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User talk:Gcapp1959

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RE: Double Eagle II
Geoffrey, thanks for jumping in and adding a lot to Double Eagle II! Normally we put prose ahaed of list, so I moved the text up (make it more Wikistyle). I added 12 Wikilinki's to your new text. Please give the twice over.

This sentence is awkward:
 * "The crew made a landing at Le Bourget Airport, the landing site of Charles Lindbergh, their objective, but they were running out of ballast, and it looked risky to try to negotiate through the obstacles ahead. They landed in a field of barley, owned by Roger and Rachel Coquerel."

But I wanted to consult with you first, and hopefully get the facts. The first sentence implies that they "made" it to the airport. While the second says that they fell short. Can you add how far the field was from the airport? Something like this:

 * "The balloon crew wanted to repeat what Charles Lindbergh had done in 1927, and land at Le Bourget Airport. But running out of ballast they felt that they could not negotiate through the obstacles ahead. They landed in a field of barley, owned by Roger and Rachel Coquerel, two-miles short of the airport."

Or what ever the distance is. Since you added that "some were never found" and "Two British adventurers" we might want to name those individuals. What do you think?

Thanks again for making the article better, building a better Wikipedia one edit at a time! WikiDon 28 June 2005 19:53 (UTC)

Why did you un-Wikilink Le Bourget Airport to Le Bourget airfield?
 * QUESTION:

"Won't You Come and Fly In My Beautiful Balloon"
Is this from the song: "Up, Up, and Away" by The Fifth Dimension? or is this a different song? WikiDon 28 June 2005 22:17 (UTC)

yes, up up & away

Northwest Territories general election, 1896
This article that you created has been listed at votes for deletion; the lister, User:Cloveious, says that the Northwest Territories had no general election that year. Please give us your input at its entry there. --Idont Havaname 07:42, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Highway 11 History
Please do not plagiarize information found on www.thekingshighway.ca! My website is not considered public domain. All of my research findings are protected by copyright. Thank-you! Cbevers 22:05, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

LGBT Opposition
I wrote this for the Svend Robinson page, but had second thoughts about posting it there. In light of your recent change to the 2004 CHP candidates page, I'll post it here instead:

Geoffrey,

Let me preface my remarks by saying that I've been aware of your political career for some time, and that I can remember CPAC's interview with you in the 2000 election. Even though I strongly disagree with the CHP's position vis-a-vis gay rights and with many particulars of your remarks in the present discussion, I'm willing to accept that you regard your position as both well-intentioned and a reflection of your fundamental religious beliefs. I'm also going to take the view that you're willing to listen to reason as regards the management of Wikipedia.

First, let me address the "LGBT rights opposition" category. This category has existed on Wikipedia since late 2004 and, to the best of my knowledge, has not occasioned very much controversy since this time. Most of the entries are American, and their opposition to LGBT rights is both well-known and acknowledged by all participants in the public debate.

The present controversy has been started by an editor using the name "Bill38", who has entered the CHP and other Canadian groups/people into this category. I will fully acknowledge that some of "C38"'s choices have been dubious, and perhaps ill-informed (for instance, s/he listed Bev Desjarlais in this category solely because of Bev's opposition to the actual Bill C-38, even though her record on other issues is pro-LGBT). For that matter, I've disagreed with some of C38's actions on other matters: his/her decision to list Ron Gray on vfd was extremely petty, and runs counter to Wikipedia's accepted policy on covering party leaders.

Regarding the CHP and the "LGBT rights opposition" category, however, I have a hard time finding fault with C38's logic. As I understand it, the term "LGBT rights opposition" refers to persons and groups who oppose the rights of LGBT individuals (and couples, and organizations) to maintain an active and equal presence in civil society as LGBT individuals, couples and organizations. There is no question that the CHP fits into this category. Whether or not members of the party "hate" homosexuals on a more personal level isn't really the point at issue. (Your comments indicate that you don't. I'm not sure the same can be said of all other CHP candidates.)

My second point concerns the "Free speech opposition" category. Based on how the "Categories for deletion" vote is going, most Wikipedians seem to regard this is a POV exercise -- and they're right. I doubt that a category of this nature could possibly be managed in a NPOV manner, given the myriad of interpretations as to what "free speech suppression" actually is. (Would a civic official who shuts down a Klan rally be fair game for inclusion, for instance). It's true that some people in Canadian political circles regard Svend Robinson as an opponent of free speech, but this is only an opinion, and not the sort of thing that should lead to formal categorization.

If you have a problem with the "LGBT rights opposition" category, there are a number of different options you can take: you can suggest it for deletion, you can suggest that the title be changed, or you can clarify that there are divisions within the category (and I see that you've already done the last of these). Creating a dubious category in response, however, is the wrong way to go.

I'll ignore your comments on "unhealthy behaviour" and "normalization" for the purposes of the present discussion, though my opposition should be noted here as well. CJCurrie 01:19, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Bill Brady
William J. Brady, C.M., LL.D. Full Name 	Honour Received 	City and Prov. or Terr. Brady, William J. C.M. 	London, Ontario Honour 	Appointment 	Investiture C.M. (Member) 	April 19, 1991 	October 30, 1991

Founding President of Transplant International (Canada), this London broadcasting executive is largely responsible for educating the public in the field of organ retrieval and is a spokesman for organ retrieval programmes across Canada and in many other countries. He is also a Director of the Multi-Organ Retrieval Exchange Program of Ontario, the organizer behind a London centre for juvenile diabetes research and past National Director of the Canadian Heart Foundation.

From The Governor General of Canada's Web-page. He's a companion, but still, I feel his contributions to not only London, but the region and the country as a whole (through his volunteer work) make him at least as notable as Roy McDonald. I couldn't believe it when the anon kept deleteing Brady and didn't even notice the McDonald entry. Sign me constantly amazed, Hamster Sandwich 03:13, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Article
Geoff, I have taken the liberty of creating a sub-article on you at Christian Heritage Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election based on your user page. I hope that you do not have a problem with this. Please let me know if you do. As you may know, Wikipedia has a policy against autobiographies, so it is probably best if you do not edit the article yourself. If changes are needed, you can either post them on the article talk page, or on mine. that way, the changes cannot be made without anyone accusing the article of being a "vanity" article. Based on our differences of opinion, I don't think that anyone would suggest that I am letting you create a vanity article by proxy. Regards, Ground Zero | t 18:11, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Unless it's a real hatchet job (in which case I'd ask a friend to consider making any minor corrections), I would have no objection. In regard to that topic (2004 Cdn fed elec candidates), I can't recall clearly, but I may have primarily modified it by adding the other 56-58 candidates' names, sans sub-articles, and structuring it for the 3-4 people who already had some kind of detailed entries.

GBC 03:54, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't think anyone would object to you editing other parts of that article. In fact, I would encourage you to add info on other candidates, since you may know some of them. And no, I wouldn't do a hatchet job. I lifted most of the material from your user page and added in election results. I hope it's okay. While I have strongly-held opinions on many things, which I will express on Talk pages, Wikipedia articles are not the place for them. Regards, Ground Zero | t 14:56, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks so much Geoffrey for your edit to telephone numbering plan. It is in fact a small part of the months-long conflicts between user:Huaiwei and I over the status of Hong Kong and Macao. Please let me know if you're interest and would like to give a hand. :-D — Instantnood 17:02, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Country = sovereign state?
Hello Geoffrey. Something like the conflict with telephone numbering plan ( edit history, talk page) has continued. User:Huaiwei has created category:political entities, and moved many categories previously grouped under category:countries, such as dependent territories, to populate this new category. I've listed this new category to WP:CFD, citing the WP:POINT policy. Please take a look at the discussion there and express your view. Thanks. — Instantnood 18:09, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * There's no discussion at "Category: Political entities"?! GBC 05:09, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * It was a new creation by user:Huaiwei. — Instantnood 13:43, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

Energy Corporations
Great work on Nunavut Power Corporation, Yukon Energy Corporation and Northwest Territories Power Corporation. One thought, don't forget the external link to the actual company next time. Otherwise, I really enjoy the articles. -- Spinboy 18:32, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Interpretation or not?
Dear Gcapp,

please have a look at Christian Heritage Party of Canada and speak up whether you think of the following sentence:

 * "... the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms acknowledges "God" (in their interpretation meaning the Judeo-Christian God) in its preamble."

I think the term in parantheses is superfluous and POV, since it declares something to be an interpretation which IMHO is not an interpretation but obvious. However maybe you, as a Canadian know better. Also this might have been discussed before, though I have found nothing on it.

Cheers. Str1977 19:02, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

 * To me, as a Christian and as one astute in history who knows the religious inclinations of the Fathers of Confederation, I know which God they meant when they wrote that paragraph: the supremacy of God. However, I am content to abide by the majority consensus of the Wikipedians as to the inclusion or not of the term in parentheses, since it can become a bone of contention. The Bill Brady and Hong Kong tussles distress me, and I don't think this is a big enough issue to get into a tussle over. Few religions capitalize God to indicate a single deity, and Judaism and Christianity are two of the best known mono-theistic faiths. GBC 04:57, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

2006 election
So, are you throwing your hat in the ring again? Ground Zero | t 13:40, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Unknown. But thanks for asking. Lest the thought have wafted even remotely through your mind, no the election being at Christmas does not offend me in the least; the Libs, NDPs, BQ and even sometimes the Conservatives offended my sensibilities quite adequately during the last many years! An election that offers a chance to rebuke them cannot offend me! GBC 01:56, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Nice work you're doing on the minor parties' results. Thanks, Ground Zero | t 22:25, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Cambridge Bay
I'll email the guy right now. He'll see it in the morning (10:30 pm here). If you really want to see the map of the streets go to my site and follow the link to Cambridge Bay or if you're really bored then look at my pictures. There are some of Cambridge Bay in there. (Cheap website plug, sorry). CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 05:33, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I see that they haven't updated the site yet. Here's a direct link to the only street map I know of (at my own site). It's well out of date. It was done after the high school burnt down but before the new one was constructed and should be just to the left of 19b. Other than that it looks OK. My house is just across the road from the "t" at the end of "airport". CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 23:00, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Is this a joke?
Hi colleague. May I please ask you to make this encyclopedic before someone else did. Thanks. ←Humus sapiens←ну? 03:28, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Quebec Route 109
Thanks for contributing info on Quebec route 109. But did you know that the section from Matagami to Radisson is not considered part of this route? It used to be part of rte 109 (and most maps will still show it as such) but it is actually municipal now and route 109 ends in Matagami (it goes to Amos and beyond). I will create a new article on the James Bay Road (using your info from rte 109) and remove the redirect. Just a heads-up... P199 18:20, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

 * How interesting! Is this an example of "downloading" by Quebec similar to Ontario's massive highway downloading of 1999-2000? Have other Quebec highways been downloaded? GBC 19:19, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, but I am not familiar with the extent of the transfer. P199 17:13, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Still redirects to route 109 article. BTW, I've added a section under List of Quebec provincial highways, where Route de la Baie James appears, so if you add List of Quebec provincial highways at the bottom of the article, the links will... link up. GBC 18:16, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

yukon
why were those 2 members kicked out of the NDP? Pellaken 11:50, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

 * They were considering whether to run in the next election as independents or for the Liberal Party. Mr. McRobb has always been a bit more of a non-conformist and independent-minded. Mr. Hardy decided to expel them from caucus. The two schools of thought are: (1) he's removed a trouble spot and created a more united caucus to face the next election; (2) he's alienated a significant block of NDP support and doomed the NDP in the next election. Only time will tell. GBC 16:44, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Time in Canada
Just to let you know that all the communities in the Kitikmeot Region are on Mountain time and have been for at least the last 32 years, which is when I arrived here. For some reason I have never been able to find a correct Time Zone map. Even the CIA map is wrong and shows the eastern Kitikmeot as Central time. The main reason we are all on Mountain is airline service which is mainly from the NWT (Yellowknife). Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 08:14, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Now I feel stupid. At the bottom of the article was a link to here that has the most correct map and shows the Kitikmeot correctly. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 09:04, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Some years ago (1980s?), I obtained a Canada Time Zone map from the Canada Map Office. It shows the three Kitikmeots in Central, but each surrounded by a small circle noting they are Mountain. GBC 22:47, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Dominion and Trans-Canada Networks
Your little flip-flop of the text in the Dominion Network and Trans-Canada Network articles was wrong. If you look at http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/index3.html under "1940s", you'll find this text:

 * CBY became CJBC - the key station of the CBC Dominion Network - when it was formed January 1, 1944.

--  Denelson83  01:23, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

CBFT
While CBFT could be said to expand in that way (as a backronym), there is no evidence to suggest that it was formed with any such meaning in mind, but rather (as with all the other CBC "production centre" stations) simply by adding the letter "T" to the callsign of the associated radio station, as with CBMT, CBVT, CBOT, CBLT, CBET, CBWT, CBRT, CBXT, CBUT, CBAFT, CBEFT, CBOFT, CBWFT, and so on. 121a0012 01:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for Terra Nova expedition
Gday Geoff. I wanted to say thanks for cleaning up my haphazard handiwork on the Terra Nova expedition. If you are a 'keen' Antarctic history buff there are some wonderful photos of Scott's huts at Cape Evans and Hut Point over at the entry 'Scott's hut'. Hmm, perhaps I should go there first and make sure I didn't leave a mess behind there also... I have been tinkering with the Robert Falcon Scott entry (mostly in the 'debate' section) but will go back there soon - the Terra Nova entry has made it fairly clear that Amundsen's foray into the Ross Sea was not a simple 'breach' of the protocol of 'separate spheres of exploration', as the Norwegians had been there a couple of times already. Regards, Tban 00:20, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Don't you just have to admire these men for finding their way across the continent, to find their depots, despite the lack of GPS, and facing a nearly featureless, bland landscape of non-descript mountains and flat plain of glacier?  And to be sure that they've actually reached the pole even though it's not the magnetic pole? GBC 16:43, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Boston Tea Party
Howdy, I noticed that you and I seem to post in one or two articles dealing with progressive issues in political science/sociology. There's currently a debate beginning in Boston Tea Party as to whether the article should include the category. It meets definitions set in the articles Terrorism and Definition of terrorism, however, there are several self-proclaimed patriots who watch BTP who refuse to recognise the fact. The simple criteria for terrorism generally seem to be intimidation or destruction of property in order to change public policy or public opinion while a state of war has not yet been declared. Some users would rather use recent acts of terrorism as a yardstick, rather than using a firm definition, and hence lose their ability to discuss matters calmly. Would you be able to pop in to the Talk page and join in the discussion? Thanks much, samwaltz 05:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Old Settlements
Couple of things. Ennadai still puts out weather and is available here or here. Now looking at it I thought that it was an Automated Surface Observing System (AWOS) but I'm not so sure. If you go to here you can see that Ennadai is listed while no other AWOS is. So it may be that some weather is being put out by Ennadai Lake Lodge. There are things missing from the observations that would be easy to do with the AWOS but would need a bit more training for a human, such as cloud height and visibilty.

Resolution Island had a Distant Early Warning Line site that was turned over to the Canadian Government in 1974 which is why it had a telephone exchange and still produces limited weather. But why there would have been (if I read your comment correctly) multiple listings for the site is odd. The DEW line site here is run by Nasittuq Corporation and have only two numbers, one of which is a fax, listed in the phone book. There is third but that is for the helicopter pilots and is not listed. They also have their own phone system which is seperate from the Northwestel lines. We have a red phone at the airport with which we can access their circuits in an emergency. The numbers are in the format XXX for the Cambridge Bay site and XX-XXX for off-site numbers.

Based on living in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories in the the late 70s when we first got phone service. The four-digit number system would suggest calls within the site would be fine but calls out of site or into the site would require going through Bell's operator. This was the same system we had and worked fine until you wanted to make an overseas call. From our arear you got the Bell operator in Montreal and they had a very hard time with the fact that we only had 4 digits. Don't know if you looked at User talk:Simtropolitan but I left some more information there. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 03:30, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, I remember visiting the public library in my then-home town of London, Ontario, where they had a complete collection of phone books across Canada. Resolution Island was listed and they had almost as many phone listings as, say, Cape Dorset or Broughton Island (Qikiqtarjuaq today), and they were residential listings as well as a few businesses. I didn't look to see what those businesses were - I just took it to be another Arctic community with a Here Before Christ store, RCMP detachment, some government offices and such.

 * As to four-digit numbers, phone companies actually assigned a "mark code" to each community to make a seven-digit number. I am surprised that the Montreal operator did not have one for each Bell Canada community in the east; in the west, in Ulukhaktok, you would have gone through the Northwestel/CN operator in Hay River, Fort Nelson or Whitehorse, who would have been fully aware of the mark code for each community and marked the call on a ticket, even if the connections were made by an operator in Montreal. That is, the Nwtel/CN operator would mark the call for billing, but dial 514 and a three digit sequence to reach the Montreal operator, who would connect the call but not do billing. Ulukhaktok, then Holman, was, I believe, 403-111- and four digits. (Spence Bay was 403-148, Pelly Bay was 403-149, Gjoa Haven was 403-150, Snowdrift was 403-165. 403-396 was used in Hay River until 1978. I'm not sure what Paulatuk was, maybe 403-136.)

 * Resolution Island and other Bell communities would also have their own mark codes in 819 or even 418 area codes (it was 418 prior to the late 1970s); Pangnirtung was 437, but changed to 473 when it became dialable.

 * Mark codes were and still are used for international calls; Pitcairn Island does not have a country code, so national telephone services use a mark code to indicate it so that the computer knows where it is and can apply the appropriate rate and show it on the bill with a place name. The same for Western Sahara, Guantanamo Bay (from the US, it can be dialed 5399, but the rest of Cuba is non-dialable), some places in Antarctica. Many other places that had a mark code in Canadian telco records have since obtained country codes and are now able to be direct dialed, such as Greenland, Christmas Island, St. Helena, Carriacou, Turks and Caicos Islands (the latter two +1 then area code 809 at first). GBC 15:58, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

 * For some strange reason when we talked to the operator in Montreal if we said 111 and called it a "ringdown number" they knew what we ment. I was in Spence 1974-1975 but was able to make the overseas callls without any problems. It was the Northwestel in Hay River that was our first contact.

 * It just dawned on me. I wonder if what you saw in the phone book was Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories rather than Resolution Island. They would have both been in the NWT but of course in different phone books. with Fort Res in the Northwestel and Resolution Island in the Bell? book. I found some info and pictures of the DEW line site on the island. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:01, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 * No, I am completely certain there was an additional settlement with the name Resolution. It abruptly disappeared around the 1980-1983 period... in fact, it is noticeably absent from a list I painstakingly compiled around 1980, going through each of those library phone directories and marking the prefixes used in a list by area code. Resolution Island did not come up (I kept separate notes of non-7-D exchanges). GBC 17:16, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 * It's an odd one. I thought it might have been Resolute, Nunavut but that's still there. I'll go over to the local library this weekend and see if they have anything. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk)

 * Actually, I think the mark code for Paulatuk was 191, and another community (Sachs Harbour?) was 187. For international, I think codes Canada used before country codes were assigned included 011 for Greenland, 005, 006 and 007 for Australian offshore territories, 013 or 015 for Guantanamo Bay, and I don't recall any others with precision, though I believe Turkish Cyprus might have had a code as well. GBC (talk) 16:06, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Archer edits
I skimmed through your edits to the Jonathan Archer article and noticed that most of them changed the language to past tense. Generally speaking, the wikipedia (and academic in general) style when referring to any creative piece -- a movie, TV show, painting, play, etc. -- is to refer to those events/people in the present tense. --EEMeltonIV 18:36, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Gcapp, I have pictures of the Clifford J Rogers ship if your interested
Hi Gcapp,

I have pictures of the Clifford J Rogers ship if your interested. If your interested, here is some info I dug up on the ship http://www.chucksquared.com/fam_CliffordJRogers.aspx. I do have a full pic of the ship as well as the small slide show that is on my page.

Charles

Above the lip, below the nose
Hi, you asked on Talk:Dimple about the little "dimple" or whatever that's above the lip and below the nose. I think that the word you're looking for is philtrum. -- pne (talk) 05:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Ballot systems
In case you didn't mark the discussion as something to watch, I added some comments below your own comments on polls/precincts, at the U.S. 2006 elections talk page. — OtherDave 13:40, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Talk:White Pass and Yukon Route
I have noted your comments about Whitehorse's location and I have copied and pasted them on Image talk:YukonWhitePassRailmap.png. As yet no one made the required correction or found a better map.

Peter Horn 01:58, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Area codes
I saw your edit to Area code 867 and reverted it on a temporary basis, as I felt it needed some sort of category. I was intending to come and discuss it with you then got distracted. I thought about it and was going to go with "Area codes in the Canadian Territories" similar to the media category. Then I thought that "Communications in (territory name)" might be better as it could include postal codes and the phone company. However, I looked in our phone book and then checked the other categories and Category:Area codes in Manitoba, Category:Area codes in New Brunswick, Category:Area codes in Newfoundland and Labrador, Category:Area codes in Nova Scotia, Category:Area codes in Prince Edward Island and Category:Area codes in Saskatchewan are all single area codes as well. So right now I think they probably would be best as is. Or another way would be to have "Area codes in the Canadian Territories", "Area codes in the Maritimes" and "Area codes in Western Canada". Alberta has two and BC has three (604 and 778 are in one article).

I also have a question for you because you worked for the phone company. Nunavut has 3 area codes. Eureka, Nunavut has 613 as a fax only and 204 as voice and I think fax as well. Now my question is where would I find the area code for Alert, Nunavut? I have emailed the DND but as yet no reply. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 04:25, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, forgot to mention that they say there may be a 5 - 45 day wait for information. At least my security check is up to date. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 04:26, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Alert has no telecoms link, as far as I know. It is too far north for geosynchronous satellites (Eureka is the limit). They're probably in the AUTOVON system or some sort of secure hi frequency network. Theoretically, it could be 867. Since it is strictly military, there is no need to a connection to the civilian network. However, there are locations, with military support but which are civilian, like McMurdo in Antarctica, that are not direct dialable (if New Zealand and Australia can make their Antarctic bases dialable, why hasn't the USA?). GBC 17:42, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks. Then based on that I would guess it's also 204/613 because while looking it up I found a 1970s reference to the better phone connections after Eureka got updated. I actually got a reply from them telling me to contact the inquiries officer in Calagary. We have todays equivalent to the AUTOVON here, I can call our local North Warning Site, a few other places but mainly the Flight Service Station in North Bay if our regular phones go down. We just have a ordinary phone but still have to dial 88 for North Bay. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 19:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Alert's Canadian defence network phone number (defence network area code 319) is 945-0146 and 996-7811. I don't know how anyone could connect into that network, direct or by an operator. GBC 23:05, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

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White Pass and Yukon Route
The right thing to do would be to start a discussion on the talk page and compare the two maps and let everyone know you plan to replace the existing map and why. If no one diagrees or you come to a consensus to replace then replace the image and nominate the existing map image for deletion at WP:IFD as obsoleted by your map.

The other way is just to replace the image with yours and see if anyone yells! -Nv8200p talk 21:08, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

The map
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with respect to Withdrawn Canadian banknotes
See this comment

White Pass and Yukon map
I'm sorry that this response has been so long in coming, but I have been in China where it is virtually impossible to reach Wikipedia through the "Great Firewall". The map's source is as stated on the information page, namely Online Map Creation, which states that its maps are "still free". I've created quite a few. Anyone can. Also, anyone can modify them using Paint (I use that, too) or whatever graphics manipulation software they have. If you have a more accurate version of the line's route to Whitehorse, I suggest that you simply upload it with exactly the same filename and overwrite the old one. There should be no copyright problem. Kelisi 23:46, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

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Northwestel
What happened here? Did you not get finished? For now I put it back to this version with the links. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 23:35, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Hardy Boys Questions
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After the referendum, the British passed the British North America Act, 1949 (now called the Newfoundland Act). It was a separate act from the British North America Act, 1867. Apparently the British just named all acts pertaining to Canada (mostly constitutional) British North America Act,. -Royalguard11 (T) 18:05, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Obama
You and I may have a severe disagreement when it comes to Obama and the fact its been proven hes obviously qualified in every way, but darnit if I'm not looking at your userpage and see you enjoy Square Dancing. Dance on my canadian political opposite! --DemocraplypseNow (talk) 06:56, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Not at all, pushing the thought that Obama somehow hasnt proved hes qualified is like me pushing on your page that your a square dance hating atheist. Everyone knows its wrong. DemocraplypseNow (talk) 07:02, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Cell Calls before ACARS
I answered your query about the old Cell Call system, mention in Arthur Haley's "Airport" novel, at this talk page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Aircraft_Communications_Addressing_and_Reporting_System#The_1960s

Let me know if you need any additional information on that subject.

BTW, I love the old B & W "My Favorite Martian" sitcoms too. I have saved quite a few of them on DVDs. EditorASC (talk) 08:23, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

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Do not add nonsense listings to List of The Backyardigans episodes
And if you don't have a synopsis written by yourself, don't add anything at all. Half Shadow  17:33, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Because they haven't played yet. One of the primary rules here is you don't copy/paste from other sources. Every single synopsis posted there thus far has been done in our own words and at least half of them have been personally done by me. I admit I jumped the gun in your case, but I've seen people 'fake' synopsis before (in fact here's an example that, ironically enough took place just today), and you don't just put down a title and a copied synopsis and say 'well I'll just fill in the rest later'. At best that's lazy, at worse that copyvio. (EDIT 5:06 PM) This is an example of a 'proper' synopsis, posted just today by me: List of The Backyardigans episodes Half Shadow  17:09, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

 * I don't intend to equal the quality of your work. You obviously are good at recognizing the genre and preparing the synopses.  No argument.  (I wasn't aware you were the one making them.)  I still don't see the harm of listing the titles and a brief synopsis of upcoming episodes that viewers can look forward to. GBC (talk) 05:57, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Because in your case you're just copying the info directly from the site you got the info from and anything posted here should always be in your own words. Even if it were allowed, they'd be deleted when I or someone else posted the real synopsis anyway. The new episodes are currently playing here now (in fact, today's episode is "Los Galacticos"), so they'll all be listed within the next week and a half anyhow.

 * Again, I apologise for calling you a liar, I reverted without looking, but I'm rather proud of this page. It's not all my work, but it's the one page I've personally added the most to. If you wait about ten days, you can see what you have to look forward to. Half  Shadow  17:20, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

re: Caitlin Ryan's date of birth
My source for Caitlin Ryan's date of birth is the pilot episode for Degrassi: The Next Generation. In it, Emma Nelson, when she meets up with Caitlin, reveals herself to be such a diehard fan of hers, that she even blabbed her date of birth back at her, the date I wrote on Caitlin Ryan's page. In other words, accurately or inaccurately, Caitlin's date of birth was retconned into that episode of DTNR. Amchow78 (talk) 23:40, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

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 * This is the previous map. As you can see, the curve at the north end puts it way off into the boonies, nowhere near a river, which was the point of building the line to Whitehorse in the first place: to link up with river steamers.  I felt the map did a disservice to information.

 * This is the successor to the site where the map was apparently sourced.

 * if you can suggest an alternative means of supplying a map more accurate than the one prior to 3 July 2007, please let me know. GBC (talk) 17:50, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

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 * Yes, I took these pictures myself. I believe it was in 1988, but possibly 1989 or 1990. GBC (talk) 04:52, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

 * I added a description and some information about the individual pictures so it is appropriately licensed. Will you check to make sure all looks good, please sir? -- Тимофей ЛееСуда .  12:26, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

 * Looks fine. I had not known precisely how to "legitimize" these things.  Thank you! GBC (talk) 14:15, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Old English Wikipedia
(It's rare for me to trespass on the English Wikipedia unless tagging or replacing pictures uploaded to Commons...)

That was your message over at ang:? The Old English Wikipedia is a smaller project with a select bunch of editors because there are few speakers about. I see it as an educational project; we can all learn screeds of Old English from the poems and texts left to us by our ancestors but the Wicipedia makes us stretch ourselves to make that language come alive.

Picking new words for concepts then unknown is pushing the boundaries a bit, but it gets you thinking; a rare commodity amongst Wikipedians.

There are no native speakers left, although on occasion I find myself thinking in Old English for a phrase or two; sometimes it has the best expressions. There are a great many re-enactors about who re-eanct life and battles of the age, and some of them get into it more than just dressing up and camping for a week or so; you should see their homes! This is much the same for language; live it and speak it and you come to understand it better and bring it to others.

There are more many motives for building the OE Wikipedia than there are users. The language is part of all of us who are descended from the people of that age and a cultural jewel; in the Dark Ages, English was the only living language in Western Europe to be written down, as everywhere else they used degraded Latin, as if their own tongues were somehow inferior, but no one of us will let Englisc be seen as in anyway inferior to any Latinate tongue. You could cynically say "there is a Latin one so there must be an Englisc one".

As to audio samples, they will be somewhere on the web (the Woruldhord project might have some) though in every case it is a best guess. The accents of the West Country shires, Someset, Dorset, Devon etc, seem to be a good guide to West Saxon pronunciations, as their use of vowels matches very well what we see in writing. Hogweard (talk) 17:55, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
 * For audio samples, you can look on YouTube (though most of them have lackluster pronunciation, according to every single variant of reconstructed OE phonology I've seen - some are okay, though). There are several examples of the Lord Prayer in OE on YouTube - look up "Fæder Ūre". Gott wisst (talk) 05:20, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

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Image:OntarioAreaCodeEvolution.JPG
A question about Image:OntarioAreaCodeEvolution.JPG: It looks from the way this was drawn that Windsor, Ontario was originally in area code 416? The text of the 416 and 613 articles has the pre-1951 boundary somewhere west of Kitchener, Ontario to dump most of the province into 1-613. Should there be one more area code boundary, somewhere between London, Ontario and Kitchener, splitting the future 1-519 territory between 613 and 416? K7L (talk) 21:12, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * No, this is the "concept" shown on a 1947 map. The early code boundaries were not rigid for all time, but more of a general nature.  Remember that until 1958, not a single Canadian could direct dial long distance calls, so area codes were not in the public consciousness.  A person in Ottawa calling London or Toronto or Kitchener would simply be asking the operator to place the call, and giving the local five-, six- or (by the mid-50s) seven-digit number.  The operator would connect into that city's operator and give the called number, which would then be rung and the final connections made for the caller.  Later, the operator would be able to dial the area code and a three digit number to switch into the distant city's operator centre to request the called number.
 * Customers would only have become aware of the area code once DDD became available, if not to that customer, in the area, and as numbers were standardized to seven digits (either ANC - All-Number Calling - or 2-5 numbers - two letters and five numbers such as GLadstone 5-1234). "(416) Metcalfe 2623" (a London phone number) or "(416) Ilderton 2-K-24" (an Ilderton phone number) are not numbers you would ever have seen printed or heard quoted - 416 would not have formed part of the number.
 * It is possible that many or all of the 1947 boundaries for area codes were based on the long distance operator lines, possibly in combination with population patterns of the time. Toronto might have been the point where nearly all calls in southern Ontario were routed through from points further away, and it might have been expected that the 416 area code would have enough capacity for points to the southwest but not much more, hence the boundary, and 613 would be enough for the remainder.  California in 1947 was divided into three - north, central and south, the boundaries running from the sea to the inland border, but around 1950-51, the northern two thirds was realigned to have one code for the coastal portion (415, where you would find 707 and 408 in the 1970s) and one for the inland (916, where you would later also find 209 in the 1970s).GBC (talk) 14:42, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

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Hi Gcapp1959: Sorry to trouble you, but I could not help but notice your expression of affection for TOS on the Wikipedians who like Star Trek: The Original Series page, and so I would be curious of your thoughts on the notability of a Star Trek author for whom I just created a Wikipedia article -- which may be promptly destined for the trash pile. As a newcomer here at Wikipedia, my first article attempt was indeed recommended for deletion within hours of its creation by a senior user named JzG who seems to me to be overly hostile and dismissive of Star Trek, calling it fancruft (= trivial, obscure, of importance to just a tiny group of fanatics). Since you are a Trek fan, if it is also your good faith opinion that my subject is in no way deserving of an article on this site; and you could let me know, I would feel much more comfortable with the justice of the pending deletion action. My proposed article may be seen here, assuming you visit the page soon enough ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Gurian Kind Regards. Tosresearcher (talk) 05:42, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Candid assessment: the article has merit, but I am not sure the best way. I think JzG is being too zealous.  A much wider consultation would be merited.  There surely are articles on Wikipedia that concern people much less prominent.  Perhaps you could cover more about this writer, putting in references to other writing work he's done that is not directly related to Star Trek, establishing his credentials as a writer. GBC (talk) 05:55, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

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Star Trek, TNG. "The Royale" Talk Page
Hi. I asked you a question on the talk page of the Star Trek TNG episode “The Royale.” It was a reply to a comment you had made ("Lower than absolute zero") back in 2008. Therefore, you’d be unlikely to ever see it which is why I bring it to tour attention here. I’m not very scientifically inclined or educated, while you appear to be. Therefore, I’d be appreciative if you could take the time to read and answer it. It shouldn’t take long at all. It's sort of related to your comment, loosely, that is. Thank you very much for your time:

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 * Even though some martinet deleted the discussion on grounds that the talk page is not a forum (I mean, really, get a life!), I was able to read your most helpful answer. That makes sense, or as much as anything can make sense in the SF scenario.  Thank you very much for your time.   It’s most appreciated.  Best wishes.HistoryBuff14 (talk) 18:36, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

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To the Contrary

To the Contrary is an American half-hour all-women news-analysis program. The show airs weekly in 91 percent of TV markets on PBS stations in the United States, in Canada, and internationally on Voice of America TV. Award-winning journalist Bonnie Erbé was the show's moderator, and was produced by Persephone Productions since 1996. The show's first executive producer was Carol Wonsavage, who served from the show's debut in 1992 until 1993. John Davis of MotorWeek was the executive producer from 1993 to 1998. Cari W. Stein has been the executive producer of To the Contrary since 1998. When To the Contrary premiered on April 3, 1992, it was taped at Maryland Public Television in Owings Mills, Maryland during the first six seasons, which is also the home to Wall Street Week, and MotorWeek. In 1996, Erbe took the show to the newly formed Persephone Productions. From 1998 to 2009, the show was produced by KPBS in San Diego, California.

The half-hour show debuted on April 3, 1992. Four female panelists and a moderator discuss the week's major developments, with women-related news stories and topics. The first show featured topics, such as The State of the Economy, and SCOTUS and School Desegregation. Erbe's panelists on the first show were Julianne Malveaux, Dorothy Gilliam, Kate O'Beirne, and Linda Chavez. The show tries to focus on how the news affects people, rather than politics.

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Operation Union

Operation Union was a search and destroy mission in the Que Son Valley carried out by the 1st Marine Regiment from 21 April to 16 May 1967. The object of the operation was to engage the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 2nd Division.

Background
The Quế Sơn Valley is located along the border of Quảng Nam and Quảng Tín Provinces. During the Vietnam War it lay in the southern part of South Vietnam's I Corps. Populous and rice-rich, the valley was viewed as one of the keys to controlling South Vietnam's five northern provinces by the communists and by early 1967 at least two regiments of the PAVN 2nd Division had been infiltrated into the area.

The 5th Marine Regiment minus its 2nd Battalion, an experienced force that had fought in Vietnam since their arrival in mid-1966, was assigned to the valley in 1967 to support the outnumbered Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces in the area, the 6th ARVN Regiment and the 1st Ranger Group.

Since mid-January 1967 Company F, a reinforced company of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, had manned an outpost atop Nui Loc Son (Loc Son Mountain), which dominated the southern Que Son Valley. Although the PAVN and Vietcong (VC) forces operating in the valley did not initially take much notice of the Marines, on April 15, 1967, the Company F commander advised Colonel Emil Radics, the commander of the 1st Marine Regiment, that PAVN/VC units appeared to be preparing for an all-out assault on the outpost.

Radics developed a plan for a multi-battalion assault and sweep aimed at clearing PAVN units from the vicinity of the mountain. The plan was approved as Operation Union by Major General Herman Nickerson Jr., the commanding general of the 1st Marine Division on April 20 and was put into action the following morning.

Battle
Acting as bait, Company F was ordered to leave its outpost to sweep toward Binh Son, the nearest enemy-held village complex. Contact with PAVN elements began around 07:00, shortly developing into a full battle. PFC Gary W. Martini would be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the battle. The Marine company was soon pinned down in a tree line near Binh Son, thereby fixing the PAVN forces who were soon subjected to a withering air and artillery bombardment. This allowed Company F to attack into Binh Son as the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, arrived to support them via a helicopter assault.

The main body of the 3/1 Marines fought into the village to join Company F in engaging the enemy while other elements of the battalion landed from helicopters east of the battlefield to block the PAVN’s most likely escape route. During the afternoon, United States Army 175 mm self-propelled artillery and Marine 105 mm howitzers established separate firebases near the battlefield, and that evening the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines landed atop Nui Loc Son.

On the morning of 22 April the PAVN had been driven out of Binh Son and withdrew to the north. On 25 April the 5th Marine Regiment relieved the 1st Marine Regiment in the valley.

On 27 April a Marine triggered a land mine in a landing zone which set off a series of secondary explosions resulting in 1 Marine killed and 43 wounded.

On 10 May, Company C 1/5 Marines became pinned down by PAVN fire on Hill 110, two more Companies from 1/3 Marines were sent to support them which also came under fire and were unable to advance. Company A 1/5 Marines was sent in support, but as it began its assault a forward air controller misplaced an airstrike on their position resulting in 5 Marines killed and 24 wounded stopping their assault. Company D 1/5 Marines then moved to outflank the PAVN position while Company M 3/5 Marines also joined the battle. By evening the Marines had overrun the PAVN positions killing 116 PAVN for the loss of 33 Marines killed and 135 wounded.

On 13 May the 1/5 Marines engaged a PAVN Battalion killing 122 PAVN. On 15 May Companies A and M found a PAVN bunker complex and called in air and artillery struck, 22 PAVN bodies were found in the wreckage.

Aftermath
Operation Union concluded with US forces claiming that the PAVN suffered 865 casualties for the loss of 110 Marine dead, 2 missing and 473 wounded.

The 5th Marine Regiment was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation awarded by President Lyndon Johnson.

On 26 May, 5th Marines, which had assumed control of the latter stages of Operation Union, kicked off Operation Union II.

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Metropolis of Pittsburgh (Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church)

The Metropolis of Pittsburgh  is a sui juris metropolitan see of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church that is located in the United States of America and Canada. The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church is one of 23 sui juris (self governing) Eastern Catholic particular churches in the Catholic Church that is in full communion with the Holy See. The metropolis uses the Byzantine Rite in its liturgies. It was erected as a metropolis (archdiocese) by Pope Paul VI in 1969. The metropolis has jurisdiction over those communities that originated (in terms of their ancestry) from the regions of Carpathian Ruthenia, Slovakia, Hungary and the former Yugoslavia. Worshipers come from several Byzantine Catholic groups: Rusyn Americans, Slovak Americans, Hungarian Americans, and Croatian Americans. In 2022, governance of the Exarchate of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto in Canada passed to the metropolis of Pittsburgh from the Slovak Greek Catholic Church.

The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church does not have a unified organization.

Organization
The canonical territories of the Metropolitan Province are:
 * Archeparchy of Pittsburgh
 * Established in 1924
 * (60,200 faithful, 84 parishes, 83 priests)

 * Eparchy of Parma
 * Established 1969
 * (12,401 faithful, 37 parishes, 38 priests)

 * Eparchy of Passaic
 * Established 1963
 * (24,031 faithful, 89 parishes, 84 priests)

 * Eparchy of Phoenix
 * Established 1981 at Van Nuys, transferred in 2010 to Phoenix
 * (2,849 faithful, 19 parishes, 25 priests)

 * Exarchate of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto in Canada
 * In 2022, the exarchate was transferred to the metropolis from the Slovak Greek Catholic Church
 * (4,800 faithful, 4 parishes).

Although Rusyn Americans constitute the majority of members of the metropolis, the Church has ordinary jurisdiction over the faithful of certain Churches within the Slavic Tradition of the Byzantine Rite that do not have an established hierarchy in the United States, specifically those of the Hungarian, Slovak, and Croatian Greek-Catholic Churches.

When the Ruthenian Catholic Church in Europe was under atheistic Communist rule, and because of persecution, unable to organize publicly, the impossibility of regular communication with it meant that the distant American Metropolia, unable to be treated as a normal metropolia of an Eastern Rite Catholic Church (canons 133–139 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches), has been treated as a sui iuris (autonomous) Metropolitan Church (canons 155–173 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches). The Holy See's Annuario Pontificio has, however, always listed it not as a separate particular Church but as a Metropolia of the Ruthenian Church.

History
In 1924, an Apostolic Exarchate was created for the Ruthenian-Rite Catholics in the USA, with ancestry from the regions of Carpathian Ruthenia and other parts of the former Kingdom of Hungary. In 1963, the Apostolic Exarchate was divided in two parts, each transformed into a diocese (eparchy): one centered in Pittsburgh and the other in Passaic. Both remained under direct jurisdiction of the pope, and were officially defined as observing the Ruthenian Rite.

Ruthenian Catholic Metropolis of Munhall
In 1969, the Eparchy of Pittsburgh was raised in rank and renamed as the Archeparchy of Munhall, and in the same time a metropolitan province was created and named the Ruthenian Catholic Metropolis of Munhall, encompassing also the Eparchy of Passaic and the newly created Eparchy of Parma. The new Metropolis and all of its eparchies were officially defined as observing the Ruthenian Rite.

Byzantine Catholic Metropolis of Pittsburgh
In 1977, the Archeparchy and the Metropolis were renamed and redefined from Munhall of the Ruthenians to Pittsburgh of the Byzantines, and thus continued as the Byzantine Catholic Metropolis of Pittsburgh. In 1981, the Eparchy of Van Nuys was created and officially defined as observing the Byzantine Rite. In 2009, its seat was moved from Van Nuys to Phoenix, and its name was changed to the Eparchy of Phoenix.

In January 2007, Metropolitan Basil Schott, Archbishop of Pittsburgh promulgated a major revision of two of the major Divine Liturgies (Chrysostom and Basil) of the Byzantine Catholic Church.

Seminary
The church's Byzantine Catholic Seminary of SS. Cyril and Methodius, established in 1950, is located on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Observatory Hill. In addition to the training of priests, it offers a program in Deacon Formation as well as a Cantor's Institute.

List of Bishops and Apostolic Administrators

 * Gabriel Martyak (1916–1924) (Apostolic Administrator)
 * Basil Takach (June 15, 1924 – May 13, 1948)
 * Daniel Ivancho (May 13, 1948 – December 12, 1954)
 * Nicholas Elko (February 5, 1955 – December 22, 1967)
 * Edward V. Rosack (July 3, 1967 - December 22, 1967) (Apostolic Administrator)
 * Stephen Kocisko (March 5, 1968 – June 12, 1991)
 * Thomas Dolinay (June 12, 1991 – April 13, 1993)
 * Michael Dudick (April 1993 - February 1995) (Administrator of the Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh)
 * John Bilock (April 20, 1993 – September 8, 1994) (Apostolic Administrator - Archeparchy of Pittsburgh)
 * Russell Duker (September 1994 – November 15, 1994) (Apostolic Administrator - Archeparchy of Pittsburgh)
 * Judson Procyk (February 7, 1995 – April 15, 2001)
 * Andrew Pataki (April 2001 - June 2002) (Administrator of the Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh)
 * John Kudrick (May 2001 – July 9, 2002) (Apostolic Administrator - Archeparchy of Pittsburgh)
 * Basil Schott (July 9, 2002 – June 10, 2010)
 * William Skurla (June 10, 2010 – April 18, 2012) (Administrator of the Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh)
 * Eugene Yackanich (June 2010 – April 18, 2012) (Apostolic Administrator - Archeparchy of Pittsburgh)
 * William C. Skurla (April 18, 2012 – present)


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Ivan Zajc

Ivan von Zajc (also Ivan plemeniti Zajc, Giovanni de Zaytz; ; August 3, 1832 – December 16, 1914), was a Croatian composer, conductor, director, and teacher who dominated Croatia's musical culture for over forty years. Through his artistic and institutional reform efforts, he is credited with its revitalization and refinement, paving the way for new and significant Croatian musical achievements in the 20th century. He is often called the Croatian Verdi.

Childhood years
Ivan Dragutin Stjepan Zajc was born in Fiume, modern-day Rijeka, Croatia. His family migrated from Pressburg, Kingdom of Hungary (now Bratislava, Slovakia); his father, Johann Zaytz, was of Czech descent, and his mother, Anna Bodensteiner was of German descent. His musical talent was evident very early on in his life, as he began to study the piano and violin at the age of five, performed in public by the age of six, and even began to compose his own music by the age of twelve. Nevertheless, despite his early musical success, his military bandmaster father was opposed to the idea of a career in music and wanted him to study law instead following the completion of his secondary education. In the end, Zajc's professors prevailed and he entered the Milan Conservatory in 1850 with his father's consent.

Early success in Milan and Vienna
Zajc studied in Milan from 1850 to 1855, under the supervision of Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti (counterpoint and composition), Alberto Mazzucato (orchestration), and Lauro Rossi (dramatic music). During this period, Zajc took his studies very seriously and regularly won prizes as one of the conservatory's most talented students. He was awarded first prize at his graduation examination for the opera La Tirolese (1855), which was performed on stage in the same year. Zajc's future as a composer and conductor in Milan was secure, but the death of his parents in the meantime forced him to return to Rijeka.

Back home, he accepted the post of conductor and concert master of the Town Theatre Orchestra, taught stringed instruments at the Philharmonic Institute, and simultaneously wrote numerous compositions with his characteristic speed and ease. In 1860, his opera Amelia ossia Il Bandito was met with great success, though two years later, after a prolonged illness, Zajc chose to move to Vienna, where opera and theatre were flourishing. His eight-year stay there (1862–70) was marked by further success, though he settled for composing operettas rather than operas. His first Viennese work, Mannschaft an Bord (1863), was enormously well received and his later operettas only served to strengthen his growing reputation. Yet it was in Vienna that Zajc became involved with the Croatian academic society Velebit and frequently met with young Croatian students. Influenced by such Croatian cultural figures as bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer and poets Petar Preradović, Ivan Trnski, August Šenoa, and Matija Divković, Zajc chose patriotism over world fame and returned to Croatia.

Return to Croatia
Upon his arrival in Zagreb in 1870, Zajc was presented with two posts: director and conductor of the Croatian Opera and director and teacher at the Croatian Institute of Music. It was during this period that Zajc made his colossal contribution to Croatian musical culture, not only through his compositions, but also through his leadership in reorganizing Zagreb's musical institutions. He was also an excellent vocal teacher and succeeded in training several prominent singers. Zajc was an exceptionally prolific composer as evidenced by almost 1000 works, from Op. 234 to Op. 1202, produced during his time in Zagreb. Included in this number are Mislav (1870), Ban Leget (1872), his masterpiece Nikola Šubić Zrinski (1876), and Lizinka (1878), in addition to operettas, musical comedies, cantatas, songs and choral compositions, concerti, chamber music, and many other works.

Zajc's appointment at the opera was held until 1889, when owing to financial difficulties the organization lapsed for a time, but Zajc retained his post at the school until 1908, when he finally retired. He is credited with reviving Croatian music during a period of musical stagnation after the collapse of the Illyrian Movement and raising it to the artistic level where it stands today. His efforts paved the way for new and significant Croatian musical achievements in the early 20th century, which Zajc himself lived to see until his death on December 16, 1914 in Zagreb.

List of major works

 * La tirolese, Premiered in Milan on May 4, 1855
 * Amelia ossia Il bandito, Rijeka, April 24, 1860
 * Mannschaft an Bord, Vienna, December 15, 1863
 * Fitzliputzli, Vienna, November 5, 1864
 * Die lazzaroni vom Stanzel, Vienna, May 4, 1865
 * Die Hexe von Boissy, Vienna, April 24, 1866
 * Nachtschwärmer, Vienna, November 10, 1866
 * Das Rendezvous in der Schweiz, Vienna, April 3, 1867
 * Das Gaugericht, Vienna, September 14, 1867
 * Nach Mekka, Vienna, January 11, 1868
 * Somnambula, Vienna, January 21, 1868
 * Schützen von einst und jetzt, Vienna, July 25, 1868
 * Meister Puff, Vienna, May 22, 1869
 * Mislav, Zagreb, February 2, 1870
 * Symphony in C minor (also known as Symphonic Poem), Op. 394 (1870)
 * Ban Leget, Zagreb, July 16, 1872
 * Der gefangene Amor, Vienna, September 12, 1874
 * Nikola Šubić Zrinski, Zagreb, November 4, 1876
 * Lizinka, Zagreb, November 12, 1878
 * Der Wildling, Zagreb, September 23, 1905
 * Prvi grijeh, Zagreb, April 25, 1907; December 18, 1912
 * Oče naš, Zagreb, December 16, 1911

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