk) 20:23, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as is. Passes the pokemon test. --Spinboy 02:27, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * What is the pokemon test? Kingturtle 21:01, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The (somewhat spurious) argument that, since all pokemon are covered in Wikipedia, anything that is more notable than a pokemon should be kept. But note that millions of people worldwide can recognize any pokemon on sight, so arguably there aren't that many things more notable than pokemon. Also note that the pokemon test is usually invoked by people who have the POV that pokemon are stupid, and that they use it as an argument for keeping anything that they do not consider stupid. Using it like that is, obviously, fallacious. Radiant!Radiant_* 08:36, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * There is nothing spurious about that argument at all, how do you figure? Saying there are millions of people worldwide who can recognize Pokemon on sight is no different than saying the same millions can recognize a school on sight — these are fairly easily and obviously recognizable things.  Now, if you start asking for specifics, things change dramatically.  Not even my son, an avid fan of Pokemon, would be able to tell you the specific name of every Pokemon character on sight — yet we have a complete and all-inclusive index of Pokemon on Wikipedia, some of which are completely empty and vacant stubs. (!)  This is just one reason why I, and presumably others, make reference to the so-called Pokemon Comparative Notability Test.  Sure, it sounds funny, but Wikipedia is not paper and I've yet to meet a school article which didn't have the potential to be expanded and useful in an encyclopedic capacity.  This horse has been beaten up long enough— fix your sig already.  —RaD Man (talk) 02:46, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It is spurious because WP:WIN consistent, and an argument applying to one topic (fictional creatures) does not generally apply to an entirely unrelated topic (schools). It is often used fallaciously because it relies on the assumption that more people, worldwide, would recognize or be familiar with the item in question (the school in this case), than with individual pokemon. For the smithsonian or eiffel tower that would be obviously true. For this school, obviously not. Radiant_* 08:27, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Your argument does not hold water with me, sorry. Each of these three articles are well over two pages long with room for greater expansion, even Jimbo thinks these should be kept.  And besides that, consistency is something we need to work towards.  —RaD Man (talk) 20:26, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but I suggest the article is improved and expanded.--AAAAA 03:07, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. there's no reason not to have a page on a high school. This isn't a very well-written one, but there are far worse stubs out there. Bovlb 04:31, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)
 * —RaD Man (talk) 06:45, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Do not redirect. Redirection implies a lack of notability. These schools all pass the Toowoomba Grammar School test. All schools are notable enough for a truly great encyclopaedia. Klonimus 18:53, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * What is the Toowoomba Grammer School test? Kingturtle 21:01, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * This school's article has more content than the Toowoomba Grammar School's article did at the time it survived VfD. Hence by precedent this article should be kept as an informative article about an encyclopedic subject. (I wrote this orginally from a school library computer, without being logged in)Klonimus 20:49, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * In other words, the TGS should also be merged. Radiant_* 08:36, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * keep, no good reason to delete. Bky1701 09:07, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * keep please, even the founder agrees we should.  Yuckfoo 05:57, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Do not quote Jimbo out of context please. Radiant_* 10:31, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * "Put another way: if someone wants to write an article about their high school, we should relax and accomodate them, even if we wish they wouldn't do it. And that's true *even if* we should react differently if someone comes in and starts mass-adding articles on every high school in the world." - Jimbo Wales.  Seems rather in context here IMO. Keep   ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 18:22, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Not really, as in the same post Jimbo says he doesn't like school stubs much. Radiant_* 23:01, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Obviously your not reading the same thing as me. He was arguing that just because he doesnt like school stubs, that it doesnt mean we should use that as A REASON TO DELETE THEM.  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 23:16, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Can we please stop these damn school deletions already!?!?  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 04:53, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Only when people stop writing crap school articles in the first place. They're known to be harmful to WP's reputation and credibility, and I'd like to see one of you so-called inclusionists to prove otherwise, or shut the hell up about this "inherent notability" BS. Chris talk back 23:34, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: As one of the inclusionists who you've so politely told to shut the hell up, I'd like to see some evidence of how inclusion of high school articles is harmful to WP's reputation before you shift the burden of proof to us.  The initial vanity pages added by pimply high schoolers aren't much to speak of, but upon improvement they have merit.  Cheers.  --BaronLarf 00:29, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * I think that various people have provided more than enough. Like I said, it's about time you either quit arguing, or actually come up with a good counter-argument that answers the real issues, such as reputation, credibility, coverage, storage (something people would appreciate if they read WP:WINP instead of simply quoting its title), maintainability, usefulness, duplication of information, and the inclusion of trivia that is removed everywhere else.  Is it too much to ask that someone actually comes up with a good argument why pointless articles on schools that are for all intents and purposes near-identical aren't harmful, relevant to the points I've mentioned?  Is it too much to ask that people stop making dumb comparisons between schools, which are infinite on WP scale, and other finite sets (Pokemon, railway stations, albums)?  Is it too much to ask that you even consider the other points of view, instead of dismissing it?  Finally, is it too much to at least take the suggestion of articles on generic school types (face it - 95% of US high schools are unremarkable, we should have articles for the few that are remarkable, and a generic article describing the general common features of the rest) to replace these endless stubs seriously?  Is it too much to ask?  Of course not.  So why won't you do it? Chris talk back 03:33, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep with links to the school district, and improve the articles.--BaronLarf 13:41, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, all three need expansion though. -- Lochaber 13:58, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - to my mind, schools epitomize the class of entities that Wikipedia can include where a traditional encyclopaedia cannot. - TB 14:01, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)
 * Keep - School's are notable. -- [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]] Earl Andrew - talk 15:46, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Did you mean "schools are notable"? ;) Kingturtle 21:01, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Apparently your school was more notable than his. ;-) --Samuel J. Howard 03:12, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep a merger that included all the content in these articles would be ungainly. - SimonP 21:21, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge to Beaverton School District, I really don't care which. -- Jmabel | Talk 02:45, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * It was merged there, and still is. —Korath (Talk) 10:41, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep --Irishpunktom\talk 14:15, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - the three pages are quite different in content, but I no longer believe there is any justification for deleting honest efforts at providing information to this encyclopedia. The amount of esoteric make-believe covered in Wikipedia requires far more attention and consideration for "notability" than whether any particular school is or is not. I can only think that those who express the opinion that these articles are not important enough to keep have not spent much time looking around at what all is in Wikipedia! Schools are and will always be an important part of any community, and what is significant about any community is really to be judged by those familiar with that community. Each school was a big deal to all who attended it and is of interest to those who might someday attend.  If an article remains stubby, then make it into a redirect and move the info to the proper political entity (city, county, borough, etc.) until someone comes along to develop it into a real article, like this one: Moanalua High School. - Marshman 01:14, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. School deletion arguments waste more processor time, hard disk space (via edits to vote and comment), and bandwidth than just letting verifiable and factual material about educational institutions that shape peoples lives be. Samaritan 19:44, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * This would be a valid argument if school deletion arguments were about hard disk space. They aren't. Wikipedia has plenty of disk space. Wikipedia is not paper. But Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and we delete things that are not encyclopedic even if there is enough disk space for them. My autobiography is factual and verifiable and there is enough disk space for it, but if I were to create it as an article it would be deleted. Dpbsmith
 * Keep There is a place on Wikipedia for schools. --ShaunMacPherson 03:46, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It has never been established that school's are not encyclopedic by nature. Klonimus 20:43, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * If it had been established that they were encyclopedic by nature, they wouldn't get so many votes to delete every time they came up on vfd, would they? As an aside, it's pretty gauche for someone who hasn't been around for even three weeks to tell us how things have always been done. —Korath (Talk) 20:51, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Korath, please feel some wikilove. Everything is done in good faith. Truely, It has never been established that school's are not encyclopedic by nature. So that leave's it open for people who feel that all school's are encyclopedic by nature. I've researched this issue quite extensivly, and to the best of my knowledge, the issue of intrinsic school inclusion is still very much in the air and has not been resolved to anyone satisfaction.  And I will advocate for the inclusion of all school's, and try to convince people of the merits of beliefs, because I beleive that my beleifs lead ot a better encyclopedia. Which is what we all want.   Klonimus 02:24, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Note Above argument is fallacious. The fact that it has "never been established that schools are not encyclopedic by nature" has no bearing on the fact that neither has it been established conclusively that all of them are.  Thus, this premise is invalid, and the conclusion does not follow from the remaining premises. Chris talk back 23:34, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Honestly, this debate is stupid.  It really shouldn't matter whether it is a redirect or a separate article.  Apparently, multiple people want this to be a separate article, even after it was turned into a redirect by VfD's last decision.  Why not placate them by letting them have the separate article?  It isn't as though the information itself is in dispute; if that were the case, then the article would not have been merged.  Since we're only talking about whether or not the content should have its own article, then why in the world should any of us care one whit?  There are lots of stubs with less info than this page that we are all apparently okay with keeping.  Why are so many of you continually arguing about this?  It's so stupid.  If we redirect it, someone will just reinstate the article, and it will just get listed on VfD again.  Since it really doesn't matter one way or the other as to where the content is listed, why not just let them keep their separate article?  I vote keep, and urge everyone voting 'redirect' to reconsider their reasoning.  — Eric Herboso 04:44, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Heck, why have vfd at all? There's always at least one or two people who desperately want to keep stuff like NoPoint.org.  And even if it's deleted, why not create it again?  I mean, disallowing filibustering and making us debate the same article over and over to enforce what was already decided is stupid; we should just let the minority get its way if they're loud enough. —Korath (Talk) 10:48, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Score -1: Offtopic. —RaD Man (talk) 01:24, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * You, sir, are full of shit. I repeat: if vfd results are not honored, what's the point of having them? —Korath (Talk) 02:24, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. If high schools sell alumni goodies and photos commemorating proms, a high school is important enough to have a Wikipedia article (elementary schools and junior highs are still under question). As long as it does not name the current teachers or some specific students who are currently attending, the article will remain important enough. Wiwaxia 03:25, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: I believe that all school articles should be kept, if they are more than stubs. For me this goes for elementary and middle schools too.  It's not just about the impact that they have on lives and communities, or about using Wikipedia as a repository of information on more than famous whos and whatwhens.  Schools may not have a big impact on history individually, but with few exceptions, celebrities don't either, and yet Wikipedia tends to keep them.  It seems rather odd to me that people think we should only keep articles about things well know by a lot of people, and get rid of articles on things less well known.--Quintucket 03:38, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep separate, too big to merge nicely, see WP:FICT Kappa 19:34, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * What does 'fiction in Wikipedia' have to do with school articles? Are we talking about fictional schools here? Radiant_* 10:14, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Schools are important. Oliver Chettle 23:14, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable -CunningLinguist 01:59, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep There is a place on Wikipedia for schools. --ShaunMacPherson 03:47, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or redirect - but don't delete. Also, please don't use votes for deletion to handle stupid edit wars where neither side wants the article deleted. Thank you. - Martin 23:33, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Delete

 * Delete unless someone rewrites the hell out of this article. As it stands, it doesn't demonstrate much of anything special. AP? IB? A lot of schools do that. Anything else? Mike H 03:11, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * keep deleted, no demonstration of notability. Dunc|☺ 08:20, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - I see nothing special about the school. Saopaulo1 09:10, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

Respect the original decision of "redirect"
 * Keep - as redir to school district. Tax-levying governmental agencies - like school districts - are notable. D AVODD  02:09, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirects are cheap. What harm was it doing in redirect form? Chris talk back 03:56, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree. Merge and Redirect with Beaverton School District as per the original decision.--The Grza  06:46, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect - Skysmith 07:22, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I believe the redirect to be appropriate. Mergism makes the world a better place. Radiant_* 09:01, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * What Radiant said. Not enough information to justify a full-fledged article on a rather, shall we say, not notable, topic. Johnleemk | Talk 10:10, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect per consensus, unless you want people to start relisting every school article they find until they're deleted. (I'd complain about there being separate vote sections, but I'm starting to doubt anyone looks at what the opposing factions write for school vfds anymore anyway.) —Korath (Talk) 10:40, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect This should never have been put on Vfd.  Unless the Beaverton School District is up for deletion (which it is not), the only question is whether the school articles should be redirects or not.  Consensus should be found on those talk pages, not here.  I'm sure that once the school info is robust enough, it can be put on its own page without problems.   T h e St ev e  13:15, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect. A list of AP classes is not material for an independent article. Postdlf 13:29, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect, nothing notable about these particular schools. -- Dcfleck 13:37, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)
 * Redirect as per previous decision. This is no big deal, and probably won't stop the revert war; If they didn't listen to the last vote, why will this one help? Andrewa 13:46, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Just redirect it. No harm in redirecting. Dave the Red (talk) 18:58, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect. Redirects are useful as index entries, and guarantee that people looking for a specific article will find it, regardless of whether global search is enabled or not, etc. I continue to see no benefit whatsoever having two closely related short topics on separate pages rather than having them on the same page. Is it important to make sure that people looking at Sunset High School won't see Southridge High School at the same time? Dpbsmith (talk) 19:01, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect. Not notable. It's just a school. --Improv 20:49, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect. Merging the articles would make it pretty clear what parts of the current content are ephemeral or pure fluff. Do not split these off again until the content of the merged article demonstrates the need for such action. Nothing prevents people from working on an encyclopedic article about any of these schools while the articles are merged. --Michael Snow 21:29, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect, as per original vote. Content already elsewhere. Jayjg (talk) 21:46, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect. --Carnildo 22:39, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect, and only break out if content is sufficient to do so. Cool Hand Luke  00:12, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect, as before, for same reasons as before. Jonathunder 01:13, 2005 Apr 14 (UTC)
 * Redirect as before. I also disapprove the ugly formatting of this VfD. Grue 19:01, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Restore the redirect. The ability to write more on a topic does not mean that one should (e.g. almost anyone could write a long article about themselves if they tried, but that does not make vanity articles keepable). Average Earthman 20:42, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect all schools. If wikipedia was to have an article on every school, even the ones in the U.S and U.K, there would be way to many. Please only write articles with special circumstances surrounded, as the Couloumbine school (massacre) and schools with really old histories. Thechamelon 00:56, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge/Redirect - Not much to merge that is different from the redirect target but merge what is necessary. Will there ever be a finish to these school votes? -  Tεx  τ  urε  18:22, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Only when those in the "full of shit" and "fucking nuts" categories on the Carlin Scale stop using fallacious reasoning to back up their "keep" votes, and realise that what they're doing is inherently harmful to Wikipedia and its reputation. Chris talk back 23:34, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Comments
 * a 2003 VfD discussion of Sunset High School (Portland) led to a decision to have that article redirected to Beaverton School District. however, that redirect only lasted 3 weeks before an anon user switched it back to the text-article. i recently came upon this situation and re-inserted the redirect. my action has been disputed, and the article is now in VfD again. there is a long-standing debate regarding whether U.S. public high schools should have articles. if you are unfamiliar with the debate, read Deletion policy/schools and Are high schools encyclopedic?. Kingturtle 01:58, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Is it possible to combine this vfd along with the next 2 into a single string, to avoid duplication of commentary? -- 8^D gab 02:41, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)
 * Yes. Radiant_* 10:31, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * A number of those who voted "Redirect" mentioned that the schools should be broken back out when there was enough information on the individual high school pages. (Cool Hand, Michael Snow, Thesteve, Johnleemk) I've been adding information specific to each school to their pages, and I was wondering what you believe the threshold is for separate articles.  --BaronLarf 15:31, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Personal opinion: a) If the school article is more than one full page of traditional print, say 5-10 paragraphs, then it is no longer possible to glance from one school to another on the same page. And it will take more than one mouse click to scroll past it to the next school. So at that point it's at least reasonable to break out a separate article. b) If the BEEFSTEW score of the broken-out article would be somewhere up in the eight-to-ten range, as a practical matter it's unlikely that anyone will even nominate it for deletion, much less get consensus for deletion. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:19, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Ugh. I was hoping this would VfD would lead to a consensus, but the issue is split 50-50, with lots of people chiming in. I count about 22 keeps and about 22 redirects'. maybe we should take this to the Arbitration Committee? Kingturtle 03:41, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The ArbCom doesn't deal with content disputes. You are welcome to try for RfC or a policy consensus, however (although I predict that neither will actually give consensus, unfortunately). Radiant_* 12:31, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * With no consensus, isn't the deletion policy default to declare "no consensus" and keep the articles? --BaronLarf 15:06, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

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List of ghost towns in the Northwest Territories

The following is a list of known abandoned communities in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Many of these were "one-resource" towns and were abandoned following the depletion of the resources (usually minerals).

Abandoned communities

 * Cameron Bay
 * Camp Canol
 * Discovery
 * Fort Confidence
 * Old Fort Providence
 * Pine Point
 * Port Radium
 * Rayrock
 * Rocher River
 * Tungsten


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Bernard Lehideux

Bernard Lehideux (born 23 September 1944 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. He is a member of the Union for French Democracy, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Development, a member of the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, and a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee. Of particular note, he is a nephew of François Lehideux.

Career

 * Head of the office of Michel Poniatowski, Secretary-General of the Independent Republicans (1969)
 * Special adviser to Michel d'Ornano, Secretary-General of the Independent Republicans (1973)
 * National secretary of the Independent Republicans, then of the Republican Party, with responsibility for relations with the press and internal information (1976)
 * Member of the Economic and Social Council (1979–1984)
 * Secretary-General of the 'Perspectives et Réalités' clubs (1990–1993)
 * Member of the Council of Paris (1983–1995)
 * Chairman of the UDF Group on the Île-de-France Regional Council (1992–1995)
 * First Vice-Chairman of the Île-de-France Regional Council (1995–1998)
 * Member of the European Parliament (1998–1999)
 * Vice-Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Development|Committee on Development and Cooperation

Political groups

 * 25 April 1998 – 19 July 1999 : Group of the European People's Party (Christian-Democratic Group) – Member
 * 20 July 2004 – 13 July 2009 : Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe – Member

National parties

 * 25 April 1998 – 19 July 1999 : Union pour la démocratie française – Démocratie libérale (France)
 * 20 July 2004 – 27 March 2008 : Union pour la démocratie française (France)
 * 28 March 2008 – 13 July 2009 : Mouvement Démocrate (France)

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Shayne Carter

Shayne P. Carter is a New Zealand musician best known for leading Straitjacket Fits from 1986 to 1994, and as the only permanent member of Dimmer (1995–2012).

Carter is a member of the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame, and has been awarded the New Zealand Herald Legacy Award (with Straitjacket Fits at the 2008 New Zealand Music Awards), and New Zealand Music Awards for Best Group and Best Rock Album (with Dimmer, 2004).

New Zealand music critic Nick Bollinger told North & South magazine in 2019: "To me, Shayne Carter really stands head and shoulders above pretty much the whole of the Dunedin scene. I mean, there were some other brilliant musicians, don’t get me wrong. But that was the era when shoe-gazing was at its peak – they wore black jerseys, stared at their shoes, and strummed their meaningful, heartfelt songs. But Shayne was different. Shayne was a rock star, and he knew it. He was actually aware of his charisma and what it meant to be a performer."

Carter published his autobiography Dead People I Have Known in 2019. In May 2020 it won both the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction and the MitoQ Best First Book Awards: E H McCormick Prize for General Non-Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Early life and education
Shayne Carter comes from a musical family. He was born to a Caucasian mother and a Māori father who was adopted by a Pākehā family.

Carter attended school at Kaikorai Valley High School.

Career
While at Kaikorai in 1978, he formed the rock group Bored Games with Wayne Elsey (bass) and Fraser Batts (guitar), Jonathan Moore and Jeff Harford on drums. The group debuted at Kaikorai's talent quest in 1979, then went on to play a gig supporting Toy Love. When Elsey tired of being in the band (he and Carter having had arguments onstage at times) and left to form The Stones, he was replaced by Terry Moore. In 1981 Bored Games broke up, before the 1982 release of their only EP, Who Killed Colonel Mustard, on Flying Nun Records. Terry Moore would later join The Chills, which grew out of another Dunedin high school band, the Same. Musical historian John Dix calls Bored Games and the Same "the most important...teenage Dunedin bands" during the emergence of the Dunedin sound.

After finishing high school, Carter worked at Radio 4XO as a journalist for 2½ years, and later worked for fledgling campus radio station Radio One.

The DoubleHappys
In 1983, Carter reunited with former Bored Games bandmate Wayne Elsey. Elsey's band The Stones split up in August 1983, so he and Carter formed DoubleHappys, along with a temperamental toy drum machine they called "Herbie Fuckface".

"Carter and Elsey would be really hitting it, showing off their musical prowess, tearing off a Bathgate-type assault, feeding back, tension building, except... Herbie would be left behind at the second furlong: Rrrooomchchchchch Rrrooomchchchchch Rrrooomchchchchch. At other times...out would come some terrible bossa nova."

Carter and Elsey eventually recruited their high school friend John Collie to replace the machine before touring New Zealand with Flying Nun's Looney Tour in 1984. The same year they recorded the "Double B-Side" 7" single. In 1985, the group released the "Cut It Out" EP. While on tour later that year, Wayne Elsey was killed in a freak accident on a train.

Straitjacket Fits
Carter and Collie continued on the year after Elsey's death, recruiting David Wood (bass) and Andrew Brough (guitar, vocals) and naming the new band Straitjacket Fits. The band then recorded their first EP, Life in One Chord. Straitjacket Fits were considered the best of the bands to emerge from Dunedin at that time, although they had built more of a solid following overseas than in New Zealand. Brough, who also contributed songwriting, had a style that contrasted with Carter's. Brough's songs concentrated on melodies and pop-hooks while Carter's songs were more guitar-driven and edgy.

The band then moved briefly to Christchurch before settling in Auckland. They released their first album Hail in 1988. They recorded Melt in 1990. Due to musical difference with Carter, Brough left the band and was replaced by Mark Petersen. By the time they put out Blow in 1993, the band signed to Arista records to a potentially lucrative worldwide deal. However, by 1994, they had broken up.

Straitjacket Fits reformed for a reunion tour during April and May 2005 without Andrew Brough.

Shayne Carter & Peter Jefferies
Shayne has released 2 singles with Peter Jefferies:
 * "Randolph's Going Home/Hooked, Lined And Sunken", 1986, Flying Nun Records FNCJ001
 * "Knocked Out Or Thereabouts/Spark Off A Wire", 1992, Flying Nun Records FN236

Dimmer
Following the demise of Straitjacket Fits, in 1995 Carter formed the group Dimmer. This began largely as a solo project with Carter as the creative nucleus, working with different musicians for recordings and performances. In its later years, Dimmer was a settled four-piece band.

There were four Dimmer albums released, with You've Got To Hear the Music (2004) the most successful. It was certified Gold in New Zealand, and led to New Zealand Music Awards for Best Album and Best Group and was critically acclaimed by critics such as Nick Bollinger.

Carter disbanded Dimmer in 2012 with a series of final concerts in Auckland and Wellington.

The Adults
In 2011, Carter joined The Adults, a New Zealand super-group formed by Jon Toogood of the band Shihad. Along with Julia Deans he performed on & co-wrote some of the songs on their debut album, and was also part of the touring ensemble.

Shayne P Carter, Offsider
At the same time as calling an end to Dimmer in 2012, Carter described a new plan to learn piano, and record an album with it as the main instrument. Piano became part of his live shows in 2014, and in August that year he launched a crowdfunding campaign for "a new album in its final stages of production" - written entirely on piano, and recorded ("free of record company backing") with Gary Sullivan and other guests. The successful campaign had a goal of $8,000 and raised over $9,500.

Performing and recording as Shayne P Carter, he announced the album name Offsider in 2015. The first music released from Offsider came out more than a year later, in June 2016, when the song 'We Will Rise Again' appeared as a digital download.

Aotearoa Music Awards
The Aotearoa Music Awards (previously known as New Zealand Music Awards (NZMA)) are an annual awards night celebrating excellence in New Zealand music and have been presented annually since 1965.

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Digital Systems

Digital Systems Inc., Seattle, USA, between 1966 and 1979 an accounting service and technology development company founded by John Q. Torode. The company was reorganized into the microcomputer design and development company Digital Microsystems, Inc. (DMS), Oakland, USA, founded in 1979. In 1984, it was sold to the new UK operation Digital Microsystems Ltd. (DML) (owned by Extel Group Plc) and finally ended its US operations in 1986. Without Torode, Digital Microsystems Ltd.'s product HiNet (Hierarchical Integration Network) was sold to Apricot Computers Plc in 1987. In 1986, Torode founded a new company, IC Designs, Inc., based partly on Theodore "Ted" H. Kehl's VLSI technology at the University of Washington (UW), which was bought by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. in 1993.

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Ranch (brothel)

Ranch is a common name used to describe a brothel, especially in western areas of the United States.

Origin
This usage dates back to the original Chicken Ranch near the town of La Grange, Texas, an old brothel that is no longer open which accepted chickens as payment during the Great Depression. Over time the place became overrun with chickens.

Best-known Examples

 * There is currently a legal brothel also called the Chicken Ranch just outside the town of Pahrump, Nevada.
 * Sheri's Ranch. Another legal brothel just outside the town of Pahrump, Nevada.
 * The Mustang Ranch was formerly a legal brothel near Reno (closed 1999; rights to reuse the name are now tied up in court).
 * The Moonlite BunnyRanch is a legal brothel near Carson City.

Many of Nevada's other legal brothels also incorporate the term "ranch" into their names.

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Gabriel Damon

Gabriel Damon Lavezzi (born April 23, 1976) is an American former child actor. His acting career involved as the voice of Littlefoot in the 1988 film The Land Before Time, and a variety of live-action guest roles on television.

Biography
Damon's career began with appearances in numerous commercials, with his first role in the 1984 TV series Call to Glory. He voiced Littlefoot the Apatosaurus in the first The Land Before Time, and Little Nemo in Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland. In 1990 he appeared as the juvenile criminal Hob in RoboCop 2 and in 1992 as Spot Conlon in Newsies. Damon has also made guest appearances in several television series, such as ER, Call to Glory, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Baywatch.

Damon retired from the entertainment industry in 2006.

Filmography
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 * 1984 Call to Glory as R.H. Sarnac
 * 1984 Shattered Vows as Daryl
 * 1985 Amazing Stories as Bobby Mynes
 * 1985 Punky Brewster as Lyle
 * 1985 Diff'rent Strokes as Timmy Frankel
 * 1985 Riptide as Simon Flynn
 * 1986 Stranger in My Bed as Stuart Slater
 * 1986-1987 One Big Family as Roger Hatton
 * 1986 Webster as Mark
 * 1986 Convicted as Joel Forbes
 * 1986 Our House as Tommy
 * 1987 Terminus as Mati
 * 1987 Good Morning Miss Bliss as Bradley
 * 1987 Highway to Heaven as Bobby Martin
 * 1987 Pound Puppies as Additional voices
 * 1987 Who's the Boss? as Little Cornelius
 * 1988 Journey to Spirit Island as Willie
 * 1988 Tequila Sunrise as Cody McKussic
 * 1988 Ohara as Unknown
 * 1988 The Land Before Time as Littlefoot (voice)
 * 1988 Superman as Additional voices
 * 1989 Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland as Nemo (1992 voice over)
 * 1989-1997 Baywatch as Tod
 * 1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3 Episode 5 "The Bonding" as Jeremy Aster
 * 1989 Just Like Family as Coop
 * 1989 Growing Pains as Kenny
 * 1989 Mr. Belvedere as Billy Podell
 * 1989 Just the Ten of Us as Alex Cutler
 * 1989-1990 The New Lassie as Wayne
 * 1990 RoboCop 2 as Hob
 * 1990 TaleSpin as Additional voices
 * 1990 W.I.O.U. as Drew
 * 1990 The Rock as Mario Dipucci
 * 1991 Iron Maze as Mikey
 * 1991 Eerie Indiana as Nicholas
 * 1992 Newsies as 'Spot' Conlon
 * 1992 The Commish as Brad Harris
 * 1993-1994 ''[[The Little Mermaid (TV series)|The
 * 1993 Sirens as Nicholas 'Beetle' Marque
 * 1997 ER as Tommy
 * 1997 Bayou Ghost as Peter
 * 2001 Social Misfits as Jason
 * 2005 Planet Ibsen (also co-producer) as Young Strindberg
 * 2006 Danny Boy as Danny (final role)

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Cromwell (play)

Cromwell is a play by Victor Hugo, written in 1827. It was influenced by Hugo's literary circle, which identified itself as Romanticist and chose as a model dramatist Shakespeare instead of the Classicists Jean Racine and Pierre Corneille (who were supported by the French Academy).

Due to its length of 6920 verses as well as the logistical problems of recreating Hugo's very large cast of characters, the play remained unperformed until 1956. It tells the story of Oliver Cromwell's internal conflicts in being offered the crown of England. It is notable for its preface, now considered the manifesto of the Romantic movement.

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Regla

Regla is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba. It comprises the town of Regla, located at the bottom of Havana Bay in a former aborigine settlement named Guaicanamar, Loma Modelo in a peninsula dividing Marimelena from Guasabacoa inlets, and the village of Casablanca located at the entry of the Havana Bay.

Overview
The town is a commercial and industrial suburb with shipyards. The Galainela shipyard and the ENA drydock until recently operated as a joint venture with Curaçao CDM and the Navy's shipyard at Casablanca, docks including the TCH (Havana Container Terminal), the Ñico Lopez refinery, formerly an Esso (EXXON) Refinery popularly known as Belot Refinery due to the location, and a Shell (Shell Oil Company) Refinery built side by side with Belot; flour and wheat mills and aviation fuel depots.

History
It is known for its rich colonial history, being the home town of Chacón, Guaracheros de Regla and the traditional Virgen de Regla Santería celebrations. It formed during the colonial period around the hermitage of Nuestra Señora de Regla (est. 1690) and was officially founded in 1687 (1765). In 1755 the population of Regla was 164; 789 in 1778; and 2,218 in 1810.

Regla has a strong patriotic tradition being home to several patriots and personalities, among them Eduardo Facciolo, executed by the colonial Spanish government for conspiring for Cuban independence, and Miguel Coyula, who reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the Cuban Liberation Army (Mambi Army) in its fight against colonial Spain.

It is an historic known fact the first speech with political pro-independence overtones given by National Apostle José Martí was delivered in the Lyceum of Regla.

During the struggle against dictator Fulgencio Batista, due to the strong opposition to Batista, the town was described as "sierra chiquita" (little mountain range) in allusion to the rebels in the Sierra Maestra range. The most conspicuous public action against Batista in town was led by Juan Alborna Salado, at the time 21 years old, head of the clandestine militias of the Movimiento 26 de Julio in town, in March 1958, when the local police killed another young man of Regla named Gilberto Monzon. The young men Leonardo Lopez, Filiberto Torres, Luis Lorenzo Gonzalez, Marcos Gonzalez, Manuel Lopez Guenaga, Elio Serrano, German Roche, Pedro Valdes, Jose Luis Cabrera and others seconded him. All of them belonged to the Movimiento 26 de Julio.

Thousands of people took to the streets, with the burial of the young men being a centerpoint of a riot, and a crowd escorted the funerary car up to the cemetery at which Alborna and Luis Lorenzo Gonzalez spoke. Motorized police reinforcements took Regla and surrounded the cemetery and shot at close range. The police took prisoners, and many escaped, including Juan Alborna, but with a hand injury that was cured by his girlfriend Noemi Vidal. It was practically a popular uprising. But in 1960 Juan Alborna Salado became dissident.

Demographics
In 2022, the municipality of Regla had a population of 44,185. With an area of 9 km2, it had a population density of 4800 /km2.

Regla is divided into Barrios or Colonias, including Reparto Modelo, La Colonia, La Loma and La Colina Lenin. It is also divided into three Consejos Populares (People's Council), the grassroots local government form in Cuba, namely Guaicanamar, comprising Regla downtown; Loma-Modelo, comprising Regla suburbs; and Casablanca, comprising the village of the same name and its surrounding area.

Twin towns

 * 🇮🇹 Corsico, Italy, since 2003
 * 🇺🇸 Richmond, California, USA
 * Almada, Portugal, since 2004

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Junior Parker

Herman "Junior" Parker (March 27, 1932 – November 18, 1971) was an American blues singer and harmonica player. He is best remembered for his voice which has been described as "honeyed" and "velvet-smooth". One music journalist noted, "For years, Junior Parker deserted down home harmonica blues for uptown blues-soul music". In 2001, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Parker is also inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame.

Life and career
There is some disagreement over the details of Parker's birth, but most reliable sources now indicate that he was born in March, 1932 at Eastover Plantation near Bobo, Coahoma County, Mississippi. He moved with his mother to West Memphis, Arkansas, during the 1940s. Other birth dates in 1927 or 1932 have been suggested, and some research suggests that his name at birth was registered as Herbert Parker.

He sang in gospel groups as a child and, beginning in his teenage years, played on various blues circuits. His biggest influence as a harmonica player was Rice Miller a.k.a. Sonny Boy Williamson, with whom he worked before moving on to work for Howlin' Wolf in 1949. Around 1950, he began performing with a coalition of performers in Memphis known as the Beale Streeters, which included Bobby "Blue" Bland and B.B. King.

In 1951, Parker formed his own band, the Blue Flames, with guitarist Pat Hare. In 1952, Parker was discovered by talent scout Ike Turner for Modern Records. Turner recorded his first release, "You're My Angel"/"Bad Women, Bad Whiskey," with Turner playing piano and Matt "Guitar" Murphy on guitar. This record brought him to the attention of Sam Phillips, and he and his band signed with Sun Records in 1953. There they produced three successful songs with Matt's brother Floyd on electric guitar: "Feelin' Good" (which reached number 5 on the US Billboard R&B chart), "Love My Baby," and "Mystery Train", a cover version of which was recorded by Elvis Presley. For Presley's version of "Mystery Train", Scotty Moore borrowed the guitar riff from Parker's "Love My Baby", played by Pat Hare. "Love My Baby" and "Mystery Train" became rockabilly standards.

Bland was drafted into the US Army in 1952 and was discharged in 1955.

Later in 1955, Parker toured with Bobby Bland and Johnny Ace, and also joined Duke Records. Parker and Bland headed the highly successful Blues Consolidated Revue, which regularly performed on the southern blues circuit. He continued to have a string of hits on the R&B chart, including the smooth "Next Time You See Me" (1957); remakes of Roosevelt Sykes's song "Driving Wheel" (1961), "Annie Get Your Yo-Yo" (1962), Robert Johnson's "Sweet Home Chicago", Guitar Slim's "The Things That I Used to Do" (1963), and Don Robey's "Mother-in-Law Blues" (1956), plus his own "Stand by Me" (1961). His success was limited after he left Duke in 1966. He recorded for various labels, including Mercury, Blue Rock, Minit, and Capitol. His final chart hit came in 1971 with "Drowning on Dry Land" on Capitol, which peaked at number 48 on the Billboard R&B chart.

Death
Parker died on November 18, 1971, at age 39, in Blue Island, Illinois, during surgery for a brain tumor. His next album was released by United Artists Records in 1972, titled I Tell Stories Sad and True, I Sing the Blues and Play Harmonica Too, It Is Very Funky. Reviewing it in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau said, "Once a big man on the blues circuit, Parker was turning into the forgotten Beale Streeter by the time he died ... and this is a respectful farewell... Never as penetrating as B.B. or Bobby, Parker smooths his way over the arrangements with the calm of a man who was mellow before the concept existed, at least in its present deracinated form. Highlight: the sad, true story that goes with 'Funny How Time Slips Away.'"

Legacy
On the 1974 album ...Explores Your Mind, Al Green dedicated his song "Take Me to the River" to Parker, whom he described in the song's spoken introduction as "a cousin of mine who's gone on, and we'd kinda like to carry on in his name".

In 2001, Parker was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. He is also inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame.

In 2011, Parker was honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail in Bobo.

Albums

 * Blues Consolidated, 1958 (Duke DLP-72)
 * Driving Wheel, 1962 (Duke DLP-76)
 * The Best of Junior Parker, 1967 (Duke DLP-83)
 * Like It Is, 1967 (Mercury SR 61101) also issued as Baby Please, 1967 (Wing SRW-16401)
 * Honey-Drippin' Blues, 1969 (Blue Rock SRB-64004)
 * Little Jr. Parker: Blues Man, 1969 (Minit 24024)
 * Jimmy McGriff/Junior Parker [AKA Chicken Fried Soul], 1971 (United Artists UAS-5597) also issued as Jimmy McGriff with Junior Parker, 1972 (United Artists UAS-6814) - live recording
 * You Don't Have to Be Black to Love the Blues, 1971 (Groove Merchant GM-502) also issued in 1972 as Blue Shadows Falling for the UK market.
 * Love Ain't Nothin' but a Business Goin' On, 1971 (Groove Merchant GM-513) reissue of The Outside Man, 1970 (Capitol ST-564)
 * The Dudes Doin' Business, 1970 (Capitol ST-569) also issued as Good Things Don't Happen Every Day (with Jimmy McGriff), 1972 (Groove Merchant GM-2205)
 * I Tell Stories Sad and True, I Sing the Blues and Play Harmonica Too, It Is Very Funky, 1972 (United Artists UAS-6823)
 * Sometimes Tomorrow My Broken Heart Will Die, 1973 (ABC/Bluesway BLS-6066)

Compilations

 * The ABC Collection, 1976 (ABC Records AC-30010), compilation of Duke singles
 * Junior's Blues: The Duke Recordings, Vol. 1, 1992 (MCA 10669), recorded 1951–1964
 * Backtracking: The Duke Recordings, Vol. 2, 1998 (MCA 11786), recorded 1953–1966
 * I'm So Satisfied: The Complete Mercury & Blue Rock Recordings, 1998 (Mercury 558549), recorded 1966–1969
 * The Chronological Little Junior Parker 1952–1955, 2006 (Classics 'Blues & Rhythm Series' 5167)
 * Ride With Me, Baby: The Singles 1952–1961, 2012 (Fantastic Voyage FVDD-138), 2-CD set

Other appearances

 * 1966: Freedom Together! with Jaki Byard (Prestige)
 * 1976: Sun – The Roots Of Rock, Volume 1: Catalyst (Charly)
 * 1984: Sun's Greatest Hits (Rhino)
 * 1991: The Ultimate Sun Blues Collection (Disky)
 * 1992: The Best Of The Blues Singers, Vol. III (LRC Records)
 * 2006: Children Of Men / Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Hip-O Records)

Singles

 * "You're My Angel" / "Bad Women, Bad Whiskey", Little Junior Parker & His Blue Flames, with Ike Turner, 1952 (Modern 864)
 * "Feelin' Good" / "Fussin' and Fightin' Blues", Little Junior's Blue Flames, 1953 (Sun 187), R&B #5
 * "Love My Baby" / "Mystery Train", Little Junior's Blue Flames, 1953 (Sun 192)
 * "Dirty Friend Blues" / "Can't Understand", Little Junior Parker with Bill Johnson's Blue Flames, 1954 (Duke 120)
 * "Please Baby Blues" / "Sittin', Drinkin' and Thinkin'", Little Junior Parker with Bill Johnson's Blue Flames, 1954 (Duke 127)
 * "Backtracking" / "I Wanna Ramble", Little Junior Parker & the Blue Flames Orchestra, 1955 (Duke 137)
 * "Driving Me Mad" / "There Better Not Be No Feet (in Them Shoes)", Little Junior Parker & His Orchestra, 1955 (Duke 147)
 * "Mother-in-Law Blues" / "That's My Baby", Little Junior Parker with Bill Harvey's Band, 1956 (Duke 157)
 * "Next Time You See Me" / "My Dolly Bee", Little Junior Parker with Bill Harvey's Band, 1957 (Duke 164), Pop #74, R&B #7
 * "That's Alright" / "Pretty Baby", Little Junior Parker and His Combo, 1957 (Duke 168)
 * "Peaches" / "Pretty Little Doll", Little Junior Parker with Al Smith's Orchestra, 1957 (Duke 177)
 * "Wondering" / "Sitting and Thinking", Little Junior Parker & His Band, 1958 (Duke 184)
 * "Barefoot Rock" / "What Did I Do", Little Junior Parker & His Band, 1958 (Duke 193)
 * "Sweet Home Chicago" / "Sometimes", Little Junior Parker & His Band, 1958 (Duke 301), R&B #13
 * "I'm Holding On" / "Five Long Years", Little Junior Parker & His Band, 1959 (Duke 306), R&B #13
 * "Stranded" / "Blue Letter", Little Junior Parker & His Band, 1959 (Duke 309)
 * "Dangerous Woman" / "Belinda Marie", Little Junior Parker, 1959 (Duke 315)
 * "You're on My Mind" / "The Next Time", Little Junior Parker & His Band, 1960 (Duke 317)
 * "That's Just Alright" / "I'll Learn to Love Again", Little Junior Parker, 1960 (Duke 326)
 * "Stand by Me" / "I'll Forget About You", Little Junior Parker, 1960 (Duke 330), R&B #11
 * "Driving Wheel" / "Seven Days", Junior Parker, 1961 (Duke 335), Pop #85, R&B #5
 * "In the Dark", R&B #7 / "How Long Can This Go On", R&B #28, Little Junior Parker, 1961 (Duke 341)
 * "Annie Get Your Yo-Yo" / "Mary Jo", Little Junior Parker, 1961 (Duke 345), Pop #51, R&B #6
 * "I Feel Alright Again" / "Sweeter as the Days Go By", Little Junior Parker, 1961 (Duke 351)
 * "Someone Somewhere" / "Foxy Devil", Little Junior Parker, 1962 (Duke 357)
 * "It's a Pity" / "Last Night", Little Junior Parker, 1963 (Duke 362)
 * "If You Don't Love Me" / "I Can't Forget About You", Junior Parker, 1963 (Duke 364)
 * "Yonders Wall" / "The Tables Have Turned", Junior Parker, 1963 (Duke 367)
 * "Strange Things Happening" / "I'm Gonna Stop", Little Jr. Parker, 1964 (Duke 371), Pop #99, R&B #26
 * "The Things I Used to Do" / "That's Why I'm Always Crying", Junior Parker, 1964 (Duke 376)
 * "Jivin' Woman" / "I'm in Love", Junior Parker, 1964 (Duke 384)
 * "Crying for My Baby" / "Guess You Don't Know (The Golden Rule)", Junior Parker, 1965 (Duke 389), R&B #36
 * "These Kind of Blues, Part 1" / "These Kind of Blues, Part 2", Junior Parker, 1965 (Duke 394)
 * "Goodbye Little Girl" / "Walking the Floor Over You", Junior Parker, 1966 (Duke 398)
 * "Get Away Blues" / "Why Do You Make Me Cry", Junior Parker, 1966 (Duke 406)
 * "Man or Mouse" / "Wait for Another Day", Junior Parker, 1966 (Duke 413), R&B #27
 * "Just Like a Fish" / "Baby, Please", Junior Parker, 1967 (Mercury 72620)
 * "You Can Make It if You Try" / "(Ooh Wee Baby) That's the Way You Make Me Feel", Junior Parker, 1967 (Mercury 72651)
 * "Country Girl" / "Sometimes I Wonder", Junior Parker, 1967 (Mercury 72672)
 * "I Can't Put My Finger on It" / "If I Had Your Love", Junior Parker, 1967 (Mercury 72699), R&B #48
 * "Hurtin' Inside" / "What a Fool I Was", Junior Parker, 1967 (Mercury 72733)
 * "It Must Be Love" / "Your Love's All over Me", Junior Parker, 1968 (Mercury 72793)
 * "Lover to Friend" / "I Got Money", Junior Parker, 1968 (Blue Rock/Mercury 4064)
 * "Lovin' Man on Your Hands" / "Reconsider Baby", Jr. Parker, 1968 (Blue Rock/Mercury 4067)
 * "I'm So Satisfied" / "Ain't Gon' Be No Cutting Aloose", Junior Parker, 1969 (Blue Rock/Mercury 4080), R&B #48
 * "You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down" / "Easy Lovin'", Junior Parker, 1969 (Blue Rock/Mercury 4088)
 * "Worried Life Blues" / "Let the Good Times Roll", Little Jr. Parker, 1969 (Minit 32080), R&B #34
 * "The Outside Man" / "Darling Depend on Me", Junior Parker, 1970 (Capitol 2857)
 * "Lady Madonna" / "Tomorrow Never Knows", Junior Parker, 1970 (Capitol 2951)
 * "Drowning on Dry Land" / "River's Invitation", Junior Parker, 1971 (Capitol 2997), Pop #114, R&B #48
 * "Way Back Home" / "Sweet Home Chicago", Junior Parker, 1971 (Groove Merchant 1002)
 * "I Like Your Style" / "I Need Love So Bad", Junior Parker, 1971 (Groove Merchant 1004)
 * "Love Ain't Nothin' but a Business Goin' On" / "A Losing Battle", Junior Parker, 1971 (Groove Merchant 1010)
 * "I Need Love So Bad" / "Pretty Baby", Jimmy McGriff & Junior Parker, 1971 (United Artists 50826)
 * "Funny How Time Slips Away" / "No-One Knows (What Goes on When the Door Is Closed)", Junior Parker, 1971 (United Artists 50855)
 * "Your Love Is All over Me" / "You Better Quit It" (instrumental), Junior Parker, 1974 (Jetstream 818)

Unissued singles

 * 1953: "Feelin' Bad", Little Junior's Blue Flames (Sun unissued master)
 * 1954: "Sittin' at the Bar", Little Junior's Blue Flames (Sun unissued master)
 * 1954: "Sittin' at the Window", Little Junior's Blue Flames (Sun unissued master)
 * 1954: "Sittin', Drinkin' and Thinkin'", Little Junior's Blue Flames (Sun unissued master)
 * 1955: "Can You Tell Me, Baby", Little Junior Parker & His Orchestra (Duke unissued master)
 * 1955: "Bachelor's Blues", Little Junior Parker & His Orchestra (Duke unissued master)

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