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Talk:The Contender (2000 film)

Neutrality challenge
The following is the section that I've entered a POV challenge, with the questionable language in bold:

The film has been the subject of some controversy, as some critics view it as liberal propaganda. The accusation stems from the fact that the President and Senator Hanson, the primary protagonists, are both liberal Democrats, and the primary antagonist is the Republican Runyon, played by Oldman. The controversy overlooks the obvious fact that Hathaway, a Democrat, is a criminal, and Webster, another Democrat, allies with Oldman's character, although Webster eventually returns to the President's side. Additionally, Hanson's father is a Republican who receives favourable treatment. Nevertheless, Oldman, who is a conservative, criticized the final product.

If one actually watches the movie, it is revealed that Senator Hanson has broken no laws. Allegations were made she was part of a threesome while in college -- a sorority-hazing type of thing, if I recall correctly. However, as Senator Hanson was single and above the age of consent, I fail to see how characterizing her as "a criminal" is:
 * 1) Accurate in terms of the plot of the movie
 * 2) Appropriate, as the whole point of the film wasn't "did she or didn't she?", but rather "is it appropriate to ask that sort of question to anyone, regardless of gender?"  That is, if Senator Hanson was a male, what he did in college would not be an issue.  Yet, because Senator Laine Hanson is a female, somehow what she (allegedly) did in college somehow affects her ability to take the second-highest political post in the United States
 * 3) Neutral, as it is revealed that Senator Hanson didn't even engage in the sexual act in the first place.

I suggest rewriting the "Plot summary" section of this article accordingly.

--Micahbrwn 06:23, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I am the author of that section. It is important to note that I did not say Senator Hanson was a criminal.  Far from it, I said Governor Hathaway was a criminal- he is, indeed, arrested for negligible homicide.  I have edited it to make that point clearer.  -anon

Neutrality
I removed one of the negative reviews from Rotten Tomatoes, because with all those quotes from Oldman in the Reaction section, that section was beginning to tilt too far to the negative. I also removed the counter-arguments about Hathaway being a criminal etc., because that leans a little too close to original research, I wrote that part as a newbie and to the best of my knowledge it's not a widespread argument. I think one paragraph on Ebert and the Oscars and one paragraph on Oldman will suffice for balance. CanadianCaesar 01:36, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't the negative reviews also be included in the reviews of the film? It seems that the Oldman business is mostly about the behind-the-scenes machinations of the politics of the movie, rather than criticism against the film itself. 24.59.3.83 (talk) 04:09, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

"Errors"
The error section was removed because it was factually inaccurate. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 147.31.246.236 (talk) 01:18, 30 March 2007 (UTC).

loyalty
I added loyalty here:
 * His opposition to the nominee might not be motivated by sexism but rather by genuine concerns about her competence and loyalty, as well as a desire for revenge on the President.

because Lurie explicitly states in the commentary on the DVD that one of the primary motivations for Gary Oldman's character is that Joan Allen's character is a former Republican switched to the Democrats, and Oldman's character feels that she is not loyal as a VP should be. --203.129.59.46 06:08, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Atheism
The previous text said "Senator Hanson was an atheist, a fact that was laid out in the beginning of the film yet never came back to haunt her candidacy as it might have in the real world." This description was misleading, the Hanson character addressed the atheism issue eloquently and patriotically in one of the highlights of the film near its end. In a sense, she addressed this issue by "heading it off at the pass." Would a real life candidate have gotten more flack over this issue? Perhaps. But the claim that the issue "never came back" was inaccurate.

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Fixed up "Reception" section
The source being used for most of that section was the Media Research Center, which is a conservative group that is dedicated to "finding liberal bias in the media." This may have something to do with why the section kept getting challenges based on WP:NPOV, as most of the section seemed to be based on that source, even though its conclusions contradict pretty much everything else I'm finding about the controversy (for example, an actual issue with Oldman saying his issue was with Lurie, not the studio, which I added as a source). I eliminated the MRC reference and much of the content which was based on it, as well as a number of quotes which I couldn't find in any source. I tried to re-write it with a more neutral POV, though I'm worried that I may have gone a bit too far in the opposite direction. What does everyone think? Beggarsbanquet (talk) 06:06, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

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Miss Understood

Miss Understood (aka Alex Heimberg) is an American drag queen originally from Levittown, New York, who has been based in New York City since the late 1980s. She was a prominent figure in the East Village drag scene of the early 1990s which revolved around the legendary Pyramid Club and Wigstock, an annual open air drag festival.

Her film and television appearances include The Brenda and Glennda Show; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar; HBO's Dragtime; TLC's Faking It; Wigstock, The Movie; Project Runway; and Sex and the City. In Josh Kilmer-Purcell's New York Times Bestselling Memoir I'm Not Myself These Days, one of the first competitions that Kilmer-Purcell's enters is one of Miss Understood's in New York City's "Lucky Chengs", a drag queen theme restaurant.

Screaming Queens Entertainment
In 1993, Miss Understood started a drag queen booking agency called Screaming Queens Entertainment, for which she acts as "CEO and Spokesmodel." The company was developed to showcase some of the outrageous personalities Heimberg encountered in her early days. "When I first went clubbing, I was stunned by what I saw: a whole world of surreal looking characters that never left their homes before midnight. I had seen people dressed in drag before, but in New York, drag meant something totally different. It wasn't necessarily about passing as a woman, but about looking outrageous, feeling fabulous, and getting attention." Prominent events for which Screaming Queens provided entertainment include George Stephanopoulos's bachelor party, Barbra Streisand's Farewell Concert VIP dinner, the Hugo Boss Christmas party; and New York Magazine's 30th anniversary, amongst others.

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Corbyville, Ontario

Corbyville is a community located within the City of Belleville, Ontario. Its origins begin when Henry Corby immigrated to Canada. Corby had been a baker in England and when he arrived in Belleville in 1832, he set up a small food shop. After serving in the Rebellion of 1837 he bought a Saint Lawrence steamer named the Queen which he operated for four years.

It was customary for farmers to set aside a portion of their inferior grain to be made into whisky, and as Corby was already making whisky for the locals, he became interested in the distilling process. In 1857, Corby built a dam and established a grist-mill on the bank of the Moira River. In 1859 he built a distillery which became more important than the mill.

Ten years after building his first mill, Henry decided to try his hand at politics and was elected mayor in 1867. The following year he served as a member of the Provincial Parliament for the Conservatives.

Henry died on October 25, 1881, at which time his son, Harry, took over the business. Harry began to sell the whisky by the bottle rather than the barrel, seeing it a better business opportunity. In 1905 the company was named the H. Corby Distillery. The distillery was closed in 1989.

Present day
The hamlet of Corbyville has over 700 households, with many people commuting within the expanded City of Belleville. Corbyville has an elementary school, Harmony Public School, but no high school so teenage students are generally bussed to Eastside High School in Belleville.

On Sunday April 5, 2009, most of what remained of the old Corby Distillery burned down. Arson was suspected.

Wildlife
Because of its rural location and proximity to woodlands, there is an abundance of wildlife in Corbyville. Wildlife sightings include deer, black bear, raccoons, porcupine, squirrels, fox, rabbits, muskrats, groundhogs and coyotes. There is a wide variety of birds found here including wild turkeys, American woodcocks, pileated woodpeckers, great blue herons, Canada geese and kingfishers. The Moira River, which runs through part of Corbyville, is home to many different species of animals including snapping turtles, crayfish and garter snakes.

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Abby Dalton

Gladys Marlene Wasden (August 15, 1932 – November 23, 2020), known professionally as Abby Dalton, was an American actress, known for her television roles on the sitcoms Hennesey (1959–1962) and The Joey Bishop Show (1962–1965), and the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest (1981–1986).

Life and career
Dalton was born Gladys Marlene Wasden on August 15, 1932, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dalton had three children by her marriage to Jack Smith, including Kathleen Kinmont, an actress who closely resembles her mother. Kinmont was married to Lorenzo Lamas, Dalton's onscreen son in Falcon Crest.

Television
Dalton made numerous appearances on television. James Garner and Clint Eastwood engaged in a fist fight over Dalton in the episode "Duel at Sundown" of Maverick. In 1958, she played the love interest of gunfighters on Have Gun Will Travel, starring Richard Boone, and The Rifleman, starring Chuck Connors. She appeared as Eloise Barton in an episode of the Western series Jefferson Drum, starring Jeff Richards.

From 1959 to 1962, Dalton played nurse Martha Hale on Hennesey (she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role ) with former child star Jackie Cooper in the title role, and she portrayed Joey Bishop's wife on The Joey Bishop Show from 1962 to 1965. As the Hennesey series was ending, The Joey Bishop Show was preparing for the start of its second season on NBC. Dalton played the role of Ellie Barnes, the wife of Joey Barnes (Bishop). As the season began on September 15, 1962, Dalton and Bishop are shown as newlyweds Ellie and Joey Barnes. Hennesey's finale was aired two days later on September 17, 1962, with Martha Hale's marriage to Chick Hennesey. Hence, Dalton portrayed being married to two different titular television sitcom characters on two different networks within two days.

Dalton was a semi-regular panelist on NBC and syndicated Match Game and appeared in the early years of Hollywood Squares. Dalton also appeared on Super Password, with Bert Convy as the host, and guest-starred on the interview program Here's Hollywood. Dalton was cast in the original pilot for what became the ABC series Barney Miller as Barney's wife. However, this version of the pilot, for a show titled The Days and Nights of Captain Barney Miller, was rejected by the network, and the role wound up being recast with Barbara Barrie. In 1977, she appeared in an episode of the crime drama The Feather and Father Gang.

In the 1980s, Dalton played winemaker Julia Cumson on Falcon Crest. In the show, Julia is the daughter of Angela Channing (Jane Wyman) and the mother of Lance Cumson (Lorenzo Lamas). Julia was at quiet odds with her mother, Angela, and for the show's first two seasons, she was a troubled but nonviolent person. In the second-season finale, however, she was revealed to be a killer. Much of the third season focused on her dealing with life both in prison and in a mental institution, and toward the end of the season, her character escaped from the mental institution to try to kill her mother. Julia was believed to have been killed in the second to last episode, but soon into the fourth season, she was revealed to be still alive. She returned sporadically during the fifth and sixth seasons, but did not reappear after 1986. After leaving the series, Dalton had guest-starring roles on Hotel and Murder, She Wrote.

Dalton also was a TV game player and regular on Stump the Stars (1964), PDQ (1970) and Match Game (1973–74). She appeared on The Rifleman in the episode "The Marshal" as hotel clerk Nancy Moore.

Movies
In 1957, Dalton played roles in the Roger Corman films Teenage Doll, Carnival Rock, and The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent. Her first leading role was in the 1957 film Rock All Night produced by American International Pictures. The following year, she starred in Stakeout on Dope Street, Girls on the Loose, The High Cost of Loving and Cole Younger, Gunfighter. In 1966, Dalton played Calamity Jane in The Plainsman with Don Murray, and appeared in the rarely seen film A Whale of a Tale (1976), with William Shatner and Marty Allen. Her later films included the Don "The Dragon" Wilson movie CyberTracker (1994), Buck and the Magic Bracelet (1999), and the horror film Prank (2008).

Death
Dalton died on November 23, 2020, in Los Angeles after a long illness.

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Dalgety, New South Wales

Dalgety is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, on the banks of the Snowy River between Melbourne and Sydney.

The town is located at what was once an important river crossing along the Travelling Stock route from Gippsland to the Snowy Mountains High Country dating from the 1840s.

History
The first settlement was originally known as Buckley's Crossing after Edward Buckley who established a farm near the river crossing in 1832. It was renamed Barnes Crossing in 1848, by which time it had become an important waypoint on the stock route between Gippsland in Victoria and the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales. In 1874 the town was formally surveyed and named Dalgety after the maiden name of the wife of surveyor J. R. Campbell. Like the founder of Dalgety and Company she was a grandchild of a Colonel Alexander Dalgety.

At the time of the survey the population was 23 and it was recorded that a punt was operating across the river. A Catholic school opened in 1874 to cater for the children of Irish gold prospectors, and the first bridge over the river was constructed in 1888.

The town also became a meeting place between white settlers and local Aborigines, who would camp along the river bank on the way to the Snowy Mountains. The Thaua people and Ngarigo people lived in this area seasonally.

Location for national capital
Section 124 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth ordained that the 'Seat of Government' 'shall be in the State of New South Wales, and be distant not less than one hundred miles from Sydney', with the specific location to be decided by the Commonwealth Parliament. In 1903 a Federal Royal Commission proposed Dalgety as the location for Australia's national capital city. The choice was ostensibly based on several criteria, including climate, food supply, land ownership and ability to support major industries, although official investigators conceded the site was 'very rough', 'treeless', and 'somewhat exposed [to] high winds'. The recommendation was implemented in the Seat of Government Act 1904, and emphatically supported by the prime minister, George Reid, and the Minister for the Interior, John Forrest, even though he had told the Federal Australasian Convention of 1897 that 'only lunatics' would site the capital in the interior of the Commonwealth.

The decision was immediately opposed by the Parliament of New South Wales which argued that Dalgety was too close to Melbourne and too far from Sydney. A more practical objection was the distance to the main Sydney-Melbourne railway line and the expense involved in constructing a spur to the proposed capital. Dalgety's cause had strong advocates including the local member Austin Chapman, Andrew Fisher, and John Forrest, as well as more general support from Victoria.

The matter eventually was settled, in October 1908, when parliamentarians voted on the capital site in a series of ballots, during which sites were eliminated progressively. In the ninth and last ballot, Dalgety had lost to 'Yass-Canberra' by 33 votes to 39. Subsequently, the Seat of Government Act 1908 was passed, and Canberra became the capital.

Considerable planning effort was made, during the period that Dalgety was the selected site of the new capital, including planning for the water supply and hydro-electric power generation —a large reservoir was proposed for the Snowy River at Jindabyne —and the routes for future rail lines.

Geography
Situated on the Monaro Plains and in the rain shadow of the Snowy Mountains, Dalgety is a relatively dry area of rolling hills with granite boulders scattered across the landscape.

The town depends on the Snowy River for water supplies. In October 2007 the New South Wales Department of Water and Energy recommended a cut in river flows through the nearby Lake Jindabyne, to a level which may require Dalgety to import drinking water.

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Talk:Crenshaw, Los Angeles

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Since the Hahns actually lived in Morningside Park, which is south of the Baldwin Hills adjacent to the city of Inglewood, the reference to them here should perhaps be removed. --Slightlyslack 06:20, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * The James Hahn article says:
 * Hahn lives in the Los Angeles community of San Pedro; he was formerly married to Monica Hahn.
 * Are all of those assertions correct? Is Morningside Park in San Pedro? Cheers, -Willmcw 06:36, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * James Hahn moved to San Pedro when he got married. Morningside Park is in South Central, adjacent to Inglewood, and is where Kenneth Hahn lived essentially his entire life.  I'm not sure if Pedro was even in Kenny Hahn's old supervisoral district.  I found this out from the biographical sketch of Hahn that the LAT published a week before the runoff.--Slightlyslack 19:14, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I;ve hcanged the bio to say that he grew up in the Morningside Park district of South Central. His elementary school is located by the 105 and 110 intersection, between Figueroa and Vermon, south of Manchester. His official bios say that he lives "with his family" in San Pedro. Our bio says that he is no longer married. Do you recall of the Times gave any info on his current marital status? Thanks, -Willmcw 21:47, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

 * This is the Hahn bio from the LAT (reg required). Hahn is separated from his wife, and has custody of the kids. --Slightlyslack 01:48, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reference. Unfortunately it is just on his childhood. At least we got some facts corrected. Good work. -Willmcw 02:47, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

Is it necessary for Crenshaw Boulevard to redirect to this page? The street goes down beyond the neighborhood and it goes all the way to the beach. Floydspinky71 22:16, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

I think that it's Ice-T who's from Crenshaw - not Ice Cube.

Correct...Ice-T graduated from Crenshaw High School in 1976. One note: The article states that the Faithdome is located in the Crenshaw District. It was originally located on Crenshaw Blvd, hence The Crenshaw Christian Center. It is now located in the Vermont Knolls Community as is the community where James Hahn grew up. Also the area south of Manchester between Figueroa and Vermont is not Morningside Park.
 * Howcum nobody in all these years pointed out that Morningside Park is in Inglewood, California? BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 00:23, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

"Crenshaw" versus "Crenshaw District"
This needs to be changed. When people in L.A. speak of "Crenshaw", they are referring to the Boulevard, and not the community. When people speak of the community, they will say "Crenshaw District". Therefore, it is incorrect to say James Hahn or Ice Cube are "from Crenshaw", when it is a street and a high school, and not a city or neighborhood. (RTistic (talk) 02:00, 30 December 2008 (UTC))

Boundaries of Crenshaw
As it stands now, the article gives Vernon Ave as the northern boundary of Crenshaw. I don't think that's right. I've always thought anything south of the 10 and west of Jefferson Park and east of Culver City was also part of Crenshaw. If you look at the Jefferson Park article, it describes Crenshaw as being to the west of Jefferson Park.

The Baldwin Hills article says the area north of Baldwin Village is Mid-City, Los angeles, California but, the mid-city article says that Crenshaw is south of Mid-City.

Why doesn't the city of Los Angeles just declare some official boundaries?

^I agree with this 100%. It makes no sense saying that the border is Vernon, seeing that the shopping district, mall, Church, and all else is up to 2 or 3 miles north of Vernon. This needs to be fixed. (RTistic (talk) 02:02, 30 December 2008 (UTC))

Photo
Does anyone really think a picture of the freeway exit ramp is the most representative image of Crenshaw there is? I'm not from Crenshaw, but I think this needs to be fixed. Add a picture of some community gathering point, or some homes, or a street, or something! Not an offramp from a freeway that helped demolish part of the city.

Agree, and perhaps we can find a picture that doesn't look like it came from Dark Shadows :)

This photo absolutely needs to change. I'm also not from Crenshaw, but this photo doesn't show anything about the neighborhood and doesn't add to the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.94.51.229 (talk) 06:08, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Replaced photo per this discussion. New photo is the African American mural at 52nd st and Crenshaw Blvd, hopefully a more informative and interesting image.Nomotiv867 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:37, 21 January 2010 (UTC).

Statistics
There seems to be a problem with the statistics of population in this article. they add up to 117.1% Dangaz 06:53, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

 * It's a crowded area. ;) But seriously... "Hispanic" is not a race so it overlaps with the others. I'm not sure what the source for these statistics is so we can't double check them. -Will Beback · † · 17:14, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

 * This is primarily because in statsical sense (e.g. the U.S. Census Bureau), "Hispanic" could be of any race. --Moreau36 (talk) 18:04, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Bunker Hill, Los Angeles which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RM bot 19:30, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Interested editors can also comment at Talk:Los Angeles Purplebackpack89  (Notes Taken)  (Locker) 03:50, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw District
The fact that there is a dispute over whether the "Crenshaw District" is the more normal usage (I think it is) should not mean we remove this helpful information which is used by the Los Angeles Times to identify this area. So I put it all back. I hope you understand that this is only for information, and I do not care to take sides in this dispute. Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 05:59, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Crenshaw is not the same as Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw

 * I have removed the Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw map and the "also see: Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw" suggestion from the top of the Crenshaw page. I have outlined a history of one user and - despite consensus - his insistence that this page reflect the the much larger area of the combined neighhorhoods of Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw.

 * (1) BeenAroundAWhile started a merger discussion to combine the two distinct neighborhoods of Baldwin Hills and Crenshaw into the Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw page that BeenAround had recently created.  The response was a resounding “No”.

 * (2) Four months later, BeenAround overruled consensus that came out of the merger discussion, deleted the Crenshaw page, and redirected it to Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw   The re-direct was quickly reverted.

 * (3) The following month, BeenAround then went over to the Baldwin Hills page, and again, despite consensus from the merger discussion, deleted and re-directed the Baldwin Hills page to Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw.  Again, the re-direct was quickly reverted.

 * (4) Despite it being made clear that these two distinct neighborhoods should remain separate – and not combined into one – BeenAround then added the map from the much larger Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw area to Crenshaw The map was removed with the notation that it does not represent this neighborhood.

 * (5) BeenAround added “also see Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw”  at the top of the the Crenshaw page.

 * (6) BeenAround re-installed the Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw map and it’s written boundaries to the Crenshaw page, despite the fact that the map and boundaries do not represent the Crenshaw neighborhood. Phatblackmama (talk) 23:37, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Content Issue
User:Phatblackmama,User:BeenAroundAWhile - I understand that there is some disagreement about what should be the scope of this article or the subject of this article. I suggest that each editor state, in one paragraph, what they think is at issue or should be changed or left the same in this article. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:41, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Whatever the sources say is just what we should follow. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 01:37, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Crenshaw Neighborhood
Crenshaw was recently changed from being a "neighborhood" to only a "commercial thoroughfare". I have reverted it back to a "neighborhood".

On her government web page, State Rep. Karen Bass refers to neighborhoods she represents: "California’s 37th District encompasses many neighborhoods in the City of Los Angeles, including South Los Angeles, Crenshaw, Baldwin Hills, Miracle Mile, Pico-Robertson, Century City, Cheviot Hills, West Los Angeles, and Mar Vista." . LAPD's Southwest Division serves the neighborhoods of "Adams-Normandie, Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Village, Baldwin Vista, Crenshaw, Exposition Park, Jefferson Park, Leimert Park, Union Square, University Park, Village Green, West Adams". Curbed had chosen Crenshaw as a runner-up for "neighborhood of the year". In 2016, the Los Angeles Times had an article on a "Promise Zone" whose "boundaries include about 200,000 residents living in parts of Crenshaw, Leimert Park, Exposition Park, University Park, Historic South-Central, Central-Alameda, Florence and downtown Los Angeles." LA Almanac sells maps that show the Crenshaw neighborhood as being south of "Leimert Park" and north of "Hyde Park". The Thomas Guide, which is cited in numerous LA neighborhood articles, places "Crenshaw" as a neighborhood and this has long been noted in the List of districts and neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Long standing citations within this article also refer to Crenshaw as a neighborhood. "Crenshaw was at the forefront of the fair housing movement in the postwar era. After opening in 1958, Holiday Bowl became the hub of this integrated neighborhood."

Crenshaw Neighborhood 2
The official name that the city and state use is Crenshaw and neither city nor state place it inside a larger neighborhood called "Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw". Nor is that phrase used by notable sources Laist, curbed or Los Angeles magazine. Beyond the pages of the mapping project, I am even having a hard time finding the phrase "Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw" used in the LA Times newspaper itself; in 2016, it places the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall in Baldwin Hills.

Wiki Education assignment: Writing 1 TR Both Classes
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Girlfriends
This was listed under "Media":

 * Girlfriends - Maya has a book reading at Crenshaw Bookstore.

Looking at the list of Girlfriends episodes, it appears to be from season 5, episode 108. But there is no mention of Crenshaw as the location of the bookstore. Googled, but could not find a source to cite. Phatblackmama (talk) 17:21, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

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Cooper's Falls, Ontario

Cooper's Falls (or Coopers Falls) is a Dispersed rural community and unincorporated place in geographic Rama Township in the municipality of Ramara, Simcoe County, in Central Ontario, Canada. The community is located at the eponymous Coopers Falls waterfall on the Black River, about 5 km northeast of the community of Washago on Ontario Highway 11, and is named after Thomas Cooper, the first settler. There are a few families living in Coopers Falls.

History
In 1864, Thomas James Cooper and his wife, Emma and three young children, emigrated to Canada on the steamship "Hector" from Fawkham, England. They arrived in the area from the train in Barrie. From there they proceeded to make their way by boat to Washago. There they set off into the bush to find a location to build their home, in lands that turned out to be occupied by wolves.

Emma and Thomas Cooper built a house and general store half a mile from a waterfall on the Black River. Many years later, in 1878 the first post office opened with the name Cooper's Falls.

The village soon added a general store, blacksmith and cheese factory. A log schoolhouse was built in 1874 followed by two churches. The Methodist church was built in 1894 and the Anglican church was built approximately 1884.

Thomas Cooper had hoped that his town's inhabitants would live good and clean lives. He believed in prohibition and thus, was not pleased when men from the lumber camps would show up in town, drunk.

The town's demise came when the lumber mill closed. The actual waterfall which took the Cooper name sits on private property, but can be seen from Cooper's Falls Road, especially in winter and early spring, when foliage doesn't obstruct the view.

A strand of 14 coloured light bulbs has been strung between the town's former general store and an old wooden building known as "the courthouse".

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Talk:Not Brand Echh

Something
Why isn't there any mention of the fact that "Not Brand Ecch" became "What the..."?

 * Because it didn't. "Not Brand Echh" ran from August 1967 to May 1969. "What the...?" didn't start until August 1988 (it ran for 26 issues). "Wha ... huh?" was published as a one-shot in 2005. Each paid homage to the original (Irving Forbush even appearing in several What The issues), but they were not continuations. - Kevingarcia 05:25, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * There, added information about publishing dates of the latter comics. - Kevingarcia 05:31, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Red Tornado
Is there any reason why the Forbush Man's uniform should be considered a possible homage to the Golden Age Red Tornado other than the colour and big F on his chest? It appears to be an extraneous bit of information.--RedKnight 00:08, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree. Although both are remarkably similar, I wonder if artists (Kirby?) were thinking of the then-obscure Red Tornado when creating Forbush Man. - Kevingarcia 04:24, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I'll see about looking into this myself. Perhaps I can dig something up.--RedKnight 18:39, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Character Appearances
Perhaps a complete list of characters (and there 'real world' counterparts) would be of use, assuming that it could be compiled.--RedKnight 00:09, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

 * You mean listing all the parodies like "Nock Furious" and "Prof. Echh"? It would take some doing... I don't have the whole series... - Kevingarcia 04:23, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I have the majority of the issues... still a few gaps to fill. I'll see what I can do (but it won't be anytime soon. :) )--RedKnight 18:38, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Marble Universe
I notice that there is no mention of this reality being called the 'Marble Universe', which you may wish to add to the text somewhere.--RedKnight 14:01, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Marvel Riot
An Age of Apocalypse spoof issue called "Marvel Riot" was released in 1995. The issue is very much a "Not Brand Echh" type release, yet the characters retain the names of the main Marvel Universe counterparts rather than being changed to their Marbel Universe alternates.--RedKnight 14:03, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

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Mureybet

Mureybet (مريبط) is a tell, or ancient settlement mound, located on the west bank of the Euphrates in Raqqa Governorate, northern Syria. The site was excavated between 1964 and 1974 and has since disappeared under the rising waters of Lake Assad. Mureybet was occupied between 10,200 and 8,000 BC and is the eponymous type site for the Mureybetian culture, a subdivision of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA). In its early stages, Mureybet was a small village occupied by hunter-gatherers. Hunting was important and crops were first gathered and later cultivated, but they remained wild. During its final stages, domesticated animals were also present at the site.

History of research
The first archaeological investigation of the site was carried out in 1964. In that year, the site was noted during an archaeological survey of the region directed by Maurits N. van Loon of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, and a small sounding was made. In 1965, a more extensive excavation was carried out, again under the direction of Van Loon. Between 1971 and 1974, work on the site was resumed by a team of the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) directed by Jacques Cauvin. All excavations were part of the larger international – and eventually UNESCO-coordinated – effort to investigate as many archaeological sites as possible in the area that would be flooded by Lake Assad, the reservoir of the Tabqa Dam, which was being built at that time. The filling of Lake Assad eventually led to the flooding of Mureybet in 1976. Although the site is now submerged and no longer accessible, the material that has been retrieved during the excavations continues to generate new research. This material is currently stored at the National Museum of Aleppo and the Antenne d'Archéorient de Jalès in Berrias-Casteljau in France.

Mureybet and its environment
Mureybet is located in modern-day Raqqa Governorate in northern Syria. It is situated on an elongated ridge that is c. 4 m above the river terrace of the Euphrates, which flowed directly west of the site before the valley was flooded. Mureybet is a tell, or ancient settlement mound, measuring 75 m in diameter and 6 m high.

Climate and environment of Mureybet during the time of its occupation were very different from the modern situation. When Mureybet became occupied around 10,200 BC, climate was slightly colder and more humid than today, an effect of the onset of the Younger Dryas climate change event. Annual precipitation increased slightly from 230 mm during the Natufian to 280 mm during the Mureybetian occupation phases. The vegetation consisted of an open forest steppe with species like terebinths, almonds and wild cereals.

Occupation history
The excavations have revealed four occupation phases I–IV, ranging from the Natufian up to the Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) and dating to 10,200–8,000 BC, based on AMS radiocarbon dates. Phase IA (10,200–9,700 BC) represents the Natufian occupation of Mureybet. It is characterized by hearths and cooking pits, but no dwelling structures have been identified. Among the crops that were harvested, and possibly even locally cultivated, were barley and rye. Very few sickle blades and querns were found. The inhabitants of Mureybet hunted gazelle and equids and fishing was also important. They had dogs, evidence for which is indirect at Mureybet but bones of which have been identified at nearby and contemporary Tell Abu Hureyra.

Phases IB, IIA and IIB (9,700–9,300 BC) make up the Khiamian, a poorly understood and sometimes disputed sub-phase straddling the transition from the Natufian to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA). Mureybet is the only site where Khiamian deposits are associated with architectural remains. The oldest of these remains date to phase IB and consist of a round semi-subterranean structure with a diameter of 6 m. In the subsequent phases, slightly smaller round houses built at ground level also appeared, at least some of which were used simultaneously. The walls were built from compacted earth, sometimes reinforced with stones. Hearths and cooking pits were located outside the buildings. Harvested crops included barley, rye and Polygonum. Sickle blades and grinding stones are more common and show more use-wear, indicating that cereals became a more important component in the diet. The fauna at Mureybet changed significantly during phase IIB. Gazelle makes up 70% of the assemblage and small animals decrease in importance, although fish remained important. Toward the end of the Khiamian, equid hunting gained importance at the expense of gazelle.

Phases IIIA and IIIB (9,300–8,600 BC) represent the Mureybetian, a subphase of the PPNA that was named after Mureybet and is found in the area of the Middle Euphrates. Architecture diversified, with rectangular, multi-cellular buildings appearing next to the round buildings that were already known from the previous phases. Walls were built from cigar-shaped stones that were created by percussion and that were covered with earth. Semi-subterranean structures also continued to be used and they are compared to similar structures found at nearby and contemporary Jerf el Ahmar, where the structures are interpreted as special buildings with a communal function. Many rooms in the rectangular structures were so small that they could only have served for storage. Hearths and cooking pits lined with stones continued to be located in the outdoor areas. The wild varieties of barley, rye and einkorn were consumed in phase III. Different lines of evidence suggest that these cereals were cultivated rather than gathered. Hunting of equids and aurochs was more important than of gazelle, while fish remains were rare in phase III contexts. Based on use-wear analysis, it could also be established that animal hides were processed at the site using bone and stone tools. The earliest known writing for record keeping evolved from a system of counting using small clay tokens. The earliest use of small clay tokens for counting were found in phase III. It coincided with a period of explosive rapid growth of the use of cereals in the Near East.

The last occupation phases, IVA (8,600–8,200 BC) and IVB (8,200–8,000 BC) date to the Early and Middle PPNB, respectively. No architecture has been encountered in phase IVA. No domesticated cereals were found, but this may be an effect of very small archaeobotanical sample that was retrieved from these phases. Hunting focused on equids, followed by aurochs. It could not be determined whether any domesticated animals were exploited in Mureybet. Mud-built walls of rectangular structures were uncovered in phase IVB. Domesticated sheep and goat were exploited in this period, and domesticated cattle may also have been present.

Material culture
The excavation of Mureybet has produced an abundance of lithic material. During all periods, flint was the main raw material from which tools were made. It was procured from local sources. Obsidian was much less common. Natufian tools include points, burins, scrapers, borers and herminettes, a kind of tool that was primarily used for woodwork. Flint arrowheads appeared in the Khiamian period. Other stone tools included burins, end-scrapers and borers. Mureybetian stone tools included Mureybet arrowheads, scrapers and burins, while borers were much less common. During the PPNB phase, Byblos arrowheads replaced the Mureybetian types, and other technological improvements were also introduced.

Apart from the lithics, other artefact categories were also present in Mureybet in smaller quantities. Personal ornaments in the Natufian period consisted of pierced shells and small stone and shell discs. Only a few bone tools were found. During the Khiamian, bone was used for needles, awls and axe sheaths. Beads were made from stone, freshwater shells and bone. Among the three figurines from this phase was one with clear anthropomorphic characteristics. The Mureybetian bone tool assemblage closely resembled its Khiamian predecessor. The presence of baskets at Mureybet has been inferred from use-wear analysis on flint and bone tools. Other artifact categories include limestone vessels, stone querns, beads, pendants, including one from ivory and eight anthropomorphic figurines made from limestone and baked earth. Seven of these figurines could be identified as women.

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Raymond Ranjeva

Raymond Ranjeva (born August 31, 1942) served as a judge on the International Court of Justice from February, 1991 until February, 2009.

He holds the following degrees including Bachelor's degree in law (1965), University of Madagascar, Antananarivo; diplôme from Madagascar National School of Administration (1966); trainee in the Judicial Division of the Conseil d'Etat, Paris (1965–1966); diplôme d'études supérieures de sciences politiques, University of Paris, Faculty of Law and Economic Science (1966); diplôme d'études supérieures de droit public, University of Madagascar (1967); Doctorate of Law, Panthéon-Assas University (thesis: "La succession d'organisations internationales en Afrique"); agrégé of the Faculties of Law and Economics, Public Law and Political Science section, Paris (1972).

He served as Vice President of the International Court of Justice from 2003 until 2006 and as a Judge of the Court from 1991 to 2009, having won reelection in 2000. Prior to his election to the Court, he was a Professor of Law at the University of Madagascar from 1981 to 1991, the same university he earned a B.A. from in 1965. Furthermore, he also served as a lecturer at The Hague Academy of International Law in 1987 and 1997.

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Operas by Claudio Monteverdi

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Mondini dysplasia

Mondini dysplasia, also known as Mondini malformation and Mondini defect, is an abnormality of the inner ear that is associated with sensorineural hearing loss.

This deformity was first described in 1791 by Mondini after examining the inner ear of a deaf boy. The Mondini dysplasia describes a cochlea with incomplete partitioning and a reduced number of turns, an enlarged vestibular aqueduct and a dilated vestibule. A normal cochlea has two and a half turns, a cochlea with Mondini dysplasia has one and a half turns; the basal turns being normally formed with a dilated or cystic apical turn to the cochlear. The hearing loss can deteriorate over time either gradually or in a step-wise fashion, or may be profound from birth.

Hearing loss associated with Mondini dysplasia may first become manifest in childhood or early adult life. Some children may pass newborn hearing screen to lose hearing in infancy but others present with a hearing loss at birth. Hearing loss is often progressive and because of the associated widened vestibular aqueduct may progress in a step-wise fashion associated with minor head trauma. Vestibular function is also often affected. While the hearing loss is sensorineural a conductive element may exist probably because of the third window effect of the widened vestibular aqueduct. The Mondini dysplasia can occur in cases of Pendred Syndrome and Branchio-oto-renal syndrome and in other syndromes, but can occur in non-syndromic deafness.

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Dawn Mills, Ontario

Dawn Mills is a small, unincorporated community in southwestern Ontario, Canada, part of the municipality of Chatham-Kent. It is in the north-central portion of the municipality, located a short distance from the town of Dresden.

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UnionsWA

UnionsWA is the peak Trades and Labour Council in Western Australia. It represents over 30 affiliated unions, which have over 150,000 members in Western Australia. The council is affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). Since the 1980s, the UnionsWA International Committee has acted as the ACTU's representative to the Southern Initiative for Global Trade Union Rights (SIGTUR).

Early history
The Trades & Labor Council, Perth was formed in 1891 and operated as such until 1907 when it re-emerged as the Western Australian Branch of the Australian Labour Federation. Twenty years later, in 1927, it was operating as the Australian Labor Party (WA). It continued in this guise for another twenty years when, in 1947, the name was changed once more, this time to the Trade Unions Industrial Council (ALP, WA) to more accurately delineate its trade union role from the political motives of the labour movement.

An independent trades and labour council
In 1947, six militant unions came together to form the Western Australian Council of Trade Unions (WACTU) as an independent organisation from the Australian Labor Party. The WACTU quickly gained a membership of 33 unions, representing thousands of unionists. The council sought affiliation with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). However, during the Twentieth State Labor Congress in the same year, the ALP preempted this move by establishing the Western Australian Trades Unions Industrial Council (WATUIC) as its representative body in the state. ALP State Secretary Joe Chamberlain played a key role in this decision, opposing the creation of an independent Trade and Labour Council.

Chamberlain’s objections were primarily political. He was concerned about the growing influence of non-ALP members, especially communists, within the labour movement. Additionally, he recognised that forming a separate industrial body could jeopardise the primary source of party funds, which at that time was the affiliation fees collected from affiliated unions. WATUIC membership was strictly limited to industrial unions affiliated with the ALP and delegates were required to sign the ALP pledge before participating in voting processes. During the 1950s, there was significant debate among Western Australian unions and the WA branches of federal unions regarding the anomalous situation for the representation of state unions within the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). The ACTU’s Federal Executive faced mounting pressure to address this situation. In 1959, Western Australia’s ACTU affiliation was up for renewal. The ACTU Federal Executive hinted that it might withhold re-affiliation unless an independent Trades and Labor Council (TLC) was established as the state’s affiliated body. At the 1959 ACTU Congress, Jim Healy, the General Secretary of the Western Workers’ Federation (WWF), proposed that the WA Branch of the ACTU adhere fully to “the democratic principles of affiliation” followed by the ACTU and its other five branches. Healy advocated for making affiliation open to “any bona fide registered trade union or any branch of a Federal Union operating within the State.” Jim White, a delegate from the Painters’ and Decorators’ Union in Western Australia, seconded this motion, which was subsequently approved. The decision was influenced by a letter signed by officials from 12 WA trade unions, expressing support for establishing an independent TLC.

Non-affiliated unions and union representatives who were not ALP members, however, were excluded from a Special Congress of Unions convened in Perth on November 23, 1959. During this congress, a vote was held regarding any structural changes, resulting in 555 against and 206 in favor. However, some critics argued that the officials representing the 27,000 members were “a small group of people who never consulted their membership.”

In February 1960, the TLC Campaign Committee, comprising 16 unions with a combined membership of over 32,000 workers, was formed to implement the decision made by the ACTU Congress. The committee’s manifesto emphasised that every bona fide trade union or branch of a federal union had an inalienable right to membership in a State TLC and the ability to join the ACTU.

In 1961, a Special Affiliated Union Conference passed a motion for the Special General Council to establish a committee. This committee would examine the process of setting up a separate industrial organization. The goal was to structure this organisation to meet the ACTU’s requirements, ensuring that each affiliated union could be represented on the Industrial Council without any political restrictions, as decided in accordance with its rules.

The first federally affiliated independent Western Australian Trades and Labor Council met in Perth Trades Hall in 1963, with the now more politically open Executive Committee including the prominent communist Paddy Troy as Trustee.

General strike
In November 1963, the newly formed Trades & Labor Council of Western Australia led the state's first general strike. The strike was called in response to industrial relations legislation being introduced by the WA Liberal Government of David Brand, which sought to restrict the power of trade unions, and replace the Court of Arbitration with the Western Australian Industrial Commission and the Western Australian Industrial Appeal Court. The strike was ultimately unable to prevent the passage of the legislation, though it cemented the leadership of the TLC within the union movement.

Third-wave dispute
In 1997, the Court Liberal Government's introduced a series of reforms aimed at reshaping Western Australia’s industrial relations landscape, including a shift towards individual workplace agreements and a reduction in union influence. On 29 April 1997, the Trades & Labor Council under the leadership of Tony Cooke, organised an estimated 30,000 people to march through the city to the State Parliament House in protest.

The Workers Embassy, in the form of a caravan, was set up on the grounds of Parliament House during the protest. Following the arrest of four union officials for remaining on the premises, the Workers Embassy was relocated to a site across the street. Unions occupied the site for 24 hours a day over 6 months.

In a last-ditched attempt to stop the legislation passing, on 14 and 15 May 1997, union officials occupied the Legislative Council and set up a picket line. To escape this disruption, proceedings were removed to a committee room and the legislation was passed through both Houses of Parliament.

In July 1997, the Workers Embassy was renamed Solidarity Park.

Though unable to stop the reforms being passed, the third wave industrial relations legislation was subsequently overturned following the election of the Gallop Government in 2001.

Renamed to UnionsWA
Although still acknowledged today as the Trades & Labor Council of Western Australia, an increasing association with "white collar" unions had, by 2000, deemed this old title no longer be reflective of all affiliated unions. In April 2000, the Trades & Labor Council of Western Australia was renamed UnionsWA to more adequately encompass both white and blue collar unions. This renaming coincided with the opening of "Unity House" on 1 May, 2000.

Structure
UnionsWA is the state's peak union body representing over 30 affiliated unions and their members. Delegates meet monthly to consider issues affecting the working conditions of Western Australians and determine strategies to improve them. The offices of UnionsWA are located at Level 4, 445 Hay Street, Perth. UnionsWA is the supreme governing body of the trade union movement in Western Australia.

The present office holders are:
 * Secretary: Owen Whittle
 * Assistant Secretary: Kari Pnacek
 * President: Rikki Hendon (CPSU/CSA)
 * Senior Vice-President: Carolyn Smith (United Workers Union)

Solidarity Park
UnionsWA is responsible for the use, upkeep, and maintenance of Solidarity Park, opposite Parliament House in Perth, Western Australia.

Solidarity Park contains the largest concentration of labour monuments in Western Australia. The Wall of Remembrance at the park commemorates all killed and injured workers. The Mark Allen Memorial, named in honour of a young CFMEU organiser who was killed on a building site while attempting to get workers down from an unsafe roof, features a triple 8 to symbolise the labour movement's historic struggle for the 8-hour day. The People’s Wall that surrounds the park replaced the original sandbag wall around the occupation site, along with other structures such as the Fountain for Youth and the Commemorative Rock.

The International Workers' Memorial Day WA service is held by UnionsWA every year in April at Solidarity Park.

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Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse

A Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse: The Biomedical Aspects by Gail Winger, Frederick G. Hofmann, and James H. Woods was published in New York by Oxford University Press in 1992. A 4th edition, updated with a chapter for "Club Drugs", was published in 2004.

Reception
The book garnered a mixed reception from medical journals. An earlier version was published in 1975 by Frederick Hofmann and Adele Hofmann as Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse.

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Evil bit

The evil bit is a fictional IPv4 packet header field proposed in a humorous April Fools' Day RFC from 2003, authored by Steve Bellovin. The Request for Comments recommended that the last remaining unused bit, the "Reserved Bit" in the IPv4 packet header, be used to indicate whether a packet had been sent with malicious intent, thus making computer security engineering an easy problem – simply ignore any messages with the evil bit set and trust the rest.

Influence
The evil bit has become a synonym for all attempts to seek simple technical solutions for difficult human social problems which require the willing participation of malicious actors, in particular efforts to implement Internet censorship using simple technical solutions.

As a joke, FreeBSD implemented support for the evil bit that day, but removed the changes the next day. A Linux patch implementing the iptables module "ipt_evil" was posted the next year. Furthermore, a patch for FreeBSD 7 is available, and is kept up-to-date.

There is an extension for XMPP protocol "XEP-0076: Malicious Stanzas", inspired by evil bit.

This RFC has also been quoted in the otherwise completely serious RFC 3675, ".sex Considered Dangerous", which may have caused the proponents of .xxx to wonder whether the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) was commenting on their application for a top-level domain (TLD) – the document was not related to their application.

For April Fool's 2010, Google added an  parameter to requests through the Ajax APIs.

A patch to add compatibility for RFC 3514 in Wireshark was proposed but never implemented.

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User talk:Zeryphex

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Are you still looking for help creating Ogg Theora video files? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eshouthe (talk • contribs) 13:56, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
Thanks for finding those. Can you summarize what Lee and Mason say? If we're just going to list them as commentators maybe they should go in the biliogrpahy or "further reading" section. Felsic2 (talk) 18:43, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Uploaded images
Just a heads up, I nominated File:Galaxy superclusters and galaxy voids.png for deletion at. I then noticed that File:Zone of avoidance face-on.png can be found online as early as 2008. I would suggest updating the licensing and attribution as soon as possible, and removing any files that you shouldn't have uploaded. If you have any questions, let me know. Cheers! Woodroar (talk) 23:31, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

Re deletion of Tabby's Star Fly-thru
See the comment I've just added to Drbogdan's talk page. Synchronist (talk) 04:23, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

zeta reticuli to earth animation
Excellent job. Keep that shit up! Jstuby (talk) 03:34, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

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List of international instruments relevant to the worst forms of child labour

International instruments containing substantive provisions on all WFCL
Instruments defining worst forms of child labour (WFCL) and containing substantive provisions on all WFCL:
 * International Labour Organization
 * Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention: Definitions, and main provisions, binding states that have ratified the convention
 * Worst Forms of Child Labour Recommendation: Recommendation supplementing the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, but not binding on ratifying states

Instruments containing substantive provisions on a number of WFCL

 * United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (although not using the term worst forms of child labour, since this was first coined in an international instrument in the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention)

Military use of children

 * Optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict in terms of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
 * United Nations Security Council Resolution 1261

Trafficking in children and child abduction

 * 1921 International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children (1921)
 * Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949)
 * African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990)
 * Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1996)
 * Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (2000)
 * Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, supplementing the Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (2000)

Commercial sexual exploitation of children
The most comprehensive international instrument focusing on Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (2000)

Other instruments are (in chronological order)
 * Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949)
 * African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990)
 * Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1996)
 * Stockholm Declaration and Agenda for Action (1996)
 * Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, supplementing the Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (2000)
 * Convention on Cybercrime (2001) of the Council of Europe
 * Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (2007)
 * Global Code of Ethics for Tourism


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CHQR

CHQR is a radio station owned by Corus Entertainment operating in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Broadcasting at AM 770, it airs talk programming. With the exception of one show, all of CHQR's weekday programming is produced in-house. CHQR is also the exclusive radio voice of the Calgary Stampeders. CHQR is also the last AM station in the Calgary market to broadcast in C-QUAM AM Stereo. CHQR is a Class B station on the clear-channel frequency of 770 kHz.

CHQR's studios are located on 17th Avenue Southwest in Calgary, while its transmitters are located just south of the Calgary city limits near De Winton.

As of Winter 2021, CHQR is the most-listened-to radio station in the Calgary market according to a PPM data report released by Numeris.

History
The station originally began broadcasting at 810 AM in 1964 and received approval to move to its current frequency on June 26, 1986.

On November 9, 2011, Corus Entertainment Inc., on behalf of its wholly owned subsidiary CKIK-FM Limited applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to add an FM transmitter to serve Calgary on the frequency 106.9 MHz to rebroadcast the programming of CHQR 770. This application was denied on May 24, 2012.

In December 2015, CHQR was added to sister station CKRY-FM's HD2 sub-channel when they activated HD Radio services, becoming the first station in Alberta to do so.

On January 9, 2023, CHQR rebranded as QR Calgary and added an FM simulcast on CFGQ-FM. That spring, following inquiries by the CRTC regarding whether the simulcast complies with broadcasting regulations, Corus filed a set of applications with the CRTC to formalize the simulcast by re-designating CFGQ as the originating station of the news/talk format under a specialty FM licence, revoking CHQR's AM licence, and repurposing the current 770 AM facility as a rebroadcaster of CFGQ. In doing so, Corus questioned the format's continued viability on AM in Calgary, reiterating the arguments it had made during its 2011 rebroadcaster application while also referencing increased interference, and automakers removing AM radio from electric vehicles due to electrical interference issues.

Corus withdrew the application in June 2024, and announced that it would end the simulcast by the end of July 2024 in favour of returning to a music format. A Corus spokesperson stated that the simulcast was not economically successful "the way we had hoped".

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Talk:TTC Operations

>For the year ending 2003, the TTC received 2.3% of its revenue from advertising, or almost 17 million dollars. Critics charge that as the TTC states a ridership of over 1.4 million passengers on average each weekday, all advertising could be removed from all TTC property for one year in exchange for a one-day addition of just over ten cents to each rider's fare.

That doesn't add up.

Assuming 1.4 million fares are paid per average weekday, it would take an average of 121 weekdays of 10 cents extra per fare to pay an extra 17 million dollars.

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Senjak

Senjak (Сењак, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia. Located in Savski Venac, one of the three municipalities that constitute the very center of the city, it is an affluent neighborhood containing embassies, diplomatic residences, and mansions. Senjak is generally considered one of the wealthiest parts of Belgrade.

History and etymology
Before it became interesting to Belgrade's upper classes, Senjak was an excellent natural lookout. As many farmers kept their hay throughout the entire city, fires were quite frequent, so it was ordered for hay to be collected and kept in one place, and the area of modern Senjak was chosen, apparently also getting its name in the process (from the word seno, Serbian for hay). Especially bad was the fire in the late September 1857, when almost all stacks of hay stored in the Belgrade Fortress burned. Also, the hay for army horses was kept here in the late 19th century. A more romantic theory of the neighborhood's name (from the word sena, Serbian for 'shade' or 'shadow') developed later.

On the east, Senjak was bounded by the Topčider Road, which connected downtown Belgrade to the forests of Košutnjak and Topčider. The road section on the northern slope, between Senjak and western part of Točidersko Brdo, is today named Bulevar Vojvode Putnika. This section of the street was embellished with the quadruple chestnut avenue in the late 19th century. Southern section, which swerved around Senjak, was embellished with the avenue of poplars. Senjak and the neighboring Topčidersko Brdo are today quite wooded for the urban areas. This is the result of the 1923 Belgrade's general plan. One of the main projects regarding the green areas was forestation of the hill, formation of the new park and establishment of the continuous green area with the Topčider Park. Project started in 1926 while the Hyde Park was finished in the 1930s. Today, the continuous Topčider-Košutnjak parks and forests make the largest "green massif" in the immediate vicinity of Belgrade's urban tissue.

The settlement began to form around the tobacco factory, which was built before World War I. Several hundred of houses and hovels were built around the factory, mostly by the factory workers. Soon, workers from the neighboring industrial facilities along the Topčider Road, including the State Postage Stamp Printing Office (Markarnica), railway workers, etc. The workers settlement developed mostly along the road to the old quarry. At the time, the hill was known for the greenery and abundant fruit production, mainly apricots, grapes and figs. Lower classes had various advantages living in Senjak at the time: their workplaces were close when the public transportation grid wasn't that much developed, the costs of living outside of the city were lower, they could grow their food and fruits, there was a direct tram line to downtown and the railway also passed through the settlement.

The tobacco factory was destroyed by the Austro-Hungarian bombing of Belgrade in 1914 and wasn't rebuilt after the war. This left room for numerous workers houses to be demolished, too, and they were massively being sold due to the increased prices of the land. Instead, many villas were built by the most affluent Belgrade families. Senjak became one of the neighborhoods of Belgrade with most striking difference between social classes. Top of the Senjak Hill was occupied by the most lavish private houses in the city, while the edges and areas below the hill were among the most desolate parts of Belgrade (Prokop, Jatagan Mala).

During the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia, a number of buildings in the neighborhood such as the Swiss ambassador's residence were damaged or affected by the conflict.

The first tram link established in Belgrade was from the Kalemegdan fortress to Senjak.

Geography
Senjak is located 3 km south-west of downtown Belgrade, on top of the hilly cliff-like crest of the western slopes of Topčidersko Brdo, overlooking Belgrade Fair right below and the Sava river (from which, at the closest point, Senjak is only 100 meters away). It borders the neighborhoods of Topčider and Careva Ćuprija (south), Mostar (north), Prokop and Dedinje (east). The triangularly shaped neighborhood has many smaller streets but it is bounded by two wide boulevards, named after Serbian army vojvodas from World War I: Vojvoda Mišić and Vojvoda Putnik.

Administration

From June 1945 to December 1946, Senjak was one of 5 administrative neighborhoods within Belgrade's Raion VII.

Senjak originally belonged to the former municipality of Topčidersko Brdo, which in 1957 merged with the municipality of Zapadni Vračar to create the municipality of Savski Venac. Senjak existed as the local community within Savski Venac with the population of 3,690 in 1981. It was later merged into the new local community of Topčidersko Brdo-Senjak which had a population of 7,757 in 1991, 7,249 in 2002 and 6,344 in 2011.

Characteristics
Just like the neighboring Dedinje, Senjak is generally considered among Belgraders as one of the richest neighborhoods in the city. After 1945, it shared much of the same fate as Dedinje: when Communists took over, they declared almost all former residents as state enemies and forced them out of their mansions, so the new Communist political and military elite moved in. Some measures in removing the former high class were brutal as only those who fled the country stayed alive. Those unlucky were taken into a nearby woods and shot, with their remains lying in unmarked graves for decades until they were exposed by construction workers clearing trees for a new football field.

Bulevar vojvode Mišića, encircles Senjak from the north, west and south and separates it from the Belgrade Fair, Careva Ćuprija and Topčider. As of 2017, it was the street with the busiest traffic in Belgrade: 8,000 vehicles per hour in one direction during the morning rush hour.

In 2019, Branislav Mitrović, architect and member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, said that "caricatural architecture, inept compilations and stylish nonsense" turned once respectable residential neighborhood of Senjak, so as Neimar and Dedinje, into chaos.

In January 2021, city administration announced Topčiderska Zvezda as the most likely location of the future monument dedicated to the heroes from the 1916 Battle of Mojkovac. Within the scopes of World War I, it was fought between the invading Austro-Hungarian forces, and the Montenegrin army which defended the retreating Serbian army which headed for the Albanian Golgotha.

In August 2021 it was announced that city's Institute for the Cultural Monuments' Protection is conducting a study on declaring Senjak a protected spatial cultural-historical unit.

Park Military High School in the south-central area of the neighborhood covers 3.4 ha.

Buildings
King Peter's House

A vacant summer house of King Peter I Karađorđević. The house stands across the soccer field of "FK Grafičar" and close to the building of the military academy. The house, called the "White villa", was built in 1896 and it belonged to the merchant Živko Pavlović. In 1919 the state, represented by the Ministry of education, leased the house for the king who lived there from 1919 to his death in 1921. Monthly rent was 3,000 dinars in silver. The king lived quite modestly. His own room was equipped with bed, small cabinet with the sink, locker, lamp, sable and chandelier. The king had his own library, with the books printed by the Srpska književna zadruga. He spent much time on the vast terrace and in the garden. After king's death in August 1921, the Royal Intendancy bought the house out in order to make it a museum. In the 1930s it was declared a king's memorial-house.

After 1945 residents changed and mostly included the high-ranking members of the new Communist elite and in that period majority of the exhibited artifacts, the legacy of the king, were either destroyed od taken away. Missing items include the king's death mask and the only remaining artifact was the king's bed. In 1945 the house was adapted into the elementary school which was closed in 1951 and the house, for the most part since then, remained abandoned and left to the elements. In 2010 the house was adapted into the cultural center. Within the house, a memorial room for the king was set, which includes a mosaic of 100 photographs of the king and his family.

In the house's yard, there are two trees, protected by the law since 1998. One is a 20 meters high gingko and the other is a 10 meters high magnolia tree. As of 2017, both trees are estimated at being 110 years old.

Faculty of Fine Arts complex

Bordered by the streets of Mila Milunovića, Župana Časlava and Vojvoda Putnik's Boulevard, the complex is part of the University of Arts in Belgrade's Faculty of Fine Arts. It includes three buildings, one of which is the former atelier, built in 1947, of painter Milo Milunović who died in 1967. The atelier hosts the painting section of the faculty. Other building hosts the graphics section, while the third is administrative building. Modernist, one-floor new building which would connect the existing, separate structures, which, in turn, will be expanded, was announced in September 2022. The green areas will be transformed into the park, which would also serve as an open air gallery.

Other buildings

 * Military Academy; after World War I, military academy was constructed by orders of King Peter I. The academy's building is majestic, with heavy cream-colored walls and tall windows. During World War II the occupational German forces made it the headquarters for their military operations in the Balkans. The Allies bombed the neighborhood during the war in order to destroy the headquarters and the bridge over the Sava, but they didn't manage to hit it or cause any damage to the building or the bridge.
 * Museum of African Art; it was established from the private collection of a Yugoslav diplomat, and contains many rare pieces.
 * Museum of Toma Rosandić; located in the house, where the sculptor lived and worked until his death, was built by himself in 1929, and now holds a unique collection that is, unfortunately, not open to public, except on certain days (such as The Museum Night).
 * Ecole Française de Belgrade, an international French school founded in 1951. The school is composed of a nursery school, an elementary school, a middle school and a high school.
 * Senjak Gymnastics Club, which was a starting point for the future career of the renowned Yugoslav rhythmic gymnast Milena Reljin.
 * The Archives of Yugoslavia and stadium and restaurant "FK Grafičar", both in the vicinity of Topčiderska zvezda, small roundabout with streets spreading in all directions connecting Senjak, Dedinje, downtown Belgrade, Topčider and further to the south (Kanarevo Brdo, Rakovica, etc.).
 * BIGZ building
 * Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration (member of Singidunum University)
 * International School of Belgrade
 * Old Mill, a cultural monument since 1987, in 2014 adapted into the Radisson Blu Old Mill Hotel.
 * Senjak Greenmarket (Senjačka pijaca) was located along the Sava river and was originally built for the workers of the Cardboard factory of Milan Vapa, which was right across it. The factory complex included the apartments for workers. Market is still operational, albeit smaller, along the Koste Glavinića Street.

Nature

 * Two state protected trees of the Himalayan white pine, native to Afghanistan and Himalaya. They were planted in 1929, in the yard of the family of the scientist Milutin Milanković, in the Žanke Stokić street.
 * Protected natural monument "Dedinje Beech", a European beech tree, noted for its unusually big size in urban habitats: 22 meters tall, 2,8 meter trunk diameter, 19 meters crown diameter. As of 2017 it is estimated at being 90 years old.
 * Nameless park surrounding the "Stefan Nemanja" elementary school has been named "Branko Parać Relja" in February 2019. The school itself was named "Branko Parać Relja" from 1959 to 1993, when its original name was restored.
 * Two sections of Senjak are classified as forests: Grafičar Forest (3.89 ha) and Rajsova Padina.

Đurđevo Brdo
The slope above the modern Belgrade Fair complex was known as the Đurđevo Brdo. Before World War II it was known as one of the suburban slums, with bad communal infrastructure. The neighborhood developed in the first decade after World War I, after 1919, in the area outside of the jurisdiction of the city construction rules. It was a workers' settlement, mainly inhabited by the workers on the railroad who either rented rooms or built their own shanty houses. By the 1921 general urban city plan, it was labeled as one of the "scarce settlements", which formed a suburban ring around Belgrade. A Society for Arrangement of Đurđevo Brdo and Topčidersko Brdo was founded by 1923. In the mid-1930s it had some 150 houses and a population of 600, still being classified as the shanty town with small buildings and houses with yards. The name disappeared from the city maps after World War II, when all separately developed neighborhoods grew urbanely into one called Senjak.

Gospodarska Mehana
Gospodarska Mehana (Господарска Механа) is the westernmost section of Senjak. It occupies the slopes descending to the Sava, just across the southern end of the Belgrade Fair and north of the Topčiderka's mouth into the Sava. It was named after the famed, and one of the longest surviving kafana in Belgrade, Gospodarska mehana. Kafana was founded in 1820 in what was at the time the end of the city. Due to the construction of the Ada Bridge, access roads to it and a loop interchange, the kafana was cut off and had to be closed in September 2013, after 193 years.

In 1821, the state government decided to put the food trade in order and to establish the quantity and quality of the goods imported to the city. Part of the project was introduction of the excise on the goods (in Serbian called trošarina) and setting of a series of excise check points on the roads leading to the city. One of those check points, which all gradually also became known as trošarina, was located here as in the 1830s and 1840s it was a location of the ferry which transported pigs across the Sava into the Austria. This trošarina also functioned as a customs house. On 25 January 1859, when prince Miloš Obrenović and his son Mihailo Obrenović returned to Serbia, they landed at Gospodarska Mehana. The customs house was dismantled first. Later, the large storehouse was demolished, too, while the kafana survived until the early 21st century.

It was the final stop of the first Belgrade's tram line and still is on the important traffic route with important streets (Boulevard of Vojvoda Mišić, Radnička Street), railway, public transportation lines (still surviving tram line), road elevation which connects Banovo Brdo and Čukarica with Belgrade (formerly known as the "Gospodarska Mehana elevation"), etc. In the 1930s, when most of Belgrade's upper class built houses in Dedinje, some decided to build houses in Gospodarska Mehana, including then Prime minister of Yugoslavia, Milan Stojadinović.

Rajsova Padina
Slope right above the Gospodarska Mehana is called Rajsova padina (Reiss’ Slope), named after Archibald Reiss, Swiss forensics pioneer who lived in Senjak after moving to Serbia when the World War I ended. In May 2011, as part of the project of foresting the city and creating a green barrier against traffic from the interchange and the roads, 400 trees were planted on Rajsova padina, including cedar, pedunculate oak, Cypress oak and Siberian elm. Total forested area covers an area of 3.46 ha.

Smutekovac
In the mid-19th century, northern part of modern Senjak was a meadow, with only the Topčider road passing through. It was used as the training ground for the army and as the pasture for the sheep. The northern slope, above the left bank of the Mokroluški Creek was known as Zamastir. Czech émigré Heinrich Smutek, who owned a kafana, arranged a large estate (with a bricklayer), and a garden in the area. Zamastir then became known as Smutekovac, after the kafana's name. It became an excursion site for the Belgraders, which originally came by fiacres and later by the tram "Topčiderac", which connected the downtown with Topčider.

In the 1870s the area was parceled and Đorđe Vajfert purchased the land from the lawyer Pera Marković. As he was a German subject, he couldn't own properties in Serbia. Instead he paid the entire sum to Marković who issued him a receipt. Vajfert then started to build the brewery in 1872, predecessor of the modern BIP Brewery at the same location. As soon as he was granted Serbian citizenship, Vajfert received a deed on the land. He finished the brewery and turned the surrounding estate into an exquisite garden, which hosted many banquets and parties. In 1892, city authorities organized a banquet with Nikola Tesla as the guest of honor.

Stari Senjak
The neighborhood developed in the first decade after World War I, in the area outside of the jurisdiction of the city construction rules. It developed after 1919 south of Đurđevo Brdo, in the direction of the Sugar Refinery and Čukarica further to the south. In the mid-1930s it had some 50 houses and a population of 200, still being classified as the shanty town with small buildings and houses with yards.

Šest Topola
The bank of the Sava river at Gospodarska Mehana was the most popular Belgrade's beach during the Interbellum. The beach was known as the "Šest Topola" ("Six Poplars") and especially boomed after 1933 when other beaches were closed. Just like other smaller location, it was equipped with the swimming (bathing) pools with wooden floors. It had separate bathing pools for men, women and children. The first water polo matches in Belgrade were held at "Šest Topola" between World Wars. After World War II, the new Communist authorities considered such bathing places relicts of the old regime and wanted to make leisure more approachable for the lower classes, so in time they switched to forming proper beaches along the rivers instead of the bathing centers.

So, in time, the neighboring Ada Ciganlija became the top excursion site. The name of "Šest Topola" is preserved in the name of the restaurant on the Sava's bank within the complex of the Belgrade Fair. Designed by architect Milorad Pantović, it was opened on 23 August 1957. For a while after 1964, it was part of the Hospitality Educational Center.

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Peter Tomka

Peter Tomka (born 1 June 1956) is a Slovak judge of the International Court of Justice. Prior to his election to the ICJ in 2003, Tomka was a Slovak diplomat.

Early life and education
Tomka was born in Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia. He earned LLM and PhD degrees from Charles University in Prague in 1979 and 1985 respectively. In addition, he has also undertaken studies at the Faculty of International Law and International Relations in Kyiv, Ukraine, at the Institut du droit de la paix et du développement in Nice, France, at the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations in Thessaloniki, Greece, and The Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands.

Career
In 1986, Tomka joined Czechoslovakia's Foreign Ministry as an Assistant Legal Adviser, and in 1990 was promoted to Head of the Ministry's Public International Law Division. The following year, he was transferred to the country's United Nations Mission, where he served as Legal Adviser. Following the division of Czechoslovakia, he served as Slovakia's Deputy Permanent Representative from 1993 to 1994. From 1994 to 1997, he served as Slovakia's Ambassador to the United Nations. Returning to the Foreign Ministry, he served as Director of the International Law Department from 1997 to 1998, when he transferred to the post of Director-General for International Legal and Consular Affairs. After a year in that post, he was reappointed as Slovakia's UN Ambassador, serving until his appointment to the Court. He also held a seat on the International Law Commission between 1999 and 2002. He is member of the Slovak Society of International Law and has served as the organization's Honorary President since 2003. He is also a member of the American Society of International Law and the European Society of International Law.

Tomka was elected to the ICJ by the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council; his first term began on February 6, 2003.

In parallel to his ICJ Membership, Tomka served in 2005 as an Arbitrator of the Belgium/Netherlands Iron Rhine Tribunal, which was presided over by ICJ President Rosalyn Higgins and in 2007 Tomka has been Member of the ICSID ad hoc Committee in the case of Malaysian Historical Salvors v. Government of Malaysia, which also comprises ICJ s Stephen M. Schwebel (President) and Mohamed Shahabuddeen. In 2009, Tomka was also on the ad hoc Committee in the MCI Power Group v. Republic of Ecuador Annulment Decision.

The judges of the ICJ elected Tomka as their vice-president on 6 February 2009.

In 2011 Tomka was re-elected to a second nine-year term on the ICJ by the UN General Assembly and the Security Council;. In 2020 he was re-elected to a third nine-year term on the ICJ.

In February 2012 Tomka was elected President of the Court for a three-year term from 6 February 2012 until 2015.

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Endeavour River

The Endeavour River (Guugu Yimithirr: Wabalumbaal), inclusive of the Endeavour River Right Branch, the Endeavour River South Branch, and the Endeavour River North Branch, is a river system located on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia.

Course and features
The river system comprises three branches that are sourced by runoff from the Henderson and Audaer Ranges. The river flows generally east from the Great Dividing Range to the Coral Sea. The Right Branch of the river rises northwest of at an elevation of 335 m and flows generally south by east for 48 km before reaching its confluence to join with the Endeavour River northwest of, and west of the river mouth. The South Branch of the river rises near Alderbury at an elevation of 109 m and flows generally east for 20 km before forming confluence with the North Branch to form the Endeavour River. The North Branch of the river rises below Honeysuckle Flat at an elevation of 160 m and flows generally west and then south for 20 km before forming confluence with the South Branch to form the Endeavour River. Having been formed by the South and North Branches, the Endeavour River rises below Flaggy at an elevation of 39 m and flows generally east towards its mouth with the Coral Sea at Cooktown, flowing through the Endeavour River National Park for the last few kilometres of its course. The Endeavour River has a catchment area of 1315 km2.

In recent years, tilapia fish, which are considered an "invasive species" in Australia, have infested the river, causing concern that the stocks of native fish will suffer.

The river basin remains largely unmodified and the water quality is rated as good.

History

James Cook named the river in 1770 after he was forced to beach his ship, HMS Endeavour, for repairs in the river mouth, after damaging it on Endeavour Reef. Joseph Banks named the river the Endeavours River but the form Cook used, Endeavour River, has stuck.

Cook and his crew remained for almost seven weeks and made contact with the local Guugu Yimithirr people. The naturalists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander made extensive collections of native flora, while Sydney Parkinson illustrated much of the flora and fauna of the region. Botanical specimens were also collected by Allan Cunningham after he arrived on HMS Mermaid (1817), captained by Philip Parker King on 28 June 1819.

Modern Cooktown which has a population of about 2,000, is located at the mouth of the Endeavour River. It is one of the northernmost towns on the east coast of Australia and was founded in 1873, around the site of Cook's landing, as a port to service the newly discovered Palmer River goldfields. Some of the relatively undisturbed natural features near the mouth of the river have been reserved in the Endeavour River National Park.

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