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Roy Harrod

Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod (13 February 1900 – 8 March 1978) was an English economist. He is best known for writing The Life of John Maynard Keynes (1951) and for the development of the Harrod–Domar model, which he and Evsey Domar developed independently. He is also known for his International Economics, a former standard textbook, the first edition of which contained some observations and ruminations (wanting in subsequent editions) that would foreshadow theories developed independently by later scholars (such as the Balassa–Samuelson effect).

Biography
Harrod was born in London to businessman Henry Dawes Harrod and novelist Frances Forbes-Robertson. He attended St Paul's School and then Westminster School. Harrod attended New College in Oxford on a history scholarship. After a brief period in the Artillery, in 1918 he gained a first in literae humaniores in 1921, and a first in modern history the following year. Afterwards he spent some time in 1922 at King's College, Cambridge. It was there that he met and befriended Keynes.

After moving back to Oxford, he became a Student (i.e., Fellow) and Tutor in economics at Christ Church. He held the fellowship in modern history and economics until 1967. He remained in contact with Keynes until Keynes's death in 1946, and was later his biographer (1951). Harrod was additionally a Fellow at Nuffield College 1938 to 1947 and from 1954 to 1958.

At Oxford Harrod was part of the Railway Club, which included: Henry Yorke, Roy Harrod, Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, David Plunket Greene, Edward Henry Charles James Fox-Strangways, 7th Earl of Ilchester, Brian Howard, Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, John Sutro, Hugh Lygon, Harold Acton, Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, Mark Ogilvie-Grant, John Drury-Lowe.

During the Second World War, he was briefly in Winston Churchill's "S-branch" – a statistical section within the Admiralty.

At the 1945 General Election, he stood as Liberal candidate for Huddersfield and finished third of three candidates, with 16.2% of the vote.

In 1966, Harrod, was the 2nd winner of the prestigious Bernhard-Harms-Preis. After retiring in 1967, he moved to Holt, Norfolk.

Interviewed for the book Authors take Sides on Vietnam, Harrod declared himself a supporter of the American military campaign in Indochina.

Assar Lindbeck, the former chairman of the Nobel Prize Committee, wrote that Harrod would have been awarded a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences if he had lived longer.

Harrod married Wilhelmine "Billa" Cresswell (1911–2005), step-daughter of General Sir Peter Strickland, in 1938. One of their sons was Dominick Harrod, an economics correspondent for the BBC.

The Life of John Maynard Keynes
After the death of his Cambridge friend and colleague, the economist John Maynard Keynes, in 1946, Harrod and Austin Robinson wrote a lengthy obituary of Keynes for The Economic Journal. At the encouragement of Geoffrey Keynes, Harrod then undertook the task of writing a major biography of Keynes. The Life of John Maynard Keynes was published to widespread acclaim in 1951, at a time when most of Keynes's family and friends were still alive.

With the post-war influence of so-called Keynesian economics and then challenges to it, cultural interest in the Bloomsbury Group, and the publication of thirty volumes of The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes in the 1970s and 1980s, high interest in Keynes's life led to further biographies, most prominently by Robert Skidelsky and Donald Moggridge, and to detailed studies such as by Donald Markwell on Keynes and international relations. These works have corrected and added details to the Keynes depicted by Harrod, and Skidelsky in particular has contrasted his account of Keynes with what he has depicted as Harrod's hagiography.

List of works

 * "Doctrines of Imperfect Competition," Quarterly Journal of Economics 48 (May 1934), 442–470.
 * "The expansion of Credit in an Advancing Community", Economica NS 1 (August 1934), 287–299.
 * The Trade Cycle (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936).
 * "Utilitarianism Revised," Mind 45 (April 1936), 137–156.
 * "Mr. Keynes and Traditional Theory," Econometrica NS 5 (January 1937), 74–86.
 * "Scope and Method of Economics," Economic Journal 48 (Sept. 1938), 383–412.
 * "An Essay in Dynamic Theory," Economic Journal 49 (March 1939), 14–33.
 * International economics (London: Nisbet, and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; New York: Harcourt and Brace). Five editions from 1933 to 1973.
 * Towards a Dynamic Economics (London: Macmillan, 1948)
 * The Life of John Maynard Keynes (London: Macmillan, 1951)
 * "Economic Essays" (London: Macmillan, 1952)
 *  Foundations of Inductive Logic (1956).
 * The Prof: A Personal Memoir of Lord Cherwell (London, Macmillan, 1959)
 * "Domar and Dynamic Economics," Economic Journal 69 (September 1959), 451–464.
 * "Second Essay in Dynamic Theory," Economic Journal 70 (June 1960), 277–293.
 * "Themes in Dynamic Theory," Economic Journal 73 (September 1963), 401–421.
 * "Money" (London: Macmillan, 1969)
 * Sociology, Morals and Mystery, (London: Macmillan, 1970).
 * Economic Dynamics (London: Macmillan, 1973).
 * The Interwar Correspondence of Roy Harrod (Cheltenham: Elgar, 2003).

Honours
Harrod was knighted in the 1959 New Year Honours.

Legacy
The Harrod Papers are housed at the British Library. The papers can be accessed through the British Library catalogue.

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Brani Naval Base

Brani Regional Base (formerly Brani Naval Base) is the headquarters of the Police Coast Guard (PCG) of the Singapore Police Force (SPF). It was formerly a naval base of the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN), the premises of which has since been relocated to Changi Naval Base and Tuas Naval Base.

Pulau Brani was selected to house the naval base in the early 1970s and work started on 17 August 1972, with Brigadier Sir Bruce White as the consultant. The entire project cost S$35 million and was completed in January 1974. On 26 January 1974, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew opened the Singapore Maritime Command Naval Base. The naval base had a new wharf and a supply base complex added in 1983 at the cost of S$16 million.

Part of the base was subsequently redeveloped to accommodate the expansion of the adjacent port, and some of the facilities were relocated to the new Tuas Naval Base in 1995. On 12 October 2000, the remainder of the Navy's facilities were finally closed. On 23 March 2004, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority's Coastal Command Headquarters was formally opened by Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng.

The Police Coast Guard has since rebuilt its new headquarters at the old premises of the Navy, and the newly-built Police Coast Guard headquarters on Pulau Brani begun operations on 20 March 2006 following the closure of its existing facilities in Kallang Basin.

The Police Coast Guard's Brani Regional Base was formally opened by Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng on 8 February 2007.

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SIG Strasbourg

Strasbourg Illkirch-Graffenstaden Basket, most commonly known as SIG Basket or SIG Strasbourg, is a French professional basketball club that is based in Strasbourg. The club, founded in 1929, competes domestically in the French Pro A League. The club's home games are played at Rhénus Sport. The players wear white and red uniforms.

History
The club was founded in 1929, and reached the top-tier of French basketball for the first time in 1938.

Starting from the 2004–05 season, new head coach Éric Girard took over the team. In the regular season, SIG finished 3rd and Giard was named Coach of the Year. Strasbourg won the top-tier French League for the first time in the 2004–05 season. SIG beat its rival SLUC Nancy 72–68.

In the 2005–06 season, Strasbourg played in the EuroLeague. The team had some outstanding results, as they beat top-tier team Saski Baskonia. In the Pro A, the team was defeated by Nancy 1–2 in the Semi-finals.

In the 2006–07 season, the team wouldn't reach further than the Quarter-finals. After some down years, the team started to revive when Vincent Collet took over as head coach in 2012. The team reached the Pro A Finals for three straight years in 2013, 2014, 2015. Along with that, the team won the 2015 Leaders Cup and 2014–15 French Basketball Cup. Important players for the team were Antoine Diot and Louis Campbell, who won MVP Awards in the won competitions.

In 2020, Vincent Collet left the team after he had served as head coach for almost a decade. For the 2020–21 Pro A season, the team started a recommencement as new head coach Lassi Tuovi recruited almost entirely new players. Strasbourg aims to regain success in both the national league as well as in the 2020–21 Basketball Champions League.

Arenas
The 6,200 seat Rhénus Sport has been used as the home arena of SIG for many years. In January 2017, the club announced their building plans for a new arena that is to be finished in 2020, that will accommodate 10,000 people. Later, the date was corrected to the year 2024.

The Eastern Rivalry
The Eastern Derby is the name of the matches that are played between Strasbourg IG and SLUC Nancy. The rivalry has a strong emotional history.

Budgets
According to Ligue Nationale de Basket (LNB) guidelines, SIG has to publish its budget for each season.

Honours

 * French League
 * Winners (1): 2004–05

 * French Cup
 * Winners (2): 2014–15, 2017–18
 * Runners-up (2): 1998–99, 2021–22

 * Leaders Cup
 * Winners (2): 2015, 2019
 * Runners-up (1): 2013

 * Match des Champions
 * Winners (1): 2015

 * French Second Division
 * Winners (1): 1998–99

 * Brussels, Belgium Invitational Game
 * Winners (1): 2015

 * Luxeuil-les-Bains, France Invitational Game
 * Winners (1): 2015

 * Besançon, France Invitational Game
 * Winners (1): 2015

Notable players
• 🇫🇷 Alexis Ajinça

• 🇫🇷 Rodrigue Beaubois

• 🇫🇷 Boris Dallo

• 🇫🇷 Antoine Diot

• 🇫🇷 Youssoupha Fall

• 🇫🇷 Mickaël Gelabale

• 🇫🇷 Damien Inglis

• 🇫🇷 Mouhammadou Jaiteh

• 🇫🇷 Louis Labeyrie

• 🇫🇷 Paul Lacombe

• 🇫🇷 Jérémy Leloup

• 🇫🇷 Abdoulaye M'Baye

• 🇫🇷 Amine Noua

• 🇫🇷 Frank Ntilikina

• 🇫🇷 Crawford Palmer

• 🇫🇷 Florent Piétrus

• 🇫🇷 Axel Toupane

• 🇫🇷 Ali Traoré

• 🇦🇺 David Andersen

• 🇧🇾 Artsiom Parakhouski

• 🇧🇪 Quentin Serron

• 🇧🇦 Zack Wright

• 🇧🇬 Dee Bost

• 🇨🇦 Thomas Scrubb

• 🇨🇲 Jérémy Nzeulie

• Miro Bilan

• 🇩🇴 Jeff Greer

• 🇩🇴 Ricardo Greer

• 🇫🇮 Erik Murphy

• 🇫🇮 Luukas Vaara

• Michael Dixon

• 🇭🇺 Kornél Dávid

• 🇮🇱 Afik Nissim

• 🇰🇷 Jarod Stevenson

• Mindaugas Timinskas

• 🇲🇰 Romeo Travis

• 🇵🇱 David Logan

• 🇵🇱 A. J. Slaughter

• 🇷🇸 Tadija Dragićević

• 🇷🇸 Vladimir Golubović

• 🇺🇬/🇺🇸 Ish Wainright

• 🇺🇸 Tim Abromaitis

• 🇺🇸 Michael Brooks

• 🇺🇸 Louis Campbell

• 🇺🇸 Mardy Collins

• 🇺🇸 Bonzie Colson

• 🇺🇸 Jarell Eddie

• 🇺🇸 Chuck Eidson

• 🇺🇸 Mike Green

• 🇺🇸 Matt Howard

• 🇺🇸 Rick Hughes

• 🇺🇸 Keith Jennings

• 🇺🇸 J. R. Reid

• 🇺🇸 Scottie Reynolds

• 🇺🇸 Anthony Roberson

• 🇺🇸 Brion Rush

• 🇺🇸 John Shurna

• 🇺🇸 Terence Stansbury

• 🇺🇸 Bootsy Thornton

• 🇺🇸 Erving Walker

• 🇺🇸 Kyle Weems

• 🇺🇸 Gabe York

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Rising Again

Rising Again is an expanded version of the 1990 live album Rising from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the UK (Pilot PLO 59) on 22 May 2001.

History
Throughout the 1990s, numerous reissues and edited versions of Donovan's 1990 live album Rising appeared. None of these versions contained the original title or artwork, and many did not have the original track order. After over ten years of these releases, Pilot Records acquired the rights to the songs from Rising in the UK.

Instead of simply reissuing Rising, Pilot Records recognized that the rights to the Mellow Records songs also gave them access to numerous unreleased live recordings recorded by Donovan in the 1980s. They titled the subsequent release of these tracks Rising Again in recognition of the original album, and added eleven previously unreleased tracks taken from the same concerts.

Repackaged versions
On 12 November 2002, Superior Records (Netherlands, Superior 540777) issued Donovan's album as Atlantis for the European continent market. The album featured a different cover. It should not be confused with Atlantis, the repackaged version of Rising, released in 1994.

Track listing
All tracks by Donovan Leitch, except where noted. This CD features one never-before released composition, "Mr. Flute Man". "Love Will Find a Way", "Stealing", "Young But Growing" were first released on Rising.

Disc one

 * 1) "Jennifer Juniper" – 2:00
 * 2) "Catch the Wind" – 3:41
 * 3) "Josie" – 3:24
 * 4) "Hurdy Gurdy Man" – 6:04
 * 5) "Sunshine Superman" – 3:53
 * 6) "Colours" – 2:51
 * 7) "There Is a Mountain" – 3:06
 * 8) "Mellow Yellow" – 3:24
 * 9) "Sadness" – 2:49
 * 10) "Universal Soldier" (Buffy Sainte-Marie) – 2:44
 * 11) "Cosmic Wheels" – 3:42
 * 12) "Isle of Islay" – 2:27
 * 13) "Trucking Your Blues Away" (Blind Boy Fuller) – 2:22
 * 14) "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" – 2:17
 * 15) "Love Will Find a Way" – 2:44
 * 16) "The Pee Song" – 1:43

Disc two

 * 1) "Sailing Homeward" – 3:27
 * 2) "Mr. Flute Man" (new composition) – 2:11
 * 3) "Laléna" – 3:13
 * 4) "Young Girl Blues" – 5:05
 * 5) "Young But Growing" (traditional; arranged by Donovan) – 3:42
 * 6) "Stealing" (traditional; arranged by Donovan) – 4:17
 * 7) "Season of the Witch" – 3:39
 * 8) "Atlantis" – 3:05
 * 9) "Colours" – 2:21
 * 10) "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting" – 1:39
 * 11) "Catch the Wind" – 2:40
 * 12) "Make Up Your Mind to Be Happy" – 5:27
 * 13) "Happiness Runs" – 5:33

All tracks, except for "Love Will Find a Way", "Stealing", "Young But Growing" and "Mr. Flute Man" were previously released in studio versions: "Sadness" on 7-Tease, "Isle of Islay" on A Gift from a Flower to a Garden, "The Pee Song" on H.M.S. Donovan, "Trucking Your Blues Away" released as "Keep on Truckin'" on What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid, "The Pee Song" on H.M.S. Donovan, "Sailing Homeward" on Essence to Essence, "To Susan On The West Coast Waiting"and "Happiness Runs" on Barabajagal, "Make Up Your Mind to Be Happy" was released as "Life is a Merry-Go-Round" on Essence to Essence.

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There are whole sections of this article without any sources whatsoever. Some of it (IMO) doesn't even belong on this page like the stuff about the descendants of a former owner of the hotel. I removed some unreferenced and unrelated material about the abbey. Drow69 (talk) 09:00, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

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Heraldry Council

The Heraldry Council is part of the South African heraldic authority, established in Pretoria in June 1963, in terms of the Heraldry Act. It is the governing and policy-making body for the Bureau of Heraldry and consists of the National Herald ex officio, and other members appointed by the Minister of Arts and Culture.

History
The council's functions were originally defined as: advising the minister and provincial administrators on heraldic matters, approving applications for registration of arms, considering objections to applications, and hearing appeals against rejected applications. In 1969, approval of applications was transferred to the Bureau, and the council's advisory function was changed to one of determining the policy for approving arms.

Policies adopted over the years include:

 * the format of family association arms (1966),
 * the orientation of helmets to face the same direction as the crests (1982),
 * the discontinuation of the use of titles on registration certificates (1988), and
 * a moratorium on the registration of crowns and supporters and other additaments relating to foreign titles or ranks (2002).

In the 1980s, the council did the groundwork for the creation of the national orders, and recommended that the dark blue stripe of the then national flag be changed back to its original lighter shade. In 1999, it was consulted on the question of new national arms, but its proposals were turned down in 2000 in favour of a design from a commercial design studio.

Functions and composition
The Heraldry Committee, made up of selected council members and, since 1984, the National Herald ex officio, was originally set up to deal with matters referred to it from time to time. Since 1984, it has also been responsible for considering objections to applications for registration.

The council is usually composed of heraldists, historians, state archivists, artists and, since the mid-1990s, African language specialists and writers.

Chairpersons and members
1963–1968
 * Hon Victor Hiemstra (chairman); Prof Barrie Bierman; Dr Allen Kieser; Ivan Mitford-Barberton; Prof Jacobus Oberholster; Dr Cornelis Pama; Dr Willem Punt.

1968–1975
 * Hon Victor Hiemstra (chairman); Prof Barrie Bierman; Dr Allen Kieser; Ivan Mitford-Barberton (1968–72); Prof Jacobus Oberholster; Dr Cornelis Pama; Dr Willem Punt; Maj Frank Waller (1972–75).

1975–1984
 * Hon Victor Hiemstra (chairman); Prof Barrie Bierman; Lt Gen Heinrich du Toit; Dr Cornelis Pama; Johann Preller; Prof Hugh Smith; Dr Albert Werth (1975–76); Dr Nico Roos (1976–84).

1984–1989
 * Lt Gen Heinrich du Toit (chairman); Ernst de Jong; Hon Christoffel Eloff (1984–88); Prof Ben Hendrickx; Robert Laing; Dr Cornelis Pama; Dr Johannes Snyman; Hon Kees van Dijkhorst	(1988–89).

1989–1995
 * Lt Gen Heinrich du Toit (chairman); Ernst de Jong; Prof Kobus Ferreira; Prof Deon Fourie; Robert Laing; Dr Johannes Snyman (1989–93); Hon Kees van Dijkhorst; Prof Themba Msimang (1993–95); Frank Nel (1993–95).

1995–1997
 * Prof Deon Fourie (chairman); Prof Solomon Chaphole; Ernst de Jong; Prof Kobus Ferreira; Robert Laing; Prof Themba Msimang; Hon Kees van Dijkhorst.

1998–2003
 * Prof Themba Msimang (chairman); Mrs Priscilla Broberg; Prof Martin Legassick; Prof Bernard Magubane; Mrs Joan Merrington; Prof Mbulelo Mzamane; Miss Marie Olivier (1998–2000).

2003–2008
 * Prof Themba Msimang (chairperson); Mrs Priscilla Broberg; Prof Deon Fourie; Prof Martin Legassick; Prof Bernard Magubane; Dr Marimuthy Govender; Mrs Christina Jikelo; P.M. Malaka; Wonga Tabata.

2008–2011
 * No council

2011–2015
 * Prof Thenjiwe Miyewa (chairperson); Prof Deon Fourie; Rev Richard Girdwood; Dr Marimuthy Govender; Mrs Christina Jikelo; Dr Peter Martinez; Ms C.T. Mtshali; Dr Joseph Ndaba; Collen Weapond.

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Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset

Percy Hamilton Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset (27 September 1910 – 15 November 1984), styled Lord Seymour between 1931 and 1954, of Bradley House in the parish of Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, was a British peer.

Early life
He was the son of Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset by his wife Edith Parker, a daughter of William Parker by his wife Lucinda Steeves (a daughter of William Steeves, one of the Fathers of Canadian Confederation).

He was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton in Devon, and at Clare College, Cambridge.

Career
After Cambridge, he was commissioned into the Wiltshire Regiment. He saw service in India, Persia and Burma.

Personal life
In London on 18 December 1951, he married Gwendoline Collette Jane Thomas (d. 18 February 2005, aged 91), daughter of Major John Cyril Collette Thomas, of Burn Cottage, Bude, Cornwall, by whom he had three children:

 * John Michael Edward Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset (b. 1952), who married Judith-Rose Hull, daughter of John Folliott Hull, in 1978.
 * Lady Anne Frances Mary Seymour (b. 1954), unmarried and without issue.
 * Lord Francis Charles Edward Seymour (b. 1956), who married Paddy Poynder, daughter of Colonel Anthony John Irvine Tony Poynder, MC, Corps of Royal Engineers, in 1982.

The 18th Duke died on 15 November 1984 at Warminster, Wiltshire and was succeeded in his titles by his elder son, John.

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Talk:Endor (Star Wars)

Endor Holocaust
Why is most of this article about fandom speculation? john k 15:19, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * There was originally a separate article on the Endorian Holocaust. It was put on Votes for Deletion (here) but there was no consensus to delete, so the default was "keep". However, User:Carnildo insisted on merging it into this article, and I insisted that if it was to be merged it must be merged in its entirety (he tried trimming it down to a single paragraph). If you think this is inappropriate, I can try splitting it back out into its own article again and see whether he still objects. Bryan 16:45, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It seems to me that it should be a single paragraph. Fandom speculation doesn't seem particularly encyclopedic, and should be covered briefly, if at all. I'd prefer for it to be in its own article than to be cluttering up this article, though. john k 17:09, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, I also preferred it that way, so I'll try splitting it back out again and see whether Carnildo still objects. Bryan 17:22, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't much care where it is, but it strikes me as quite silly to devote more than a paragraph or two to the subject. At that length, it would make sense to be a section of this article. --Carnildo 02:56, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * It survived VfD so it's not to be deleted. Reducing a large article to a one-paragraph section of another article is tantamount to deleting it, IMO, so I don't consider that a reasonable option. Bryan 06:49, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Devestation of Endor
I have read that the wreckage hitting Endor is not the main factor in the devestation. Wouldn't the effects of one moon blowing up right next to another seriously affec the orbit of the other? -Josquius

 * Not for things with the relative sizes involved. The "moon" is about the size of the Earth, while the second Death Star is much smaller than Earth's moon, and mostly-hollow as well. --Carnildo 21:28, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

The mother planet
I have read the novelization of Return of the Jedi, and it says that the moon's mother planet was destroyed years prior to the story. But I also noted that in the novelization, the moon was referred to as Endor. I think there's a problem there. Scorpionman 03:34, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Endor IS the moon.
This is a huge misconception among Star Wars folks, and I'm going to move the pages around to reflect it unless someone rebuts me here.

"The forest moon of Endor" does NOT meen "Endor's forest moon." Rather, it means "Endor, which is a forest moon." This is borne out by the Ewoks movie, which is subtitled "The Battle for Endor."

Text of this article should go under something like "Endor (Star Wars)", the link on the Endor disambiguation page should be changed, and a section should be added about this confusion.

 * Exactly. A good way to understand it is like, "The windy city of Chicago".--Daniel (talk) 20:07, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Endor Holocaust deleted
the Endor Holocaust page did not survive its latest VfD and has been deleted. The result was not merge, so attempts to merge its content into this article was not really appropriate. Plus now the Endor Holocaust section is longer than the rest of the page which is also not kosher. So, I am going to revert it back to the stub version that was here a week ago.--Geedubber 17:30, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

 * This material should be considered on its own merits, information doesn't become radioactive on the basis of a VfD vote. Consider that one reason why the section was so small previously was because there was a whole separate article on the subject, and now that the whole separate article is gone the material left here might be too sparse. I've put in a compromise version that retains some of the most significant references (IMO) from the deleted article but which is only about two times more voluminous than the previous section. Bryan 20:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Okay, i'm cool with your current revision. good compromise. I personally would remove the reference about the two ewok telefilms in relation to the endor holocaust though since they have nothing to do with it--Geedubber 21:19, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Odd, they're one of the first things to come to my mind when I think of "but what about [source]?" arguments that could be raised regarding this theory. They're the only other on-screen appearances of Ewoks and Endor (aside from the cartoon series, I guess. :) Bryan 00:52, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Yeah, but that stuff happened before the EH supposedly happened. soooooo, wheres the connection? there is none. it sound like the article is agruing a point no one has brought up, ie "But what about the Ewok telefilms? the Ewoks were alive in those movies." Who are we agruing? --Geedubber 01:01, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

The "Endor Holocaust" seems to only be fandom speculation, and, as such, that needs to be the very first thing mentioned about it. It should also be much shorter than it is now. john k 01:23, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Origin of name
The article states, quite confidently, that the name Endor originates from J.R.R. Tolkien's work. But the name predates the Lord of the Rings due to its inclusion in the Bible. It's not far-fetched to think that Lucas used a Biblical reference, so I'm curious to know if what the article claims is a confirmed fact. --Bacteria 13:41, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm curious about that myself, especially given other names that may have Biblical sources (Anakin, for one). Any citations to prove it's absolutely LoTR-sourced?  Shouriki 02:38, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

I wish writers would stop using the Bible for stuff, because it's old and over done now! Move on!!! Christabelle541 (talk) 16:57, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Endor holocaust again
Looks like we've got another disagreement over whether it's appropriate to mention the Endor Holocaust thing again. Scott 110, Wikipedia does contain information about "fanon" things, and other "non-official" subjects, provided there's sufficient external source to work from. See Jar Jar Binks for another example, which doesn't even have citations like this one does. This particular subject has also been obliquely addressed in "official" sources, if that's your only complaint with its inclusion. Bryan 02:06, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Endor holocaust is a very good examples of what Wikipedia should include: out-of-universe perspective. It is more important to discuss a fictional event as to how it relates to the real world (which the Holocaust section does). Bryan is correct. — Deckill e r 03:24, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

 * The fan proponents of the Endor Holocaust mostly cite the canon visual evidence from the movies and from current scientific understanding to make their points. Their manner is reasoned, their arguments logical given their premises.  Regardless of how accurate they are, or how driven by a desire to see Ewoks obliterated, (1) it is not Wikipedian original research, and (2) it is an Internet meme.  It's as noncanon as Star Trek's Kirk/Spock homosexual relationship-focused fanfiction, but Google still finds about 3,780 search results for "Endor Holocaust," including fan theories on both sides.  Advocating noncanon as canon is POV, but describing the controversy, is NPOV.  The number of hours put into the argument on both sides and its notoriety on the Internet is what makes it notable.  --205.201.141.146 23:21, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

It's been removed again, this time due to the references not being "reliable." Ironic, considering that the Endor Holocaust section was the only one that actually had citations. Anyway, I dispute the notion that those aren't reliable sources. They have been extensively referenced all over the Internet for many years, being printed on paper is not the be-all and end-all of reliability. In this case all they were really being used as a reference for is the statement that there was significant fan speculation on the subject, which they amply demonstrate merely with their existence. Bryan Derksen 00:17, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

 * The existence of a couple of fan documents about the "Holocaust" doesn't "amply demonstrate" anything other than some fans with lots of spare time. If you want to assert that there is lots of fan speculation about Ewoks being toasted by falling debris, please cite the survey or study that asked fans about what they think -- all I can tell right now is that the authors have been doing some speculating. While being printed isn't an end-all for reliability, I don't see anything in these essays that sets them apart from any other self-published material, i.e. I don't see any sort of editorial oversight -- and being self-published makes their status as reliable sources highly dubious. --EEMeltonIV 00:25, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Citations for other various facts
Since the infobox just got updated with a bunch of detailed numbers, I guess this is an opportune time to ask where these facts are actually coming from. The holocaust section is currently the only one that has any sources listed for it. Bryan 16:55, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I note there's still not any citations for the infobox, or for some of the other assertions in the article such as the origin of the name or the Endor/Moon-of-Endor distinction. Anyone got anything yet? Bryan Derksen 00:19, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Article is not consistent with known information on Endor
To reaffirm and buttress an earlier comment, the entire concept of "the forest moon of Endor" as put forth in the article is incorrect. The Star Wars databank clearly states that Endor is one moon of nine, all of which orbit a lifeless gas giant. This clearly ends any speculation within the fictional Star Wars universe regarding the topic. In addition, references are made to the Alliance using the moon as a post-Battle of Endor sortie base and most Ewoks returning to a "simpler life" - something which appears inconsistent with an Endor Holocaust. Jon SirH 03:00, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

 * That's one source among many. Wikipedia isn't bound by the conventions of Star Wars fandom with regards to canonicity, so if there's various different sources out there that provide differing information it's all fair game to be described here. For example, the article currently says that the novelization of the movie stated that the planet this moon used to orbit was destroyed long ago. No amount of canonical amendments in subsequent works can change the fact that that's what the novelization said, so we shouldn't remove that fact from the article. By all means add information from the Star Wars databank as well, though. The important thing is to ensure everything's properly cited so readers can see the inconsistencies between sources for themselves. Bryan 10:04, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Requested Move

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PAGE MOVED per discussion below. -GTBacchus(talk) 20:27, 9 January 2008 (UTC) The moon itself is referred to as Endor in the primary source material. Vader: "A small rebel force has landed on Endor". I have fixed the contrary assertion in the article and created a request to move the article to Endor (Star Wars) (which exists as a redirect to here) where it belongs. Ruyn (talk) 19:11, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Unsure about this one. It's known in several places as a moon, although it's explained that it's really now a planet (loosely at least although it probably doesn't meet the IAU definition), and that Endor is really the now-destroyed planet of which it was once a moon. So Endor is just a shortening; Everyone knows that the (former) moon is meant, because the planet no longer exists. I've refactored the intro to try to make this a bit clearer. Andrewa (talk) 04:06, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

 * I support the move. Even if 'Endor' is actually the name of the planet, and the moon should properly be called 'the moon of Endor' (which seems to be disputed), it's unarguable that in both in-universe and out-of-universe sources, 'Endor' is the name most commonly used to refer to it. Hence, under Wikipedia's Manual of Style, that's what this page should be called. Terraxos (talk) 17:44, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

 * I'm fine with the move. --EEMIV (talk) 18:00, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
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Sanctuary moon?
Also known as the sanctuary moon? Who had this great idea to include this denomination in the introduction of the article? sanctuary moon was only used by Palpatine in the sixth movie of the Star Wars saga... Endor was only called sanctuary moon by this single and unique character of the saga, it is not at all also known by that name, not at all. I'll change this immediately, but I'll mention the term sanctuary moon as a term used by Palpatine to designate this moon of Endor. 343KKT Kintaro (talk) 03:54, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Impact damage
I removed this section due to it being non-canon. The jack-assery ends here. PS. I'm back. Scott 110 (talk) 05:16, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure I saw the Death Star II blow up above Endor at the end of ROTJ... how is it not canon? --Surturz (talk) 06:20, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

 * FYI, objects in orbit do not fall out of orbit when blown up. The debris stays in orbit.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.178.35.191 (talk) 21:08, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Location of filming
According to the article today, May 28, 2010, the filming location provided is Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. According to the following webpage, which provides reasonable references, the article is incorrect:

M. D. Vaden redwood information page for Return of Jedi Endor scene filming locations

Providing that resource and references are accurate, the article needs to be changed, to a location to the north for the main set. ThreeWikiteers (talk) 02:01, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

 * I deleted a Redwood National Park photo from the article today because there is plenty of references that Endor was filmed on private forest land. Its also worth noting that the article's external link for the Triplicate is accurate and the Redwood National Park photo and caption conflicted with it. The Real Luke Skywalker (talk) 01:26, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Wrong link
The hyperlink for Cerea doesn't link to the fictional planet, instead it leads to the real life town in Italy named Cerea. As far as I know there is no page about the planet Cerea. 213.55.224.78 (talk) 23:47, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Wrong object
this page says that endor is the moon which is wrong. Although the moon is commonly called endor, the name actually applies to the planet.

I think this should be redirected to the forest moon of endor. Crylophosaurus (talk) 01:36, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

 * does any one know how to delete this topic? When I added this I didn't know that the name officially applied to both the planet and the moon. Crylophosaurus (talk) 01:42, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

There's a planet called endor to
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Misionella

Misionella is a genus of South American crevice weavers that was first described by M. J. Ramírez & C. J. Grismado in 1997. In 2005 a spider fossil found in 15- to 20-million-year-old Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic was described as Misionella didicostae. A second specimen was discussed soon thereafter.

Species
it contains five species from Brazil and Argentina:
 * Misionella aikewara Brescovit, Magalhaes & Cizauskas, 2016 – Brazil
 * Misionella carajas Brescovit, Magalhaes & Cizauskas, 2016 – Brazil
 * Misionella jaminawa Grismado & Ramírez, 2000 – Brazil
 * Misionella mendensis (Mello-Leitão, 1920) (type) – Brazil, Argentina
 * Misionella pallida Brescovit, Magalhaes & Cizauskas, 2016 – Brazil

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Carapa

Carapa is a genus of flowering plants in the mahogany family, Meliaceae. These are trees up to 30 meters tall occurring in tropical South America, Central America, and Africa. Common names include andiroba and crabwood.

Diversity
The list of species within this genus is still under discussion. Generally recognized species are:
 * Carapa guianensis (andiroba, crabwood): Amazon Region, Central America, Caribbean
 * Carapa megistocarpa (tangare): Ecuador
 * Carapa procera (African crabwood, kowi, okoto): West Africa, the Congos

Other proposed species:
 * Carapa akuri
 * Carapa alticola
 * Carapa longipetala
 * Carapa nicaraguensis
 * Carapa vasquezii

Uses
The timber is important, and oil is produced from the seeds. The name andiroba is from Nheengatu nhandi rob, meaning "bitter oil". Carapa guianensis produces oil similar to neem oil.

The oil contained in the almond andiroba is light yellow and extremely bitter. When subjected to a temperature below 25 °C, it solidifies producing a consistency like that of petroleum jelly. The oil contains olein, palmitine and glycerin.

Andiroba oil is one of the most commonly sold medicinal oils in the Amazon. It is also used to repel mosquitoes by forming an oilseed cake into balls and burned, or mixed with annatto (Bixa orellana) and formed into a paste applied topically to protect the body from mosquito bites.

Andiroba oil is extracted from light brown seeds collected from beaches and rivers, where they float after being shed by the trees or from the forest ground.

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Jack Burke

Jack Burke may refer to:

 * Jack Burke Jr. (born 1923), American golfer
 * Jack Burke Sr. (1888–1943), American golfer
 * Jack Burke (boxer) (1875–1942), American boxer known for fighting the longest boxing match in history
 * Jack Burke (footballer) (1918–2004), Australian footballer, who played for Hawthorn
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Tony Slydini

Tony Slydini (September 1, 1900, Foggia, Italy – January 15, 1991),  simply known as Slydini, was a world-renowned magician. His mastery, expertise, originality and innovative approach to close-up artistry magic, earned him a legendary reputation in the magic world. He traveled the world performing for the public as well as performing and lecturing fellow magicians. As a result, he served as an inspiration to generations of well-known magicians, celebrities and entertainers, including Doug Henning, Dick Cavett, Bill Bixby, Ricky Jay, David Copperfield and countless others. Although he was best known as a master of close-up artistry, he continually demonstrated an extraordinary performing ability and during his lifetime was responsible for a long series of books, films and publications highlighting his mastery of the magical crafts. For his work, he received the highest honors that his profession could bestow, including both the coveted Masters Fellowship Award and Performing Fellowship Award from the Academy of Magical Arts. During his lifetime, Tony Slydini was inducted into the Society of American Magicians Hall of Fame as a Living Legend.

Early life
Tony Slydini was born as Quintino Marucci in Foggia, Italy. He was the son of an amateur magician, who encouraged him to pursue sleight of hand at an early age. While still young, Slydini and his uncle left Italy to live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was there that he began to experiment more seriously with magic. He had no access to books on magic, nor personal instruction or magical performing apparatus of any kind. Without help or guidance, he reinvented much of the popular magic of the time, along with developing many new effects and illusions.

Early on, Slydini was attracted to the psychological aspects of his art, which would continually show itself in his magic in the form of precise and expert use of timing and misdirection. He was inspired by the relationship between a magician and his audience, which fueled his desire to be a close-up artist who would work intimately with the spectators. He became so good at it that he continually fooled the magicians for whom he performed, so much so that the famous dean of magicians, Dai Vernon, once remarked, "Slydini is the only magician who could ever fool me."

As a young man, Slydini had worked in South America's version of vaudeville for a time. But soon, the Great Depression struck that continent and work became scarce. In 1930, he moved to New York City, finding a job in at Hubert's Dime museum on 42nd Street. The Dime museum was designed as a center for entertainment for the working class, and in New York City, where many immigrants settled, they provided popular and inexpensive entertainment. Hubert's provided the young magician with a grand platform, on which he could experiment and continue to enhance and develop his already sharpened skills. From there, Slydini found work in carnivals and sideshows throughout the country. He was entertaining everyday workers and their families, but gaining valuable experience, knowledge and psychological expertise, while traveling and meeting people from coast to coast.

Name change and move to New York
In 1935, while Slydini was playing a museum in Paterson, New Jersey, the manager billed him as "Tony Foolem", in the absence of any better suggestion by Marucci (as Slydini was still known). The other acts on the bill became friendly with the magician and told him that they thought the name Tony Foolem was a poor choice and between them, they worked out the "Tony Slydini" stage name – the "sly" for being slick, and the "Dini" to follow the vogue for having something akin to the well known name of the successful Houdini. Tony was a shortened name for his given name Quintino and so, thus was "Tony Slydini" born.

On a visit to his sister in Boston during the 1930s, Slydini attracted the attention of an agent, landing a job for $15 a day for a three-day-a-week show. The agent recognized his skills and flawless sleight of hand which he performed with playing cards, coins and two ordinary white silks. Slydini was an expert in timing and misdirection and it showed. Unlike the performing magicians of the time, it was audience reactions that guided his performances. He remained in Boston for nearly seven years before moving back to New York. It was there, in 1947, that Slydini opened his magic studio located at 341 West 45th Street. Magicians from around the world came to that location for more than fifty years seeking instruction and guidance.

Traveling years
Slydini continued to gain popularity through his public performances, including many private club and party dates, and would travel the United States from New York to California, playing scattered engagements in museums, carnivals, side shows, etc., while remaining practically unknown to the world of magicians. It was finally through magician Herman Hanson, a close associate of Howard Thurston, that Slydini was brought before the local magic fans, eventually going on their public shows, etc., in New York, Boston and Hartford. From there, he was quickly grabbed to appear on the well known Barbizon Plaza show in New York City where he made an instant hit with his different style of magic. His fame spread and soon other well-known magicians from around the world sought out his company and expertise including the legendary Cardini, Dai Vernon, Okito, The Great Virgil, Bert Allerton, Al Flosso and Jack Gwynne. Eventually, he appeared in Atlantic City before a national conclave of magicians and from there, his reputation as a "Magician’s Magician" was cemented.

Throughout the war, Slydini entertained thousands of soldiers in camps, hospitals and recreation centers. Between 1949 and 1950, he toured the United States under the direction of Ralph W. Read, who booked him to give his famous "Lecture Demonstrations" before over 30 magical organizations. Private lessons were also given on this tour, and many club dates as well, in the large cities on the route. Along the way, the performances and demonstrations at magic gatherings captured even more attention from his fellow magicians. Eventually, Europe and Asia requested his presence and he complied. While there he performed publicly, made televised appearances and gave numerous lectures and private instruction to inquiring magicians wanting to learn his new form of close-up magic and misdirection. In 1958, he headlined the International Brotherhood of Magicians British Ring's magic convention. Frank Joglar, reporting for Jean Hugard’s Magic Monthly, wrote, "There is no doubt who was the star of the Convention. It was Slydini, whose close-up work, lecture and Gala Show act were in every detail flawless. Reports from up, down and around the British Isles praised the lecture Tony gave on the tour." Thereafter, Slydini would focus almost exclusively on teaching and lecturing, illustrating to others his original performing techniques and unique methods of misdirection.

Magic's teacher and the media
Slydini was largely unknown to the public but became a legend to those in the magic profession. He was constantly featured in the magic magazines and publications. The Linking Ring, a publication of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, highlighted him in their 1951 February issue. Talk show host Dick Cavett wrote about his first meeting with Slydini in a New York Times column, "Doug Henning said to me, 'Tony's doing a special demonstration for some magicians tomorrow night at Vesuvio restaurant. Come.' Tomorrow night finally came. For the magicians, sitting for nearly two hours at that table, sudden gasps and intakes of breath abounded. It was like seeing a man walk up a wall. Nothing prepared you for it. Right at the start, a solid, heavy silver dollar, held before my eyes, vanished into thinnest air. And by no method I knew of. Certainly no sleeves. The two hours flew too quickly."

Cavett and Slydini became friends and soon afterwards the talk show host featured the magician in a televised special, which was so well received that a second broadcast followed.

Slydini would go on to appear on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and other popular broadcast venues of his time, but this was not his forte. It had become teaching, training and an increased research and development of the art of misdirection. He was willing to teach and the magicians he served were willing to learn.

Seminars, publications, and the closing years
Slydini's influence spread across the magic spectrum such that by 1975, his fame led to a major event in the field of magic. Joe Stevens, of Stevens Magic Emporium, organized a gathering of magicians in Las Vegas in March 1978. The event, attended mostly by professional magicians was a first and it was called The Slydini Seminar. The annual event grew in popularity and size, becoming known as the Desert Magic Seminar and later the World Magic Summit. Tony Slydini presented three solid hours of shows and lectures, plus additional semi-private lessons available to the 90 magicians in attendance and began a tradition of educational offerings to magicians, expanding the number and nature of lectures with an emphasis on variety and versatility. Slydini attended and lectured at the event originally named for him until his health no longer permitted travel.

Over his lifetime, many books were written about Slydini, his sleight-of-hand techniques, the psychology behind his performance and his clever methods of misdirection. In 1976, Slydini wrote a personal authorization letter to all magic societies and associations in North America, sponsoring his protégé, Bill Wisch, to represent him and take his place introducing, demonstrating and marketing his long awaited, two-volume, book sets, The Best of Slydini and More and The Magical World of Slydini, both written by Karl Fulves. These two book sets are considered to be must-read standard classics in magical literature. Wisch lectured on Slydini's methods and techniques, as well as his own, to thousands of magicians in 74 cities across the United States and Canada in 1976 and 1978.

There were also films, videos and countless articles on his methods and philosophies. The scientific professions also took an interest and more than ten feature articles were written about his psychological methods for distraction and in particular, willful misdirection. Scientific American published a 2015 research article entitled "The Neuroscience of Slydini's Paper Balls-to-Hat Magic Trick".

The magician who taught himself continued to teach others well into his eighties.

Death
Tony Slydini died of heart failure on January 15, 1991, following a lengthy illness and several years of confinement in a New Jersey nursing home. Howard Bauman, the editor of the International Brotherhood of Magician's publication, The Linking Ring, wrote, "A magical light went out on January 15, when Slydini died. For more than 40 years he had brightened the horizons of magic with his special kind of prestidigitation. Slydini was a dedicated student of magic and developed his own style of misdirection and timing that was certainly regarded as truly artistic. Tony Slydini will be missed especially by his legion of friends."

Slydini was buried in Union, New Jersey. New memorials, books, video and film presentations about the man who changed magic continue to be written and produced more than 25 years after his death.

Style
When performing, Slydini never enunciated a magic word, e.g. "abracadabra" or "hocus pocus". His subtle magical gestures made it clear that he knew something not known, and probably unknowable, to his audience. Audiences saw an elfin quality in him that was unlikely to be duplicated. He created an ambiguous persona which allowed one to believe that maybe he was an elf and that maybe he really did have magical powers. As a close-up performer, he was considered nonpareil by his peers. His almost casual manner of performing made the magical effects he offered those of true magic. His style of close-up was something that had never been seen before. He was one of the first to show close-up magic as an art in itself, rather than as a lead-in to bigger and grander illusions. Slydini's magic was impromptu and rather than follow a set sequence of tricks as most magicians did, he allowed his audience and the situation to dictate his show.

Awards and honors
Over his lifetime, Slydini received countless awards and honors from around the world including the Masters Fellowship from the Academy of Magical Arts in 1974. The Society of American Magicians made him a Hall of Fame – Living Legend inductee. He also was awarded the Academy of Magical Arts’ Performing Fellowship. In 1952, he became the recipient of the first Star of Magic award given by New York's Magic Ring and was an inducted member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians’ Order of Merlin.

Publications, video and film

 * The Stars of Magic by Lou Tannen
 * As I Recall by Tony Slydini (DVD Set)
 * The Magic of Slydini by Lewis Ganson
 * Annotated Magic of Slydini by Lewis Ganson and Tony Slydini
 * The Best of Slydini (books 1 and 2) by Karl Fulves
 * The Magical World of Slydini (books 1 and 2) by Karl Fulves
 * The Magic of Slydini by Lewis Ganson
 * The Annotated Magic of Slydini by Gene Matsuura, 2011
 * The Best of Slydini and More by Lou Tannen
 * Magician Mentors and Inspirations by Ricky Jay (American Masters PBS series)
 * Bill Wisch Talks About Slydini and More (podcast)

Legacy
In writing of Slydini's life, magician-author Karl Fulves remarked, "There is no question that Slydini is the most influential figure in Close-Up Magic in the 20th Century. His theories and concepts, his ingenious use of psychology and misdirection, combine to produce natural magic of the highest order. To see him work is to see the nearest thing yet, to real magic." "That sentiment," said former television talk show host Dick Cavett, "is the one most commonly expressed by anyone having the opportunity to actually see this great magician perform."

Best known as a master of showmanship, misdirection and close-up artistry, Slydini served as inspiration to generations of magicians, including many thousands of the famous and not-so-famous practitioners of the art.

Slydini is considered by many magicians to be one of the two finest 20th-century performers, teachers, lecturers and creators of artistic sleight-of-hand magic; Dai Vernon is the other.

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Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset

Evelyn Francis Edward Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset (1 May 1882 – 26 April 1954) was a British Army officer, landowner, peer, and for eight years Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire. He was also a baronet. Between 1 May 1882 and 5 May 1931, he was styled as Lord Seymour.

Early life
The son of Edward Seymour, 16th Duke of Somerset, by his marriage to Rowena Wall, Seymour was born in Colombo, Ceylon. His maternal grandfather, George Wall, was a coffee merchant and botanist.

He was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, and later at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Career
Seymour was gazetted a second lieutenant on the Unattached List in January 1901, before being attached to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. He served throughout the Second Boer War (1901–02) and received the Queen's South Africa Medal with five clasps. He took part in the operations in the Aden Protectorate in 1903.

In April 1913, Seymour, then of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, was appointed adjutant of the 25th (County of London) Cyclist Battalion of the London Regiment, in which posting he continued until 1916, before returning to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers to take command of its 10th Battalion. In December 1917, he was promoted Acting Lieutenant Colonel. In 1918, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and in 1919 he served in the Adjutant-General's department of the War Office. He was appointed to the Order of the British Empire in 1919 and retired from the service in 1920. He succeeded to his father's dukedom in 1931.

On 12 May 1937, he bore the Sceptre with the Cross at the coronation of King George VI.

During the Second World War, Somerset returned to the army. With effect from 1 November 1939, he was appointed a Lieutenant Colonel of the Devonshire Regiment, in which he commanded a battalion, and he later held an appointment as a full Colonel on the General Staff.

Later life
On his retirement from active service with the Army, Somerset returned to Maiden Bradley to take charge of his estates in Wiltshire and Somerset. On 4 May 1942 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, succeeding Ernest Wills.

On 19 March 1949, "having exceeded the age limit", he relinquished his commission as an honorary Colonel of the Devon Regiment on retired pay. In 1950, he was appointed a knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John.

He was a member of the Army and Navy Club, the Naval & Military Club, and the Marylebone Cricket Club.

Personal life
In London on 3 January 1906, he married Edith Mary Parker (d. Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, 19 April 1962), daughter of William Parker (1816–1893), of Whittington Hall, Derbyshire, England, and Lucinda Steeves (1842–1920), daughter of William Steeves. Evelyn and Edith had four children:

 * The Hon. Francis William Seymour (1906–1907), who died young.
 * The Hon. Algernon Francis Edward Seymour (1908–1911), who died young.
 * Percy Hamilton Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset (1910–1984)
 * Lady Susan Mary Seymour (1913–2004), who died unmarried and without issue.

Somerset was a member of The Magic Circle for many years, having first joined it in 1907, after becoming a pupil of the magician Ernest Noakes. He became the organization's president in 1935, after the death of Lord Ampthill.

The Duke died in London on 26 April 1954.

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William Northey (ice hockey)

William Mitchell Northey (April 29, 1872 – August 9, 1963), was an executive in the National Hockey League.

Hockey career
Born in Leeds, Quebec, Northey became secretary at the Montreal Hockey Club in 1893. He would help lead the team to two Stanley Cups. In 1909, he helped convince ice hockey executives to change two rules still in place today. The first was the change from a game consisting of two 30-minute halves to three 20-minute periods. He was also instrumental in the decision to discontinue the rover position. The number of players on the ice per team was dropped to six.

Northey formed the Canadian Arena Company and was instrumental in building Arena Gardens in Toronto, and owned Montreal Arena, which burned down in 1918. In 1924, Northey helped construct the famous Montreal Forum. From 1947 to 1956 he served as vice president with Montreal. He spent the 1956–57 season as President of the Montreal Canadiens. The Canadiens were sold to the Molson Family in the summer of 1957, and Northey retired from hockey. His name was engraved on the Stanley Cup three times in 1953, 1956, and 1957.

Northey was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947.

Personal life

On November 25, 1922, Northey survived a serious traffic accident near Oakville, Ontario when three touring cars collided on the Hamilton highway, killing one man.

Outside of ice hockey, Northey was also involved in horse racing as a secretary-treasurer with the Jockey Club of Montreal.

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This should include the villages etc that would otherwise overfill the main River Severn towns template...

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Heribert Rech

Heribert Rech (born April 25, 1950 in Östringen, Württemberg-Baden, West Germany) is a German lawyer and politician. Since 2004, he has been the Minister of the Interior in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

Rech studied laws in Heidelberg. He is a widower and has two children.

Books
Rech, Heribert. Die Nachwirkung Freiwilliger Betriebsvereinbarungen : Auswirkungen der Beendigung einer freiwilligen Betriebsvereinbarung auf darin vorgesehene Ansprueche und Anwartschaften. (German lang.). January 1997. ISBN 3-631-32107-4.

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Length? wp:far?
Readable prose size seems to be 113. I haven't looked deeply enough yet to identify other issues... WP:FAR ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 05:03, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the ping, do send another one if you ID more issues. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:05, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Now that we have this big ugly banner sitting on top of the page, I think we need to address the issue of article size. I don't particularly agree with a lot of what's written in Article size as it's a curious mixture of out-of-date concerns based on technology from 10 years ago and statements of questionable origin. But, this article has ballooned in size since it was last reviewed and almost certainly needs to be pared down or split based on our current guidance. -- Laser brain  (talk)  14:22, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * , I remember hearing another editor opine that WP:PROSESIZE is outdated and has lost most of whatever value it ever had. If you feel this is true, gather like-minded editors and go update it. I dislike RfC's, but you may need one. But as for this article, the fact that its size has ballooned sine promotion is a valid reason to go over it. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 21:24, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Bias
The amount of non-neutrality in the article is amazing, especially compared to history pages of countries with similar socioeconomic models. Usage of words obviously show the political intentions of editor. I think it needs to be seriously fixed for keeping neutrality.--Comrade-yutyo (talk) 08:25, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 15 September 2020
Please imposing (Use dmy dates) in the article because articles that written about history of Poland use DMY date format, not custom American English date format. Please impose that. 110.137.122.52 (talk) 20:31, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:49, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 19 July 2022
In the second to last paragraph of the "political transformation" section, it says: "He distanced himself from Wojciech Jaruzelski by accepted the prewar presidential insignia from President-in-Exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, who was stepping down."

It should say "by accepting" instead of "by accepted", so the full sentence should read: "He distanced himself from Wojciech Jaruzelski by accepting the prewar presidential insignia from President-in-Exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, who was stepping down." XP6287 (talk) 20:27, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 20:35, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Request move: History of Poland (1989-present) to Third Polish Republic and so on
See:
 * First Polish Republic
 * Second Polish Republic
 * French Fourth Republic
 * French Fifth Republic

Similarily, articles History of Poland (1918-1939), History of Poland (1939-1945), History of Poland (1945-1989) etc. should be moved into articles named: Poland in the Interwar period, Poland in WW2, Poland in the Cold War etc. or perhaps one big "Poland in the 20th century" article should be created along with one for the Third Polish Republic, describing the current regime, how it formed etc. See: France in the 20th century 79.191.227.130 (talk) 07:26, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 1 June 2024
Please change the section name citations to references 213.202.140.7 (talk) 19:06, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

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Edward Seymour, 16th Duke of Somerset

Brigadier-General Edward Hamilton Seymour, 16th Duke of Somerset, KBE, CB, CMG (12 May 1860 – 5 May 1931) was the son of Reverend Francis Payne Seymour and Jane Margaret Dallas. His father was the great-grandson of Lord Francis Seymour. He was also a baronet.

Life
Seymour was educated at Blundell's School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and joined the Dublin Fusiliers in 1880.

On 28 July 1881, Seymour married Rowena Wall, a daughter of George Wall, of Colombo, Ceylon. Together, they had one son: Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset, born on 1 May 1882. Rowena died on 13 November 1950.

Seymour transferred to the Army Ordnance Department in 1896, and was promoted to major (ordnance officer, 3rd class) on 7 April 1898. In 1900 he served at the Royal Army Clothing Depot, with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel (ordnance officer, 2nd class) from 4 January 1900. He eventually became Inspector of Army Ordnance Services, and retired from the army in 1918.

Seymour established his claim to the dukedom in 1925, the 15th Duke of Somerset having died without issue in 1923. He was the great-great-grandson of the Very Reverend Lord Francis Seymour, fourth and youngest son of the 8th Duke.

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Ambrose O'Brien

John Ambrose O'Brien (May 27, 1885 – April 24, 1968) was a Canadian industrialist and sports team owner. He was a founder of the National Hockey Association (NHA), owner of the Renfrew Millionaires and the founding owner of the Montreal Canadiens professional ice hockey team.

Biography
O'Brien was born in Renfrew, Ontario, the son of Michael John O'Brien, a Canadian businessman, and later one of the owners of mines in Cobalt, Ontario during the Cobalt silver rush.

O'Brien played varsity ice hockey at the University of Toronto. He moved to the Cobalt area and founded two ice hockey clubs, in Cobalt, Ontario and Haileybury, Ontario, funded by his father. In 1909, he founded the National Hockey Association, Les Canadiens, later Montreal Canadiens, and bought the Renfrew Creamery Kings. In the 1909–10 NHA season, the Creamery Kings received the nickname "Millionaires" as O'Brien signed up several stars of the time to extravagant contracts, including Fred "Cyclone" Taylor and brothers Frank Patrick and Lester "the Silver Fox" Patrick, and acquired Edouard "Newsy" Lalonde in an attempt to win the Stanley Cup for Renfrew. The attempt was unsuccessful and he folded the team after two seasons.

While in Montreal for business in November 1909, O'Brien was asked by the then owners of the Creamery Kings to apply to join the Canadian Hockey Association. He made the application but was turned down. Outside the hotel room where the CHA meetings were occurring he met Jimmy Gardner, manager of the Montreal Wanderers. Together, they developed the idea of starting their own league with O'Brien's Cobalt and Haileybury teams, the Wanderers and a new team "Les Canadiens" for Montreal to capture francophone Montrealers' interest as a rival for the Wanderers. As a result, the Montreal Canadiens were born. O'Brien only owned the team for one season. After the season, he was sued by George W. Kendall (Kennedy) owner of the Club athlétique Canadien, claiming the legal rights to the Canadiens name. A settlement was reached and on November 12, 1910 Kendall acquired the team for $7,500.

Operation of the NHA teams was expensive and the NHA was forced to implement salary caps and maximum salaries. The O'Briens reduced their involvement. Whereas in 1910, four O'Brien-backed teams played in the NHA, only one, the Millionaires, played in 1910–11, O'Brien having sold the other three NHA franchises. Before the 1911–12 season the Millionaires were also no more, its players dispersed to the other NHA teams. O'Brien was never a team owner again. O'Brien was inducted as a builder into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962. He died on April 24, 1968.

In December 2006, as the founder of the Montreal Canadiens, John Ambrose O'Brien was an inaugural inductee in the team's newly created 'Builders Row' in the Bell Centre.

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South Texas College of Law Houston

South Texas College of Law Houston (STCL or South Texas) is a private law school in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1923, it is accredited by the American Bar Association. South Texas College of Law Houston is the oldest law school in the city of Houston. It was founded in 1923 when the YMCA made the decision to establish a law school with a focus on offering night classes for working professionals.

Academics
South Texas College of Law Houston is also part of a consortium of four independent ABA- and AALS-accredited American law schools—California Western School of Law, New England School of Law, and William Mitchell College of Law. The Consortium for Innovative Legal Education combines resources of the schools for access to educational programs on a national and international basis.

Students at South Texas can study abroad in London, Ireland, Malta, the Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Turkey, Chile, and Mexico.

Admissions
For the class entering in 2023, South Texas accepted 44.04% of applicants, with 41.98% of those accepted enrolling, and the average enrollee had a 153 LSAT score and 3.36 undergraduate GPA.

Rankings
For 2024, U.S. News & World Report Rankings of Best Law Schools ranked South Texas College of Law overall tied at 150th out of the 196 accredited law schools in the United States, and its part-time program was ranked 48th in the country out of the 68 law schools considered.

Trial advocacy, ADR, and moot court programs
South Texas College of Law Houston has won 136 national championships in advocacy. Its trial advocacy program consistently ranks in the top 10 of the nation. The College of Law’s moot court program was ranked 1st in the nation according to data compiled by the University of Houston Law Center’s Blakely Advocacy Institute in 2018 and has consistently ranked in the top 4 ever since. Its trial advocacy program was ranked 3rd in the country (tied with Stetson University and American University) for 2023 by U.S. News & World Report. The College of Law’s Alternate Dispute Resolution Program (ADR), where students compete in competitive mediations, negotiations, and as mediators, in 2020 was ranked by U.S. News & World Report 31st in the nation. Additionally, PreLaw Magazine named South Texas College of Law Houston as "Top Law School for ADR".

Bar passage
Of the South Texas College of Law Houston graduates who took the Texas bar exam for the first time in July 2021, 80.89% passed, vs the overall passage rate of 80.47% for all other law schools of the State of Texas.

Employment
According to South Texas College of Law Houston's official 2021 ABA-required disclosures, 66% of the class of 2021 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment (i.e., as attorneys) nine months after graduation.

Publications
South Texas College of Law Houston publishes several student-edited journals of legal scholarship, including Corporate Counsel Review, Currents: Journal of International Economic Law, South Texas Law Review, Texas Journal of Business Law, and Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy''

 * South Texas Law Review is a student-edited quarterly legal journal published at the South Texas College of Law Houston. It was established in 1954. The review publishes scholarly works as well as comments and case notes. South Texas Law Review has published symposium issues on a wide range of topics. Since 1994, the review and the law school have hosted an annual ethics symposium during the fall semester where authors present papers on the year's topic which are published by the review in a subsequent volume.
 * Currents is the official journal of  international economic law at South Texas College of Law Houston first published in the winter of 1991 and published twice annually by the law student members and editors, who receive academic credit for writing projects and staff participation.

Community resources
South Texas sponsors the "Direct Representation Clinics", which provide legal representation to low-income residents of Harris County, Texas, in the areas of family law, probate, estate planning, and guardianship cases. South Texas is also the first Texas law school to provide $400 each month toward student-loan indebtedness for its alumni working for nonprofit legal-aid organizations that provide services to the poor.

Costs
Total cost of tuition is $35,550 for 2020, for both in-state and out-of-state students. South Texas College of Law continues to be the 6th least expensive law school in Texas out of a total of 10. The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at South Texas for the 2017–2018 academic year was $56,000.

Attempt to merge with Texas A&M University
In 1998, South Texas College of Law Houston (at that time, called South Texas College of Law) tried to merge with Texas A&M University under a private/public partnership. Under the proposal, the law school would have remained a private school, but would have been branded as the Texas A&M Law Center and would have awarded law degrees under the A&M seal. The deal went sour after a lengthy legal fight with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the governing body of the state's public institutions. The courts ruled that the schools had failed to obtain the board's approval before entering into the agreement. The University of Houston and other institutions voiced concern about the partnership. In 2013, Texas A&M University entered into a similar arrangement with the Texas Wesleyan School of Law in Fort Worth, Texas, thereby creating the Texas A&M University School of Law.

Litigation over name change
Until mid-2016, the law school was called "South Texas College of Law". On June 22, 2016, the day on which South Texas College of Law announced a name change to "Houston College of Law", the University of Houston (which has its college of law within the University of Houston Law Center) announced that the University was "concerned about the significant confusion this creates in the marketplace and will take any and all appropriate legal actions to protect the interests of our institution, our brand, and our standing in the communities we serve." The University of Houston System filed a lawsuit on June 27, 2016, in the United States District Court in Houston. On October 14, 2016, the U.S. District Court issued a preliminary injunction requiring that South Texas College of law stop using the name "Houston College of Law," pending further developments in the case.

On November 7, 2016, the dean of the law school announced that the name would be changed to "South Texas College of Law Houston".

Notable alumni

 * Richard H. Anderson, former president and CEO of Amtrak, former CEO of Northwest Airlines, former CEO of Delta Air Lines
 * Phillip Benjamin Baldwin (deceased), former senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; previously associate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals by nomination of President Lyndon B. Johnson and confirmation by the United States Senate on July 25, 1968.
 * Chris Bell, former member, Houston City Council, former member, United States House of Representatives representing the 25th Congressional District in Houston
 * Briscoe Cain, member of the Texas House of Representatives
 * Robert R. Casey (deceased), former congressman
 * John Culberson, former congressman
 * John P. Devine, Texas Supreme Court justice
 * Joseph Gutheinz, attorney who has investigated stolen and missing Moon rocks
 * Eva Guzman, former Texas Supreme Court justice
 * Brad Hart, former mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa
 * Charles Holcomb, former judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 2001 to 2010
 * Philip A. Holloway, attorney and legal analyst
 * Paul John Hilbert (deceased), former member of the Texas House of Representatives
 * Joan Huffman, member of the Texas State Senate; former state district court judge
 * Patrica R. "Pat" Lykos, former Harris County district attorney
 * David M. Medina, former justice of the Texas Supreme Court
 * Sam Nuchia, former chief of the Houston Police Department
 * Reed O'Connor, United States district judge for the Northern District of Texas
 * Kim Ogg, Harris County district attorney, assumed office January 1, 2017
 * Madalyn Murray O'Hair (deceased), founder of American Atheists, did not pass the bar exam and never practiced law
 * Dan Rather, American journalist, commentator, and former editor and anchor of CBS Evening News (did not graduate)
 * Jim Sharp, former justice of the First Texas Courts of Appeals based in Houston, 2009–2014
 * Robert Talton, former member of the Texas House of Representatives
 * Austin Walton, certified NBA agent and owner of Walton Sports Management Group

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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Stwong. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Stwong~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 03:13, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:16, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

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Some concern over this "article"
I ought to say that this might be the single dumbest page I’ve ever seen on Wikipedia, any language considered (although the French WP has been providing some competition). Seriously, WTBF? 81.249.114.73 (talk) 12:37, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

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