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Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/May 2005

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Archived discussion for May 2005 from In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates.

May 31

 * Here's a nice pic of Dominique de Villepin, a guy already on ITN. -- 64.229.230.215 11:34, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Natalie Glebova from Toronto, Canada is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand. -- 64.229.230.215 11:30, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Former FBI official W. Mark Felt tells Vanity Fair that he was the Watergate source known as Deep Throat. Meelar (talk) 16:42, May 31, 2005 (UTC) & Cantus… ☎   17:04, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

May 30

 * The Bush administration files a case against the European Union for providing illegal subsidies to aircraft manufacturer Airbus. Andros 1337 01:04, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Metropolitan Cornelius of Petra has been chosen to serve as locum tenens of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, following the deposition of Patriarch Irenaios I of Jerusalem amidst scandals regarding the sale of land in Jerusalem.
 * Last related Current events item from 5 May. No info on Cornelius in the Irenaios article (or anywhere in WP as far as I can tell) and, as the blurb is written, there should be a link to Metropolitan Cornelius. -   BanyanTree 00:41, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * The Current events link had gotten removed by vandalism. It's back now with a link to the BBC article.   I've also updated this headline and added a Cornelius stub article.  --A.S. Damick 02:36, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Added, with some slimming down. -  BanyanTree 03:22, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Angela Merkel is officially declared the Chancellor candidate of the conservative opposisition in the federal election this year in Germany.
 * Added.

May 29

 * Polls open in France regarding the ratification of the European Constitution. gkhan 12:10, May 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * France more or less rejects the European Constitution 578 (Yes?) 20:42, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

May 27

 * Schapelle Corby, an Australian tourist in Bali, Indonesia, is found guilty of smuggling marijuana, fined 100,000,000 rupiah and sentenced to 20 years in prison, generating intense controversy in Australia and causing tension in the relationship with Indonesia. -- 199.71.174.100 19:31, 28 May 2005 (UTC) -- elaborated 199.71.174.100 01:05, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

May 26

 * The 148 members of the World Trade Organization formally select Pascal Lamy of France as their 5th next Director-General. (WTO) -- 199.71.174.100 20:12, 28 May 2005 (UTC) -- revised 199.71.174.100 00:01, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Added. -  BanyanTree 00:41, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

 * A coalition of citizen groups will ask US Congress to file a "Resolution of Inquiry" to determine whether George W. Bush has committed impeachable offenses. The request cites the Downing Street memo and issues surrounding the Iraq war. Kevin Baastalk: new 18:00, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
 * The Downing Street memo is farely complete and readable by now. -- Toytoy 00:23, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

May 25

 * Donald Tsang resigns as chief secretary of the government in Hong Kong and declares his candidacy in the chief executive election to be held on July 10. — Instantnood 00:03, May 26, 2005 (UTC)  -- revised by 199.71.174.100 04:30, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Voyager 1, the most distant man-made object, has entered the heliosheath and is on the cusp of leaving the Solar System and entering the interstellar medium. -  BanyanTree 14:41, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Posted. -- PFHLai 23:55, 2005 May 25 (UTC)

 * A massive power outage produced a blackout in the Russian capital of Moscow. Authorities are still investigating the matter and working on solving the problem.
 * Not posted. Page with bolded link was not updated. If it's just one city affected, it's local news. -- PFHLai 23:55, 2005 May 25 (UTC)

 * Liverpool F.C. have defeated AC Milan 3-2 in a penalty shootout in Istanbul, winning its first UEFA Champions League title since 1984.
 * Posted. -- PFHLai 23:55, 2005 May 25 (UTC)

May 23

 * Democrats will only filibuster judicial nominees in "extraordinary circumstances" under a compromise agreement forged in the United States Senate to avert a showdown on the Nuclear option.

NB:Image is redundant to commons Image:Flag de-nordrhein westfalen civil.png and will be deleted in a months time --Paddyez 15:17, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

 * In the elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany, the social democrats lost power to the conservatives after 39 years in government. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder surprisingly announces federal elections in Germany in the fall of 2005.

May 20

 * Hurricane Adrian, the first storm of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season, dissipates over western Honduras after becoming the first named tropical system to make landfall in El Salvador since 1997.
 * Updated. -  BanyanTree 18:41, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

May 19

 * CSKA Moscow beats Sporting Lisbon 3:1 at José Alvalade Stadium in Portugal to become the first Russian football club to win the UEFA Cup.
 * Posted. -- PFHLai 13:21, 2005 May 20 (UTC)

May 18

 * The governments of Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United States harshly criticize Newsweek magazine after it retracts a story about Qu'ran desecration at Guantanamo Bay that led to deadly rioting. -  BanyanTree 15:44, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Can't post this item as is. The article has no mention of the "deadly rioting" nor the "harsh criticism from governments of Afghanistan, Pakistan ..." Also, the article Guantánamo Bay Qur'an desecration allegations has a  tag on it, making it a poor candidate to get featured on the MainPage.  It's a good topic. Please "clean up" and beef up that article. Thanks.  -- PFHLai 10:16, 2005 May 19 (UTC)

May 16

 * Ethiopia's ruling party, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, claims a victory in the general elections. Voter turnout was over 90 percent.
 * Almost added this myself, but did not. 'Coz IMO, the article is too stubby. -- PFHLai 10:43, 2005 May 19 (UTC)

 * The Parliament of Kuwait, in a 35-23 vote with one abstention, legalises women's suffrage for all women ages 21 and up, subject to Islamic law. It will take effect for the 2007 Parlimentary Election. --Kitch 18:10, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

May 13

 * Pope Benedict XVI waives the five-year waiting period normally required before somebody's beatification process may begin and starts the process for his predecessor, John Paul II on the 24th anniversary of his assasination attempt.

 * Protests in Uzbekistan over the imprisonment and trial in Andijan of 23 Muslims suspected to be Islamist extremists turn violent as Uzbek soldiers fire on the protestors, leaving at least nine dead and 34 wounded. Thirty soldiers have been taken hostage.  A believed suicide bomber was killed in the Israeli Embassy in Tashkent, but some question whether or not he had a bomb. --Kitch 11:36, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
 * In relation to this, I have created the page 2005 Unrest in Uzbekistan. --Kitch 14:06, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
 * My link now redirects to the more detailed May 2005 unrest in Uzbekistan. --Kitch 02:09, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

May 12

 * The United States Senate, probing possible corruption in the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme, accused British Parliament member George Galloway and former French foreign minister Charles Pasqua of accepting millions of barrels of crude oil in exchange for support of the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Galloway is personally accused of using a leukemia foundation to funnel money to Hussein's regime. --Kitch 16:20, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
 * We should add that both deny the accusation and have previously won libel cases when these alligations originally appeared in newspapers some years ago. Seabhcán 11:58, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

May 10

 * Suharto, former military dictator of Indonesia, is hospitalized with intestinal bleeding. --Kitch 19:08, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

May 9

 * [[Image:Sellafield.JPG|100px|right|Aerial view of Sellafield]] The Sellafield nuclear plant's Thorp reprocessing facility in Cumbria, England, is closed down due to the confirmation of a 20 tonne leak of highly radioactive uranium and plutonium fuel through a fractured pipe.
 * John Conyers and 88 members of US Congress write an open letter to the White House about the new documents leaked which apparently reveals the secret agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom to attack Iraq in 2002.
 * link here: http://www.rawstory.com/aexternal/conyers_iraq_letter_502 and elsewhere. --Firsfron 11:29, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Please indicate the updated page(s) in Wikipedia . Thanks. -- PFHLai 15:28, 2005 May 9 (UTC)
 * it's under John Conyers--Firsfron 18:09, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * RawStory.com is a liberal POV fork website. I can't find this anywhere on the U.S. major media or on any of the news wires.  If it's not newsworthy enough for any mainstream media, then how is it good enough for In The News? --Kitch 11:13, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Other links were included, including to the Times' article, but were later removed. I'm not sure why. --Firsfron 18:44, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

May 8

 * Worldwide celebrations commemorate the 60th anniversary of V-E Day, the official end of World War II in Europe with the capitulation of Germany under Karl Dönitz. In several German cities, Germans also mourn the millions of people massacred under the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in the 1930s and 1940s.
 * [[Image:Crc_ros_sta.jpg|100px|right]] Alternative picture.-gadfium 08:11, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * If anyone wants more room on ITN for a fourth item, remove the second sentence of this item.-gadfium 08:53, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I had to take this out because the updated info on the V-E Day page has been removed. See Template talk:In the news. -- PFHLai 15:28, 2005 May 9 (UTC)

May 7

 * [[Image:Uup.jpg|100px|right]]Northern Ireland's Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble, the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped reach the Good Friday Agreement, resigns from the leadership post he has held for ten years, after losing his seat in the British general election the previous day.
 * Is this a bit too 'local' ? We have an item on the whole UK election on ITN already. -- PFHLai 15:28, 2005 May 9 (UTC)

May 5
Correction: (A candidate in Staffordshire South has died, so the election there has been postponed).
 * In the United Kingdom, the country heads to the polls to elect 645 of the 646 members of the UK House of Commons in the 2005 General Election. [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|100px]] --G Rutter 07:49, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

 * In the United Kingdom, the country heads to the polls to elect all 646 members of the UK House of Commons in the 2005 General Election. [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|100px]]-gadfium 02:14, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Added.-gadfium 05:31, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

May 4

 * The Pakistani government announces that it has captured Abu Faraj al-Libbi. If verified, this is the most important Al-Qaeda suspect to have been arrested thus far.-gadfium 23:36, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Since I got no response to this, I've added it myself.-gadfium 02:07, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * If your a sysop you don't need to list on this page, do you? This page is just to help non-sysops edit the template (I thought). BrokenSegue 04:25, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't need to, but I think it's a good idea so I get some peer review before putting something on the main page.-gadfium 07:32, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * The rights to develop the memorial at the Choeung Ek killing fields near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, have been given for 30 years to JC Royal Co. --Kitch 11:37, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Not sure if this is important enough for ITN.-gadfium 02:07, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

May 3

 * It would be nice to have something about the events in Nepal - there have been mentions in Current Events for the last three days, but I have no time to write an article to link to. The most appropriate article may be Gyanendra of Nepal. I don't see anything on Wikinews either.-gadfium 21:33, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

May 2

 * Foreign ministers gather in New York to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty -gadfium 08:44, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Will add. Mgm|(talk) 09:09, May 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Picture:
 * José Miguel Insulza of Chile is elected Secretary General of the Organization of American States. —Cantus… ☎   21:45, May 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. –Hajor 21:51, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't know about the pic. A nukiller explosion is a lot more eye-catching than (yet another) politician in a suit, nice red tie notwithstanding. (However, if it's so decided, on this other pic, he'd be looking into the page). –Hajor 22:26, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I think the 'sparkle' on his forehead is more eye-catching. :-) -- PFHLai 00:56, 2005 May 3 (UTC)

May 1

 * Following Saturday's car bombings in Cairo, some 200 people have been brought in for questioning by Egytian police. 8 people were injured in the attacks. --Gkhan 05:34, May 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * We need to link to an article which has been updated to include the news item. Cairo is not suitable. We can't put this on ITN unless we have a Bombings in Cairo article or similar.-gadfium 07:00, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * April 2005 terrorist attacks in Cairo. –Hajor 14:17, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Will add. Note that anything on ITN should also be at Current events, so I've added it there as well-gadfium 19:56, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. It was on Current events, but the end of the month came and stole its 15 minutes of fame. –Hajor 20:16, 2 May 2005 (UTC)


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Terrence Howard

Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an American actor. Having his first major roles in the 1995 films Dead Presidents and Mr. Holland's Opus, Howard broke into the mainstream with a succession of television and cinema roles between 2004 and 2006. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Hustle & Flow.

Howard has had prominent roles in many other movies, including Winnie Mandela, Ray, Lackawanna Blues, Crash,  Four Brothers, Angel Eyes, Big Momma's House, Get Rich or Die Tryin', Idlewild, Biker Boyz, August Rush, The Brave One, and Prisoners. Howard played James "Rhodey" Rhodes in the first Iron Man film. He starred as the lead character Lucious Lyon in the television series Empire. His debut album, Shine Through It, was released in September 2008. In December 2022, he announced that he planned to retire from acting.

Early life
Howard was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 11, 1969, to Tyrone and Anita (née Williams) Howard, who were both of African and English ancestry. His great-grandmother was actress Minnie Gentry. Howard was raised in Cleveland, Ohio, where he had a rocky childhood. He has claimed that he endured beatings from his physically abusive father, and that he saw his father stabbing another man in the Santa Line Slaying when Terrence was two years old. His father was convicted of manslaughter and served 11 months in jail. Howard's parents divorced upon his father's release. He was raised by his great-grandmother. She died at the age of 77 in 1993.

Career
Howard first entered the entertainment industry in 1992 when he portrayed Jackie Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream, an ABC miniseries. Three years later, he made his big film break in 1995's Mr. Holland's Opus and Dead Presidents. He continued being cast in television and movie roles, and co-starred as Greg Sparks in the late-1990s short-lived television series Sparks, with James L. Avery Sr. and Miguel A. Nunez Jr. Howard also appeared in The Best Man (1999), in Ashanti's music video for her 2002 single "Foolish", and in Mary J. Blige's video for "Be Without You". Howard made an appearance on the TV series Family Matters.

Howard has said that he looks for characters that "teach him about himself" when choosing his film roles. For the 2005 film Hustle & Flow, Howard portrayed a pimp and aspiring rapper. He performed all the character's tracks, including "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 78th Academy Awards. Howard has also worked as a film producer, as when he was credited for the 2007 film Pride. In 2008, Howard hosted the PBS series Independent Lens.

Howard was contracted to play Colonel James Rhodes in the 2008 film Iron Man. Howard was signed on before any of the other major actors and was the highest paid actor in the film. He was replaced by actor Don Cheadle in the film's sequels. Entertainment Weekly reported that Howard was offered a 50 to 80 percent pay cut for Iron Man 2, though it said that it was unclear whether Howard turned down the role or whether Marvel withdrew their offer.

Howard released his debut adult alternative album, Shine Through It, in 2008 on Columbia/SME Records. He described the album as urban country, and either wrote or co-wrote all the songs on it.

In 2008, he made his Broadway debut, playing Brick in an all-African-American production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Debbie Allen. During rehearsals, he allegedly attacked and seriously injured musical composer Tex Allen (brother of the director). Allen said he suffered multiple injuries and in October 2008, Allen filed a $5 million lawsuit against Howard. In 2010, Howard joined the cast of Law & Order: Los Angeles, playing Deputy District Attorney Joe Dekker. He alternated shows with Alfred Molina, who portrayed Deputy District Attorney Ricardo Morales. The series was cancelled after one season. In 2011, Howard played Nelson Mandela in the film Winnie Mandela.

Since 2015, Howard has starred on the television series Empire, playing Lucious Lyon, a hip-hop mogul who discovers he is dying and must ensure the survival of his music empire. He also appeared in the television series Wayward Pines portraying Sheriff Arnold Pope, a main character in the first season in 2015 and a guest character in the second and final season.

On hosting the ninth annual Guys Choice Awards in 2015 Howard said, "I got the other guy on my side. Big Devil. Big D is my rolling buddy!". At the ceremony he was also awarded Most Dangerous Man.

In February 2021, it was announced that Howard would star in British sci-fi/thriller film Beneath. In February 2022, he was cast in the horror film Skeletons in the Closet. Howard said in December 2022 that he had retired "for the most part" two years prior and that "this is the end for me".

Personal life
, Howard lives outside Philadelphia in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania. He has been married four times to three women, and has five children.

Howard married his first wife, Lori McCommas, in 1993. They divorced in 2001, remarried in 2005, and later divorced again. They had three children together, two daughters and a son. Howard has two grandchildren, a granddaughter and a grandson. Howard and McCommas' divorce was filed in 2000 and finalized in 2001, but they remarried in 2005. They subsequently filed for divorce a year later and finalized for a second time in 2007.

Howard married his second wife, Michelle Ghent, in 2010. Ghent filed for divorce in February 2011. Ghent filed for a restraining order in December 2011, accusing Howard of being physically abusive toward her. Their divorce was finalized in May 2013, though the agreement was overturned in 2015 after a judge ruled Howard had signed it under duress of Ghent threatening to sell nude pictures of Howard and other personal information.

Howard wed his third wife, model and restaurateur Mira Pak, in late 2013. They have two sons, born 2015 and 2016. The two divorced in 2015 and then were engaged to remarry in December 2018.

Howard has stated that he "went to school for chemical engineering and applied materials". Though he did not complete his engineering degree, Howard thinks of himself as an engineer and intends to return one day to complete the "three credits" of which he claims he is currently short. Howard's account of his educational history has not been confirmed; Pratt Institute, which he says he attended, closed its engineering degree program in 1993. On February 26, 2013, Howard also said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he had earned a PhD degree in chemical engineering from South Carolina State University (SCSU) that year. Howard never attended SCSU, and SCSU does not confer doctorates in chemical engineering. Instead, Howard was awarded an honorary degree of "Doctorate of Humane Letters" (DHL) from SCSU after speaking at its commencement ceremony in 2012.

Howard applied for a patent in 2010 on a "System and method for merging virtual reality and reality to provide an enhanced sensory experience" (U.S. patent application no. 12/765,485 ). He later pursued two additional patent applications (U.S. patent application nos. 12/725,097 and 12/567,400 ), related to jewelry. All three patent applications were abandoned without any patent being granted.

In 2010, Howard was inducted as an honorary member into the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.

Scientific theories
In a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone, Howard explained that he had formulated his own language of logic, which he called "Terryology", and which he was keeping secret until he had patented it. This logic language, he claimed, would be used to prove the statement "1 × 1 = 2".

"'How can it equal one?' he said. 'If one times one equals one that means that two is of no value because one times itself has no effect. One times one equals two because the square root of four is two, so what's the square root of two? Should be one, but we're told it's two, and that cannot be.'"

Howard blames his leaving Pratt over disagreements with a professor regarding this hypothesis. He also stated that he spends many hours a day constructing models of plastic and wire that he patented and claims to confirm his belief.

In 2017, Howard published his "proof" of the claim that "1 × 1 = 2" on his Twitter account. Concerns were raised on the logical consistency of Howard's thinking.

In May 2024, Howard was a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, where he attempted to debunk the Pythagorean theorem, claimed he can kill gravity, said he does not believe in the 0|number zero, and claimed he remembers the events of the day he was born. In July 2024, Howard returned to The Joe Rogan Experience in order to debate his theories with Eric Weinstein, who has a doctorate in mathematical physics from Harvard University.

Howard's statements and beliefs, along with his ability to use "high-profile language" and terms in his statements in a nonsensical and misleading manner have been criticized as blatantly erroneous, conspiratorial, and misleading by many scholars, including in a separate video by Neil deGrasse Tyson in June 2024 as a response to Terryology.

Abuse and harassment
In February 2009, it was reported on The Smoking Gun that Howard had been arrested in 2001 for a variety of charges related to a violent attack on his estranged first wife, including simple assault, terroristic threats, harassment, and stalking. According to police reports, he arrived at her house after an argument on the phone, forced entry into her home by breaking in doors, and chased her into the backyard where he punched her in the face twice. The violent attack ended when Howard's brother stepped in. In 2002, he pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace.

According to The Smoking Gun, Howard was also arrested for assaulting a Continental Airlines flight attendant after refusing her request to return to his seat because the seat belt sign was on.

On December 5, 2011, a judge granted Howard's then-wife Michelle Ghent a restraining order based on her claims that Howard had caused her physical injuries that required medical attention, once broke her computer in half, repeatedly threatened her, and stalked her by telephone and on the Internet.

In August 2013, Ghent obtained a second restraining order against him after showing up in court with a black eye she said he gave her.

In a September 2015 interview with Rolling Stone, Howard admitted to hitting his first wife in 2001, saying: "She was talking to me real strong, and I lost my mind and slapped her in front of the kids."

Discography

 * Shine Through It (2008)

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Vilseck

Vilseck is a town and municipality (Gemeinde) in the Oberpfalz region of northeastern Bavaria, Germany, situated on the river Vils, a tributary of the Naab river. , Vilseck's population was 6,768 citizens, who live within an area of 64.71 km2 consisting of Vilseck town proper and 35 other hamlets and villages. The town is 402 meters (1,300 feet) above sea level.

The town’s name comes from Vilseck castle built in 920. Eck is the German word for corner. The Vils river has a tight bend where the castle (Burg) is located: thus the name Vilseck.

The town is geographically separate from a nearby large American military base known as the Rose Barracks, but more commonly referred to as Vilseck. The base, built in 1937–1938, was captured during World War II from the Germans, whose name for it was Südlager.

Geography
The municipality’s neighbouring municipalities are Edelsfeld, Königstein, Freihung and Hahnbach.

Apart from the town of Vilseck proper, the municipality consists of the following villages:
 * Altmannsberg
 * Axtheid
 * Axtheid-Berg
 * Bruckmühle
 * Bürgerwald
 * Drechselberg
 * Ebersbach
 * Frauenbrunn
 * Gressenwöhr
 * Gumpenhof
 * Heringnohe
 * Heroldsmühle
 * Hohenzant
 * Kagerhof
 * Ködritz
 * Langenbruck
 * Leinschlag
 * Lohhof
 * Neuhammer
 * Oberweißenbach
 * Oedgodlricht
 * Rauschenhof
 * Reisach
 * Schlicht
 * Schöfelhof
 * Schönlind
 * Schüsselhof
 * Seiboldsricht
 * Sigl
 * Sollnes
 * Sorghof
 * Triebweg
 * Unterweißenbach
 * Weiherhäusl
 * Wickenricht

920
Construction of the castle at around 925. Primawatchtower with piling and moat, stone watchtower built in the 12th century. At this time a "Burg" (castle) on an elevated place was often called an Eck; thus the name Vilseck derived from: City next to the Vilsburg. (Vilseck). It is also possible that the name comes from the fact that the city is situated on the Vils on a west-to-east stretch between two distinct 90-degree bends in the river. The German word for corner is also "Eck".

1104
Destruction of the castle by Emperor Heinrich IV during a devastating campaign against Berengar from Sulzbach.

1185
First documentation of the town "Vilseck"

1188-1268
Affiliation of Vilseck and surrounding areas to the administrative district of the Episcopal-Bamberg bailiwick (Vogtei) under the protection of the Stauffer Emperor.

1190
Earliest documentation of the second castle. In the following years construction of a new castle with the growing of the new city of Vilseck. City and Castle accrete.

1269-1802
Town area belongs to the administrative office of the Bishop of Bamberg.

1289
First documentation of "City" (ciuitatis) of Vilseck.

1332-1380
Construction of the city fortification: 940 m (half a mile) curtain wall, (9 m (30 feet) high, 1.60 m (5 feet) thick), 17 towers and three gates surrounded by a moat.

1380
Awarding of the city crest by Lampert von Brunn, Bishop of Bamberg. Construction of the town hall (Rathaus).

Construction of choir aisle and nave on Romanic foundation, remaining from 11th century, at the church in Schlicht.

1407-1412
Construction of parish church on from 11th century remaining Romanic foundation.

1466
Construction of the Vogelturm "bird-tower" (well-known landmark and symbol of Vilseck).

1512
Castle is attacked, plundered and burned down by the knights Hans Pflug and Hand Selbitz, comrades-in-arms of Götz von Berlichingens. Afterwards - reconstruction.

1522
Majority of the city, including the town hall, burns down. Plundering of city through Margrave (Markgraf) Albrecht IV from Hohenzollern-Brandenburg.

1620
Pillaged during Thirty Years' War.

1631-1634
The black death carries off most of population.

1638-1639
Pillaged during Thirty Years' War.

1751-1754
Construction of the nave at Catholic church in baroque style.

1802
Since 1802 affiliation to Bavaria.

1803
Integration into the Oberpfalz. (Upper Palatinate District).

1808
Local villages, like Gressenwöhr, Irlbach, Langenbruck, Schlicht and Sigl, become political structured communities.

1838
After authorization through King Ludwig I. the Landgericht (County Court) is set in the Vilseck cityhall.

1852-1919
In this timeframe a "Vilseck District" exists as major regional authority with the communities of Adlholz, Ehenfeld, Gebenbach, Gressenwöhr, Großschönbrunn, Hahnbach, Iber, Irlbach, Kürmreuth, Langenbruck, Massenricht, Schlicht, Seugast, Sigl, Sigras, Süß, Vilseck and Weißenberg.

1864
City hall on fire. Ruin will be transferred to state government to construct new district courthouse.

1901
Opening of a public telephone office.

1908
Construction of the Grafenwöhr Training Area North, with displacement of larger parts of the Vilseck Bürgerwald. (forest).

1929-1930
Construction of water supply system

1937
Enlargement of water supply system to supply German Army Base.

1937-1938
Construction of German Army Base (Südlager) in the Grafenwöhr Training Area. For the extension of the Grafenwöhr Training Area several villages, like: Langenbruck, Altenweiher, Altneuhaus, Bernhof, Betzlhof, Erzhäusl, Fenkenhof, Grünwald, Hellziechen, Kittenberg, Schindlhof, Schmierhütte and Wirlhof had to be evacuated.

The base capitulated to the U.S. Army in 1945.

Postwar history
In 1946, the town integrated the villages of Schönlind, Ödgodlricht, Heroldsmühle and Gumpenhof from the broken-down community of Irlbach, forming the community of Schlicht.

In 1951, there was the construction of the new railway station.

In 1955, the city's water supply system was connected to Schlicht.

During the following years (1956–1959), the Protestant church was built.

1957 was the start of construction of the city sewage system.

1962-1964 saw the construction of the new school with gymnasium in Vilseck.

From 1981 to 1993, the US Army extended and enlarged the Rose Barracks for about DM1,000 million.

In 2000 the "Erstes Deutsches Türmermuseum" (1st German museum of tower watchman or tower keeper) had its grand opening.

Vilseck and the U.S. Army
Vilseck is home to Rose Barracks, a U.S. Army post located just outside the town.

Trivia
The town is home to Germany's first tower museum.

Notable people

 * Matthias Kohl (born August 14, 1973 in Vilseck), mathematician and statistician

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 * The cultural, historic and contemporary, and geographic Regions of Sudan.
 * Note: The main administrative subdivisions of the country are the states of Sudan.

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User:Nigosh/wip/Mari Boine

Mari Boine is a Norwegian Sami musician known for having added jazz and rock to the joiks of her native people. Boine grew up amid the Laestadian Christian movement as well as amidst discrimination against her people. She was asked to perform at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, but refused because she perceived the invitation as an attempt to bring a token minority to the ceremonies. Gula Gula (1989, Real World) was her breakthrough release, and she continued to record popular albums throughout the 1990s.

Links
Bio & trax Folk Roots interview ectophile management fan
 * http://www.fet.uni-hannover.de/~purnhage/music/mariboine.html
 * http://www.rootsworld.com/scanfest/boine.html
 * http://www.ectoguide.org/artists/boine.mari
 * http://www.kalleklev.no/english/artists/mariboine.html (old - 2002)
 * http://www.scanarts.no/pages/prosjekter_c.asp?nr=117
 * http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/lilac/3/boine2.htm

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Stukas Over Disneyland

Stukas Over Disneyland is the third studio album by punk rock band The Dickies, released in 1983.

The album includes covers of The Quick's "Pretty Please Me" and Led Zeppelin's "Communication Breakdown." The cover art illustrates the album's title by showing a Stuka dive bomber over the head of Mickey Mouse.

Critical reception
Reviewer Steve Spinali of Maximum Rocknroll commented positively on the original 1984 release with "The DICKIES' first vinyl in almost four years ranks up there near their previous funnypunk triumphs. Most of the eight songs here veer toward amphetamine pop, with irresistible layered choruses to boot, but the highlights include the poppish 'Rosemary,' 'She's a Hunchback,' and an incredibly fast cover of LED ZEP's 'Communication Breakdown.' Buoyant and entertaining as hell!"

Personnel

 * Leonard Graves Phillips - Lead vocals on all tracks
 * Stan Lee - Guitar on all tracks
 * Billy Club - Bass on tracks 1-4 (original issue) and tracks 5-7 (reissue)
 * Laurie Buhne - Bass and vocals on tracks 5-8 (original issue)
 * Scott Sindon - Guitar and vocals on tracks 1-4 (original issue)
 * Steve Hufsteter - Guitar on tracks 6-8 (original issue)
 * Chuck Wagon - Drums on tracks 1, 2 and 4 (original issue); guitar on tracks 5-7 (reissue)
 * Karlos Kaballero - Drums on track 3 (original issue) and tracks 5-7 (reissue)
 * Jerry Angel - Drums on tracks 5-8 (original issue)

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Des Plaines River

The Des Plaines River is a river that flows southward for 133 mi through southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois in the United States Midwest, eventually meeting the Kankakee River west of Channahon to form the Illinois River, a tributary of the Mississippi River.

Native Americans used the river as transportation route and portage. When French explorers and missionaries arrived in the 1600s, in what was then the Illinois Country of New France, they named the waterway La Rivière des Plaines (River of the Plane Tree) as they felt that trees on the river resembled the European plane tree. The local Native Americans showed these early European explorers how to traverse waterways of the Des Plaines watershed to travel from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River and its valley.

Parts of the river are now part of the Illinois Waterway and the Chicago Area Waterway System.

Course and character
The slow-moving Des Plaines River rises in southern Wisconsin just west of Kenosha adjacent to the Great Lakes Dragway and flows southward primarily through marshland, with a small eastbound kink before it crosses into Illinois. The river continues south through woodland forest preserve districts in Lake and Cook counties, and through the towns of Des Plaines, a northwestern suburb of Chicago, and Forest Park, River Forest, and the historic village of Riverside, western suburbs of Chicago. Numerous small fixed dams have been built on the river starting in central Lake County and continuing through Cook County. Eventually, the river turns to the southwest and joins with the Sanitary and Ship Canal in Lockport before flowing through the city of Joliet. Here it becomes part of the Chicago Area Waterway System and the longer Illinois Waterway.

In the heavily industrialized area around Joliet, dams control the river. A few miles southwest of Joliet, the Des Plaines converges with the Kankakee River to form the Illinois River. (41.39098°N, -88.25872°W)

Those parts of the Des Plaines River preserved in a mostly natural state are used for conservation and recreation, while substantially altered sections serve as an important industrial waterway and drainage channel. The original course of the riverbed was moved to the west at the town of Lockport during the construction of the Sanitary and Ship Canal in 1905.

According to Chicago Wilderness Magazine, as the Des Plaines River runs 95 mi through four Illinois counties, it "changes from prairie creek to a suburban stream, to a large urbanized river, to a major industrial waterway."

Sections of the river in the Lake County and Cook County Forest Preserve districts in Illinois create "a nearly continuous greenway through all of Lake County and the northern section of Cook County." While canoe launching ramps are available, "The lack of ramps for trailered boats makes this long river a quiet, family-friendly river." This greenway also supports the Des Plaines River Trail, a multi-use trail that roughly follows the course of the Des Plaines River through Lake County and into Cook County.

Etymology
The Des Plaines River was named by early French coureurs de bois sometime between the 17th and 18th centuries, after the trees lining the banks of the river. The word la plaine, in the 18th-century Mississippi Valley dialect of French spoken at the time, referred to either the American sycamore or the red maple, both of which resembled the European plane tree either in their palmate leaves or similar bark. This meaning of plaine survives in Canadian French: Plaine or Plaine rouge refers to an Acer rubrum and Acer saccharinum is sometimes named a plaine blanche.

The English word for the plane tree came from the 14th century Old French word la plane. Since the later 18th century, the French word for the plane tree has evolved into le platane. As the Latin name for the plane tree is platanus, this transformation was likely done as a part of the attempts by late 18th-century French academics to change the spelling of many French words to what was perceived as their Latin origins. A side effect of such action was that the original French meaning of the name applied to the Des Plaines River was obscured. Today, des Plaines in modern Parisian French literally means "of the plains" or "of the prairie". This has led to confusion about the meaning of the original French name for the Des Plaines River.

Many people today believe that the river was named after the plains and prairies through which the river flows. But, in the 18th-century French dialect, it was more common to use the word "prairie" to indicate a plain, such as Prairie du Rocher in Illinois and Prairie du Chien in Wisconsin. Also, as noted above, it is more likely that the river was named in reference to the trees rather than the land. The French, like the Native Americans, traveled primarily by waterways rather than overland. The view of the prairie was nearly always blocked by trees. To this day a large number of both maples and sycamores grow along the Des Plaines River.

Although the original French name for the river has survived, its pronunciation has been altered. Today, locals pronounce it in an anglicized way (roughly "dess plains"), rather than according to the French pronunciation. It is also commonly referred to as "The DPR" by locals, citing its initials.

Tributaries
Northeast of Bristol, Wisconsin, Brighton creek flows into the river.

Jerome Creek and the Root River both converge with the Des Plaines near Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin.

Mill Creek of Old Mill Creek flows through County Forest Preserve before entering the Des Plaines River.

Another tributary of the river near the Illinois-Wisconsin border is Osprey Lake, in Gurnee, Illinois, which flows through a small unnamed creek before dumping into the river.

Bull Creek in Libertyville, Illinois flows into the Des Plaines near Independence Grove Forest Preserve.

In Lincolnshire, Illinois, Indian creek flows eastward into the Des Plaines River.

Near Chicago Executive Airport, the Wheeling Drainage Ditch of Wheeling, Illinois flows southeast through the town and adds to the river.

McDonald Creek in Mount Prospect, Illinois flows into the Des Plaines in Dam No. 2 Woods.

Southeast of Mount Prospect and due north of Des Plaines, Illinois, Weller Creek flows south into the DPR.

Half a mile east of O'Hare International Airport, Crystal Creek meanders its way into the Des Plaines.

Salt Creek of Hollywood, a neighborhood in Brookfield, Illinois, begins in Palatine and flows downstream into the river.

As the Des Plaines river begins to run parallel to the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Portage Creek enters the river.

Northwest of Lemont, Illinois, Goose Lake flows directly into the Des Plaines River.

The Des Plaines and the Sanitary and Ship Canal finally merge on the edges of Crest Hill, Illinois.

Hickory Creek flows into the Des Plaines at the bottom of the Brandon Road Dam.

Rock Run, Cedar Creek, and Jackson Creek all flow into the river near the border of Joliet, Illinois and Channahon, Illinois east of I-55.

The DuPage River merges with the Des Plaines in Channahon, Illinois.

About three miles downstream, the Kankakee River merges with the Des Plaines River to form the Illinois River.

Des Plaines River Bridge

The Des Plaines River Bridge in Joliet is a cantilever bridge that is six lanes wide—three lanes traveling eastbound and westbound. The bridge is signed as part of Interstate 80. The bridge is located on the south side of Joliet.

Flood control projects
A Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (the Chicago Deep Tunnel) to reduce the harmful effects of floods and the flushing of raw sewage into Lake Michigan is semi-operational. It diverts storm water and sewage into temporary holding reservoirs. The megaproject is one of the largest civil engineering projects ever undertaken in terms of scope, cost and timeframe. Commissioned in the mid-1970s, the project is managed by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. Completion of the system is not anticipated until 2029, but substantial portions of the system have opened.

A modern flood control study stated that flooding on the Des Plaines River has caused significant damage and adverse economic impacts. The greatest recorded flood, in September 1986, caused an estimated $35 million in damage to 10,000 dwellings and 263 business and industrial sites. A Phase I flood control Project was authorized under the Water Resources Development Act of 1999. Project features include levee, dam, and reservoir expansion at a total cost of $50.5 million (in 2002).

On August 24, 2007, the river flooded by over 9 ft. On September 14, 2008, the river flooded after the area received more than 10 in of rainfall over two days.

Crime
In the six months prior to his December 1978 arrest, serial killer John Wayne Gacy discarded the remains of at least four of his thirty-three known victims into the river, after finding no other suitable locations to dispose of them, due to the further twenty-nine known victims being buried in the crawlspace or other locations upon the grounds of his home.

Recreation
The Des Plaines River is the site of the Des Plaines River Canoe & Kayak Marathon. The race was founded in 1957 by Ralph Frese, and is the second oldest continual canoe race in the United States. Fishing is a common practice along the Des Plaines River with a steady game fish population of bluegills, carp, catfish, crappie, largemouth bass, northern pike, smallmouth bass and sunfish.

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Modi (surname)

Modi, alternatively spelled Mody is a surname in India, most commonly found among people from states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh. The surname Modi doesn't belong to any particular community. It is distributed among various religions as well. It is used in Hindu, Jain, Muslim and even Parsi community.

Notable people with the surname include:
 * Akash Modi (born 1995), American gymnast
 * Aman Lal Modi, Indian politician
 * Anju Modi, Indian costume designer
 * Ashoka Mody (born 1956), Indian-American economist
 * Asit Kumarr Modi (born 1966), founder and director of Neela Tele Films
 * Avani Modi, Indian model and actress
 * Bhupendra Kumar Modi (born 1949), chairman of Spice Global
 * Charu Modi, Indian busninswoman, granddaughter of Gujarmal Modi
 * Chinu Modi (1939–2017, Indian poet
 * Dayawati Modi (1915–1996), wife of Gujarmal Modi
 * Gujarmal Modi (1902–1976), Indian industrialist and philanthropist, founder of Modinagar
 * Hirji Vacha Modi, Indian businessman
 * Hitesh Modi (born 1971), Kenyan cricketer
 * Homi Mody (1881-1969), Parsi businessman
 * Hormusjee Naorojee Mody (1838–1911), Indian businessman
 * Indravadan Modi (born 1926), an Indian pharmaceutical industry pioneer
 * Isaac Modi, (born 2004) English footballer
 * Ishwar Modi (born 1940), an Indian sociologist
 * Jashodaben Modi (born 1952), wife of Narendra Modi
 * Jivanji Jamshedji Modi (1854–1933), Indian Zoroastrian priest
 * Kal Penn (born 1977), stage name of Kalpen Suresh Modi, American actor
 * Karishma Modi (born 1980), an Indian model and actress
 * Krishan Kumar Modi (born 1940), Indian businessman, son of Gujarmal Modi
 * Lalit Modi, Chief Commissioner of the Indian Premier League
 * Manhar Modi, Indian poet
 * Mukesh Modi Indian filmmaker
 * Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi (1916–2005), the Indian eye surgeon
 * Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India
 * Neena Modi, British physician
 * Nirav Modi, Indian fugitive jeweller and diamantaire
 * Piloo Mody, Indian architect and politician and one of the founding members of the Swatantra Party
 * Pramod Chandra Mody, Indian bureaucrat
 * Prem Prakash Modi (born 1968), Indian filmmaker
 * Purnesh Modi, Indian politician
 * Raj Modi (born 1959), Zimbabwean politician
 * Ramlal Chunilal Modi, Indian historian
 * Rusi Modi, Indian cricketer
 * Russi Mody (1918–2014), Indian businessman
 * Saket Modi, (born 1990), Indian businessman
 * Salifou Modi, Nigerien general, ambassador, and coupist
 * Samir Modi (born 1969), Indian entrepreneur
 * Sandeep Modi (born 1982), Indian filmmaker
 * Seema Mody, Indian journalist
 * Shrikrishan Modi, Indian politician
 * Sohrab Modi, Indian actor
 * Subhash Modi (born 1946), Kenyan cricket umpire
 * Sulochana Modi, Indian politician
 * Suresh Modi, Indian politician
 * Sushil Kumar Modi, Indian politician
 * Syed Modi, Indian badminton singles player.
 * Virali Modi (born 1991), disability rights activist
 * Vishnu Kumar Modi, Indian politician
 * Yogesh Chander Modi, Indian police officer

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Berwick Bridge

Berwick Bridge, also known as the Old Bridge, spans the River Tweed in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England. The current structure is a Grade I listed stone bridge built between 1611 and 1624.

History
Prior to the construction of the stone bridge, the crossing was served by a series of wooden bridges. which were variously destroyed by flooding and military action. James Burrell became Surveyor of Works of the town in 1604, making him responsible for maintenance of the bridge. He was previously also occupied on the fortifications around Berwick before James VI and I ascended the throne of England, rendering them redundant.

Burrell was directed by Sir William Bowyer to make estimates for repairing the bridge in June 1607, after damage attributed to an underwater earthquake. Bowyer involved two Aldermen of Berwick and wrote to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury of his distrust of Burrell, because of the historic corruption and abuse in the military works. Burrell noted that the 140 yard long timber portion of the existing bridge, which was 30 years old, should be rebuilt. New timber could come from Chopwell Woods. Stone from an old pier and tower could be reused. Burrell thought there was "no surety of long safety" for the structure.

In 1608, ten piers of the wooden bridge were destroyed by ice, and Burrell wrote to Robert Cecil, then Secretary of State, to recommend the construction of a stone bridge. Arrangements were made in May 1608 to collect funds, and a royal warrant of November 1608 granted £10,000 from arrears of royal rents, but only £3,300 had been collected by 1611. The Captain of Berwick, Sir William Bowyer, was unsatisfied with this progress, and a proposal was made for a bridge with seven stone arches over the deepest part of the river and the rest built of wood. After further collapse of the old wooden bridge, a modified proposal, for an entirely stone bridge with 13 arches, and estimated to cost a further £8,462, was put to the Privy Council, and on 16 May 1611 the King ordered £8,000 to be put towards the bridge. Work started on the bridge on 19 June that year, and by September 170 men were employed on its construction. At some point it was decided to build it with 15 arches instead.

In 1618, a further £4,000 grant was given, but this money had been used by 1620 and the Privy Council placed the bridge project under the supervision of the Bishop of Durham Richard Neile before any more money was given. Neile contracted Burrell and the leading mason Lancelot Bramston to finish the bridge at a cost of £1,750, and installed John Johnson of Newcastle as supervisor. The bridge was completed by September 1621 except for the parapets and paving, but a flood in October 1621 swept away some masonry and the wooden centring. In light of the accident, a grant of £3,000 was made and work restarted the following March, and the bridge was opened to traffic in 1624, although minor work continued for the next decade.

The bridge became less important for road traffic as the main route moved westwards, first to the concrete Royal Tweed Bridge built in the 1920s, and then in the 1980s a bypass took the A1 road out of Berwick altogether.

It is a Grade I listed building and a scheduled monument.

Design
The bridge is 1164 ft long and 17 ft wide between the parapets, with an upwards slope towards the north-eastern end. The spans are not even in length, and range between 24 ft and 75 ft, the longest being the penultimate span at the north-eastern end.

It is built from sandstone quarried at Tweedmouth. The piers are founded on large oak piles from 873 trees, mainly taken from Chopwell Forest.

The triangular cutwaters extend up to the level of the deck to become pedestrian refuges.

The bridge is now one way, from east to west. A short distance upstream is the Royal Tweed Bridge, which succeeded the Berwick Bridge as the main road crossing of the Tweed at Berwick when it opened in 1928. In 1984, the A1 River Tweed Bridge opened about a mile to the west of Berwick, carrying the A1 road around the town.

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HMCS Algonquin (R17)

HMCS Algonquin was a V-class destroyer, laid down for the Royal Navy as HMS Valentine (R17) and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion during the Second World War. She saw service in the Second World War escorting the aircraft carriers that bombed the GERMAN BATTLESHIP Tirpitz in March 1944 and providing naval gunfire support to the Normandy landings. The destroyer was to participate in the Pacific Campaign but the war ended before her arrival in that theatre. Algonquin was converted in 1953 to a frigate and spent the majority of her remaining career in the Atlantic, being paid off in 1970.

Service history
Ordered as Kempenfelt by the Royal Navy, the destroyer's keel was laid down on 8 October 1942. The ship's name was changed to Valentine in 1942. The destroyer was launched on 2 September 1943. Valentine was renamed Algonquin and commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 28 February 1944.

Following her commissioning, Algonquin was sent to Scapa Flow to work up with her sister HMCS Sioux (R64). They were then assigned to the British Home Fleet's 26th Destroyer Flotilla. Departing on 29 March 1944 from Scapa Flow, the flotilla joined the escort screen on 31 March for the force sent to cover the Russian convoy JW 58. On 3 April they join the fleet sent to bomb the German battleship Tirpitz in Operation Tungsten. On 26 April Algonquin escorted a strike force hunting for German ships near the Norwegian Lofoten Islands. On 6 May, Algonquin deployed as part of a force comprising two aircraft carriers and five other destroyers. Aircraft from the carriers attacked two German convoys and sank two ships for the loss of two aircraft. Algonquin and the 26th Destroyer Flotilla began training for Operation Neptune, the naval component of the Normandy invasion. The flotilla departed Scapa Flow on 28 May for Portsmouth. Algonquin and sister Sioux provided gunfire support to the landings on Juno Beach.

Invasion of Normandy
On 6 June 1944, Algonquin left the Solent at 06:45am as part of the assault fleet for Juno Beach, the Canadian sector of the invasion. After arrival, Algonquin began performing her gunfire support mission, firing at her first target; a pair of 75 mm guns located behind houses west of Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer. Following their destruction, Algonquin shifted to destroying houses harbouring snipers along the Nan Red sector. By mid-morning, Algonquin fired only intermittently and the destroyer's gunfire was controlled from shore-based army observers. Around 10:00am, Algonquin was called upon to take out a battery of three 88 mm guns 2 mi inland from Courselles. The destroyer spent the rest of the time with the invasion fleet on D-day moving around and coming under air attack.

On 7 June, the ship shelled a series of houses that was being used by snipers. Algonquin, with Sioux was used on Guards Patrol around the anchorage. On 10 June, the destroyer shuttled Vice-Admiral Percy W. Nelles to Normandy and followed this up on 18 June by ferrying General Harry Crerar, commander of Canadian invasion forces, and his staff to France. The following day, the ship performed a fire support mission for an attack by Royal Marines between Ouistreham and Cabourg. On 24 June, Algonquin, with Sioux, shelled a German battery near Franceville before departing for Scapa Flow.

Northern operations
After returning from invasion duties, Algonquin was made part of the destroyer force for the Home Fleet again. From 9–11 August 1944, Algonquin and Sioux are among the escorts for a carrier force sent to attack German airfields at Gossen, Norway and disrupt German shipping in the Lepsoyren Channel and Harhanesfjord. The Home Fleet departed on 16 August to carry out attacks, named Operation Goodwood, on Tirpitz lying at Kaafjord, splitting into two groups. Algonquin and Sioux were part of the force under the command of Rear-Admiral Rhoderick McGrigor. The escort carrier HMS Nabob (D77) was part of the task force, manned by a Canadian crew. The escort carrier was torpedoed by a U-boat on 22 August, suffering significant damage. Algonquin was dispatched to aid the damaged ship arriving on 23 August, taking 203 members of the crew off. The destroyer later transferred the Nabob personnel to another ship and returned to fleet off Norway.

On 11 September, Algonquin formed part of the screening force for another strike against German shipping off Norway. Upon returning from this mission, the destroyer escorted convoys to Murmansk and back. Only two ships were torpedoed, both on the trip back to the United Kingdom. Algonquin escorted a British force from 14–15 October sent to perform air-mining and attacks on Axis shipping routes along the coast of Norway near Frohavet. From 26–28 October, Algonquin is among the escort for the aircraft carrier HMS Implacable (R86) during attacks on Norway as part of Operation Athletic.

During the night of 12/13 November, Algonquin deployed as part of Operation Counterblast, with the cruisers HMS Kent (54) and HMS Bellona (63) and the destroyers HMS Myngs (R06), HMS Verulam (R28) and HMS Zambesi (R66) were deployed based on "Ultra" intelligence and attacked the German convoy KS 357 between Listerfjord and Egersund. The freighters Greif and Cornouailles were sunk, as were the minesweepers M 427 and M 416 and the submarine chasers UJ 1221, UJ 1223 and UJ 1713. Algonquin took part in the sinking of the three submarine chasers and one merchant vessel. On 22 November, Algonquin was part of the screen for airstrikes on Norway. On 27 November Algonquin was among the escorts for Implacable during raids on German shipping along the coast of Norway. The destroyer returned to the region for more airstrikes on 6 December. From 7–14 December, the ship escorted a British carrier force in support of Operation "Urbane" for the convoy RA 62 off the coast of Norway.

On 30 December, Algonquin sailed with the Murmansk-bound convoy JW 63 from Loch Ewe, Scotland to Kola Inlet, Russia, arriving on 8 January 1945. The destroyer returned with RW 63, departing Kola Inlet on 11 January. RW 63 comprised 29 ships. During the return trip, the convoy was scattered by a storm in which gale winds reached 85 kn which delayed its arrival at Loch Ewe until 21 January. The destroyer returned to Norwegian waters escorting more airstrikes in January 1945. In February, Algonquin and Sioux sailed to the Minch to meet HMS Puncher (D79), the second Canadian-manned escort carrier, after which Algonquin sailed for Canada on 5 February.

Algonquin arrived in Canada in February 1945 for a tropicalization refit at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Work was complete by August when she departed to join the British Pacific Fleet, though she did not arrive by the war's end, being in the Eastern Mediterranean on VJ-day. Following a brief stop at Alexandria, Egypt she crossed the Indian and Pacific Oceans to her homeport at Esquimalt, British Columbia. The destroyer was paid off into reserve and laid up on 6 February 1946.

Cold War service
Algonquin was modernized to a Type 15 frigate at Esquimalt and recommissioned on 25 February 1953 with the hull number 224. She was not selected for duty in the Korean War and was instead posted to CFB Halifax on the North Atlantic coast where she spent much of the next 14 years working with Canada's NATO allies. The First Canadian Escort Squadron came into being on 10 November 1953 as part of Atlantic Command with Algonquin as its flagship. The squadron was initially composed of Algonquin and the Prestonian-class frigates HMCS Lauzon (K371), HMCS Prestonian (K662) and HMCS Toronto (K538). In September the First Canadian Escort Squadron took part in the NATO naval exercise "New Broom II" and in October "Morning Mist" before performing a two-month training cruise in the Mediterranean Sea, making several port visits. The squadron returned to Canada on 10 December 1954. In January 1958, Algonquin collided with HMCS Nootka (R96) while operating in the Atlantic with the First Canadian Escort Squadron. Algonquin returned to Esquimalt in 1967 and was paid off on 1 April 1970. She was sold for scrap and broken up in Taiwan in 1971.

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Sloper

Sloper may refer to

 * Ally Sloper, early comic strip character
 * BSA Sloper, British motorcycle
 * Lindsay Sloper (1826–1887), English pianist
 * Robert Sloper (1729–1802), British general
 * Sloper antenna, a type of radio antenna
 * Sloper pattern, see pattern (sewing)
 * A type of climbing hold, see Glossary of climbing terms

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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Grm wnr

Grm wnr
final (23/1/0) ending 18:58 18 June 2005 (UTC) Grm wnr/Grammy is an active editor who joined Wikipedia in March 2004. Since creating an account Grammy has made over 6,000 edits, and played a key part in the organisation of WikiProject Stub Sorting. I thought that he was an admin when I first joined and maintained that view until recently. Grammy is, overall, a good user who I think could make a good administrator. Hedley 18:59, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

That's surprising, but I accept gladly. -- grm_wnr Esc  20:34, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Hedley 20:48, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support. No doubt a valuable user - great warrior in the perpetual battle against plain stubs (sounds more dramatic than it really was!) Bluemoose 21:44, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Hells bells and buggy wheels... you mean he wasn't...? Grutness...  wha?  00:26, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Strong Support - mop and bucket candidate if ever there was one! --FCYTravis 04:02, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support. Anybody who's willing to do all that long, hard work on stubs has to be admin-worthy. --Rje 11:10, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support, seems like a great user, and yeah, I kinda thought he was already one too. --Spangineer  (háblame)  12:13, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support. Of course. - Darwinek 21:39, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support, I have had the pleasure of working with this user on the Wikiproject Stub Sorting for the past few months and have nothing but positive things to say about him. He is committed and reasonable. I sincerely believe that he will make an outstanding sysop. Thus, I give him my full support. --Sn0wflake 23:25, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Support As with Sn0wflake, I've worked on the Stub Sorting project with Grm wnr. He's very proactive with feet planted firmly on the ground. Happy to support! Rx StrangeLove 01:07, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support That's a lot of mop-worthy grunt work, and so a strong support for you. Keep being bold! Bratsche talk  5 pillars 03:10, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support, by all means Lectonar 08:19, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Cool. JuntungWu 14:28, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support. Indubitably. Blank Verse  ∅  11:05, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support Zzyzx11 (Talk) 12:45, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support By making the stubs more specific, User:Grm_wnr makes it easier for people to find articles/projects that suit their particular areas of interest and expertise. A daunting and worthy project and well-carried out. Schissel : bowl listen 16:21, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) CryptoDerk 18:47, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support. --Kbdank71 14:48, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Me too!. Bless his soul for ridding us of unsorted stubs. --TenOfAllTrades(talk) 02:52, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support. →  Jarlaxle  Artemis   03:28, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support -  BanyanTree 14:51, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support. So that's who's been sorting out all those stubs I mark doing RC patrol. :) Kelly Martin 21:50, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support. Does good work and shows evidence of being helpful to work with. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 23:21, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support. --Silversmith Hewwo 01:08, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 07:33, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Because Boothy443 has opposed every adminship request on this page without reason, I have left him a polite comment/suggestion on his user talk page that he either provide reasons for his opposition or withdraw his votes. Flcelloguy [[Image:Bass clef2.gif|25px|Cello today?]] Give me a note! Eighth note (crop).gif Desk  21:28, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Neutral

Comments

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. Probably clearing out the backlog of a few *fD pages at first. I'd also spend more time on RC and NP patrol than I do now.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. The best articles I've written are Vision mixer and Funkstörung, but what I'm most proud of was the subdivision of music-stub into subcategories. That was a lot of work.
 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
 * A. 2 days ago I would have said "none at all" but recently I made a quite bold edit to Wikipedia:Template messages/Stubs, cutting it down significantly. That seemed to annoy a few people (see Wikipedia talk:Template messages/Stubs; the page itself is a redirect now). Not a "conflict" per se because there was no fighting, but since it's so fresh it deserves a mention here. I apologized for being too bold, but I stand by my edit. The issue seems to be resolved now.


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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 07:14, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Niels Buit
26 hits hardly seems enough for a "famous" person. --Xcali 18:59, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * But he's got street cred! Oh, well, if you must, delete. humblefool® 21:32, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Vanity. Delete. — Phil Welch 00:54, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. JamesBurns 05:30, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Homer the Moe

"Homer the Moe" is the third episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox Network in the United States on November 18, 2001. In the episode, Moe, following the advice of his former bartending professor, decides to modernize his bar. The bar's new image attracts several customers, but leaves Moe's four regular customers, Homer, Lenny, Carl, and Barney, feeling alienated, which in turn prompts Homer to open his private bar, disguising it as a hunting club to avoid liquor license restrictions.

The episode was directed by Jen Kamerman and was the first episode Dana Gould wrote for The Simpsons. Gould based the part about Homer's bar on his father, who opened a hunting club to sell alcohol without having to acquire a liquor license. The episode featured the musical group R.E.M., who appeared as themselves.

The episode received mixed reviews from critics following the thirteenth season's release on DVD and Blu-ray.

Plot
After Homer tells a story about Bart digging a hole in the backyard for no apparent reason other than to make it deeper and bigger, Moe complains about the monotony at his tavern. Recalling his days at Swigmore University, he decides to return there for some inspiration and leaves Homer in temporary charge of the bar. At the university, Moe finds his old professor, who is dying of cancer. After advising Moe to modernize his bar, the professor drowns himself in the campus lake. Soon, the tavern is renovated by Formico, the self-proclaimed "Dean of Design", into a swanky nightclub renamed "M" and with a post-modern decor.

Homer and his bar-buddies Lenny, Carl and Barney find that they do not fit in with the new, affluent crowd, and miss their old tavern experience. Homer decides to convert his garage into a new tavern for himself and his friends. Meanwhile, Moe is confronted by the ghost of his professor and realizes that he does not fit in with his new clientele either and leaves to find Homer. Arriving at the Simpsons’ home, he finds that the new garage bar has quickly become quite popular, and even has the alternative rock band R.E.M. playing.

When confronted by Moe with the fact that it is illegal to operate a bar in a private residence, Homer claims that it is a hunting club, citing a law book that states that a hunting club may provide refreshing beverages. Moe consults the book and determines that the club must engage in the sport of hunting, to which Homer states that he will hunt for a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, much to Lisa's horror.

Homer sets out the next day to find a turkey, but Lisa and Moe scare off his quarry, using a whistle that sounds like a cougar. However, Homer mistakes the whistle for an actual cougar and accidentally shoots Moe in the leg. After Homer apologizes, he, along with Moe, R.E.M. and the rest of the Simpson family return to Moe's tavern, reverted to its original decor, for a Thanksgiving meal of a turkey, made "entirely of tofu and gluten" and provided by Michael Stipe, an environmentalist. Homer even affirms his friendship with Moe by putting some money in his tip jar.

Production

Jen Kamerman directed "Homer the Moe", which was the first episode Dana Gould wrote for the show. It was the first broadcast on Fox in the United States on November 18, 2001, four days before Thanksgiving.

In the DVD commentary for the episode, Gould says that, when the team was thinking of a way to start the show, George Meyer said, "I like how kids will just dig a hole". Homer's story ends with a Chinese satellite spying on Bart. This was an attempt by Gould to write a bizarre joke in the style of fellow Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder. Moe's plot in the second act was also created by Meyer, who suggested that the bartending school that Moe attended would resemble the law school on the 1970s television series The Paper Chase, and that the school's professor would be based on the professor from the earlier series.

Gould remembered how his father opened a hunting club and could sell alcohol without having to obtain a liquor license. This inspired the idea of Homer's club. Also, the "crossed-fishing-pole-and-rifle" insignia that can be seen in Homer's garage is the same insignia that Gould's father uses for his hunting club. Homer's bar was originally the center of the episode but became the third act when the writers came up with the renovation of Moe's bar and made it the main storyline.

Alternative rock band R.E.M. guest-starred as themselves in the episode. "We had been told that R.E.M. were big fans of the show", says executive producer and showrunner for the episode, Mike Scully, adding that their appearance in the episode was a "fairly last-minute addition". Unlike The Who, who made an appearance in the episode "A Tale of Two Springfields", R.E.M. did not want their former drummer Bill Berry to be animated in the episode. The drummer seen in the episode was instead drawn to resemble one of their session drummers at the time. Moe's professor at Swigmore University was voiced by the series' regular voice actor Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer among many others. Formico, who renovated Moe's tavern, was portrayed by Hank Azaria, who also voices Moe as well as several other characters in the show.

Cultural references
Swigmore University, which Moe attends in the episode, is a parody of Skidmore College. The professor working at Swigmore University is based on Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. from the television series The Paper Chase. The dying professor entering the lake is a reference to the movie Being There, in whose ending it is revealed Mr. Chance can walk on water. Moe's new bar M is a parody of the luxury boutique hotel W New York Union Square that Gould had visited once. The monitors showing eyeballs are based on similar decorations found in the elevators in the St Martin's Lane hotel, where the Simpsons' staff hosted a Simpsons festival. The doorman in front of M was modeled after special effects creator and actor Greg Nicotero. The dance that Homer, Carl, and Lenny perform in Moe's bar is a takeoff on the dancing in the comedy/drama film Coyote Ugly, in which the dancers performed on the bar counter, much like Homer, Carl and Lenny do in the episode.

Release
In its original American broadcast on November 18, 2001, "Homer the Moe" was watched by 14.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research, making it the most watched television show of its timeslot that night. The episode received a 7.1 rating/17 share among adult viewers between ages 18 and 49, meaning it was seen by 7.1% of the population between ages 18 and 49, and 17% of people in this demographic watching television at the time of its broadcast. On September 14, 2004, "Homer the Moe" was released, along with the episodes "Homer's Night Out", "The Mansion Family" and "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" on a DVD set entitled The Simpsons – Gone Wild. The episode was later included in The Simpsons: The Thirteenth Season DVD and Blu-ray set, released August 24, 2010.

Giving the episode a rating of C−, Jennifer Malkowski of DVD Verdict described the episode as a "tepid remix of previous Simpsons plots".

Ron Martin of 411Mania called the plot "unimaginative" and wrote "I suppose there's only enough episodes you can go through before Moe's has to modernize in the most hideous way".

IGN reviewer R.L. Shaffer wrote that "Homer the Moe", "The Frying Game", "The Old Man and the Key", and "Sweets and Sour Marge" were some of the worst episodes of the whole series.

However, Colin Jacobsson of DVD Movie Guide wrote that even though the episode was too similar to the third-season episode "Flaming Moe's", the episode "works reasonably well". He gave the episode a favorable review overall, calling it "one of the year's best episodes".

Adam Rayner of Obsessed With Film wrote that the story was "told very well and continued to show the strength of the character of ‘Moe’, who would go on to be one of the only genuinely funny characters in the following barren years for the show".

Casey Broadwater of Blu-ray.com described the episode as one of the best of the season, and Aaron Peck of High-Def Digest stated that the episode was one of his personal favorites.

In 2007, Simon Crerar of The Times listed R.E.M's performance as one of the thirty-three funniest cameos in the history of the show.

Andrew Martin of Prefix Mag named R.E.M. his tenth-favorite musical guests on The Simpsons out of a list of ten in 2011.

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Mourne Wall

The Mourne Wall (Balla an Mhúrn) was constructed to enclose a catchment area of the Silent Valley Reservoir in the Mourne Mountains, Northern Ireland. The 1.5 m high stone wall, which was built to keep livestock from contaminating water supplies, took almost twenty years to complete (1904 to 1922). The project was overseen by the Belfast City and District Water Commissioners.

Planning
Luke Livingstone Macassey (1843–1908), an Irish civil engineer and barrister, was in 1874 appointed consultant hydraulic engineer by the Belfast and District Water Commissioners. The Commission had been set up in 1840 to ensure the water supply for Belfast, at that time an expanding city. In 1891 Macassey advised the construction of a reservoir in the Mourne Mountains, as a long-term solution.

The project required the acquisition of wayleaves and water rights. Private Acts of Parliament were passed, of 1893, 1897 and 1899, on behalf of the Commissioners.

The Silent Valley Reservoir was built between 1923 and 1933 to hold the water from the catchment area enclosed by the wall. The reservoir supplies Belfast via the Mourne Conduit/Aquarius pipeline. The main purpose of the Mourne Wall was to isolate the catchment area from cattle and sheep.

Construction
The wall was crafted from natural granite stone using traditional dry stone walling techniques. On average the wall is about 1.5 m high and 0.8 to 0.9 m thick and is estimated to be 19.5 mi long. Stonemasons worked from March to mid-October for 18 years to build the wall.

Topography
As the wall was built to contain the catchment area of the Mourne, the wall passes over fifteen of the highest mountains in the area (listed clockwise from the Kilkeel River):
 * Slievenaglogh 445 m
 * Slieve Muck 674 m
 * Carn Mountain 587 m
 * Slieve Loughshannagh 619 m
 * Slieve Meelbeg 708 m
 * Slieve Meelmore 680 m
 * Slieve Bearnagh 739 m
 * Slievenaglogh 586 m
 * Slieve Corragh 641 m
 * Slieve Commedagh 765 m
 * Slieve Donard 850 m
 * Rocky Mountain 525 m
 * Slieve Binnian 747 m
 * Wee Binnian 460 m
 * Moolieve 332 m

Management
The wall is maintained and owned by Northern Ireland Water.

Hiking
The Mourne Wall Challenge Walk is a challenging walking route following the historic Mourne Wall over seven of the ten highest mountains in Northern Ireland. In 2013, an event's designated route was recorded by a participant as being 30.51 km with a total 2527 m elevation. Although the designated route of this event contained two significant diversions from the wall itself in the Silent Valley and Annalong Valley.

Different versions of Mourne Wall challenge routes have been posted on the internet in recent years. The first of these follows the entire length of the wall as a full circuit of the mountain land owned by Northern Ireland Water (including Silent Valley Mountain Park). A second version follows the perimeter of the rainfall catchment area only, cutting across the dam wall of the Silent Valley reservoir. A third version of the route was specified for an organised walking event in 2013. This version also appears in Paddy Dillon's guidebook 'The Mournes Walks'.

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Tony DeVito

Anthony DeVito (born January 20, 1972) is an American professional wrestler, better known as Tony DeVito or simply DeVito. He is best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling as part of Da Baldies and with Ring of Honor as part of the Carnage Crew.

Early career (1991-1999)
DeVito was trained by David Schultz and debuted in 1991.

In 1992, DeVito was signed by the World Wrestling Federation to a contract. DeVito debuted for the WWF in 1992 and worked as an enhancement talent for the company, losing to the likes of Mr. Perfect, Bam Bam Bigelow, Doink the Clown and Phantasio.

After leaving the company in 1996, he began working on the independent circuit. In the late-1990s, DeVito appeared with promotions in the Northeastern United States such as Jersey All Pro Wrestling and Northeast Wrestling.

Extreme Championship Wrestling (1999–2000)
In 1999, DeVito joined Extreme Championship Wrestling as a part of a faction called "Da Baldies" with Angel, Vito Lograsso, P. N. News, Vic Grimes and Redd Dogg. The characteristics of Da Baldies were that of bald headed thugs. DeVito and Angel feuded with Axl Rotten and Balls Mahoney, and then with New Jack. At ECW Guilty as Charged, Da Baldies were "hired" to attack the team of Christian York and Joey Matthews, as well as Justin Credible and Steve Corino. DeVito made his final appearances with ECW in December 2000, after which he wrestled sporadically on the independent circuit.

Ring of Honor (2002–2005)
In April 2002, DeVito joined the nascent Ring of Honor promotion, where he formed a tag team with his long-time friend Loc known as the "Carnage Crew". The Carnage Crew was later expanded to include Masada, and then again to include Justin Credible. Credible left ROH in 2004, while Masada became a villain by betraying DeVito and Loc on May 22, 2004.

DeVito and Loc feuded with Special K, then with B. J. Whitmer and Dan Maff. After Maff left ROH, they began feuding with Whitmer and his new partner, Jimmy Jacobs. The Carnage Crew defeated Whitmer and Jacobs for the ROH Tag Team Championship on July 9, 2005, but lost it to Whitmer and Jacobs on July 23, 2005.

DeVito made his final appearances with Ring of Honor in September 2005.

Late career (2005–present)
DeVito left Ring of Honor in June 2005 and went into semi-retirement, making occasional appearances on the independent circuit.

DeVito made two appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment (formerly the World Wrestling Federation) in mid-2006. On the June 20, 2006 episode of ECW on Sci Fi, DeVito appeared as Macho Libre (a parody reference to both Jack Black's titular character from the film Nacho Libre and "Macho Man" Randy Savage), losing to The Sandman in a squash match. On the July 4 episode of ECW on Sci Fi, DeVito reappeared as a faux preacher who verbally rallied against ECW until being attacked and chased from ringside by The Sandman.

On November 15, 2016, DeVito opened his own wrestling school. He had previously trained many wrestlers, including Bobby Fish.

Professional wrestling style and persona
DeVito's signatures moves include the "Bronx Bomb" (a sitdown side slam) and the "F-U Moonsault" (a split-legged moonsault).

Personal life
DeVito is married with two children.

Championships and accomplishments

 * Assault Championship Wrestling
 * ACW Great American Championship (1 time)

 * Atomic Legacy Wrestling
 * ALW Hardcore Championship (1 time) current

 * Eastern States Wrestling
 * ESW Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

 * Go Wrestling
 * GW Powerweight Championship (1 time)

 * Massachusetts Wrestling Association
 * MWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Nick Barberi

 * Millennium Wrestling Association
 * MWA Hardcore Championship (1 time)

 * NEWF
 * NEWF Television Championship (1 time)

 * New Breed Wrestling
 * NBW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Big Guido
 * NBW Television Championship (1 time)
 * NBW United States Championship (1 time)

 * NWA Northeast
 * NWA Northeast Television Championship (1 time)

 * Renegade Wrestling Federation
 * RWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

 * Ring of Honor
 * ROH Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with H. C. Loc

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Lawrence Hilton Jacobs

Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, also credited as Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (born September 4, 1953), is an American actor and singer. Best known for playing Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington in Welcome Back Kotter (1975–1979), he has also appeared in a number of films and television shows, including Claudine (1974), Cooley High (1975), Roots (1977), Bangers and Mash (1983), Alien Nation (1989–1990), The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992), and 31 (2016).

Life and career
Jacobs was born in New York City, New York, the fifth of nine children of parents Hilton Jacobs (died 2000) and Clothilda Jacobs (died 2008). He began his acting career in the summer of 1969 and graduated from the High School of Art and Design in 1971. He attended Wilkes University for a short time before his acting career took off. Afterward, he studied acting with the Negro Ensemble Company and the Al Fann Theatrical Ensemble. In 1975, he won the role of Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington on the ABC hit comedy series, Welcome Back, Kotter. Jacobs also starred in cult classic Cooley High in 1975, and two years later had a role in the block-buster ABC mini-series Roots. Jacobs starred in a few commercials over the years, including an early 1970s commercial for The United Negro College Fund. Later in his career, he appeared in the 1989-1990 science fiction TV series Alien Nation as Sgt. Dobbs, an LAPD detective. He portrayed Panda Thomas (#1) in Rob Zombie's slasher film 31. Jacobs portrayed Joseph Walter "Joe" Jackson, the father of the Jackson family, in the 1992 miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream. He also appeared in a commercial for Salon Selectives. Jacobs sang on Rick James' 1981 album, Street Songs. As a homage to him, the housing project in Eddie Murphy's television program The PJs is named the Hilton-Jacobs Projects. He has two daughters.

Music credits

 * Lawrence Hilton Jacobs S/T (1978)
 * All the Way...Love (1979)
 * Let Me Do It (1981) (producer); performed by Halo; sought-after record among collectors.

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Allan Studholme

Allan Studholme (8 December 1846 – 28 July 1919) was a Canadian trade unionist and Ontario politician. He served as Labour MLA from 1906 to 1919.

Born in England near Birmingham, Studholme worked from his childhood. He moved to Canada in 1878 living in Dundas and Guelph before settling in Hamilton in 1885 where he found work as a stove mounter. An active trade unionist from his days in Britain, Studholme became active in the Knights of Labour and believed that workers should be active in politics on a class basis.

After a short time in Australia and New Zealand he returned to Hamilton in 1901. As a result of his involvement in support of striking streetcar workers, he was elected to the Ontario legislature from Hamilton East in a 1906 by-election as an Independent Labour MLA, becoming the first Labour member of the Ontario legislature. He remained at Queen's Park until his death in 1919.

In the legislature, Studholme championed pro-worker legislation such as the eight-hour day, a minimum wage and helped bring the Workmen's Compensation Act into existence. He also supported progressive causes such as women's suffrage.

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1910 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1910 Atlantic hurricane season was a fairly inactive season, with only five storms. Three of those systems, however, grew into hurricanes and one became a major hurricane. The season got off to a late start with the formation of a tropical storm in the Caribbean Sea on August 23. September saw two storms, and the final tropical cyclone—Hurricane Five—existed during October. All but one of the storms made landfall, and the only cyclone which remained at sea had some effects on the island of Bermuda.

The season's first storm had limited reported impacts on land, and the subsequent system caused more severe damage in southern Texas and northern Mexico. Hurricane Three dropped torrential rainfall on Puerto Rico before striking the same region as the previous cyclone. Hurricane Four bypassed Bermuda to the east, where some property damage was reported. Hurricane Five was the most catastrophic storm of the season, buffeting western Cuba for an extended period of time as it slowly executed a counterclockwise loop. Death tolls from the hurricane are estimated in the hundreds.

In addition to the five official tropical storms, a disturbance in the middle of September that tracked from east of the Lesser Antilles to off the coast of Canada was studied for potential classification. Despite producing gale-force winds, the system was likely extratropical in nature, and any time it may have spent as a tropical storm was brief.

The season's activity was reflected with an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 64. ACE is a metric used to express the energy used by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime. Therefore, a storm with a longer duration will have high values of ACE. It is only calculated at six-hour increments in which specific tropical and subtropical systems are either at or above sustained wind speeds of 39 mph (63 km/h), which is the threshold for tropical storm intensity. Thus, tropical depressions are not included here.

July tropical depression
Historical weather maps indicate that a tropical depression developed well east of the Lesser Antilles on July 7. However, the depression likely dissipated by July 8, as its existence could not be confirmed beyond that day.

Tropical Storm One
The first tropical cyclone of the season developed on August 23, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. Not believed to have strengthened further, the storm tracked west-northwestward and struck southwestern Hispaniola. It quickly weakened to a tropical depression as it turned more toward the northwest and crossed northern Cuba. On August 26, the depression passed through the Bahamas, east of the Florida Peninsula. Heading due north, the storm had transitioned into an extratropical cyclone by the next day. An area of high pressure to the north and east of the storm was said to have prevented it from recurving out to sea, and the cyclone skirted the eastern coast of North Carolina before being listed as dissipated east of the Delmarva Peninsula. The storm reportedly caused heavy precipitation on August 29 and 30 in Georgia and the Carolinas, while ships at sea reported high winds, rough seas and heavy rainfall.

Tropical Storm Two
On August 26, a tropical depression formed in the central Gulf of Mexico. It drifted westward for several days, and by August 30 it intensified into a tropical storm while turning more southwestward. The storm peaked in intensity as a weak tropical storm shortly thereafter. On August 31 the storm moved inland near the mouth of the Rio Grande, and weakened as it swept inland. Advisories were issued for coastal areas before which strong winds and high tides affected the Texas coast. The cyclone inflicted some property damage in the Brownsville area. Winds unroofed houses at Port Isabel and destroyed some Mexican huts. The storm also blew fishing craft aground. No initial reports of fatalities were received, but two towns were left cut off from communication with Brownsville.

Hurricane Three
Hurricane San Zacarias of 1910

A tropical storm developed east of the Leeward Islands on September 5 and quickly became the season's first hurricane. It continued westward through the islands and is estimated to have attained winds corresponding to Category 2 status on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale. On the night of September 6, San Zacarias Hurricane passed south of Puerto Rico; winds blew up to 72 mph at San Juan. The hurricane weakened somewhat on September 7 as it skirted the southern coast of Hispaniola, and curving northwestward, it passed along northern Jamaica. On September 10, it moved through the Yucatán Channel, restrengthening upon emerging into the Gulf of Mexico. Now on a northwesterly course, the storm reached its peak windspeeds on September 12. Two days later, it made landfall along the Texas coast.

The storm dropped torrential rainfall on Puerto Rico, amounting to 13 in in a period of 12 hours at one location. Rivers swelled to "unprecedented" levels, and the hurricane resulted in "great havoc" to telephone and telegraph wires on the island. The United States Weather Bureau issued extensive warnings in association with the storm. High tides occurred along the coasts of Texas and Louisiana, accompanied by heavy rainfall. A large storm surge raised the water level at Corpus Christi to its highest in years and completely inundated Padre Island, where barometers recorded pressures as low as 28.50 inHg on the southern half of the island.

Hurricane Four
In the Atlantic hurricane database, the fourth hurricane of the season is listed as having formed on September 24, several hundred miles southeast of Bermuda. Strengthening, the storm moved northwestward and is estimated to have peaked with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (155 km/h). It gradually turned toward the northeast as it bypassed Bermuda to the east. On September 27, it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone and turned eastward. It dissipated several days later. The storm caused some damage to property on the island, and blew a barque aground.

Hurricane Five
The Great Cuba Hurricane of 1910

The final storm of the season formed in the extreme southern Caribbean on October 9, and steadily intensified as it moved northwestward. Shortly after making landfall on the western tip of Cuba, the storm peaked as a severe hurricane corresponding to Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale and completed a counterclockwise loop. During its loop, the pressure in its eye dropped to 924 mb with an unofficial reading of 27.10 inHg aboard the steamship Brazos. The cyclone began weakening and tracking toward the United States, and moved ashore near Fort Myers, Florida, with winds of 110 mph corresponding to those of a strong Category 2 hurricane. After moving through the state, it hugged the coast of the Southeastern United States on its way out to sea. Due to the storm's tight and poorly documented loop, initial reports suggested that it was actually two separate cyclones that developed and affected land in rapid succession. Its track was subject to much debate at the time, and eventually it was identified as a single storm. Additionally, observations on the event resulted in a greater understanding of other weather features that took similar paths.

In Cuba, the storm was considered one of the most severe natural disasters in the island's history. Damage was extensive, and thousands of peasants were reportedly left homeless. Throughout Florida, the storm also had widespread, yet more moderate, impacts, including damage to houses and the flooding of low-lying land. The pressure at Fort Myers dropped to 28.20 inHg during the storm. Although total monetary damage from the storm is unknown, estimates of losses in Havana, Cuba, exceed $1 million and in the Florida Keys, $250,000 (1910 USD). At least 100 deaths occurred in Cuba alone.

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