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Echidna
Hi David, could you have a look at the Echidna page and my comment on the discussion page about the distribution claim. All best :)211.30.95.182 04:02, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Algaculture
Hi... you put this on the clean up page, and I was wondering if you'd be willing to take cracks at it with me. I started to prosify and refize this monster, and just now once I had some actual content built up moved all the inbody link farms (nearly all look like GOOD resources) to the talk page for storage and use. I left the massive external links section for now--this article looks to be overflowing with good RS stuff. Any help would be appreciated. · XP  · 15:32, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

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i'm not bored
So i'm not putting an edit in here. I'm frequently individually pathosed by cedillas.
 * thus i here buy !declare:
 * what WP:sandbox is not
 * Sandbox Manifesto 0.1
 * WP:user:David woodward:notDavid woodward'sockpuppet

 * rool 0)outside, in Wikipedia: every edit you make, when you are adding text, you must make at least one typo or smellling mistake to feed the editors.
 * rool 1)play in the sandbox
 * rool 2)rip off that guy who wrote that book about kindergardens & stuff
 * rool 3)if you mark your line breaks by a single return, you can write pottery in the source which DOES NOT EXIST in the article.
 * rool 4)dont shit in the sandbox, and dont let your Farnarkling cat shit in the sandbox.

It might sound like fun, everybody screams because you did something, soooo disgusting -- and thats grate -- but then all of a Soudan, youse are all laughing sooooo hard, Somebody FORGETS where exactly it was the shit you did or you let your fucking cat do* is, and Somebody steps in it, or puts Their Hand in it or WORSE. ill leave it up to your imagination . no Shit In The Sandbox.^

they give you toxoplasmosids or summat, make a mouse into a super-fucking-hero this stuff does - - mouse has no fear, then blam . cat doesn't care that mouse has courage of three large Admins + a Cabalist + two jimbos + probably Larry Wall's second cousin once removed#. Cat proposes the dialectical points of several teeth AND but not OR claws . Toxo gets into cat where it needs to be to reproduce -- cat shits in the sandbox and we get back to the laughing so hard bit. Such is life. I'll see you where I am going.
 * no, i'm serious here,

^this also works preety well outside the sandbox, in Wikipedia, butt im completely WP:NPOV aboot what you do in RT. you only get to count the cousin once, though ? right ? because, because he IS a second cousin, but only once removed.
 * 1) when you're adding up the courage points,

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My apologies to the kind Wikipedians
Any Editors, Admins, Wikipedians and visitors to the Wikipedia namespace. I would like to apologise for my errant behaviour over the last few days. I must say i do recommend the therapeutic benefits of playing in the Wikipedia:sandboxes; but please learn from my mistakes and don't take your enthusiasm too far in the sandbox, and remember, your Wikimanners when you go back to the editing. David Woodward (talk) 15:09, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

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Comments, Criticism suggestion and POV Dispute resolution Criticism Adding POV tag again, Removing POV tag again Citations Adding POV tag again, Copyvio Future Copyright Clarification Dispute Resolution Requested Mediation Advertisement Tag Draft Rewrite Back to basics Talk Page Archived declerations of affiliations, Request for comment, Advertisement new comment on mediation page Pepper Article ~n~o~t~ a sig by wp:user:David Woodward:notDavid woodward'sockpuppet

disclosure - not a sockpuppet, by sly Wikibinical logic
i have just created wp:user:Ockpuppet, this is not a sockpuppet because i claim WP:BB and promise to only use Ockpuppet in the pursuit of the Sandbox Manifest 0.1 as at 2007-11-20:01:25 AEST

Waterbowl offerings, Maitreya Project
This waterbowl offering has been made in December of 2007, personally by me and several other FPMT members. DO NOT WORRY. Information may be available at the Root Institute main website. Although I clearly understand Wikipedia policies ("'I heard if from somewhere' is not acceptable" - Jimbo Wales), do not worry. Information is accurate. Guaranteed. 100%. (smiles) Prowikipedians (talk) 08:32, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello. Sorry for not replying recently, as I have been fairly busy recently. The waterbowl offerings were made during December 2007, at the original site, which is in Bodhgaya. I will try to make the appropriate source available, but please do not consider it vandalism. I fully understand Wikipedia's policies, however, I really wish to make it known, since FPMT may not post everytime. =) But definitely, I WILL try to find a reference. Prowikipedians (talk) 08:00, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Rothbury Pics
Thanks David for contributing those memorial photos for the Rothbury Riot article which I started 2 years ago and for adding some wikilinks. Afraid I just don't leave Melbourne enough to chase up some of the sites I write about and take photos myself. --Takver (talk) 09:23, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

NSW articles
David, would you be willing to work with me on any New South Wales articles? I'm trying to find editors to collaborate with on things at the moment! Ta --Litherlandsand (talk) 14:24, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Recent edits on Uttar Pradesh
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Wood Pellets: USA
There has been a lot of work done recently in my area of Maine to bring bulk pellet delivery, and wood pellet heating to the public. Maine is one of the poorest states in country (old population very little industry) however there are many trees. ~80% of the state heats with heating oil and too many people have to make hard decisions when winter is particularly cold or long. Numerous state bureaucracies, tasks forces, non-profits, and a couple of educational institutions and private businesses have been involved in trying to build the regulatory and commercial environment that would allow Mainers to heat with a local and renewable fuel. For sometime Maine Energy Systems the primary business involved with this movement was mentioned on the wood pellet page. I appreciate that WP is an encyclopedia of sorts and not a marketing tool, however I believe it is worthwhile to have more in the US section of the wood pellets page than ...some companies import European boilers.

Could you help me to understand what would be appropriate in this section that is more informative to people interested in wood pellet heat? I am completely new to Wikipedia and really would like to make sure I practice proper etiquette. In case you haven't guessed the idea that my neighbors know they can heat with a fuel that they can afford, creates jobs, keeps money in the region, and is renewable matters to me. And I think that it is notable information, I just would like to know what I need to make sure I say (and keep out) when I try and make sure it is included on Wikipedia.

Sorry for the long talk, this probably isn't even the correct forum to discuss this, sorry for that as well. I have and will continue for answers for myself, but any response you can give me will surely prove helpful. Thanks Nineteen85EAGLE (talk) 18:22, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Hey Nineteen85EAGLE, your account seems to be closed down, so i will reply here. The reason i was editing that page is that i am in favour of wood pellets, but if the arguments come across as marketing, or trying to push a point; they are likely to put people off. Please read about Wikipedia policy: Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view is a good place to start re this issue.

 * Rather than just list companies, do some research on the companies, what are they doing, how big are they, were do they sell, etc, and then put this sort of information in but without highlighting the company names - use good sources, company pages are usually good for that, and people can follow the links to get the marketing information - it just doesn't belong on WP. David Woodward ☮ ♡♢☞☽ 05:36, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Hello David, I have been working on putting together a Maine Energy Systems page and believe that I have put together a fairly good Wikipedia page. If you have a moment could you take a look at it and give some feedback it is User:Nineteen85EAGLE/Maine Energy Systems. As I mentioned before I am trying very hard to explain the notable work being done in my area in a way which is appropriate for wp. This is my first page, and I want to make sure that it is a sensible use of wp before I hunt down the rest of the references and realize I can't put it up for WP:SOAP reasons. Thanks very much for your helpful advice earlier, I believe I have followed it well. Nineteen85EAGLE (talk) 18:10, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

More Joyous
More Joyous inquiry is bigger that just Tom Waterhouse or the horse. So expecting that it would become a significant item like Fine Cotton. Alternatively, do you think it would be better to have a heading called Controversial events. for me the More Joyous inquiry stands alone and is better outside of betting or media heading.Reflexio (talk) 04:08, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

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Coalbed methane confusion
I note that you added a section on a water pollution site in Pennsylvania to the Coalbed methane article. However, your text says that the pollution was due to shale gas extraction, which is a subject very different from coalbed methane. Could you clear up the contradiction? If it was indeed due to shale gas, then it properly belongs in either Shale gas in the United States, or better yet, in the Marcellus natural gas trend article. Thanks. Plazak (talk) 13:06, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * thanks Plazak, i have removed from CBM article and moved to shale gas. David Woodward ☮ ♡♢☞☽ 13:44, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for moving it. Looking at the (properly referenced) quote you added, I'm afraid that Prof. Vengosh is woefully confused about the various US environmental laws.  When I have time, I'll have to quote US EPA sources that contradict him.  But yours is a good addition.  Plazak (talk) 14:11, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * Hey Prokaryotes, my apologies for incorrect tag, i have replaced it. Please see article talk page.David Woodward ☮ ♡♢☞☽ 01:42, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Haukim

Haukim is a pre-Islamic deity who was originally worshipped in Qataban, in what is now South Arabia. He was concerned with arbitration and the law. He is often mentioned together with Anbay, another god of justice.

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Locomotives built by the Caledonian Railway.

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Gutenberg (disambiguation)

Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1400–1468) was a German printer who invented effective mechanical printing.

Gutenberg may also refer to:

People

 * Gutenberg (surname)

Places

 * Gutenberg (crater), a crater on the Moon
 * Gutenberg, Germany, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
 * Gutenberg an der Raabklamm, a municipality in Styria, Austria
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 * Project Gutenberg, a volunteer effort to digitize, archive, and distribute cultural works

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 * Gutenberg, a 1993 children's book by author and illustrator Leonard Everett Fisher
 * Gutenberg Bible, printed by Johannes Gutenberg circa 1455
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Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery

Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery is an American military cemetery located in St. Louis County, Missouri, just on the banks of the Mississippi River. The cemetery was established after the American Civil War in an attempt to put together a formal network of military cemeteries. It started as the Jefferson Barracks Military Post Cemetery in 1826 and became a United States National Cemetery in 1866.

The first known burial was Elizabeth Ann Lash, the infant child of an officer stationed at Jefferson Barracks.

The cemetery is administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs on the former site of Jefferson Barracks. It covers 331 acre and the number of interments as of 2021 is approximately 237,000. The cemetery is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Medal of Honor recipients

 * Major Ralph Cheli (1919–1944), for heroism while leading a bombing mission in World War II
 * George Hobday (1839–1891), for action at the Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890
 * Lorenzo D. Immell (1837–1912), for action at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, 1890
 * Donald D. Pucket (1915–1944), pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces, for action in World War II
 * David Ryan (1836–1896), for action during the Indian Wars in 1877
 * Martin Schubert (1838–1912), for action during the American Civil War in 1862
 * Alonzo Stokes (1837–1876), for action at the Battle of the Little Wichita River, 1870
 * Bruce Avery Van Voorhis (1908–1943), US Navy pilot, for action in the Pacific

Other notable individuals

 * Michael Blassie (1948–1972), previously interred as the "Vietnam unknown soldier" at the Tomb of the Unknowns from 1984 to 1998, re-interred here in 1998 after DNA testing positively identified his remains
 * Jack Buck (1924–2002), former St. Louis Cardinals baseball announcer
 * Dennis Edwards (1943-2018), former lead singer with The Temptations
 * Franklin Gritts (1915–1996), Cherokee artist and art director of the Sporting News
 * Johnnie Johnson (1924–2005), pioneering rock musician
 * Walter Mayberry (1915–1944), college football player who died in a Japanese POW camp
 * Robert McFerrin Sr. (1921–2006), opera singer
 * Hughie Miller (1886–1945), baseball player who earned the Distinguished Service Cross and Purple Heart in World War I
 * Henry Townsend (1909–2006), musician
 * Three veterans of the American Revolution buried in the Old Post Section:
 * Private Richard Gentry (1763–1843), veteran of the Revolutionary and the Indian Wars. He was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. His son Colonel Richard Gentry (1788–1837), a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Indian Wars, is also buried nearby.
 * Major Russell Bissell (1756–1807), veteran of the Revolutionary and the Indian Wars.
 * Colonel Thomas Hunt (1754–1808), a "Minuteman" at the Battle of Concord, April 1775. During the revolution he was wounded at the Battle of Stony Point and Siege of Yorktown. He was also a veteran of the Indian Wars and commanded the 1st Infantry Regiment.
 * Other burials of note
 * Mass grave of sixty-one merchant marines and sailors who died in the fire aboard the SS J. Pinckney Henderson on August 19, 1943.
 * Mass grave for 123 of the 139 victims of the Palawan Massacre
 * Remains of 5 crewmen from B-36 Bomber 075 lost on the coast of British Columbia, Canada while conducting a training mission on February 13, 1950Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery - buck.JPG

Memorial to the Confederate Dead
A monument entitled Memorial to the Confederate Dead was placed in Jefferson Barracks on May 1, 1988 It is located in section 66 of the cemetery. Not to be confused with the removed Memorial to the Confederate Dead (St. Louis). It was placed by the Jefferson Barracks Civil War Historical Association, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the Missouri Society Military Order of the Stars and Bars. The front of the monument features three Confederate flags: the first national flag (seven-star variant of the "Stars and Bars"), the Confederate Battle Flag, and the last national flag ("Blood-Stained Banner").

Under the flags is a quote by Berry Benson: "To the Confederate Dead 1861–1865

Who knows but it may be given to us, after this life, to meet again in the old quarters, to play chess and draughts, to get up soon to answer the morning roll call, to fall in at the tap of the drum for drill and dress parade and again to hastily don out war gear while the monotonous patter of the long roll summons to battle? Who knows but again the old flags, ragged and torn, snapping in the wind, may face each other and flutter, pursuing and pursued, while the cries of victory fill a summer day? And after the battle, then the slain and wounded will arise, and all will meet together under the two flags, all sound and well, and there will be talking and laughter and cheers, and all will say: Did it not seem real? Was it not as in the old days?”"

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Anbay

Anbay (Qatabanian:, romanized: , ʾAnbāy) is a pre-Islamic deity who was originally worshipped in Qataban, in what is now Yemen. He was regarded as a deity of justice and an oracle, in attendance to the moon deity Amm. Anbay's name was invoked in a range of legal matters, from filing paperwork for the legal title of a building to the royal regulation of water supplies. He is often mentioned together with Haukim, another god of justice.

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T. Tertius Noble

Thomas Tertius Noble (May 5, 1867 – May 4, 1953) was an English-born organist and composer, who lived in the United States for the latter part of his career.

He served as organist and choirmaster at a number of churches including Ely Cathedral and York Minster in England and St Thomas Episcopal Church in New York City. He is chiefly remembered for his music for the Anglican church.

Early life and education
Noble was born on 5 May 1867 in Bath, England, to Thomas Noble (a silversmith) and Sarah Jefferson. The name 'Tertius' derives from Noble being the third Thomas in his family.

In his youth, Noble was introduced to the pipe organ by James Pyne, organist at Bath Abbey, and from 1880 he was tutored in the organ at Gloucester Cathedral. Frederick Ouseley declined to accept Noble as a student at his music school, citing that "the market was over-stocked." He sent his first composition, Theme and Variations, to Rheinberger and Best; their feedback was mixed.

At the age of 15 he was appointed organist at All Saints' Church, Colchester, where he was also educated by the rector. He won a scholarship to attend the Royal College of Music, where he was tutored by Walter Parratt, Charles Villiers Stanford and Frederick Bridge, and made other close connections with George Grove and John Stainer.

Career
After graduating from the Royal College of Music in 1889, Noble was appointed a member of staff there, teaching the organ. He also took the position of organist at the Church of St John the Evangelist, Wilton Road, in London.

In 1890, Stanford recommended him to fill the vacancy as his assistant organist at Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge. Noble was dissatisfied with the quality of singing and Stanford's bad temper, leaving Trinity in 1892 to serve as organist and choirmaster at Ely Cathedral.

From 1898 to 1913 Noble served as organist at York Minster. While there, he established the York Symphony Orchestra and composed pieces for them. He was also conductor of the York Musical Society and in 1910 revived the York Festival.

In January 1913 Noble moved to America after accepting the post of organist and choirmaster of St Thomas Episcopal Church in New York City, traversing on the Carmania. He was responsible for establishing a choral tradition at St Thomas's along Anglican cathedral lines. He also oversaw the installation of a new organ at the church and founded the Saint Thomas Choir School for boys in 1919. This was Noble's final position, which he held for 35 years.

In 1932 Noble became the first person outside the British Isles to be awarded the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Music by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was an examiner and member of the national council of the American Guild of Organists and also served as president of the National Association of Organists. He was a member of the Hymn Society of America, and served as its president for multiple terms.

Noble composed orchestral and chamber music, including an orchestral Introduction and Passacaglia performed at The Proms on 17 August 1945, where it was conducted by a former pupil, Basil Cameron. But he is now remembered for his music for the Anglican church, particularly his Evening services in A major, B minor and A minor, and his anthems Go to dark Gethsemane, Souls of the Righteous, and Grieve not the Holy Spirit. His tunes were used for seven hymns in The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 1940. His tune Ora labora for the hymn Come, labour on is well known in the United States, as is his edition of Handel's Messiah, published by G. Schirmer in 1912. For Lowell Mason's sesquicentennial celebrations, he wrote an organ prelude based on Mason's Watchman.

Personal life
In 1897 Noble married Meriel Maude Stubbs (daughter of Charles Stubbs, Dean of Ely), with whom he had a son, Philip Raymond Noble (1903–1979). His nephew was the English jazz composer and actor Ray Noble (1903–1978).

Death
Noble died on 4 May 1953, the day before his 86th birthday, in Rockport, Massachusetts, and he was buried at Beech Grove Cemetery there. The hymn tune "Rockport" composed by Noble was named after the city of his death.

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Baltis

Baltis was an ancient Arabian goddess. She was revered at Carrhae and identified with the planet Venus.

Isaac of Antioch mentions Baltis in a text written in the middle of the 5th century CE as a deity worshipped by the Arabs. Baltis here is equivalent to Ishtar (Inanna), an ancient Mesopotamian goddess.

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Kohlschütter (crater)

Kohlschütter is a lunar impact crater that cannot be viewed directly from the Earth as it lies on the Moon's far side. It is located a couple of hundred kilometers to the southeast of the Mare Moscoviense, and due south of the smaller crater Nagaoka. It is a relatively isolated formation surrounded by a multitude of smaller impacts typical of the battered far side.

The outer rim of Kohlschütter is worn and eroded, with a small crater across the northwest side, and smaller impacts along the west and northeastern edge. The southern rim is more shallow than elsewhere. The interior floor is relatively level, and unlike most far-side craters, it is filled with mare material. Despite its small size, the mare has a short sinuous rille west of the central peak and a wrinkle ridge east of it.

Kohlschütter is a crater of Nectarian age.

Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Kohlschütter.

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Talk:NWScript

Program
I was thinking that perhaps this program should be added to the links: Lilac Soul's Script Generator. However, since I am myself the creator of it, I don't want to risk being accused of self-promotion by adding it myself. What do others think? Lilac Soul 13:23, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Given its popularity in relevant circles, it certainly deserves a mention, so I've put it in. Feel free to edit the link description to something more suitable, if you think the present one does not adequately describe what your program does. -- int19h 17:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Scripting Language Infobox
Could people please help to fill this in so we can migrate it to the script page.

Enigmatical 23:06, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello World Example
The exampe given currently as the "simplest" hello world script is actually a bit misleading and not the simplest way. A much simpler way both descriptively and codewise would be as follows:

void main

{

object oPlayer = GetEnteringObject;

SendMessageToPC(oPlayer, "hello world");

}

This will display the text directly in the targetted players message\action log (In this case the player entering the trigger or area the script was attached to), which is as close as NWN comes to printing a message onto the screen itself.

The existing example is not only longer but it is entering the text as part of the players action queue, which would potentially interuppt the player's behaviour, be cancelled by the player or cause other issues, thus if the scripter wanted to display a message to the player this would be the least desirable method.

Other methods could include:

SpeakString           - Much as per existing example but it overrides the action queue preventing mistakes

FloatingTextOnCreature - Causes larger letters to float about the target creatures head for a few seconds.

--86.152.0.199 (talk) 14:18, 11 June 2008 (UTC) Ryuujin

 * You're right, I'll go edit it straight away. - Lilac Soul (talk • contribs • count) 16:23, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Some suggestions
(sorry for my bad english)

Datatypes: There are booleans - you just need to create an int and assign him TRUE or FALSE.

NWScript is also used in: The witcher bases on the neverwinter nights 1 engine, therefore the nwscript language is used in the witcher too! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.74.183.94 (talk) 10:20, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Booleans are not a datatype in NWScript. TRUE and FALSE are int constants. NWScript implicitly converts ints to booleans, with > 0 == TRUE and <= 0 == FALSE. The part of the page that says booleans are datatypes should be removed. 68.94.212.87 (talk) 05:47, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:Edward Smith (sea captain)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 July 2019
Can the infobox be corrected? It shows his age upon death incorrectly. He was born in January 1850 and died in April 1912, thus he was 62 when he he died, not 61. Vengeance11 (talk) 18:30, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done The month was incorrect in the template info, it had 10 (October) instead of the correct 01 (January). Thanks for catching the mistake. Shearonink (talk) 18:48, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Needs more balance.
Good God, this article reads like a hagiography written by Smith's great-grandchildren. Why is there only one weak paragraph that grudgingly admits he might be allotted a smidgeon of blame? And what's with all the crap that speculates he personally swam from lifeboat to lifeboat to cheer the survivors on, before tossing his lifebelt away to meet his fate like a Hollywood hero? Wikipedia, we can do better. I call for an expert on the subject to present a more balanced view, and tone down the blatant hero worship. 73.36.62.119 (talk) 13:38, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Can you provide any proof he was to blame other than Hollywood myths? BritishEmpireAppreciator (talk) 16:55, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Request for Edward Smith article's protection level be lifted.
I want to add reliable first hand information to a protected page; the "Edward Smith (sea captain)" article. I suggest that the page's semi-protected indefinite be lifted, so that I can be able to add the information. The page talks about the account by Robert William Daniels of seeing Smith in the bridge and dying there, while it goes against all the more reliable evidence from other survivors - including the enquiry testimony of the second radio officer Harold Bride, not one of the thousands of far-fetched newspaper accounts given by passengers like Daniels - that Smith may instead have jumped into the sea just before the bridge was submerged, and possibly even nearly reached collapsible B (notice: I say possibly, and indeed Smith's fate will remain uncertain): it is not even certain that Daniels was really still aboard when the ship sank, and IF he was, he was in the extreme stern (newspaper account by the fireman Thomas Patrick Dillon, which is also the only source that placed Daniels aboard - many Titanic historians are instead convinced that he was already in a lifeboat by this time, and there is no way he could have reached the extreme stern if he was near the bridge when it began to flood, because from that moment to the moment the Titanic sank only five minutes or so passed, and there is no way he could have walked up the slanting deck for al the length of the ship. Moreover, all the survivor accounts (see enquiry testimonies) are unanimous in saying that the fore end of the boat deck, where the bridge was, was submerged in a very quick and violent manner, like a "tidal wave" had struck it: it had not flooded slowly like Daniels said. Excuse me for being so commanding but this second hand account has been repeated for nearly several years and is not a reliable account.217.137.43.54 (talk) 07:27, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
 * There is a whole section devoted to Smith's death' It begins "There are conflicting accounts of Smith's death." and goes on to list half a dozen various accounts. it is not up to Wikipedia to pick and chose which account we like best. IdreamofJeanie (talk) 07:34, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Commodore
Smith never held the title of White Star's commodore. That title was vacant from 1887 to 1922. https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/community/threads/wsl-commodores.53275/ Mab819c (talk) 02:06, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 August 2023
Please remove flags per MOS:INFOBOXFLAG for military personnel. 181.65.139.227 (talk) 23:05, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ – Thank you! FatalFit | ✉ | ✓ 23:16, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 May 2024
"it sank on her maiden voyage" → "she sank on her maiden voyage". It is confusing to use two different pronouns for the same thing in the same sentence. 31.94.30.64 (talk) 09:04, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ Charliehdb (talk) 13:16, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

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Portal:Aviation/Anniversaries/June 1

June 1

 * 2011 – Introduction: 747-8 (747-8I) with Lufthansa

 * 2009 – Swedish airline Air Express Sweden is taken over by MCA Airlines

 * 2009 – Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330-200 flying from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, France, crashes in the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 occupants, including 12 crew; bodies and aircraft debris are not recovered until several days later; the aircraft itself is not found until 2011. The crash is the first fatal accident of the A330 and the worst-ever disaster involving the A330.

 * 2008 –A U.S. helicopter crashes south of Baghdad, injuring two soldiers. The type of helicopter has not been revealed.

 * 2007 – A Tanzania People’s Defence Forces passenger plane (reg JW9036) developed dual engine failure as the pilot manoeuvred to land at Dodoma airport, the pilot, Lieutenant Colonel S. M. Mayenga, said, and crash landed in the Kizota area of Dodoma. All thirteen people aboard survived.

 * 2004 – America West Airlines starts service between Phoenix and Anchorage.

 * 1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, skids off the runway on landing at Little Rock, Arkansas during strong winds; eleven of 145 on board die.

 * 1998 – MetroJet, operated by US Airways, began operations.

 * 1992 – The United States Air Force‘s Strategic Air Command is disestablished.

 * 1983 – Singapore Airlines announces it has bought six Boeing 747s and four Boeing 757s, making it the first Asian airline to buy the 757.

 * 1981 – First flight of the Short 360

 * 1976 – Aeroflot Flight 418, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain side on the island of Bioko in Equatorial Guinea; all 45 on board die.

 * 1975 – A Kenyan Air Force Hawker Hunter crashes at Nairobi, Kenya, during celebrations marking the anniversary of self-rule in the former British colony, the airframe impacting only a few hundred yards from where President Jomo Kenyatta is addressing a public rally. The two crew of the fighter are killed instantly, with the jet narrowly missing a crowded bus as it skids across a four-lane highway. Passengers panic as the bus brakes to a halt and fills with smoke from the burning wreckage. A second Hunter jet makes an emergency landing at Nairobi International Airport, where, according to one witness, it narrowly misses a loaded Pan American jet "by a matter of feet." The airport closes briefly after the incident.

 * 1964 – The Kenyan Air Force is established

 * 1961 – United Air Lines absorbs Capital Airlines to become the largest airline in the West, with a fleet of 267 aircraft.

 * 1960 – Trans-Canada Air Lines begins transatlantic services, flying between Montreal and London

 * 1953 – No. 423 Squadron was reformed at St. Hubert, Quebec and equipped with Avro Canada CF-100 fighters.

 * 1953 – The United States Air Force Thunderbirds are activated as the 3600th Air Demonstration Team at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona on 25 May 1953, flying Republic F-84 Thunderjets.

 * 1951 – British European Airways commences helicopter services between London and Birmingham

 * 1950 – British European Airways commences the first regular passenger service to be flown by helicopter, between Liverpool and Cardiff.

 * 1949 – A survey conducted by a firm of New York aviation consultants shows that for the first time in history air travel volume are greater than first class rail travel. Revenue passengers-miles for domestic airlines totals 603 million compared to 582 million for Pullman trains.

 * 1948 – British European Airways commences the first helicopter airmail service in the UK

 * 1948 – Entered Service: Convair CV-240 Convairliner with American Airlines

 * 1948 – British European Airways (British European Airways) commences the first helicopter air mail service in the United Kingdom.

 * 1948 – First flight of Cessna 170. The Cessna 170 is a general aviation aircraft produced by the Cessna Aircraft Company between 1948 and 1956. Over 5,000 were built, and over 2,000 are still accounted for today. The Cessna 170 landing gear is a taildragger configuration. It was replaced by the Cessna 172 which became the most popular light plane in history.

 * 1944 – North West Air Command was formed at Edmonton under the command of A/V/M T. A. Lawrence.

 * 1943 – Allied aircraft begin a final period of heavy bombing of Pantelleria during the ten days prior to the scheduled invasion of the island, during which they will fly 3,647 sorties.

 * 1943 – In response to the Nazi dictatorship, the RCAF Second Tactical Air Force (2nd T. A. F.) was formed.

 * 1943 – BOAC Flight 777, a Douglas DC-3, is shot down by Luftwaffe fighter aircraft over the Bay of Biscay, killing 17 passengers and crew, including actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that the flight was attacked because German intelligence believed that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was aboard.

 * 1942 – Because of the similarity of the red disc in the center of the national insignia for U. S. military aircraft USAAC to Japanese markings, the United States adopts a new national insignia without the red disc, consisting simply of a white star centered in a blue circle USAAC roundel.The new marking will remain in use until July 1943.

 * 1942 – (Overnight) – Royal Air Force Bomber Command mounts what is nominally its second “thousand-bomber raid” – 956 bombers actually participate – Targeting Essen, Germany. Industrial haze spoils the attack; the British bombers kill only 15 people in Essen and destroy only 11 homes there, while widely scattered bombs strike Oberhausen, Duisburg, and at least eleven other cities and towns, which suffer more damage than Essen itself.

 * 1941 – Germany completes the conquest of Crete. German airborne forces have suffered such heavy losses – probably 6,000 to 7,000 casualties and 284 aircraft lost – In the eleven days of fighting that Germany never again attempts a large airborne operation.

 * 1941 – German Junkers Ju 88 bombers sink the British light cruiser HMS Calcutta 100 nautical miles (185 km) north of Alexandria, Egypt, as she retires after evacuating troops from Crete.

 * 1940 – U. S. Army Air Corps announces plans for the construction of the world’s most powerful wind tunnel at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.

 * 1939 – First flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190

 * 1939 – The Douglas DC-4 makes its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York.

 * 1927 – Western Canada Airways inaugurated weekly air service from Winnipeg to Long Lake, Manitoba via Lac du Bonnet.

 * 1925 – A car dealer covers himself in stamps worth $718 in a bid to be sent airmail from San Francisco to New York; the U. S. Post Office refuses to accept him.

 * 1919 – A permanent flight of aircraft is stationed in San Diego to serve as a forest fire patrol. The machines are war-surplus Curtiss JN-4s.

 * 1915 – The United States Department of the Navy awards its first contract for an airship – The DN-1-Class Blimp – To the Connecticut Aircraft Company.

 * 1915 – Germany conducts the first zeppelin air raid over England.

 * 1912 – The first military aeroplane flight in Norway is made by Lt Hans Dons in HNoMS Start an Etrich Taube(pictured).

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Talk:Tony Bennett

Inconsistency in First Section
Article correctly notes that Bennett had his first number one hit in 1951 with 'Because of You'. However further down in the same section it incorrectly states that his first top ten billboard hit was 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco' in 1962. He's actually had several top ten hits by 1962. 24.237.26.221 (talk) 18:02, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Because one is a single and one is an album. Not sure I see the discrepancy. --CNMall41 (talk) 03:48, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Photo of Bennett
I would like to recommend the current image of Bennett used in the infobox be replaced with the one below; the current photo is not the clearest and a little amateur looking for an identifying photo. The one below shows Bennett much better. BakedintheHole (talk) 16:29, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Tony Bennett’s support for Civil Rights
You might want to mention that Mr. Bennett took part in the third Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery AL on March 22, 1965 with Martin Luther King. He was invited by Harry Belafonte.

(An aspect of his character. Dining with his high school friend, etc)

From his Washington Post Obituary:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/07/21/tony-bennett-world-war-2-mlk-selma/ 2601:143:C701:14A0:90B:1597:4A8C:9D0D (talk) 17:13, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Dafamitory Remarks describing Mr. Bennett
Someone has added a horrific lead-in to this article which reads, "American Traitor Leftist SCUM. A Democrat Rapist." I found this on 21 July 2023. Please remove this horrid language! Dominy7 (talk) 23:35, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

 * It has been reverted. I will ask for a deletion of the edit. Thank you. Knitsey (talk) 23:38, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Question?
I have a question how you people edit a page so fast he just died today on the 21st it's the 22nd for some people in different time zones. edit: Where do you Wikipedians get the most up to date information? TheMaggster (talk) 03:07, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

 * I use Google news but I don't obsessively scan it. When I do, I obsessively scan Wikipedia to see if a notable-looking tidbit has made it into the 'pedia. I've gotten lucky a couple of times. Xan747 (talk) 03:24, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info. ￼ TheMaggster (talk) 05:21, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Elena Zagorskaya is hoax
Articles for deletion/Elena Zagorskaya. Хоббит (talk) 14:45, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
 * vs vs  vs . Хоббит (talk) 14:49, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

On his WWII service
Although the cited source may claim it, his unit, 63rd Division, was not involved in the actual Battle of the Bulge: the German offensive in the Ardennes. Parts of it were involved in the related but distinct Operation Nordwind (German offensive in Alsace.)

Not sure how to proceed if the source (falsely) claims that, since its still sourced regardless. Michaelson15 (talk) 17:17, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

 * The article doesn't say he fought in the Battle of the Bulge. It says he was in a unit that filled in for losses in that battle. And it quotes Bennett saying he was in that battle. The 63d seems to have been scattered all over Europe in January 1945, and the 255th Regiment was involved in the Rhineland Campaign, of which I believe the Battle of the Bulge was a part.
 * In particular, our article on the 63rd Infantry Division (United States) says that the 255th was attached to the 100th Infantry Division (United States), and that the 100th was south of Bitche at the time of the battle. Which is certainly close enough that they could have been involved in the fighting.
 * It seems unlikely Bennett would lie about this, especially since his remarks were part of an apology for something else he said. He could have been misquoted, or he could have been confused (he did suffer from Alzheimers but that was much later). Do you have a source that says none of the units of the 63d were involved in the battle? GA-RT-22 (talk) 19:22, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

Locking
Someone should lock this page due to people constantly changing the picture to Kermit the frog and setting the birthplace to North Korea. GamerKlim9716 (talk) 11:15, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Why does his death appear "in the news" on homepage when Olivia Newton John didn't?
Olivia Newton John's death last year didn't appear on the main page of Wikipedia in the "in the news" section. So why does Tony Bennett get to be "in the news" ? MisterZed (talk) 12:12, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
 * You will find the discussion at In the news/Candidates/August 2022. Apparently the article was not in good enough shape at the time of her death, and it took too long to get it ready. GA-RT-22 (talk) 13:43, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

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Portal:Aviation/Anniversaries/June 2

June 2

 * 2012 – Allied Air Flight 111, a Boeing 727 cargo plane, overruns the runway on landing at Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana, and strikes a crowded minibus and a bicyclist on a nearby road. All four people on the plane survive, but the bicyclist and all 11 people on the minibus die.

 * 2011 – NATO air attacks in Libya destroy ammunition and vehicle depots, a surface-to-air missile launcher, and a radar installation in Tripoli.

 * 2009 – Deceased: British Air Vice-Marshal John Ernsting, 81.

 * 2009 – 8Q-MAG, a DHC-6 Twin Otter operated by Maldavian Air Taxi is destroyed when it crashes into the sea at the Haliveli Atoll, Maldives. All seven people on board survive.

 * 2009 – A Royal Jordanian Air Force Slingsby T-67 Firefly while on a routine training flight being flown by a cadet pilot and instructor, crashes near the Al-Hassan Industrial Estate, Irbid, Jordan. The pilot, due to a technical fault, was unable to recover from a spin leaving 1 crew dead and 1 injured.

 * 2008 – Aeroméxico Travel, operated by Aeromexico, commenced operations.

 * 2002 – n Angolan Armed Forces Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in poor weather killing 20 of the 25 on board. Among those on board were top military officials that were going to attend a disarmament ceremony by UNITA rebels.

 * 1998 – Launch: Space Shuttle Discovery STS-91 at 18:06:24 EDT. Mission highlights: Last Shuttle-Mir docking.

 * 1995 – A U. S. Air Force F-16 C was shot down by a Bosnian Serb surface-to-air missile while on a NATO air patrol in northern Bosnia; the pilot, Capt. Scott F. O’Grady, was rescued six days later.

 * 1994 – 1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash: A Royal Air Force Boeing Chinook HC.2 helicopter, ZD576, 'G', of Odiham Wing, crashes near Campbeltown, Scotland, killing 29 crew and passengers, including several top officials of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

 * 1986 – The greatest distance achieved by a hang-glider is made by American Randy Haney who flies an unpowered hang-glider 199.75 miles (321.47 km) from his takeoff point.

 * 1984 – Flight readiness firing of Discovery’s main engines.

 * 1983 – Air Canada Flight 797, a McDonnell-Douglas DC-9, catches fire during flight over Kentucky; 23 of 46 passengers die from smoke inhalation even after the crew successfully lands the aircraft in Cincinnati, Ohio.

 * 1982 – A Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan B.2 XM597 on Operation Black Buck during the Falklands War is forced to divert to Brazil after breaking a refuelling-probe. The aircraft was interned at the Brazilian air force base, Aérea de Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro and was allowed to leave nine days later due to the arrival of Pope John Paul II on a pastoral visit to Brazil.

 * 1972 – First flight of the Aérospatiale SA 360 Dauphin

 * 1965 – First flight of the Aerotec Uirapuru

 * 1958 – First flight of the Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III, the “Super Crusader”

 * 1957 – Cpt Joseph Kittinger sets a new balloon altitude record of 96,000 ft (29,261 m)

 * 1954 – Yugoslavian Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s attack a Belgian Douglas DC-3, which lands in Austria

 * 1948 – Entered Service: Convair B-36 Peacemaker with the United States Air Force’s 7th Bombardment Wing (Heavy)

 * 1945 – (2-3) Carrier aircraft of Task Group 38.4 strike Kyushu.

 * 1944 – 54 Japanese planes attack U. S. landing forces off Biak, losing 12 of their number and inflicting almost no damage.

 * 1943 – An hour into a routine training flight from the USS Lexington (CV-16) over the Gulf of Paria off Venezuela, 1939 Heisman Trophy winner Nile Kinnick develops severe oil leak, cannot recover to either the carrier or land, and ditches his F4F Wildcat.[207] Although rescue forces arrive at the scene in eight minutes, neither he nor his plane are found, only an oil slick. Kinnick was the first Heisman winner to die. The University of Iowa renames their football stadium "Kinnick Stadium" in 1972.

 * 1942 – Nos. 8, 111 and 118 Squadrons moved to Alaska to join No. 115 Squadron already there, to work with the US Forces against the Japanese threat.

 * 1941 – First British Consolidated LB-30 Liberator II, AL503, on its acceptance flight for delivery from the Consolidated Aircraft Company plant at San Diego, California, crashes into San Diego Bay when flight controls freeze, killing all five civilian crew, CAC Chief Test Pilot William Wheatley, co-pilot Alan Austen, flight engineer Bruce Kilpatrick Craig, and two chief mechanics, Lewis McCannon and William Reiser. Craig, who had been commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve in 1935 following Infantry ROTC training at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering, had applied for a commission in the Army Air Corps before his death. This was granted posthumously, with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, and on 25 August 1941, the airfield in his hometown of Selma, Alabama was renamed Craig Field, later Craig Air Force Base. Investigation into the cause of the accident causes a two month delay in deliveries, so the RAF does not begin receiving Liberator IIs until August 1941.

 * 1941 – The United States Navy commissions USS Long Island (AVG-1), its first escort aircraft carrier – At the time designated an “aircraft escort vessel” (AVG) – At Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia.

 * 1938 – Nationalist aircraft bomb Granollers, Spain, a town without military significance, killing about 100 people. Most of the dead are women and children.

 * 1936 – First flight of the LACAB GR.8

 * 1923 – First flight of the Boeing Model 15

 * 1917 – Captain William Avery Bishop, 60 Squadron, flying a Nieuport 17, made a single-handed attack on a German aerodrome and shot down three enemy aircraft. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for this action.

 * 1912 – The Lewis machine gun is first tested in an aircraft by the US Army. The results are extremely encouraging, and this weapon would go on to become the standard armament of many fighter aircraft during World War I.

 * 1910 – Charles Rolls makes the first successful return flight over the English Channel

 * 1794 – J. M. J. Coutelle and N. J. Conte of the French army’s “Aerostiers” at Mauberge, France make the first military use of a balloon, when they observe enemy positions from their captive balloon.

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Portal:Aviation/Anniversaries/June 4

June 4

 * 2013 – Braving unsettled weather in the Midwestern United States, Solar Impulse aircraft HB-SIA completes the third leg of its trip across the contiguous United States, arriving at Lambert–St. Louis International Airport outside St. Louis, Missouri, where it is housed in an inflatable temporary hangar – the conventional hangar originally earmarked for it had been destroyed by a powerful storm on 31 May – in the first real-world test of an inflatable hangar. During the flight, the aircraft flies under cirrus clouds for the first time, and, to the surprise of its designers, its batteries continue to charge at 30 to 50 percent despite the diminished sunlight. The 1,040-km (646-mile) flight from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Texas, which takes 21 hours 22 minutes at an average speed of 49 km/h (30.4 mph) and reaches a maximum altitude of 24,000 feet (7,315 meters), is the second-longest in terms of duration ever made in a solar-powered aircraft, exceeded only a flight of over 26 hours HB-SIA itself made in July 2010.

 * 2012 – After a Libyan militia force takes control of part of Tripoli International Airport in Tripoli, and demands the release of a kidnapped militia leader, a gun battle breaks out between the militiamen and Libyan government forces. Government authorities arrest 30 militiamen.

 * 2012 – An American unmanned aerial vehicle strike in Pakistan kills Abu Yahya al-Libi, a leading al-Qaeda official.

 * 2012 – A student at the Brazilian Air Force Academy was killed when he accidentally ejected from an Embraer T-27 while waiting to take off at Pirassununga-Campo Fonetenelle, Brazil.

 * 2011 – British Army Air Corps Apache attack helicopters from HMS Ocean destroy several Libyan government targets near the Brega-Ajdabiya front line, including ammunition bunkers and radar installations. French Gazelles hit numerous targets around Brega in preparation for an expected rebel ground offensive.

 * 2009 – A Hellenic Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16C Block 50S Fighting Falcon, 93-1059, '059', of the 347 Fighter Squadron based at Nea Anchialos Airforce Base crashes near the village of Michalitsi part of the Tzoumerka National Park, Ioannina, Greece. The aircraft flying with another F-16 from the 111th Combat Wing suffered a bird strike and engine failure forced the pilot to successfully eject.

 * 1996 – First successful launch of the Ariane 5

 * 1991 – A student pilot died after ejecting from his North American T-2C Buckeye, BuNo 158877, 'F 807', of VT-4, CTW-6, based at NAS Pensacola, Florida, which impacted on an embankment on the south side of Berryhill Road extension, N of Pace, Florida about 1300 hrs.

 * 1986 – In Operation Poomalai, five Indian Air Force Antonov An-32 (NATO reporting name “Cline”) transport aircraft airdrop supplies by parachute into the city of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, to aid Tamil Tiger rebels who have been besieged there by Sri Lankan government forces during the Sri Lankan Civil War. Five Mirage 2000 fighters escort the An-32 s, but the Indian aircraft meet no opposition.

 * 1980 – First flight of the Mitsubishi F-15J

 * 1975 – Sikorsky SH-3D Sea King, BuNo 152711, of HS-4, departs Naval Auxiliary Air Field Imperial Beach, California, at 1900 hours, en route to the Helicopter Offshore Training Area to conduct a scheduled night anti-submarine sonar training flight. Pilot-in-command is LT Leo S. Rolek, co-pilot is LTJG Charles D. Neville. Twenty minutes later, the crew reports their position and commences operations with four approaches to sonar hover and four night/low visibility and wind-line rescue patterns with hover trim practice until dusk. After sunset (1953 hours), the crew conducts four more approaches to sonar hovers while practising dip-to-dip navigation with the pilots alternating approaches. Complying with reporting in every half-hour, the practices proceed normally until 2133. With the sonar dome lowered down to 100 feet below the water's surface, the hover of the helicopter becomes unstable. The two sonar operators, AWH3 Brady W. Turner and AWH3 Peter C. Cassidy, sink the sonar dome deeper in the ocean, hoping the stability will improve and, for a brief moment, it works. But, then the sonar dome begins to pull Helo '740' downward to 30 feet above the waterline. The helicopter, pulled backwards, impacts the water, sinks quickly. The four crewmen all egress and are picked up by a Coast Guard Sikorsky HH-3F Pelican shortly before midnight and transported to the Naval Hospital at San Diego. Three crewmen are released from the hospital in the days that follow, but the pilot, who suffered a ruptured spleen, dies in hospital over three weeks later. This aircraft was the famed Helo '66' that had retrieved the Apollo 13 crew from the Pacific on 17 April 1970.

 * 1974 – Construction of OV-101, the first Space Shuttle, begins. It later will be named Enterprise.

 * 1972 – The USAF Thunderbirds suffer their first fatal crash at an air show during Transpo 72 at Dulles International Airport. Major Joe Howard flying Thunderbird 3, McDonnell Douglas F-4E-32-MC Phantom II, 66-0321, experiences a loss of power during a vertical manoeuver, and breaks out of the formation just after it completes a wedge roll and was ascending at ~2,500 feet AGL. The aircraft staggers and then descends in a flat attitude with little forward speed. Although Major Howard ejects as the aircraft falls back to earth from ~ 1,500 feet slightly nose low, and descends under a good C-9 canopy, winds blow him into the ascending fireball. The parachute melts and the pilot plummets 200 feet, sustaining fatal injuries in fall.

 * 1969 – Mexicana Flight 704, a Boeing 727-64, crashes on approach to Monterrey, Mexico, killing all 79 people on board. Among the dead is Mexican tennis star Rafael Osuna.

 * 1969 – 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana & survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft.

 * 1968 – Lockheed A-12, 60-6932, Article 129, lost off of Okinawa during a functional check flight (FCF) following an engine change after deployment to Kadena Air Base in support of Operation Black Shield. Pilot Jack Weeks was killed while flying (KWF).:33One source gives date as 2 June.

 * 1967 – In the Stockport air disaster, a British Midland Canadair C-4 Argonaut carrying passengers returning from Palma de Mallorca is on approach to Manchester Airport when an engine loses power because of a design failure in the aircraft's fuel system; 72 of 84 on board are killed.

 * 1965 – First flight of the Nanchang Q-5

 * 1965 – A USAF Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar is destroyed in crash in field near the turnpike in Sabattus, Maine after double engine failure. Crew bails out and is uninjured.

 * 1961 – Lieutenant Colonel David F. "Snapper" McCallister, Jr. (Commander, 142d Fighter Bomber Squadron, Delaware Air National Guard) and Brigadier General William W. Spruance (Assistant Adjutant General for Air) were flying a Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star jet trainer out of Scott AFB, Illinois, when the aircraft lost power, and crashed. Colonel McCallister died and General Spruance received serious burn injuries. Milton Caniff is said to have based the character of Hotshot Charlie in the comic strip Terry and the Pirates on McCallister. He set a fighter record by flying his North American F-86 Sabre, "Cindee Lind 7th", 1,922 miles in 3 hours, 30 minutes to win the Air Force Association's Earl T. Ricks Memorial Trophy in 1956, given to Air Guard members for outstanding airmanship.

 * 1959 – Max Conrad flies a Piper Comanche from Casablanca to New York, setting a new lightplane distance record of 7,683 miles (12,365 km).

 * 1957 – World War II Japanese ace Maj. Teruhiko Kobayashi (1920–1957), flying with the reconstituted Japanese Self-Defense Air Force, is killed in the crash of a Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star during a training flight when he crashes in bad weather on approach to Hamamatsu Air Base. He ordered his back-seater to eject when the aircraft developed problems. He had shot down three Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers and two Grumman F6F Hellcats with the 244th Sentai, although his widow claimed he had twice the number of Superfortress kills, a claim discounted by historian Takashi Sakurai.

 * 1954 – Arthur Murray flies X-1 A rocket plane to record 27,000 m.

 * 1948 – The Northwood mid-air collision happened on 4 July 1948 when a SAS DC-6, registration SE-BDA and a RAF Avro York, serial number MW248 collided over Northwood, London close to RAF Northolt. Thirty-nine passengers and crew of both aircraft died in Britain’s worst mid-air collision.

 * 1948 – Philippine Airlines begins the first transpacific sleeper service, using Douglas DC-6 airliners between San Francisco, California, and Manila in the Philippine Islands.

 * 1947 – A U.S. Marine Corps Vought F4U-4 Corsair crashes in the surf at Atlantic Beach, North Carolina during a VFW airshow, and pilot Lt. Gene Dial, of MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, walks some 15 feet to shore unhurt. The pilot, with four and a half years of service, said that he crashed once before during a carrier take-off.

 * 1945 – Aichi E13A "Jake" floatplane, c/n 41116, of 634 Kokutai-Teisatsu, 302 Hikotai, crashed into the sea during night time search mission. Salvaged from waters off Kaseda city, Kagoshima prefecture on 22 August 1992, it is displayed in unrestored condition at the Kasedo Peace Museum, Kyūshū, Japan.

 * 1944 – 34 Japanese aircraft attack an Allied task force of cruisers and destroyers as it approaches Biak, but inflict only slight damage. Four more make a torpedo strike overnight, but miss.

 * 1943 – RAF Supermarine Spitfire Mk. Vc, AR512, of 312 (Czech) squadron based at Churchstanton in the Blackdown Hills hits a train while conducting a mock-attack near Bradford-on-Tone just west of Norton Fitzwarren. The roof of at least one carriage is ripped off and several passengers, mainly WRENs, are killed. The plane flies on before eventually crashing near Castle Cary. The pilot, F/O Jaroslav Cermak, dies and is buried in Taunton.

 * 1942 – No. 417 (Fighter) Squadron arrived in Egypt to serve with the Desert Air Force.

 * 1942 – The Battle of Midway begins with a predawn torpedo strike by U. S. Navy PBY Catalinas against Japanese ships, which damages an oiler. After sunrise, 108 aircraft from all four Japanese aircraft carriers – Akagi, Kaga, Hiryū, and Sōryū – carry out a destructive strike on Midway Atoll, shooting down 17 and severely damaging seven of the atoll’s 26 fighters. A series of Midway-based strikes by various types of aircraft against the Japanese carriers sees the combat debut of the Grumman TBF Avenger, but achieve no hits and suffer heavy losses. All three U. S. aircraft carriers – USS Enterprise (CV-6), USS Hornet (CV-8), and USS Yorktown (CV-5) – Launch strikes against the Japanese carriers; their 41 TBD Devastator torpedo bombers arrive first and achieve no hits, losing all but four of their number, but Enterprise’s and Yorktown’s SBD Dauntless dive bombers then arrive and inflict lethal damage on Akagi (which sinks on June 5) and Kaga and Soryu (which both sink later on June 4). A retaliatory strike by Hiryu fatally damages Yorktown (which sinks on June 7), but Enterprise and Yorktown dive bombers then fatally damage Hiryu (which sinks on June 5). The loss of all four of their carriers cause the Japanese to cancel the Midway operation and withdraw. It is widely considered to be the turning point of World War II in the Pacific.

 * 1942 – 32 aircraft from Junyo and Ryūjō conduct another damaging strike against Dutch Harbor. Small strikes by U. S. Navy PBY Catalina flying boats and U. S. Army Air Forces bombers against the two Japanese aircraft carriers are ineffective.

 * 1940 – The first Allied forces begin to withdraw from Norway, covered by aircraft from the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.

 * 1940 – BOAC commences a twice-weekly service between England and Portugal, scheduled to connect with Pan Am flights from Lisbon to New York.

 * 1935 – The Key brothers (Fred and Algene) fly twenty-seven days without landing, setting a world record for sustained flight in a Curtis Robin J-1, “Ole Miss. ”

 * 1934 – The US Navy commissions its first purpose-built aircraft carrier, USS Ranger.

 * 1932 – A Curtiss F9 C Sparrowhawk parasite fighter hooks onto the U. S. Navy dirigible USS Akron (ZRS-4) for the first time.

 * 1932 – William G Swan, at Bader Field, Atlantic City NJ, makes the first Rocket-powered glider flight. He also carried some pieces of mail, which would undoubtedly qualify this flight as the first rocket air mail, as well. A second successful flight followed the next day.

 * 1930 – Lt Apollo Soucek sets a new seaplane altitude record of 43,166 ft (13,157 ft) in a Wright XF3 W|

 * 1927 – (4-6) With Charles A. Levine as his passenger, Clarence Duncan Chamberlin made a record nonstop transatlantic flight, in his monoplane Columbia, from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Eisleben, Germany, a distance of 3,911 miles (6,294 km), in 42 hours and 31 min.

 * 1925 – First flight of the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.9

 * 1920 – The US Army Reorganization Act is passed, dashing hopes for an independent air arm like Britain's Royal Air Force.

 * 1919 – The British offer Canada Imperial a Gift of 100 aircraft with support equipment.

 * 1915 – First flight of the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.1

 * 1914 – First fatal British seaplane accident kills Lt. T. S. Cresswell and Cmdr. A. Rice of the Royal Navy. While ascending from the Calshot Air Station, the Short S.128 they are flying passes over motorboat on Southampton Water where Short's test pilot Gordon Bell and Lt. Spencer Grey are watching flight. At height of just over 200 feet, seaplane appears to break up and plummets into sea, killing both occupants. Some witnesses say that they believed that the seaplane stalled and that the wings folded up as structural limits were exceeded.

 * 1784 – First untethered balloon flight by a woman. Madamne Elizabeth Thible, a French opera singer, in order to entertain Gustav III of Sweden in Lyon.

 * 1783 – In Annonay, France, the Montgolfier brothers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne, give the first public demonstration of their hot-air balloon by sending up a large model made of linen lined with paper.

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Synsepalum dulcificum

Synsepalum dulcificum is a plant in the Sapotaceae family, native to tropical Africa. It is known for its berry that, when eaten, causes sour foods (such as lemons and limes) subsequently consumed to taste sweet. This effect is due to miraculin. Common names for this species and its berry include miracle fruit, miracle berry, miraculous berry, sweet berry,  and in West Africa, where the species originates, àgbáyun (in Yoruba), taami, asaa, and ledidi.

The berry itself has a low sugar content and a mildly sweet tang. It contains a glycoprotein molecule, with some trailing carbohydrate chains, called miraculin. When the fleshy part of the fruit is eaten, this molecule binds to the tongue's taste buds, causing sour foods to taste sweet. At neutral pH, miraculin binds and blocks the receptors, but at low pH (resulting from ingestion of sour foods) miraculin binds proteins and becomes able to activate the sweet receptors, resulting in the perception of sweet taste. This effect lasts until the protein is washed away by saliva (up to about 30 minutes).

The names miracle fruit and miracle berry are shared by Gymnema sylvestre and Thaumatococcus daniellii, which are two other species used to alter the perceived sweetness of foods.

History
The berry has been used in West Africa for a long time. It is a part of the diet of the Yoruba people. Outsiders began learning this fruit since at least the 18th century, when a European explorer, the Chevalier des Marchais, provided an account of its use there. Des Marchais, who was searching West Africa for many different fruits in a 1725 excursion, noticed that local people picked the berry from shrubs and chewed it before meals.

In the 1980s in the United States, an attempt was made to commercialize the fruit for its ability to mask non-sweet foods as sweet without a caloric cost, but became compromised when the Food and Drug Administration classified the berry as a food additive and required evidence of safety. For a time in the 1970s, US dieters could purchase a pill form of miraculin. This interest had a revival in food-tasting events at which tasters consume sour and bitter foods, such as lemons, radishes, pickles, hot sauce, and beer, then experience the perceived change to sweetness with miraculin.

Characteristics
It is a shrub that grows 1.8 - 4.5 m in height and has dense foliage. Its leaves are 5 – long, 2.0 - 3.7 cm wide, and glabrous below. They are clustered at the ends of the branchlets. The flowers are white. It carries red, 2 cm long fruits. Each fruit contains one seed.

Cultivation
The plant grows best in soils with a pH as low as 4.5 to 5.8, in an environment free from frost and in partial shade with high humidity. It is tolerant of drought, full sunshine, and slopes.

The seeds need 14 to 21 days to germinate. A spacing of 4 m between plants is suggested.

The plants first bear fruit after growing about 3–4 years, and produce two crops per year, after the end of the rainy season. This evergreen plant produces small, red berries, while white flowers are produced for many months of the year.

The seeds are about the size of coffee beans.

In Africa, leaves are attacked by lepidopterous larvae, and fruits are infested with larvae of fruit flies. The fungus Rigidoporus microporus has been found on this plant.

Transgenic tomato plants have been developed in research projects that produce miraculin.

Uses and regulation
In tropical West Africa, where this species originates, the fruit pulp is used to sweeten palm wine. Historically, it was also used to improve the flavor of soured cornbread, but has been used as a sweetener and flavoring agent for diverse beverages and foods, such as beer, cocktails, vinegar, and pickles.

Since 2011, the United States FDA has imposed a ban on importing Synsepalum dulcificum (specifying 'miraculin') from its origin in Taiwan, declaring it as an "illegal undeclared sweetener". However the ban does not apply when it is imported from other countries. In 2021, the company Baïa Food Co. in Spain was granted to put Dried Miracle Berry on the market in the EU.

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Locomotives built by the Highland Railway.

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Qaynan

Qaynān was a god worshipped by the Sabaean people in pre-Islamic South Arabia. Based on etymology, Qaynān may have been the god of smiths.

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Mickey Jones

Mickey Jones (June 10, 1941 – February 7, 2018) was an American musician and actor. He played drums with acts such as Trini Lopez and Bob Dylan, with whom he played on his 1966 world tour. He became a founding member of The First Edition with singer Kenny Rogers, and played on all of their albums. Overall, Jones played on 17 gold records from his musical career of over two decades.

After the break-up of The First Edition in 1976, Jones concentrated on his career as a character actor, where he made many appearances in film and television.

Early life and career
Mickey Jones was born on June 10, 1941, in Houston, Texas, to Fred Edward Jones, a U.S. Navy officer, and Frances Marie (née Vieregge) Jones, a homemaker. His sister, Cheryl Marie, died in 2006.

Jones attended Sunset High School in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas. It was during this time that he obtained and learned to play his first set of drums. After sitting in with several local bands, Jones and four schoolmates formed their own band, called The Catalinas. Although the band saw some local success, he was replaced by a new drummer, as Jones was only sixteen at the time, and the band wanted someone who was of legal age.

Sideman drumming
After working as a freelance drummer with various acts, Jones was introduced to Trini Lopez. When Lopez's drummer became ill, he was asked to take his place and eventually became the band's new permanent drummer.

In 1959, Jones left Lopez's band to pursue a degree in business administration at North Texas State College (now University of North Texas). After college, he took a job at Rohr Aircraft in San Diego. Seeing that the life of a factory worker was not for him, Jones moved to Los Angeles to get back into the entertainment industry. He landed a job as a page at the NBC studios, while re-establishing his friendship with Lopez, who had moved to Los Angeles as well. Jones would again become Lopez's drummer, while Lopez would see much success with hits such as "If I Had a Hammer", "La Bamba" and "America".

In 1966, Jones was made an offer by Bob Dylan to join him as his back-up drummer. Replacing Levon Helm, who had quit, Jones would accompany Dylan with the other members of what would become The Band, on his world tour of Australia and Europe. It was during this tour while performing at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, on May 17, 1966, that the audience jeered Dylan for playing the electric guitar during the latter half of the show. Jones' career with Dylan would be cut short when Dylan had to temporarily stop performing in order to recover from a motorcycle accident.

At this time, Jones had decided to pursue a career in acting. He had landed jobs as an extra, when in 1967 he was approached to be the drummer for a new group called The First Edition, with lead singer Kenny Rogers.

With hits such as "Something's Burning", "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" and "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)", The First Edition would see much success over the next ten years, even having their own television variety show, Rollin' on the River (later shortened to Rollin'), in the early 1970s.

Acting career
After the breakup of The First Edition in 1976, Jones pursued a full-time career in acting. As a character actor, he would make many appearances on television and film, such as being part of the cast of Flo, the short-lived spin-off to the CBS sitcom Alice, his role as a crooked mechanic/sheriff in National Lampoon's Vacation and his role as Chris Farber, the associate of Ham Tyler (Michael Ironside) in the miniseries and weekly television series, V. Jones also played a murdering biker in one episode of 21 Jump Street and was killed off himself by the henchmen of the man he initially had done the killing for.

Later, Jones would have a cameo in Ironside's film Total Recall (1990). Jones had no scenes with Ironside – he played a Martian miner on a train with Doug Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

In 1992, he played a small but memorable role in the television show Northern Exposure episode "Heroes" as Chris Stevens' (John Corbett) deceased mentor, Tooley O'Toole, who is delivered to Chris in a wooden box.

He appeared as the subway riding biker in a Breath Savers commercial and had a recurring role as Pete Bilker on the ABC sitcom Home Improvement. In 1996, he appeared in Sling Blade as the drummer in the band (a prominent speaking part in the band scenes), and Tin Cup, with fellow character actor Dennis Burkley. He and Burkley were commonly mistaken for each other.

In 2005, he contributed to the documentary, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan. From 2011 to 2014, he had a recurring role on the television show Justified, as Rodney "Hot Rod" Dunham, a marijuana distributor who ran a small band of criminals.

Author
In 2007, Jones published his autobiography That Would Be Me, the title based on the catchphrase often used by his character on Home Improvement.

Death
Jones died from complications of diabetes on February 7, 2018, aged 76. He is survived by his wife, Phyllis Jean Starr, and their two children, and three step children.

Films

 * Wild in the Streets (1968)
 * Tom Horn (1980) – Brown's Hole Rustler
 * Stir Crazy (1980) – Guard #8
 * Stand By Your Man (1981, TV Movie) – Eddie
 * Making Love (1982) – Cowboy Musician
 * Wrong Is Right (1982) – Gunman
 * The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) – Henry
 * Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story (1983, TV Movie) – Mickey
 * China Lake (1983, Short) – Big Guy
 * National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) – Mechanic
 * Starman (1984) – Trucker
 * Savage Dawn (1985) – Savage Zero
 * Hunter's Blood (1986) – Wash Pot
 * Welcome to 18 (1986) – Harper
 * Extreme Prejudice (1987) – Chub Luke
 * Nadine (1987) – Floyd
 * Talking Walls (1987)
 * The Couch Trip (1988) – Watkins
 * It Takes Two (1988) – Bucholtz
 * Dead Bang (1989) – Sleepy
 * Homer & Eddie (1989) – Man at Pizza Joint
 * Total Recall (1990) – Burly Miner
 * Dutch (1991) – Truck Driver
 * Pyrates (1991) – Wisconsin Del
 * Out on a Limb (1992) – Virgil
 * Black Ice (1992) – Lloyd Carter
 * Night Trap (1993) – Bartender
 * The Beverly Hillbillies (1993) – Spittin' Sam
 * Forced to Kill (1994) – Neil
 * Drop Zone (1994) – Deuce
 * Sunchaser (1996) – Fuzzy, Biker #1
 * Tin Cup (1996) – Turk
 * Sling Blade (1996) – Monty Johnson
 * The Fanatics (1997) – Rex Tweedy
 * Ringmaster (1998) – Man on Show (uncredited)
 * The Last Best Sunday (1999) – Bartender
 * Grizzly Adams and the Legend of Dark Mountain (1999) – Sergeant Evans
 * Vice (2000) – Officer Duke
 * The Last Real Cowboys (2000, Short) – Slope
 * The View from the Swing (2000) – Mountain Man
 * Never Look Back (2000)
 * Shattered Lies (2002) – Kenny Kingman
 * Shattered Lies (2002) – William Holt
 * The Fighting Temptations (2003) – Scooter
 * True Legends of the West (2003) – Two Gun Sly Willy
 * Bob Dylan - World Tour 1966: The Home Movies (2003) – Himself – The Band
 * Iowa (2005) – Darrell McNeely
 * No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
 * Collier & Co. (2006)
 * Penny Dreadful (2006) – Eddie
 * Country Remedy (2006)
 * Simple Things (2007) – Stan Slyder
 * Corners (2007)
 * High Desert (2007)
 * Necrosis (2009) – Hank
 * Downstream (2010) – Meat Vendor
 * Thriftstore Cowboy (2012) – Billy Henley
 * Rebel On The Highway (2018) – Uncle Mickey (final film role)

Television

 * Rollin' on the River (1971) – First Edition Drummer
 * The Dream Makers (1975, TV Movie) – Jesse
 * The Rockford Files (1977) – Chubby Pool Player
 * The Incredible Hulk (1978–1981) – George / Doc / Ricky Detter
 * Charlie’s Angels (1979) – Bo Mackey
 * The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) – B.B. Davenport
 * Galactica 1980 (1980) – (Pilot Episode: Donzo)
 * CHiPs (1980) Satin's Angels (Big Daddy)
 * Flo (1980–1981) – Chester
 * M*A*S*H (1981) – M.P. #2
 * Hear No Evil – (1982 made-for-TV-movie) Blackman
 * ''Madame's Place (1982) - Pinhead Flanigan, Episode: "The Golden Mousetrap"
 * V: The Series (1984–1985) – Chris Farber
 * V: The Final Battle (1984) – Chris Farber
 * The A Team (1985) – Season 3 - Episode 22 - Title: Bounty - Character: Billy Bob Cowboy
 * Misfits of Science (1985) – Arnold Biefneiter
 * ALF "On the Road Again" (1986) – Artie
 * In The Heat of the Night "Country Mouse, City Mouse" (as Willie Baylor) (1989) – Willie Baylor
 * 21 Jump Street (1989) – Bobo
 * Baywatch (1990–1992) – Lonny / Red
 * Home Improvement (1991–1999) – Pete Bilker
 * Get a Life (1991) – Ray
 * Human Target "Cool Hand Chance" (1992) - Haas
 * Northern Exposure "Heroes" (as Chris' deceased mentor, Tooley) (1992–1994) – Toolie / Tooley
 * Step by Step (1993) – Virgil
 * Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas (1994) – Ray
 * Married... with Children (1996) – Parley Wayne Rockefeller
 * Boy Meets World (1996–1999) – Ezekial / Milkshake Guy
 * Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997)
 * Son of the Beach (2000-2002) - Vernon
 * Lizzie McGuire (2002) – Sonny Reid
 * Entourage (2007) – Mickey Jones
 * Justified (2011–2014) – Rodney 'Hot Rod' Dunham
 * Workaholics (2012) – Arthur
 * It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2013) – Gunther
 * Growing Up Fisher (2014) – Ronnie
 * Newsreaders (2015) – Kelson Habson

Music videos

 * "Sunset Blvd" (2005)

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Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand (born March 29, 1957) is an American writer.

Life and career
Hand grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York. She studied drama and anthropology at the Catholic University of America. Since 1988, Hand has lived in coastal Maine, the setting for many of her stories, and as of 2000 lives in Lincolnville. She also lives part-time in Camden Town, London which has been the setting for Mortal Love and the short story "Cleopatra Brimstone".

Hand's first story, "Prince of Flowers", was published in 1988 in Twilight Zone magazine, and her first novel, Winterlong, was published in 1990. With Paul Witcover, she created and wrote DC Comics' 1990s cult series Anima. Hand's other works include Aestival Tide (1992); Icarus Descending (1993); Waking the Moon (1994), which won the Tiptree Award and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award; the post-apocalyptic novel Glimmering (1997); contemporary fantasy Black Light (1999), a New York Times Notable Book; the historical fantasy Mortal Love (2004), a Washington Post Notable Book; the psychological thriller Generation Loss (2007), and the World Fantasy Award-winning "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon". Her story collections are Last Summer at Mars Hill (1998) (which includes the Nebula and World Fantasy award-winning title novella); Bibliomancy (2002), winner of the World Fantasy Award; and Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories, which includes the Nebula Award-winning "Echo" (2006). Mortal Love was also shortlisted for the 2005 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.

Among Hand's other recent short fiction, "Pavane for a Prince of the Air" (2002) and "Cleopatra Brimstone" (2001) won International Horror Guild Awards. Most recently, she won the Shirley Jackson Award for Generation Loss and the World Fantasy Award in 2008 for Illyria, and the Inkpot Award in 2018.

She also writes movie and television spin-offs, including Star Wars tie-in novels and novelizations of such films as The X-Files and 12 Monkeys. She contributed a Bride of Frankenstein novel to the recent series of classic movie monster novels published by Dark Horse Comics.

One of Hand's themes from the Winterlong saga is the remorseless exploitation of animal and plant species to create what she calls "geneslaves." Examples include a three-hundred-year-old genetically reconstructed and cerebrally augmented Basilosaurus by the name of Zalophus; the aardmen, hybrids of dog and man; hydrapithecenes, human-fish or human-cuttlefish hybrids somewhat resembling Davy Jones and his crew from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series; and sagittals, whelks genetically engineered to be worn as a bracelet and, when its host feels threatened or agitated, extrude a spine laced with a deadly neurotoxin.

Hand is a longtime reviewer and critic for The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Review, Salon, and Village Voice, among others. She also writes a regular review column for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Novels

 * 1988 Winterlong – ISBN 0-553-28772-9
 * 1992  Aestival Tide – ISBN 0-553-29542-X
 * 1993 Icarus Descending – ISBN 0-553-56288-6
 * 1994 Waking the Moon (longer UK edition) – ISBN 0-586-21747-9
 * 1995 Waking the Moon (US edition preferred by the author ) – ISBN 0-06-105214-0
 * 1997 Glimmering (second edition 2012) – ISBN 0-06-100805-2
 * 1999 Black Light – ISBN 0-06-105266-3
 * 2000 "Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol" in Sci Fiction
 * 2002 "Cleopatra Brimstone" in Redshift
 * 2003 "The Least Trumps" in Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists
 * 2004 Mortal Love – ISBN 0-06-105170-5
 * 2006 Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol (illustrated by Judith Clute; originally published December 2000) – ISBN 1-870824-49-0. The story is a tribute to entertainers Sandy Becker and Joey Ramone. An online edition of Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol was serialized by Hand on her Livejournal community "theinferior4".
 * 2006 Illyria – ISBN 1-905834-63-2, ISBN 978-1-905834-63-1
 * 2007 The Bride of Frankenstein (media tie-in) – ISBN 1-59582-035-3
 * 2012 Radiant Days
 * 2015 Wylding Hall (novella)
 * 2019 Curious Toys
 * 2020 The Book of Lamps and Banners
 * 2022 Hokuloa Road
 * 2023 A Haunting on the Hill (a sequel to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House)

Cass Neary Crime Novels

 * 2007 Generation Loss – ISBN 1-931520-21-6
 * 2012 Available Dark – ISBN 978-0312585945
 * 2016 Hard Light – ISBN 978-1250030382
 * 2020 The Book of Lamps and Banners – ISBN 978-0316485937

Star Wars Expanded Universe

 * 2003 Boba Fett: Maze Of Deception – ISBN 0-439-44245-1
 * 2003 Boba Fett: Hunted – ISBN 0-439-33930-8
 * 2004 Boba Fett: A New Threat – ISBN 0-439-33931-6
 * 2004 Boba Fett: Pursuit – ISBN 0-439-33933-2

Adaptations

 * 1995 12 Monkeys – ISBN 0-06-105658-8
 * 1997 Millennium: The Frenchman – ISBN 0-06-105800-9
 * 1998 The X-Files: Fight the Future – ISBN 0-06-105932-3
 * 1999 Anna and the King – ISBN 0-06-102045-1
 * 2001 The Affair of the Necklace – ISBN 0-06-107616-3
 * 2004 Catwoman – ISBN 0-345-47652-2

Short fiction

 * Collections
 * 1998 Last Summer at Mars Hill – ISBN 0-06-105348-1
 * 2003 Bibliomancy – ISBN 1-902880-73-0
 * 2006 Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories – ISBN 1-59582-096-5
 * 2012 Errantry – ISBN 1618730304
 * Stories

 * 1990 "Jangletown" (with Paul Witcover; in The Further Adventures of The Joker)
 * 1993 "Lucifer Over Lancaster" (with Paul Witcover; in The Further Adventures of Superman)
 * 1994 "The Erl-King"

title: Elizabeth Hand