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Mini-Moni

Mini-Moni (ミニモニ.) was a sub-unit of the Japanese idol girl groups Morning Musume and Coconuts Musume. It was formed by Up-Front Promotion in 2000 and associated with Hello! Project. The group was founded by Morning Musume members Mari Yaguchi, Nozomi Tsuji, and Ai Kago, with Coconuts Musume member Mika later added as a member. After Yaguchi's departure in 2002, Morning Musume member Ai Takahashi was added into the group.

Throughout their career, Mini-Moni appeared in media aimed at children, having two animated series from 2001 to 2002, variety shows, as well as a 2002 film based on their stage personas titled Mini-Moni the Movie: Okashi na Daibōken!. In addition to that, they also appeared in several Hamtaro movies, performing the theme songs under the name Mini-Hamus (ミニハムず).

The group later disbanded in 2004, after Todd left Hello! Project and Tsuji and Kago left Morning Musume to debut in W. In 2009, Mini-Moni was revived as a Hello! Project Shuffle Unit and concert-only unit under the name Shin Mini-Moni; the group had new members and remained active until 2011.

2000–2004: Formation
The group was founded in late 2000 by Morning Musume member Mari Yaguchi, with the concept of having members 150 cm and shorter. Together with Morning Musume's songwriter and producer, Tsunku, she selected two new members, Ai Kago and Nozomi Tsuji and the trio began performing in concerts as Mini-Moni. Mika Todd from Coconuts Musume was later added to the group. They made their official CD debut with "Mini-Moni Jankenpyon! / Haru Natsu Aki Fuyu Daisukki!" in 2001, which became a #1 hit.

The quartet released several singles in 2001 and 2002, with most of these tracks compiled on their first album Mini-Moni Song Daihyakka Ikkan. Simultaneous to their single releases, the band became the subject of a series of short cartoons, Mini-Moni Yaru no da Pyon!, voicing their own characters. They also contributed their voices to a string of movies based on the Hamtaro cartoon series, which featured a hamster version of Mini-Moni known as Mini-Hamus.

In 2002, Yaguchi graduated from Mini-Moni to take on the leadership of the subgroup ZYX. Ai Takahashi was added as a member, while Mika Todd, took over Yaguchi's place as the band's leader. That same year, all members of Mini-Moni starred in the film Mini-Moni the Movie: Okashi na Daibōken!, a fictional account explaining the change in members.

Afterwards, Mini-Moni released "Crazy About You" and later the album Mini-Moni Songs 2. They also starred in a mini-series called Mini-Moni de Bremen no Ongakutai starring Takahashi, Tsuji, and Kago; Mika Todd made brief appearances in two episodes. The group disbanded in May 2004 at Mika Todd's graduation concert, following the release of a final single, "Lucky Cha Cha Cha!"

2018: 20th anniversary reunion
On 12 February 2018, TV Tokyo aired a television special celebrating Mini-Moni's 20th anniversary. Yaguchi and Tsuji made an appearance and performed "Mini-Moni Jankenpyon!" with Morning Musume '18 members Ayumi Ishida and Reina Yokoyama.

Members

 * Mari Yaguchi (2000-2003)
 * Nozomi Tsuji (2000-2004)
 * Ai Kago (2000-2004)
 * Mika Todd (2000-2004)
 * Ai Takahashi (2003-2004)

Legacy
In June 2007, an excerpt from a November 2000 episode of Mini-Moni Chiccha (their segment on Hello! Morning) of a prairie dog suddenly turning his head became the basis for the Internet phenomenon the Dramatic Chipmunk. A parody of the Dramatic Chipmunk clip, including lookalikes of Mini-Moni, appears in Weezer's music video for their 2008 single "Pork and Beans".

Shin Mini-Moni
On 26 May 2009, Yaguchi posted on her blog discussing how the head producer of Hello! Project, Tsunku, had contacted her asking for permission to bring the group out of hiatus. Tsunku confirmed on his own blog that Mini-Moni would be revived as a Hello! Project Shuffle Unit with an entirely new line-up, announcing then-Smileage member Kanon Fukuda as the first member. He later announced then-Morning Musume member Linlin as the group's leader, with then-Hello Pro Egg trainees Akari Takeuchi and Karin Miyamoto as the final two members. The group, rebranded as Shin Mini-Moni (新ミニモニ.), released songs for Hello! Project's compilation albums Champloo 1: Happy Marriage Song Cover Shū and Petit Best 10. The group was also active as a concert-only unit until 2011.

Video games

 * Mini-Moni: Dice de Pyon! 	(Konami, 20 March 2002, PlayStation)
 * Mini-Moni ni Naru no da Pyon! (Bandai, 26 September 2002, PlayStation)
 * Mini-Moni: Shaka tto Tambourine! Dapyon! (Sega, 19 September 2002, PlayStation)
 * Mini-Moni: Step Up Pyon Pyon Pyon (Konami, 12 December 2002, PlayStation)
 * Mini-Moni HapiMoni: Mika no Happy Morning chatty (Shogakukan, Game Boy Advance)
 * Mini-Moni: Onegai Ohoshi-sama (Game Boy Advance)

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National Film Development Corporation of India

The National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) based in Mumbai is the central agency established in 1975, to encourage high quality Indian cinema. It functions in areas of film financing, production and distribution and under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. The primary goal of the NFDC is to plan, promote and organise an integrated and efficient development of the Indian film industry and foster excellence in cinema.

History
The National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) was established in 1975. Over the years, NFDC has provided a wide range of services essential to the growth of Indian cinema especially Indian parallel cinema in the 1970s and 1980s. The NFDC (and its predecessor the Film Finance Corporation) has so far funded or produced over 300 films. These films, in various Indian languages, have been widely acclaimed and have won many national and international awards. An example from the early 2000s is the third ever Kashmiri feature film, Bub ('father' in English), which was directed by Jyoti Sarup.

In 1982, NFDC, chaired by D. V. S. Raju, was also one of the production companies for Gandhi, which won eight Academy Awards.

Film journalist and former editor of Filmfare, B. K. Karanjia remained the chairman of the NFDC for several years. He had been instrumental in the establishment of its predecessor, Film Finance Corporation. Director, Ramesh Sippy took over the position of chairman of NFDC in 2012. He replaced actor Om Puri who was appointed in 2008. In 2015, Suresh Gopi was appointed as the new chairman

Cinemas of India
In 2013, NFDC started its label, "Cinemas of India", specifically to promote and distribute the parallel cinema film produced by it, since the 1980s. This also includes the separate "Cinemas of India" website, many of the movies which have long been out of circulation are now restored, and available as free online streaming and also as DVDs. Notable films in the series, include Mirch Masala (1987), Ek Din Achanak (1989), Train to Pakistan (1998), Mammo (1994), Uski Roti (1969), Kamla Ki Maut (1989) and 27 Down (1974).

Awards
In capacity as the producer of various films, NFDC has received various awards.
 * National Film Awards

 * International awards

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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed is a 1969 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Films, starring Peter Cushing, Freddie Jones, Veronica Carlson and Simon Ward. The film is the fifth in a series of Hammer films focusing on Baron Frankenstein, who, in this entry, terrorises those around him in a bid to uncover the secrets of a former associate confined to a lunatic asylum.

It marked the final movie by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts to be released under Warner Bros. when the company was acquired by Kinney National Company.

Plot
A doctor is decapitated by a masked man while a thief breaks into an underground lab. The masked man enters the lab, carrying the severed head, and fights the thief, who escapes in horror. The man unmasks himself and is revealed to be Baron Victor Frankenstein. The thief goes to the police station to report the severed head to Inspector Frisch. Frankenstein, under the alias Mr. Fenner, rents a room at a boarding house run by landlady Anna Spengler. Anna's fiancé Karl Holst is a doctor at the asylum where Frankenstein's former assistant Dr. Frederick Brandt was committed after going insane.

After discovering Karl has been stealing narcotics in order to support Anna's ailing mother, Frankenstein reveals his true identity and blackmails Karl into helping him kidnap Brandt so he can get the secret formula of his experiment. While stealing equipment from a warehouse for Frankenstein's new lab, Karl and the Baron are caught by the guard. Karl panics and stabs him. Frankenstein, now with a further hold on Karl uses him and Anna to kidnap Brandt. They take him back to the house where they build a lab in the basement. Karl confides to Anna about killing the guard and begs her to leave, fearing she may go to prison for being an accessory to a murderer, but she refuses.

Meanwhile, Brandt has a heart attack, prompting Frankenstein and Karl to kidnap the asylum's administrator Professor Richter to transplant Brandt's brain into his body. That night, while Anna is getting ready for bed, Frankenstein enters her room and rapes her. The next day, Frankenstein and Karl succeed in transplanting Brandt's brain into Richter's body and bury Brandt's body in the garden. Brandt's wife Ella recognises Frankenstein in the street and confronts him about her husband's kidnapping. Frankenstein assures her he has cured her husband's mental illness, but does not let her see him. She refuses to believe him and goes to Frisch.

While the creature recovers, Frankenstein and the lovers relocate to a deserted manor house when the police begin to close in. In the lab, the creature awakes and is horrified by his appearance. He scares Anna, who stabs him, causing him to escape. Frankenstein returns and finds the creature gone. In a rage, he fatally stabs Anna and goes after the creature. The creature makes it to his former home, but his wife refuses to accept him as her husband. Wanting revenge on Frankenstein and knowing the Baron will eventually track him there, he allows his wife to go free and pours liquid paraffin around the house.

Frankenstein soon arrives, with Karl following. Inside the house, the creature makes fires to trap him. Frankenstein finds the papers of discovery and flees, but is ambushed by Karl, and they fight. The creature emerges, knocks Karl out and carries a screaming Frankenstein into the burning house, where they both presumably die.

Cast

 * Peter Cushing as Baron Victor Frankenstein
 * Freddie Jones as Professor Richter/The Creature
 * Simon Ward as Dr. Karl Holst
 * Veronica Carlson as Anna Spengler
 * George Pravda as Dr. Frederick Brandt
 * Maxine Audley as Ella Brandt
 * Thorley Walters as Inspector Frisch
 * Windsor Davies as police Sergeant
 * Allan Surtees as police Sergeant
 * Geoffrey Bayldon as police doctor
 * Colette O'Neil as madwoman
 * Frank Middlemass as guest, plumber
 * Norman Shelley as guest, smoking pipe
 * Michael Gover as guest, reading newspaper
 * George Belbin as guest, playing chess
 * Peter Copley as principal
 * Jim Collier as Dr. Heidecke

Production
The scene where Frankenstein rapes Anna was filmed over the objections of both Peter Cushing and Veronica Carlson, and director Terence Fisher, who halted it when he felt enough was enough. It was not in the original script, but the scene was added at the insistence of Hammer executive James Carreras, who was under pressure to keep the American distributors happy.

The scenes featuring Thorley Walters as Inspector Frisch were also late additions to the original script; they have been described as unnecessary, adding an unwelcome element of comedy into the suspenseful story and also making the film too long.

Welsh version
In 1978, the Welsh television station HTV Cymru/Wales broadcast a version dubbed into the Welsh language called Rhaid Dinistrio Frankenstein, a more-or-less literal translation of the English title. It was rebroadcast on the new Welsh language channel S4C on its launch in 1982.

Reception
Variety called the film "a good-enough example of its low-key type, with artwork rather better than usual (less obvious backcloths, etc.) a minimum of artless dialogue, good lensing by Arthur Grant and a solid all round cast."

The Monthly Film Bulletin called it "the most spirited Hammer horror in some time. The crudities still remain, of course, but the talk of transplants and drugs seem to have injected new life into the continuing story of Baron Frankenstein."

The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 3/5 stars, writing that the film: "is graced by an incisive performance from Peter Cushing, up to his old tricks as the Baron performing brain transplants. Freddie Jones is astonishing as the anguished victim of the transplant, whose wife fails to recognise him and rejects him, prompting a revenge plan. The gothic gore is once more directed with spirited skill and economy by Terence Fisher (his fourth in the series)."

Leslie Halliwell said: "Spirited but decidely unpleasant addition to the cycle, made more so by a genuine note of pathos."

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed currently holds an average 70% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Sans Souci, New South Wales

Sans Souci is a Southern Sydney suburb in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Sans Souci is 17 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and lies across the local government areas of the Bayside Council and the Georges River Council. It is part of the St George area.

Sans Souci sits on the western shore of Botany Bay. Lady Robinsons Beach and Cook Park run along the eastern border. Kogarah Bay runs along the western border. Sans Souci is connected to Taren Point, in the Sutherland Shire, to the south, by the Captain Cook Bridge over the Georges River.

History
Sans Souci is a French term meaning "without care", in other terms, "no worries". The area between Cooks River and Georges River was originally known as Seven Mile Beach. It was changed to Lady Robinson's Beach in 1874 to honour the wife of Governor Sir Hercules Robinson. Cook Park is named after Samuel Cook, who advocated it as a public pleasure area.

Catherine Cooper was given a 100 acre grant in the area in 1830, where she and husband, Robert Cooper Junior, built a home. The Coopers later operated a distillery there; the land was known as Charlotte Point and then Rocky Point. Sans Souci took its name from a grand house built on Rocky Point Road on land bought in 1853, by Thomas Holt (1811–1888), a wool merchant and politician, for his German wife. It was named after Sanssouci in Potsdam, Germany, the summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. However, Holt thought that the area was too isolated so he built another house at Marrickville, overlooking the Cooks River, which he called The Warren. He bred rabbits for hunting and kept exotic animals, including an alpaca on this property. In the 1860s, Holt sold his Sans Souci property to William Rust, who turned it into a popular hotel, despite its isolation.

A steam tram operated between Sans Souci and Kogarah in the 1890s which allowed people to enjoy bathing, boating and fishing. In 1937, a silent electric trolley bus was introduced that, until 1959, ran from Rockdale to Kogarah, Sans Souci and Dolls Point.

Kogarah to Sans Souci tram line
This steam tramway opened in 1887, and was replaced by an electric trolleybus service in 1937. It connected with trains at Kogarah station by way of a large balloon loop through the streets, then passed south down Rocky Point Road to Sans Souci, Sandringham and Dolls Point. Small depots at Sandringham and Kogarah serviced the line. The line was single track at each end with a double-track middle section down Rocky Point Road.

Commercial area
Sans Souci is a mostly residential area. A shopping strip is located on Rocky Point Road, near the intersection of Sandringham St, including The Party People, various fast food outlets and the post office. Another small group of shops is located at the intersection of Clareville Avenue and Russell Avenue, on the border with Dolls Point and Sandringham. It includes Sans Souci Library and a variety of small shops and retailers. Two primary schools are located in the suburb: Sans Souci Public and St Finbars.

Schools and churches

 * Sans Souci Public School
 * St Finbars Catholic School
 * St George Christian School (Infants Campus)
 * St Finbars Catholic Church
 * St Andrews Anglican Church
 * Sans Souci Baptist Church

Parks and recreation

 * Cook Park, Sans Souci Park, Bona Park, Kendall Street Reserve, Claydon Reserve is a soccer field and playground
 * St George Sailing Club, St George Motor Boat Club, Botany Bay Yacht Club
 * Sans Souci Leisure Centre,

Demographics
According to the, there were 10,864 people usually resident in Sans Souci. 64.7% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were Greece (4.4%), China (excluding Special Administrative Regions and Taiwan) (2.4%), Egypt (2.0%), England (1.6%), and New Zealand (1.2%). 56.1% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Greek (13.9%), Arabic (4.0%), Mandarin (2.5%), Spanish (2.3%) and Macedonian (1.9%). The most common responses for religious affiliation were Catholic (26.2%), Eastern Orthodox (23.8%), No Religion (18.9%), and Anglican (8.4%), a further 6.5% of respondents elected not to disclose their religion.

Notable residents

 * Michelle Ford – Swimmer 800 m freestyle champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
 * Kostya Tszyu – Boxer and two time world junior welterweight champion.
 * Sam Sparro – Grammy nominated singer.
 * Kay Cottee AO – First woman to sail around the world non-stop and unassisted.
 * Ari Gold Fictional character (Entourage).

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Elie Saab

Elie Saab (Arabic: ايلي صعب) (born 4 July 1964) is a Lebanese fashion designer.

His main workshop is in Lebanon, with additional workshops in Milan and Paris. He started his business in the early 1980s and specialised in bridal couture (expensive fabrics, lace, gemstones, Swarovski crystals, pearls, detailed embroidery, etc.).

He is the first Lebanese to be admitted to the fashion industry's governing body, Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. Saab appeared as a judge on Project Runway: Middle East in 2016. As of March 2017, his couture collections are available in Paris, London, and Beirut, while his ready-to-wear clothes were in 160 retailers and his own boutiques. Kate Middleton wore a Saab gown to the Royal Ascot in 2019, marking the first occasion where Saab has dressed a British royal family member.

Early life
Elie Saab is the eldest son of a wood merchant who raised five children in Damour, a southern coastal suburb in Beirut, Lebanon.

Born to Maronite Catholic Lebanese parents in Beirut, Saab began sewing as a child. At the age of eight, his attention had turned to fashion. With his sisters serving as models, he would cut patterns out of newspaper and search his mother's closet for materials.

Early years in fashion
In 1981, Saab moved to Paris to study fashion. He later dropped out to return to Beirut and open his fashion label. In 1982, when he was 18 years old, he worked with a team of 15 employees. At first his atelier specialized in bridal couture, making wedding dresses and gowns using expensive fabrics, lace, detailed embroidery, pearls, crystals and silk threads. In Beirut his reputation grew from dressing women in his neighborhood, and was soon enhanced by high society women sporting his designs.

In 1997, Saab was the first non-Italian designer to become a member of the National Chamber of Italian Fashion, and in 1997 he showed his first collection outside Lebanon in Rome.

In 1998, he started his ready-to-wear line in Milan, as well as an accessories line. During the same year, Saab held a fashion show in Monaco, with Princess Stéphanie of Monaco in attendance.

In 1999, one of his dresses thickly embroidered with emeralds and diamonds was reportedly sold for $2.4 million.

Exposure internationally
Saab became more well known in the United States after he became the first Lebanese designer to dress an Oscar winner, Halle Berry, in 2002. In May 2003, the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture invited him to become a member, and he showed his first haute couture collection in Paris in July 2003.

In 2003, he teamed up with Pronovias to create a bridal line, Elie by Elie Saab.

The Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture inducted him as a membre correspondant in 2006. His first ready-to-wear collection in Paris was the Spring-Summer 2006 collection.

Saab, Tina Knowles, House of Deréon, Giorgio Armani, Versace, and Herve Leger served as the designers for the outfits of the 2007 The Beyoncé Experience tour. In 2010, Saab dressed 102 celebrities for events overall, up from 40 in 2009. That year, he signed a 10-year licensing agreement with Beauté Prestige International for fragrance and cosmetics. The figure for 2011, up until March, was 88. In 2011, Madame Tussauds unveiled a wax statue of Kate Winslet draped in the Elie Saab dress she wore at 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2011, Elie Saab launched his first fragrance Le Parfum.

The Duchess of Cambridge wore an Elie Saab gown while attending Royal Ascot in 2019. This was the first time one of Saab's gowns was worn by a British royal.

Recent dresses and collaborations
In 2012, he worked with the Lebanese American University and London College of Fashion to launch a bachelor's degree in fashion design. As of 2013, the brand had boutiques located in Beirut, Dubai, Doha, Paris, London, Geneva, Hong Kong, Moscow, New York City, and Mexico, with 100 retail outlets total. Saab's son, Elie Saab Jr, became brand director in 2013.

Saab appeared as a judge on Project Runway: Middle East in 2016. Between 2015 and 2017, the Elie Saab company opened a second Paris boutique and a new location in London's Mayfair, and in Manhattan. The Manhattan store that opened in October 2016 was his first in the country. As of March 2017, his couture collections are available in Paris, London, and Beirut, while his ready-to-wear clothes were in 160 retailers and his own boutiques. Also that month, the Elie Saab company opened a new Madison Avenue store.

Elie Saab X Emaar
The Lebanese fashion designer and the real estate development company Emaar reveal luxurious Elie Saab at Emaar Beachfront property in Dubai. The luxurious gated island property, Grand Bleu Tower at Emaar Beachfront, will include one, two and three-bedroom apartments as well as four-bedroom penthouses with interiors by Elie Saab. The residential tower boasts views of the Arabian Sea, The Palm and Dubai Marina.

Beirut explosion, 4 August 2020
Saab's main office and headquarters were left badly damaged by the explosion, his home nearby was completely destroyed.

Despite this, the designer and his team planned to get back to work in order to finish the collection for the September show.

In April 2021, Elie Saab launched an initiative that consists in donating a portion of sales to UNICEF's "Integrated Education and Well-Being for Vulnerable Girls in Lebanon Program."

Notable clients and projects
He has been worn by Queen Rania of Jordan, Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Princess Madeleine of Sweden, Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. In 1999, Queen Rania of Jordan wore Elie Saab for her enthronement. Countess Stéphanie and the Hereditary Grand Duke married in a civil ceremony married in 2012, where the bride wore a dress designed by Elie Saab. Princess Claire of Luxembourg also wore an Saab-designed dress on her wedding. First Lady of France Brigitte Macron wore an Elie Saab outfit of military coat and skinny trousers during a state visit to China. In 2023, Princess Rajwa Al-Hussein wore an Elie Saab gown for her wedding to Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan.

Halle Berry wore a burgundy gown by Saab to the 2002 Academy Awards when she won for Best Actress. In a poll by Debenhams published in The Daily Telegraph the dress was voted the 8th greatest red carpet gown of all time. Cosmopolitan magazine cited the dress as "one of the Best Oscar dresses of all time". Berry later wore another dress by Saab to the 2003 Oscars.

Sandra Bullock wore Elie Saab at the 85th Academy Awards in 2013 and at the world premiere of the movie Ocean's 8 in New York.

In 2018, Rose Leslie wore a floral embroidered Elie Saab wedding dress when she wed her Game of Thrones co-star Kit Harington.

Jennifer Lopez has worn Elie Saab on many occasions, including the 87th Academy Awards, 45th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, Global Citizen’s Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World, and Elie Saab’s Paris Haute Couture Show.

Other notable clients of Saab's work have included Nicole Kidman, Eva Green, Beyoncé, Aishwarya Rai, Anna Kendrick, Christina Aguilera, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Celine Dion, Elena Anaya, Elsa Zylberstein, Heidi Klum, Karlie Kloss, Dame Helen Mirren, Emilia Clarke, Priyanka Chopra, Sonam Kapoor, Kendall Jenner, Taylor Swift,  Tiffany Trump and Ons Jabeur.

Personal life
Saab and his wife Claudine live with their family in Lebanon, and together have three sons.

Controversies
In January 2018, Saab received backlash on social media after his label's Instagram account posted a picture of Israeli actress Gal Gadot wearing one of his dresses to the National Board of Review awards with the caption "A flawless Gal Gadot in Elie Saab Ready-to-Wear Spring Summer 2018 at the national board of review annual gala in New York". The post was later deleted.

Filmography

 * 2016: Project Runway: Middle East - judge

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Abbey Light Railway

The Abbey Light Railway was a narrow gauge railway in Kirkstall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Built by enthusiasts, the Railway ran from the nearby Bridge Road commercial area into the grounds of Kirkstall Abbey, operating most Sundays.

History
In 1974, local engineer and lecturer at Kitson College Peter Lowe applied for planning permission to build a railway at Kirkstall.

From 1976, the line was built from scratch by a group of local enthusiasts, most of whom were members of the Ffestiniog Railway. Second hand rail was acquired from the Ffestiniog and the line was built over a number of years, eventually extending to 3/4 mi from Kirkstall Abbey to Bridge Road, Kirkstall.

Initially the line ran purely as a private railway, but in 1986 it received permission to start public passenger services. These ran from Spring to Autumn, every Sunday and most Bank Holidays. The highlight of the year was the weekend Kirkstall Festival.

In 2006 plans were made to extend the line to the Armley Mills Industrial Museum nearby. This would have involved crossing both the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The project was never realised.

After Peter Lowe died in October 2012, the railway closed and even though there were plans to resurrect services the following spring, without its Chief Engineer, it became difficult to obtain insurance The decision was reluctantly made by his widow to sell off the rolling stock and infrastructure. All but one of the locomotives and much other material was sold to the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway in Porthmadog and work to dismantle the railway began in February 2013.

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John Gorka

John Gorka (born July 27, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter. In 1991, Rolling Stone magazine called him "the preeminent male singer-songwriter of what has been dubbed the New Folk Movement."

Personal life
Gorka was raised in the Colonia section of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, where he attended Colonia High School.

He studied philosophy and history at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and graduated from there in 1980.

As of 2005, he was residing in the St. Croix Valley area near Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Career
Gorka formed the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band with Doug Anderson and Russ Rentler, which would also include guitarist Richard Shindell. After graduating from Moravian, he began performing solo at Godfrey Daniels coffee house in South Bethlehem as the opening act for various musicians including Nanci Griffith, Bill Morrissey, Claudia Schmidt and Jack Hardy. In 1984, Gorka was one of six winners chosen from the finalists in the New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival. Since then he has regularly toured Europe and North America.

In 1987, Gorka recorded his first album, I Know. It was released by Red Housebeginning a long association with that label. Although his next five albums were distributed by Windham Hill and High Street, he returned to Red House with 1998's After Yesterday and produced eight albums with them over the next twenty yearsmost recently True in Time (2018).

He has appeared with artists such as Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Michael Manring, Christine Lavin, Dave Van Ronk, Cliff Eberhardt, David Massengill, Frank Christian, Antje Duvekot, Meg Hutchinson, and Lucy Kaplansky. He joined with Kaplansky and Eliza Gilkyson to form the folk supergroup Red Horse in 2010, touring together and releasing a self-titled album on which they performed each other's compositions. Red Horse toured through July 2014.

Studio albums

 * I Know (Red House, 1987)
 * Land of the Bottom Line (Windham Hill/High Street, 1990)
 * Jack's Crows (Windham Hill/High Street, 1991)
 * Temporary Road (Windham Hill/High Street, 1992)
 * Out of the Valley (Windham Hill/High Street, 1994)
 * Between Five and Seven (Windham Hill/High Street, 1996)
 * After Yesterday (Red House, 1998)
 * The Company You Keep (Red House, 2001)
 * Old Futures Gone (Red House, 2003)
 * Writing in the Margins (Red House, 2006)
 * So Dark You See (Red House, 2009)
 * Red Horse (Red House, 2010) with Lucy Kaplansky and Eliza Gilkyson
 * Bright Side Of Down (Red House, 2014)
 * Before Beginning (The Unreleased I Know - Nashville, 1985) (Red House, 2016)
 * True in Time (Red House, 2018)

Other releases
Promotional EPs Remix albums
 * Motor Folkin'  (Windham Hill/High Street, 1994)

 * Before Beginning: The Unreleased I Know - Nashville, 1985 (Red House, 2016) (early version of I Know)

DVD Compilation albums On various artists compilations
 * The Gypsy Life (AIX Records, 2007)
 * Pure John Gorka (Windham Hill, 2006)
 * See various issues of Fast Folk Musical Magazine for early recordings.
 * "I Saw a Stranger with Your Hair" on Legacy: A Collection of New Folk Music (Windham Hill, 1989)
 * "Christmas Bells", on A Winter's Solstice, Vol. III (Windham Hill, 1990)
 * "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" on A Tribute to Bob Dylan, Vol. 2 (SIS, 1994)
 * "The Gypsy Life" on The Live from Mountain Stage, Vol. 8 (Blue Plate, 1995)
 * "The Water is Wide" on Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger (Wundertüte Musik, 1998)
 * "Sweet Love" on "Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf" (Red House, 1998)
 * "Bracero" on What's That I Hear?: The Songs of Phil Ochs (Sliced Bread, 1998)
 * "Out of My Mind" on When October Goes : Autumn Love Songs (Philo, 1998)
 * "Thirsty Boots" (Eric Andersen) on Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village in the 1960s (Astor Place Records, 1999)
 * "Girl from the North Country" on A Nod to Bob: An Artists' Tribute to Bob Dylan on His 60th Birthday (Red House, 2001)
 * "Do La Lay", "Things We've Handed Down" and others on Down at the Sea Hotel (La Montagne Secrète, 2007)

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Talk:National Carillon

I have moved this article from Australian National Carillon to National Carillon to match the name given in. --Evan G 07:50, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

carillion
I always thought it was spelled Carillion with two I's, which is how its usually pronounced. Seems to be common spelling  Astrokey44 |talk 12:59, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I always thought this too. Though if you search "Canberra Carillon" you get many more hits . I think this is a case of a commonly mis-spelled word rather than an alternate spelling. --Martyman- (talk) 13:05, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Someone's rant on the subject is here --Martyman- (talk) 13:06, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Look it up in a dictionary, I checked five of them and all state "Carillon" is correct. None even mentioned "Carillion". In English, words often assume different pronunciations to the way they are spelt. Former Prime Minister Robert Menzies for example, we all pronnounce Menzies the way it is spelt. In fact, the proper pronunciation is "Min-gees". Capital photographer (talk) 08:45, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Having been there yesterday and checked the spelling on the plaque at the place itself, it is definitely "Carillon". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.194.52 (talk) 00:07, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

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Monsieur Hulot

Monsieur Hulot is a character created and played by French comic Jacques Tati for a series of films in the 1950s through the early '70s, namely Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Playtime (1967) and Trafic (1971). The character of Hulot (although played by another actor) also appears briefly in François Truffaut's Bed & Board (1970).

He is recognized by his overcoat, pipe and hat, and his distinctive lurching walk. He is clumsy and somewhat naive of the evolving world around him, but still has a friendly, well-meaning, and good-natured persona. His escapades usually involved clashes with technology and the problems of living in an increasingly impersonal and gadgetized world. In Trafic, Hulot, the designer of a new camper-car, "struggles valiantly... against the perpetual roadblocks of cars, policemen, bureaucrats and just people".

The name of "Monsieur Hulot" is believed to echo "Charlot," the French name for Charlie Chaplin's character The Tramp. However, "Hulot is more distracted than the Tramp, he cannot disentangle himself from situations as effortlessly, and he is not as central a character, he is not 'the reason for the film.'" As theorized by David Bellos, Hulot may even represent an inversion of The Tramp: "Hulot tilts forwards whereas Chaplin tilts back; Chaplin's puppet-like waddle is very different from Hulot's 'springy glide'; and there is a difference in costume too: the bowler, tails, huge pants, cane and cigarette are replaced by a pipe, various accessories, pants that are too short, a sports blazer and a Homburg, although the striped socks are borrowed from Keaton."

Of Hulot, Jacques Tati remarked that he is "tall, and he cannot hide – he cannot conceal himself behind a lamppost or anything else – whereas Chaplin could hide behind a small trash can, leave his hat on the can, then sneak behind another small can, while making people believe that he was still in back of the first one, whereupon he would come back to grab his hat. Hulot, by contrast, has the stature of a rather steady or stand-up guy; he behaves exactly like any man from Paris or even from the provinces.”

Film critic Michel Chion has written that:"Hulot is the guy you recognize because he was in the same barracks as you, even though he never became a close friend. He gives you the illusion of familiarity, which really doesn't exist. He develops into a real person only when you bump into him by accident one night... By creating Hulot, Tati aims to re-establish a distance. From the start, Hulot is someone who exists only in the eyes and mouths of the beholder. He is someone who awakens suspicion or amused attention... Hulot is a blurred man, a passer-by, a Hulotus errans."

This view is shared by Roger Ebert, who, in his review of Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, states that Hulot "is friendly to a fault, but he is the man nobody quite sees. The holidaymakers are distracted by their own worlds, companions, and plans, and notice Hulot only when something goes wrong, as it often does."

English comedian Rowan Atkinson has cited Hulot as an influence for his character, Mr. Bean. The Kids in the Hall recurring character M. Piedlourde ("Mr. Heavyfoot") has also been compared to Hulot.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mini Moni

 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. Golbez 21:59, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Mini Moni
Band vanity, does not appear to meet WP:MUSIC guidelines. No reviews, no physical albums - Group appears to have put out DVDs and albums in Japan - potential anime games as well? Withdrawn! --FCYTravis 08:03, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Passes the Google test. They seem to have made a movie about them.  Looks like it's a significant enough group to merit an article. -Tadanisakari 08:01, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Appear to meet Wikimusic Project guidelines. Capitalistroadster 08:43, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .


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Grid MP

Grid MP is a commercial distributed computing software package developed and sold by Univa (formerly known as United Devices), a privately held company based primarily in Austin, Texas. It was formerly known as the MetaProcessor prior to the release of version 4.0, however the letters MP in Grid MP do not officially stand for anything.

Product features
Grid MP provides job scheduling with prioritization, user security restrictions, selective application exclusion, user-activity detection, and time-of-day execution controls.

Grid MP can be used to manage computational Devices consisting of corporate desktop PCs, departmental servers, or dedicated cluster nodes. Computational Devices can be arranged into Device Groups for organizational, security, and administrative control.

Grid MP has been demonstrated as being capable of managing grids of large numbers of nodes during its use in the infrastructure of the grid.org and World Community Grid projects (the World Community Grid project migrated to the open-source Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing software in 2007 ). Despite its ability to "scale seamlessly to hundreds of thousands of device nodes" it is also suitable for smaller clusters of enterprise servers or workstations.

MGSI
MP Grid Services Interface, or simply MGSI, offers a web service API (via SOAP and XML-RPC protocols over HTTP). It enables developers of back-end application services to access and manipulate objects within the system. Access to the API and all objects is access controlled and security restricted on a per-object basis. Since MGSI is a web service protocol, any programming language that has a SOAP or XML-RPC library available can be used to interface with it, although commonly C++, Java, Perl, and PHP are used.

Management Console
A web-based MP Management Console, or simply MPMC, provides administrators with a simplified and easy-to-use interface to monitor system activity, control security settings, and manage system objects. The MPMC is written in the PHP programming language, and uses the MGSI web service for all of its interactions with the system.

MP Agent
The MP Agent (known as the UD Agent in versions before 4.0) is the software agent that must be installed on each computer that will participate in a Grid MP installation by running jobs. Once the MP Agent is installed on a computer, it is officially recognized by the Grid MP as a Device.

As of Grid MP Enterprise version 5.5, the MP Agent is supported on the following platforms:

 * Microsoft Windows on x86
 * Linux on x86, IA-64, x86-64
 * Solaris on SPARC
 * AIX on PowerPC
 * Mac OS X on PowerPC and x86
 * HP-UX on IA-64

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Talk:Archy (software)

License
Having visited FSF, I find no reference to a negative judgment of Archy by FSF. Where does the "does not recommend it for software" come from, and cannot it be described in different terms, i.e. without sounding as negative? For all I care I could add: ...and Microsoft doesn't recommend it for software, either." Until such neutral statement can be implemented, I have removed the sentences. IMHO Archy is a great idea and deserves at least neutral description. --Dorthonion 07:54, 05 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Trademarks
Removed the little ™s as according to Manual of Style (trademarks). -- Foofy 17:55, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Page protection
Hmm, contrary to what the history seem to tell, the page is still protected as of October 18. -- Jugalator 07:09, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I left a message on Requests for page protection so somebody should fix it in a bit. -- Foofy 20:16, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

LEAP commentary
I am removing the link to THE and LEAP because it is simply wrong. He is confusing the Leap keys with the Command key:

 * "When you want to type in a command, you hit the LEAP key and start typing the command (all commands are named) -- when you release the LEAP key the command is run."

That makes the entire article worthless, you can't make a commentary about something that you don't understand! --Foofy 02:14, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Funding
I am about to remove the funding comment. The $2 million is closer to $1.8 million and went not to RCHI but to BZ Web for a project to design a ZUI for a major cell phone manufacturer. RCHI is pretty much a volunteer effort and has even lost many of those most knowledgeable about The Humane Interface. Nevertheless it retains some promise to provide direction for future humane computing environments. --Karpinski 22:18, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Criticism
Obviously Archy is a radical detraction from computing as we have known it now for 30 years. There must be some criticisms of this approach to user interface design.

 * Why? To an extent Archy is just a few modifications to GNU Emacs (LEAP and COMMAND keys to eliminate modality).  Are you trying to tell us that GNU Emacs is a radical detraction? RussNelson 03:23, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

 * It seems to be some kind of single-document editor with a CLI, that pretends to be an OS ("applications are obsolete"). Definitely not new. I'd rather say this concept is as outdated as 30-year-old Emacs. It goes back to the times when everything stored on a computer appeared as one huge chunk of data. It reduces a computer to a programmable typewriter. And it forces users to learn text commands and hotkeys instead of graphically exposing available functions.--87.162.12.32 (talk) 17:41, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * You are writing as if you never used Archy. Perhaps you should reserve judgement? RussNelson (talk) 21:41, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

I can think of some myself right now: Contrary to Raskins assertions about human interaction with interfaces, I think people have become very used to and good at using a graphical interface. This can even be seen outside computing. When I want to play music, I go over to my stereo and interact with a series of buttons and switches. If I want to turn the music up, I adjust a knob on the stereo to the right, I don't give the stereo a volume increase command in text form. I think following this pattern in computing is just as useful.

When user interface designing scientists evaluate the efficiency of an interface, they talk about how many clicks or keys it takes to get a command done. I think typing a series of commands to jump around a never ending document is not as easy as clicking Media player program + play button.

 * How does it know what to play? Oops, gotta click some more.  RussNelson 03:23, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Archy is about your content, and allowing the particular content you want to just fly in before your eyes. If computers interfaced with our brains, I'd imagine it would be a lot like Archy. But that's not they do. I have to dig around a screen to find my content, and I don't think endlessly zooming around an infinite space is as efficient or understandable as the traditional file/folder paradigm.

 * That's as foolish as saying that there is no point in laying keys out in grid fashion, because people will always have to hunt and peck to find the key they want to type. RussNelson 03:23, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Software vendors might also have a completely different set of criticisms for replacing the idea of separate computer programs.

 * Jeff was not against the idea of separate computer programs. In fact he was perfectly in favor of people selling add-on programs for Archy.  What he didn't want was a gazillion different paradigms for controlling each program. RussNelson 03:23, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

--149.169.60.160 06:33, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm sure there are criticisms, just not many documented criticisms that we can link to. This has more to do with Archy's obscurity than it's quality.  As for current interfaces being easy to use: just because it's "good enough" doesn't mean it's "good."  I think most people see Archy as a new perspective that will lead to better interfaces, not the be-all and end-all of interfaces.  :) -Foofy 14:45, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Modelessness

 * I took the liberty of moving modelessness out into its own section. It's a major characteristic of Archy, and if it's wrong, then most of Archy's design decisions are wrong.  RussNelson 15:58, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Hey Anon, I found something you might enjoy: The Anti-Mac Interface.

 * Modelessness
 * Modelessness means the computer interface should not have distinct modes that restrict the user's actions depending on the mode he or she is in. Users should be able to perform any task at any time. Although modelessness seems to be an object of veneration among some Macintosh interface designers, even the section on modelessness in the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines [2] is primarily devoted to explaining how to use modes successfully. The basic problem presented by modelessness is that the user cannot cope with everything at once. Users need the interface to narrow their attention and choices so they can find the information and actions they need at any particular time. Real life is highly moded [11]: What you can do in the swimming pool is different from what you can do in the kitchen, and people can easily distinguish between the two because of the richness of the experience and the ease with which we can move between environments.

 * I'd love to see some stats on how good "context sensitive" toolbars and palettes work. --Foofy 15:10, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

 * there's modes and then there's modes. I think that Jef's original modelessness principle was tied to the fact that many programs lock you into answering a dialog.  Sometimes the operating system doesn't even give you a choice to switch to a different program.  From arguing with him over how the ZUI should work, I am pretty sure that he expected that the cursor would only move by key action.  I'm not sure how he was going to move the cursor between zoomed documents.  I'm not sure even he knew. RussNelson 15:58, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Biased / Marketing-sounding voice?
Just reading the first paragraph, this looks like a press release---getting people hyped up with interesting abstract concepts but few details. Obviously, there are details later on, but does not the intro sound distinctly non-wikipaedic? --N Vale (talk) 00:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Mmmmmmm, no, not to me. It accurately describes the project without using marketing-style overblown language. RussNelson (talk) 02:11, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I've clarified what the "radically new" means. I think this is what you feel that looked like a press release. I expect that it now should look more encyclopedic. Diego (talk) 10:58, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

 * It's the Canon Cat, for crying out loud. "Radically new?" Try "sold commercially in the 1980's." I see some talk about a "zooming user interface" at some point in the future, but the actual software on offer is essentially a Canon Cat clone...and I can't work out how you get from the Cat to Zoomworld, either--they seem to be built on radically different paradigms, and there's little consideration of how you join them together.  This article is very press-releasey--talking up what is essentially vaporware in glowing terms.--158.111.4.26 (talk) 17:35, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Attempts to Create this?
Haven't there been any attempts to actually make this? It seems right now it's just theoretical. Seriously someone should make an X window manager following this design. --Matthew Bauer (talk) 04:19, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
 * You can download the latest executable here. The project has been abandoned since in favor of its more pragmatic sibling Ubiquity, which follows many of the same design principles. Diego (talk) 20:41, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

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Archy → Archy (software) – Not primary per pageviews, and a dab page is necessary for "Archy" 162.208.168.92 (talk) 20:22, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). 162.208.168.92 (talk) 04:53, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

 * see |Archy_McNally|Archy_Kirkwood|Archy_Lee|Sir_Archy|Archy_(character) pageviews
 * None of those other pages are called Archy. Station1 (talk) 21:15, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Per WP:NOPRIMARY, in the absence of a primary topic, the dab page should be at the base name. 162.208.168.92 (talk) 21:26, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

 * Weak support to add to the views Archy and Mehitabel gets more views (1,083 and 50 for the lowercase redirect) compared to 327 for the software[|Archy_and_Mehitabel|Archy_and_mehitabel] and the Archy (character) redirect only getting 1 view is because its a redirect.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 08:22, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Support "Archy was" "Archy is" in books is just a variant of Archie. Archy (disambiguation) In ictu oculi (talk) 16:24, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Move DAB to base name.--Ortizesp (talk) 01:27, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

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Ragnarsdrápa

Ragnarsdrápa (Ragnar's Poem) is a skaldic poem said to have been composed in honour of the Scandinavian hero, Ragnar Lodbrok, but likely actually addressed to some later Ragnar. It is attributed to the oldest known skald, Bragi Boddason, who lived in the 9th century, and was composed for the Swedish king Björn at Haugi. Bragi describes the images on a decorated shield which Ragnar had given to him. The images included:

 * the attack of Hamdir and Sorli against King Jörmunrekkr
 * the never-ending battle between Heðinn and Hǫgni.
 * Thor's fishing for Jörmungandr (The Midgard Serpent)
 * Gefjun's ploughing of Zealand from the soil of Sweden

The extant fragments of Ragnarsdrápa are preserved in Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda. The episodes of Hamdir and Sorli and Heðinn and Hǫgni are explicitly ascribed to Ragnarsdrápa while the other parts are inferred by scholars to belong to the same poem, describing the images on the four quarters of the shield, in four stanzas each with, presumably, a lost refrain.

The poem is often compared with Húsdrápa and Haustlöng, which also describe artworks depicting mythological scenes. Like Haustlöng, it uses archaic and complex kennings in a manner that strains the syntax. Although the dróttkvætt metre violates some of the rules developed later, it is well executed; this and the complexity of language demonstrate that there had already been considerable development of skaldic verse.

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Talk:Contemporary hit radio

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CHR is also commonly used as an abbreviation for Constraint Handling Rules. Maybe we need a disambiguation page?

 * Maybe indeed. For now, I've done the "lazy equivalent" and stuck a "can also mean" note on the top. - IMSoP 17:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

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Variations on CHR section: Why examples?
Under the Variations section a bunch of different radio stations are mentioned, why? I don't see a reason the examples should be included. They just add clutter. I would just delete them but I don't want to remove such a big section without replacing it. Orangekeet2 (talk) 13:20, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

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User:Juyukichi~enwiki

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Georg Tannstetter

Georg Tannstetter (April 1482 – 26 March 1535), also called Georgius Collimitius, was a humanist teaching at the University of Vienna. He was a medical doctor, mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, and the personal physician of the emperors Maximilian I and Ferdinand I. He also wrote under the pseudonym of "Lycoripensis". His Latin name "Collimitius" is derived from limes meaning "border" and is a reference to his birth town: "Rain" is a German word for border or boundary.

Born in Rain am Lech in the Duchy of Bavaria, he studied in Ingolstadt. In 1503, he followed a call of Conrad Celtis to the University of Vienna, where he taught mathematics. He soon became a leading figure amongst the humanists in Vienna. In 1510, he became the personal physician of emperor Maximilian I, who would six years later ennoble him with the predicate "von Thanau".

He travelled with his student Joachim Vadian to Buda in 1518. After his earlier work in c. 1527 he edited a map of Hungary, today known as Tabula Hungariae, from the manuscript of Lazarus Secretarius, a Hungarian clerk. The map was published by Johannes Cuspinianus, printed 1528 in Ingolstadt by Petrus Apianus; its unique copy is in the National Library of Hungary. It is generally praised for its details (c. 1300 settlements) and the relative accuracy of the distances between the settlements. It was one of the first regional maps, included a scale but the manuscript was seriously reshaped, so it is uneasy to recognize the geography of Hungary. Tannstetter is also considered a pioneer of the history of science with his work Viri Mathematici, containing biographies of mathematicians at the University of Vienna from the 15th century.

In 1530, he moved to Ferdinand's court at Innsbruck, where he died five years later.

Selected works

 * Librum consolatorium contra opiniones de diluvio et aliis horrendis periculis anni 1523, Vienna 1523. A tract to counter the Flood hysteria of that year.
 * Viri Mathematici
 * Tabula Hungarie ad quatuor latera, The Lazarus map of Hungary. Ingolstadt 1528.
 * Artificium De Applicatione Astrologiae ad Medicinam..., 1531.

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User:Tralala~enwiki

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User talk:Abarry

Your blanking of How to have sex
Hey,

Good job on keeping an eye out for these garbage articles. Yet, just for future refence, rather than blank a page that deserves to be deleted, use the deletion procedures found here: Speedy deletions, or here: Articles for deletion. Otherwise, you may end up ruffling the feathers of those whom are more formalist than you and I. Cheers! — Dorvaq (talk) 20:39, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Yossui's nickname
Thanks for notifying me! I looked at the picture, it seems that the English text has been pasted on, so I went searching around a bit and I found that it was in fact pasted on (picture from amazon). I'm pretty sure that it's a small "i" in the hiragana there (which is what the Japanese wiki has), since it's the same size as the small "tsu", so I believe it's Yossi. I won't make any changes until we are able to come to an agreement, to avoid edit wars and such (not that I don't believe we aren't able to solve this in a calm manner). -- Tydus Arandor 00:07, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * That is a possible solution. If we're going to list those two, we should probably list "Yossie" as well. But the thing I'm worried about is that if allow variations of romanizations for Yoshizawa, we might have to for other mmebers as well: the biggest problem lies with Mitsui. As you know, there was a big confusion over it already. If よっすぃ is going to be romanized as "Yossui" then みっつぃ will have to be romanized as "Mittsui", which really doesn't make any sense. Maybe we could do something like:
 * Nickname: よっすぃ (Yossi) / よっすい (Yossui)
 * -- Tydus Arandor 07:42, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not quite sure on what you want to do anymore. Do you mean that we should only have one then? (to avoid the troubles of leaving a footnote, etc) -- Tydus Arandor 22:12, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

thanks for checking from time to time. I was testing the credibility of the articles and I am impressed. Sorry for the inconvinience!!

Regarding edit to Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
According to this difference edit it seems you added "YOURE GAY". Anyway, please check the history of the article before putting up speedy deletions; they could have been vandalized and this is a legitimate article. Thanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu&diff=110779992&oldid=110779649 Hdt83  |  Talk/Chat  07:26, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

SF Assault copyedit
Thanks for copyediting the article. Thunderbrand 21:40, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

My Prank
I was waiting for someone to fall for it. ~ St ep tr ip 21:51, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Adoption
I will adopt you. Expect it to be all set up in about 12 hours. And to keep the rest of the discussion in one place, please respond here. --TeckWiz Parlate Contribs@ 11:11, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much!   abarry   ✓ 16:48, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay! Your adoption page has been set up here. --TeckWiz Parlate Contribs@ 23:29, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Request for copyediting
Dear Abarry

I noticed that you are a member of the league of copyeditors. In case you are interested: Would you please copyedit Jafar Panahi? I expanded the article and it needs copyediting for grammar, tone and style. Any helps will be very much appreciated. Thanks. Sangak 19:37, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your kind help. I think a single source can work for all awards. Here it is . Thanks again. Sangak 19:53, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Great! I will improve it further. I also wrote another similar article on Darius Mehrjui. Would you also take a look at that in future? Thank you. Sangak 19:59, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

About my quotes page
Yes, feel free to borrow it! The system itself is a bit complex, but it's easy to alter and adjust. User:Gracenotes gets its quotes from User:Gracenotes/Quotes source, but the quotes themselves are formatted by User:Gracenotes/Quotes. This was an attempt to get XML-like content and formatting separation. Feel free to implement it; if you have any questions about it or need help, just tell me. Grace notes T § 20:10, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * By the way, you have a cool signature :) (check mark is great) Once again, if you have any questions, ask away. Grace notes T  § 21:47, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, okay. Great! By the way, like everyone else, my contributions on Wikipedia are released under the GFDL, so you can reuse them on Wikipedia (even without asking!) See Copyrights. Grace notes T  § 21:52, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Hm. I suppose so. Thank you for asking, then, and happy editing! Grace notes T  § 21:56, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Lewis Grizzard

Last Name
His last name does NOT rhyme with "Lizard", it's prounounced in the anglicized French way (but anglicized because the final "d" is spoken). He clarified this himself in his audiobooks.
 * Previous edit was by User:JohnRonald
 * Thanks. You can change it yourself if you like, or I can do it. DenisMoskowitz 14:37, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)

 * "My last name is pronounced 'Grizz-ARD', a proud French name, it means 'wild stallion'. Some people have the audacity to pronounce it 'GRIZZ-erd'. That is French for 'sissy welfare recipient'." (from memory, his own discussion of the pronunciation of his name). Eauhomme (talk) 15:44, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Grizzard's characters
Were Lewis' characters (i.e. Weyman C. Wannamaker Jr., Cordie Mae Poovey, Kathy Sue Loudermilk) actually based on real people that he knew or may have known, or were they purely creations for the benefit of humorous narrative? I'm not 100% sure. --DXI 20:22, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Grizzard's characters - Wannamaker, Poovey, Loudermilk, etc. - were a combination of what you mentioned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cr526 (talk • contribs) 04:31, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, that's what brought me to this talk page. I would love to see someone put together somewhere online a cast of characters for the people mentioned in his narratives, from the real people (his grandfather Bun Word, his mother, etc., to the ones we're not sure about ("Goat" Rainwater and family, the aforementioned Wannamaker, Poovey, and Loudermilk), to the ones listed in his jokes (Bubba & Earl, Little Joey). Eauhomme (talk) 15:39, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Place of birth
Two published sources give his place of birth as Columbus, Georgia, so I changed the reference to his having been born at the adjacent army base, Fort Benning. Zariane (talk) 11:41, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Grizzard photo
The picture on the Wikipedia page is NOT Lewis Grizzard. It's a photo of actor Bill Oberst, who does a tribute show to the late journalist. 2600:1005:B189:F5EC:28F4:310:85B:58AE (talk) 18:44, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

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Darraðarljóð

Darraðarljóð is a skaldic poem in Old Norse found in chapter 157 of Njáls saga. It consists of 11 stanzas recounting the vision of a man named Dörruð, in which twelve valkyries weave and choose who is to be slain at the Battle of Clontarf (fought outside Dublin in 1014). Their loom uses human entrails as warp and woof, swords as treadles, an arrow as the batten and men's heads as weights. Of the twelve valkyries weaving, six of their names are given: Hildr, Hjörþrimul, Sanngriðr, Svipul, Guðr, and Göndul. Stanza 9 of the song has been translated:
 * Now awful it is to be without,
 * as blood-red rack races overhead;
 * is the welkin gory with warriors' blood
 * as we valkyries war-songs chanted.

The poem may have influenced the concept of the Three Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Dörruð's vision is located in Caithness and the story is a "powerful mixture of Celtic and Old Norse imagery".

In popular culture
"The Fatal Sisters: An Ode" (published 1768) by Thomas Gray is a paraphrase of Darraðarljóð.

Einar Selvik and Trevor Morris used stanzas from Darraðarljóð in the opening battle in season 2 of Vikings.

Darraðarljóð was set to music in a 1964 composition for mixed chorus and orchestra by the Icelandic composer Jón Leifs (Op.60). , it remains unperformed.

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My Belief: Essays on Life and Art

My Belief: Essays on Life and Art is a collection of essays by Hermann Hesse. The essays, written between 1904 and 1961, were originally published in German, either individually or in various collections between 1951 and 1973. This collection in English was first published in 1974, edited by Theodore Ziolkowski.

The essays
The essays were translated in 1974 by Denver Lindley with the exception of "From a Diary" and "Anti-Semitism" which were translated by Ralph Manheim. The book is divided into two parts and the essay titles, with the year they were written, follow.

Part One: Essays 1904–1961

 * "At Year's End" (1904)
 * "On Little Joys" (1905)
 * "Letter to a Young Poet" (1910)
 * "Old Music" (1913)
 * "Letter to a Philistine" (1915)
 * "Language" (1917)
 * "The Refuge" (1917)
 * "Concerning the Soul" (1917)
 * "Artists and Psychoanalysis" (1918)
 * "From My Diary" (1918)
 * "Fantasies" (1918)
 * "On Poems" (1918)
 * "The Brothers Karamazov, or The Decline of Europe" (1919)
 * "Thoughts on The Idiot by Dostoevsky" (1919)
 * "Books on Trial" (1919)
 * "Variations on a Theme by Wilhelm Schäfer" (1919)
 * "On Reading Books" (1920)
 * "A Poet's Preface to His Selected Works" (1921)
 * "About Jean Paul" (1921)
 * "Exotic Art" (1922)
 * "On Hölderlin" (1924)
 * "Postscript to Novalis, Documents on His Life and Death" (1924)
 * "About Dostoevsky" (1925)
 * "Our Age's Yearning for a Philosophy of Life" (1926, 1927)
 * "A Night's Work" (1928)
 * "A Virtuoso's Concert" (1929)
 * "The Magic of the Book" (1930)
 * "About Good and Bad Critics" (1930)
 * "My Belief" (1931)
 * "Gratitude to Goethe" (1932)
 * "A Bit of Theology" (1932)
 * "On Reading a Novel" (1933)
 * "From a Diary" (1933)
 * "Memories of Klingsor's Summer" (1938)
 * "Postscript to Steppenwolf" (1941)
 * "Favorite Reading" (1945)
 * "The Peach Tree" (1945)
 * "Dream Gift" (1946)
 * "Description of a Landscape" (1947)
 * "Mysteries" (1947)
 * "The Omitted Words" (1948)
 * "Happiness" (1949)
 * "On Old Age" (1952)
 * "Interpreting Kafka" (1956)
 * "Anti-Semitism" (1922, 1958)
 * "Joseph Knecht to Carlo Ferromonte" (1961)

I. European and American Literature

 * "Caesarius of Heisterbach" (1908)
 * "Giovanni Boccaccio" (1904)
 * "Casanova" (1925)
 * "Hans Christian Andersen" (1910)
 * "Walt Whitman" (1904)
 * "August Strindberg" (1909, 1949)
 * "Selma Lagerlöf" (1908)
 * "Maurice Maeterlinck" (1900)
 * "Romain Rolland" (1922, 1915)
 * "André Gide" (1951, 1933)
 * "Rainer Maria Rilke" (1928, 1927, 1933)
 * "D.H. Lawrence" (1933, 1934, 1930)
 * "Thomas Wolfe" (1933)
 * "J.D. Salinger" (1953)

II. Intellectual History

 * "Sigmund Freud" (1925, 1919)
 * "C.G. Jung" (1931, 1934)
 * "Jacob Burckhardt" (1935)
 * "Karl Marx" (1932)
 * "Henri Bergson" (1916)
 * "Count Hermann Keyserling" (1920)
 * "Oswald Spengler" (1924)
 * "José Ortega y Gasset" (1931, 1932)
 * "Leopold Ziegler" (1936)

III. Oriental History

 * "Introduction" (1929)
 * "Hinduism" (1923)
 * "The Speeches of Buddha" (1921, 1922)
 * "Chinese Literature" (1911, 1926, 1914, 1922, 1929, 1925)
 * "View of the Far East" (1959)

Background
Hermann Hesse was a professional writer and spent a substantial amount of his time reviewing books, assembling anthologies and writing essays. His essays are significant as they provide a glimpse of the man behind the novels that made him famous.

This collection contains most of Hesse's important essays except for the political pieces published separately in If the War Goes On ... (1946) and the autobiographical reminiscences published in Autobiographical Writings (1937). They were written over a period of almost 60 years and can be divided into three distinct groups: literary criticism, personal beliefs and cultural criticism.

Hesse's earliest essays revolve around narrow literary topics but become more philosophical and political in the 1920s to 1930s and finally the reflections of a man who has retreated from the strife of dialectics and now deals with such matters with greater detachment.

Prior to the 1970s, only a few of Hesse's essays have been available in English. "The Brothers Karamazov, or The Decline of Europe" and "Thoughts on The Idiot by Dostoevsky" were translated to English by Sydney Schiff and published in 1923 under the title In Sight of Chaos. This collection gives English readers access to an important side of Hermann Hesse's literary career and contribute significantly to the understanding of his fiction.

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Ladonia (micronation)

Ladonia (Ladonien) is a micronation, proclaimed in 1996 as the result of a years-long court battle between artist Lars Vilks and local authorities over two sculptures. The claimed territory is part of the natural reserve of Kullaberg in southern Sweden.

History
In 1980, artist Lars Vilks began construction of two sculptures, Nimis (Latin for "too much", a structure made of 75 tonnes of driftwood) and Arx (Latin for "fortress", a structure made of stone), in the Kullaberg nature reserve in north-west Skåne, Sweden. The location of the sculptures is difficult to reach, and as a consequence they were not discovered for two years, at which point the local council declared the sculptures to be buildings, the construction of which was forbidden on the nature reserve, and demanded that they should be dismantled and removed. Despite the confrontations with the local council, a large percentage of the local community supports the sculptures, especially people working in the tourism industry. Vilks appealed the decision of the council, but lost. He appealed repeatedly, and finally the case was settled, in the council's favour, by the Swedish government. However, in the meantime Nimis had been bought from Vilks by the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude after the death of Joseph Beuys, who bought it in 1984. On 2 June 1996, in protest of the local council, Vilks declared the area surrounding Nimis an independent, sovereign country named Ladonia.

In 1999, another sculpture, Omphalos (named after Omphalos, a small sculpture in the temple at Delphi, "marking the centre of the world"), was created. It was made of stone and concrete, 1.61 metres high and weighing a tonne. The Gyllenstiernska Krapperup Foundation, formed to promote art and culture, accused Vilks of building this sculpture and complained to the police, and in August 1999 the district court ordered its removal. The Foundation had also demanded the removal of Nimis and Arx, but the court ruled against it. The Foundation appealed this decision to the Supreme Court, who eventually ruled against it. The police were unable to positively identify Vilks as the sculptor, but the district court held that he was.

The removal of Omphalos was itself controversial. Vilks was ordered to find an acceptable way to remove the sculpture. He proposed blowing it up on 10 December 2001, Nobel Day and the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize, and applied to the county council for permission to do so. The county council made a decision on 7 December, but kept it secret until 10 December. By that time, another artist, Ernst Billgren, had bought Omphalos from Vilks, and had requested that it not be damaged. In the early hours of 9 December, a crane boat was sent (by DYKMA, under contract from the Enforcement Administration) to the site and removed the sculpture (at a cost of SEK 92,500, billed to Vilks). Despite the new owner's request, the sculpture was damaged by handling. In response to this, the Enforcement Administration was satirically declared to be "Performance Artist of the Year" in 2002.

Afterwards, Vilks applied to the county council again, this time for permission to erect a memorial in the place that Omphalos had stood. Permission was granted by the council to erect a monument no greater than 8 centimetres high. This was duly done, and the monument was inaugurated on 27 February 2002.

The ensemble Neurobash performed in Ladonia during the 10th Anniversary celebrations in 2006.

In August 2022, it was announced that Ladonia would be hosting MicroCon 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.

Government
The government of Ladonia is jointly led by a Queen and a President. The President and Vice-President are elected tri-annually, while the Queen, once crowned, reigns for life. the position of President is held by Interim-President The President's Old Shoes, and the Vice-President position is vacant, pending new elections in 2019. Vilks, the State Secretary, performs or oversees many of the day-to-day operations of the microstate, including processing new citizenship applications and posting photos and news items to the Ladonian online "newspaper". The Cabinet Ministers are the legislative body in Ladonia, and they participate in debates and vote on proposals via the Internet. Many Ladonian ministries have artistic connotations and whimsical names. As of 2018 the Cabinet of Ladonia has voted to amend the constitution to create the position of Prime Minister. The PM candidates will be nominated by and selected from current members of the Cabinet. The amendment abolishes the positions of President and Vice-President. This move was made as a way to prevent the election fraud that occurred in the previous election.

Regarding diplomacy of Ladonia's government the following can be noted. In 2008 the Ladonia Herald announced, through Vilks, that Ladonia recognized KREV, Tibet, the Bjorn Socialist Republic (another Swedish micronation, which recognizes Ladonia), Lakota nation, South Korea and universally recognized countries like, inter alia, Italy, Russia and United States. Regarding Sweden the "Ladonia has de facto recognized this country as 1) we are at war with Sweden, and 2) we have a consulate and have had an ambassador". Still, Ladonia did not believe that Sweden "really exists" as it "has never been proclaimed".

Demographics
When it was created, Ladonia had no population. As of 2020, there are 22,858 Ladonian citizens from more than 50 countries. None of the citizens resides within Ladonia's borders, although there has been at least one resident citizen in the past.

A comparison can be drawn between Ladonia accepting online citizenship applications and the e-Residency of Estonia. This virtual residency program shows how established nations may also adopt similar strategies to micronations, providing an example of what citizenship might look like in postnationalism. According to the Höganas Visitors Bureau, about 40,000 people visit Ladonia each year.

Nimis
Nimis is a series of wooden sculptures situated along the coast in the Kullaberg Nature Reserve, Höganäs Municipality, in the northern part of Skåne County, Sweden. They are a massive, wooden labyrinthine structure connected by several wooden towers, and are said to be mostly constructed from driftwood.

They were begun by the artist Lars Vilks in 1980 and have been the subject of a long-running legal dispute between the Swedish authorities and the artist. As no permission was given to build on the site within the nature reserve, the County Administrative Board in Skåne has sought to have Nimis demolished, despite the fact that it has become a popular tourist attraction.

As Nimis's existence is not sanctioned by Sweden, it is difficult to find – there are no official sign posts in Sweden, nor is it marked on maps. However, it can be found on Google Maps. It lies a few kilometres northwest of the town of Arild and somewhat farther from the town of Mölle, and can only be reached on foot following a well-worn path with yellow Ns painted on trees and fences. The path begins as an easy stroll past Himmelstorp, a well-preserved eighteenth-century farmstead, but quickly becomes a steep and rocky climb down to the coast. Reportedly, thousands of local and international tourists visit Nimis each year, especially during summer.

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History
It is widely known or can be found that Gourmet was first published in 1941. I have found on a site called Conde Nast Art, which sells images of their magazine covers, and it shows an image of a Gourment cover of January 1, 1941. I guess I'm wondering if I could include this as the official date and how would I cite an internet site trying to sell items? or would I? Srcrowl (talk)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ladonia (micronation)

 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. Golbez 21:59, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Ladonia (micronation)
Sigh. Delete all micronations. RickK 08:25, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)OK, I'll withdraw the nomination. RickK 19:53, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable and made up country (not part of any major work of fiction. Mgm|(talk) 08:34, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Changed vote to Neutral, based on evidence by Uncle G below. - Mgm|(talk) 14:29, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Destroy all micronations! And monsters too! --FCYTravis 08:35, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete all micronations. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 09:19, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Unlike many micronations, this micronation has made physical territorial claims which have been the subject of a 20-year-long court battle (compare Principality of Sealand), which was a partial defeat for Lars Vilks ; and has been the target of 3000 very confused Pakistanis applying for immigrant status .  Of course, the article tells told us none of this. This is not someone simply setting up a club on a web site, nor is it someone declaring a field to be an independent nation and then not telling anyone except Wikipedia about it. Real events have happened, real territory is involved, real people have been duped, and real structures have been physically removed by authorities at 4 o'clock in the morning. Weak Keep. Uncle G 13:58, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)
 * Keep, per Uncle G - real controversy in the courts, specific physical territory claimed. Not merely some idiot throwing up a website and calling it his country. -- BD2412 talk 15:46, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)
 * Keep per Uncle G, and thanks for the evidence. Kappa 18:35, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * keep; not vanity Brighterorange 18:37, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep though most micronations are just stupid, this one seems somewhat notable and could have a real claim. Sasquatch′↔Talk↔Contributions 23:35, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - Uncle G has shown that this is one of the few notable micronations. -- Jonel 02:37, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or move into Lars Vilks - Skysmith 08:04, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep without prejudice. —RaD Man (talk) 09:03, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .