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EMD SDP40F

The  EMD SDP40F was a six-axle 3000 hp C-C diesel–electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) from 1973 to 1974. Based on Santa Fe's EMD FP45, EMD built 150 for Amtrak, the operator of most intercity passenger trains in the United States. Amtrak, a private company but funded by the United States government, had begun operation in 1971 with a fleet of aging diesel locomotives inherited from various private railroads. The SDP40F was the first diesel locomotive built new for Amtrak and for a brief time they formed the backbone of the company's long-distance fleet.

A series of derailments in the mid-1970s shattered Amtrak's confidence in the locomotive, and many railroads banned it from their tracks. Multiple investigations pointed to issues with the locomotive's trucks, the weight of the water and steam generators used for train heating, the rough and poorly maintained tracks, or the harmonic vibration of baggage cars behind the locomotive. In 1977, Amtrak decided to retire the SDP40F in favor of the EMD F40PH, which was already in use on short-distance routes. Amtrak traded most of its fleet into EMD; the components were incorporated into new F40PHs. The remainder were traded to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) for use in freight service. The Santa Fe rebuilt the locomotives and designated them SDF40-2. The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF), successor to the Santa Fe, retired them in 2002. One of them is preserved, that one being ex-Amtrak No. 644.

Background
Amtrak assumed operation of most intercity rail passenger service in the United States on May 1, 1971. Until then such services were operated by various private railroads. The private railroads chose to retain their second generation passenger locomotives for freight service, or to operate the various commuter services which, by law, did not pass to Amtrak. To operate these intercity services the Amtrak had to buy or lease from the private railroads whatever locomotives remained. This left Amtrak with an aging and mechanically incompatible fleet of diesel locomotives. The mainstays of Amtrak's road diesel fleet were veteran E8s, E9s, F3Bs, F7s, and FP7s. These ranged from 7 to 24 years old and were due for replacement.

Design
The SDP40F was a full-width cowl unit. It was based on the EMD FP45 passenger locomotive and EMD SD40-2 freight locomotive. All three shared the EMD 645E3 diesel prime mover, which developed 3000 hp. The locomotive had a gear ratio of 57:20. Maximum speed at full horsepower was 94 mph; the locomotive exceeded 100 mph in tests. The SDP40F was fitted with a Leslie Controls SL4T (S4T) air horn. There were doubts at the time about Amtrak's long-term viability, so the locomotives were designed for easy conversion to freight locomotives should Amtrak cease operation.

In the early 1970s Amtrak's passenger car fleet was steam-heated; Amtrak's requirement called for two steam generators. These were located at the rear of the locomotive. Forward of the generators was a 1350 gal water tank. This tank rested above the floorline. The lateral motion of the water within was later implicated in several derailments. The primary underbody tank was split between water and diesel fuel, carrying 2150 gal of water and 2500 gal of diesel. Provision was made for eventual conversion to head-end power (HEP), but it was never carried out.

EMD based the SDP40F name on the existing SDP40. Several years earlier, EMD had made similar versions of the SDP45 and SD45 in a full-width cowl unit, which it named FP45 and F45. Although the SDP40F was externally nearly identical to the FP45, EMD chose not to give the new locomotive a similar name such as FP40. EMD wanted to avoid adding a new locomotive type to their catalog due to price controls in effect in the early 1970s. The following year, the F40C name was used for a similar locomotive ordered by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (the "Milwaukee Road"), equipped with HEP instead of steam generators.

There were several minor differences between the first 40 locomotives built and later examples. The most important was the installation of lower-profile cooling fans and air horns to avoid clearance problems in the Eastern US.

History
Amtrak ordered 150 SDP40Fs, in two batches. The first order, placed on November 2, 1972, was for 40 locomotives, at a cost of $18 million. A second order, for 110 locomotives at $50 million, followed on October 12, 1973. These orders were Amtrak's first for new-build locomotives. Amtrak deployed the original 40 locomotives on long-distance trains in the Western United States. The locomotives entered revenue service on June 22, 1973, hauling the Super Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. SDP40Fs were also used on the Burlington Northern Railroad. The arrival of the second order enabled Amtrak to deploy the SDP40Fs throughout the country, displacing the inherited E-units.

Derailments
In late 1975 J. David Ingles called the SDP40Fs the "stars of Amtrak's long-distance trains," but engine crews reported that the locomotives rode poorly compared to the E-units they had replaced. Even as Amtrak and EMD investigated the ride quality, the SDP40F was involved in a series of derailments that led to the end of its career as a passenger locomotive. Between 1974 and 1976 the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) identified thirteen incidents for which the locomotive was responsible. None of the incidents were serious, but their frequency was a concern. Most of the derailments occurred on trains with two SDP40Fs on the front and at least one trailing baggage car. While the rear truck of the second locomotive and the front truck of the baggage car were pinpointed as the source of the derailment, the actual cause of the derailments was unclear.

EMD, Amtrak, the Association of American Railroads (AAR), and the FRA tested the locomotive thoroughly, with suspicion falling on the "hollow bolster" truck design. In the end, the investigators theorized that the steam generators and water tank may have made the rear of the engine too heavy and created too much lateral motion. Later FRA investigations concluded that the actual culprit was the light weight of the baggage cars, which caused harmonic vibrations when placed directly behind the much heavier SDP40F. A contributing factor was the sometimes poor quality of track the locomotive operated over.

Amtrak took several corrective measures, including operating with a reduced speed on curves, emptying the smaller of the two water tanks to reduce lateral motion, and making various alterations to the trucks. The measures helped, but the trouble continued. Several railroads, including the Burlington and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O), banned the "rail breakers" from their tracks; they were suspected to be causing the spreading of rails because of their lateral swaying, which may have contributed to the derailments. For the Chicago–Seattle Empire Builder, the speed restrictions added 6 hours to what had been a 46-hour schedule. Another important development was the unusually harsh winter of 1976–1977, which sidelined many of Amtrak's aging steam-heated coaches. Amtrak suspended numerous routes and pressed the new HEP-equipped Amfleet I coaches, designed for short runs, into service. The new EMD F40PH, intended for short-distance service and equipped with HEP, handled these trains.

In the spring of 1977 Amtrak faced a power crisis. In addition to the SDP40Fs derailing, Amtrak was having trouble with two other six-axle designs. The GE E60CP and E60CH electric locomotives were having derailment problems. The GE P30CH had the same truck design as E60s and rode poorly, although it did not exhibit the same tendency to derail. Amtrak decided to abandon the SDP40F in favor of the F40PH, a four-axle design with none of the riding problems of the six-axle locomotives. Amtrak traded 40 SDP40Fs back to EMD. Components including the prime mover were installed into an F40PH's frame. Between 1977 and 1987 Amtrak traded 132 of the SDP40Fs back to EMD for F40PHRs. The SDP40F remained in service on the Santa Fe longer than elsewhere, although the arrival of HEP-equipped Superliner cars on the Western routes displaced them from there as well. The last SDP40Fs left the Amtrak roster in 1987. The remaining Amtrak SDP40Fs that weren't sold to the ATSF (seen below) are presumed to have been scrapped.

Freight use
In 1984 Amtrak, low on light-duty power, traded 18 SDP40Fs to the Santa Fe for 43 switchers: 25 CF7s and 18 SSB1200s. Santa Fe rebuilt the traded locomotives for freight use. Modifications included removing the steam generators and regearing for lower speed. The locomotives were also given front steps and platforms, and notched noses in order to improve boarding access. The rebuilt locomotives were designated SDF40-2. The SDF40-2s continued in service with the BNSF Railway, successor to the Santa Fe, until their retirement in 2002.

Preservation
One SDF40-2, ex-Amtrak No. 644, was acquired by Dynamic Rail Preservation Inc. and is in Boulder City, Nevada having been previously displayed in Ogden, Utah. It has been renumbered to its Santa Fe-era 6976 number and returned to operation in November 2019, now running on the Nevada Southern Railroad.

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See the Sea

See the Sea (original title: Regarde la mer) is a 1997 French thriller film written and directed by François Ozon and starring Sasha Hails as a young British mother living in a small seaside village in France who takes in a malevolent homeless drifter (played by Marina de Van) while her husband is away on business.

Plot
An Englishwoman named Sasha lives on France's Île d'Yeu with her husband, who is often away for business, and their infant daughter, Sioffra. One day a young female drifter appears at their door and asks Sasha for permission to pitch her tent in the garden. At first reserved and reluctant, Sasha eventually allows the drifter to camp in the yard. The women begin to develop a relationship with each other.

Sasha decides to go shopping and leaves Sioffra in the care of the drifter, though irritated by the latter's unusual behavior. When she returns to find everything in order, Sasha finally invites the drifter to sleep inside the house. That night, the drifter sneaks into Sasha's room and strips naked while watching her sleep.

Sasha's husband returns home the following day and finds the house empty. In the tent behind the house, he finds Sasha dead and bound, her vagina sewn shut. The drifter, now wearing Sasha's dress, carries the crying Sioffra on a ferry leaving the island.

Reception
See the Sea received positive reviews from critics. Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and compared it to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Cast

 * Sasha Hails as Sasha
 * Marina de Van as Tatiana
 * Samantha as Sioffra, The Baby
 * Paul Raoux as Sasha's Husband

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List of school songs

A school song, alma mater, school hymn or school anthem is the patronal song of a school. In England, this tradition is particularly strong in public schools and grammar schools.

Australia

 * Somerville House – Our God, Our Help in Ages Past
 * The Glennie School – Now Thank We All Our God
 * St Aloysius College – The Blue and Gold Forever

Canada

 * Bishop's College School – And did those feet in ancient time (Jerusalem) & Lennoxville Vivat Dicimus
 * Cape Breton University – "Rise Again"
 * Upper Canada College – Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven

England

 * Barnard Castle School – "Jerusalem"
 * Douai School - "Ad Multos Annos"
 * Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School – "Jerusalem"
 * Harrow School – "Forty Years On"
 * King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford – Jerusalem
 * Millfield School – Jerusalem
 * The London Oratory School - "Quam Bonum Est"
 * Oundle School – "Carmen Undeliense"
 * Reigate Grammar School – "To Be a Pilgrim"
 * Sherborne School - The Carmen
 * Stamford High School - “Within these walls of grey”
 * The Judd School – "And_did_those_feet_in_ancient_time"
 * The Skinners' School – "The Leopard Song"
 * Tonbridge School - "Of Him Who Dreamed of Founding"
 * William Hulme's Grammar School – "The Hulme Song" and "Jerusalem"

India

 * Carmel Convent High School, Durgapur – Within Thy Hallowed Portals Carmel Dear
 * Cathedral School, Lucknow – We'll Raise The Banner Of Our School, And See It Flying High
 * Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram – Cheer Loyola's sons
 * St. Ann's High School, Secunderabad – Scenes Of Our Childhood
 * St. Paul's School, Darjeeling – The Alma mater

New Zealand

 * Auckland Grammar School – Per Angusta Ad Augusta set to the music of A Mighty Fortress is Our God
 * Dilworth School – St Patrick's Breastplate

Pakistan

 * Pakistan School Song – This poem (prayer) was sung as school song in almost all the Pakistani schools.

Scotland

 * Royal High School – Vivas Schola Regia

Sri Lanka

 * Royal College, Colombo - "School of our Fathers"
 * St. Anthony's College, Kandy - "Rally Round the Banners of the College"

United States

 * College of William and Mary - "Our Alma Mater"
 * Cornell University – "Far Above Cayuga's Waters"
 * Columbia University – "Stand, Columbia"
 * Harvard University – "Fair Harvard"
 * Dartmouth College – "Dear Old Dartmouth"
 * Ohio State University - "Carmen Ohio"
 * Princeton University – "Old Nassau"
 * Rutgers University – "On the Banks of the Old Raritan"
 * San Jose State University — "San José State Alma Mater"
 * Syracuse University – "Syracuse University Alma Mater"
 * Texas A&M University – "Spirit of Aggieland"
 * University of California, Los Angeles – "Hail to the Hills of Westwood"
 * University of Florida – "We Are the Boys from Old Florida"
 * University of Georgia – "Glory, Glory"
 * University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign – "Illinois Loyalty", "Hail to the Orange"
 * University of Iowa – "Alma Mater Iowa"
 * University of Maine - "The Stein Song"
 * University of Miami – "Alma Mater: Stand Forever"
 * University of Michigan – "The Yellow and Blue"
 * University of Minnesota - “The Minnesota Rouser”, “Hail! Minnesota”
 * University of Nebraska-Lincoln - “Dear Old Nebraska U”
 * University of New Hampshire – "UNH Alma Mater"
 * University of North Carolina – "Hark the Sound"
 * University of North Dakota – "UND Alma Mater"
 * University of Texas at Austin – "The Eyes of Texas"
 * University of Virginia – "The Good Old Song"
 * University of Wisconsin – "Varsity (song)", "On, Wisconsin!"
 * Yale University - "Bright College Years"

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Le Mans (film)

Le Mans is a 1971 film depicting a fictional 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race starring Steve McQueen and directed by Lee H. Katzin. The film began as a John Sturges project, before he was replaced during filming. It features actual footage captured during the 1970 race held the previous June.

Plot
Top flight Le Mans racing driver Michael Delaney spots former rival Piero Belgetti's widow Lisa buying flowers in the days before the race. He drives to the scene of the accident that killed her husband the previous year. He has a flashback of Belgetti losing control of his Ferrari, forcing him to crash as well.

Like many others, Lisa appears to feel Delaney was responsible, at least in part, for the accident. At the race, she is understandably downcast while working through her emotions. In an awkward scene, Delaney looks for a place to sit in a nearly empty track commissary, only to ask Lisa if he may join her, claiming that it is the only seat left. There is obvious tension between them, but also respect and a hint of mutual attraction.

After 13 hours of racing, Erich Stahler spins his Ferrari 512 at Indianapolis Corner, causing teammate Claude Aurac to veer off the track in a major accident. Momentarily distracted by the flames of Aurac's car, Delaney reacts too late to safely avoid a slower car, striking the guardrail and bouncing several times across the road, striking the guardrails on each side of the road multiple times, totaling his Porsche 917. Both survive, but Aurac's injuries are extensive and he is medevaced to a hospital by helicopter. Lisa appears at the track clinic where Delaney is briefly treated. She is distraught at his crash, which stirs up emotions from Piero's passing she had been seeking to put in the past. Delaney consoles her and rescues her from a horde of reporters. After he puts her in a waiting car, a journalist asks Delaney whether his and Aurac's accident can be compared to the one with Belgetti in the previous year's race. Delaney merely stares him down.

Porsche driver Johann Ritter senses that his wife Anna would like for him to quit racing. He suggests it, thinking she will be overjoyed. She demurs and says she would like it only if he likes it. He chides her a bit about not being entirely honest. Later, the decision is taken out of his hands when team manager David Townsend replaces him for not being quick enough on the track. Anna tries to comfort him, reminding him that he was planning to quit anyway.

Lisa goes to Delaney's trailer to talk with him. After his brush with death, she is even more drawn to him and despairs that he may meet the same fate as her husband; but Delaney finds the thrill too addictive to quit. Townsend enters and asks him to take over driving Ritter's car. After a moment's unspoken communion with Lisa, he follows Townsend, who tells him, "Michael, I want you to drive flat out. I want Porsche to win Le Mans."

In the closing minutes of the race, the two Porsches and their rival Ferraris vie for the win, with Delaney in the #21 car and teammate Larry Wilson in #22. The Ferrari leading the race retires due to a flat tire, leaving Wilson in the lead and only Delaney's archrival, Stahler, to contend with. The faster pair quickly catches Wilson. Delaney passes Stahler for second place.

Slower traffic in his lane forces Delaney to brake, allowing Stahler to overtake on the left. Delaney drafts the German, then both move alongside Wilson. Delaney takes actions that seem intended to guarantee a 1–2 Porsche win rather than going for first himself. Rather than try to pass Wilson, then possibly Stahler, Delaney switches to the right lane and drafts Wilson, allowing both to pull up with Stahler. For good measure, Delaney bumps Stahler twice. When Stahler tries to pass again, Delaney steers toward him, looking likely to bump Stahler again and send him into the guard rail, forcing him to throttle back and brake to avoid that outcome, thus ensuring the desired 1–2 win for Porsche.

Cast

 * Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney, Le Mans driver for the Gulf Porsche team, in the #20 Porsche 917
 * Siegfried Rauch as Erich Stahler, Delaney's rival who drives for the Ferrari team's #8 Ferrari 512
 * Elga Andersen as Lisa Belgetti, widow of Delaney's former rival Piero Belgetti
 * Ronald Leigh-Hunt as David Townsend, the Gulf Porsche team crew chief
 * Fred Haltiner as Johann Ritter, Delaney's teammate who drives the #21 Porsche 917, in which Delaney finishes 2nd in
 * Luc Merenda as Claude Aurac, Stahler's teammate and driver of the #7 Ferrari 512 (English Debut by Frank Finlay)
 * Christopher Waite as Larry Wilson, Delaney's teammate who drives the #22 Porsche 917
 * Louise Edlind as Mrs. Anna Ritter, Ritter's wife
 * Angelo Infanti as Lugo Abratte, Stahler's teammate and driver of the #5 Ferrari 512, who almost wins the race
 * Jean-Claude Bercq as Paul-Jacques Dion, Wilson's partner for Le Mans, the other driver of the #22 Porsche 917
 * Michele Scalera as Vito Scalise, Stahler's teammate, Driver of the #6 Ferrari 512
 * Gino Cassani as Loretto Fuselli, the Ferrari team's crew chief
 * Alfred Bell as Tommy Hopkins
 * Carlo Cecchi as Paolo Scadenza

Production
Le Mans was filmed on location on the Le Mans circuit between June and November 1970, including during that season's actual 24 Hours of Le Mans race in mid-June. McQueen had intended to race a Porsche 917 together with Jackie Stewart, but the #26 entry was not accepted. Instead, he is depicted as starting the race in the blue #20 Gulf-Porsche 917K driven by Jo Siffert and Brian Redman. The race-leading white #25 Porsche 917 "Long tail" was piloted by Vic Elford and Kurt Ahrens Jr. The Porsche 908/2, which McQueen had previously co-driven to a second place in the 12 Hours of Sebring, was entered in the race by McQueen's Solar Productions, complete with heavy movie cameras capturing actual racing footage. This #29 camera car, which can be briefly seen in the starting grid covered with a black sheet (at approximately 17:51), and again at just before the 79-minute mark (at 1:18:42) racing past the starting line, was driven by Porsche's Herbert Linge and Jonathan Williams. It traveled 282 laps, or 3798 km, and finished the race in 9th position, but it was not classified, as it had not covered the required minimum distance due to the stops to change film reels. It did, however, manage to finish second in the P3.0 class.

Additional footage shot after the race used actual Porsche 917 and Ferrari 512s in competition liveries. In the crash scenes, comparatively expendable technologically obsolete Lola T70 chassis were fitted with replica Porsche and Ferrari bodywork.

Although depicted as the factory-backed Scuderia Ferrari team, the 512s used were borrowed from Belgian Ferrari distributor Jacques Swaters, after Enzo Ferrari balked at supplying cars due to the script's Porsche team victory. David Piper, driving a camera car 917K that had a camera seat removed, lost a part of a leg as a result of a crash during filming.

McQueen had wanted to employ Christopher Chapman's new multi-dynamic image technique in the film, as had been done at his instigation with The Thomas Crown Affair, in which he starred in 1968. Chapman advised against it, much to McQueen's disappointment; in Chapman's words, "It was much too big a film, with too many writers; it wouldn't work that way."

McQueen and John Sturges planned to make a movie called Day of the Champion, which was going to occur at the same time that Grand Prix was in production; lingering troubles with getting production to start meant that McQueen (who rejected an offer to star in Grand Prix) had to focus on other projects, such as The Sand Pebbles (1966). McQueen formed his own production company, Solar Productions, and came into association with Cinema Center Films to help make the film. Elements of the would-be movie would be re-used in Le Mans, which would start filming in 1970. Unfortunately, Sturges would drop out of the project when Cinema Center did not find the progress of the filming satisfactory (to the point that they wanted to replace McQueen with Robert Redford). Sturges was quoted as saying, "I'm too old and too rich" to put up with trouble. Alan Trustman, hired to write the film after having written for previous McQueen features, such as Bullitt (1968), suffered a falling out with McQueen and was fired from production, which would hinder further attempts in his scriptwriting career. Lee H. Katzin, known for television work, was brought in to finish the project, while McQueen, strapped for resources, had to strike a deal with Cinema Center that saw him lose creative control.

Reception
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 71% based on 14 reviews.

Documentary
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans is a 2015 documentary film detailing the actor's quest to make the 1971 film Le Mans, complete with interviews from his then-wife Neile Adams McQueen, co-stars Louise Edlind and Siegfried Rauch, and McQueen's son Chad McQueen. It also includes recordings from John Sturges and Steve McQueen.

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Talk:Mail Call (TV series)

Another feature of the show are the small commentaries by Ermey just before the commercial breaks, where he speaks to the audience using military jargon like: "I'm not done with you maggot!" or "Sneaking off to the kitchen? Not on my watch!".

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Separate
Seems like this could be three separate articles: 1) the actually military custom, 2) the older program, and 3) Ermey's-- Gen. Bedford his Forest 11:33, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Divide

 * 1) Mail Call (radio) - 1940s WWII radio variety program
 * 2) Mail Call (tv) - The R. Lee Emery one
 * 3) Mail Call (military) - Mail Call and its significance for military life  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.18.175.49 (talk) 01:18, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

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Talk:Twins in mythology

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I've been searching various databases for weeks, and so far I've come up zilch, so I would like to ask the Wikipedia community what they know about this subject:

I hear there's an old superstition among Asian and/or Latino communities that people used to view boy/girl fraternal twins as bad. Sometimes, the birthday of one of the twins is changed so that people wouldn't know that they were twins.

So far, I just have a few confirmations from international people, and I'm not quite sure if they're pulling my leg. Any references would be extremely helpful.

Thanks.

---Artiste

External Link at bottom is dead

---Ruben —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.138.106.7 (talk) 20:19, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

The term "aboriginal" is ambiguous, as it contains no intrinsic geographical context. If this refers to indigenous Australian mythology the article should be changed to reflect this accurately. --Basswaster (talk) 15:51, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

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Avoiding twin foods
The article states that Native Americans avoid eating twin foods such as almonds and bananas. But given that both are native to the Old World, these are post-Columbian adoptions and thus not exactly mythology. If there are credible examples of Native Americans avoiding twin foods that are from the Americas, then the avoidance would be more believable.

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dyngus and smygus polish twin gods pre Christianity
Should they be added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:14F:8006:3BE0:54EB:C5A5:8084:1AD0 (talk) 18:42, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

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Gilgamesh and enkidu
Gilgamesh and Enkidu aren't twins. Why are they mentioned in the opening paragraph? It would make more sense to replace them with a pair representing opposites that are related (Maybe apollo/artemis representing sun/moon? I don't know much about mythology) 83.45.135.110 (talk) 14:51, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

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Hiawatha Music Festival

The Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival is a music festival held each year in Marquette, Michigan during the next-to-last full weekend of July and features traditional, acoustic and American music. Each year's main-stage line-up can include bluegrass, old-time, Cajun, Celtic, acoustic blues, Gospel, etc. The line-up includes national, regional and local performers, and singers/songwriters are always featured. The Festival also includes music and activities designed for teens and children. An arts and crafts show sponsored by a local art organization is held in conjunction with the Festival. The Hiawatha Festival began in 1979 in Champion, Michigan. Since 1984, the Festival has been held at the Marquette Tourist Park, a campground along the Dead River.

The Hiawatha Music Festival is conducted by the Hiawatha Music N-n Profit Corporation, 501(c)3 non-profit commonly known as the Hiawatha Music Co-op.

The festival closed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Then in 2021 a virtual concert was held. The concert returned to in-person operations in 2022.

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Petite Princess Yucie

Petite Princess Yucie (ぷちぷり＊ユーシィ) is an anime series, which was produced by Gainax, aired from 2002 to 2003, and ran for 26 episodes. The story centers on Yucie, a 17-year-old who is trapped in a 10-year-old's body, and follows her and her friends, all of whom are designated as Platinum Princess candidates. A Platinum Princess receives the Eternal Tiara, which grants any wish, but only to the one it judges worthy and only one wish. The anime was licensed by ADV Films in North America. As of September 1, 2009, the series is now licensed by ADV's successor, AEsir Holdings; with distribution from Section23 Films.

Plot summary
Petite Princess Yucie follows the adventures of country-girl Yucie as she is admitted by chance to the prestigious Princess Academy, where the daughters of royalty and nobles attend to learn magic, dance, etiquette, defense, art and music. There, she experiences many things in her quest to collect the "fragments" of the Eternal Tiara in hopes that she may become the legendary Platinum Princess, who is chosen every 1,000 years. Yucie, along with the four other Princess candidates who are initially her rivals but are won over by her offer of friendship, must grow in heart—if not in height—to become worthy of the Tiara. Yucie is a spunky heroine who is a genius of smiles, and who, despite her common lifestyle, is actually the daughter of a noble and former hero who has retreated from courtly life and lives in the countryside. She was discovered as a baby when Gunbard, the former Hero found her in the middle of a battle.

The fragments take the form of Crystal Flowers and are scattered throughout the five worlds; Human, Demon, Heaven, Spirit, and Fairy. Strangely enough, the five candidates Yucie, Glenda, Elmina, Cocoloo and Beth are representatives of these five existing worlds in this story's universe. As the legend goes, once the Eternal Tiara is complete, it will select the Princess from the worthy candidates and can grant her one wish. Unknown to the candidates and the viewers, until almost the very end, is the sad history of the Eternal Tiara and the inevitable fate of the Platinum Princess and all the other candidates.

Blindly pursuing what is her heart's lifelong desire, to finally grow up and be treated and respected like an adult, Yucie must prove her worthiness to the Tiara and sets out to do many odd jobs as part of the Academy's special Curriculum (NOTE: community service) for the candidates, such as tending flowers, babysitting a giant fluff ball, helping to run an old church, helping to run a bakery, and overseeing a kindergarten picnic. Each task seems easy at first but problems abound in every episode. The girls must overcome all obstacles and complete their tasks, no matter how daunting, in their petite bodies. The viewers later discover that all the candidates are under the same 10-year-old "curse" and their rivalry quickly turns into admiration for one another's determination in reaching their common goal. Yucie and her friends each have a reason for desperately wanting to become the Platinum Princess.

In a side-story arc, Yucie is also hoping to find clues about the lost prince of the Human realm, who once saved her life while she was lost in the forest, looking for Sunset Blossoms, and whom she wishes to meet in person some day to thank him. Her memory of him is vague, and he was an adolescent at the time, so she has no idea what he may look like now or what kind of person he's become. When she encounters a young man named Arc during one of her odd jobs who looks so familiar to her, she has conflicted feelings. Arc is rude, patronizing, unfeeling and insensitive but she feels drawn to him somehow. The prince was her childhood romantic ideal, but her seventeen-year-old heart falls for Arc. To the relief of viewers who hate love triangles, Arc is actually Prince Arrow in disguise.

As the girls continue to grow emotionally, their Platinum Princess candidate pendants grow in beauty and brightness as well, reflecting how much wisdom they have obtained. Towards the final story arc, Yucie and the others finally realize why the Fairy World princess was so troubled and uncooperative when Beth reveals that her father, King of the Fairy Realm, is dying. The girls are resolved in helping their friend and saving the Fairy Realm by defeating the ancient evil Diablo who threatens the existence of all the worlds. With the combined help of their stewards and friends, the girls succeed with the power they obtained as candidates, but the prince is badly injured.

The final story arc begins with the final test in which a magical judge will oversee the Tiara's choice. Yucie's only wish now is to save the prince with the power of the Tiara.

Upon entering the place of judgment, Yucie and her friends meet a mysterious figure, wrapped in a tattered brown cloak. The judge's identity is hinted at when she uses her magic staff to change all of the candidates' clothing similar to her own. Out of friendship for Yucie, and to support her wish to save Prince Arrow, Glenda, Cocoloo, Elmina, and Beth all renounce their candidacy, making Yucie the only choice. The Tiara accepts Yucie as its new master. However, in one final twist, the girls realize that those not chosen by the Tiara will simply vanish. Yucie refuses to accept the Tiara when she learns this, and tells the others she is determined to save the Prince some other way, as she cannot sacrifice her friends in the process.

After careful thought, Glenda, Cocoloo, Elmina, and Beth ask the judge to erase Yucie's memories of them, so that she can return to the Human Realm in time to save the prince. In a tearful final goodbye, Glenda, perhaps Yucie's strongest rival, tells her to never forget to be her cheerful self. After Yucie leaves, the remaining four sketch a portrait of themselves and Yucie on a stone slab, in remembrance of their friendship, and disappear.

Yucie returns to save Prince Arrow and collapses from exhaustion. The Eternal Tiara disappears after its owner makes her wish, its immense power quelled by Yucie's strength of heart, and history repeats itself. Yucie awakens to the keen sense that she has lost something of great importance to her, but cannot remember what. Her father, Gunbard, feels responsible for her misery, since he was the one who put the Tiara together and restarted the Legend in their lifetime. With the help of the fathers of the missing girls, he opens the gateway to the place of judgment so Yucie and Prince Arrow can retrieve what was lost.

Yucie faces the cloaked figure once more and demands that what was lost be returned. The viewers discover that the ruined empty world that was the place of judgment is actually the lost Magic World, a sixth realm in this story's universe. The judge was actually a Platinum Princess Candidate 1,000 years ago, a princess of the Magic Realm, who refused the Tiara to save her friends, but lost her friends and her world to destruction as a result.

Yucie stumbles across Cocoloo's drawing, which breaks the judge's spell and unlocks all of her memories. The princess of the Magic Realm chides Yucie for not accepting her fate, but Yucie tells her how important friends are, as they are her true strength, and recalls all the great moments she had with each of them. With her power as the Platinum Princess, her tears shine brightly on the ground, causing a miracle.

All the spirits of the Magic Realm rush to Yucie, who can now hear them. She tells the princess of the Magic Realm that all who died there still love her, and that they have always been with her these 1,000 years, and they never regretted fighting alongside her to the very end. The judge realizes that she had never been alone and that she had made the right choice in trying to save her friends. Yucie's power covers the ground with Sunset Blossoms, and a Crystal Flower emerges from the ground to the hands of the Princess of the Magic Realm. The 6th and final fragment is added to the Eternal Tiara. Together, the former and present Plantinum Princess combine their strength to make Yucie's wish come true. The Magic Realm finally collapses after its last princess, smiling with joy, disappears.

In the end, Yucie and her fellow former candidates are readmitted into the Academy for further study. With the curse lifted, and the Eternal Tiara again fragmented and sealed, they can finally grow up normally and enjoy their mutual friendship at their own pace.

Platinum Princess Candidates

 * Yucie (ユーシィ)
 * Similar to the classic Princess Maker tradition, Yucie was found as an infant by the knight Gunbard after a battle, and became his adopted daughter. Due to an unknown curse, she stopped growing at the age of ten, and looks like a child although she is now seventeen. Yucie is very cheerful and gregarious, but she has a very strong desire to break her curse and become an adult. One of the reasons is that she often feels that being small in size is a hinder to others, thus wishing to grow up. Yucie becomes a Platinum Princess candidate after she sees the light of the Eternal Tiara, which is not visible to others. It is also said that she is the princess of the Human World, as shown in the last episode. Although there is no evidence to prove it, her adoptive father, Gunbard, recognizes her as the princess of the collapsed castle during the battle he lastly involved, as he saw Yucie descending on a forest near the ruins. When she met Arc, she got mad at him for calling her huge forehead but falls in love with him later on. She starts to recognize Arc as the prince who saved her when as a child. Her theme color is orange.
 * Similar to the classic Princess Maker tradition, Yucie was found as an infant by the knight Gunbard after a battle, and became his adopted daughter. Due to an unknown curse, she stopped growing at the age of ten, and looks like a child although she is now seventeen. Yucie is very cheerful and gregarious, but she has a very strong desire to break her curse and become an adult. One of the reasons is that she often feels that being small in size is a hinder to others, thus wishing to grow up. Yucie becomes a Platinum Princess candidate after she sees the light of the Eternal Tiara, which is not visible to others. It is also said that she is the princess of the Human World, as shown in the last episode. Although there is no evidence to prove it, her adoptive father, Gunbard, recognizes her as the princess of the collapsed castle during the battle he lastly involved, as he saw Yucie descending on a forest near the ruins. When she met Arc, she got mad at him for calling her huge forehead but falls in love with him later on. She starts to recognize Arc as the prince who saved her when as a child. Her theme color is orange.

 * Glenda (グレンダ)
 * As Princess of the Demon World (Underworld), Glenda was fiercely competitive and has strong magical powers. She immediately butted heads with Yucie, her rival to become the Platinum Princess. Glenda was a bragger who frequently proclaims herself as"fantastic" and "elegant", and was also often selfish, jealous, and temperamental. But she has a sweet side which she tries to hide, when they went to Underworld when the Kobolds welcomed them, and eventually becomes very close friends with Yucie (perhaps, even overly protective of her), even though she denies to admit it. Throughout her friendship with her new friends, she changes to more honestly enjoy friendship and have fun with her friends. She is seventeen, but like the others, has the body of a ten-year-old, although she looks rather developed. She desires to be the platinum princess because she wishes to become an adult. She believes if she becomes an adult, her dad will do his job as lord of the Demon World properly, her mother would return, and she would have the power to protect all of the demons living in the demon world. Her theme color is red.
 * As Princess of the Demon World (Underworld), Glenda was fiercely competitive and has strong magical powers. She immediately butted heads with Yucie, her rival to become the Platinum Princess. Glenda was a bragger who frequently proclaims herself as"fantastic" and "elegant", and was also often selfish, jealous, and temperamental. But she has a sweet side which she tries to hide, when they went to Underworld when the Kobolds welcomed them, and eventually becomes very close friends with Yucie (perhaps, even overly protective of her), even though she denies to admit it. Throughout her friendship with her new friends, she changes to more honestly enjoy friendship and have fun with her friends. She is seventeen, but like the others, has the body of a ten-year-old, although she looks rather developed. She desires to be the platinum princess because she wishes to become an adult. She believes if she becomes an adult, her dad will do his job as lord of the Demon World properly, her mother would return, and she would have the power to protect all of the demons living in the demon world. Her theme color is red.

 * Cocoloo (ココルー)
 * Cocoloo is a soft-spoken young woman who becomes Yucie's friend very early in the series. She is a fellow student at the Princess Academy (later revealed to be the Princess of the Spirit World), who wears tiny spectacles at the end of her nose, with her chief characteristics being self-effacing, self-humiliating and gentle. Cocoloo is so gentle that she is often ignored and talked-over by the much louder Yucie and Glenda, which causes Cocoloo to lament that she "has no presence after all" (Which is rather ironic, as Cocoloo is the princess of the Spirit World). However, Cocoloo is amazingly kind and encouraging towards her friends, which makes an impression on everyone who gets to know her. She also suffers from a curse that makes her look ten, even though she is seventeen. Due to her being a Spirit, almost all physical attacks are useless on her, just as shown when Diabolos' tentacle tried in vain to impale her. Her theme color is blue.
 * Cocoloo is a soft-spoken young woman who becomes Yucie's friend very early in the series. She is a fellow student at the Princess Academy (later revealed to be the Princess of the Spirit World), who wears tiny spectacles at the end of her nose, with her chief characteristics being self-effacing, self-humiliating and gentle. Cocoloo is so gentle that she is often ignored and talked-over by the much louder Yucie and Glenda, which causes Cocoloo to lament that she "has no presence after all" (Which is rather ironic, as Cocoloo is the princess of the Spirit World). However, Cocoloo is amazingly kind and encouraging towards her friends, which makes an impression on everyone who gets to know her. She also suffers from a curse that makes her look ten, even though she is seventeen. Due to her being a Spirit, almost all physical attacks are useless on her, just as shown when Diabolos' tentacle tried in vain to impale her. Her theme color is blue.

 * Elmina (エルミナ)
 * As the Princess of Heaven (Celestial Realm), Elmina wears white robes and has wings. Elmina is very studious and fastidious, even emotionless and monotonous voice, and a bit of a humorless goody-two-shoes. When she was younger, her stern father (who is the King of Heaven) would not tolerate imperfection. Elmina tries very hard to be perfect, and she is also very hard on herself whenever she makes a mistake. Once she made a mistake or is fail, she will be depressed and lose her confidence to keep going, because of her sad memories with her father in the past, leading her to have an emotionless expression. With her new friends at the Princess Academy, Elmina slowly learns to be more secure and not to give up, even when she fails. Elmina is also the tallest of the 5 candidates. Looks ten, but is actually seventeen as a result of the same curse. Her theme color is pink.
 * As the Princess of Heaven (Celestial Realm), Elmina wears white robes and has wings. Elmina is very studious and fastidious, even emotionless and monotonous voice, and a bit of a humorless goody-two-shoes. When she was younger, her stern father (who is the King of Heaven) would not tolerate imperfection. Elmina tries very hard to be perfect, and she is also very hard on herself whenever she makes a mistake. Once she made a mistake or is fail, she will be depressed and lose her confidence to keep going, because of her sad memories with her father in the past, leading her to have an emotionless expression. With her new friends at the Princess Academy, Elmina slowly learns to be more secure and not to give up, even when she fails. Elmina is also the tallest of the 5 candidates. Looks ten, but is actually seventeen as a result of the same curse. Her theme color is pink.

 * Beth (ベス)
 * Beth is the princess of the fairy world. She is very athletic, stubborn, and has strong magical powers (The helmet she wears acts as an amplifier for her magic). Although she is also a Platinum Princess candidate, she left the Princess Academy after an evil force named Diabolos attacked her world. She is so determined to become the Platinum Princess that she once kidnapped Cocoloo and tries to force her to give up on her candidacy. As a result of difficulties she is suffering in her world, she refuses the offers of friendship from the other girls and regards them as her enemies. Due to this attitude, the residents of the fairy world regard her as dangerous. However, after many meetings with the other girls, Beth learns to open up and accepts the other candidates' friendship, for which the most thanks can go to Cocoloo. Diabolos was later defeated by the power of the heart of Yucie, Elmina, Cocoloo, Glenda and herself. Her father in a form of tree which supports the fairy world and trapped Diabolos inside him before the girls came to help defeat it, with Arc hurt. She also suffers from a curse that traps her in a ten-year-old's body, even though she is actually seventeen. Her theme color is green.
 * Beth is the princess of the fairy world. She is very athletic, stubborn, and has strong magical powers (The helmet she wears acts as an amplifier for her magic). Although she is also a Platinum Princess candidate, she left the Princess Academy after an evil force named Diabolos attacked her world. She is so determined to become the Platinum Princess that she once kidnapped Cocoloo and tries to force her to give up on her candidacy. As a result of difficulties she is suffering in her world, she refuses the offers of friendship from the other girls and regards them as her enemies. Due to this attitude, the residents of the fairy world regard her as dangerous. However, after many meetings with the other girls, Beth learns to open up and accepts the other candidates' friendship, for which the most thanks can go to Cocoloo. Diabolos was later defeated by the power of the heart of Yucie, Elmina, Cocoloo, Glenda and herself. Her father in a form of tree which supports the fairy world and trapped Diabolos inside him before the girls came to help defeat it, with Arc hurt. She also suffers from a curse that traps her in a ten-year-old's body, even though she is actually seventeen. Her theme color is green.

Supporting

 * Gunbard (ガンバード)
 * Gunbard was the person who found the Yucie as an infant after a battle in which he led personally and raised her as his own daughter. He was once a legendary knight who completed an impossible task, and is often referred to as "the Hero Gunbard". But now he spends all his time doting and spoiling Yucie and is always cooking her large amounts of food which she does not always appreciate. Gunbard, fondly called "Papa" by Yucie, may have a mysterious connection with Queen Ercell as well as one to the Eternal Tiara itself. It is found out later that he is the one to have completed the Eternal Tiara, which was then separated in different parts and scattered around the different worlds, which he conquered the challenges and assembled it. At the same time, it was found out later that he was the first lover of Queen Ercell. This is also the reason why he wanted to complete the Eternal Tiara, so that he can gain a title, enough estate and knighthood in order to propose to Ercell. However, when he returned upon the completion of the Tiara, he found out that Ercell has already married (to the man who became King) and already had a son. Disheartened, he left Ercell's armor and sword in the palace and he continues to serve the kingdom until he met Yucie in the middle of a forest during a battle and quits his career to raise her. Gunbard may be Arc's biological father, which the old man denies. He once denied it, but may have simply wanted Arc to remember the King as his "real" father, since he was the one who raised and cared for him, just as Gunbard is Yucie's "real" father. Contrary to popular belief, he is not blind, just he was never shown opening his eyes, except when he found Yucie. He owns the house near the lake on the edge of a forest, which he built for him and Ercell, but not comes into fruition. He also has a very cheerful and positive attitude, even though Yucie hates his caring attitude. He only shows his serious attitude, when he was informed about his daughter's problem.
 * Gunbard was the person who found the Yucie as an infant after a battle in which he led personally and raised her as his own daughter. He was once a legendary knight who completed an impossible task, and is often referred to as "the Hero Gunbard". But now he spends all his time doting and spoiling Yucie and is always cooking her large amounts of food which she does not always appreciate. Gunbard, fondly called "Papa" by Yucie, may have a mysterious connection with Queen Ercell as well as one to the Eternal Tiara itself. It is found out later that he is the one to have completed the Eternal Tiara, which was then separated in different parts and scattered around the different worlds, which he conquered the challenges and assembled it. At the same time, it was found out later that he was the first lover of Queen Ercell. This is also the reason why he wanted to complete the Eternal Tiara, so that he can gain a title, enough estate and knighthood in order to propose to Ercell. However, when he returned upon the completion of the Tiara, he found out that Ercell has already married (to the man who became King) and already had a son. Disheartened, he left Ercell's armor and sword in the palace and he continues to serve the kingdom until he met Yucie in the middle of a forest during a battle and quits his career to raise her. Gunbard may be Arc's biological father, which the old man denies. He once denied it, but may have simply wanted Arc to remember the King as his "real" father, since he was the one who raised and cared for him, just as Gunbard is Yucie's "real" father. Contrary to popular belief, he is not blind, just he was never shown opening his eyes, except when he found Yucie. He owns the house near the lake on the edge of a forest, which he built for him and Ercell, but not comes into fruition. He also has a very cheerful and positive attitude, even though Yucie hates his caring attitude. He only shows his serious attitude, when he was informed about his daughter's problem.

 * Cube (キューブ)
 * A demon and a loyal steward to both Yucie and her father, Gunbard, Cube is able to summon magical items through sorcery and paying a magic hand with gold coins, with which he helps Yucie out in several occasions. He is one of Yucie's best friends. During the story, we learn that Cube was formerly Glenda's steward, but has been banished from the Demon World by her (Glenda's) mother for unknown reason. He was found by Gunbard and he serves his family as a steward, especially to Yucie which he serves loyally.
 * A demon and a loyal steward to both Yucie and her father, Gunbard, Cube is able to summon magical items through sorcery and paying a magic hand with gold coins, with which he helps Yucie out in several occasions. He is one of Yucie's best friends. During the story, we learn that Cube was formerly Glenda's steward, but has been banished from the Demon World by her (Glenda's) mother for unknown reason. He was found by Gunbard and he serves his family as a steward, especially to Yucie which he serves loyally.

 * Queen Ercell (エルセル女王)
 * Queen Ercell, in addition to being queen, is also the principal of the Princess Academy, and the keeper of the Eternal Tiara. She is in charge of finding the Platinum Princess candidates and guiding them through their tasks, as well leading other princesses and noble's daughters. She clearly seems to recognize Gunbard by the gasp she makes when Yucie announces she is his daughter to Queen Ercell, but what connection Queen Ercell might have remains is kept somewhat mysterious for much of the series. But Gunbard was actually Ercell's former lover many years ago. Gunbard went to gather the parts of the Eternal Tiara in all 5 worlds so that he becomes a knight would be able to marry Ercell, as he was just a commoner with a small patch of land, to his dismay, when he returned, Ercell was already married and has a child.
 * Queen Ercell, in addition to being queen, is also the principal of the Princess Academy, and the keeper of the Eternal Tiara. She is in charge of finding the Platinum Princess candidates and guiding them through their tasks, as well leading other princesses and noble's daughters. She clearly seems to recognize Gunbard by the gasp she makes when Yucie announces she is his daughter to Queen Ercell, but what connection Queen Ercell might have remains is kept somewhat mysterious for much of the series. But Gunbard was actually Ercell's former lover many years ago. Gunbard went to gather the parts of the Eternal Tiara in all 5 worlds so that he becomes a knight would be able to marry Ercell, as he was just a commoner with a small patch of land, to his dismay, when he returned, Ercell was already married and has a child.

 * Arc (アルク)
 * Arc is a mysterious young man dressed in a cape and fedora. He first meets Yucie when he seeks shelter at a church at which she is temporarily working. It turns out that he is being sought by the castle guards, which alarms Yucie. Although Yucie is very saucy towards Arc, she finds herself drawn to him. Arc heroically saves Yucie when they encounter a demon from the Demon World. He also calls her "Huge Forehead" to tease her about her big forehead, much to her consternation. After kissing her on her forehead a few times, he finally gives her a real kiss, which is witnessed by her friends. Arc is also hunting for the one that first put together the Eternal Tiara, which he feels will lead him to his real father. In reality, he is Prince Arrow, son of Queen Ercell. This is in fact the reason he is being sought by guards, as he escaped from the castle to find his 'biological father'. At the same time, he is the prince that once saved Yucie when she was in danger when they were small. Later on, it was shown that Arc also has feelings for Yucie. He defeated what the Magic World failed and Fairy King failed to seal, but not being corrupted by it. Yucie used the Eternal Tiara to cure him of the curse.
 * Arc is a mysterious young man dressed in a cape and fedora. He first meets Yucie when he seeks shelter at a church at which she is temporarily working. It turns out that he is being sought by the castle guards, which alarms Yucie. Although Yucie is very saucy towards Arc, she finds herself drawn to him. Arc heroically saves Yucie when they encounter a demon from the Demon World. He also calls her "Huge Forehead" to tease her about her big forehead, much to her consternation. After kissing her on her forehead a few times, he finally gives her a real kiss, which is witnessed by her friends. Arc is also hunting for the one that first put together the Eternal Tiara, which he feels will lead him to his real father. In reality, he is Prince Arrow, son of Queen Ercell. This is in fact the reason he is being sought by guards, as he escaped from the castle to find his 'biological father'. At the same time, he is the prince that once saved Yucie when she was in danger when they were small. Later on, it was shown that Arc also has feelings for Yucie. He defeated what the Magic World failed and Fairy King failed to seal, but not being corrupted by it. Yucie used the Eternal Tiara to cure him of the curse.

 * Gaga (ガガ)
 * Gaga is Glenda's steward. He is a seven-foot-tall black-bodied cat-like demon with long, silver hair. This very old man demon has occasional accidents when his hip goes out and can make long-winded lectures that can put anyone listening to sleep, much to his annoyance, which Cube got the most number of punishments. Always loyal without question, Gaga takes great pride in being a steward. He also has the ability to transform into a black, red-eyed cat with bat-like wings. He replaced Cube as Glenda's steward earlier when the former was banished by the Demon Queen. He also neither hates nor likes Cube for the latter's absence in the Demon World and sees him serving a lowly Human.
 * Gaga is Glenda's steward. He is a seven-foot-tall black-bodied cat-like demon with long, silver hair. This very old man demon has occasional accidents when his hip goes out and can make long-winded lectures that can put anyone listening to sleep, much to his annoyance, which Cube got the most number of punishments. Always loyal without question, Gaga takes great pride in being a steward. He also has the ability to transform into a black, red-eyed cat with bat-like wings. He replaced Cube as Glenda's steward earlier when the former was banished by the Demon Queen. He also neither hates nor likes Cube for the latter's absence in the Demon World and sees him serving a lowly Human.

 * Chawoo (チャウ)
 * Cocoloo's steward. Chawoo is a ghost who often hides in her shadow, so the other characters do not meet him until well into the series. He is very devoted to Cocoloo and will always defend her. However, being too devoted to Cocoloo, he is often seem extremely exaggerating events to others, even to much of the extent of lying, and always transforming as Cocoloo, trying to fool Nikolai and fooling the denizens of the Spirit World of his master's experiences in the Human World. He speaks with a heavy Kansai dialect.
 * Cocoloo's steward. Chawoo is a ghost who often hides in her shadow, so the other characters do not meet him until well into the series. He is very devoted to Cocoloo and will always defend her. However, being too devoted to Cocoloo, he is often seem extremely exaggerating events to others, even to much of the extent of lying, and always transforming as Cocoloo, trying to fool Nikolai and fooling the denizens of the Spirit World of his master's experiences in the Human World. He speaks with a heavy Kansai dialect.

 * Belbel (ベルベル)
 * Belbel is a very cute little Tinkerbell-like fairy who is Beth's steward. While she is obedient to Beth, she also tries to talk Beth into giving the other girls a chance which actually ends up working in the end. Most of her sentences end with "desu" (です, "yes" in the English dub).
 * Belbel is a very cute little Tinkerbell-like fairy who is Beth's steward. While she is obedient to Beth, she also tries to talk Beth into giving the other girls a chance which actually ends up working in the end. Most of her sentences end with "desu" (です, "yes" in the English dub).

 * Balizan (バリザん)
 * Balizan is a golden-colored robot who is charged bring Elmina's steward. He also acts like a parent on Elmina, due to the King of the Heaven strives his daughter to be perfect and his duty to be a perfect being.
 * Balizan is a golden-colored robot who is charged bring Elmina's steward. He also acts like a parent on Elmina, due to the King of the Heaven strives his daughter to be perfect and his duty to be a perfect being.

 * Drago (ドラゴ)
 * A very old and wise dragon, that lives in the lake near Yucie's home. He is a friend to Yucie. It was revealed that he was formerly a resident from Hell, but left and settled on a lake near Gunbard's estate. His whole body was revealed while holding Diabolos along with Arc/Arrow while the princesses made an idea to defeat the curse. Has a dragon hatchling alongside him named Jing.
 * A very old and wise dragon, that lives in the lake near Yucie's home. He is a friend to Yucie. It was revealed that he was formerly a resident from Hell, but left and settled on a lake near Gunbard's estate. His whole body was revealed while holding Diabolos along with Arc/Arrow while the princesses made an idea to defeat the curse. Has a dragon hatchling alongside him named Jing.

 * Demon King (魔王)
 * Glenda's father, he is pleasant and cheerful. He is an extremely doting father, much to the disgust of Glenda, which wants her father to be the Demon King he is, a strict and powerful leader. He also has a collection of orbs that contains recorded scenes from his daughter's achievements, in which he obsessively cherishes. He doesn't even know Cube was banished in Hell. Always suffers back pains, which Cube massages.
 * Glenda's father, he is pleasant and cheerful. He is an extremely doting father, much to the disgust of Glenda, which wants her father to be the Demon King he is, a strict and powerful leader. He also has a collection of orbs that contains recorded scenes from his daughter's achievements, in which he obsessively cherishes. He doesn't even know Cube was banished in Hell. Always suffers back pains, which Cube massages.

 * King of Heaven (天界王)
 * Elmina's father, he is strict. He wants his daughter to be perfect, to the point of being disappointed seeing her failure. But he smiled when reading a letter from Elmina, revealing that he cares for his daughter.
 * Elmina's father, he is strict. He wants his daughter to be perfect, to the point of being disappointed seeing her failure. But he smiled when reading a letter from Elmina, revealing that he cares for his daughter.

 * Fairy King (妖精王)
 * Beth's father. To protect Fairy World from Diabolos, the Fairy King turned himself into a giant tree to seal it. He is also a handsome, green-haired man. Reveals his true form during Yucie's dream.
 * Beth's father. To protect Fairy World from Diabolos, the Fairy King turned himself into a giant tree to seal it. He is also a handsome, green-haired man. Reveals his true form during Yucie's dream.

 * Spirit King (霊界王)
 * Spirit King
 * Leader of the Spirit World and Cocoloo's father. He was shown in Yucie's dream and seen always covering his face with a book.

 * Frederick
 * Queen Ercell's personal bodyguard, currently in charge of searching for the Prince, who turns out to be Arc/Arrow. Loyal and reliable, he even let the prince do what he wants, even letting him and Yucie escape.
 * Queen Ercell's personal bodyguard, currently in charge of searching for the Prince, who turns out to be Arc/Arrow. Loyal and reliable, he even let the prince do what he wants, even letting him and Yucie escape.

 * Maga Selent
 * A mysterious identity that watches the Platinum Princess Candidates and maintains Queen Ercell's mediator. But it was later revealed that she was a Platinum Princess and she is the last survivor of an ancient kingdom, centered in magic that was destroyed by the same corruption called Diabolos more than a thousand that almost befell Beth's kingdom. She was cursed to live until the next Princess will be revealed. She blamed herself over the loss of her friends and her world, but comforted by the very same souls of her friends that never blame her for their demise. For that, she was released in her cursed kid's body.
 * A mysterious identity that watches the Platinum Princess Candidates and maintains Queen Ercell's mediator. But it was later revealed that she was a Platinum Princess and she is the last survivor of an ancient kingdom, centered in magic that was destroyed by the same corruption called Diabolos more than a thousand that almost befell Beth's kingdom. She was cursed to live until the next Princess will be revealed. She blamed herself over the loss of her friends and her world, but comforted by the very same souls of her friends that never blame her for their demise. For that, she was released in her cursed kid's body.

 * Diabolos
 * The series' main antagonist. Causes Maga Selent's kingdom to collapse when he corrupts it. The Fairy King seals him in a tree when he tried to corrupt the Fairy World. Dies when Arrow/Arc defeats him, but not making him suffer a corrupting wound.
 * The series' main antagonist. Causes Maga Selent's kingdom to collapse when he corrupts it. The Fairy King seals him in a tree when he tried to corrupt the Fairy World. Dies when Arrow/Arc defeats him, but not making him suffer a corrupting wound.

Production
Takami Akai, the character designer for the Princess Maker series of games (also by Gainax), was the character designer and original creator for Yucie. Thus, there are many similarities between characters in the Princess Maker games and this series. Of note, Yucie's appearance is based on Lisa, the daughter from Princess Maker 3; the judge in the final episode has the same appearance as Maria, the daughter from Princess Maker 1; and the young Queen Ercell has the same appearance as Olive, the daughter from Princess Maker 2.

In addition, 'Cube' is the player's butler in Princess Maker 2, Princess Maker 4, and Princess Maker 5. In the anime, Cube is also Yucie's butler and has a nearly identical design.

Titles
Around episode 14, the ending imagery begins showing images of all five girls instead of images of just Yucie, and while the ending theme title doesn't change, the wording does change slightly. This reverts briefly for episode 19 with the ending imagery returning to what it was before, while the wording remains slightly changed.

Music

 * Opening Theme
 * Egao no Tensai by Petite Princesses (Maria Yamamoto, Yuki Matsuoka, Yukari Fukui, Ayako Kawasumi and Fumiko Orikasa)

 * Ending Theme
 * Ienai Kara by Yoko Ishida

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Charlton Street Gang

The Charlton Street Gang was a group of river pirates on the Hudson River in New York City during the mid-19th century.

The Charlton Street Gang were one of the earliest river pirate gangs. They raided small cargo ships in the North River of New York Harbor during the post-Civil War period of the 1860s. After a time the ocean liners and major shipping vessels around the Manhattan west side dockyards became so well protected that the gang moved upriver.

In 1869, under the leadership of Sadie the Goat, the gang stole a sloop, and soon began raiding merchant ships and homes along the Hudson River, from the Harlem River as far as Poughkeepsie, New York.

Flying the flag of the Jolly Roger, the gang was extremely successful. They became known for kidnapping wealthy men, women and children for ransom. According to newspapers of the period, Sadie the Goat allegedly had forced several male victims to walk the plank. However, after several victims had been murdered by the gang, local Hudson Valley residents formed a vigilante group. After a number of Charlton Street gang members were killed in a series of violent battles, the gang decided to retreat to the New York waterfront, where they returned to street crime. They eventually dissolved by the end of the decade.

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Madison-Lenox Hotel

The Madison-Lenox Hotel was a hotel complex located at 200-246 Madison Street in Detroit, Michigan.

History
Originally designed as the Madison Hotel by F.C. Pollmar in 1900 and the Lenox Hotel by A.C. Varney in 1903. A two-story building between the two hotels later connected the pair, creating the Madison-Lenox Hotel. The buildings were last occupied during the 1990s. The hotels stood at the south-west corner of Madison Street and East Grand River Avenue, across the street from the Detroit Athletic Club.

In 1985, theater actor Council Cargle and his wife, Maggie Porter, founded the 40-seat Harmonie Park Playhouse in the basement of the Madison-Lenox Hotel. The basement theater, which had previously been utilized as a barbershop and artist studio, was used for off-Broadway productions until the theater's closure in 1990.

Demolition
In 2004 a group led by sport team owner Mike Ilitch submitted requests for the building's demolition to Detroit's Historic District Commission (HDC). These requests were quickly denied and the building stood. Despite offers by developers interested in the building, Ilitch declined to sell the property, preferring to demolish the structures to create a parking lot. Both the City of Detroit and Ilitch were hoping to get the building demolished and the land cleared before Detroit hosted Super Bowl XL on February 5, 2006.

In 2004, the National Trust for Historic Preservation added the building to its annual list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.

The May 2005 demolition by Adamo Group was the subject of significant controversy. Though demolition permits had been denied the city government pressed for the building's destruction nevertheless, stating that the structure was in danger of collapse. Preservation groups fought the demolition with a restraining order a few hours after work commenced, but later that day a judge allowed the demolition to continue. Even though the HDC had originally denied demolition permits they did not oppose the move. The whole structure was gone within a week.

The building was the second on the "11 Most Endangered Historic Places" to be demolished.

The property is still held by Ilitch Holdings and is currently used as a parking lot. The gated parking area is serviced by Olympia Entertainment and chiefly serves Comerica Park.

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Dead Air for Radios

Dead Air for Radios studio album by Kevin Moore, under the musical moniker Chroma Key. It was released through Fight Evil Records on December 16, 1998. The album was recorded by Steve Tushar at Bill's Place Rehearsal Studio in Hollywood, mixed by both Steve Tushar and Kevin Moore with final mastering by Eddy Schreyer. Since its release the album has sold around 10,000 copies.

Themes
The voice of a woman repeating words and numbers in German during "Even the Waves" is from a famous numbers station broadcast on shortwave frequencies. "S.O.S." was one of the first songs Moore wrote for the album. The spoken sample is of a German man Moore met in Santa Fe who described his experiences of hitch-hiking from LA to Santa Fe.

Musicians

 * Kevin Moore - vocals, keyboards, bass
 * Mark Zonder - drums
 * Jason Anderson - guitars
 * Joey Vera - bass on tracks 3, 4, and 5

Production

 * Kevin Moore - artwork, producer, mixing
 * Steve Tushar - engineering
 * Eddy Schreyer - mastering
 * Steve Tushar - producer, mixing
 * Esther Mera - artwork

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Pouteria campechiana

Pouteria campechiana (commonly known as the cupcake fruit, eggfruit, zapote amarillo or canistel) is an evergreen tree native to, and cultivated in, southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador. It is cultivated in other countries, such as India, Costa Rica, Brazil, the United States, the Dominican Republic, Australia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and the Philippines. The edible part of the tree is its fruit, which is colloquially known as an egg fruit.

The canistel grows up to 10 m high, and produces orange-yellow fruit, also called yellow sapote, up to 7 cm long, which are edible raw. Canistel flesh is sweet, with a texture often compared to that of a hard-boiled egg yolk, hence its colloquial name "eggfruit". It is closely related to the lucuma, mamey sapote, and abiu.

Fruit description
The shape and size of the fruit is highly variable, depending on the cultivar. The better selections consistently produce large, ovate fruit with glossy skin weighing upwards of 400 g (14 oz). The flesh is somewhat pasty, although the best varieties have a creamy, mousse-like texture. The flavor is rich and is reminiscent of an egg custard. The fruit may contain one to six large, brown seeds.

The canistel displays climacteric fruit ripening. A fully mature fruit shows an intense yellow skin color. Eventually, it softens and drops from the tree. Insects and birds avoid the fruit flesh, perhaps due to its astringent properties, that are much reduced in senescent fruits, but still perceptible to the human palate. Apparently mature fruits severed from the tree while still hard often fail to develop the desired climacteric changes in terms of reduced astringency and a texture reminiscent of egg yolk.

Uses
Like the related lucuma, the canistel can be eaten fresh, and has the texture of a hard-boiled egg yolk. The ripe fruit can be made into jam, marmalade, pancakes, and flour. The ripe flesh is blended with milk and other ingredients to make a shake, and pureed, it is sometimes added to custards or used in making ice cream. It is also used in a milkshake known as "eggfruit nog".

The wood of the tree is occasionally used in construction where it is available, especially as planks or rafters. In its native range, it has been a source of latex used to adulterate chicle.

Etymology
Its specific name is derived from the Mexican town of Campeche, where it is native.

In the numerous countries where it is cultivated or sold, it is known by many vernacular names; canistel is common, as are variations on egg fruit and names referring to its yellow color. In the Philippines, it is called chesa, tiessa, or atiesa. In Sri Lanka, this fruit is known as lavul, laulu, lavulu, or lawalu. In Thailand, it is known by different traditional popular names such as lamut Khamen (ละมุดเขมร="Khmer sapodilla") or tho Khamen (ท้อเขมร="Khmer peach"), folk imagination attributing a hypothetical Cambodian origin to this fruit (the name of the fruit is see da in Cambodia). Currently, those names are discouraged by linguistic authorities and names making no reference to Cambodia, such as tiesa (ทิสซา), are officially favored.

The fruit is also given names after its unique yellow colour similar to an egg yolk: it is known as the buah kuning telur ("yolk fruit") in Malay, cây trứng gà ("chicken egg plant") in Vietnamese, mon khai (ม่อนไข่, khai meaning "egg") in Thai and danhuang guo (蛋黃果 "egg yolk fruit")in Taiwan.

It is called sawo mentega ("butter sapodilla", for its color and texture) throughout Southeast Asia. It is also known as alkesah in Indonesia.

Though relatively rare in East Africa, they can be found, and in the Swahili language, the fruit is confusingly named zaituni, which is the same word used to refer to olives.

The Taiwanese also call this fruit xiantao (仙桃), "peach of the immortals".

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User:CyberSkull/Images

☠☢☣©This gallery is closed. The Man has come down hard on me threatening to delete the page if I do not listify it. Unfortunately this is a defeat on 2 levels:
 * 1) As of this writing linked images do not show up as red links if they do not exist, a damning flaw in the design of the software.
 * 2) It just plain bugs me. I went to the trouble of putting this stuff on a separate page to display my contributions, keep it as organized and relevant as any article and this is the result.

I understand and agree about embedding non free images in templates per Fair use, but I think that applying it to subpages in the user namespace is going a bit too far. All images selected for this page have one relevant feature: They are all my contributions to this encyclopedia. Now does this mean I will stop contributing? No. I'm not going to let this policy stop me from improving articles.

This concludes my rant. Dread Lord C y b e r S k u l l ✎☠ 23:28, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

P.S. For the las version of as it was, follow this link. Images I have uploaded.

Anime

 * Image:Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.jpg — Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Region 1 DVD cover.
 * Image:Trigun DVD Box Set.jpg — Trigun DVD box set.

Comic books

 * Image:Detective Comics 809.jpg — Detective Comics #809
 * Image:Detective Comics 810.jpg — Detective Comics #810
 * Image:Livewirescover002.jpeg — Livewires #2
 * Image:Livewirescover003.jpeg — Livewires #3
 * Image:Livewirescover004.jpeg — Livewires #4
 * Image:Livewirescover005.jpeg — Livewires #5
 * Image:Livewirescover006.jpeg — Livewires #6
 * Image:Livewires Clockwork Thugs, Yo.jpeg — Livewires: Clockwork Thugs, Yo

Manga

 * Image:Trigun Maximum 1.jpeg — Trigun Maximum Volume 1: The Hero Returns
 * Image:Trigun Maximum 2.jpeg — Trigun Maximum Volume 2: Death Blue
 * Image:Trigun Maximum 3.jpeg — Trigun Maximum Volume 3: His Life As A…
 * Image:Trigun Maximum 4.jpeg — Trigun Maximum Volume 4: Bottom of the Dark
 * Image:Trigun Maximum 5.jpeg — Trigun Maximum Volume 5: Break Out
 * Image:Trigun Maximum 6.jpeg — Trigun Maximum Volume 6: The Gunslinger
 * Image:Trigun Maximum 7.jpeg — Trigun Maximum Volume 7: Happy Days
 * Image:Trigun Maximum 8.jpeg — Trigun Maximum Volume 8: Silent Ruin
 * Image:W Juliet 1.jpeg — W Juliet Volume 1
 * Image:W Juliet 2.jpeg — W Juliet Volume 2
 * Image:W Juliet 3.jpeg — W Juliet Volume 3
 * Image:W Juliet 4.jpeg — W Juliet Volume 4
 * Image:W Juliet 5.jpeg — W Juliet Volume 5
 * Image:W Juliet 6.jpeg — W Juliet Volume 6
 * Image:W Juliet 7.jpeg — W Juliet Volume 7
 * Image:W Juliet 8.jpeg — W Juliet Volume 8

Webcomics

 * Image:Applegeeks issue 236.jpg — Applegeeks issue 236
 * Image:Basil Flint, P.I. Year 3 Elementary School.jpeg — Cover to Basil Flint, P.I. Year 3: Elementary School by John Troutman.
 * Image:Bunny 303.png — Bunny № 303: "Not Sufficiently Clear"
 * Image:Bunny plain.jpg — The Bunny
 * Image:El Goonish Shive v1-Read or the Owl Will Eat You.jpg — Cover to El Goonish Shive, Volume 1: Read, or the Owl Will Eat You ISBN 1932775102 by Dan Shive.
 * Image:Helio and Fuschia.jpeg — Helio and Fuschia of Pastel Defender Heliotrope
 * Image:The Koala Bares.jpeg — Cover to The Koala Bares, a Loxie & Zoot book.
 * Image:Megatokyo vol1 1st edition.jpg — Megatokyo volume 1, 1st edition
 * Image:Megatokyo vol2.jpg — Megatokyo volume 2
 * Image:Megatokyo vol3.jpg — Megatokyo volume 3
 * Image:Misfile book 1.jpg — Misfile book 1
 * Image:News-andiewear-aug2005.jpg — Andie from Andiewear! showing off her underwear.
 * Image:Punks and Nerds Volume 1- Not Safe For Work.jpg — Punks and Nerds Volume 1: Not Safe For Work
 * Image:RPG World vol 1.jpg — RPG World - The Comic That's in a Video Game, Volume 1: Unlikely Hero Out for Adventure
 * Image:Unicorn Jelly vol 1 cover color.png — Unicorn Jelly volume 1, color edition cover, by Jennifer Diane Reitz.
 * Image:Unicorn Jelly vol 2 cover color.png — Unicorn Jelly volume 2, color edition cover, by Jennifer Diane Reitz.
 * Image:Venus Envy 1 - Alex or Zoë From A to Z.jpg — Cover to the Venus Envy comic book Venus Envy #1 - Alex or Zoë: From A to Z
 * Image:The Wotch My Sister Myself poster.png — The Wotch: My Sister, Myself
 * Image:WWW balloon.png — Logo I made to submit to WikiProject Webcomics.
 * Image:News-zebragirl-sep2005.png — Zebra Girl Keenspot newsbox

Computer and video games

 * Image:FFIV Anna casting.png — Ana of Final Fantasy IV
 * Image:Dr Andonuts sprite-frf.png — Dr Andonuts
 * Image:Apple Kid sprite-flf.png — Apple Kid
 * Image:Berserk PS2 JP.jpeg — Berserk
 * Image:Bomb FFVI.png — Bomb
 * Image:Brick Road sprite-frf.png — Brick Road
 * Image:Cactrot FFVI.png — Cactrot
 * Image:Chibi Robo US Logo.jpg — Chibi-Robo! US logo
 * Image:Cream TA.png — A Cream from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
 * Image:Dragon Quest VIII Journey of the Cursed King.jpeg — Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
 * Image:Draggy portrait.png — Draggy
 * Image:Dullahan FFVI.png — Dullahan from Final Fantasy VI
 * Image:Etecoons and Dachora.gif — Etecoons and Dachora resting.
 * Image:Rosa Farrell battle.png — Rosa Farrell battle
 * Image:Rosa Farrell menu.png — Rosa Farrell menu portrait
 * Image:FFVI title screen logo.png — Final Fantasy VI title screen logo
 * Image:FuSoYa battle.png — FuSoYa battle
 * Image:FuSoYa menu.png — FuSoYa menu portrait
 * Image:Edward "Edge" Geraldine battle.png — Edward "Edge" Geraldine battle
 * Image:Edward "Edge" Geraldine menu.png — Edward "Edge" Geraldine menu portrait
 * Image:GiFTPiA Japan box.jpg — The Japanese GiFTPiA box.
 * Image:GiFTPiA-Pockle.jpg — The GiFTPiA logo with the main character Pockle.
 * Image:Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex PS2 US.jpg — Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex PlayStation 2
 * Image:Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex PSP US.jpg — Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex PlayStation Portable
 * Image:Grobyc portrait.png — Grobyc
 * Image:Cecil Harvey - Black Knight battle.png — Cecil Harvey battle
 * Image:Cecil Harvey - Black Knight menu.png — Cecil Harvey menu portrait
 * Image:Cecil Harvey - Paladin battle.png — Cecil Harvey battle
 * Image:Cecil Harvey - Paladin menu.png — Cecil Harvey menu portrait
 * Image:Funguy portrait.png — Funguy
 * Image:FFVI Goddess.png — The Goddess of Final Fantasy VI
 * Image:Guile portrait (Chrono Cross).png — Guile
 * Image:Harle portrait.png — Harle
 * Image:Kain Highwind battle.png — Kain Highwind battle
 * Image:Kain Highwind menu.png — Kain Highwind menu portrait
 * Image:Jeff sprite-frf.png — Jeff
 * Image:Kanden.jpg — Kanden from Metroid Prime: Hunters
 * Image:Yang Fang Leiden battle.png — Yang Fang Leiden battle
 * Image:Yang Fang Leiden menu.png — Yang Fang Leiden menu portrait
 * Image:Luccia portrait.png — Luccia
 * Image:Metroid Prime Pinball.jpg — Metroid Prime Pinball
 * Image:Metroid Prime Pinball Logo.jpg — Metroid Prime Pinball logo.
 * Image:Picky Minch sprite-frf.png — Pikey Minch
 * Image:Pokey Minch sprite-frf.png — Pokey Minch
 * Image:Mojo portrait (Chrono Cross).png — Mojo
 * Image:Mother 2.jpeg — Mother 2
 * Image:Mother 1 plus 2 JP.jpeg — Mother 1 + 2
 * Image:Edward Chris von Muir battle.png — Edward Chris von Muir battle
 * Image:Edward Chris von Muir menu.png — Edward Chris von Muir menu portrait
 * Image:Namingway map sprite.png — Namingway
 * Image:NeoFio portrait.png — NeoFio
 * Image:Ness sprite-frf.png — Ness
 * Image:Ness bicycle sprite-frf.png — Ness on a bicycle
 * Image:Ness dead sprite.png — Ness is dead
 * Image:Ness PJs sprite-frf.png — Ness in his PJs
 * Image:Ness robot sprite-frf.png — Ness turned into a robot
 * Image:Ness' Mom sprite-flf.png — Ness' Mom
 * Image:Noxus.jpg — Noxus from Metroid Prime: Hunters
 * Image:Nu standing sprite.png — A Nu standing.
 * Image:Orange Kid sprite-flf.png — Orange Kid
 * Image:OXO emulated screenshot.png — OXO
 * Image:Angelic Kefka Palazzo.png — Kefka Palazzo transformed into an angel
 * Image:Palom battle.png — Palom battle
 * Image:Palom menu.png — Palom menu portrait
 * Image:Paula sprite-frf.png — Paula
 * Image:Poo sprite-frf.png — Poo
 * Image:Poshul portrait.png — Poshul
 * Image:Melissa Pearce art.jpeg — Melissa Pearce
 * Image:Pip normal portrait.png — Pip
 * Image:Cid Pollendina battle.png — Cid Pollendina battle
 * Image:Cid Pollendina menu.png — Cid Pollendina menu portrait
 * Image:Porom battle.png — Porom battle
 * Image:Porom menu.png — Porom menu portrait
 * Image:Radiata Stories Japan.jpeg — The Japanese Radiata Stories box.
 * Image:Radiata Stories US box small.jpeg — The US Raidata Stories box.
 * Image:Rydia - Adult battle.png — Rydia battle
 * Image:Rydia - Adult menu.png — Rydia menu portrait
 * Image:Rydia - Young battle.png — Rydia battle
 * Image:Rydia - Young menu.png — Rydia menu portrait
 * Image:Samus Aran Front Views.png — Samus Aran from all the 2D Metroid series video games.
 * Image:Serge as Lynx portrait (Chrono Cross).png — Serge as Lynx
 * Image:Skelly portrait.png — Skelly
 * Image:Mr Saturn sprite-flf.png — Mr. Saturn
 * Image:Spire.jpg — Spire from Metroid Prime: Hunters
 * Image:Starky portrait.png — Starky
 * Image:Starman Battle sprite.png — Starman
 * Image:Captain Strong sprite-flf.png — Captain Strong
 * Image:Sword of the Berserk Guts' Rage.jpeg — Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage
 * Image:Tellah battle.png — Tellah battle
 * Image:Tellah menu.png — Tellah menu portrait
 * Image:Tracy sprite-flf.png — Tracy
 * Image:Turnip portrait-Chrono Cross.png — Turnip
 * Image:We ♥ Katamari.jpg — Cover to We ♥ Katamari
 * Image:Wild ARMs 3.jpg — Wild ARMs 3 US cover.
 * Image:Wild ARMs 4.jpg — Wild ARMs 4 US cover.
 * Image:Wild ARMs Alter Code F.jpg — Wild ARMs Alter Code: F US cover.
 * Image:World of Warcraft Launcher window.png — World of Warcraft Launcher
 * Image:The Wotch My Sister Myself poster.png — The Wotch: My Sister, Myself
 * Image:WoW Ability Warrior DefensiveStance.png — WoW Warrior Berserker stance
 * Image:WoW Ability Warrior OffensiveStance.png — WoW Warrior Defensive stance
 * Image:WoW INV Misc Food 15.png — WoW Cooking icon
 * Image:WoW Trade Alchemy.png — WoW Alchemy icon
 * Image:WoW Trade BlackSmithing.png — WoW Blacksmithing icon
 * Image:WoW Trade Engineering.png — WoW Engineering icon
 * Image:WoW Trade Engraving.png — WoW Enchanting icon
 * Image:WoW Trade Fishing.png — WoW Fishing icon
 * Image:WoW Trade Herbalism.png — WoW Herbalism icon
 * Image:WoW Trade LeatherWorking.png — WoW Leatherworking icon
 * Image:WoW Trade Mining.png — WoW Mining icon
 * Image:WoW Trade Tailoring.png — WoW Tailoring icon
 * Image:Zemus battle 1.png — Zemus battle sprite

Computing
Image:Wikipedia Widget 0.9.png
 * Image:chkrootkit on Mac OS X.png — chkrootkit
 * Image:Favicon in Safari 2.0.1.png — favicon usage in Safari.
 * Image:IMVU CyberSkull.jpeg — IMVU CyberSkull
 * Image:MacOS 10 3-Keyboard Viewer-US Roman-PowerbookG4-Option Key.png — Keyboard Viewer in Mac OS X 10.3.6 displaying US Keyboard layout of a PowerBook G4 with option key (⌥) pressed.
 * Image:MacOS 10.3 Keyboard Viewer US Roman PowerbookG4.png — Keyboard Viewer in Mac OS X 10.3.6 displaying US Keyboard layout of a PowerBook G4.
 * Image:Optimus Keyboard Photoshop layout.jpg — Rendering of the Optimus keyboard using a key layout from Adobe Photoshop.
 * Image:Optimus Keyboard Quake III layout.jpg — Rendering of the Optimus keyboard using a key layout from Quake III Arena.
 * Image:rkhunter on Mac OS X.png — rkhunter

Music

 * Image:Ai no Uta.jpeg — Single "Ai No Uta" by Strawberry Flower, from the Nintendo GameCube's Pikmin commercial soundtrack.
 * Image:Kareshi Kanojyo no Jijyo ♥ Act 2.0.jpg — Japanese cover to His and Her Circumstances Act 2.0
 * Image:His and Her Circumstances Act 1.0 OST.jpg — His and Her Circumstances Act 1.0 OST
 * Image:His and Her Circumstances Act 2.0 OST.jpg — His and Her Circumstances Act 2.0 OST
 * Image:Paranoia Agent Original Soundtrack.jpg — Cover to the Paranoia Agent soundtrack.
 * Image:Trigun Spicy Stewed Donut.jpg — Trigun Spicy Stewed Donut soundtrack.
 * Image:Trigun The 2nd Donut Happy Pack.jpg — Trigun The 2nd Donut Happy Pack soundtrack.
 * Image:Trigun The First Donuts.jpg — Trigun The First Donuts soundtrack.

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Talk:Jimmy Duncan (politician)

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Before such a substantive edit, one should sign in and discuss reasons for it. Rlquall 03:17, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure how accurate it is to say he's very conservative by Republican standards. Or more accurately he's not by Tennessee Republican standards. His lifetime ACU rating is less conservative than any in the Tennessee delegation and his lifetime Americans for Democratic Action rating is higher than any Tennessee Republican. I'm thinking of changing this.--T. Anthony 14:21, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I would also add that Ron Paul is very conservative, though of the libertarian variety. So to say he is the only conservative amongst the Republicans to vote against the Iraq War is wrong.  --Amcalabrese 01:28, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I changed this to say that he is "one of the most conservative"... According to the source given, Paul's ratings were higher on that particular conservatism scale than Duncan's. Also, you can't base "how conservative" someone is on a few rankings  because everyone's definition of "conservative" is going to be different.--Gloriamarie 00:17, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Someone changed the "supports" Ron Paul to Fred Thompson. Yet the citation of the source is an article stating that he supports Paul. He has endorsed Paul officially. Why was this changed? (other than yet another blatant Paul suppression attempt?)--76.185.162.176 (talk) 05:34, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Should it be noted that he was one of the few people to condemn the NATO agression in 1999? The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. DUNCAN) is recognized for 5 minutes. Mr. DUNCAN. Madam Speaker, several times over the last few days I have heard reports on national networks saying that Members of Congress were getting ``antsy'' about not committing ground troops to Kosovo. The implication is that all of the Members of Congress want ground troops in there immediately.

I believe it was a terrible mistake to start bombing in the first place, and it certainly would be compounding a huge error to place many thousands of ground troops in there now.

As many columnists have pointed out, the NATO bombings have made this situation much worse than it ever would have been if we had simply stayed out. The very liberal Washington Post columnist, Richard Cohen, wrote, ``I believe, though, that the NATO bombings have escalated and accelerated the process. For some Kosovars, NATO has made things worse.''

Pat M. Holt, a foreign affairs expert writing in the Christian Science Monitor, wrote, ``The first few days of bombing have led to more atrocities and to more refugees. It will be increasing the instability which the bombing was supposed to prevent.''

[Time: 20:30]  Philip Gourevitch, writing in the April 12 New Yorker Magazine, said: ``Yet so far the air war against Yugoslavia has accomplished exactly what the American-led alliance flew into combat to prevent: Our bombs unified the Serbs in Yugoslavia, as never before, behind the defiance of Milosevic; they spurred to a frenzy the `cleansing' of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians by Milosevic's forces; they increased the likelihood of the conflict's spilling over into Yugoslavia's south-Balkan neighbors; and they hardened the hearts of much of the non-Western world against us--not least in Russia, where passionate anti-Americanism is increasing the prospects for the right-wing nationalists or the Communist Party to win control of the Kremlin and its nuclear arsenal in coming elections.''

Many conservative analysts have been very critical. Thomas Sowell wrote: ``Already our military actions are being justified by the argument that we are in there now and cannot pull out without a devastating loss of credibility and influence in NATO and around the world. In other words, we cannot get out because we have gotten in. That kind of argument will be heard more and more if we get in deeper.

``Is the Vietnam War so long ago that no one remembers? We eventually pulled out of Vietnam,'' Mr. Sowell wrote, ``under humiliating conditions with a tarnished reputation around the world and with internal divisiveness and bitterness that took years to heal. Bad as this was, we could have pulled out earlier with no worse consequences and with thousands more Americans coming back alive.''

Mr. Sowell asks, ``Why are we in the Balkans in the first place? There seems to be no clear-cut answer.''

William Hyland, a former editor of Foreign Affairs Magazine, writing in the Washington Post said, ``The President has put the country in a virtually impossible position. We cannot escalate without grave risks. If the President and NATO truly want to halt ethnic cleansing, then the alliance will have to put in a large ground force or, at a minimum, mount a credible threat to do so. A conventional war in the mountains of Albania and Kosovo will quickly degenerate into a quagmire. On the other hand, the United States and NATO cannot retreat without suffering a national and international humiliation. *.*.* The only alternative is to revive international diplomacy.''

Mr. Hyland is correct, but unfortunately I am afraid that ground troops in Kosovo would be much worse than a quagmire. Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleberger was quoted on a national network last week as saying that the Bush administration had closely analyzed the situation in the Balkans in the early 1990s and had decided it was a ``swamp'' into which we should not go.

NATO was established as a purely defensive organization, not an aggressor force. With the decreased threat from the former Soviet Union, was NATO simply searching for a mission? Were some national officials simply trying to prove that they are world statesmen or trying to leave a legacy?

The U.S. has done 68 percent of the bombing thus far. This whole episode, counting reconstruction and resettlement costs after we bring Milosevic down, will cost us many billions.

If there have to be ground troops, let the Europeans take the lead. Do not commit U.S. ground troops. Let the Europeans do something. The U.S. has done too much already. Humanitarian aid, yes; bombs and ground troops, no.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r106:63:./temp/~r106W61dIm:: —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.116.154.181 (talk) 07:40, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

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