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Francesca da Rimini (Tchaikovsky)

Francesca da Rimini: Symphonic Fantasy after Dante, Op. 32, is a symphonic poem by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is a symphonic interpretation of the tragic tale of Francesca da Rimini, a beauty immortalized in Dante's Divine Comedy.

Background
On 27 July 1876, Tchaikovsky wrote:

 * "This morning, when I was in the train, I read the Fourth [sic] Canto of Hell and was seized with a burning desire to write a symphonic poem on Francesca".

Later that summer, he visited Bayreuth to attend Der Ring des Nibelungen. He composed Francesca in Moscow in October and November. It is dedicated to his friend and former pupil Sergei Taneyev. It was first performed early in 1877 in Moscow in a concert by the Russian Musical Society, conducted by Nikolai Rubinstein.

Analysis

In this fantasia, Tchaikovsky presents a symphonic interpretation of the tragic tale of Francesca da Rimini, a beauty who was immortalized in Dante's Divine Comedy. In the fifth canto of Inferno, Dante the narrator meets the shade of Francesca da Rimini, a noblewoman who fell in love with the brother of her cruel husband. After the husband discovered the lovers and killed them, the lovers were condemned to Hell for their adulterous passions. In their damnation, the lovers are trapped together in a violent storm, whirled through the air around the second circle of Hell, never to touch the ground again. They are tormented most of all by the ineradicable memory of the joys and pleasures of the embraces they shared in life.

Of fantasias in general, Tchaikovsky wrote:

 * "...in the fantasia (The Tempest and Francesca, for instance) the form is totally unrestricted."

The work was influenced by his exposure to Wagner. Tchaikovsky wrote "The comment that I wrote that under the influence of the Nibelungs is very true. I felt it myself when I was working on it," adding "Is it strange that I should be subject to the influence of a work of art which in general I find very antipathetic?"

Immediately before writing Francesca, Tchaikovsky heard and reviewed Liszt's Dante Symphony, which is inspired by the same story, praising many aspects but noting it had little invention. Critics have contrasted the relative inventiveness of Francesca.

Contemporary critic Herman Laroche called Francesca "extraordinarily brilliant", noting that the "blinding play of the orchestral colors, inexhaustibly rich and incessantly changing, holds the listener from beginning to end as if held sway by some hallucination."

Later in his career, when he toured Europe conducting his work, Tchaikovsky regularly included Francesca in the program, for example in Paris in 1881, Berlin in 1889, and Cambridge in his last year of life. The Cambridge performance was on the occasion of the presentation of honorary degrees to several composers. Among them was Saint-Saëns, who wrote:

 * "Bristling with difficulties, Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini, which lacks neither pungent flavours nor fireworks, shrinks from no violence. In it the gentlest and most kindly of men has unleashed a fearful tempest, and has had no more pity for his performers and listeners than Satan for the damned. But such was the composer's talent and supreme skill that one takes pleasure in this damnation and torture."

The piece has a duration of around 25 minutes. Catherine Coppola has published an academic analysis of the work.

Instrumentation
The music is scored for 3 flutes (third doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in A, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 cornets in A, 2 trumpets in E, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, tam tam, harp and strings.

Sections and synopsis
This symphonic poem has an introduction and three parts.
 * In the introduction, the basses and the wind section of the orchestra open in dark tones suggesting the beginning of Dante's Inferno, where the author is astray from the right path into somber woods.
 * As the music continues into the first section, the horror felt by Dante is portrayed in the music as he walks in deeper and deeper into the first circles of Hell.
 * In the second section, the tempo picks up, the narrative takes the audience into the second circle, where Dante finds, amongst others, such as Tristan and Isolde, Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini (née da Polenta) trapped together in a violent storm, whirled through the air around, violently crushed against ragged stone walls for eternity.
 * In the third section, the music subsides, depicting Dante's request to speak with the doomed lovers (depicted by a solo clarinet), who recount their story of how Francesca was unwittingly married by proxy to Gianciotto Malatesta, Paolo's older, cruel and unattractive brother; the music continues to depict how they were unable to resist their fleshly attraction for each other and succumbed to their passion while reading a passage of the story of Queen Guinevere and Sir Lancelot [another pair of equally doomed lovers], depicted by the wind section supported by the strings in the moments of highest passion. The music also depicts the moment of their murder at the hands of Gianciotto, depicted by fast playing bassi and cymbals, followed by sombre horns in a requiem like theme. After their tale is over, the final section starts, depicting the eternal punishment that continues once more, leaving Dante (and the audience) in a state of shock depicted by the ominous tutti of the orchestra.

Notable recordings

 * Yevgeny Mravinsky, Leningrad Philharmonic (three recordings, 1948, 1972 and 1983)
 * Leopold Stokowski, New York Stadium Symphony Orchestra (the summer name for the New York Philharmonic) and the London Symphony Orchestra
 * Antal Doráti, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
 * Sir John Barbirolli, recording with the New York Philharmonic and with the New Philharmonia Orchestra
 * Mstislav Rostropovich, London Philharmonic Orchestra
 * Daniel Barenboim, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
 * Sir Antonio Pappano, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
 * Mariss Jansons, Oslo Philharmonic
 * Yevgeny Svetlanov, State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation
 * Bernard Haitink, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
 * Yuri Temirkanov, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
 * Vladimir Fedoseyev, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra
 * Seiji Ozawa, Berlin Philharmonic
 * Neeme Järvi, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
 * Leonard Bernstein, two recordings with the New York Philharmonic, and one with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
 * Leonard Slatkin, St. Louis Symphony
 * Christoph Eschenbach, recordings with the Houston Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra
 * Carlo Maria Giulini, Philharmonia Orchestra
 * Igor Markevitch, recordings with the New Philharmonia Orchestra and the Orchestre Lamoureux, Paris.
 * Charles Munch, recordings with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
 * Riccardo Muti, Philadelphia Orchestra
 * Gennady Rozhdestvensky, recordings with the Leningrad Philharmonic, and the USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra

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Scott Fry

Vice Admiral Scott Allen Fry (born Bellefonte, Pennsylvania), is a former Director of the Joint Staff for the United States Department of Defense, who previously served as commander of the Sixth Fleet.

Before selection to flag rank, he served as the executive assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations, and tours as division officer, department head, and executive officer aboard the USS McCloy (FF-1038), USS Grand Rapids (PG-98) and USS Julius A. Furer (FFG-6), and on the staff of Commander Destroyer Squadron 4.

Naval career
Fry attended public schools in Dallas, Pennsylvania, and entered the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1967. Upon graduation, Fry was commissioned as a naval officer in June 1971. His initial assignment, beginning July 1971, was aboard the USS McCloy (FF-1038) as Communications Officer, where he served until September 1973. He next served as executive officer aboard the USS Grand Rapids (PG-98), homeported in Naples, Italy, from January 1974 to December 1975.

After additional training, he served as operations officer aboard the USS Julius A. Furer (FFG-6) from October 1976, until August 1978. From August 1978, to March 1980, he served on the staff of commander, Destroyer Squadron Four in Charleston, South Carolina. From March, 1980, to March, 1983, Fry was assigned to the Bureau of Naval Personnel, serving as Cruiser/Destroyer Atlantic Fleet Placement Officer and Assistant Surface Captain Detailer. From August 1983, until July 1985 he returned to serve aboard the McCloy as commanding officer. From August, 1985, to May 1986, he served as the Third Battalion Officer, stationed at the United States Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland, then served as executive assistant to the superintendent of the academy, until September, 1988.

From October 7, 1988 until November 2, 1990, Fry was the commander on board the USS Conolly (DD-979), after which he served as an executive assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Washington, D.C. until June, 1992. From July, 1992, through September, 1993, he was the Commander of Destroyer Squadron 32. By October 1993, Fry returned to Naples, becoming the executive assistant to the Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe/Allied Forces Southern Europe.

Flag rank
In April, 1994, he returned to Washington, D.C., as executive assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations. From June, 1995 to July, 1997, he served as deputy director for strategy and policy, as a joint staff officer.

In August, 1997, Fry returned to sea as commander of Cruiser-Destroyer Group 8, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) Battle Group, leading a Mediterranean/Persian Gulf deployment from June 1998 until that November, when he became director for operations, Joint Staff.

Fry's final assignment, as commander of Naval Striking and Support Forces Southern Europe, began in October, 2001, shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks. He retired from active duty in 2003.

He is married, and he and his wife have three daughters, three grandsons, and two granddaughters.

Biographical information

 * DD979.com – Vice Admiral Scott A. Fry, U.S. Navy, Commander Naval Striking and Support Forces Southern Europe (biographical info)
 * NDU.edu – Vice Admiral Fry
 * NATO.int – Commander, Naval Striking and Support Forces Southern Europe (COMSTRIKEFORSOUTH): Vice Admiral Scott A. Fry, U.S. Navy' (August 18, 2003)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Crohn's quest

 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 delete. — Xezbeth 19:18, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

Crohn's quest
Although I support any effort to cure disease, this isn't the place to advertise for this. Neither is it notable: Google shows no results.  Barfooz  (talk)  03:50, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete too recent, theyre planning to do things that might be notable enough for an article but havent done them yet. if some of their plans come off, maybe it'll warrant an article then. Nateji77 14:49, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: An announcement for an unfortunately-named organization (King's Quest to Crohn's Quest?), and they have not yet achieved uniformity or unifying the efforts. Geogre 15:55, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. ··gracefool |☺ 02:04, 4 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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Talk:Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)

Game Boy Color Version
I know that the First Game varied from the GBC to GBA... where there any of the same differences here? The article did not even mention the GBC version...

Original Playstation version?
I believe this game was also available for the original Playstation. Anyone have any details on this?

Table
I'm quite new to Wikipedia but i suggest we have a table like we do on Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bottomlivefan95 (talk • contribs) 16:17, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Computer Game
Anyone else know that there is also a computer game (in disk form) for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets? As far as I know, this goes the same for Sorcerer's Stone/Philosopher's Stone and Prizoner of Azkaban. Should this be mentioned? 98.21.141.148 (talk) 22:26, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

yes i know. but in order to win the whole game, you must debug the game right? this should be in the article. this debugging thing goes to lightningclan4444 from youtube.

Versions
I've added a section "Versions" that summarises all games I've found with the title. Since this article's title is "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)" and not platform-specifc, it should summarise all the known versions. --Philcha (talk) 09:00, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

No Reception Section
There is no Reception Section, just a chart showing the average score of different versions of the game on Metacritic and a discussion on the the differences between the versions. -Zyrath 03:04, 11 November 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zyrath (talk • contribs)

Spells section is a bit misleading.
Someone needs to split them up because not all of these spells are available in all versions of the game. Like in the PS1 version, you don't learn Alohamora, Diffindo or Lumos. 119.224.27.62 (talk) 01:56, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Mac score
The article states that the Metacritic score for the Mac version of this game is 73%, however there's no mention of the game for Mac on the Metacritic site. The other source that the article uses, IGN's UK site, didn't review the Mac version of the game, either. Unless I'm missing something, that 73% seems to have come from somewhere else.--96.60.175.237 (talk) 05:21, 1 July 2012 (UTC)


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Name spellings
There doesn't seem to be any evidence about how names are spelt in this game, so for some of the European names I've tried to put in more usual spellings or ones mentioned elsewhere, but obviously this is open to amendment. (I'm not entirely sure why at one point these were edited back, some of them to quite odd phonetic spellings such as Bouwsheeay instead of the usual French name Bougier which is pronounced the same way). However, if anyone's got any evidence about how the names should be spelt it would be handy. Tobelia 17:01, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

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Hebrew Gospel

Hebrew Gospel can refer to:

 * Gospel of the Hebrews, a syncretic Jewish–Christian text believed to have been composed in Koine Greek
 * Hebrew Gospel hypothesis, traditions of a version of Matthew's gospel supposed to have been written by him “in the Hebrew language” (Papias)
 * Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, 1385, a rabbinical translation of Matthew's gospel
 * Bible translations into Hebrew, including a translation of the Gospels into Modern Hebrew

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Steve Cohen (businessman)

Steven A. Cohen (born June 11, 1956) is an American hedge-fund manager and owner of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball since September 14, 2020, owning just over 97% of the team. He is the founder of hedge fund Point72 Asset Management and S.A.C. Capital Advisors, which closed after pleading guilty to insider trading and other financial crimes.

In 2013, the Cohen-founded S.A.C. Capital Advisors pleaded guilty to insider trading and agreed to pay $1.8 billion in fines ($900 million in forfeiture and $900 million in fines) in one of the biggest criminal cases against a hedge fund. Cohen was prohibited from managing outside money for two years as part of the settlement reached in the civil case over his accountability for the scandal. The hedge fund agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud and four counts of securities fraud and to close its doors to outside investors.

Cohen loosely inspired the character Bobby Axelrod, played by Damian Lewis, on the Showtime series Billions.

Early life and education
Cohen grew up in Great Neck, New York, where his father was a dress manufacturer in Manhattan's garment district and his mother was a piano teacher. He grew up in a Jewish family. He is the third of seven brothers and sisters. He took a liking to poker as a high school student, often betting his own money in tournaments, and he credits the game with teaching him "how to take risks." Cohen graduated from John L. Miller Great Neck North High School in 1974, where he played on the school's soccer team.

Cohen received an economics degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. While in school, Cohen was initiated as a brother of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity's Theta chapter, where he served as treasurer. While at Penn, a friend helped him open a brokerage account with $1,000 of his tuition money.

Gruntal & Co. (1978–1992)
In 1978, after graduating from Penn, Cohen got a Wall Street job as a junior trader in the options-arbitrage department at Gruntal & Co. On his first day on the job at Gruntal & Co., he made an $8,000 profit. He eventually would go on to make the company around $100,000 a day and eventually managed a $75 million portfolio and six traders. Cohen was running his trading group at Gruntal & Co. by 1984 and continued running it until he started his own company, SAC Capital, in 1992.

Throughout the late 1980s, the Securities and Exchange Commission became suspicious that Cohen had used inside information in December 1985 when he bet that RCA and GE would merge, ahead of the announcement. The SEC called him to testify, but he refused to answer any questions, invoking his right against self-incrimination. Then, the SEC started looking into his other investments from the same period, especially those involving Brett K. Lurie. However, Cohen was not charged with insider trading.

S.A.C. Capital Advisors (1992–2016)
In 1992, Cohen started S.A.C. Capital Advisors with $10 million of his own money and another $10 million from outside capital. The company's name, 'SAC Capital', is derived from Steven A. Cohen's initials.

In 2003, the New York Times wrote that "SAC is one of the biggest hedge funds and is known for frequent and rapid trading." In 2006, The Wall Street Journal reported that, while Cohen was once a rapid-fire trader who never held trading positions for extended periods, he now held an increasing number of equities for longer periods.

As of 2009, the firm managed $14 billion in equity.

Racketeering and insider trading charges
In December 2009, Cohen and his brother Donald T. Cohen were sued by Steven's ex-wife Patricia Cohen for racketeering and insider-trading charges. On March 30, 2011, the United States District Court in Lower Manhattan dismissed the case, but, on April 3, 2013, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled that a lower court had erred in dismissing fraud-based claims by his former spouse and revived the lawsuit. The appeals court also revived claims of racketeering and breach of fiduciary duty while upholding the dismissal of an unjust-enrichment claim.

Writing for a three-judge panel, Circuit Judge Pierre N. Leval said that Patricia Cohen had made a "plausible" allegation that Steven Cohen had concealed the $5.5 million during negotiations on a separation agreement in 1989, which preceded the divorce. The revival of the lawsuit came amid mounting pressure on Steven Cohen over an insider-trading investigation that led to the arrest of Michael Steinberg, one of Cohen's closest confidantes at SAC Capital. SAC affiliates reached two civil insider trading settlements totaling nearly $616 million with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. SAC neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing in either case.

SEC investigation (2012–2016)
On November 20, 2012, Cohen was implicated in an alleged insider trading scandal involving an ex-SAC manager, Mathew Martoma. The SEC brought charges against many other S.A.C. employees from 2010 to 2013 with various outcomes. Martoma was convicted in 2014, in what federal prosecutors billed as the most profitable insider-trading conspiracy in history. The SEC later brought a civil lawsuit against Cohen, alleging his failure to supervise Martoma and Michael Steinberg, who was a senior employee and confidant of Cohen's. Cohen settled his civil case with regulators in January 2016; the agreement with the SEC prohibited Cohen from managing outside money until 2018.

S.A.C. Capital Advisors "pleaded guilty to insider trading charges in 2013 and paid $1.8 billion in penalties" and was required to stop handling investments for outsiders. Cohen "escaped criminal indictment himself despite being the living, breathing heart of S.A.C. Capital." He was featured in January 2017 The New Yorker article titled "When the Feds Went After the Hedge-Fund Legend Steven A. Cohen".

Point72 Ventures (2014–present)
In 2014, Cohen founded Point72 Ventures, "a venture capital fund that makes early-stage investments".

GameStop short squeeze
In January 2021, Cohen's hedge fund Point72 joined Ken Griffin's Citadel in putting $2.75 billion into Melvin Capital, the hedge fund of former Cohen protege Gabe Plotkin, as a result of the GameStop short squeeze. Cohen denied that his involvement with the short squeeze would affect his willingness to spend money on the New York Mets. Cohen deactivated his Twitter account on January 29, 2021, due to an influx of threats against him and his family.

Cohen is portrayed by Vincent D'Onofrio in the 2023 film Dumb Money, a biographical drama covering the short squeeze.

Wealth
In 2016, Forbes Magazine estimated Cohen's fortune at $13 billion, ranking him the 30th richest person in the United States. Cohen was dubbed "the hedge fund king" in a 2006 Wall Street Journal article. His 2005 compensation was reportedly $1 billion, considerably higher than his 2001 compensation of $428 million. In February 2015, Forbes listed Cohen as the highest-earning hedge-fund manager in 2014. In December 2013, Cohen's New York penthouse in the Bloomberg Tower was listed with an initial sale price of $115 million. According to Institutional Investor, Cohen made an estimated $1.7 billion in 2020.

New York Mets
Cohen became a minority owner of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB) in 2012, with an 8% stake in the club. In August 2020, Cohen had entered negotiations with Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz to buy a controlling interest in the team before reaching an agreement the following month. MLB approved the sale in October 2020, allowing Cohen to take control in November.

Philanthropy
Cohen has given $715 million to philanthropic causes throughout his life, including to charitable causes relating to veterans and children's health.

Cohen serves on the board of trustees of the New York-based Robin Hood Foundation.

Via the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, the Cohens have donated to projects involved in health, education, arts and culture, and the New York community. In 2014, the Cohen Foundation provided funding, via the New York University Langone Center, for the study of post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury. The foundation gave a grant in excess of $100,000 to the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science in 2014. In 2019, the foundation contributed $50 million of the more than $400 million raised for the New York Museum of Modern Art. The museum announced in 2017 that MoMA's largest contiguous gallery will be called the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions. Cohen is on the board of the MoMa and LA MOCA.

In April 2016, Cohen announced the creation and a commitment of $275 million to the Cohen Veterans Network. The CVN's goal is to establish mental-health centers for veterans and their families throughout the United States. The goal was the establishment of 20–25 centers by 2020.

Cohen Veterans Bioscience, also funded by Cohen, conducts research into the effects of posttraumatic stress disorder on combat veterans.

Politics
In 2015, Steven Cohen and his wife, Alexandra, donated $2.25 million to a Super PAC called America Leads that supported Chris Christie's presidential candidacy.

In 2017, Cohen contributed $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration.

In 2021, Cohen donated $500,000 to a Super PAC supporting Andrew Yang's candidacy in the 2021 New York City Democratic mayoral primary, and a further $1.5 million to a Super PAC supporting Eric Adams.

Art collection
Cohen's art collection is reported to be worth around $1 billion.

The New York Times reported that Cohen began seriously collecting art in 2000. Cohen's tastes and collection began with Impressionist painters, acquiring works by Manet and Monet, after which he moved quickly into contemporary art.

While he has collected works from important emerging artists such as Adam Pendleton, he is most famous for collecting 'trophy' art, signature works by famous artists, including a Pollock drip painting from David Geffen for $52 million and Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a piece that the artist had bought back from Charles Saatchi for $8 million.

In 2006, Cohen attempted to make the most expensive art purchase in history when he offered to purchase Picasso's Le Rêve from casino mogul Steve Wynn for $139 million. Just days before the painting was to be transported to Cohen, Wynn, who suffers from poor vision due to retinitis pigmentosa, accidentally thrust his elbow through the painting while showing it to a group of acquaintances inside of his office at Wynn Las Vegas. The purchase was canceled, and Wynn kept the painting until early November 2012, when Cohen finally acquired the painting for $150 million.

In May 2019, Cohen bought Jeff Koons's Rabbit for $91.1 million; the purchase was made through Robert Mnuchin and was the most expensive work sold by a living artist at auction at the time.

Cohen owns or has owned artworks by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Giacometti, Willem de Kooning, Jeff Koons, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol. In 2015, he reportedly bought the world's most expensive sculpture, Alberto Giacometti's Man Pointing. In November 2015, his art collection was estimated to be at about $1 billion. Cohen is reportedly building a private museum for some of his artwork on his Greenwich property. Cohen had also placed Marc Quinn's Self, a head sculpture made of frozen blood, in the SAC lobby.

Legacy and awards
In 2008, he was inducted into the Institutional Investors Alpha's Hedge Fund Manager Hall of Fame along with Alfred Jones, Bruce Kovner, David Swensen, George Soros, Jack Nash, James Simons, Julian Robertson, Kenneth Griffin, Leon Levy, Louis Bacon, Michael Steinhardt, Paul Tudor Jones and Seth Klarman.

Personal life
Cohen has been married twice. In 1979, he married Patricia Finke, a New York native from a working-class background who grew up in the Washington Heights, Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. They have two children together. They divorced in 1990.

In 1991, Cohen met Alexandra "Alex" Garcia, a single mother of Puerto Rican descent. Garcia grew up in Washington Heights, moving there from her original home in the projects of Harlem. They met through a dating service and was described, according to an acquaintance, as someone who had "always wanted to marry a millionaire". Garcia, a longtime Mets fan, has taken an active role in the Mets since Cohen purchased the team, and is listed as an owner along with Cohen. She currently serves as the president of the Amazin’ Mets Foundation, the team's associated charity. In 1998, Cohen purchased a 35000 sqft home on 14 acre in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Stanley (1956 TV series)

Stanley is an American sitcom starring Buddy Hackett, Carol Burnett, and the voice of Paul Lynde. It aired on NBC-TV from September 24, 1956, to March 11, 1957, during the 1956–1957 television season. It was produced by Max Liebman, who previously produced Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, co-sponsored by American Tobacco (Pall Mall cigarettes) and The Toni Company (Bobbi Home Permanent, Pamper Shampoo).

Plot summary
Stanley revolved around the adventures of the namesake character (Hackett) as the operator of a newsstand in a posh hotel in New York City, the Sussex-Fenton. Burnett played his girlfriend Celia, and Lynde voiced the unseen hotel owner Mr. Fenton, who never appeared on camera but frequently could be heard giving orders to his staff.

In the show's introduction, the following line was recited: "You think you've got troubles. Stanley, he's got troubles!"

Broadcast history
As was the case with several such programs (but a declining number, even at this early stage of network television), Stanley was aired live. The complete run of the series, preserved on kinescope film, is known to exist and the show is available via streaming and has been released on DVD. The program aired on Monday nights at 8:30 pm EST opposite the popular Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts on CBS and the long-running The Voice of Firestone on ABC. After 19 weeks of low ratings, Stanley was canceled mid-season and replaced by Tales of Wells Fargo, a western which ran on NBC for the next five and a half years.

Home media
In the early 2010s, the full 19 episode series was digitally re-mastered and released on a 3-disc DVD set by Stanley Productions, LLC. It is currently also available for download and streaming via Amazon.

Cast

 * Buddy Hackett as Stanley Peck
 * Carol Burnett as Celia
 * Paul Lynde as Horace Fenton (voice only)
 * Reedy Talton as Marvin
 * Frederic Tozere as Mr. Phillips
 * Jane Connell as Jane

On February 16, 1964, Hackett and Burnett were reunited on CBS-TV's What's My Line? A blind-folded Hackett recognized his former co-star's voice who appeared as that evening's mystery guest. After briefly discussing their short-lived roles on Stanley, Buddy exclaimed "That's the one the Nielsen guy threw off the air for us!" This was a reference to the show's first guest that evening who signed in as "Mr. X". He was actually A.C. Nielsen Jr. who headed Nielsen Media Research.

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Amazonas Department

Amazonas Department may refer to:

 * Amazonas (Colombian department), the Colombian department of Amazonas
 * Amazonas (Peruvian department), the Peruvian department of Amazonas
 * Department of Amazonas (Peru–Bolivian Confederation), the department of Amazonas in the extinct Peru-Bolivian Confederation

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Point72 Asset Management

Point72 Asset Management is an American hedge fund. It was founded in 2014 by Steve Cohen, after his previous company S.A.C. Capital Advisors pled guilty to insider trading charges.

In 2018, the company reopened to external investors after a two-year ban and began accepting outside capital. The company's office is located in Stamford, Connecticut.

2014 to 2019
Point72 was founded in 2014 by Steve Cohen as the successor to SAC Capital, after the firm pled guilty to federal insider trading charges and paid a $1.8 billion fine. In March 2014, SAC Capital transferred the bulk of its assets to Point72 and was placed in "run-off," or a winding-down of its operations.

Vincent Tortorella was hired as chief surveillance officer, and Kevin J. O’Connor was hired as an in-house attorney.

In August 2014, Douglas D. Haynes was appointed president and Timothy Shaughnessy was appointed CEO. Shaughnessy retired in 2018 and was replaced by Gavin O'Connor, who joined the firm from Goldman Sachs.

There are satellite offices in New York City, West Palm Beach, Palo Alto, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, London, Paris, Sydney, and Warsaw.

2020 to present
In August 2020, the firm closed to new money with just over $17 billion under management.

In January 2021, along with Ken Griffin's Citadel Investments, Point72 contributed $750 million to a $2.75 billion emergency bailout of Melvin Capital, a hedge fund that had incurred deep losses in the GameStop short squeeze; Melvin Capital is run by Gabe Plotkin, a former protégé of Steven Cohen and one of the managers of SAC whose trades were investigated by the SEC. In the first half of 2021, Point72 was reported to have lost $500 million on its investment in Melvin Capital.

Gender bias lawsuits
The New York Times reported that Haynes, who was hired as managing director for human capital and then became president, resigned in March 2018 "amid [a] gender bias lawsuit" and was replaced as president by Cohen.

The firm has faced multiple lawsuits from employees alleging gender and pay discrimination. In September 2020, Point72 settled a gender and pay discrimination suit brought by Lauren Bonner, the company’s former Head of Talent Analytics.

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Isenburg-Birstein

Isenburg-Birstein was the name of two German historical states centred on Birstein in southeastern Hesse, Germany. The first "Isenburg-Birstein" was a County and was created as a partition of Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein in 1628. It was merged into Isenburg-Offenbach in 1664. The second "Isenburg-Birstein" was a Principality, created as a partition of Isenburg-Offenbach in 1711. It was renamed the "Principality of Isenburg" in 1806.

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I like cheese?
The citations for Chamber of Secrets chapters are showing up with "I like cheese" after them. I can't quite figure out how to change this vandalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.23.69.135 (talk) 06:19, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. It was the template that was vandalized. -- Stroppolo talk 11:05, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Book or film?
What's the point of having this article called "List of places in the Harry Potter books" and then having a section called "Muggle locations used in the Harry Potter films"? 65.92.204.139 04:07, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

 * 'Muggle Locations for filming' needs to have its title changed. It's one thing to refer to Kings Cross - which is featured in the books - as Muggle. The other places have never featured in the books. They are not 'muggle', they are 'real world'. Michaelsanders 09:08, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Salem Witches' Institute
DarkMark.com is not a reliable source for verification on whether this is a school or not. According to Salem witch trials: "In the fourth book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a group of 'middle-aged American witches' are observed by Harry as sitting under a banner reading 'The Salem Witch's Institute' at the Quidditch World Cup. This is a probable reference to the Salem trials." If the witches were middle-aged, they would hardly be at school; the reference itself seems to be more of a pun on Women's Institute. Either way, without confirmation either within the books or from the author, :whether Salem Witches' Institute is a school or not is purely speculation, even if the speculation is linked back to a fan website such as DarkMark.com.

I'm moving Salem Witches' Institute from the schools sublist to the main list. --Foetus In Fetu 20:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Places in Harry Potter
The title of the info-box generated by the "Template:HP Place" is "Harry Potter locale". The word "locale" is not in my OED and I do not understand what it means or is supposed to mean. The Wikipedia entry locale sheds no light on the matter. Why can you not use "place" or "location"? – Mikeweasle 23:04, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Well, yer OED is old, ain't it. And it claims to be English when in fact it's really British, and based on old Brit lit and chit (grocery lists, Shakespeare, and the like) to boot. My fine Merriam-Webster online Amerglish dictionary says (and here I'm paraphrasing), "Locale -- etymology: modification of French local, an adjective -- 1 : a place or locality especially when viewed in relation to a particular event or characteristic; 2 : SITE, SCENE (the locale of a story)".

 * So there you go, not only is "locale" common Amerglish, but it derives from French, and as anyone who knows history will attest, the Brits hate their Froglish cousins across the channel, so much so, that history records that Winston Churchill, when visiting the Maginot Line after WWII, unzipped his trousers and took a whiz on the French trenches, inviting his accompanying reporters to do the same, just to show his disdain for the totally inept and weak-sissy effort the French defenses represented in the face of German tanks and airplanes. The clever Hun cheated during the second war and just flew or drove over the French holes in the ground (Maginot is Froglish for 'big hole').

 * Thus this I contend is why the OED omitted "locale" from its pages: sheer unmitigated bald-faced prejudice. They saw a Froglish word they could drop, so they did. Amerglish dictionaryists don't know no better, so they include it. There ya go. 76.243.129.217 09:06, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Why is so much effluent tolerated on these Talk pages? Anybody who doesn't recognise locale as a perfectly good English word needs their head examined, never mind their dictionary. (Though both, in my humble opinion, could benefit from a good kicking.)
 * Nuttyskin (talk) 16:53, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

Spinner's End
The seventh book seems to indicate that "Spinner's End" is a street and not the name of Snape's home. Should it be removed from the list of places and left in the list of streets? GCD1 18:53, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Beauxbatons coat of arms
This edit seems unusual, wherein the user states in their edit summary: "Added the Beauxbatons coat of arms as created by user ToManyLetters. This image is free of copyright restrictions" . Is the coat of arms a new design, or a reproduction of the JKR denoted CoA by ToManyLetters? If its the first one, its fan OR, and cannot be included. If its the latter, it is most certainly covered by copyright. Either way, it cannot remain. Should I remove it, or does someone else want the honors? - Arcayne   (cast a spell)  04:55, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Copywritten work often makes its way into Wiki articles. Based on the information attached to the image, the image was originally created by ToManyLetters based on Rowling's description, and has allowed their work to be used here on this site. --12.173.121.242 06:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * With regard to the WP:NOR comment I quote from the WP:NOR article,
 * "Pictures have enjoyed a broad exception from this policy, in that Wikipedia editors are encouraged to take photographs or draw pictures or diagrams and upload them, releasing them under the GFDL or another free license, to illustrate articles. This is welcomed because images generally do not propose unpublished ideas or arguments, the core reason behind the NOR policy."--12.173.121.242 06:39, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Durmstrang
I've removed the ridiculous demands for citations in the Durmstrang section that in the film the students and professor wear ushankas. It's plain as day onscreen. This is the same as demanding a citation for "Ron wears a frilly robe to the Yule Ball."209.169.87.191 05:15, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Wrong answer, sport. And you might find that your edits will be a lot more palatable if you don't characterize others' edits as demands or ridiculous. Find me a citation that specifies, "clear as day", that the objects we are seeing are the items you seem convinced they are. If you are unclear about the rules on OR by synthesis, I would urge you take a gander at them before responding to the email or reverting the replacement of fact tags. Your opinion isn't enough for inclusion. - Arcayne   (cast a spell)  23:48, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Would you similarly demand citations that the items worn around the necks of Hogwarts students are neckties? Or that the the pointed black thing on McGonagal's head is a witch's hat? How does one cite what is seen onscreen? You're putting the cart before the horse here.209.169.87.191 04:04, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * No, because most people reading the English language wiki know what a necktie is. Now, if I were talking about a specific rep tie (which many prep schools and colleges use), I would need to cite that - in the context of someone speaking of Harry Potter. As well, a witch's hat is pretty well-known to folk using the English language wiki, but I suppose if it were being discussed, it would have to be cited as such - again, within the context of the Harry Potter books or films.
 * In answer to your question about how we cite things we see onscreen: we don't. We take the info from people who have written about the film and use that. it's the difference between primary (your observations) and secondary (cited sources) observations. If the cited source says they are wearing oxford ties or babushkas or whatot, then we can include it. If they don't, we dont. I hope that explains matters a bit more clearly. - Arcayne   (cast a spell)  05:07, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

"The relative situation of Durmstrang to Hogwarts, the possibly German name chosen for the school in the middle ages and the absence of German family names among the Durmstrang delegation point to a likely location in the northern part of the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, today's Estonia or northern Latvia." This is completely ridiculous. Karkaroff or Krum are Bulgarian as far as I remember. Bulgaria, as everybody should know, is in the BALKANS, and Balkans are quite a long way from Latvia or Estonia. Saxon or more widely German settlers were present in Eastern and Southern Europe from Middle Ages on, so Durmstrang could be located anywhere: Vojvodina, Transylvania, Estonia... I really don't get the thing with "our friends from the North". Anyway, the presumption that the school is located in the former lands of the Teutonic order seems not to be very justified. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.41.227.200 (talk) 11:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, Krum plays for the Bulgarian National Quidditch team. However, with Hogwarts being in Scotland, there are very few relevant countries "to the North"...Norway, Sweden, Finland, maybe Estonia and Latvia, and of course a large portion of Russia Grsz11 (talk) 15:51, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

 * First of all, we should collect all pieces of information about Durmstrang.
 * 1)It's headmaster name is Igor Karkaroff
 * 2)Viktor Krum and a certain Poliakoff are studying there
 * 3)Dumbledore welcomes Durmstrang's students as "our friends from the North."
 * 4)At the Yule Ball Krum told to Hermione, that "... in winter, ve have very little daylight, so ve are not enjoying them. But in summer ve are flying every day, over the lakes and the mountains"
 * 5)Durmstrang students wear heavy furs with blood-red robes.
 * It's clear, that neither Balkans, nor Baltic states are acceptable for us. We all know, that Hogwarts is located somewhere in Scotland. Balkans are situated much further south than Scotland. Baltic states and Scotland are situated at the same latitude. Moreover, in Baltic states we have no mountains. Absolutely. The highest point of Estonia - 318 meters above sea level; of Latvia - 311.6 m; of Lithuania - 294 m.
 * The real place should be situated
 * 1)In Europe
 * 2)Near the Arctic Circle - because "in winter ve have very little daylight".
 * 3)Near mountains and lakes
 * It can only be in Scandinavia. But in Scandinavia there are four countries - Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. And now we should analyse names of Karkaroff, Krum and Poliakoff. It's clear, that Krum is bulgarian, but Karkaroff and Poliakoff are not. Igor is russian name, and Poliakoff is russian surname. And slavic school should be situated in slavic country - in Russia. Moreover, in film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" Durmstrang's ship, when appeared, maked it's sail. And on this sail you can see the Double Eagle - the symbol of Russia (also of Albania and Montenegro, but they don't meets our geographic conditions). I think, now it's clear and indisputable, that Durmstrang is russian school. But Russia is big country, and where exactly Durmstrang is situated? In Kola Peninsula, Murmansk Oblast. There are a lot of lakes there. There are two mountain ranges: the Khibiny Mountains, and the Lovozero Tundra, the latter with points up to 1,120 metres in height. Finally, the Kola Peninsula is crossed by the Arctic Circle. Good place for Durmstrang, isn't it? Deymos34 (talk) 02:50, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I was just starting to wonder...how many people out there are annoyed by the representation of Durmstrang students in the movies? The 'weird stick dance' really ticked me off, it reminds me of how most people who I talk to Russia about either say it's communist or they have really bizarre dances. On that note, I always thought Durmstrang would be in Russia. Not logged in, sorry, I'm eddisford. 71.155.233.211 (talk) 00:57, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Eddisford, after the Perestroika such dance is OK in Russia. Though, from my point of view, it's not OK to the Hogwarts spirit. Deymos34 (talk) 02:50, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Theleakycauldron.jpg
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Fair use rationale for Image:HogsmeadePoA.jpg
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Please ask Mistress Rowling
Somebody please ask Ms. Rowling what happened to Mr. Fortescue. Was he murdered? Was he kidnapped and later rescued? Did he run away and go into hiding? Das Baz, aka Erudil 15:47, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Article Title
Does anyone object to moving the article to Places in the Harry Potter series or something similar? Useight (talk) 23:10, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

St. Mungo's Hospital
St. Mungo's is introduced in Order of the Phoenix and I am always amused by the floor guide described in Chapter 22. E.g. "ARTEFACT ACCIDENTS" Ground floor : cauldron explosion, wand backfiring, broom crashes, etc." My question is, Is it too much information to include the entire quote in this article? or if included, should it be restricted to the names of the departments only? Or indeed really just too much information in a Wikipedia article of this nature? I will be guided by the opinions of others, as it is very tempting to "personalise" articles and thus detract form the over all intention of the project. Proxxt (talk) 05:17, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Hogwarts Castle
Why the information on Hogwarts castle are not included on this article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.8.238.235 (talk) 05:29, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See Hogwarts. faithless   (speak)  05:31, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

inaccuracy about platform 9¾
thanks for the article, I think there is aמ inaccuracy about the Hogwarts Express and platform 9¾. the article says: "which is invisible to Muggle eyes" but first, it is invisible also for wizards till they go throw the wall  and second,  Muggles do go sometimes to the platform and see the Hogwarts Express train. for example see Snape's memories in book 7 which describe Petunia and Lily's parents (muggles) standing on platform 9¾. Amnon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.81.232.195 (talk) 16:40, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Weasley's Wizard Wheezes opening date
Fred and George mention the location of their store in Chapter 29 of Order of the Phoenix. The store is described in such a way that indicates it is ready to be opened for business immediately. The Wiki article claims the store was opened in the summer segment of the following book. Eyamseryath (talk) 21:56, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

The Burrow
Wasn't it burned to the ground in the sixth movie, creating disagreement between the book and movie, or did they supposedly save it in the movie? Shouldn't this be mentioned in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.212.106.138 (talk) 02:26, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Hogsmeade
It appears that both The Three Broomsticks and The Hog's Head pubs are credited in their entries as the headquarters of the historic Goblin Rebellion of 1612. Also the term "Goblin Rebellion" is capitalized in The Hog's Head and not in The Three Broomsticks. Finally, I must regretfully point out that Dates_in_Harry_Potter does not list a goblin rebellion in 1612; in fact there is nothing listed for that year, nor does the cited Wiki list any goblin rebellions at all, although an early book reference indicates that there were so many that Ron couldn't keep them straight. Dick Kimball (talk) 19:28, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Fictional fictional fictional
In my opinion there is no need to specify "fictional" in every paragraph. I suspect that most of these paragraphs have been merged from separate articles in which it made sense to clarify this. The introduction to this article makes it very clear that what follows is a list of fictional places and the repetition is quite tedious. Mezigue (talk) 10:51, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

anti fancruft activism, applied unevenly?
Seems like there's a double standard. Minas Morgul gets its own article despite playing a relatively small role in the LOTR trilogy, while Grimmauld Place, which is relatively more important within the Harry Potter series (and the series itself being much more popular than LOTR in terms of total book sales) not only doesn't get an article, but the article summarizing all the places in Harry potter gets nominated for deletion (twice)! Seems like the anti-fancruft activists turn a blind eye to certain things that they happen to like. 76.85.196.138 (talk) 11:10, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Upper Flagley
Ron, Hermione and Harry went to Upper Flagley, a wizard village, thinking they could find one of Voldemort's Horcruxes there, and Upper Flagley isn't here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.92.88.219 (talk) 21:52, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Exterior?
Can someone check the use of exterior in the description of St Pancras for the platform? It seems confused 109.155.228.113 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:01, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Filming Locations Omissions
Many scenes of the films were shot in the Bourne Woods near Farnham in Surrey(UK) - officially listed as HBP, DH1 & DH2, but I'm fairly sure it was used for earlier HP films as well. Some of the house scenes were shot in and around houses in the area. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 20.133.0.13 (talk) 12:41, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Is this list 100% accurate and complete?
Is this list 100% accurate and complete? I am asking for a reason. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.78.228.228 (talk) 20:48, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Goblins are not greedy.
Goblins are not a greedy race, they just have different views on gold, money and treasure to that of humans.

Griphook espouses this sentiment when Ron inadvertantly offends him by offering him anything they find when planning to raid the Lestrange vault, and Griphook responds with "I will not take that which is not mine!" - or words to that effect. Whilst yes, they covet what they have, and this is why they believe that goblin gold belongs to the maker not the person paying for the item, their covetousness is only applicable to what they consider to be theirs in the first place. Bill Weasley seems to be the only Wizard who understands this. Chaheel Riens (talk) 14:20, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Split
On the French Wikipedia, a similar list reached today 170 Kb. A contributor decided to split the list and create an article about Hogsmeade, with a 27 Kb size.

I was interested to create the interwiki for this new article, and noticed en. is in a similar situation, with a 12K content, several sections.

A split could be interesting, especially to allow to treat sources and leave MOS:INUNIVERSE. --Dereckson (talk) 15:51, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

About the schools of Mahoutokoro & Uagadou
So are these actual creations of Rowling? (If so, which works do they appear it?) From fanfic which Rowling since approved of? Entirely things from fanfic? Or the creation of some prankster & needing to be deleted? Citations in some form would help these sections. -- llywrch (talk) 18:57, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I just spotted all this and removed those schools. I guess it's from Pottermore? Mezigue (talk) 20:46, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * What do you mean that you guess? The Ilvermorny section, which I've restored, is littered with references. I can also confirm that Castelobruxo, which I didn't restore since it didn't actually have sources, at least appears in the Hogwarts mobile game, so it's not simply a work of fan fiction. It's extremely likely that none of these schools are from fan fiction, but it's true that without proper references a reader can't tell. -- Fyrael (talk) 21:53, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Castelobruxo
Hi! I see the discussion above regarding the additional wizarding schools, but I would like to add back a section at least on Castelobruxo as Rowling gives the background on Pottermore on this school in addition to confirming that this school is mentioned in the actual books (Goblet of Fire), when Ron is discussing Bill's pen friend from a school in Brazil. The majority of Ilvermorny's source is Pottermore as well, except the source from boston.com which get's its information from Pottermore; this is why I think using just Goblet of Fire and Pottermore as sources should be okay. Let me know if you're okay with this, thanks! -- Dylanregina (talk) 04:39, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm gonna go ahead and add it as it has been about 24 hours and I haven't seen a response. Let me know if anyone has any issues with this, thank you! -- Dylanregina (talk) 03:44, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

Beauxbatons
Sadly, beauxbâtons doesn't mean "beautiful wands" in french but "beautiful stick". A wand is called a "baguette magique" in french, shortened in "baguette" (yes, like the bread). "Beautiful wands" would have been "Bellesbaguettes". Absolutely no one in french call a wand a bâton. :D Matieu Sokolovic (talk) 12:29, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * While it's possible that nobody would choose to use bâton instead of baguette when talking about a wand, anyone who sees bâton in the context of the name of a wizarding school and isn't being intentionally dense would translate the word as "wand", not "stick". It's very obvious that the author wanted to use alliteration and trusted that the reader could look just barely past the literal translation. The sources support the translation. -- Fyrael (talk) 15:08, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

Redirect from Beauxbatons
I have changed the Beauxbatons article to redirect to the section of this article similar to Durmstrang which was changed to a redirect in 2007. I believe these schools have similar notability and should be treated similarly on wikipedia. Per BLAR I have changed it to a redirect and putting a notice here. I incorporated the article content and references to the Beauxbatons section of this article. Mousymouse (talk) 05:15, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Ottery St. Catchpole
Ottery St. Catchpole redirects here, Ottery St Catchpole to Ron Weasley. Is this intentional or should it be fixed? Sn KGS (talk) 22:56, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * No, it seems to be a mistake. Both should point here. —El Millo (talk) 23:18, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * —El Millo (talk) 23:18, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

title: Talk:Places in Harry Potter


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of lists of atrocities

 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 delete. — Xezbeth 19:18, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

List of lists of atrocities
Useless list, unsearchable title, define "atrocity". User:Luigi30 (Ταλκ) 04:01, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, "list of lists" needs a very good reason to stay. Perhaps Category:Lists of atrocities might be workable however. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:51, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unmaintainable POV list. JamesBurns 09:31, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mistitled POV list. Unmaintainable. Mgm|(talk) 11:46, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Same reasons as above. 216.158.31.195 17:10, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete after checking nothing on the list is not at List of massacres. David | Talk 20:42, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. NeoJustin 02:20, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete This is what categories were invented for. Denni ☯ 02:58, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sahasrahla 03:42, Jun 9, 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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Talk:Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz

Name
"Hyacinth," customarily an English woman's name, is the English spelling of the generic name of the flower – which in German is spelled with a z.

The subject was a German male. The subject's given and legal name was Hyazinth. German WP therefore uses Hyazinth. A newly published English-language history of WWII in the Baltics, Prit Buttar's detailed and thoroughly documented Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II – published by UK-based Osprey – uses Hyazinth in every mention. To persist in using Hyacinth for this person is an error, regardless of what past (mistaken) practice in English may have been.
 * Ref.: Buttar, Prit. Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing (2015). ISBN-10: 1472807499; ISBN-13: 978-1472807496.

, please do not revert my edits again. Thanks. Sca (talk) 13:38, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

 * as the main editor who brought this article to the current state, who owns all the sources, I have a strong opionion. It stays as reviewed MisterBee1966 (talk) 14:10, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

 * , please enlighten me as to why the name should be spelled with a c rather than a z. For the reasons stated above, it appears to be historically incorrect – in which case, any sources that spell it with a c are (were) wrong. Explain why this is not so.
 * No doubt you put much effort into the article, but that's not a reason to leave it in an erroneous state, no matter what your (or anyone else's) contributions have been, how many books you own, or how strong your opinion may be. Further, effects on WP templates are in internal issue irrelevant to the readers we serve.
 * Wiki is an encyclopedia of information, and you or I don't own any of its articles. An encyclopedia must be accurate, no exceptions. Of course there's leeway in military history for different interpretations of events, but not for erroneous basic historical facts such as misspelling people's names. (For an analogy, a few English-language books spell Hitler's first name as "Adolph." This is simply wrong. Would you stick with "Adolph" if you had worked on an article about him?)
 * I note that the Hyaz/cinth issue has come up before and it probably will again, since it's (IMO) a spelling error. Let's fix it. Sca (talk) 15:29, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

 * we all have to acknowledge that Wiki relies on how a lema is predominantly known in English. It is irrelevant how the lema is known in its native language. Köln is known as Cologne and the river Rhein as Rhine. The battleship Friedrich der Große is known in English as Friedrich der Grosse. In my sources he is predominantly spelled with a C. I am very much aware that this is incorrect but it is irrelevant and therefore it stays spelled with a C, as most English sources do. MisterBee1966 (talk) 16:11, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * to add to that, Röll is the primary authority in English and German. He spelled the name with a C. See the Note in the article to, which I had put there many moons agoMisterBee1966 (talk) 16:24, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

 * You haven't made a reasonable case for why Hyacinth would be the CORRECT spelling for someone whose given name was Hyazinth. English-language names of German towns and rivers are not analagous and irrelevant here. Personal names are whatever they are/were on the record. German, Estonian, Norwegian and Polish WPs all use Hyazinth. (And as noted, to English readers Hyacinth is a woman's name – as in the main character of this sitcom.)

 * Röll may be considered the primary 'authority' on this person, but that doesn't make him infallible. If historical names are misspelled by some sources, such mistakes obviously should not be perpetuated just because someone doesn't feel like changing an article. (BTW, since you evidently are highly interested in the topic, I recommend Buttar's new book.)

 * I've no idea what you mean by lema. Sca (talk) 17:16, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

 * Support what Sca says. If Mozart was spelled Mocart in some reliable source, shouldn't we honour how he himself signed? (Bad enough that we say Amadeus whyle he signed Amadé.) - To give this man a woman's name seems grotesque, not to mention kafkaesque again, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:26, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia in general uses the spelling of foreign names as it is used in the overwhelming number of English-language sources; see Franz Josef Strauss. However, I'm sure that the English-language coverage of Strachwitz is much thinner, so there is no obstacle to use the German spelling, as done for Fritz Geißler. However2, there's a good case that Strachwitz' first name is even in German "Hyacinth"; see his grave here and here, at this website. He was certainly baptised "Hyacinth", but, according to Bagdonas (2013, p. 15) later used "Hyazinth". I can only conclude that the spelling was not fixed in his own lifetime, which is not unusual for that time. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 06:41, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

 * Thank you, . That seems to explain a lot.
 * Do you have an opinion on whether the article should use Z or C? (I got into this only because I'm reading Buttar's Between Giants, which as noted uses Z.)
 * If Hyacinth was his name, I still have to wonder why German WP and those other WPs use Z. – ??? Sca (talk) 14:34, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

I am back home now with access to my sources. In Röll's book you will find a number of contemporary images (including an image of his grave which is already linked above), documents and newspaper clippings. In every instance you will find his name spelled Hya c inth (with the C). Please remember that his name is derived from the Polish Saint Hyacinth of Poland. In German, this Saint is de:Hyazinth von Polen (note the Z). I can only assume that his move to West Germany introduced the spelling Hyazinth. Historically, over many generations the first born son in the family was named Hyacinth and spelled with a C.MisterBee1966 (talk) 17:32, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

 * , thank you for your conciliatory message on my talk page. Due to that and Michael's post, I'm beginning to understand the situation from your point of view. I apologize for acting on (apparently) insufficient information when I changed the article to the Z spelling.
 * How about putting some sort of explanatory note or footnote in the article regarding the two spellings? Sca (talk) 21:45, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

 * From my cursory examination, it doesn't matter whether the article is named using "c" or "z", but an explanatory footnote – baptised in family tradition as "Hyacinth", then preferred "Hyazinth" – should be provided. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 23:56, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * just tossing a belated 2 cents into the conversation: Hyacinth is the common spelling of the ungendered name. It might also be spelled with an e at the end. Wikipedia has a set index article with an explanation.  auntieruth (talk) 18:55, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Request move to "Hyazinth" while GAR in progress
The recent move somehow disabled the link to the GAR from the top of the Talk page. I suggest the article be moved back to "Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz" while the GAR is in progress. Would there be any objections?

Or if someone knows how to re-add the link to Good article reassessment/Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz/1, that would be an alternate solution. K.e.coffman (talk) 22:10, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

 * Yes; it shouldn't have been moved unilaterally in the first place. You did not address the valid points Misterbee raised the last two times it was discussed. Clearly it was controversial, so WP:RM should have been used.
 * Problem solved. Parsecboy (talk) 12:11, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Recent edits
This article passed GAR in 2016, but the edits that led to the GAR have been restored unilaterally. If the main source is the problem, perhaps the source itself should be the subject of a discussion. Srnec (talk) 21:01, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
 * A publisher of another book on the subject wrote in their blog: [Strachwitz] wrote no memoirs; left no diary, and any notes and papers were lost along with him home in 1945. His records of service in the 16th Panzer Division were destroyed along with the division in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943. After a period of distinguished service with the elite Grossdeutschland Division, he served as commander of several ad-hoc units, some bearing his name, in a period when records, if kept at all, were scanty, or lost.
 * Given the dearth of records, what makes Röll a reliable source? --K.e.coffman (talk) 04:22, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

 * I have no idea who Röll is or if he is reliable. I watchlisted this page after it reached GA because it looked interesting to read some day. I only know that your previous removals were reverted and then the article passed GAR. So what has changed? Srnec (talk) 22:41, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
 * What's changed in the intervening five years is my knowledge of the topic area in general and, more specifically, what constitutes reliable and unreliable sources in this TA. The same has hopefully occurred in the wider MILHIST community.
 * For clarification, Röll is the source that the article is largely cited to:
 * Since you mentioned that the [main] the source itself should be the subject of a discussion, I assumed you meant Röll. You did want to discuss the source, did you not? --K.e.coffman (talk) 06:40, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
 * No, not me. I have nothing to say about it. As I said, this page was on my watchlist because I don't know anything about it. But if Röll is not RS, then this article isn't GA and can't be easily rescued. Perhaps time for another GAR? Srnec (talk) 03:12, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
 * No, not me. I have nothing to say about it. As I said, this page was on my watchlist because I don't know anything about it. But if Röll is not RS, then this article isn't GA and can't be easily rescued. Perhaps time for another GAR? Srnec (talk) 03:12, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

I restored the article to the state of the GAR and started adding Bagdonas as a secondary source. Please let me know if you have concerns with this approach. Cheers MisterBee1966 (talk) 05:57, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

 * Yes, I have concerns. I have recently removed a number of extraordinary claims and excessive intricate details that are unlikely to be found in Bagonas, given the Casemate quote at the top of this thread. The blog, linked here for convenience, discusses the loss of records or bad record keeping towards the end of the war.
 * Also, as one editor eloquently put it in 2016: "This is a GAR for a 10,000+ word essay full of Nazi WP:FANCRUFT that apparently meets the GA criteria of a wikiproject with its own set of rules for what's encyclopedic."). Restoring the article to the "GAR state" does not advance the goals of the encyclopedia to be a good platform for quality controlled information. It might be better to work on a sandbox version first and integrate Bagonas there. --K.e.coffman (talk) 06:31, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

 * Would you be supportive to retain content which can be linked to Bagdonas as a source even if it is also mentioned by Röll? MisterBee1966 (talk) 09:44, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

 * That really depends on whether it can be established that Bagdonas is RS. Two bad sources that agree with each other do not make the information more suitable for a wiki article. Using the WP:SOURCEDEF model, the following needs clarification:
 * The word "source" when citing sources on Wikipedia has three related meanings:
 * The piece of work itself: Are there reviews of the book in reputable publications? What do they say?
 * The creator of the work: What are Bagdonas' qualifications? What makes him an expert in this topic area?
 * The publisher of the work: Casemate Publishers is not exactly known as a rigorous publisher.

 * Bagdonas's preface as quoted in the blog raises more questions than it answers, i.e.:
 * How exactly does one write a book-length biography without adequate sources?
 * Related to that, how has the author concluded that the subject was "one of the most effective panzer leaders in the German Army"; a "legend among those who fought on the Eastern Front"; one of the "good men" who "served [an evil cause] without adding to its criminality"?
 * What does Bagdonas mean when he suggests that he may "have lapsed occasionally in some descriptions that add color and life to some of [Strachwitz's] actions"?
 * There are some other odd comments and omissions in there. Etc. --K.e.coffman (talk) 01:36, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Would you consider the historian de:Ludger Tewes a reliable author? He wrote the book Die Panzergrenadierdivision Großdeutschland im Feldzug gegen die Sowjetunion 1942 bis 1945 [The Panzergrenadierdivision Großdeutschland in the campaign against the Soviet Union from 1942 to 1945] which also talks about Strachwitz. MisterBee1966 (talk) 07:16, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
 * This sounds more promising. Although this would limit the time period to January − November 1943, at which point Strachwitz left Großdeutschland. Is my understanding correct? Or does Tewes cover other periods in Strachwitz's career? --K.e.coffman (talk) 20:24, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I just received the book by Professor Trewes. The book contains more than 1200 pages which I have not read yet. However, the first scan showed that information on Strachwitz is based on a variety of sources, including the personal archive of Strachwitz, made available by Johannes Graf Strachwitz, and the book by Hans-Joachim Röll. In consequence, I question if the claim that Röll is an unreliable source can be sustained. Thoughts? MisterBee1966 (talk) 17:22, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I've just made a few edits to remove unnecessary German language terms. The 'Battle for the Narva Bridgehead' section seems a bit suspect. While the Soviet offensives in this region were bungled, the current text is hard to follow and reads like German romancer material at times (for instance, the usual tropes about German "grenadiers" fighting off vast waves of Soviets). The material would benefit from being cross checked against other sources, such as David Glantz's works. I agree that some of the material cited to Röll in particular also seems a bit dubious at times. Nick-D (talk) 23:39, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I'd also note that the article should discuss Strachwitz's Nazi Party membership given that he joined well before this was common (e.g. when it became a de-facto prerequisite for ambitious military officers and government officials). This and his role in suppressing the revolution after the First World War suggest that he was a political extremist, and likely held the usual range of racist and bigoted views that were common among Nazis. The article uses some weasel words on both topics. Nick-D (talk) 00:14, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
 * The material on Strachwitz's role in the last weeks of the war is also problematic. The current text provides a very positive account of his advocacy for forming ad-hoc infantry units armed with handheld anti-tank weapons. This was obviously a desperate tactic that proved ineffective against the massive firepower the Allies could bring to bear. When I visited the German military history museum in Dresden it gave these types of late-war units as an example of the criminality of the Nazi regime in throwing vast numbers of lives away continuing what was clearly a lost war. This also suggests that Strachwitz was one of the Army's die hard extremists in this period of the war. Nick-D (talk) 02:28, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: I see that is editing the article to add Bagdonas and restore Röll without having established that they are reliable sources for the topic area, despite several suggestions in this thread to do so. Continued from WP:SOURCEDEF mentioned above:
 * Reliable sources may be published materials with a reliable publication process, authors who are regarded as authoritative in relation to the subject, or both. These qualifications should be demonstrable to other people.''
 * Bolding in the original. --K.e.coffman (talk) 03:24, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
 * The below is helpful. However, the concern expressed on this thread was about Röll 2011 and Bagdonas 2013. --K.e.coffman (talk) 04:08, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * There appears to be a later and possibly larger book (or at least a later edition) by Röll (and others) about Strachwitz in Polish . Of course that doesn't answer the question of how reliable he is or what limits can be placed on the source.Nigel Ish (talk) 09:51, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * A review of Röll's book on a blog - it describes the book as the best source on Strachwitz that the authpr of the blog had seen, although he did note that the book didn't cover Strachwitz's involvement with the Nazis adequately and he notes a number of technical flaws. Interestingly, one of the comments below the blog mentions what appears to be an earlier biography written in the 1960s by "Fraschka" (possibly Gunther Fraschka).Nigel Ish (talk) 10:05, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Fraschka is who published apologist and hero worshiping pamphlets about Knight's Cross winners, such as the 1968 With Swords and Diamonds—The Bearers of the Highest German Award for Bravery, as well as published titles in the dubious Der Landser. According to de.wiki, Fraschka embellished and outright invented details in his stories, which I suspect happened in the previously cited material in the Strachwitz article:

 * In general, Strachwitz, although personally very brave, was a relatively insignificant combat leader; his highest command was that of a tank regiment. He then commanded a battle group during (relatively minor) fighting for the Krivasoo bridgehead in Estonia which ended in Strachwitz's failure to eliminate the Soviet positions. Given Strachwitz's general obscurity, it's not surprising that his biography has previously attracted authors of dubious and / or non-existing reputations, such as Röll and Bagdonas. --K.e.coffman (talk) 00:49, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

July 2021 edits

 * Preserving here by providing this link; my rationale was: "shortening -- not about Strachwitz or his command". --K.e.coffman (talk) 21:21, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Another diff; my rationale was: "dubious and / or undue intricate details cited to non-RS". --K.e.coffman (talk) 05:42, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Diff; my rationale was: "Listing of ranks is unneeded, as already integrated into the narrative". --K.e.coffman (talk) 17:50, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

During one engagement on the northern flank of the Kessel, his unit destroyed 105 T-34s.
The above text was recently removed, based on the fact that that Williamson is not a reliable source for this type of detail. Beevor mentions what appears to be the same incident in Stalingrad on page 124, in which von Strachwitz's unit fought a prolonged battle on the north front against 'wave after wave' of attacks by T-34s and American-supplied lend lease tanks over a period of two days - with over a hundred Soviet tanks being destroyed. Beevor does not state a date for this encounter but says it was shortly before he handed the unit over to Freytag-Loringhoven and returned to Germany (according to Beevor "on account of his age") - so if the dates in the article are correct would put this action in late September or early October. Note that this is well before Operation Uranus was launched, so referring to the Kessel is incorrect as the 6th Army had not been encircled, and would not be for a month after he left the front.Nigel Ish (talk) 16:03, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what your recommendation is here? MisterBee1966 (talk) 16:32, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
 * As there appears to be extensive edit-warring about the content of the article - I was hoping to get some sort of buy-in whether it is acceptable before adding what can be sourced to Beevor. It would also be nice to get a more precise date for the action (perhaps one of Stephen Glantz's books on Stalingrad will give that sort of detail. It also gives an indication that the article does need to be checked for sloppy writing like the "northern flank of the Kessel".Nigel Ish (talk) 16:53, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Beevor is a fine source. Gordon Williamson (writer): not so much. At some point, I saw the page he dedicated to Strachwitz in his Knight's Cross with Diamonds Recipients 1941–45; it's hero worship and dubious. --K.e.coffman (talk) 18:31, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Part of the problem is that parts of the article have become very disjointed (whether due to rewrites and removals or as a foundational issue). We have statements like "By this time the 16th Panzer Division was assigned to the 6th Army, which was encircled at Stalingrad in November 1942." As far as I can tell from Beevor, 16th Panzer was part of the 6th Army for at least all of Case Blue and talking about 6th Army being encircled before talking about events that happened earlier like Strachwitz gaining command of the Regiment makes the article confusing, and makes it difficult to know where precisely to re-add mention of the engagement on the north side of the salient which resulted in 100+ soviet tanks being knocked out.Nigel Ish (talk) 19:33, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing out the issue with the Kessel story. Because of the on-going discussion, I've not edited the article further. The page needs to be checked for npov; puffery; omissions / obfuscations; excessive & tangential intricate detail (most sourced to non-RS); and dubious & extraordinary statements, sourced to same. Here's the article before I edited it: December 2015. It contains the same statement about the Kessel: During one engagement on the northern flank of the Kessel, his unit destroyed 105 T-34s.[44]
 * I was able to locate Williamson's Knight's Cross with Diamonds; link: pp 26–27. The story about the 105 Soviet tanks is placed by Williamson as having occurred in 1943. So whoever inserted the Kessel statement was both confused about the facts (according to the article Strachwitz was flown out on 10 November before the encirclement), and then confused 1942 vs 1943 by misreading the source. Let alone used a dubious, Wehrmacht/Waffen-SS hero-worshiping source to begin with. This is just one example; the article does indeed need to be checked throughout. --K.e.coffman (talk) 22:40, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Ludger Tewes, reliability as a source
de:Ludger Tewes is a member of the faculty of the University of Potsdam, see PD Dr. Ludger Tewes. His work on "Panzergrenadierdivision Großdeutschland" is one of his projects at the university. Sönke Neitzel is the head of the department (Professur für Militärgeschichte / Kulturgeschichte der Gewalt) Tewes works for. In consequence, I consider the source reliable in context of this article. Cheers MisterBee1966 (talk) 04:50, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Involvement with the German resistance
The section regarding Strachwitz involvement in the "Plan Lanz", the attempt to arrest Hitler at Valky in February 1943, was removed on account this section being attributed to Röll as a source. On page 295, de:Ludger Tewes tells the same story. This information is also found in the German book by the historian Peter Hoffmann (historian) ''Widerstand – Staatsstreich – Attentat. Der Kampf der Opposition gegen Hitler'' [Resistance, Coup d'etat, Assassination — The Battle of the Opposition against Hitler] on pages 348 to 350. In consequence, I advocate for the re-inclusion of this information with a reference to these sources. Objections? MisterBee1966 (talk) 12:41, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Actually in the "Potential synthesis" subsection, it says that Röll states that Strachwitz probably wasn't involved in the plot. I'm not convinced that this is any more than a vague rumour.Nigel Ish (talk) 13:18, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Your statement implies that Röll is reliable. Röll on the other hand derived his doubt on the statement made by Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff. The original section presented both sides of the story. MisterBee1966 (talk) 13:25, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * For sake of this discussion, I included the text by Hoffmann and Tewes, with the counter thesis by Röll into the article. MisterBee1966 (talk) 14:02, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

World War I
Is there some reason for two World War I sections? I know it was important, but...Nigel Ish (talk) 21:35, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

Hyacinth or Hyazinth
According to Raymond Bogdanos in his biography of Graf Strachwitz, The Devil’s General: The Life of Hyazinth Graf von Strachwitz, “The Panzer Graf”, "Hyaincth" is the Anglicised misnomer of the subject's real name "Hyazinth", which was the name that he was known as throughout his life.(A more apt comparison in this case would be whether Hitler should be named "Adolph" or "Adolf".---<font face="Georgia">'''User:Lawrencegordon |<span style="color:#009900">lawrencegordon </span>'''</font><font face="Courier New"><sub>''[[User talk:Lawrencegordon |<span style="color:#006600">I am the best </span>]]''</sub></font> (talk) 12:24, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Whatever your preferred source says, there is absolutely no excuse for changing the titles of sources that are already in the article - the title of Röll uses Hyacinth, as can be seen by its Worldcat entry.Nigel Ish (talk) 15:28, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

And it's been fixed now. Therefore, the problem is no longer relevent.---<font face="Georgia">'''User:Lawrencegordon |<span style="color:#009900">lawrencegordon </span>'''</font><font face="Courier New"><sub>''[[User talk:Lawrencegordon |<span style="color:#006600">I am the best </span>]]''</sub></font> (talk) 18:57, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stefan Bauschard

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Stefan Bauschard
Vanity page about a high school debate coach. Delete BaronLarf 04:01, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. At best, he belongs in his high school's page.  Almafeta 04:24, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - While I think the efforts of Mr. Bauschard urgently need to be recognized on an international level, I'm an asshole and want to upset the user who put up the page by vouching for its deletion. OnwardToGolgotha 05:06, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. No encyclopedic content, just a platform for an ext. link. jni 07:01, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable. JamesBurns 09:32, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: I did debate, too, but I was sane enough to realize that nothing I did was worthy of note by anyone outside of the tournaments. Geogre 16:02, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't play those games. 216.158.31.195 17:09, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn vanity. --Etacar11 17:15, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Eric Angle

Eric Angle (born August 8, 1967) is an American former amateur and professional wrestler, better known to be the older brother of professional wrestler Kurt Angle with whom he worked in occasional storylines in World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/WWE).

Amateur wrestling
Angle participated in amateur wrestling in his high school, Mt. Lebanon High School, where he weighed in at 167 pounds in 1985. He wrestled at Waynesburg University after high school.

Professional wrestling
Angle debuted in World Wrestling Federation (WWF) at the 2000 Survivor Series pay-per-view as a heel to help his then-heel brother Kurt retain the WWF Championship against The Undertaker by wearing the same wrestling tights and switching places. He returned the next night on Raw Is War only to be attacked by The Undertaker. After these two appearances, the WWF signed Angle to a developmental contract and he was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) to sharpen his skills. During his time in OVW, he tore a ligament in his arm and went through nine surgeries to help correct his biceps problems. He returned to OVW in October 2002 and wrestled on a few of their television tapings. In November 2002, Angle appeared in a few house shows for WWE. Angle returned to WWE television on an episode of SmackDown! in March 2003 to aid in a storyline between his brother and then-babyface Brock Lesnar, leading to a match at WrestleMania XIX between Lesnar and Kurt. Angle switched places with Kurt to help him defeat Lesnar and retain his WWE Championship. He then appeared on an episode of SmackDown! the following week at his brother's side and was attacked by Lesnar. This was the last time Angle was seen in WWE as he was released from his developmental contract in 2003. In August 2003, Angle returned to wrestling in a local Pittsburgh independent promotion, International Wrestling Cartel (IWC). He wrestled for the promotion on three occasions. He was injured in his last match for the company and during his rehabilitation, decided to quit wrestling.

Personal life
In March 2019, he was arrested for assault after video surfaced showing him choking and tossing a twelve-year-old boy by the neck at a wrestling tournament. In September 2019, Angle was indicted for distributing anabolic steroids. As a member of the "qu4ntum" drug trafficking organization, Angle sold anabolic steroids and other controlled substances, paid for using cryptocurrency and cash, on the dark web.

In 2022, he was diagnosed with kidney cancer.

Championships and accomplishments

 * Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 * Ranked No. 253 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2001

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Talk:Diagon Alley

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Eric Angle
Being someone's brother doesn't make you notable. User:Luigi30 (Ταλκ) 04:03, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * It does when he's also a professional wrestler in his own right - I think he even wrestled at a Wrestlemania once, or at least one or two of the pay per views. Correction - he hasn't wrestled at Wrestlemania, but did wrestle at Survivor Series as well as on Raw and on Smackdown. Keep. Tufflaw 04:42, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Almafeta 05:33, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Tufflaw said it --Bletch 16:12, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The article is, admittedly, a stub, but it knows so.  If we can have so many Pokemon articles, no reason to not have this.
 * keep please because he is notbale too Yuckfoo 18:58, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep ··gracefool |☺ 01:34, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable Falphin 19:42, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Professional wrestler so someone is likely to be interested in finding info on him. Capitalistroadster 05:53, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable "pro wrestler" in his own right. Xoloz 06:30, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: very notable, i will place on WikiProject to do list. Paulley 11:55, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Eighth Street–New York University station

The Eighth Street–New York University station (sometimes shortened as 8th Street–NYU) is a local station on the New York City Subway's BMT Broadway Line. Located at the intersection of Eighth Street and Broadway in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, it is served by the R train at all times except late nights, the W train on weekdays, the N train during late nights and weekends, and the Q train during late nights. It serves the main campus of New York University.

Construction and opening
The New York Public Service Commission adopted plans for what was known as the Broadway–Lexington Avenue route on December 31, 1907. This route began at the Battery and ran under Greenwich Street, Vesey Street, Broadway to Ninth Street, private property to Irving Place, and Irving Place and Lexington Avenue to the Harlem River. After crossing under the Harlem River into the Bronx, the route split at Park Avenue and 138th Street, with one branch continuing north to and along Jerome Avenue to Woodlawn Cemetery, and the other heading east and northeast along 138th Street, Southern Boulevard, and Westchester Avenue to Pelham Bay Park. In early 1908, the Tri-borough plan was formed, combining this route, the under-construction Centre Street Loop Subway in Manhattan and Fourth Avenue Subway in Brooklyn, a Canal Street subway from the Fourth Avenue Subway via the Manhattan Bridge to the Hudson River, and several other lines in Brooklyn.

The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company submitted a proposal to the Commission, dated March 2, 1911, to operate the Tri-borough system (but under Church Street instead of Greenwich Street), as well as a branch along Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 59th Street from Ninth Street north and east to the Queensboro Bridge; the Canal Street subway was to merge with the Broadway Line instead of continuing to the Hudson River. The city, the BRT, and the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (which operated the first subway and four elevated lines in Manhattan) came to an agreement, and sent a report to the New York City Board of Estimate on June 5, 1911. The line along Broadway to 59th Street was assigned to the BRT, while the IRT obtained the Lexington Avenue line, connecting with its existing route at Grand Central–42nd Street. Construction began on Lexington Avenue on July 31, and on Broadway the next year. The Dual Contracts, two operating contracts between the city and the BMT and IRT, were adopted on March 4, 1913.

A short portion of the line, coming off the north side of the Manhattan Bridge through Canal Street to 14th Street–Union Square, opened on September 4, 1917, at 2 P.M., with an eight car train carrying members of the Public Service Commission, representatives of the city government and officials of the BRT, leaving Union Square toward Coney Island. Service opened to the general public at 8 P.M., with trains leaving Union Square and Coney Island simultaneously. The line was served by two services. One route ran via the Fourth Avenue Line and the Sea Beach Line to Coney Island, while the other line, the short line, ran to Ninth Avenue, where passengers could transfer for West End and Culver Line service. The initial headway on the line was three minutes during rush hours, three minutes and forty-five seconds at other times, except during late nights when service ran every fifteen minutes.

Later years
The station's platforms originally could only fit six 67 ft cars. In 1926, the New York City Board of Transportation received bids for the lengthening of platforms at nine stations on the Broadway Line, including the Eighth Street station, to accommodate eight-car trains. Edwards & Flood submitted a low bid of $101,775 for the project. The platform-lengthening project was completed in 1927, bringing the length of the platforms to 535 feet.

The city government took over the BMT's operations on June 1, 1940. The station's overhaul in the late 1960s included extending the station platforms required for 10 car trains, and fixing the station's structure and the overall appearance (including the staircases and platform edges), replacing the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting to the 70's modern look wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights.

In 2001, the station received a state of repairs including upgrading the station for ADA compliance and restoring the original late 1910s tiling, repairing the staircases, re-tiling for the walls, new tiling on the floors, upgrading the station's lights and the public address system, installing ADA yellow safety threads along the platform edge, new signs, and new trackbeds in both directions.

In 2005, the artwork Tim Snell's Broadway Diary mosaics installed on the station platform wall titles in both directions.

Station layout

This underground station has four tracks and two side platforms. The inner two tracks are express tracks that do not serve the station.

Exits
The staffed fare control for each platform is at platform level at the center of each platform. There is no free transfer between directions. Outside of fare control, the northbound platform has one street stair to each eastern corner of Broadway and Eighth Street, while the southbound platform has two street stairs to each western corner of that intersection.

Near the southern ends of each platform, one stair ascends from each platform to an intermediate landing on each side. Each landing has an exit-only turnstile and a HEET turnstile. The exits then ascend to their respective northern corners of Broadway and Waverly Place (the southbound platform's exit to the northwest corner, the northbound platform's exit to the northeast corner).