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Copyright violations
Hi, I noticed you've been adding a few articles about various places. Each one that I've encountered so far has been a copyright violation. We cannot just copy someone elses work directly. See Copyright violation for more information. If you would like to replace the text with a description of the places in your own words, that would be a welcome addition to the the Wikipedia. If you have any other questions on this I'd be happy to answer them. Dismas 10:31, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

I agree
So what do I do now?? Shall I re-write the article in my own words.
 * Yes, just re-write the article in your own words and follow the instructions that are in the copyright violation notice. As it says on the notice "If you want to work on this article meanwhile, write a new article at the temporary subpage, and indicate that you have done so on this page's talk page."  If you write a new article on the sub page, it will be put in place of the copyright notice.  If not the page will be deleted and you can just create the page again with the new article.  Dismas 19:20, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Hyderabad
Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed your edit to Hyderabad and just thought I'd let you know that on disambiguation pages unneccesary wikilinks are generally not included. Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) has more info if you are interested. --Commander Keane 07:43, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

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Hyderabad, India and IT Industry
Naveenji,

About,. I agree with you, that its content was not upto the mark. As you may have noticed, that entire content was on Hyderabad page itself. I removed it from main page, and moved to this sub-article, so that interested parties can work on it. It may not be upto the mark, but we need to have it's link somewhere, so that its content does not come back to mainpage.

Chirag 16:06, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

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Image Tagging Image:GenomeValley2.jpg
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about your edits on hyderabad
Why have you placed back many of the contents that was moved to other Hyderabad related pages. The reason I removed them is to bring some sanity to the main page. The page is far from complete and yet gets reverted back to its old state... :( --h y dkat(talk to me) 20:00, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Actually, I don't mind you editing it... so please go ahead and change it to your hearts content... just make it look as good as your pictures. --h y dkat 07:00, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Holi Greetings...
HAPPY H O L I   TO YOU!

--h y dkat(talk back :) 20:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

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 * Hi, I Noticed the orphan bot has commented LB Staduim n all three pages it is present in. Since its one of the best images of the staduim I'm very keen to protect it from being deleted. We should get its copyright status cleared. --h y dkat(ballyhoo back :) 13:55, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

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title: User talk:Naveenji


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Talk:Suction

Vacuums
Vacuums do actually attract matter; matter is pushed into them by the higher pressure of surrounding air. Why is it that matter is pushed into vacuums, not pulled? All your base are belong to us 09:33, 31 May 2005 (UTC) Aha, of course... Thanks! All your base are belong to us 09:45, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Because there is nothing in a vacuum to do any pulling :) Kappa 09:39, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Why does suction happen ?

why suction port always larger in diameter than pressure port (In case of hydrulic pumps)?

"Gers"
What is "Gers" in relation to suction?

Should it be "gears"? Or, is this just some Gersois vandalism?

Thank You
Thanks to this article I now know that סניקה is "discharge". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.90.140.59 (talk) 11:26, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Sample video
The sample video does not demonstrate a vacuum from suction (see video description). Not sure what to replace it with. 62.232.179.170 (talk) 10:37, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

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Talk:Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf

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should it be added that he is a certified airline transport pilot?

Neutrality
"up until now he has been the most successful Mayor of Tehran ever, even though hardly supported by the administration of President Ahmadinejad." This sentence is not backed up by any citations or information which suggests that compared to previous Mayors he has outdone them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.216.29.208 (talk) 21:21, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

 * I've changed it to "Along with Gholamhossein Karbaschi, he has been referred to as one of the most successful mayors of Tehran, although he is hardly supported by the administration of President Ahmadinejad." Better? Khoikhoi 00:44, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

why the big deletion?
why this big deletion with no edit summary saying why? --BoogaLouie (talk) 19:39, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

That question maybe out of date. Tabarez is making many more edits --BoogaLouie (talk) 19:43, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

 * If you wait, then you can know what I did!!! Tabarez (talk) 19:49, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Propaganda alert
Nice job ruining his page with all that baseless filth from iranhumanrights.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shervin7 (talk • contribs) 09:05, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I made them invisible.Farhikht (talk) 09:40, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

 * Baseless? It was all recorded. You can hear him talk about it! http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2013/05/ghalibaf_tape/ BoogaLouie (talk) 16:35, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm wondering why this is only mentioned on his page. But his argument with Hasan Rohani about this issue on live debate is not mentioned at all. Plus Rohani's own page got nothing about this issue on it. This only shows certain people on Wikipedia are targeting Ghalibaf. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shervin7 (talk • contribs) 05:57, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

 * There is no conspiracy. His remarks to the basij are a campaign issue according to International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran adn the Guardian newspaper issue. -BoogaLouie (talk) 14:57, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Guardian article
Some part of this article is a copyvio of a paper of The Guardian. These parts should be rewritten or removed. Here is the link .Farhikht (talk) 15:46, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Promotional CV
This article use a language which is not encyclopedic, and in some parts is a promotional account of Ghalibaf's biography.Farhikht (talk) 10:29, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

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Steve Kramer

Steve Kramer may refer to:

 * Steve Kramer (actor), American voice actor for many anime titles
 * Steve Kramer (basketball) (born 1945), American basketball player
 * Steve Kramer, musician with The Wallets

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Talk:Eoin Colfer

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This article seems to be missing a lot of information. There is a long biography on www.eoincolfer.com that I think should be looked into. I'll add some but I would appreciate help from others too.

Shouldn't this article have another category attached to it? After all Colfer is a writer. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 12:49, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The Wish List wasn't published in 2001, but in 2003, according to its own wikipedia page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.97.124.201 (talk) 08:32, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

help
im doing a researh progect on Eoin Colfer and was wondering if anyone could give me a few links for some info

any help would be great

thank you -montablac go to google i think u can search lots of things there or yahooligan. And me i'm doing assignment on him too.

Some useful links for you: Artemis Fowl Confidential Eoin Colfer's Official Site Fowl Manor

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Suggestions
I think that there is way too much information on the Fowl series. I think this should be more of a bibliography then a review of Colfer's books. Even if it will look too minimalist with the book plot, etc. removed, but that can go into Artemis Fowl. What do you think?

Oh yes    you  are absolut  right about this. You can help me make a page of Colfer Books. Can You help me. Thank You.

Restructure
I moved the ideas and criticism behind Colfer's novels to the Works section; maybe I am wrong to do so, I don't know. Also, I think there should be minimal description of specific books (such as the Artemis series) on this bio page. That should be moved to Artemis Fowl. What do you think? User:Valerij

Drastic Change
The Artemis series description, "The main character, Artemis, from the Artemis Fowl series is a child prodigy and heir to a fortune gained largely through crime. At the onset of the series, his father (having unsuccessfully tried to go straight) is missing and his mother, distraught, is bedridden and suffers from nightmares and delirium. Artemis, naturally, does the responsible thing and formulates a fiendish scheme to boost the family fortunes (somewhat lessened in the elder Fowl's aforementioned ill-fated move towards legitimacy). Fowl Jr., along with his manservant and spookily-efficient bodyguard Butler set out to kidnap a fairy. The Fairies of myth and legend, who call themselves "The People" (Artemis deduces from some web-surfing) have been in hiding deep underground since the beginning of recorded history to stay out of mankind (the Mud Men)'s wars and environmental disasters. Not that Fowl would be interested but for the legends of gold at the end of rainbows. What Artemis finds, though, is that while fairies were out of sight they have largely replaced magic with advanced technology." It bothers me very much :) - I believe this should be in the Artemis Fowl, not in the author's bio. If people don't like my edit, you can always change it back ;) User:Valerij

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This may be confusing, as the nominator did not properly complete the nomination by placing the appropriate template on this talk page. However, the nomination listing was given on the candidates page. I have quick-failed the nomination, as the article contains not a single citation to the references, and the only reference is a list of published works. An article should have reliable, secondary sources, not just primary ones. This is especially egregious considering that this is biography of a living person, which demands the highest quality of sourcing in order to prevent possibly libellous claims. Please feel free to renominate the article once you have completed any necessary improvements. If you feel this decision was in error, you may seek a reassessment. Thank you for your work so far, Van Tucky  Talk 21:23, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Erm...
Wasn't Niall his brother? - =Elfin= - 341 07:22, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Nah...dont be a bastard User:tweetweehead —Preceding comment was added at 15:00, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Niall is his brother.
 * "'Eoin Colfer grew up in Wexford, Ireland, along with his four brothers, Paul, Eamon, Donal, and Niall '" Now who's the bastard who vandalized this page?--Valistar (talk) 02:20, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Probably his brother Niall...the bastard!--Tweetweehead (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 16:06, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Nobody is a bastard. Do not fool around boys. --173.178.93.250 (talk) 02:56, 1 March 2011 (UTC)__ ____

Fan Page
Eoin Colfer is an absolute legend that was born May 14, 1965 in Wexford, Ireland

It's things like this that give Wikipedia a bad name. This is not meant to be a fan page and, in fact, just makes a mockery of the author.

--Moz1916 (talk) 12:21, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

What the hell do  you mean .--173.178.93.250 (talk) 02:56, 1 March 2011 (UTC)__  __

Pronounciation?
If someone would be so kind as to tell me how to say his name? Darksamus8 (talk) 18:26, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Eoin is pronounced Owen - See his official site. Robina Fox (talk) 19:12, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Too much about Fowl, and too much like a fan has wrote it.
Although, I think most things are written by fans, yet it shouldn't sound like it. It all sounds too childish. Also, a hell of a lot on Fowl. Seems more like his bibliography than Colfers!

I will start rewriting it, trying to include everything that is already there, and some more. Some links to useful sites would be good, as I don't know a lot about his life etc. Help would be most appreciated.

Alan16 (talk) 17:54, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Useful
I grew up in a very creative household where it was normal to be creative," says musician Niall Colfer. "It wasn't a big deal." Niall's delightful 11-track debut solo album, Finds, has just been released on 1969 Records. He's also crafting the soundtrack to a documentary about his brother, Artemis Fowl author, Eoin. — Evening Herald. -- can  dle • wicke  03:51, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes So ? I do not getr what you are saying. You put informtion and I  think you should explain it to us. Thank you. --173.178.93.250 (talk) 02:54, 1 March 2011 (UTC)__

Background & Contact Info
I think this article is a little sparce in the way of personal information. All it is is a list of his books, basically. I can figure as much out by logging into my local library. I thought Wikipedia was supposed to be an encyclopedia. I believe that this article should be filled out a little more, e.g. a little more about his backstory, a little bit about his Artemis Rocks tours, a little bit about the Artemis Fowl books (for others' information I do not think that a paragraph about the Artemis Fowl series is too much to add because after all those were the books that created his fame and should be tributed as such). Also, I have been looking everywhere for some kind of contact information and I can't find it on his official websites, on the AF websites, or on here. I think that this article should at least give a way to reach him. 206.251.10.21 (talk) 05:14, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Not like    people  shall  give out personal   information  but yes. I think you are right. JabocJacobOhYeah (talk) 23:21, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

If You Want To Contact Him You Have To Interview HIm Or Something Like That.JabocJacobOhYeah (talk) 23:23, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

 * I added a bit of background about the Hitchhiker's book, but this needs more. I'd perfer if it didn't even have a list--instead, a paragraph explaining the inspiration, summary, publication, etc. Glimmeer721  talk 02:26, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Linking
WP:OVERLINK has "Avoid linking the names of major geographic features and locations, languages, religions, and common professions." Are we seriously catering for a readership which is unfamiliar with Ireland, so that we need to link Ireland? --John (talk) 09:22, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * WP:IRE-IRL from WP:IMOS, "When referring to places and settlements in the Republic of Ireland in the introduction to articles (and in elements such as info boxes), use Ireland not Ireland or Republic of Ireland ", both are valid forms of MOS. Ireland, the article is about the island. People are of states, the wikilink brings the reader to the state, someone would be from Haiti not Hispaniola. "Are we seriously catering for a readership which is unfamiliar with Ireland", well yes, the aim is to cater for many different levels of understanding and knowledge, not assume otherwise. I think from reading your comment you didnt know the difference between the name of the country and the name of the article of the country?Murry1975 (talk) 09:30, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Please link me to a project-wide consensus that "people are of states" and that Ireland should be an exception to our project-wide guidance on overlinking. Please show evidence that there is an encyclopedic benefit in pipe-linking the name of a country on every occasion it appears in an article on a novelist. --John (talk) 09:37, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * So people are from landmasses? I think you will find a state or country on every bio. And if you took the time to read the guideline you would know its not everytime. In the lead and infobox (and common sense should indicate the rest). Murry1975 (talk) 09:47, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Common sense, ah yes. To me, common sense would point out that Wexford has a link to Republic of Ireland, for those curious about the political status of this novelist's birthplace. And WP:OVERLINK embodies this project-wide "common sense". It's an interesting contention that there should be a link to "a state or country on every bio"; can you point me to a discussion where this supposed practice is discussed? Because I know that the opposite is true and that whenever this is discussed, thoughtful and experienced editors agree to avoid this type of overlinking. --John (talk) 10:00, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * John dont misqoute me, again doing so you are being a dick, where did I say "link to a state or country"? Again failure to read on your part. You can try to talk down all you like John, but you can either discuss it here or at IMOS.  Murry1975 (talk) 10:08, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

A Fowl Tale
Colfer did a short story called A Fowl Tale for Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy. It's missing from the page, but I didn't know where to put it... 120.61.175.177 (talk) 07:45, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

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Paul Miner

Paul Miner (born December 4, 1976) is a former bassist for Death by Stereo, he left the band in early 2005 (right before the band's fourth album Death for Life), to produce, engineer, master, and mix music full-time. Previously he produced and engineered the first three Death by Stereo records, which is probably why the band's fourth album Death for Life, was a noticeable departure from their regular sound.

Paul was also in a band called Kill The Messenger, which was also signed to Indecision Records.

Paul is the brother of Jim Miner, the original guitarist, who left the band during the recording of Death by Stereo's third album Into the Valley of Death.

Paul and his brother Jim recently reunited with Death by Stereo in 2006 to record their upcoming fifth studio album, entitled Death Is My Only Friend, which is due for release in 2009.

Miner began producing other bands in the 2000s; among his credits are recordings by Touché Amoré, This Moment, Avenue of Escape, Suburban Crisis, New Found Glory, H2O, Atreyu, Thrice, The Casualties, Underminded and Acid Rain.

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Rivers State

Rivers State, also known as Rivers, is a state in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria (Old Eastern Region). Formed in 1967, when it was split from the former Eastern Region, Rivers State borders include Imo and Anambra to the north, Abia and Akwa Ibom to the east, and Bayelsa and Delta to the west.The State capital, Port Harcourt, is a metropolis that is considered to be the commercial center of the Nigerian oil industry.

With a population of 5,198,716 as of the 2006 census and 7,492,366 in 2023, Rivers State is the 7th most populous state in Nigeria. Rivers State is a diverse state that is home to many ethnic groups: Ijaw, Ogoni, Ikwerre, Igbo, Ogba, Ekpeye, and Kalabari. The state is particularly noted for its linguistic diversity, with 28 indigenous languages and dialects being said to be spoken in Rivers State, these include Ikwerre, few Igbo languages, Ijaw (Okrika, Ibani) and Ogoni. Rivers State is the 26th largest state by area, and its geography is dominated by the numerous rivers that flow through it, including the Bonny River.

The economy of Rivers State is dominated by the state's booming petroleum industry. Although the rise of the oil industry has led to increased revenue for the state government, mismanagement and corruption have prevented the state from rapid development and meaningfully tackling poverty.

Rivers State is considered one of the fastest-growing states in terms of modern infrastructure and urbanization in the country.

Territory and status
Rivers State, named after the many rivers that border its territory, was part of the Oil Rivers Protectorate from 1885 till 1893 when it became part of the Niger Coast Protectorate. In 1900, the region was merged with the chartered territories of the Royal Niger Company to form the colony of Southern Nigeria. The state was formed in 1967 with the split of the Eastern Region of Nigeria. In 1996 the state lost territory to form Bayelsa State.

20th century
In the early days of the colonial period, several protection treaties were signed between various indigenous communities and the British colonial government. Between 1941 and 1952, agitation for the creation of Rivers Province began with the formation of the Ijo Rivers People's League. By 1953, the Council of Rivers Chiefs was birthed as a replacement body for the League, the same year, another organization, the Calabar Ogoja Rivers (COR) State Movement became existent.

The Council of Rivers Chiefs was later renamed in 1954 to Rivers Chiefs and People's Congress and in 1956, the organization became known as the Rivers Chiefs People's Conference. Until 1958, hopes of an independent state resonated with the region and lingered consistently in the minds of its natives. During the constitutional conference that year, the country's nationhood was affirmed while an agreement was reached on some measures to mitigate the fears of the ethnic minorities in the area. Around this time, the COR State Movement had broken away to press their case. Thereafter, the British launched a commission led by Sir Henry Willink to look into the misgivings of these autochthons. The Willink Commission initiated the conception of the Niger Delta Development Board (NDDB). The purpose was to tackle the problems of underdevelopment, however, this failed to rise to the expectations of the masses. After much discontent, some of the people attempted to take the extralegal route to achieve their goals.

In February 1966, Isaac Boro, Sam Owonaro and Nottingham Dick alongside their supporters proclaimed a "Delta People's Republic". The rebellion persisted for twelve days but was resisted by the Federal and the old Eastern Nigeria government. On 27 May 1967, under the administration of General Yakubu Gowon, Decree No. 14 was issued, allowing the creation of Rivers State. From then on, complaints about political marginalisation, environmental degradation and economic pauperisation remained among the Ijaw groups, such that a separate Bayelsa State was carved out of Rivers State by the military government of Sani Abacha on 1 October 1996 and Omuma Local Government Area of Rivers State was created on the same day to include communities such as Umuru in Ofeh.

Geography
Rivers State is a predominantly low-lying pluvial state in southern Nigeria, located in the eastern part of the Niger Delta on the oceanward extension of the Benue Trough. The inland part of the state consists of tropical rainforest, and towards the coast, the typical Niger Delta environment features many mangrove swamps. Rivers State has a total area of 11,077 sqkm, making it the 26th largest state in Nigeria. Surrounding states are Anambra for four km, Imo for about 122 km), and Abia for 87 km (54 miles, partly across the Imo River) to the north, Akwa Ibom to the east across the Imo River and Bayelsa and Delta to the west across the Niger River for about 50 km. On the south, it is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean. Its topography ranges from flat plains, with a network of rivers to tributaries.

Climate
Rainfall is generally seasonal, variable, as well as heavy, and occurs between March and October through November. The wet season peaks in July, lasting more than 290 days. The only dry months are January and February having little to no effect.

Total annual rainfall decreases from about 4700 mm on the coast, to about 1700 mm in the extreme north. It is 4698 mm at Bonny along the coast and 1862 mm at Degema. For Port Harcourt, temperatures throughout the year are relatively constant with little variation throughout the seasons. Average temperatures are typically between 25 and 28 °C. Some parts of the state still receive up to 150 mm of rainfall during the dry period. Relative humidity rarely dips below 60% and fluctuates between 90% and 100% for most of the year.

Terrain
The land surface of Rivers State can be divided into three zones: freshwater swamps, mangrove swamps and coastal sand ridges. The freshwater zone extends northwards from the mangrove swamps. This land surface is generally less than 20m above sea level. As a lower Niger floodplain, it contains a greater silt and clay foundation and is more susceptible to perennial inundation by river floods. The floodplain's total thickness rises to about 45m in the northeast and over 9m in the beach ridge barrier zones to the southwest.

On coastal sand ridges, the soils are mostly sandy or sandy loams. Various crops are supported including coconut, oil palm, raffia palm and cocoyam. The drier upland region of Rivers State covers 61% of landmass while the riverine areas, with a relief range of 2m to 5m, take up 39%.

Flora and fauna
Due to its geographical location, Rivers State has always played an important role in the natural history of Nigeria, having been found to host a vast array of wildlife and plants. Its tropical rainforests are home to more species than all other local biomes combined thanks to its climate and canopy structure. Some of the upland forested areas have seen disruption from human activity, impacting negatively on the biodiversity and ecological functions of natural habitats. In most places, the dominant vegetation usually consists of Elaeis guineensis which has the highest productivity amongst all recognized oleaginous crops.

The riverine part of the state has three hydro-vegetation zones such as beach ridge, salt water and fresh water. Each zone has its characteristics and composition, with the freshwaters encompassing the upper and lower floodplains of the Niger Delta.

Finima Nature Park is a protected area and forest reserve on Bonny Island covering an area of approximately 10 km2. The park's vegetation has progressively developed into a high forest considering the form from which it began in 1999. There are two storeys that can be distinguished from outside the forest, the emergents include Symphonia globulifera, Cleistopholis patens, Uapaca spp., Musanga cecropioides, Hallea ledermannii, Terminalia spp., Anthostema aubryanum, Tectona grandis and Elaeis guineensis. The understory is composed mainly of Calamus deeratus, Alchornea cordifolia, Monodora tenuifolia, Harungana madagascariensis, Strophanthus preussii, Rauvolfia vomitoria and Raphia spp.

The interior of the forest is very shady and as a result a wide variety of shade tolerant forbs (e.g. Nephrolepis biserrata, Culcasia scandens, Laportea spp., Chromolaena odorata, Aframomum melegueta and Costus afer) and various sedges form thickets on the forest floor. By dry season, a large cushion of litter cover the floor because of increase in abscission rate of some plants such as Musanga cecropioides, Hallea ledermannii, Calamus deeratus, Gmelina arborea, Raphia spp. and Elaeis guineensis.

Mammals, reptiles and amphibians are also found in the park. The common mammals are mona monkeys and pygmy hippopotamuses. Among the reptiles and amphibians are snakes and crocodiles, turtles, frogs, lizards, and skinks.

One of the world's Ramsar Convention-listed wetlands, Upper Orashi Forest, is a 252 km2 protected area in Ahoada West. It has been identified by BirdLife International as an IBA because of its importance to global populations of grey parrots and other birds. The Biseni Forest in the north west of Ahoada and west of Upper Orashi Forest have also been designated an Important Bird Area. The forest has an area of 219 km within which mammals like red-bellied monkey and yellow-backed duiker are found along with raffia palms and some woody broadleaved species such as Symphonia globulifera and Ficus spp.

Rivers
The state has many rivers. Notable rivers include:

 * Andoni River
 * Bonny River
 * New Calabar River
 * Nun River
 * Orashi River

Demographics
Over the period from 1991 to 2006, the total population of Rivers State increased by close to 3 million people. The last official census showed that 5,198,716 people were living in the state, of whom 2,673,026 were male and 2,525,690 were female. Adults and adolescents aged 15 to 64 years accounted for 61% of the population in the state. Children below the age of 15 accounted for 36% of the population, and those aged 65 years and above, another 3%. Port Harcourt and Obio-Akpor had the highest number of inhabitants of any local government area, while Ogu–Bolo and Omuma had the lowest. The total area of the state was 11,077 km2 and the density was 635.89 pd/km2.

According to the world population review (Population of cities in Nigeria), the capital city of Rivers state, Port Harcourt is ranked 4th on the list.

Rivers State has higher literacy rate compared to most states in the South South geopolitical zone. Its male literacy as of 2006 was 52.3% while female literacy rate was 47.7%. In the same survey, it ranked as 26th most extensive and the 6th most populous of all the states of Nigeria. A 2015 estimate put the number of residents of Rivers State at over 7 million, nearly triple the number recorded in 1991.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics projection, the population in the state was 4% of the total population of the country. Data of 2010–2015 showed life expectancies for male, 54 years and female, 57 years were very low. General mortality rate was 60 per 1000, under-5 mortality rate was 90 and maternal mortality rate was 889 per 100,000 live births, one of the highest nationwide.

Ethnic groups in Rivers State
Rivers state has a rich cultural-heritage, and its people are friendly and known for their hospitality. It is on record that Port Harcourt is the second biggest commercial, agriculture and busiest airport & seaports in Nigeria. Rivers state has two seaports situated in Port Harcourt and Onne.

Languages
As a multi-cultural, multi-tribal region, Rivers State has much to offer in its diversity of people. The area that makes up the modern state has been inhabited in one way or the other since the last year of the first millennium. The earliest known settled communities in what is now Rivers State include the Riverine Ijaw; Ogoni, Ikwerre people and other Igboid groups on the main-lands. Today, over 26 distinct groups are recognized by the Rivers State government, each with its own language, lifestyle, and cultural heritage.

Multilingualism is a part of everyday life for the population of Rivers State and most of Nigeria. English, inherited from colonial rule is common and widely spoken in various forms in different localities. Some indigenous Riverians are also bilingual, speaking a mixture of English or Pidgin English with one of the native languages. This is partly due to the frequent exposure of the younger generations to foreign dialects especially in the country's largest cities. Excluding Pidgin, all other ones spoken in the state belong to either Benue–Congo or Ijoid and Ogoni Languages within the Niger–Congo language family. The Benue–Congo is subdivided into Cross River, Igboid, and Edoid groups. The Ijoid languages are predominant around the creek belt, Ogoni languages - about 5 of them spoken across the southern parts of the state, Igboid group of language is spoken in Northern Areas of Rivers State.

Languages of Rivers State listed by LGA:

Economy
Rivers State has maintained its importance as a leading supplier of wealth to the nation for centuries. In 2021, the state ranked 2nd nationwide with a gross domestic product (GDP) of $51.529 billion and a per capita income of $5,949 (PPP).

Natural resources
The state is famous for its vast reserves of crude oil and natural gas. It was perhaps the richest and most important section of the African zone of the British Empire. Rivers State has two major oil refineries, two major seaports, airports, and various industrial estates spread across the land. More than 60% of the country's output of crude oil is produced in the state. Other natural resources found within its boundaries are silica, glass sand and clay.

Agriculture
Prior to the discovery of oil in commercial quantity in 1951, Agriculture was the primary occupation of the people of Rivers State. Around the 19th century when the industrial revolution reached its peak in England, the area was then referred to as Oil Rivers Protectorate, this was due to its abundant palm oil and kernel which basically constituted the main revenue source of the country. In a sample survey carried out by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, about 40% of the rural inhabitants were committed to farming in 1983. Rivers State is one of the leading states in the production of yam, cassava, cocoyam, maize, rice and beans. About 39% (760,000 hectares) of the state's total land mass, particularly in the upland area, is suitable for cultivation. Major cash crops produced are oil palm products, rubber, coconut, raffia palm and jute. Other crops grown for food include vegetables, melon, pineapples, mango, pepper, banana and plantain. The fishing industry is an important sector in Rivers State. Besides being lucrative, fishing is also a favourite past time activity. There are approximately 270 species of fish existing; with many artisanal fishermen in the riverine areas. The state provides valuable seafood such as crabs, oysters, shrimps and sea snails among others. Vertebrates like birds, mammals and reptiles are also found in the region.

Energy
Energy, and especially electricity is the key factor for economic growth. Rivers State has one of the nation's highest per capita energy consumption rates. As of 2012, it had a power generation capacity of 400 megawatts, a significant improvement over a meagre 30 megawatts during the late nineties. Its energy sector is protected by the government through legislation and funding. It is overseen by the ministries of Power, Energy and Natural Resources. The state's oil-refining capacity is the biggest in the country, with more than 340,000 barrels of crude oil per day.

There's a vast untapped potential in the state for solar power. Interest in solar energy has been increasing but not much has been invested. Up to now, energy production is insufficient to meet demand, resulting in frequent power outages, slow manufacturing and business performance.

Transportation
Transportation within Rivers State is mainly land and water-based. The industry has the Ministry of Transport as its chief regulating body. Apart from roads and waterways, there are functional airdromes that provide out-of-state transport. The sea ports contain harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land.

Federal highways are A2 the Elele-Alimini-Patani East-West Rd from Elele to Bayelsa State at Mbiama, A3 east as the Port Harcourt Enugu Expressway to Abia State and A231 north from A3 in Port Harcourt 42 km via Igwuruta and Omagwa to A2 in Elele.

Other major roads include
 * the Owerri-Ahoada Rd northeast to Imo State,
 * the Abua-Ogbia Rd north to Ahoada where the Ogura-Omoku Rd continues to Imo State,
 * the Rumuji-Mpakurche Rd northwest from Port Harcourt to the Rumuji-Elele Alimini Rd,
 * the Ulakwo Rd northeast from Olakwo to Imo State,
 * the Eberi-Obiga Rd north from Owaza to Abia State,
 * the Asa-Akwere-Obohia Rd east from Owaza to Abia State, and
 * the Alese Rd southeast from Port Harcourt to the Ikot Akan-Deyor Chara Rd across the Imo River at Kalaoko to Akwa Ibom State.

Taxicabs, buses and ferries dominate public transport. They are usually inexpensive and are often used for multi passenger pick ups. Commercial vehicles in Port Harcourt maintain sky blue, white and sky blue livery. Operating without these government-approved colors is punishable with a fine of ₦10,000.

The 1067 mm Cape Gauge Eastern Railway Line north from Port Harcourt to Aba in Abia State, built 1913-16, restored 2009-15.

Both domestic and international flights are available from Port Harcourt International Airport. Airlines such as Lufthansa, Air France, Qatar Air, Ethiopian Airlines, Med-View, Air Peace and Cronos link the state to destinations including Frankfurt, Paris, Lagos and Malabo. Passengers can easily get a taxi or rental car at the authorized vehicle area. Companies like Europcar, Avis and Hertz have offices near the airport. In addition, the Port Harcourt Air Force Base is located in the state capital. It gained popularity as a commercial destination due to the closure of the international airport. After that airport reopened, most airlines abandoned the base. However, it still has some destinations since the airport is closer to the centre than the main airport.

Seaports handle much more diversified import cargo activities than airports. The Port of Onne is one of the largest and busiest seaports in the country. Its mobile harbour cranes are one of the biggest in Africa, with a lifting capacity of 208 metric tonnes. Another important seaport is the Port of Port Harcourt. It was the second largest port in Nigeria in the 1950s. In 1954, it cleared about $54 million worth of imports and exports, while the shipping facilities at Calabar cleared $11 million worth of goods.

Water
The majority of Riverians obtain their water for household uses from vendors. There are also those who extract their water from private boreholes and wells and incur costs for the investment, maintenance, spare parts, pumping, and in some cases treating the water. Several others receive their domestic water from rainwater catchments, nearby streams or rivers. In the oil-bearing communities, many residents have easy access to basic infrastructure systems, although, most of the facilities are nonfunctional.

In the large urban localities such as Port Harcourt and Obio-Akpor, Port Harcourt Water Corporation handles the provision of urban water supply and wastewater management services for 15% of the population. A number of towns and villages with iron-contaminated H2O have resorted to treating one chemical contaminant with another. Most of the water collection in low-income urban residential areas is done by women. In 2008, NDHS reported that 26% of adult females collect drinking water more than adult male counterparts at 21%.

In order to improve access to safe, reliable, affordable, and sustainable water supply services, USAID, through its Sustainable Water and Sanitation in Africa program collaborated with the Ministry of Water Resources and Rural Development from April 2013 to June 2015.

Government and politics
The Rivers State government consists of elected representatives and appointed officials. The state government has executive and legislative branches, with an independent judiciary. At the local level, elected officials are responsible for local government areas.

Electoral System
The governor of the state is selected using a modified two-round system. To be elected in the first round, a candidate must receive the plurality of votes and over 25% of the vote in at least two-third of the state local government areas. If no candidate passes threshold, a second round will be held between the top candidate and the next candidate to have received a plurality of votes in the highest number of local government areas.

Executive
The executive branch is headed by the Governor, assisted by the Deputy Governor, both elected for a term of 4 years (maximum of 2 terms). The governor appoints commissioners responsible for each of the ministries and appoints the heads of parastatals, and the state-owned bodies with specific regulatory or administrative duties. In some cases, a governor may be replaced or removed for example, through death, impeachment or if an election is annulled by a competent court of law or by a two-thirds majority of the House of Assembly. The incumbent governor is Siminalayi Fubara a member of People Democratic Party, who heads the council of Rivers State. Fubara was sworn in on 29 May 2023. He is the 7th Democratic governor of the state and the 16th overall governor of River State

Legislature
The legislative authority in Rivers State is held by the state House of Assembly, which is made up of elected representatives from all constituencies of the state. Its functions at the state level are relative to those of the National Assembly at the federal level, creating laws for the good governance of the state, as well as acting as a check and balance on the powers and actions of the state's Chief Executive. The House of Assembly consists three times the total number of seats which the state has in the House of Representatives.

Judiciary
The judicial branch of the state government has sole authority and responsibility for the interpretation and application of the state's laws as well as the adjudication of disputes or controversies. It consists of eight courts: the High Court of Justice, the Magistrates Courts, the Customary Courts, the Juveniles Courts, the Revenue Courts, the Sanitation Courts, the Mobile Courts and Ports Related Offences Courts. It is governed mainly by the Chief Judge of the High Court of Justice. There are about 26 serving judges in the High Court of Justice, which comprises 10 Judicial Divisions including Port Harcourt, Ahoada, Degema, Nchia, Bori, Omoku, Isiokpo, Okrika, Okehi, and Oyigbo.

Federal representation
Elections are conducted every 4 years in which Riverian voters will directly elect 16 representatives to the Nigerian National Assembly. Those chosen are grouped into 3 senators representing Rivers South East, Rivers West, Rivers East and 13 representatives representing Andoni/Opobo/Nkoro, Obio/Akpor, Oyigbo/Tai/Eleme, Port Harcourt II, Etche/Omuma, Asari-Toru/Akuku-Toru, Okrika/Ogu–Bolo, Khana/Gokana, Port Harcourt I, Ahoada West/Ogba–Egbema–Ndoni, Abua–Odual/Ahoada East, Ikwerre/Emohua, Degema/Bonny. Since the advent of the Fourth Republic in 1999, the People's Democratic Party has usually held a majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Local Government Areas
Rivers State currently consists of 23 Local Government Areas (LGAs), all of which handle local administration, under an elected chairman. Each of the local government areas has its own administrative seat. They are:

Media

 * Rhythm 93.7FM
 * Raypower 100.5FM
 * International Magazine Subscription Ltd
 * RIVERS STATE BROADCASTING CORPORATION TV
 * Africa Independent Television [AIT].
 * NTA Channel 10, Port Harcourt.
 * Wish 99.5 FM
 * Today 95.1 FM
 * Naija FM 92.7 FM
 * Nigeria Info 92.3 FM
 * Wazobia 94.1 FM
 * FAMILY LOVE FM 97.7 FM
 * Radio Rivers 99.1 FM

Primary and secondary education
As at 1999, the state had 2,805 government primary schools and 243 secondary schools. The secondary schools are concentrated mainly in LGA headquarter towns and in Port Harcourt.

Colleges and universities
Tertiary institutions include:

 * Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic, formerly Port Harcourt Polytechnic
 * Eastern Polytechnic
 * Federal College of Education (Technical), Omoku.
 * Ignatius Ajuru University at Rumuolumeni, Nkpolu Oroworukwo and Ndele.
 * Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic
 * PAMO University of Medical Sciences, Elelenwo, Port Harcourt
 * Rivers State University.
 * University of Port Harcourt, Choba.

Political wards
There are three hundred and nineteen (319) wards in Rivers State.

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Mathew Pritchard

Mathew Pritchard (born 30 March 1973) is a Welsh professional skateboarder, stunt performer, celebrity chef, and triathlon athlete. He is best known as the star and co-creator of MTV UK's Dirty Sanchez. In 2019, he hosted the first BBC vegan cookery show, Dirty Vegan. He authored three cookbooks: Dirty Vegan, Dirty Vegan: Another Bite, and Dirty Vegan: Fast and Easy.

Early career
Pritchard worked for Globe Shoes for six years and later designed his own signature shoe, a Sleep When You're Dead model named after his motto. He began skateboarding at the age of 15. His first sponsor was City Surf skate shop in Cardiff.

Dirty Sanchez and Balls of Steel
Pritchard filmed the skating video Pritchard vs Dainton, in which Pritchard and Lee Dainton skated against, hit, and pranked each other. This formed the basis of Dirty Sanchez, an MTV stunt programme starring Pritchard, Dainton, Michael "Pancho" Locke, and Dan Joyce. This ran from 2003 to 2008, and in 2006 the four released Dirty Sanchez: The Movie, in which they traveled around the globe doing stunts and pranks that related to the Seven Deadly Sins. Pritchard was also involved in multiple spin-off series. Dainton and Pritchard hosted MTV's 2007 stunt-based game show Wrecked, and Sanchez Get High was a spin-off in which Pritchard and Dainton visited indigenous peoples and took traditional medicines. It aired on MTV in 2008.

Pritchard appeared with Locke as the "Pain Men" in 10 episodes of the Channel 4 game show Balls of Steel, which ran from 2005 to 2008.

Dirty Vegan
Pritchard became vegan in 2015 after watching Cowspiracy. In 2017, he launched a YouTube-based cookery series called Proper Vegan Cookin'. In 2019, he hosted Dirty Vegan, the BBC's first vegan cookery show. He also produced tie-in cookbooks for the series: Dirty Vegan and Dirty Vegan: Another Bite. His third book, titled Dirty Vegan: Fast and Easy, came out on 7 December 2023.

Other works
In 2018, BBC Wales filmed a documentary titled Wild Man to Ironman in which Pritchard performs a 14-day ironman challenge in Wales.

Personal life
On 7 September 2009, Pritchard was attacked with a set of keys in a supermarket in Toftwood, Norfolk, suffering serious stab wounds to his neck and chest. His assailant was jailed for five years in 2010, after being found guilty of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Mathew has a dog named Lemmy.

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Modest Altschuler

Modest (Moisei Isaacovich) Altschuler (February 15, 1873 – September 12, 1963) was a cellist, orchestral conductor, and composer.

He was born in Mogilev, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Belarus, into a Jewish family. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory and emigrated to the United States in 1893.

In 1903 Altschuler organized the Russian Symphony Orchestra Society of New York City, which for two decades toured the United States featuring performances and compositions by leading contemporary Russians. Among the Orchestra's notable premieres were Sergei Prokofiev Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10, which was performed at Carnegie Hall in New York on December 10, 1918 and Mussorgsky's Prelude to Khovanshchina, which Altschuler presented at Carnegie Hall on February 25, 1905. The Orchestra was among the first established orchestral ensembles to record for the gramophone; Columbia discs of short pieces by Tchaikovsky, Eduard Lassen and others date from about 1910. Nathaniel Shilkret, a member of the Orchestra, notes in his autobiography that soloists in the Orchestra included Mischa Elman, Josef Lhevinne, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Vassily Safanov. Shilkret also noted that the Orchestra "played for the great ballerina Pavlova and her partner Mordkin [1910]."

Despite his rigorous classical training, Altschuler was not averse to modernist experimentation. The Symphony's March 1915 New York premiere of Alexander Scriabin's Promethee: Le Poeme de Feu (Prometheus: The Poem of Fire) with Marguerite Volavy as pianist, featured a newly invented device, the chromola, which rendered musical tones in color.

After disbanding the orchestra on the eve of the first World War, Altschuler moved to California, where he built a notable reputation as a teacher and performer. With help from his cousin, film executive Joe Aller, he composed and performed in film scores, including The Sea Hawk (1924), Dawn to Dawn (1933), It's All in Your mind (1938), Buffalo Bill Rides Again (1947), and Song of My Heart (1948), He was also active in southern California's musical community. In 1926, he organized the Glendale Symphony Orchestra.

Altschuler founded a musical dynasty which includes his niece Eleanor Aller, his grand-nephew symphony conductor Leonard Slatkin, cellist Frederick Zlotkin, violinist Judith Aller, singer/songwriter Jody Cormack and composer Dylan Mattingly. Aller and her husband Felix Slatkin were principals in the Hollywood String Quartet one of America's most accomplished classical ensembles in the period 1947-1961.

Modest Altschuler died in Los Angeles on September 12, 1963.

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Mansooreh Hosseini

Mansooreh Hosseini (born 1 September 1926 – 13 June 2012) was an Iranian contemporary artist.

Life
At a young age, it was discovered that she had a talent for drawing, which compelled her father to hire a painting tutor to help her work to her potential. Later on, she was educated at the University of Tehran in the Faculty of Fine Arts, from which she graduated in 1949. Mansooreh left Iran in the early 1950s to live in Italy, where she furthered her education at the Rome Academy of Fine Arts leading up to her artistic début at the 28th (XXVIII) Venice Biennial in 1956.

After a moderately successful period in Italy, Mansooreh returned to Iran in 1959 and won several awards in the Tehran Painting Biennial. In 2004 she exhibited at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.

Styles
Mansooreh is known for having produced works in both figurative and abstract styles. Her works have often included elements of Kufic script. She is known, along with Behjat Sadr, to use traditional elements of both the Persian culture and that of contemporary Europeans. She is considered to be an experimentalist. She is a Permanent Member of Islamic Republic of Iran's Academy of Arts.

Writer
Mansooreh also wrote many art reviews in various Iranian media. In her critiques she was unbiased, informative, and analytic. For example, in her article Why exhibitions have no viewers? (reviewing Guity Novin's exhibition Expression of Silence), published in Kayhan in November, 1971, she observed that Iranian intelligentsia ignored important exhibitions such as the recently held exhibition of Henry Moore in the National Museum of Iran. She wrote: "A friend who was just back from Europe was asking me 'what’s the matter? Is it possible to see the original works by Henry Moore? This is the event of the century. We have to plan in advance for visiting such an exhibition, we have to be checked by electronic cameras, and security gourds that protect such treasures, etc.' and yet when I asked an icon of the Iranian modern poetry in the theatre of museum that 'have you visited Henry Moore’s sculptures?' He replied 'those torsos? ..yeh, but I thought they are your works?'" Then she moved to her critique of Novin’s work:"Expression of Silence, was a poetic designation for Guity’s exhibition in the Negar Galley." She concluded the article with her verdict: "There was a consistency in her selection of subjects -- a testament to perspicacious and enlightened character of the artist. The choice of colours, selection of gradation of hue, which explicitly used more-or-less the same tonality in all the works, revealed the story of artist’s unfaltering and inquisitive mind."

Death
Mansooreh Hosseini's body was found in her home by neighbours on 28 June 2012, 15 days after her death. She was 86 years old. Earlier in 2012 she was moved to hospital due to her heart disease and age.

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The Denial of Death

The Denial of Death is a 1973 book by American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker which discusses the psychological and philosophical implications of how people and cultures have reacted to the concept of death. The author argues most human action is taken to ignore or avoid the inevitability of death.

It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1974, two months after the author's death. It is the main work responsible for the development of terror management theory, which provides empirical support for Becker's ideas.

Table of contents

 * Preface
 * Chapter One: Introduction: Human Nature and the Heroic
 * PART I: THE DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY OF HEROISM
 * Chapter Two: The Terror of Death
 * Chapter Three: The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic Ideas
 * Chapter Four: Human Character as a Vital Lie
 * Chapter Five: The Psychoanalyst Kierkegaard
 * Chapter Six: The Problem of Freud's Character, Noch Einmal
 * PART II: THE FAILURES OF HEROISM
 * Chapter Seven: The Spell Cast by Persons - The Nexus of Unfreedom
 * Chapter Eight: Otto Rank and the Closure of Psychoanalysis on Kierkegaard
 * Chapter Nine: The Present Outcome of Psychoanalysis
 * Chapter Ten: A General View of Mental Illness
 * PART III: RETROSPECT AND CONCLUSION: THE DILEMMAS OF HEROISM
 * Chapter Eleven: Psychology and Religion: What Is the Heroic Individual?
 * References
 * Index

Note: Beginning with the 1997 printing, subsequent editions include a new foreword by Sam Keen.

Background
Becker himself claimed that: "In The Denial of Death I argued that man's innate and all-encompassing fear of death drives him to attempt to transcend death through culturally standardized hero systems and symbols."

A premise of The Denial of Death is that human civilization is a defense mechanism against the knowledge of our mortality. In turn, an individual's character is essentially formed around the process of denying one's own mortality, that this denial is a necessary component of functioning in the world, and that this character-armor masks and obscures genuine self-knowledge. Becker would later highlight, in his book Escape from Evil (1975), that much of the evil in the world was a consequence of this need to deny death.

Becker argues that a basic duality in human life exists between the physical world of objects and biology, and a symbolic world of human meaning. Thus, since humanity has a dualistic nature consisting of a physical self and a symbolic self, we are able to transcend the dilemma of mortality by focusing our attention mainly on our symbolic selves, i.e. our culturally based self esteem, which Becker calls "heroism": a "defiant creation of meaning" expressing "the myth of the significance of human life" as compared to other animals. This counters the personal insignificance and finitude that death represents in the human mind.

Such symbolic self-focus takes the form of an individual's "causa sui project", (sometimes called an "immortality project", or a "heroism project"). A person's "causa sui project" acts as their immortality vessel, whereby they subscribe to a particular set of culturally-created meanings and through them gain personal significance beyond that afforded to other mortal animals. This enables the individual to imagine at least some vestige of those meanings continuing beyond their own life-span; thus avoiding the complete "self-negation" we perceive when other biological creatures die in nature.

By being part of symbolic constructs with more significance and longevity than one's body—cultural activities and beliefs—one can gain a sense of legacy or (in the case of religion) an afterlife. In other words, by living up to (or especially exceeding) cultural standards, people feel they can become part of something eternal: something that will never die as compared to their physical body. This feeling that their lives have meaning, a purpose, and significance in the grand scheme of things i.e. that they are "heroic contributors to world life" and thus that their contributions last beyond their biological lifespan is what's referred to as an "immortality project".

Immortality projects are one way that people manage death anxiety. Some people, however, will engage in hedonic pursuits like drugs, alcohol, and entertainment to escape their death anxiety—often to compensate for a lack of "heroism" or culturally based self-esteem—resulting in a lack of contribution to the "immortality project". Others will try to manage the terror of death by "tranquilizing themselves with the trivial" i.e. strongly focusing on trivial matters and exaggerating their importance — often through busyness and frenetic activity. Becker describes the current prevalence of hedonism and triviality as a result of the downfall of religious worldviews such as Christianity that could take "slaves, cripples... imbeciles... the simple and the mighty" and allow them all to accept their animal nature in the context of a spiritual reality and an afterlife.

Humanity's traditional "hero-systems", such as religion, are no longer convincing in the age of reason. Becker argues that the loss of religion leaves humanity with impoverished resources for necessary illusions. Science attempts to serve as an immortality project, something that Becker believes it can never do because it is unable to provide agreeable, absolute meanings to human life. The book states that we need new convincing "illusions" that enable us to feel heroic in ways that are agreeable. Becker, however, does not provide any definitive answer, mainly because he believes that there is no perfect solution. Instead, he hopes that gradual realization of humanity's innate motivations, namely death, can help to bring about a better world.

Becker argues that the conflict between contradictory immortality projects (particularly in religion) is a major source of the violence and misery in the world such as wars, genocide, racism, nationalism and so forth since immortality projects that contradict one another threaten one's core beliefs and sense of security.

Some concepts and ideas
Throughout the book, Becker builds on the work of many writers and thinkers. Some of the more prominent of these include Søren Kierkegaard, Sigmund Freud, Norman O. Brown, and most notably, Otto Rank.

The concepts and ideas that Becker works with in The Denial of Death are wide-ranging. These ideas include, but are not limited to: mental illness, depression, schizophrenia, creativity, and neurosis.

Mental Illness
Becker concludes Part II of The Denial of Death with "A General View of Mental Illness" (Chapter 10). Here Becker offers a summary observation that "mental illness represents styles of bogging-down in the denial of creatureliness" that is part and parcel of immortality projects. Mental illness—especially depression—arises when this lack of connection to some meaningful project reminds us of our "creatureliness" and our mortality; and so represents a "malfunction of the symbolic animal".

Depression
At one extreme, people experiencing depression have the sense that their immortality project is failing. They either begin to think the immortality project is false or feel unable to successfully be a hero in terms of that immortality project. As a result, they are consistently reminded of their mortality, biological body, and feelings of worthlessness.

Schizophrenia
At the other extreme, Becker describes schizophrenia as a state in which a person becomes so obsessed with his or her personal immortality project as to altogether deny the nature of all other realities. Schizophrenics create their own internal, mental reality in which they define and control all purposes, truths, and meanings. This makes them pure heroes, living in a mental reality that is taken as superior to both physical and cultural realities.

Creativity
Like the schizophrenic, creative and artistic individuals deny both physical reality and culturally-endorsed immortality projects, expressing a need to create their own reality. The primary difference is that creative individuals have talents that allow them to create and express a reality that others may appreciate, rather than simply constructing an internal, mental reality.

Neurosis
In Chapter 9 of The Denial of Death, Becker discusses the concept of neurosis starting with Otto Rank's observation that "neurosis sums up all the problems of a human life." Becker elaborates on this, stating that "neurosis has three interdependent aspects":
 * "…neurosis refers to people who are having trouble living with the truth of existence; it is universal in this sense because everybody has some trouble living with the truth of life and pays some vital ransom to that truth."
 * "…neurosis is private because each person fashions his own peculiar stylistic reaction to life."
 * "…neurosis is also historical to a large extent, because all the traditional ideologies that disguised and absorbed it have fallen away and modern ideologies are just too thin to contain it."

Before he discusses each of these three aspects, taking them up one at a time in Chapter 9, Becker reiterates that: "'When we say that neurosis represents the truth of life we again mean that life is an overwhelming problem for an animal free of instinct. The individual has to protect himself against the world, and he can do this only as any other animal would: by narrowing down the world, shutting off experience, developing an obliviousness both to the terrors of the world and to his own anxieties. Otherwise he would be crippled for action.'"

Reception and legacy
Upon its publication in 1973, The Denial of Death was consistently reviewed and praised, and was awarded the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction two months after Becker's death. It has not gone out of print, and a special 50th anniversary edition was issued in 2023 with a new foreword by Brian Greene. In 2015, cultural historian Morris Berman observed that "Becker's exploration of the dialectical tension between the individual and the community has never been surpassed." The Denial of Death continues to be praised for its post-Freudian approach to psychoanalysis, although it has also been criticized for its reductive depictions of mental health and humanity.

The book helped to inspire a revival of interest in the work of the Austrian psychoanalyst Otto Rank.

In popular culture
The book has also had a wide cultural impact beyond the fields of psychology and philosophy. The book made an appearance in Woody Allen's film Annie Hall, when the death-obsessed character Alvy Singer buys it for his girlfriend Annie. It was referred to by Spalding Gray in his work It's a Slippery Slope. Former United States President Bill Clinton quoted The Denial of Death in his 2004 autobiography My Life; he also included it as one of 21 titles in his list of favorite books. The playwright Ayad Akhtar mentions it in his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced. The Car Seat Headrest album Teens of Denial draws inspiration from the book and references it in the lyrics.

The book was an inspiration to Mark Manson while he was writing his bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016): "from the very first outline" (says Manson), "I knew the last chapters would be about death and that Becker would be a big part of it."

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