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Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles

Laurel Canyon is a mountainous neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills region of the Santa Monica Mountains, within the Hollywood Hills West district of Los Angeles, California. The main thoroughfare of Laurel Canyon Boulevard connects the neighborhood with the more urbanized parts of Los Angeles to the north and south, between Ventura Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard.

Originally inhabited by the Tongva people, by the early 20th century real estate developers situated a vacation site along the slope of neighboring Lookout Mountain; this formed the nucleus of what would become the Laurel Canyon neighborhood. It later developed into a celebrity enclave: the remote, rugged nature of the land and its proximity to many of the movie studios in nearby Hollywood made it an ideal location for many movie stars to site their homes, especially during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Raymond Chandler's private detective Philip Marlowe in The Long Good-bye lives in Laurel Canyon, Yucca Avenue in the early 1950s.

By the 1960s, the neighborhood had become a local center for counterculture, and many prominent folk and rock musicians moved into the area, making it a nexus for musical collaboration. By the late 1970s, criminal activity in the neighborhood, including distribution of drugs, was controlled by the Wonderland Gang (named for a Laurel Canyon thoroughfare), and the neighborhood became associated with the Wonderland murders, a grisly quadruple homicide in 1981.

Geography
Laurel Canyon is focused on its central thoroughfare, Laurel Canyon Boulevard. Unlike other nearby canyon neighborhoods, Laurel Canyon has houses lining one side of the main street most of the way up to Mulholland Drive. There are many side roads that branch off the main canyon, but most are not through streets, reinforcing the self-contained nature of the neighborhood. Some of the main side streets are Mount Olympus, Kirkwood, Wonderland Avenue, Willow Glen, and Lookout Mountain Avenue. The zip code for a portion of the neighborhood is 90046.

Laurel Canyon Boulevard is an important North–South route between: West Hollywood, Hollywood, and Central Los Angeles; and Studio City and the eastern San Fernando Valley. The canyon's division between the two regions is defined by Mulholland Drive.

The Laurel Canyon neighborhood is generally bounded by West Hollywood to the west and south, Hollywood to the east, and Studio City to the north.

Fauna
Laurel Canyon is known for its natural wildlife and is home to at least one adult male mountain lion.

Tongva indigenous peoples
The Laurel Canyon area was inhabited by the Tongva people, a regional tribe of the indigenous peoples of California, for thousands of years. A spring-fed stream flowed year-round providing water.

The reliable water supply attracted colonial Spanish ranchers who started grazing sheep on the hillsides in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. After the Mexican–American War and the advent of U.S. statehood for California in 1850, the area was settled by Americans interested in water rights.

Lookout Mountain
Until the 20th century, passage up the canyon was made on foot or by mule. In 1907, an 82 mile, later named Laurel Canyon Boulevard, was built. It ran up the canyon, dividing at what is now Lookout Mountain Road; the left road went up to the summit of Lookout Mountain, and the right branch of the road went to the top of the Santa Monica Mountains and then down to the San Fernando Valley.

In 1908, the Lookout Mountain Park and Water Co. was formed to purchase 280 acres on Lookout Mountain, just west of Laurel Canyon, subdivided and marketed as mountain vacation properties. On August 14, 1908, the Los Angeles Times announced that the company would build Lookout Mountain Inn at the summit of Lookout Mountain and Sunset Plaza roads, and Lookout Mountain Park, Bungalow Land at Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Lookout Mountain Avenue and Wonderland Park. Two years later, the company widened the winding dirt road to the top of Lookout Mountain where they built the Lookout Mountain Inn.

In 1910, Charles Mann, a real estate developer, and Richard Shoemaker, an electrical engineer, built a "trackless trolley" (trolley bus) line, starting passenger service on September 11 as the first commercial trolley bus operation in the United States. It ran up Laurel Canyon Road from the Pacific Electric Laurel Canyon Shuttle stop at Sunset Boulevard to the Tavern at the top of Lookout Mountain Road, a road house serving visitors.

Each of the two 16-passenger cars had two trolley poles, one to a positive overhead wire and one to a ground overhead wire, and were able to sway to either side of the street, only using power uphill. Each trolley was actually an Oldsmobile bus whose gasoline engine was replaced with a 15-horsepower electric motor. Their original bodies were rebuilt in 1912, their open sides being enclosed. Sometime in 1915, they were replaced by Stanley steam buses and the overhead wires were taken down. Until 1918, the shuttle service traveled up and down Laurel Canyon to meet the half hour schedule to Los Angeles. It was insufficiently patronized and discontinued when demand failed to support it after Pacific Electric stopped service to Laurel Canyon Boulevard from Gardner Junction (at Gardner Street and Sunset Boulevard, 1451 N Gardner St, West Hollywood, CA 90046) in 1924.

On October 26, 1918, a fire, fanned by strong Santa Ana winds, burned about 200 acres and totally destroyed Lookout Mountain Inn at the summit of Lookout Mountain Avenue and Sunset Plaza Drive. Another major fire occurred in July 1959, destroying some 38 homes.

As the roads were improved, access was possible by automobile.

As of 2007 a vacant lot, the corner of Lookout Mountain Avenue and Laurel Canyon Blvd (2401 Laurel Canyon Blvd) is where the famous 1915 "Log Cabin" mansion stood, with its 80-foot living room, floor to ceiling fireplace, bowling alley (there was no indoor swimming pool as previously stated) It was once occupied by silent film star Tom Mix but spent years on the rental market. In 1968 it was rented by Frank Zappa. Zappa moved out after four months. The house burned to the ground on Halloween 1981. Directly across the street, at 2400 Laurel Canyon Blvd., is site of the home, long-gone, that magician Harry Houdini may have rented around 1919. It was originally the Walker estate.

Counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s
Laurel Canyon became a nexus of counterculture activity and attitudes in the mid-late 1960s and early 1970s, becoming famous as home to many of L.A.'s rock musicians, such as Cass Elliot of the Mamas & the Papas; Joni Mitchell; Frank Zappa; Jim Morrison of The Doors; Carole King; The Byrds; Gram Parsons; Buffalo Springfield; Canned Heat; John Mayall; members of the band The Eagles; the band Love; Neil Young; Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys as well as James Taylor, Jackson Browne, J. D. Souther, Judee Sill, Linda Ronstadt and Stone Poneys, Ned Doheny, Bonnie Raitt, Harry Nilsson; and Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork of The Monkees. Cass Elliot's home was considered one of Laurel Canyon's party houses with all-night, drug-fueled sleepovers, attended by musicians and movie stars of the era.

John Phillips, also of the Mamas & the Papas, took inspiration from his home in Laurel Canyon for the song "Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)", released in 1967. The following year, blues artist John Mayall recorded and released the album Blues from Laurel Canyon, based on his experiences during a vacation that he spent there.

The area and its denizens served as inspiration for Joni Mitchell's third album Ladies of the Canyon, released in 1970. Her house was immortalized in the Crosby, Stills, and Nash song "Our House" (1970), written by her lover Graham Nash. The group is reputed to have met and first sung together in Mitchell's living room.

Rock photographer Henry Diltz was also a resident and used the scenic Canyon backdrop for many of his historic photos of rock musicians. Several of his photos became representations of the West Coast music scene during the 1960s and 1970s; other of his photos became album sleeve covers, such the one used for as CSN's debut album Crosby, Stills & Nash (photographed in nearby West Hollywood).

Later years
Musician Josh Tillman has said that his output under the moniker Father John Misty was partly inspired by a move to Laurel Canyon. The song "I Went to the Store One Day" from his 2015 album I Love You, Honeybear, recounts the story of how Tillman met his wife, Emma, in the parking lot of the Laurel Canyon Country Store.

Wonderland murders
On July 1, 1981, three members and one associate of the Wonderland Gang, so-called because they were based at 8763 Wonderland Avenue, died in the Wonderland murders (also known as the "Four on the Floor murders" or the "Laurel Canyon murders"). Salón stated "The massacre took place just down the street from what was then the home of Jerry Brown, who was California’s governor at the time. The 8763 Wonderland Avenue address itself is said to have been inhabited at one time by Paul Revere & the Raiders."

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Isabel le Despenser

Isabel le Despenser may refer to:

 * Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Arundel (1312–1356), daughter of Hugh Despenser the Younger and Eleanor de Clare
 * Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick (1400–1439), daughter of Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester and Constance of York

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Sarge

Sarge is a shortened, informal form of the rank of Sergeant.

Other meanings include:

Entertainment

 * Sarge (video game), a 1985 arcade game
 * Sarge (band), an indie rock band from Champaign, Illinois (USA)
 * Sarge (album), a 1976 album by Delroy Wilson
 * Sarge (TV series), starring George Kennedy as a cop-turned-priest

People

 * Sarge (nickname)
 * DeWayne Bruce (born 1960), professional wrestler who used the ringname/nickname Sarge

Fictional characters

 * Sergeant Snorkel, in the long running Beetle Bailey comic strip
 * Sarge (Toy Story), in the Toy Story franchise
 * Sarge (Cars), in the Cars franchise
 * Sarge (Red vs. Blue), a machinima character
 * Sarge, in the video game Portal Runner
 * Sarge, in the video game Quake III Arena
 * Sarge, aka Sergeant Hawk, in the video game Army Men
 * Sarge Fisher, name of a new main character of Siren, a protective merman who forms a connection with human/mermaid hybrid Helen Hawkins
 * Sarge (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a character in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Other uses

 * Sarge, the codename of version 3.1 of the Debian Linux operating system
 * Suborbital Active Rocket with Guidance (SARGE), a rocket being developed by Exos Aerospace

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Empress Sunjeonghyo

Empress Sunjeonghyo (7 September 1894 – 3 February 1966), was the second wife of Sunjong of Korea, and was also the first (and last) Empress consort of Korea.

Early life
Sunjeonghyo was born Yun Jeung-sun on 19 September 1894 in Seoul. She was born to Lady Yu of the Gigye Yu clan and Yun Taek-yeong, a member of the Haepyeong Yun clan and an official of Joseon.

Her paternal grandmother, Lady Hong, was a 5th great-granddaughter of Princess Jeongmyeong, daughter of Seonjo of Joseon and Queen Inmok. Lady Hong was also a third cousin twice removed of Lady Hyegyeong.

Through adoptions within the Haepyeong Yun clan, she was a 13th great-granddaughter (or 13th great-grandniece, biologically) of Yun Du-su; as well as Yun Posun, the 2nd President of South Korea, was her ninth cousin three times removed. On her mother’s side, Yun’s maternal grandfather, Yu Jin-hak, was a maternal adoptive nephew of Queen Sinjeong; thus making her the adoptive great-grandniece of the late Queen.

Her younger sister eventually married Yu Gil-jun’s eldest son, Yu Eok-gyeom.

Marriage and life in the palace
To how Lady Yun was chosen to be the next wife of crown prince was from the help of Imperial Consort Sunheon.

Prior to the marriage, the Imo Incident of 1882 had forced Empress Myeongseong to flee from the palace, which brought Eom to demonstrate extreme loyalty to Gojong. The imperial consort, known at the time was Court Lady Eom, and the king became close during that time until Queen Min returned to the palace.

In 1885, the Queen consort expelled Eom from the palace when she discovered Eom wearing Gojong's clothing at the age of 32. Her expulsion stripped her of her position and title, but a high-ranking official, Yun Yong-seon, Lady Yun’s grandfather, purportedly interceded on her behalf with Gojong, and she was forgiven. Eom never forgot the grace of Yun Yong-seon.

Because the seat was vacant, Imperial Consort Sunheon recommended the adoptive great-granddaughter of Yun after Crown Prince Yi Cheok’s first wife, Crown Princess Consort Min, died on 5 November 1904.

Yun Jeung-sun married the 32-year-old Crown Prince Cheok on 24 January 1907 at the age of 13. When she became Crown Princess Consort, her mother was given the royal title of "Internal Princess Consort Gyeongheung of the Gigye Yun clan" while her father was given the royal title of "Internal Prince Haepung Yun Taek-yeong".

On 20 July 1907, she became Empress Consort of Korea when her husband ascended the throne after the forced abdication of his father, Gojong of Korea. The Empress was demoted by the Japanese government by the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty of 1910 and thereafter officially known as Her Majesty, Queen Yi of Korea (this title, however, was ignored in Korea).

Because of her demotion, she was known by her given alternative royal title as Queen Yun and lived at Daejojeon Hall. But when she was given the royal title of Queen Yi of Changdeok Palace, she eventually moved into the palace’s Nakseon Hall when her husband’s health worsened.

Empress Sunjeonghyo became a widow on 24 April 1926, when Emperor Yunghui died without issue at the Changdeok Palace in Seoul. Emperor Yunghui had been rendered infertile (and was also said to be mentally disabled) by poisoning in the 1898 Coffee Poisoning Plot.

In 1939, the Queen’s family clan was pressured to change their family name to a Japanese surname. At the time, Sōshi-kaimei was a policy of pressuring Koreans under Japanese rule to adopt Japanese names. But her uncle, Yun Deok-yeong, opposed such a thing to happen and maintained their Korean surname.

Korean War
During the Korean War, Empress Sunjeonghyo stayed in Changdeok Palace as long as she could in the face of advancing forces from North Korea. During the war, the soldiers of North Korea invaded the palace but she reproved them and drove them all out. She then escaped secretly to the Unhyeon Palace when the war situation became too serious. As the war progressed, she moved to Busan with other Imperial family members, including Princess Hui (wife of Prince Wanheung). According to The World is One, Princess Yi Bangja's autobiography, Empress Sunjeonghyo went to Busan on foot.

After the Korean War
After the war, the new government of President Rhee Syng-man, jealous of the popularity of the Imperial House, prevented Empress Sunjeonghyo from entering the Changdeok Palace. She was kept imprisoned in Suin Hall, a narrow and unsuitable cottage in Jeongneung, Seoul. After a change in government in 1961 she returned to Nakseon Hall, Changdeok Palace with her dutiful ladies-in-waiting: Park Chang-bok (d. 1981), Kim Myung-gil (d. 1983) and Sung Ok-yeom (d. 2001), and five other staff.

After 37 years, Princess Deokhye was also able to return to Korea at the invitation of the South Korean government on 26 January 1962 due to reporter Kim Eul-han’s help. She was later welcomed and reunited by her kindergarten and elementary school classmate, and her 72-year-old wet nurse when they went to pick her up at Gimpo Airport.

The empress later meet her that same day before the princess underwent a surgery at Seoul National University Hospital.

Empress Sunjeonghyo became a Buddhist in her later years.

She died childless on 3 February 1966, aged 72, at Nakseon Hall, Changdeok Palace, Seoul from a heart attack. She was given a state funeral and a private Buddhist funeral. She is buried beside her husband, Emperor Yunghui and his first wife, Empress Sunmyeong, at the Yureung Imperial Tomb.

Family

 * Father
 * Yun Taek-yeong (윤택영, 尹澤榮) (1876 - 24 October 1935)
 * Mother
 * Internal Princess Consort Gyeongheung of the Gigye Yu clan (경흥부부인 기계 유씨, 慶興府夫人 杞溪 兪氏) (1876 - 1936)
 * Siblings
 * Older brother - Yun Hong-seop (윤홍섭, 尹弘燮) or Yun Song-mu (윤송무, 尹松茂) (1893 - 1955); became the adoptive son of his uncle, Yun Si-yeong
 * Younger sister - Yun Hui-seop (윤희섭, 尹喜燮) (6 November 1905 - ?)
 * Younger brother - Yun Ui-seop (윤의섭, 尹毅燮) (8 March 1912 - 25 February 1965); succeeded his father in becoming Marquis
 * Husband
 * Yi Cheok, Emperor Sunjong (25 March 1874 – 24 April 1926) — No issue.
 * Mother-in-law - Min Ja-yeong, Empress Myeongseong of the Yeoheung Min clan (17 November 1851 – 8 October 1895)
 * Father-in-law - Yi Hui, Emperor Gojong of Korea (9 September 1852 - 21 January 1919)
 * Issue
 * Adoptive son - Prince Yi Jin (이진, 李晉) (18 August 1921 - 11 May 1922)

In popular culture

 * Portrayed by Jang Seo-hee in the 1990 MBC TV series 500 Years of Joseon: Daewongun
 * Portrayed by Kim Ji-mi in the 1966 film The Last Empress
 * Portrayed by Song Seo-ha in the 2016 film The Last Princess

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The Union Underground

The Union Underground is an American nu metal band based out of San Antonio, Texas. Original band members included Bryan Scott, Patrick Kennison, John Moyer and Josh Memolo. They released one major label album, ...An Education in Rebellion, in 2000 which featured the hit single "Turn Me On 'Mr. Deadman'.

1996–2002: ...An Education in Rebellion and break-up
The roots of heavy metal band the Union Underground lie in the relationship between singer/guitarist Bryan Scott and guitarist Patrick Kennison, who met in junior high school in San Antonio, Texas. After finishing high school, the two launched their own recording studio, Studio Underground, making cassettes of their music. Sales of 5,000 copies of an EP brought interest from Hollywood rock manager James Jeda, who brought the band out of obscurity by signing them with Portrait Records, the hard rock imprint of Sony's Columbia label. Scott and Kennison completed the band's lineup with the addition of drummer Josh Memolo and bassist John Moyer.

The Union Underground released its debut album, ...An Education in Rebellion, on July 18, 2000. The disc spent four months on the charts and the track "Turn Me On 'Mr. Deadman was on the mainstream rock charts for six months. After two years, the album's sales reportedly stood at 350,000. The band opened for Marilyn Manson in the fall of 2000 and earned a slot on the 2001 Ozzfest tour.

In March 2002, The Union Underground released the song "Across the Nation" which was used by the World Wrestling Federation, now known as World Wrestling Entertainment, as the theme song for their RAW brand until October 2006. Following the song's release, it earned extensive airplay nationwide.

On June 25, 2002, the band released Live...One Nation Underground, a compilation of live performances. This would be their final release before Portrait folded in 2002 and The Union Underground disbanded.

Leader singer Bryan Scott teamed up with UU former manager James Jeda again in 2007 to start a new project "Cult to Follow" with an entirely new band.

2002–2016: Post-Union Underground projects
Patrick Kennison is now working with the band Heaven Below. John Moyer is now playing bass for Disturbed. Josh Memolo became a born again Christian. He has played drums in different churches and for local bands when he can. Bryan Scott started the band Cult to Follow. In July 2015, it was announced that Scott formed a side project called Into the Fire with Tim King (bass) and Adam Zadel (guitar) from the band SOiL and also features Will Hunt of Evanescence on drums. Into the Fire released a self-titled EP on September 30, 2016.

2016–present: Reformation and upcoming second studio album
In early 2016, Scott announced via the band's Facebook page that a new lineup and music would be available that summer, with a sample of a track ("False Caterpillars") available for 24 hours only. Later in the year it was announced that an EP would be released in 2017. In 2018, a video announcing that new album details were 'coming soon' appeared on the band's YouTube channel. But no official release has surfaced yet.

On February 4, 2020, the band announced that they would play the entirety of their debut album ...An Education in Rebellion in full, along with songs from the upcoming album, at the Aztec Theatre in San Antonio, Texas, on July 18, but the show was canceled due to Covid-19.

On August 23, 2023, the band announced that they would be embarking on the "Back to the 2000s" tour with SOiL, Ra and Flaw.

Members

 * Current
 * Bryan Scott – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1996–2002, 2016–present)
 * Todd "Taz" Osterhouse – lead guitar, backing vocals (2017–present)
 * Bones Elias – drums, backing vocals (2023–present)
 * Diego "Ashes" Ibarra – bass, backing vocals (2023–present)
 * Former
 * Patrick Kennison – lead guitar, backing vocals (1996–2002)
 * John Moyer – bass, backing vocals (1996–2002)
 * Josh Memelo – drums (1996–2002, 2017)
 * Troy Doebbler – bass (2017–2022)
 * Jason West – drums (2017–2022)
 * Former touring musicians
 * Robin C. Lopez – drums (2022)
 * Mike "Metal Mike" Lopez – bass (2022)

Charted singles

 * Radio promotion CDs
 * Rebellion (2000)
 * Killing the Fly (2000)
 * Live – Club Laga, Pittsburgh, PA 2000-07-29 (2000)
 * Turn Me On Mr. Deadman (2001)
 * South Texas Deathride (2001)
 * Revolution Man (2001)
 * Across the Nation (2002)

 * Soundtrack appearances
 * "South Texas Deathride" on Ozzfest 2001: The Second Millennium
 * "Across the Nation" on WWF Forceable Entry

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UC Davis College of Engineering

The UC Davis College of Engineering is one of four undergraduate colleges on the campus of the University of California, Davis. One of the largest engineering programs in the U.S., the UC Davis College of Engineering offers 11 ABET-accredited undergraduate engineering majors. The college offers majors from a broad scope of engineering disciplines, including aerospace science, biochemical, biological systems, biomedical, chemical, civil, computer science, electrical, materials science, and mechanical engineering.

The college attracted more than $87.4 million in research grants in fiscal year 2013–14.

Departments
The college is organized into eight departments, which offer various programs of study:
 * Biological and Agricultural Engineering
 * Biomedical Engineering
 * Chemical Engineering
 * Civil and Environmental Engineering
 * Computer Science
 * Electrical and Computer Engineering
 * Materials Science and Engineering
 * Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Notable alumni
Notable alumni of the College of Engineering include:
 * David Abe, head of the Electromagnetics Technology Branch at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
 * Adam Steltzner, NASA JPL Lead Engineer
 * Clare Bell, British author in the United States best known for her Ratha series
 * Diane Bryant, executive vice president of Intel
 * Kyle Bryant, athlete, speaker
 * Anthony Cannella, California State Senator
 * Chow Chung-kong, chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
 * Alfred Chuang, former CEO and president of BEA Systems, founder and current CEO of Magnet Systems
 * Ahmed Darwish (Politician), Egyptian politician
 * David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from 2009 to 2013
 * Giovonnae Dennis, one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD
 * Steve Robinson, NASA astronaut.
 * William L. Ballhaus, CEO of Blackboard, Inc.
 * Carl Sassenrath, computer scientist
 * Constance J. Chang-Hasnain, professor at UC Berkeley.
 * Scott Miller, leader of 1980's band Game Theory
 * Richard Miller (Olin College President), president of Olin College.
 * Stratton Sclavos, chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of VeriSign
 * Howard A. Stone, professor at Princeton University.
 * Bernard Soriano, Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
 * Koosha Toofan, bodybuilder
 * Daniel Ha, founder of Disqus.
 * Julie A. MacDonald, deputy assistant secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks at the United States Department of the Interior
 * Mark Matsumoto, dean of engineering at UC Merced.
 * Éric Maurincomme, director of INSA Lyon.
 * Kaveh Madani, Iranian civil and environmental engineer
 * Jani Macari Pallis, CEO of Cislunar Aerodynamics, professor at University of Bridgeport.
 * Jeffrey Steefel, video game developer.
 * Indira Samarasekera, President of the University of Alberta
 * Sig Mejdal, sabermetrics analyst, former NASA engineer.
 * David Phillips (entrepreneur)
 * Seth Weil, Olympic rower.
 * Alvin S. White, test pilot, mechanical engineer

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I'm a law school graduate currently studying for the California State Bar examination. I grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii and now reside in Northern California.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Doulos SIL

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP   — Gwalla | Talk 20:00, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Doulos SIL
Marked for speedy but isn't a candidate. Reason given was "vanity/spam/link farm". Spam may be applicable, but "vanity" isn't (the font is a product of SIL International), and I'm not sure what is meant by "link farm". Linked from List of typefaces and Template talk:IPA. Nominator abstains from voting. — Gwalla | Talk 23:33, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. There aren't many Unicode IPA fonts out there. - Mustafaa 23:46, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable font face. Not spam, because the link takes you to a free download. --Angr/undefined 06:27, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep this is an important typeface, and I see nothing in this article that meritcs deletion. 200.74.190.200
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Alexander Keith Jr.

Alexander 'Sandy' Keith Jr. (1827—December 18, 1875) was a Scottish-born Canadian smuggler and mass murderer. During the American Civil War, he was employed by the Confederate States of America as a spy, and after the war attempted to use a time bomb to destroy the merchant ship Mosel for insurance fraud in 1875, resulting in the deaths of 81 bystanders and his own suicide.

Biography
Keith was born in 1827 in Caithness, Scotland, immigrating to Halifax, Nova Scotia when he was a small boy. The nephew of Halifax businessman Alexander Keith, he worked for a time as a clerk in his uncle's brewery. Apparently envious of the wealthier life his uncle lived, Keith Jr. was determined to make a name for himself by any means necessary. He began by scamming railroads by delivering cheap product instead of the expensive products he promised. During the American Civil War, when Halifax was home to many Confederate sympathizers, Keith acted mostly as a blockade runner and courier. He helped a Confederate sympathiser escape British capture in the Chesapeake Affair. He was also involved with Luke Blackburn in a plot to send clothes infected with yellow fever to northern cities in the United States. In 1865, he swindled his associates-in-crime and fled to St. Louis, Missouri, settling finally on the prairie. There, he married Cecelia Paris, a milliner's daughter from St. Louis.

Hunted down by one of his victims, Keith fled again with Cecelia, this time to Germany. He hobnobbed with wealthy socialites and Saxon generals under the assumed name of "William King Thomas". When the couple began to run out of money, remembering a series of fraudulent insurance claims on blockade-running ships that sank at sea, Keith eventually determined to just destroy a ship himself. Using a variety of aliases, he set about purchasing timers and dynamite. He obtained around 150 British pounds of insurance for what he claimed was a barrel of caviar to complete his scheme. His initial target was a Norddeutscher Lloyd ship, the Mosel. This led to a major catastrophe in Bremerhaven in 1875, when a time bomb he had placed in the "caviar" barrel accidentally went off on the dock, killing 81 people. According to one witness: "A mushroom-shaped column of smoke rose approximately 200 meters above the harbor. Everywhere people were crying and whimpering beside ruins. The entire pier was covered in soot: it was like the gateway to hell." At the time, the deed was called the "crime of the century." Keith was aboard another ship in Bremerhaven at the time of the Mosel explosion. He went to his suite and shot himself twice with a revolver, but survived for a week. After the tragedy was revealed as a murder/insurance scam on a large scale, the disappearances of other ships were investigated to see if Keith and his possible associates were involved. One was the disappearance of the SS City of Boston, which vanished in January 1870. The allegation was proven to be false. He was reputed to have been buried in an unmarked grave in Bremerhaven. His severed head was kept at the Bremer Police Museum and was destroyed by Allied bombing in 1945. Newspapers called it "The Thomas Crime."

Regarding his time bomb, Keith's biographer Ann Larabee wrote: "Keith was not responsible for the political passion of these violent political groups, but he played a role in showing them a means of action."

In Fiction
The Dynamite Fiend: The Chilling Story of Alexander Keith Jr., Nova Scotian Spy, Con-Artist, and International Terrorist by Ann Larabee was published in 2005. The book in turn inspired The Inventor, an opera by Bramwell Tovey and John Murrell that was performed by the Calgary Opera Company and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in 2011.

Alexander Keith Jr. is also a character in Boris Pronsky and Craig Britton's novel Forty-Ninth, central for the execution of the Alaska Payment Conspiracy in their book. Alexander Keith Jr. is introduced by the name of William Thompson, as it was one of the many aliases used by Alexander Keith Jr.

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Talk:Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome

new stadium proposal tenuous at best?
I'm removing the paragraph that is discussing how the argument for the Gophers to have the new stadium on campus are "tenuous at best". The idea of measuring the distances of the stadiums from Coffman Union, while clever, are not necessarily salient nor relevant. Their concerns are to have the new stadium physically on the University of Minnesota campus (which the Metrodome certainly is not) and also to have it right next to the other sports facilities (not to mention the football teams practice facilites). Also, the majority of the student population lives on the East Bank of the river whether in the dorms or the Dinkytown area which would be much closer to the proposed stadium location.

All of that said, the reason that I'm removing the comment is just that it seems very biased and rather irrelevant to the Metrodome article.

Luke 04:48, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

too cold - weather in minnesota
I dispute the POINT OF VIEW that the Metrodome is "widely" considered to be the worst baseball venue. By whom? And under what conditions? The current expensive proposal is an OPEN AIR ballpark. It is TOO BLOODY COLD to be going to outdoor games in Minneapolis until right about now, the first of June, and once September rolls around, it chills down in a hurry. The ones who are pushing this open-air park are liable to push the team right out of the city, eventually, because no one will show up for 3 of the 6 months of the season! Wahkeenah 23:34, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * As to who believes the Metrodome is the worst in baseball, you can find many polls on the subject. Here are a few:http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/worstballparks/010503.html, http://armchairgm.wikia.com/index.php?title=Top_5_Worst_Stadiums, http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/al/Metrodome.htmSeanNovack (talk) 16:06, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

 * They'll think differently next year when they're sitting in 30 degree, rainy weather - or having to go back home to Duluth because the game got rained (or snowed) out. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 00:53, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

 * As this is a "point of view" and is not backed by any source, I don't believe it has any bearing on the point. I can tell you from personal experience at the old Met Stadium that yes, there were some cold games and rainouts, the benefits (in my "point of view") far outweighed any downside.SeanNovack (talk) 16:04, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

 * The problem is that "best" or "worst" is going to be a matter of opinion, no matter what the source. Everyone thinks Wrigley Field is so wonderful. The players said the playing surface was the worst in the majors (it has since been redone). Everyone thinks Fenway is so wonderful. The sightlines from many of the seats are horrible. The ultimate proof for Target Field vs. the Dome will be the season attendance - not next year, but in a few years when the novelty has worn off. The Twins drew better in the Dome (indoors) than they did at the Old Met (outdoors). We'll see what happens. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 17:00, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I think the primary reason that this Minnesota born-and-bred Twins fan has no problem with the new outdoor stadium is that I remember clearly going to the old Metropolitan Stadium and not having that many issues. On average, do you know how many games were rained out or canceled due to cold weather at the Met ever season?  A whopping 4 games.  Less than 5% of the season.  Might it have been nice to have a retractable roof?  Of course!  Is it worth it not to build a new stadium and stay stuck in the Metrodump or possibly not even have a baseball team (don't laugh, it happened with the Lakers and the North Stars when they left for LA and Dallas, respectively).  No, it's not.  Not for less than 1 in 20 games. Rapier1 (talk) 15:10, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

below zero wind chills
Yes it does happen in Minneapolis in October and April. Wind chill can dip down to 0 degrees F at 35 MPH with an ambient air temperature of 20 degrees F. As User:Baseball_Bugs points out, A quick random check shows it was below 0 wind chill on April 4th this past year (2007). Group29 18:43, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * If you can find further documentation in order to convince that one skeptical editor, that would be good. I just don't know where to go to find past records. weather.com seems to be focused on the upcoming forecast only. Baseball Bugs 20:38, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

 * This website can get you high and low temperatures for each day.  I don't see anything that melds that info. with wind speed though, which would be required to calculate wind chill.  I don't really understand what the fuss is about.  Soon the Twins will have a new open ballpark; I don't think there's anything any of us can do to change that.--Appraiser 21:05, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

pix in info
I proposed putting 3 pictures in the info box each pix of each main tenant Twins Vikes and Gophers. Currently just having a baseball picture paints  IMO an incorrect picture the stadium was built for football first and baseball was an afterthough. What do others think of including pictures of the football set up in the info box Smith03 01:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC) or perhaps moving the baseball picture into the article and using a picture of the outside of the dome in the boxSmith03
 * At the time I put the baseball pic in the infobox, that's about all there was. The other pics were gradually added. A generic exterior shot for the infobox, with the interior shots next to writeups about the different usages, would be fine. Wahkeenah 02:15, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Puckett's death
I took this out "Following the death of Twins great Kirby Puckett in March 2006, public support for a new Twins ballpark swelled considerably, with the request that the park be named for the fallen Twin. Presumably to accomplish this the state of Minnesota would purchase naming rights in addition to the proposed public funding." He died last week its way to earlier to know if support has swelled considerably or that the support will last long after the intial shock of the death. Also it very unlikely the state is going to pay the Twins to name the stadium after Puckett the Twins will want $ for naming rights and this state is not huge on giving money to team in the first placeSmith03 01:56, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's hyperbole and wishful thinking. Wahkeenah 02:18, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Bias in Gopher's Stadium Section
"Attendance at Gopher football games rarely fills the Metrodome to capacity, and it is thought that, in order to pep up its student base for increased ticket sales, an on-campus stadium is required. Presumably they used opposite reasoning when they abandoned the old on-campus stadium."

This seems rather biased to me, especially the use of the words "presumably" and "abandoned" in such a condesending way. I would like to see the second sentance of the above quote just outright deleted.
 * It's a way of pointing out how the charlatans foist new taxes on the citizenry to pay for new stadiums to replace the old ones that were once considered so wonderful. Wahkeenah 17:48, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

 * If you want to find evidence that the opposite was argued, by all means do so. But presumption isn't adequate.--RLent 17:50, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * They currently think they need on an-campus stadium. They obviously didn't think so in 1982, or they obviously wouldn't have moved. Wahkeenah 18:02, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I've reverted it back for you. Are you happy now? Do you enjoy giving your tax dollars to these bloodsuckers? Wahkeenah 18:08, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Last of?
FTA: "McAfee Coliseum, Dolphin Stadium, and the Metrodome are the last of the "multipurpose facilities" that were once common throughout professional sports." I'd just like to point out that the Skydome/Rogers Centre in Toronto is also a multipurpose facility. It hosts Canadian Football League and Major League Baseball games as well as other events. Therefore it should be included on this list. --CokeBear 18:03, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * So, change it already! Wahkeenah 18:16, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Longest Home Run
What is the longest home run to left feild? I know people hit the upper deck in right but I am curious as to how far a home run would have to go to get the the upper deck in left. User:02:17, 1 August 2006 65.27.96.112 (Talk) (Longest Home Run) 02:17, 1 August 2006 65.27.96.112 (Talk) (Longest Home Run)
 * There is nothing about it in the Twins media guide. That's surprising, considering how much time and effort they have made over the years to get exact measurements. They even did that at the Old Met. This much I can tell you: It would take a titanic blast to hit the left field upper deck. But I bet Harmon could have done it. He put one on the left field roof at Tiger Stadium, and believe me, that was one long drive. Wahkeenah 02:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Possible replacements section is too wordy
Anyone wanna work on fixing it?

I added subsections for each team and cleaned a little bit up. It still needs some major work, though. EC2 14:07, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Year for Superbowl
How is adding the year for the superbowl vandalism??? It may not be needed but that doesn't make it vandalism.
 * I talked with the user about that. We're good. Wahkeenah 16:32, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Wiping out edit
What's the point of just wiping out the notes I added about Mickey Hatcher trying to catch Dave Kingman's ball in the Trivia section, without any explanation? 80.255.39.45 04:22, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Sections
This has become a big article at 34K. I put in splits to essentially move out everything that does not explain what the Metrodome is. The text about the Twins Ballpark is largely already in that article, so probably can be removed from the Metrodome article and a main template be put in. The Vikings stadium information probably has to stay for now. The controversy section could be its own article. Group29 21:18, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Swastika
Perhaps we should add something about the accidental "Swastika" shap in the ceiling from the way the ceiling was designed? We could put it in the "Controversies" section. I didn't do it. 21:00, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I've never seen it, so that sounds like "original research", and certainly no "controversy", unless you can find a proper source. Wahkeenah 21:06, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I can vouch for the swastika shape. I noticed immediately upon my first visit the "zig zags" where the stiffening beams join at the apex of the dome. It may or may not be an interesting piece of trivia about the design. See an article (with picture) here The Final (Ballpark) Solution: Does the Metrodome Roof Contain a Giant Swastika? - City Pages Vol 26 Issue 1276 first published May 18, 2005 Group29 15:49, 17 April 2007 (UTC) (moved here http://www.citypages.com/2005-05-18/news/the-final-ballpark-solution-does-the-metrodome-roof-contain-a-giant-swastika/)
 * It appears that the newly installed 2011 roof has a pattern more like a checkerboard than the zig-zags ending in the swastika. Group29 (talk) 00:31, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Infobox
It looks really bad that there is no pic in the infobox. It really doesn't matter if its football or baseball. I'll move one there, just to make it look better.Duckblazer 02:06, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

"Homerdome"
I too have read that the park factors for the Metrodome show it's not really a "homerdome," but the ESPN park factors (for which they have data going back to 2001) indicate that in recent years it's about even, favoring neither pitchers nor hitters. If no one can come up with a good citation on the Metrodome actually being a pitcher's park, that line in the article should be adjusted.

Metrodome HR park factors 2001-2006: 2001: .864, rank 28/33, 2002: 1.175, 11/33, 2003: 1.032 14/33, 2004: .925, 21/33, 2005: .947, 15/33, 2006: .836, 25/33 -- overall average: .963 (in case any one is curious...)

Loudest stadiums

 * Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome ... domed
 * Arrowhead Stadium ... outside
 * Qwest Field ... roofed

Just a note. J. D. Redding 02:40, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Controversy?
"Controvery" is such a terrible mess that I suggest deleting it entirely. This part of the entry reads like "stadium issue blogging" written by someone without the slightest understanding of the NPOV policy.

Just a few examples (though several dozen are obvious):

"The Metrodome is thought to be an increasingly poor fit for all three of its major tenants"

"The indoor venue is particularly welcome ..."

"It is impossible for the citizens of mid-sized U.S. metropolitan areas ... to be assured that any given professional sports team will remain in the area." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.118.177.108 (talk) 04:07, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I just read that article and I was under the impression someone was trying to sell me a project for a new stadium. 137.122.30.230 (talk) 02:07, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Please replace the head picture with one with the background of downtown Minneapolis skyline.
I don't understand why the current one is shot from this angle, showing the most under-developed and grey region around the Metrodome. It just couldn't be worse. The Metrodome is actually seated in a prosperous area and there are many ways to make a beautiful picture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.101.33.142 (talk) 00:36, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Cookie cutter stadium category
At best the Cookie cutter stadiums is an Original Research essay. It shows a remarkable misunderstanding and contempt for stadium design. I removed this category. Group29 18:38, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

"The Humpty Dump"?
I've never heard this before, pretty sure it's made up. I'm gonna delete it if no one objects. Smarterthanu91  • Talk 06:51, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Beat ya to it. :) Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 12:18, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Deleting it once again, if it's put bak up, please source it Rapier1 (talk) 07:46, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Reasons for Twins move
I added a Cite tag to this. The reason for this is that not only is it uncited, but there is evidence that Griffith was never too thrilled with the Metrodome. Carolus (talk) 15:23, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

The roof is a mess
This sentence is a mess: "More common is for a ball to strike an overhead speaker, which are even closer to the playing surface; such balls are also alive and in-play (although starting with the 2005 MLB season, the ground rules for balls hitting the speakers have been changed as David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox discovered when a deep fly ball that would have been a home run, excepting speaker interference bounced off a speaker and landed in fair territory (Ortiz was awarded a single and the Twins went on to win the game)."

User:Bkil 14:28, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Feel free to improve it. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 17:00, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Which I see you did already. The "fact" tags are a bit superfluous, as the speakers get hit fairly frequently, especially the ones on the third base side. I should point out that the roof itself is still a mess. They should vacuum it once in awhile. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 17:25, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

I reworked it some more, and decided to remove this part, since there are no specifics, and it really doesn't make sense, i.e. it is not obvious that any changes were made in 2005 - the ball hit a speaker, and Ortiz got a single. If true, it squares with the normal ground rules:

"Balls hitting speakers were also ruled to be alive and in-play before the 2005 MLB season. However, the ground rules for balls hitting the speakers have been changed as David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox discovered when a deep fly ball that should have been a home run bounced off a speaker and landed in fair territory. Ortiz was consequently awarded a single and the Twins went on to win the game."

Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 17:38, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Hey, thanks! We really needed an expert helping out in this area, as I'm illiterate in sports... I also see you've got some good sense of humor! ;-) bkil (talk) 00:09, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

New Vikings Picture
Does anyone else think the current picture used in the Vikings section is too small and dark? It could really use an upgrade. I have a picture that could possibly be used (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VikesXmas.JPG). It's not that great but I would like to get the ball rolling on a newer picture. [September 29th, 2009]

New name?

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Page was already moved

Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome → Mall of America Field at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome — Just signing to put the nomination in the correct place at WP:RM. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:08, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Someone's getting carried away here. According to this article the stadium itself has not been renamed, it's only the football field. →Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 16:18, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I'm still looking for a better source, but this article goes on to note that "It would take a legislative act to change the name of the stadium." --Onorem♠Dil 17:50, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia uses the full title for Invesco Field at Mile High where as most people probably just say Invesco Field. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.169.161.1 (talk) 21:44, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. I don't know if it will be called this for all events but going forward on Vikings games it will be called this title needs to be in the first paragraph of the article.
 * That's the field, not the stadium overall. →Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 21:48, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

I think it's reasonable to add redirects; until it's clear that the name of the stadium is changing, though, I think we should stick with the current name. Mrfeek (talk) 04:28, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
 * There's already a redirect from the theoretical new name to this page, so it's covered. And when we have the definitive answer, the appropriate page can be made the main page with the other one as a redirect. →Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 04:37, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I think there's a semantic misunderstanding here since the Metrodome name is remaining despite the Mall of America sponsorship. In North American sports, "field" is generally a synonym for "stadium". If there are more sources like the KTTC source that say differently, I can accept that, but it seems incredibly odd since no other North American sports franchise has naming rights for its playing surface rather than its stadium. Doc Quintana (talk) 22:14, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, here is the chapter of Minnesota law referred to by the official Metrodome website. I couldn't find what KTTC was talking about specifically there. However, the Metrodome site doesn't mention the Mall of America naming rights despite all the other sources that do. Doc Quintana (talk) 22:23, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Compromise?
Perhaps a section within the article in regards to the name change would work as a compromise until it's clear whether the rename refers to the entire stadium or just the playing surface within the stadium. Doc Quintana (talk) 22:26, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
 * We start to get into the "common name" debate, as the writeups on today's baseball game so far that I've seen simply say "Metrodome". Although that doesn't prove anything, since the name change only occurred yesterday. But it's still unclear about what's named what. →Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 22:30, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
 * This is why I think we should just make a section under the "controversy" section in regards to the exact name until it is absolutely clear. I think that could satisfy both sides of this argument. Doc Quintana (talk) 22:35, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd have no real argument over a naming rights section, but a 'controversy' on-wiki is not a reason to include the issue in the controversy section of the article. It's not a controversial issue as far as the structure itself is concerned. Multiple articles refer to the field and playing surface as what the naming rights were for, and a few (like I posted above) explicitly state that it's the field, and not the building...and that to rename the stadium itself would require a legislative act. I haven't seen anything outside of Sid's column that says that the building is what's being renamed. --Onorem♠Dil 02:50, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know that there's any "controversy" about it at all. There's just some confusion about it. A local mall bought the naming rights to the field. It's not like they sold the rights to al-Qaeda, or Green Bay, or some other enemy. →Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 03:04, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Controversial or not, there's already a section in the article called "controversy" that includes topics about as innocuous in the grand scheme of things. What i'm saying here is instead of this impasse, let's just put a subsection about the naming confusion in that section. Multiple articles refer to the entire stadium rather than the playing surface, and nobody here has actually shown the legislative act if it actually exists. Doc Quintana (talk) 15:02, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

 * What reliable source indicates that there's any kind of controversy about the name? →Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 16:29, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Would you like to rename the section? I think we're seeing the word "controversy" in different ways here. The things in that section are not particularly contreversial either. It certainly is unclear as to what Mall of America field refers to given the conflicting sources. Doc Quintana (talk) 16:42, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

 * You're right, most of that "controversy" stuff is more like "quirks". Or maybe this is what passes for "controversy" in the stoic upper midwest. →Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 17:14, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Ok, so i'm assuming there's a consensus here with renaming the "controversy" section as "quirks" or "unexpected developments" or "disputes" or what have you and then putting the naming rights issue as a subsection in there and not mentioning the "Mall of America field at..." part in the intro until it's clear one way or another, probably a few months from now. Doc Quintana (talk) 19:05, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

 * I called the ticket office to find out what's going on. They think the entire stadium will be renamed, and that the Vikings are pretty much holding off until the Twins' have played their last Dome game. They said there are some banners on the stadium advertising the "Mall of America" thing, and that's the only signage so far. I also asked when they are moving the Twins offices to Target Field, and the best they could tell me was "sometime in the winter". Duh! →Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 23:27, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Gotcha. We can put the placeholder down below somewhere in the meantime and removed the disputed tag. Doc Quintana (talk) 00:12, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

FYI CBS used Mall of America Field, Minneapolis MN for highlights yesterday 204.169.161.1 (talk) 17:53, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Can we just change the name of this page already. Since MOA Field at the HHH Metrodome name has been used on numerous telecasts and has been posted all over the stadium. Packerfan386 (talk) 10:05, 6 April 2010

 * As that now appears to be the common name, a rename is probably OK. Just don't lose the redirect from "Metrodome", et al. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:01, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
 * With one caveat: It appears this renaming is only temporary, 3 years or some such. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:02, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

 * Three years is awfully long time these days and there is a somewhat good chance MOA Field won't even be around (if the Vikes get a new park) in that amount of time. Plus if they don't some other corporation will probably buy naming rights after the current contract runs out. Packerfan386 (talk) 04:41, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I tried renaming this article but "Mall of America Field at the Hubert H. Humphrey" appears to be a redirect so it will take someone with Admin powers to make the necessary changes. Packerfan386 (talk) 04:41, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not an admin, but it worked for me. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 09:45, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Page move
I don't object to the recent page move, but I wonder if it might be still better to title this simply Metrodome. It is likely the most common name, and there is only one Metrodome. Jonathunder (talk) 22:41, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * For sure, the most common name is "[The] Metrodome". There's a redirect from that name. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:33, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

 * Given the Move discussion above, I've reverted the move. We can't just move pages to titles we like/prefer when they are at their current title by consensus - that's disruptive. If someone wants to open another Move discussion, they're welcome todo that. By the way, I saw a game on TV a few weeks ago that was at the Metrodome, and they showed an outside shot of the stadium with "Mall of America Field" clearly visible on the edge of the roof, but no "Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome" anywhere in sight. Kinda odd to put the name of the field on the building when the building has a different name, isn't it? - BilCat (talk) 00:52, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

I wish the page move had not been reverted; it was an improvement. "Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome" is in no way the common name of the place. If you want the official name, it is still defined by state law: Minnesota Statute 473.551 DEFINITIONS. Subd. 9. Metrodome. "Metrodome" means the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome located in the city of Minneapolis constructed and owned by the commission..." Jonathunder (talk) 03:45, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I doubt the Vikings could have done this rename thing without getting permission from the Stadium Commission. Maybe someone could find out some details about how that deal went down? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:48, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

 * We have guidelines for a reason. People should not move a page anytime they want too when it's been a contentious issue in the past, especially when it's been discussed before. I'm not supporting a preferred title, but a consensus. Discuss it, build a new consensus, and then move it. Anyway, this is probably a situation where WP:COMMONNAME is applicable, as the official "correct" name is unclear. Metrodome is likely the best choice under the situation. - BilCat (talk) 07:21, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

 * Actually, what the locals call it is "The Dome", but that's hardly a unique name, so it wouldn't do as a primary title. As regards the signage, until that Viking stuff went up at the rim, I think the only signage was "Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome / Minnesota Twins Ticket Office" in big letters atop the ticket offices, which are at street level on the sun-facing side of the building. On the Interstates near the downtown, the direction signs used to say "Metrodome Stadium this exit" or whatever. I haven't seen the stadium for awhile, so I don't know what the current signage is. It's very unlikely it's still going to say "Minnesota Twins Ticket Office" anymore, but I don't know about the rest of it. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 11:12, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

 * This photo from 2007 is a bird's-eye view of the Dome from its west (third-base) side, and at full blowup you can see that ticket office, and that there was no apparent signage at the rim. This photo from last fall shows that ticket office up close, and the signage that was new at the time. (Side note: The 2007 photo was taken less than 3 months before the I-35W bridge collapse, that bridge being out-of-frame to the left.) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 11:28, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

 * I'm assuming this was the sign I saw on the broadcast, only it was at night and lit up. (It was probably a Vikings preseason game shown on the NFL Network.) - BilCat (talk) 13:07, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Aha! That's new since last year. What we might have here is a name dichotomy. Like when the Angels played at Dodger Stadium during 1962-65, they called it Chavez Ravine. Or more recently, when the Jets played at Giants Stadium they often called it The Meadowlands. As for Mall of America Field, that's a local business, and maybe the Gophers would just as soon stay away from anything that sounds like advertising. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 13:29, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Indeed, it seems that in a baseball context, the stadium would never be referred to as "Mall of America Field". From what I can tell, that is a name that is exclusive to football events at the stadium. The stadium itself is called the "Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome", and as you can see here, the University of Minnesota continues to use that name for the stadium. – PeeJay 00:52, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Legally the stadium will always be known as the "Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome". As As a public resource the stadium cannot be renamed. The "Mall of America" moniker has been mostly rejected as a name by Twin City media outlets. I strongly support moving the page to the "Metrodome" or "Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome" I think PeeJay2k3's move was a definite improvement. 184.97.248.238 (talk) 15:46, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * If it's "illegal", how did they get away with putting "Mall of America Field" all over the structure? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:56, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't think that's quite what the anon meant :P If what he/she says about the impossibility of renaming the stadium itself is correct, then I assume that for the Vikings to be able to sell the naming rights, they had to call the field "Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome" rather than just "Mall of America Field" or "Mall of America Metrodome". – PeeJay 18:23, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Peejay2k3 is correct. As this article indicates, only the football playing field has been temporarily renamed. Advertising and changing the name of elements within the stadium is completely permissible. Crunk Cup (talk) 01:46, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not convinced. Someone needs to get a definitive answer on this matter. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:54, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, contemporary news sources all make specific mention of the fact that it's only the playing surface that has been renamed. As well as the ones the anon gave above, these sources are quite explicit about that fact. They also point out that the reason the "Mall of America Field" signage is so prominent on the stadium is that it was a condition of the sponsorship deal. – PeeJay 07:58, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * You may be right, and this also feels like deja vu from about a year ago. I'm going to see what I can do about determining just what the deal is. If it's actually for sure only the playing field, you might want to consider having the primary name as just plain "Metrodome", with HHH Metrodome and MOA Field at HHH Metrodome as the redirects. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 08:06, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I haven't made any calls yet, but this much I can tell you:

 * As noted before, "Mall of America Field" now appears in big letters painted on the roof.
 * The ticket window area lettering was changed since last year and it now reads this way:
 * MALL OF AMERICA FIELD
 * AT THE H.H.H. METRODOME

 * The only place on the property that the word "Metrodome" appears without qualification is on one of the many "cards" on the electronic message board at the southwest corner of the block.
 * It's also worth pointing out that the direction signs on the interstates still specify "Metrodome Stadium". This doesn't mean much, as the Met Center direction sign in Bloomington remained in place for years after the Met Center had been demolished.

I usually assume that the signage at a given place reflects the correct name or names, on the expectation that the people running the place should know what they're doing

The question now seems to be where the dividing line is, if any, between the "stadium" and the "field".

Another thing to be checked is whether the stadium commission still owns the property on which the Mall of America sits. If so, then there would likely be no issues with the name, and it's a good fit anyway since the MoA sits where the Old Met used to be. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:40, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * There are no places on the property that use the word "Metrodome" without qualification. It is always referred to as the "Hubert H. Humphyrey Metrodome". Any mention of "Mall of America Field" is simply advertising the sponsorship deal on temporary renaming the field.
 * There is an distinct dividing line between the field and the stadium as proven above. The name "Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome" is exclusively used to refer to the field for Vikings games. It is never used to refer the facility in general or to the playing field when used for any events that are not Vikings games.
 * Whoever owns the land occupied by the Mall of America is irrelevant in this discussion. 184.97.248.238 (talk) 02:38, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

 * Your first point is incorrect. One of the slides in the electronic advertising board on the southwest corner of the block (a board which itself is labeled simply "Mall of America Field") says simply "Metrodome" and has an illustration of the stadium and a website link of some kind. In any case, there are only 2 places on the outside of the building I know of that say "Metrodome" in any way, and the only name visible from any distance is just plain "Mall of America Field". I noticed during the NFL game broadcast on Sunday that both the screen graphics and the announcers stated just plain "Mall of America Field", no reference to "Metrodome". I took that with a grain of salt, as obviously the Vikings would encourage that usage. However, neither the cameras nor the announcers were on the field itself, which is why I wonder about the "dividing line". I also don't understand your assertion that what the stadium commission thinks is somehow not relevant. Surely they had to approve the new name's usage? In any case, if you go strictly by "common names", then just plain "Metrodome" is probably still the most common. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 09:04, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * In fact, I'm thinking that a phone call to the stadium commission itself would probably provide a definitive answer to this puzzlement. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 09:05, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * According to their website, the number for the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission is 612-332-0386. And their page uses strictly "Metrodome" as the name. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 09:09, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The owner of the MOA appears to be the Triple Five Group. Whether they own the "field" upon which it sits is unclear. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 09:22, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * This interesting timeline indicates that the sports commission over time sold the various parts of the MOA property to other interests. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 09:28, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

OK, I talked to someone at the sports commission, and it is only the field itself which is "Mall of America Field". Despite the highly visible signage, the building remains just plain H.H.H. Metrodome, "and it will remain that way as long as it's standing." So the correct answer appears to be to make either Metrodome or H.H.H. Metrodome the actual article page, and make the other stuff redirect to it. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:21, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * This is supported by the sources I gave above. Personally, I think that Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome is the best title, since there are other places and companies known as "Metrodome", such as the Barnsley Metrodome Leisure Complex in Barnsley, UK, and a British film distributor. Furthermore, this site appears to be the stadium's official web presence, and it refers to the stadium as "Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome". – PeeJay 19:57, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Titling it just plain "Metrodome" was suggested on the theory that there was only one Metrodome. If there's more than one, that won't work, so your recommendation seems optimal. Which means we're back to where we were at the point of the move. Having gotten confirmation of the situation from the stadium commission, I'm convinced that not only is "Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome" the best choice, calling the article "Mall of American Field" or "Mall of American Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome" is incorrect. Unless someone wants to write an article about just the green part, which seems rather silly. So, at this point, I suppose it's time to take a "vote". ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:27, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't really see the need to take this to a !vote. Consensus seems to be pretty conclusive from the conversation above. Is there anyone left who still thinks that "Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome" is an appropriate title? – PeeJay 20:31, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The one possible objecter would be BilCat. Let me inform him of what's going on and see if he has any serious objections to "Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome". ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:38, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

 * He says OK, and Jonathunder below says OK. Gopher it. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:48, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

This place is the primary meaning of Metrodome, which redirects here, even if isn't strictly the only one. A hatnote to a disambig page can take care of any others--we do that on many articles. I'd like to see the page at Metrodome, but I can live with H.H.H. Metrodome. It would be an improvement over the current title, which is simply wrong. Jonathunder (talk) 23:07, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

 * Naming the field differently than the stadium is not unheard of. For a number of years after it was constructed (1975), the name of Iowa State University's stadium was 'Cyclone Stadium' while the name of the football field itself was 'Jack Trice Field'. --71.214.220.165 (talk) 06:05, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Age move
It opened in 1982 and it's 31 years old? Excuse me? 69.29.50.158 (talk) 13:42, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Good catch. That bit of vandalism was introduced in late October, now fixed. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:10, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Metrodome roof collapsed
The headline sums it up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.8.254.60 (talk) 00:31, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

The article was updated moments afterward. Since the entire building didn't collapse, this was placed in its appropriate section. Reading (or even scanning for the photo of collapsed roof) would have prevented the confusion presented here. --Bobak (talk) 01:16, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

 * 68.xxx, thanks for the headline, I understand the situation now. At first, I thought that the stadium finally figured out how much people hated it, and tried to implode itself. It failed, though, and couldn't blow itself up either. :P - BilCat (talk) 01:34, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

"Metrodome" v "the Metrodome"
It seems someone has gone through and removed the word "the" from the references to "the Metrodome". This is very jarring, as the stadium simply isn't referred to in that fashion in either common usage locally or in any of the sources quoted in the article. I've started re-adding it, but if I miss any feel free to add it as well. To anybody that wants to change it back, please find a reliable source stating that simply calling it "Metrodome" as opposed to "the Metrodome" is proper. Thanks! SeanNovack (talk) 19:35, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Any stadium with the suffix "dome" or "grounds" has typically been preceded by "the" in common usage. The stadium itself will typically not have "the" posted in front of it, nor would it be presented that way in a tabular list. But in prose, "the" is typically used. It once went further than that, for example Yankee Stadium was often called "the Yankee Stadium" in its early years. A somewhat parallel usage is the big sign at Wrigley Field which says "Home of Chicago Cubs". In normal prose you would say "the home of the Chicago Cubs". The "thes" are not necessary for a sign or a list. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:56, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Usage section - coatrack?
There is a discussion over whether articles about buildings should contain sections on usage and events. Some say such sections are violations of WP:COATRACK. Depending on how the discussion goes, about 2000 words of this article might be removed. If anyone has thoughts about the issue they can participate at Neutral point of view/Noticeboard.  Will Beback   talk    00:40, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * A usage or event is only a "coatrack" if it's disproportionately covered. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:51, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I guess the issue is, in an article on a building, how much coverage of events is too much.   Will Beback    talk    01:01, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Why "WAS" for the Vikings?
The lede includes the sentence, "The Metrodome was home to the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings, and the Big Ten's University of Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball team through 2010 and 2012, respectively." I can't find anything, anywhere that suggests the Viking have stopped using the Metrodome. Nothing appears on their page. There is talk of a new stadium in Ramsey County on the Vikings Stadium page, but nothing suggests that the Vikings will disappear this year.

Can someone with more knowledge on the topic either correct the 'was' or explain it in the article? I was just here for the architecture, so I wouldn't even know what primary sources to consult. Kevin/Last1in (talk) 15:42, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * While clearly just my opinion, I'm sure they will figure out some arrangement for the next couple years while potential new stadium talks go on. Officially for now though, the lease they had to play there has ended. It's hidden a bit, but there in the replacement facilities section. --Onorem♠Dil 15:52, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Reason for home field advantage
why was there a home field advantage for the twins on those world series'? the white roof and the turf.. was it just that the twins were used to them while visiting teams weren't?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.7.241.1 (talk) 10:56, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Demolition, tense changes
I added a section on the demolition process near the end of the article. I'm not sure if it's placed in the best place withing the article. Should it be merged with the replacements section? Also, I've added a date range for the demolition to the main infobox, similar to that seen on Yankee Stadium (1923). I assumed the deflation of the roof marked the beginning of demolition.

Also at some point we'll have to go through the entire article and change all tenses from present to past. I'm not sure when this move will be appropriate, it isn't now I don't think since the building is technically still there.

-- Tommie 91  • Talk • Contribs  15:58, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

I removed the word 'infamous' regarding the Metrodome's roof because that is POV which is not allowed. Steelbeard1 (talk) 15:55, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

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Grady Gang

The Grady Gang was a New York City sneak thief gang during the 1860s. Organized by fence John D. "Traveling Mike" Grady following the American Civil War, the Grady Gang operated in Broadway's "Thieves Exchange" where Grady would regularly purchase up to $10,000 in stolen goods.

He soon formed his own gang from many of the prominent thieves of the decade including Billy "The Kid" Burke, "Boston" Pet Anderson, Hod Ennis, Eddie Pettengill and Jake Rand. The gang's most successful theft was the robbery of $2 million in cash and bank certificates from financier Rufus L. Lord on March 7, 1866. By the end of the decade, most of the gang members had retired; however, Grady would continue operating as a fence. Later, he competed against rival fence Marm Mandelbaum who had formed a gang of her own. Grady, however, bought out Mandelbaum by offering her gang members much higher prices than she could afford to pay and she was quickly eliminated as a competitor.

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William Keyser

William Leigh Keyser (November 23, 1835 – June 3, 1904) was an executive of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) and the Baltimore Copper Company.

Early life
Keyser was born in Baltimore, Maryland on November 23, 1835, the son of Samuel Stouffer Keyser and Elizabeth (née Wyman) Keyser. He was educated at various private schools in Baltimore, and entered St. Timothy's Academy in Catonsville, Maryland in 1846. He and his twin brother, Samuel, remained there until 1850, when their father's declining health and weakening financial situation made it necessary for the boys to leave school. Samuel eventually moved to New York City to make his way in business there, while William stayed in Baltimore to manage his father's warehouses.

Career
In 1857, William formed a partnership with his other brother, Irvine Keyser under the name "Keyser Brothers". He was active in the firm, as well as the Abbott Iron Co. and the Baltimore Copper Company, throughout the 1860s.

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
In 1870, William Keyser became involved with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, taking a position as second vice-president during the term of its president, John Work Garrett. The town of Keyser, West Virginia was named for him. While at the B&O, he was instrumental in labor negotiations during the 1871 and 1877 railroad workers strikes. In 1881, Keyser left the B&O. His action was precipitated by Garrett's decision to promote his son, Robert Garrett, over Keyser.

Baltimore Copper Company
Keyser next ventured into copper manufacturing. In 1882, the court appointed him to oversee the financial affairs of Pope and Cole, a local copper processor. The company had declared bankruptcy, and Keyser, as one of their largest creditors, had a vested interest in seeing them regain solvency. His association with Pope and Cole piqued his interest in the copper industry. He eventually reestablished Pope & Cole as the Baltimore Copper Company and purchased the Baltimore Smelting and Rolling Company. His entry into copper production allowed him to amass a fortune larger than if he had stayed with the railroad.

Philanthropy
Keyser put his money to many philanthropic uses. He donated funds for a hall at Hannah More Academy in Reisterstown, and was instrumental in the founding of Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus. In November 1894, Daniel Coit Gilman, the university's first president, asked Keyser for his help in securing another site for the school, which was outgrowing its location in downtown Baltimore. In early 1901, Keyser and his brother Samuel offered 179 acres to the university with the condition that "at least 30 acres of the property be given to the city for use as a public park", which then became Wyman Park. Material in the Keyser-Wyman Papers recounts his association with his cousin, William Wyman, who donated a large portion on the land, and their efforts on behalf of the university.

Before his death in June 1904, Keyser was appointed a member of the Citizens' Emergency Committee which was charged with developing a plan for rebuilding the downtown after the calamitous Baltimore fire of February 1904. The Committee prepared street and dock improvement plans, which were adopted.

Personal life
On November 11, 1858, he married Mary Hoke "Mollie" Brent (1838–1911), daughter of the well-known Baltimore lawyer, Robert Brent. In Baltimore, they lived in a home designed by prominent architect T. Henry Randall, and were the parents of three children who lived to adulthood:

 * Robert Brent Keyser (1859–1927), who married Ellen Cary McHenry, a daughter of James Howard McHenry (a grandson of Secretary of War James McHenry). He served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins University from 1903 until shortly before his death in 1927.
 * Mathilde Lawrence Keyser (1870–1929), who married William Maurice Manly, the widow of Frances Howell Hughes Kennedy (eldest granddaughter of U.S. Senator Anthony Kennedy) in 1902.
 * William Keyser Jr. (1871–1936), who married Jean Hancy, a daughter of Edward Johnson Hancy.

Keyser died suddenly as a brain aneurysm burst at his summer home, Brentwood, in Reistertown on June 3, 1904. Within days of his death, his twin brother Samuel was "lying ill at his residence" in New York and his nephew, Henry R. Keyser (son of his brother H. Irvine Keyser) died from meningitis at his country home near Chatelane. After a funeral at the Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, William was buried in the family plot at Baltimore's historic Green Mount Cemetery. His widow died seven years later on October 29, 1911. At the time of his death, he was reportedly the wealthiest man in Maryland.

Descendants
Through his son R. Brent, he was a grandfather of three: Juliana Brent Keyser (wife of Gaylord Lee Clark), Ellen McHenry Keyser (wife of Ambassador James Cabell Bruce, son of U.S. Senator William Cabell Bruce and brother of David K. E. Bruce), and William McHenry Keyser.

Legacy
The city of Keyser, West Virginia is named for William Keyser.

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Painite

Painite is a very rare borate mineral. It was first found in Myanmar by British mineralogist and gem dealer Arthur C.D. Pain who misidentified it as ruby, until it was discovered as a new gemstone in the 1950s. When it was confirmed as a new mineral species, the mineral was named after him.

The chemical makeup of painite contains calcium, zirconium, boron, aluminium, and oxygen (CaZrAl9O15(BO3)). The mineral also contains trace amounts of chromium and vanadium, which are responsible for Painite's typically orange-red to brownish-red color, similar to topaz. The mineral's rarity is due to zirconium and boron rarely interacting with each other in nature. The crystals are naturally hexagonal, but may also be euhedral or orthorhombic. They also may have no crystalline structure, but usually are accompanied by a crystalline structure. Until late 2004, only two had been cut into faceted gemstones.

Discovery and occurrence
Extensive exploration in the area surrounding Mogok, which comprises a large part of the extremely small region the mineral is known to exist in, has identified several new painite occurrences that have been vigorously explored resulting in several thousand new available painite specimens.

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Walter Steward

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Zoth Ommog Records

Zoth Ommog Records was a German Industrial music record label that was owned by parent label Music Research. The company was established by German music producer Andreas Tomalla (aka Talla 2XLC) in 1989 and later handed over to producer Torben Schmidt. The label released albums for such bands as Leæther Strip, X Marks the Pedwalk, Bigod 20, Lights of Euphoria and Klinik between 1989 and 1999.

The company based its name on the fictional character Zoth-Ommog in the Cthulhu Mythos.

In the United States, many of the Zoth Ommog artists were released domestically under Cleopatra Records and Metropolis Records.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EYE Magazine

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE   — Gwalla | Talk 18:01, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

EYE Magazine
Marked for speedy but isn't a candidate. Nominator abstains from voting. — Gwalla | Talk 23:44, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Seems to be the international review of graphic design. Tentative keep unless proven non-notable; most published magazines are encyclopedic. Meelar (talk) 00:03, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is not a good stub because you can't tell what magazine the author is talking about.  There is a design magazine with that name, still being published.  There is also magazine with that name published in London for education of 0-5 year olds (EYE perhaps for "early years education"?).  There have also apparently been a "a girlie magazine from the 1950s [and] a Canadian music magazine" .  It may be that the author is talking about Eye Magazine published by Hearst in 1968-1969 as their take on youth culture.  Only 15 issues were published.  It is difficult in any of these to see where the author came up with " published through 2001."  Since there are many magazines with the name, I would delete this and wait for a real stub (or even better, a real article) on one of the magazines with that name. It's not our job to read the author's mind. - DS1953 00:28, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per DS1953. Jacob1207 01:16, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless someone can quickly expand this into an article that actually has information. 23skidoo 02:28, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I can't see why this isn't a candidate for a speedy delete. SlimVirgin (talk)  03:43, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep EYE Magazine was a culture magazine, available in places like Tower Records, Barnes and Noble and the like, published in the late 1990s, through 2000. Its old website was http://www.eyemag.com.  Apparently, several other magazines have born its name. 68.10.35.153 18:41, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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