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Wall (disambiguation)

A wall is a solid structure that provides a barrier or enclosure.

Wall, WALL, or The Wall may also refer to:

Films

 * Wall (Original French title: "Mur"), a French–Israeli film about the Israeli West Bank barrier
 * The Wall (1962 film), an American propaganda film about the erection of the Berlin Wall
 * The Wall (1967 film), a 1967 French drama
 * Deewaar (The Wall), a 1975 Indian crime drama directed by Yash Chopra
 * Pink Floyd – The Wall, a 1982 film based on the music album by Pink Floyd
 * The Wall, a 1982 Holocaust drama starring Tom Conti
 * The Wall (1998 American film), a 1998 TV film
 * The Wall (1998 Belgian film), a Belgian tragicomedy film by Alain Berliner
 * The Wall (2011 film), a 2011 French film
 * The Wall (2012 film), a 2012 Austrian film
 * Roger Waters: The Wall, a 2014 concert film documenting The Wall Live (2010–2013), Rogers' worldwide tour of Pink Floyd's 1979 album, The Wall
 * The Wall (2017 film), a war film starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and John Cena

Literature

 * The Wall (A Song of Ice and Fire), a structure within the world of the epic fantasy novel series by George R. R. Martin
 * The Wall (Bykaŭ short story collection), by Belarusian writer Vasil Bykaŭ, 1997
 * The Wall (novel), by Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer, 1963
 * The Wall (Sartre short story collection), by French writer Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939
 * The Wall, a novel by John Hersey about the Warsaw Ghetto, 1950
 * The Wall, a novel by John Lanchester set in a future dystopian Britain, 2019
 * The Wall, a novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, 1938
 * The Wall, a novel by William Sutcliffe, 2013
 * The Wall, a novel by Peter Vansittart, 1990
 * The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, a children's book by Peter Sís, 2007

Bands

 * The Wall (band), a punk rock band formed in 1978
 * Bức Tường (The Wall), a Vietnamese glam metal bands

Albums

 * The Wall, an album by Pink Floyd released in 1979

Concerts and tours

 * The Wall Tour (1980–81), a 1980–81 tour to promote the Pink Floyd album The Wall
 * The Wall – Live in Berlin, a 1990 charity concert by Roger Waters after his departure from Pink Floyd
 * The Wall Live (2010–13), a 2010-13 tour by Roger Waters

Songs

 * "Wall", a song by Living Colour from the album Stain, 1993
 * "The Wall" (Michelle Wright song), a 1994 song by Michelle Wright
 * "The Wall" (1957 song), a song from 1957 by Patti Page
 * "The Wall" (Willie Nelson song), a 2013 song written by country music singer Willie Nelson
 * "The Wall" (Kansas song), a 1976 song by Kansas from the album Leftoverture
 * "The Wall", a song by Johnny Cash on the 1968 album At Folsom Prison
 * "The Wall", a song by Bruce Springsteen on the 2014 album High Hopes
 * "The Wall", a song by Kasabian on the 2022 album The Alchemist's Euphoria
 * "The Wall", a 2011 song by Yuck
 * "The Wall", a song composed by Ramin Djawadi on the 2011 soundtrack of Game of Thrones
 * "The Wall", a song composed by Thomas Newman on the 2015 soundtrack of Bridge of Spies
 * "La Pared" ("The Wall"), a song by Shakira on the 2005 album Fijación Oral, Vol. I
 * "the WALL", a song composed by buzzG and covered by Leo/Need for the game Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!

Programs and series

 * The Wall (American game show), a 2017 American television game show
 * The Wall (Australian game show), a 2017 Australian television game show based on the American version
 * The Wall (British game show), a 2019 British television game show based on the American version
 * The Wall (Chilean game show), the 2018 Chilean adaptation of the American game show with Rafael Araneda
 * The Wall (Brazilian game show segment), a 2018 Brazilian segment based on the American game show of the same name that airs on Domingão com Huck.
 * The Wall Philippines, a 2021 Philippine television game show based on the American version
 * The Wall (2008 TV series), a 2008 British comedy television programme debuting in 2008
 * La Faille a 2019 French Canadian TV series, referred to as The Wall in some markets

Episodes and events

 * "The Wall" (Heroes), an episode of the television series Heroes
 * "The Wall" (The Twilight Zone), a 1989 episode of the television series The Twilight Zone
 * "The Wall" (The Unit), an episode of the television series The Unit
 * "The Wall", an episode of the TV series Alvin and the Chipmunks
 * The Wall, an event from the TV series Gladiators

Other uses in arts and entertainment

 * Wall (play), a 2009 play by David Hare
 * The Wall (SoHo), a piece of art

Brands and enterprises

 * WALL, an AM radio station in Middletown, New York, United States
 * Wall, a chain of music stores owned in 1997 by WHSmith and acquired in 1998 by Camelot Music

People

 * Wall (surname), list of notable people with the surname
 * Rahul Dravid, an Indian cricketer nicknamed "The Wall"
 * Jerry Tuite, a deceased WCW professional wrestler, whose ring name was "The Wall"
 * Wall., taxonomic abbreviation for Nathaniel Wallich, Danish botanist
 * Wall., abbreviation for reports by John William Wallace, reporter of decisions for the United States Supreme Court

Canada

 * The Wall, structure in Fermont, Quebec

United Kingdom

 * Wall, Northumberland, England
 * Wall, Staffordshire, England

United States

 * Wall, Pennsylvania
 * Wall, South Dakota
 * Wall, Texas
 * The Wall (mountain), a mountain in the Teton Range, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
 * Wall Creek, Oregon
 * Wall Street, the financial district of New York City
 * Wall Township, New Jersey

Science and technology

 * Wall (butterfly) or Lasiommata megera, a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae
 * wall (Unix) or wall(1), a unix command-line utility to write messages to users
 * Facebook Wall, a feature on Facebook that allows users to post comments and links on their friends' profile pages
 * Galaxy wall, a subtype of galaxy filament

Other uses

 * The Wall, the Memorial Wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
 * Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan Airport (ICAO: WALL), Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
 * Trump wall, an expansion to the U.S.–Mexico border wall
 * Green Monster (sometimes known as "The Wall"), a feature at Fenway Park in Boston
 * Wall bang, to shoot someone through a wall or object in videogames

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Jacek Moskwa

Jacek Moskwa (born 1948) is a Polish journalist and writer. He cooperated with many of the most notable Media in Poland, including the Television News Agency, Życie Warszawy, Gazeta Wyborcza, Rzeczpospolita and Radio Zet.

After 1990 Moskwa for several years worked as a correspondent of the Polish media in Rome and was one of the few Polish journalists accredited at the Vatican.

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Donatos Pizza

Donatos Pizza, LLC is a Columbus-style pizza restaurant chain headquartered in Gahanna, Ohio, United States. It is a pizza delivery franchisor with nearly 200 locations in thirteen states, the majority of them being in Ohio. Donatos is also served at several venue outlets, including Ohio Stadium and formerly at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

History
In 1963, Ohio State sophomore Jim Grote purchased the original Donatos located on the south side of Columbus, Ohio, for $1,300. Grote's business principles included: creating a superior product, hiring great people, and to "treat others the way I would like to be treated". These principles led to the creation of the official brand promise: To serve the best pizza and make your day a little better.

In 1991, the Donatos Pizza in Zanesville, Ohio, opened as the company's first franchise location. As of 2023, there are about three dozen franchisees operating more than 170 Donatos Pizza locations in thirteen states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia.

In 1999, Donatos was purchased by McDonald's in an attempt to enter the pizza industry. A majority interest in Donatos was repurchased by Jim Grote and daughter Jane Grote Abell in 2003 as McDonald's sought to refocus on its core business. During this period Donatos also had operations in Munich, Germany.

In 2017, Donatos founder Jim Grote led a $1 million seed round in BeeHex, the 3D-food printing company with NASA origins.

In 2018, Donatos partnered with Red Robin to sell pizzas in their restaurants. This followed a foray into pizza by Red Robin in 2017 with a test run of Round Table Pizza at a Red Robin store near Portland, Oregon. After launching at 4 Red Robin restaurants in the summer of 2018, Donatos was in 25 restaurants by February 2020, with plans to expand into 100 additional Red Robin restaurants in 2020 and another 150 per year in 2021 and 2022, bringing Donatos to about 425 of Red Robin's 570 restaurants by the end of 2022. The Donatos partnership costs about $145,000 per store, which includes the installation of a pizza oven in the kitchen. Donatos makes its secret-recipe dough in a facility in Ohio and ships fresh dough to restaurants all over the country, where the pizzas are made in Red Robin kitchens exactly as they would be made in a Donatos restaurant.

Products
Donatos is known for its thin-crust pizza "loaded Edge to Edge" with toppings, particularly its large pepperoni pizza that includes 100+ pepperoni slices. In 2009, Donatos launched a hand-tossed pie-cut crust option. In 2004, the company introduced Donatos take-and-bake pizza in Kroger supermarkets. In 2015, they introduced NatureCrust, a 10-inch organic, non-GMO, vegan, multigrain crust, which is now available in a handful of locations. Donatos also offers a variety of oven-baked subs, freshly made salads, chicken wings, shareable sides, and desserts.

They are also known for the spicy pizza called mariachi beef and mariachi chicken pizza. This is served with sour cream.

Undercover Boss
In 2013, Donatos was the subject of an episode of the CBS reality television show Undercover Boss. During the episode (Season 5, episode 3, air date October 11, 2013), Jane Grote Abell—the Chairperson of Donatos and daughter of its founder Jim Grote—went undercover posing as a contestant on a reality TV show who was trying to win money to open her own restaurant. During her first assignment at the Donatos store located at the Ohio State University (where she had actually attended college during the 1980s), Abell's cover was blown in the first few minutes by the manager of the store, who immediately recognized her despite her disguise of glasses and a brunette wig over her normally blonde hair; she was able to convince the manager to keep her identity a secret for the purposes of the show. One of the employees confided in Abell that he would occasionally smoke marijuana with customers during deliveries, for which Abell later fired him but offered him a chance to get his job back if he passed a drug test after 30 days.

The Missing Piece
In 2015, Abell released a book entitled The Missing Piece: Doing Business the Donatos Way, in which she recounts the story of Donatos and offers leadership insights gleaned from her Donatos career.

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Talk:The Silver Branch

To disambiguate or not to disambiguate
I have read the disambiguation guidelines, and I am still uncertain what to do about this one. I don't think it's a problem right now, but possibly in two, five, twenty years it might be. So to future-proof it, I can see three ways to do this:

 * As I have done it now. The (better-known, I believe, and certainly older) novel having the main "the silver branch" (henceforth TSB in this comment!), and mentions of a later book and a likely source for the name.

 * TSB page covering any and all silver branches. Chronologically, Bran's would come first, then this one, then the Kennealy book. Doubtless there are or will be more.

 * disambiguation page for TSB, with then the contents of this page about Sutcliff's book at "TSB (Sutcliff novel)". I think this is a bit of a silly option because there are no articles on the other silver branches. There is no article on Ms Keannealy herself yet, even, let alone her books, although she has been a red wikilink for quite some time; and I think there is little to say about Bran's silver branch beyond what is said in the Voyage of Bran page, so it would turn into one of those two-sentence wiki articles which have little potential for expansion.

Or you can list this on VfD, of course, which is a fourth approach but one which I hope no-one takes!

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St Martin's, Shropshire

St Martin's (Llanfarthin) is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, just north of Oswestry and east of Chirk, Wales on the England–Wales border.

History
The ancient Parish of St Martin's was made up of the townships of Ifton, Wiggington, Bronygarth and Weston Rhyn. Each of these townships bordered Wales, with the River Ceiriog and the River Dee forming the border. However, in 1870, the townships of Weston Rhyn and Bronygarth were formed into the new Parish of Weston Rhyn.

The church at St Martin's is dedicated to St Martin of Tours and the parish was part of the Welsh Diocese of St Asaph until 1922 when it was transferred to the English Diocese of Lichfield.

The area was, for centuries, under the influence of nearby Chirk Castle and, later, the Trevor family of Brynkinallt (Bryncunallt) in Chirk.

Governance
Although the population of the parish involved can be found under Ellesmere Rural an electoral ward still exists in its own name. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 4,333.

Transport
Around the 16th century, a bridge was built across the River Ceiriog at Pontfaen as part of the Chester to Cardiff highway. Later the A5, the London-Shrewsbury-Holyhead trunk road was constructed by Thomas Telford through the parish of St Martin's, crossing into Wales via the bridge at Chirk Bank.

The Glyn Valley Tramway ran from Chirk through Pontfaen into the Ceiriog Valley.

In the 19th century a canal was constructed through St Martin's Moor by Thomas Telford linking the industrial areas around Ruabon to the canal network. This now forms part of the Llangollen Canal.

By 1848 the Chester to Ruabon railway line had been extended south to Shrewsbury, but only one station, Preesgweene (Preesgwyn) (later known as Weston Rhyn), was built in St Martin's parish. Later however, branch lines were built to link the collieries in the area to the main rail network.

Industry
Although predominantly an agricultural area, coal was mined in St Martin's for several centuries. The collieries at Ifton, Chirk Bank, Quinta, Trehowell, Moreton Hall and Preesgweene were, geologically, an extension of the Denbighshire coalfield. Coal production ceased in the area with the closure of the last remaining colliery in the area at Ifton in 1968. Ifton was the largest colliery in Shropshire and its workings crossed the border into Wales, linking up to the coal seams of the former collieries at Brynkinallt and Black Park.

Education
St Martin's School is a primary and secondary school located in St Martin's.

Sport
The village is represented in association football by St Martins FC who currently compete in the. They currently play at Park Hall in nearby Oswestry, groundsharing with Cymru Premier side The New Saints. There is also a Sunday league side The Keys FC that play their home games at the playing field.

Notable people
Francis Williams, Editor of the Daily Herald and Governor of the BBC, (later life peer Baron Francis-Williams) born at St Martin's.

Ian Woosnam, Professional Golfer, grew up on his family's farm in St Martin's.

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Puerto Baquerizo Moreno

Puerto Baquerizo Moreno is the capital of Galápagos Province, Ecuador. It is located on the southwestern coast of San Cristóbal, the easternmost island in the archipelago, and is the capital of San Cristóbal Canton. It was founded by General Villamil Playas in the mid-19th century, and takes its name from President Alfredo Baquerizo (1859–1951). Today, fishing is the main activity of the locals, but tourism is on the increase along the waterfront with numerous hotels and shops. The town has a cathedral, a post office, police station, a hospital, and a branch of the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. It also contains the Centro de Interpretación of the Galápagos National Park, which was established in 1988, and a natural history museum. It is served by San Cristóbal Airport, which connects to mainland Ecuador.

History
General José de Villamil founded the town in the 1830s or 1840s, but it takes its name from Alfredo Baquerizo (1859–1951), the first president to visit during his presidency, in 1916. The Governor of Galápagos resides in the city. The Governor's residence is a prominent grey stone edifice which also houses the Naval headquarters, and is 0.2 mi west-northwest of the church.

Puerto Baquerizo Moreno is the oldest settlement in the Galápagos Islands. The El Progreso agricultural centre, located about 8 km from the town, was established in 1879 as a Hacienda Progreso. It had a large sugar refinery which was operated under harsh conditions, and two assassinations occurred there. Other manufacturing included leather and oil products.

The Albatross Foundation USA or Fundación Ecológica Albatros is a NGO established in 1993 at the initiative of the people of the town with the objective of educating the young people of the country in the importance of preserving and conserving the island's environment and ecosystems.

According to the 2010 census, the town had a population of 6,672 inhabitants, next to that of Puerto Ayora.

Geography
Puerto Baquerizo Moreno is the capital and administrative centre of Ecuador's Galápagos Province. It is located on the southwestern coast of San Cristóbal, and the town is also nicknamed Cristóbal by the local people, after the island. Its average elevation is 6 m. The central part of the town, including the road to El Progreso, has paved roads. The headquarters of the navy and the national police are located in the town. It has a post office, police station and hospital. A branch campus of Universidad San Francisco de Quito is situated in the town.

There is a small beach in the town which is exclusively reserved for the sea lions that inhabit the area and are revered by the local people. There are two more beaches to the north of the town, the Playa Mann and Playa Carola, which are open to the public. The sea lions can be seen lounging on the decks of the anchored boats and have taken over park benches.

The town is situated at the foot of the Cerro San Joaquin mountain, which has an elevation of 896 m making it the highest mountain on San Cristóbal. Cerro de las Tijeretas (Frigatebird Hill) is located 1 mile southeast of the town. The 1.5 km walk to it passes through a thickly-vegetated area consisting of aromatic palo santo trees. The hill is well known for the two species of black frigatebirds, which often visit. The summit provides views of the shipping vessels in Bahía Naufragio (Shipwreck Bay). Tongo Reef is located to the west of the town. It is popular for surfing from December to February, during the warm-wet season. There is a well-protected cove known as Puerto Grande on the northwestern part of the town which has a white sandy beach where swimming is permitted. Tijeretas Cove, which is approached along a trail, is popular for snorkelling.

Climate
Puerto Baquerizo Moreno has a steppe or hot semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSh).

Despite being an Equatorial region, the temperatures in the town and the surrounding area never reach the heights expected for such an equatorial location. Temperatures remain similar year-round, fluctuating only several degrees from January means to July means. However, two seasons predominate: the warm dry climate from January to March, and the cooler, dry season that lasts from June to November and brings continuous fog-like rain known as garúa, mild to warm temperatures, and mainly overcast skies. There are also constant winds that increase the chill factor.

As San Cristóbal and other islands of the archipelago fall under the dry zone of the equatorial Pacific, they experience lesser rainfall compared to area in the northern and southern regions. On an average. The entire archipelago receives less than 75 cm of rainfall per year. and the annual rainfall also varies substantially from year to year. At Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, records indicate that while rainfall in 1950 was only 3.55 cm for the year, during the El Niño year of 1953 it received a total rainfall of 141.9 cm. The wet season lasts roughly from December to March, and brings an abundance of bright sunshine along with sporadically brief, yet often intense, tropical thunderstorms. Annual average precipitation amounts to approximately 451 mm, 86% of which falls in the five-month wet season period spanning December till May. Precipitation falls on an average of 107 days a year (precipitation ≥ 0.004" / 0.1 mm).

All of these characteristics are because of the presence of the cold Humboldt Current that flows north from Peru and Chile. Under the effects of this current the ocean waters of the islands remain cold. The Humboldt Current is succeeded by the warm El Niño current, which is a phenomenon that is reported to influence climatic condition in the whole of South Pacific, and sometimes globally.

The mean monthly temperature is 24 C and the average monthly variation is 7.2 C-change. The daily average maximum temperature is 30 C from February to April. The daily average minimum temperature is 18 C in September. There are 2343 sunshine hours in an average year.

Flora and fauna
Lava fields and desert plants are profuse in the environs of the town. The invasive species of plants which grow profusely around the highlands at the periphery of the town are quinine tree, Cuban cedar and tall elephant grass.

Economy
Fishing is a major economic activity of the town. As of 2014, some 520 fishermen operate from the port with 212 fishing vessels of varying sizes. Agriculture is practised marginally as there is little water on the island and the community feels that plying their boats for tourism is more economical. Drinking water supply to the town is piped from a lake near El Progreso, which also provides irrigation to lands in its vicinity. The electricity supply is continuous.

Tourism is now on the rise on the coast of the town, and has brought its related infrastructure such as hotels, restaurants, souvenir shops, and tourists offices.

Landmarks
There are several important landmarks in the town such as the Centro de Interpretación of the Galápagos National Park, the La Inmaculada cathedral, and a museum. A Charles Darwin Research substation was established in the town in 1998 and includes five administrative units dealing with marine biology, entomology, environmental education, communication and agriculture. Cine Naval, located within the naval station but open to the public, is the only cinema in the town, and every year, in July, holds a cinema festival of Ecuadorian and Latin American films under the auspices of the Spanish government.

Centro de Interpretación
The Centro de Interpretación (national park visitor centre) is a branch of the Galápagos National Park. It was established in 1988 in the northern part of the town. It contains exhibits related to the biodiversity and anthropology of the islands. Educational presentations are interactive audio and video, which pertain to ecology and are presented in English and Spanish. The exhibits deal with the well-recorded history of the archipelago, its ecology, flora and fauna. The main hall also features rotating exhibitions, in addition to cultural events and workshops on dance and painting. There are many cacti and local flora on the land surrounding the centre, which can be viewed along the board walks. The centre also has a unique display of a rebuilt ship's hold filled with upturned giant tortoises, which represents the way in which they were transported by pirates and whalers.

Catedral La Inmaculada
The Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno is a Roman Catholic church. at the head of bay. It features murals which depict stories from the New Testament in a setting with indigenous animals and plants.

Natural History Museum
The small Natural History Museum (Museo de Ciencias Naturales) has a statue of Charles Darwin at the entrance. It is located in the heart of the town to the east of the Parque la Carolina, next to the Franciscan mission. It contains exhibits of many animals, plants and minerals of the Galápagos. Of note is a giant tortoise, which is said to be more than 80 years old; an exhibit of a predecessor species of iguana; the flightless cormorant; and the Galapagos tortoise – three drawings for each of these fauna are on display.

Transportation
San Cristóbal Airport is the local airport and connects to the mainland. An Airbus A319 jet operates daily from Guayaquil on the mainland. The port is situated in Bahía Naufragio (Shipwreck Bay) to the southwest of the town. Boat companies conduct tours for tourists. Buses and taxis operate in the town.

Sister cities

 * 🇺🇸 Chapel Hill, North Carolina (US)

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Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site

The Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site preserves the Springwood estate in Hyde Park, New York, United States. Springwood was the birthplace, lifelong home, and burial place of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt is buried alongside him. The National Historic Site was established in 1945.

Early history
In 1697, the English Crown awarded a 220 sqmi land grant (the "Great Nine Partners Patent") to a group of nine businessmen from New York City who had purchased the land from the native Wappinger people. The parcel extended from the Hudson River on the west to the border with Connecticut on the east. To ensure equal access to the river for all partners, the land along its shore was divided into nine "Water Lots"; Springwood is located on the one granted to William Creed.

While the early history of the house on the Springwood estate remains unclear, it is believed that the central portion of the present-day home is formed by a large Federal style farmhouse constructed around the year 1800. In 1845 the estate was purchased by Josiah Wheeler, a merchant from New York City. He remodeled the structure in the then-fashionable Italianate style, expanding it to 15 rooms with a three-story tower at the south end and front and rear piazzas spanning the length of the home.

Roosevelt ownership
In 1866, the estate, which had been reduced to approximately one square mile (2.5 square kilometers), was bought by James Roosevelt, Sr., Franklin D. Roosevelt's father, for US$40,000, at a time when a textile worker's earnings were less than a dollar a day. The property featured a stable and horse track, which was important to James, an avid horse breeder. Through his death, 34 years later in 1900, James made many improvements to the home and property. He enlarged the servants' wing, adding two rooms, and had a spacious carriage house built in the vicinity.

In 1882, Franklin was born in what was then the second floor tower bedroom at the south end of the home. At the time, it functioned as the master bedroom; the bedroom which he, and later his sons, used during boyhood is nearby on the same floor. In 1905, after he and Eleanor Roosevelt married, the young couple moved in with his mother, Sara. The estate remained the center of Roosevelt's life in all stages of his career.

In 1915, Franklin, together with his mother, undertook a final major enlargement and remodeling of the home. This both accommodated his growing family and created an environment suitable for entertaining political associates which reflected his ambitions. Roosevelt contributed many ideas for the new design, tempered by his mother's means. She commissioned the design work from the firm of Hoppin & Koen, of New York City. The home was more than doubled in size by adding two large fieldstone wings (designed by Roosevelt), a tower, and a third story with a flat roof. The clapboard exterior was replaced with stucco and most of the porch was replaced with a balustraded fieldstone terrace and a small columned portico around the entrance. These alterations gave the exterior of the house the look of a The interior, while retaining much of the original layout, was redesigned primarily with the aim of housing Roosevelt's growing collections of books, paintings, stamps, and coins. The remodeling work was finished within one year in 1916. Roosevelt also changed the appearance of the surrounding land by extensive tree plantings. Between 1911, when the large scale planting started, and Roosevelt's death in 1945, more than 400,000 trees were planted on the estate. Eventually, large portions of the estate were turned into an experimental forestry station under an agreement with the Forestry Department of Syracuse University.

During his presidency from March 4, 1933, until his death on April 12, 1945, Franklin made almost 200 visits to Springwood, although he eventually built wheelchair-friendly Top Cottage nearby as a home of his own. The main estate functioned as a "Summer White House" where the President hosted his political associates and other prominent national and international figures. In June 1939, when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King as minister in attendance, made the first visit of a reigning British monarch to the United States,   they were hosted at Springwood. Other guests included British prime minister Winston Churchill, as well as European royalty such as Queen Wilhelmina, Princess Juliana, and Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, and Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess Märtha of Norway. Further, Roosevelt used the estate as a retreat for himself and his political associates on the eves of three of the four elections in which he ran for president. When the incoming results indicated that he had won the election, he would go onto the front terrace to deliver his victory speech.

Roosevelt made his last visit to Springwood in the final week of March 1945, about two weeks before his death. At his own wish he was buried near the sundial in the Rose Garden on April 15, 1945. His wife was buried at his side after her death in 1962. Also interred there are Fala, their famous Scottish Terrier, and Chief, a German Shepherd also owned by FDR.

Donation to the United States
In 1941, Roosevelt dedicated his papers and a new building to house them on the estate to the public, as the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. In 1943—two years before he died in office—Roosevelt donated the entirety of the estate (except for Val-Kill, which had been given to Eleanor) to the American people under the condition that his family maintained a lifetime right to usage of the property. On November 21, 1945, after the family had relinquished its rights, the estate was transferred to the U.S. Department of the Interior. Since then, the estate has been administered by the National Park Service as a National Historic Site and is open to the public. In 2005, the site covered a total area of more than a square mile and received 108,611 visitors.

Entrance Hall
The walls of the entrance hall are mostly covered with paintings from Roosevelt's collection. On display are mainly naval paintings as well as some historical cartoons. Specimens from his boyhood collection of birds are also on display, as well as a sculpture of him when he was 29. In the corner behind the main staircase is a manually operated trunk elevator, which the disabled president used to move between floors.

Living room and library
The living room and library was the place where Roosevelt worked on his private collections; he accumulated a personal library of approximately 14,000 volumes, over 2,000 naval paintings, prints, and lithographs, over 300 bird specimens, over 200 ship models, 1.2 million stamps, as well as thousands of coins, banknotes, campaign buttons, and medallions.

Music room
The music room (also known as the "Dresden Room" for the origin of some of the porcelain) is a formal parlor which contains many Chinese pieces of porcelain and lacquer-ware. These were acquired when the family of Roosevelt's mother stayed in China, where her father made a fortune in the China trade. Together with the adjacent dining room, this part of the house was the setting for the formal entertaining of guests. A collection of autographed photographs of some of the Roosevelts' more famous guests is kept in the room on the piano.

Bedrooms of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt
During the enlargement of the house in 1915 a suite of rooms was created for Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt in one of the new wings. Originally these rooms included a sitting room and two dressing rooms, but after Roosevelt was diagnosed with poliomyelitis in 1921, one of the dressing rooms was converted into a separate bedroom for his wife Eleanor and the sitting room into a bedroom for his mother Sara.

The "Snuggery"
The Snuggery was used by Roosevelt's mother, Sara, for beginning her day and conducting her business of running the household. The room was created in its present form during the extensive remodeling of 1915 by a division of the old South Parlor into a gallery and the Snuggery. Because most of the furniture of the old parlor was retained despite the reduction in size, the Snuggery has a cluttered appearance.


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This category collects all articles about Education in Georgia (country). Please use the respective subcategories, if existing.

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Dolphin Taylor

Brian "Dolph" Taylor (born 10 November 1958) is a British former drummer.

Tom Robinson Band
Taylor's first band was Dragon's Playground, which earlier had had Annie Lennox as a vocalist. In 1976 Dragon's Playground appeared on ATV's New Faces.

His career with the Tom Robinson Band started when Taylor gave a friend a lift to an audition as bass guitarist for the Tom Robinson Band in 1976. As the band had no drummer at that point, Taylor (who was already a drummer) filled in. By the end of the evening, the band was still looking for a bass guitarist, but had found their drummer. He stayed for two years, eventually resigning in 1978.

Stiff Little Fingers
In 1982 he joined Stiff Little Fingers, playing on the £1.10 or less EP, and the Now Then... (1982) album, before the band split in 1983.

Spear of Destiny
In 1983 after the demise of SLF, Taylor become the occasional session drummer for producer Nick Tauber. Towards the end of 1983 through his work with Nick Tauber, he was introduced to and joined Spear of Destiny as their full-time drummer. Dolph became a part of The Engine Room, the Spear of Destiny rhythm section, along with bass player Stan Stammers. He left Spear of Destiny in 1986 after they were dropped by their record label CBS, and after the band went through a line-up change.

Marius Müller-Westernhagen
Taylor also was working with a German artist for quite some time in the late 70's and early 80's, singer-songwriter Marius Müller-Westernhagen, appearing on the latter's 1983 album 'Geiler Is' Schon', as an example.

Stiff Little Fingers
In 1987 Taylor was asked to join the reformed SLF, with whom he stayed until 1996, playing on 1991's Flags and Emblems and 1994's Get a Life.

Post-SLF
In 1997 he and one time SLF manager Russell Emanuel set up Extreme Music, a company that composes and sells production music.

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Laski, Warsaw West County

Laski is a village in Poland, in the Masovian Voivodship, to the west of Warsaw, in the commune of Izabelin. It is located at the southern border of the Kampinos Forest and is a notable resort, with 1,600 permanent inhabitants (1998).

The village is notable for its resort, hospital and schools for blind people run by Towarzystwo Opieki nad Ociemniałymi founded by countess Róża Czacka, and the Franciscan friars. In addition, a shelter for lone mothers run by ''Towarzystwo Pomocy im. Adama Chmielowskiego'' is located there. Near the blinded institute a wooden chapel is located (built in 1925), one of the most notable architectural monuments of the area. There is also a small World War II cemetery and a civilian cemetery, a final resting place of many Polish famous artists, among them are writers Antoni Słonimski and Jerzy Zawieyski.

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Isidro Ayora

Isidro Ramon Antonio Ayora Cueva (31 August 1879 – 22 March 1978) was an Ecuadorian political figure. He served as the 22nd President of Ecuador from 1926 to 1931. Isidro Ayora, a town in Guayas, and Puerto Ayora, are named after him. Some people name coins ayora because they were introduced by him.

Upon his death in 1978 at age 98, Ayora was the longest-living Ecuadorian president; until his record was surpassed by Guillermo Rodríguez in 2023, when Rodríguez turn 100.

Honours

 * 1930: Grand Cordon in the Order of Leopold.

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User:BransonEdge

History of Mooning

Origin of the term MOON as it relates to the exposure of one's unclothed posterior in a rude an offensive manner:

During the latter portion of the second century, in what is now Northern England, a nomadic band of barbaric heathens began worshiping the Moon. Their simple thought patterns equated phases of the moon to metaphysical messages from a divine source.

When the moon became full this group of vagabond savages would form a circle around an open pit fire, remove their torn and tattered loin cloths and pointed their naked posteriors toward the moon. Immediately following the ceremony the moon worshipers would drink a potion and shout in unison a cryptic phrase which was later translated to the term we now know as “bottoms up.” The purpose of this ritual is not completely understood. One theory is that it was designed to create transference of energy from the moon to their exposed buttocks. Once the transfer was complete they could at a later time figuratively strike and ridicule an enemy by exposing their moon-enriched back side to a person or persons considered to be much less worthy. Thus the revealed posterior was designed to humiliate the persons to whom it was pointed and served as a declaration of superiority over those who had not participated in the moon ceremony.

Less primitive Anglo-Saxon tribesmen considered this practice to be offensive and believed the worshipers to be crazy. The connection to the moon created the term lunatic which is a derivation of lunar. Today we refer to lunatics as looney and these moon worshipers have become the literal butt of countless aspersions.

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Mons Hansteen

Mons Hansteen is a mountain on the Moon, also known as Hansteen Alpha (α), named after Christopher Hansteen. It is roughly triangular in shape and occupies an area about 30 km across on the western margin of Oceanus Procellarum, southeast of the crater Hansteen and north of the dark-floored crater Billy. It is thought to be an extrusion of volcanic material that is younger than the crater Hansteen, with most of surface volcanic ash been deposited 3.5-3.74 billion years ago. The Mons Hansteen belongs to rare class of non-mare moon volcanoes.

Composition
The extruded material is significantly enriched in silica, and strongly depleted in iron and titanium oxides compared to surrounding mare terrain. Initially, it was believed its lavas are not as evolved as in Compton–Belkovich Thorium Anomaly, but by 2004 the low thorium enrichment signal was attributed to small size of volcanic complex, making it composition compatible with highly processed silicic lavas. By 2013, a patchy deposits of magnesium spinel were detected in the central and western parts of the volcanic dome. The spinel-rich areas are associated with boulder fields, and fringed by areas showing a sign of hydration, with 4-8% of mineral by weight been hydroxylated.

The average bulk density of material in Mons Hansteen is extremely low, been equal only to 1500–2000 kg/m3.

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Talk:Tossa de Mar

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I've done a quick edit to deal with some inaccuracies (nothing too outrageous, though. The short original version was in fact quite a good job for someone unfamiliar with the place). However, I am doing this from memory, without access to proper references, so take this version with a grain of salt or two itself. I will make a dash to the library and see if I can get hold of some proper books. btw, removed from category Category: Cities in Spain as Tossa de Mar is not a city, but only a village of 5,000. Expanded and corrected. A bit more formatting work might be in order. --81.42.155.214 19:42, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

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The link to their official website says the site is in Spanish. The site is in fact in Catalan. I don't know how to correct that though, because apparently the line that says Spanish is some sort of icon. Just giving the heads up. --Bibliotequa (talk) 19:13, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

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Norbert Lynton

Norbert Casper Lynton (22 September 1927 – 30 October 2007, Brighton, England ) was Professor of the History of Art at the University of Sussex. From 1998 - 2006 he was Chairman of the Charleston Trust.

He has published on architecture and on modern artists including Paul Klee, Ben Nicholson, William Scott. With Erika Langmuir, he coauthored the 'Yale Dictionary of Modern Art'. Among his significant works are 'The Story of Modern Art' published by Phaidon Press Ltd and the introduction for the book that accompanied the major international exhibition 'Painting the Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900–2000' held at the National Portrait Gallery in London to celebrate the millennium.

Lynton finished a book about the Russian painter and architect Vladimir Tatlin shortly before his death. A further publication on the work of Bernard Cohen appeared posthumously in 2009. He left four sons, Jeremy, Oliver, Thomas and Peter.

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Category talk:String quartets

Category contains two different things
I think we should have a category Compositions for string quartet and another category String quartets, each contianing a disambig notice pointing to the other one. It seems odd to have a category where we have both the Borodin Quartet and the String Quartet No. 2 (Borodin)!

My argument is mainly from a usability point of view. It seems to me that someone looking for string quartet ensembles is not going to want to see compositions, nor vice versa. There is also the string quartet article which I suggest should be in both categories.

I'm quite happy to do the split manually and tidy up afterwards if there's agreement. Does anyone else have a view? --RobertG ♬ talk 16:48, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I've made attempts to come up with good category names for this before, only to give up. Your suggestion sounds fine, though. I hereby agree. :-) — Pladask 10:16, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

 * What about renaming this category to Category:String quartet ensembles, so that both could be a subcategory of Category:String quartets? — Pladask 10:10, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

 * I respectfully disagree with this suggestion, because then we would be back to the original problem of having a category "string quartets" with two different things in it! (And what else would the category contain?  And what would be its parent category?)  I think the current arrangement is fine…  --RobertG ♬ talk 12:07, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * You're completely right, it was a silly idea. To my defense I had just gotten out of bed. :-) BTW, nice job on the splitting. — Pladask 12:40, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

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Wacko Magneto

Wacko Magneto was the second album of Los Angeles band Ednaswap. It was their first full-length album to be put into wide release and was apparently very popular in Los Angeles and New York.

Wacko Magneto 's debut encountered many setbacks; the most well-known was when Natalie Imbruglia covered the band's signature song "Torn". "Torn" was planned to be Wacko Magneto 's second single, after "Clown Show"; however, Imbruglia's release came just before Ednaswap's and its success precluded any chance for the band to release their own version.

Wacko Magneto's debut encountered other setbacks as well. It was released while Ednaswap's label, Island, was going through a troubled time, reorganizing staff and cutting artists that weren't considered successful enough.

Ednaswap was kept on the label, and went on to record one more studio album, Wonderland Park. One video for the album was filmed, "Clown Show", and played on MTV's 120 Minutes for its debut.

Copies of this album were originally released with a ball bearing in the jewel case, to emphasize the 'pinball' motif artwork.

Track listing

 * 1) "Stop Counting"  – 4:16
 * 2) "Clown Show"  – 4:44
 * 3) "Chordomatic"  – 3:28
 * 4) "Sideways Out the Window"  – 4:09
 * 5) "All Time Low"  – 3:19
 * 6) "More"  – 5:27
 * 7) "Silver Hill"  – 3:31
 * 8) "Pale"  – 3:45
 * 9) "YDWIBE"  – 2:24
 * 10) "Torn"  – 3:58
 * 11) "Shrapnel"  – 2:59
 * 12) "Claustrophobic"  – 7:30
 * 13) "Violin Song"  – 3:29

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Frutillar

Frutillar is a city and commune located in southern Chile, Chilean Patagonia, in Llanquihue Province, within the Los Lagos Region, the lake district. The bay of Frutillar is placed on the banks of Lake Llanquihue, the largest lake entirely within Chile. Frutillar is known as the "City of Music", and since 2017 is part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), becoming the first Chilean city to be nominated, as well as the southernmost Creative City of Music in the world.

History
After a period of clearing up the land, the city of Frutillar was founded by German settlers in 1856, among them Christian Winkler, Wilhelm Kaschel, Heinrich Kuschel, Theodor Niklitshek, Christian Nannig and Adams Schmidt.

Vicente Pérez Rosales on a later expedition towards the south of Valdivia changed the course of the incoming colony to Lake Llanquihue. Rosales was searching for more land for the German settlers, south of Valdivia, as many sailing ships were arriving to the port of Valdivia from Germany sent by Bernardo Philippi under the official colonisation program of Southern Chile. This program was granted by President Manuel Bulnes and executed by president of Chile Manuel Montt, officially naming Vicente Perez Rosales the head of the German colonisation of Llanquihue, as a continuation of the initial efforts by Bernard Philippi.

Rosales reached the lake through the dense wild forest and climbed to Osorno Volcano and at the height of 2,000 meters he was able to see the ocean to the south where he saw sailing ships navigating. It was the chilotes from Chiloe that had been sailing in the inner waters of Puerto Montt since 1550 and came mainly from Galicia Spain, which has very similar climate conditions. He immediately informed this issue to the port of Valdivia and thus, from there on, the settlers started coming in through Puerto Montt and travelled by land to Puerto Varas where other ships would sail the shores of lake Llanquihue to Frutillar and Puerto Octay.

A quote of the time illustrates the discovery of lake Llanquihue during its first sighting by Philippi: "The water of this lake is as clear as that of Geneva in Switzerland, its surface is about seven leagues long and one league wide, so I could not distinguish the opposite bank. On one hand, it has the snowy Alps, the Andes Mountain that rises from its eastern banks of a volcano covered with snow up to half of its height and goes into its waters" (Bernardo Philippi, 1842). This illustrates the period when Philippi discovered Lake Llanquihue and its similarity with Lake Geneva in Switzerland. This information was given to the German settler in order to describe them the beauty of the region. It took over 10 years to be able to bring all the settlers from Germany to Chile and establish the first colonisation program in Lake Llanquihue.

Although Bernhard Eunom Philippi discovered it in 1842, when he was exploring the region with the Chilean army, he brought the idea to the Chilean government that the Southern Region of Chile would be best developed by bringing German settlers that were having a hard time in Germany due yo the industrial revolution and had plans to migrate to America. This opportunity to attract German families to immigrate to Chile had to be done. The combined effort of Bernhard Eunom Philippi with Vicente Pérez Rosales, made the colonisation a reality and proved to be a success, as the region later was very well developed in agricultural and forestry, with European technology. Also German schools proved to be the best in the Southern region of Chile.

Local attractions
The German Museum, Teatro del Lago, Cofradia Nautica de Frutillar and Patagonia Virgin are today's main attractions in Frutillar.

The German Museum: The museum opens daily and it is located in the centre of the bay of Frutillar, one of the most beautiful touristic villages of Lake Llanquihue. The German Colony that arrived to the city in 1856 built their houses, water mill, warehouse and gardens to live there; the descendants of these settlers decided to leave these buildings for a museum that shows the way they lived. It is composed of a garden, the machine warehouse, the water mill to grind the seeds, and the main house that is located uphill with a great view to the Lake.

Teatro del Lago: Offers concerts all year round and is located in the main coastal road of the bay. The theatre is considered the largest in the country and the best acoustic theatre ever built in South America. Every year the musical festival traditionally conducts a continuous 2 week concert, called Musical Festival or “Semanas Musicales” this takes place at the end of January and the first week of February in the theatre. This cultural activity brings thousand of visitors every year.

Cofradia Nautica de Frutillar - Yacht Club: Is the lake's largest and best equipped yacht club located in the bay 400 m south of Teatro del Lago, along the coastal road of Frutillar Bay. The Club has activity all year; and promotes sailing in all categories. The yacht Club was established in 1986. There are 3 sailing schools in the bay that have been founded and promoted by “Cofradia”, also during the spring and summer the yacht club makes Regattas on the Bay and around the lake.

Patagonia Virgin: Is a new urban development that will have hotels, commerce, restaurants, golf course Nicklaus, apartments and houses, as well as trekking, polo and tennis. The village, which is at the foot of Patagonia Virgin, will have over 40 stores, shops and restaurants with wild forest and views to all four volcanoes accessing lake Llanquihue through the Frutillar Bay. It is located 200 m south of Cofradia yacht club.

Demographics
According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Frutillar spans an area of 831.4 sqkm and has 15,525 inhabitants (7,948 men and 7,577 women). Of these, 9,118 (58.7%) lived in urban areas and 6,407 (41.3%) in rural areas. The population grew by 18.4% (2,418 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses.

Administration
As a commune, Frutillar is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde (mayor) who is directly elected every four years. The 2016-2020 mayor is Claus Lindemann, independent.

Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Frutillar is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Fidel Espinoza (PS) and Carlos Recondo (UDI) as part of the 56th electoral district, together with Puyehue, Río Negro, Purranque, Puerto Octay, Fresia, Llanquihue, Puerto Varas and Los Muermos. The commune is represented in the Senate by Camilo Escalona Medina (PS) and Carlos Kuschel Silva (RN) as part of the 17th senatorial constituency (Los Lagos Region).

Education
Previously the area had a German school, the Instituto Alemán Frutillar.

Surnames
Most common surnames and their frequencies in Frutillar as of 2014:
 * 1. Vargas (1:33)
 * 2. González (1:49)
 * 3. Hernández (1:61)
 * 4. Soto (1:63)
 * 5. Mansilla (1:71)
 * 6. Alvarado (1:73)
 * 7. Cárdenas (1:74)
 * 8. Ruiz (1:79)
 * 9. Muñoz (1:87)
 * 10. Díaz (1:89)

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 * Couldn't agree more - but what? Ambi 14:39, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * See: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2001-02/02rn16.htm. I don't think we'll be able to do any better :) -- Ash Lux ( talk 04:29, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


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Get a Life (Stiff Little Fingers album)

Get a Life is the sixth studio album by Stiff Little Fingers, released in 1994 (see 1994 in music).

Track listing

 * 1) "Get a Life" (Burns) – 5:53
 * 2) "Can't Believe in You" (Burns) – 4:58
 * 3) "The Road to Kingdom Come" (Burns) – 3:27
 * 4) "Walk Away" (Burns) – 5:20
 * 5) "No Laughing Matter" (Burns) – 2:52
 * 6) "Harp" (Burns) – 3:49
 * 7) "Forensic Evidence" (Burns) – 3:39
 * 8) "Baby Blue (What Have They Been Telling You?)" (Burns) – 4:02
 * 9) "I Want You" (Russell Emanuel, Dolphin Taylor) – 4:05
 * 10) "The Night That the Wall Came Down" (Burns) – 3:51
 * 11) "Cold" (Burns) – 4:10
 * 12) "When the Stars Fall from the Sky" (Burns, Foxton) – 3:50
 * 13) "What If I Want More" (Burns) – 1:38

Personnel

 * Stiff Little Fingers
 * Jake Burns	 - vocals, guitar
 * Bruce Foxton - bass, backing vocals
 * Dolphin Taylor - drums, backing vocals
 * Technical
 * Jamie Cullum -	assistant engineer, assistant
 * The Engine Room - mixing
 * Karl Trout - artwork, graphic design, art direction, concept design

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Ohio State Route 420

State Route 420 (SR 420) is a north–south state highway in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. The southern terminus of this four-lane divided highway is at a trumpet interchange with U.S. Route 20/US 23 (US 20/US 23) approximately 3.25 mi northeast of the village of Luckey. The route’s northern terminus is at the southern terminus of Interstate 280 (I-280), where the two routes meet the Ohio Turnpike (I-80/I-90) at a double-trumpet interchange nearly 4 mi southwest of Millbury. SR 420 made its debut in the late 1960s. It is a major route whose primary purpose is to link US 20/US 23 with I-280 and the Ohio Turnpike.

Route description
For its entire length, SR 420 is a four-lane divided highway, with access provided only at three intersections along the way, and two interchanges, one at either end of the highway. There is no driveway access at any point along SR 420.

Located entirely in the northeastern portion of Wood County, SR 420 begins at a trumpet interchange with the US 20/US 23 in Troy Township and heads due north from that point. The first portion of the highway is abutted by a neighborhood of mobile homes on the west side, and a blend of woods and open field on the east side. After intersecting Truman Road, SR 420 has farmland meeting it on both sides. It then meets SR 163 and crosses into Lake Township. Continuing north, SR 420 soon passes into the midst of multiple truck stops as in approaches the Ohio Turnpike. The highway connects to these truck stops via a signalized intersection with Libbey Road. Immediately north of this intersection, SR 420 comes to an end as it arrives at the double-trumpet interchange that connects the route with the Ohio Turnpike, I-80/I-90. As SR 420 terminates, I-280 begins its northerly trek to Toledo and points north.

Consequential to its function as a major connector route, the entire length of SR 420 is included within the National Highway System.

History
The SR 420 designation was established in 1969. It was applied to what was formerly a portion of SR 120 prior to its eastern terminus being moved back to Toledo. SR 120 had formerly overlapped I-280, and then continued solo south of the Ohio Turnpike before ending at US 20/US 23.

In the fall of 2006, a new trumpet interchange was completed to facilitate the movement of traffic through the southern terminus of SR 420 where it meets the US 20/US 23 duplex.

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Institute of Aesthetic Research

The Institute of Aesthetic Research (Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, since its foundation in 1936, research has been carried out in its installations into the different forms of artistic expression in Mexico; the diversity of studies undertaken by the body of researchers in the fields of criticism, theory and history of art across a horizon that reaches other latitudes. It has thus become a space where the plastic arts converge with dance, literature, photography, cinema and music.

Every year, through its International Colloquium on Art History, the Institute opens its doors to academic reflection on the history of art. Since 1975, this space has been a meeting point for the voices of both Mexican and foreign researchers.

Areas
To perform its tasks of study and dissemination, the Institute harbors a number of different works of Mexican art and art from other countries; each of which has its own particular sphere of interest.
 * The Manuel Toussaint Photographic Archive conserves the collections of images which serve as a support for academic activities. With over 750,000 images, the Archive has grown to become the country's most important repository of visual documents related to Mexican art, and it also has a specialized conservation laboratory. The tasks carried out in the Archive range from the lending of materials for consultation to the organization of photographic exhibitions for museums in Mexico and abroad.
 * The collection of the Justino Fernández Library contains an extensive amount of material devoted to the study of art. It provides support for research through its programs of donations and exchanges of books and interlibrary interchanges and loans. It also participates, by means of its book and periodical collections, in different exhibitions and in the production of television programs.
 * The Documentary Investigation Department carries out research activities in different archives in Mexico. Its labors are concentrated in the Catalogues of art documents. These tools help to orient the Institute's investigations and represent a significant labor of collaboration in its output.
 * The Laboratory for Diagnosis of Works of Art participates in projects aimed at researching and conserving the national artistic heritage, by means of the analysis of materials and procedures used in the creation of works of art.
 * In December 2007, the Hypermedia Laboratory commenced its activities. In it are the Institute community's interests in exploiting the possibilities of digital technology for the study, investigation and dissemination of art history.
 * The most important medium for disseminating the Institute's research are printed books. Every title published by the Publications Department is an endorsement of the Institute's commitment to maintaining the exceptional quality that has been attained by its printed media. In this effort it is accompanied by the journal Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, which twice-yearly, offers within its pages the work of prestigious researchers from all over the world.

Publications
The distribution of the Institute's publications is not limited to the UNAM's system of libraries, but extends to other sales outlets. The electronic shop, still under construction, is also oriented towards the same /will also make a contribution to this effort, bringing the Institute's work to a broader public.

The journal Imágenes is an electronic publication which offers various articles publicizing the Institute's academic activities and other news items to do with the history of art. Its contents and characteristics have made it the most visited section of the Institute's electronic portal.

Facilities
In August 2007, work started at the new branch headquarters of the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas in the City of Oaxaca, which are lodged in an old domestic building in the Alameda de León, which dates from the eighteenth century and was received by the UNAM in commodatum in 2005.

This branch is home to a library comprising over six thousand volumes which belonged to Dr. Beatriz de la Fuente, among which are some facsimiles of pre-Hispanic codices. Equipment installed is similar to that of the Francisco de la Maza room in the Institute's headquarters on the university campus in Mexico City, thus facilitating constant communication between both.

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Kupittaa

Kupittaa (Kuppis) is a district in Turku, Finland. It is located on the eastern side of the city's centre, around the Kupittaa Park, the first landscaped park in a Finnish city. The district serves as a centre for recreation and business. Turku has recently planned a residential area for 750 residents on the premises of a former HKScan sausage factory.

Name
The name Kupittaa may be associated with an old border and may be related to the word kupitsa, a name for a boundary mark. Another theory is that it comes from the Slavic word for a merchant, kupets.

History
According to a version of the legend, the first pagan Finns were baptised into Christianity by the Bishop Henry at a spring in Kupittaa Park on Midsummer Day in the year 1155. In the 18th century, the spring was used as a spa facility.

Buildings
Most of the Turku Science Park business centre is located in Kupittaa. The centre is currently expanding around Kupittaa railway station, next to Finnish national road 1 (part of European route E18) between Helsinki and Turku.

Sport
The area hosts, among other things, numerous sports facilities, such as the Veritas Stadion, a Pesäpallo (Finnish baseball) stadium, a velodrome, a bowling alley, a skateboarding area and a BMX track, and the Kupittaa open-air swimming pools. The ice hockey arena in the district was demolished in 2005. A new one was inaugurated in November 2006.

Veritas Stadion
The Veritas Stadion is used by the association football team FC Inter Turku, who comepete in the Veikkausliiga.

Turku Hippodrome
The Turku Hippodrome or Kupittaa Racecourse was a racetrack located north of Hippoxentie (next to the Veritas Stadion) between 1902 and 1973. Turku Hippos, founded in 1894, began planning the construction of its own track immediately after its establishment. A suitable place was found when the Turku Sniper Battalion moved its shooting range from Kupittaa to Kärsämäki in 1899. Ravirata started operating three years later.

In the 1970s, Kupitta started to become too cramped for the operation of the race track. In addition, the old-fashioned track no longer met the requirements of the time. The last races at the Kupittaa racetrack were held on 9 September 1973. Today, only the kiosk building completed in 1948, remains of the Kupittaa racetrack. The wooden kiosk designed by architect Erik Bryggman is protected.

There was also a motorcycle speedway track on the infield of the race track, where the first competition of the sport was held in Finland in 1949. It hosted significant events including a qualifying rounds of the Speedway World Championship in 1955 and 1959 and the Finnish Speedway Championship in 1956, 1958, 1961, 1973 and 1976.

In addition, there was also a greyhound track in the area, where the 1981 Nordic championships were organised. The Greyhound track ceased operations in the early 1980s.

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Is this disambiguation page really necessary as all the pages that link here refer to the station in Surrey? If it is necessary, then all the pages that do link here should be modified to go to the correct article (as they used to) (Our Phellap 16:56, 27 May 2005 (UTC))


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OpenNTPD

OpenNTPD (also known as OpenBSD NTP Daemon) is a Unix daemon implementing the Network Time Protocol to synchronize the local clock of a computer system with remote NTP servers. It is also able to act as an NTP server to NTP-compatible clients.

OpenBSD NTP Daemon was initially developed by Alexander Guy and Henning Brauer as part of the OpenBSD project, with further help by many authors. Its design goals include being secure (non-exploitable), easy to configure, and accurate enough for most purposes. Its portable version, like that of OpenSSH, is developed as a child project which adds the portability code to the OpenBSD version and releases it separately. The portable version is developed by Brent Cook. The project developers receive some funding from the OpenBSD Foundation.

History
The development of OpenNTPD was motivated by a combination of issues with current NTP daemons: difficult configuration, complicated and difficult to audit code, and unsuitable licensing. OpenNTPD was designed to solve these problems and make time synchronization accessible to a wider userbase. After a period of development, OpenNTPD first appeared in OpenBSD 3.6. Its first release was announced on 2 November 2004.

Goals
OpenNTPD is an attempt by the OpenBSD team to produce an NTP daemon implementation that is secure, simple to audit, trivial to set up and administer, reasonably accurate, and light on system resources. As such, the design goals for OpenNTPD are: security, ease of use, and performance. Security in OpenNTPD is achieved by robust validity check in the network input path, use of bounded buffer operations via strlcpy, and privilege separation to mitigate the effects of possible security bugs exploiting the daemon through privilege escalation. In order to simplify the use of NTP, OpenNTPD implements a smaller set of functionalities than those available in other NTP daemons, such as that provided by the Network Time Protocol Project. The objective is to provide enough features to satisfy typical usage at the risk of unsuitability for esoteric or niche requirements. OpenNTPD is configured through the configuration file, ntpd.conf. A minimal number of options are offered: IP address or hostname on which OpenNTPD should listen, a timedelta sensor device to be used, and the set of servers from which the time will be synchronized. The accuracy of OpenNTPD is best-effort; the daemon attempts to be as accurate as possible but no specific accuracy is guaranteed.

Example
OpenNTPD gradually adjusts the system clock, as seen here in the output of OpenNTPD running on a Linux system: $ grep ntpd /var/log/daemon.log | grep adjusting Aug 4 03:32:20 nikolai ntpd[4784]: adjusting local clock by -1.162333s Aug 4 03:36:08 nikolai ntpd[4784]: adjusting local clock by -1.023899s Aug 4 03:40:02 nikolai ntpd[4784]: adjusting local clock by -0.902637s Aug 4 03:43:43 nikolai ntpd[4784]: adjusting local clock by -0.789431s Aug 4 03:47:35 nikolai ntpd[4784]: adjusting local clock by -0.679320s Aug 4 03:50:45 nikolai ntpd[4784]: adjusting local clock by -0.605858s Aug 4 03:53:31 nikolai ntpd[4784]: adjusting local clock by -0.529821s

Criticism
OpenNTPD has been criticized as being less accurate than the NTP daemon produced by the NTP Project (ntp.org). Internally, OpenNTPD does not maintain millisecond accuracy and can vary 50-200ms from "real" time because it omits a variety of algorithms that increase accuracy in favour of code simplicity. The OpenNTPD project acknowledged the criticism, but stated that the lack of microsecond precision was a design tradeoff that benefited simplicity and security. The OpenNTPD design goals state the project's intent is to "[r]each a reasonable accuracy" without sacrificing "secure design for getting that last nanosecond or obscure edge case."

In September 2004, shortly after the release of OpenNTPD 3.6, ntp.org contributor Brad Knowles published an article entitled OpenNTPd Considered Harmful criticizing various aspects of OpenNTPD's implementation of the NTP protocol, as well as the split development model that the project employs, which is also used in the development of OpenSSH and OpenBGPD. In December 2004, Darren Tucker, the principal developer on the portable branch of OpenNTPD, wrote a detailed response to Knowles, acknowledging some issues as valid, rejecting several others as unwarranted, and considering yet others as misleading. Among the more serious issues raised by Knowles was that OpenNTPD servers claimed to be stratum 1 servers. The issue had however already been fixed by the time of Tucker's response. In March 2005, Knowles acknowledged Tucker's response, and stated that he was "going to do everything [he could] to work with [Tucker] to get any remaining issues resolved". Additionally, the OpenBSD networking FAQ was expanded with a response to Knowles' initial criticism.

The current OpenNTPD accuracy claim is, from the 2004 21C3 presentation, "typically 50 ms".

Leap Seconds
OpenNTPD (and the OpenBSD kernel) ignore leap seconds. Care should be taken when using OpenNTPD as a higher-stratum source for other ntpd servers, or with high-resolution time requirements that reference Coordinated Universal Time. Leap seconds are used in Coordinated Universal Time, but not International Atomic Time or Global Positioning System time signals. The 50-ms accuracy is also not typical of a high-stratum source.

The United States Naval Observatory and the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures recommends that systems not implementing leap seconds be referenced to International Atomic Time, or directly to GPS time signals. However, no current version of NTP supports non-UTC time scales.

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Talk:GT

Might be interesting to know what the term 'GT' actually is. It refers to better, faster versions of thing like cars, computer graphics cards, etc.
 * Swinger222
 * See Grand tourer.

 * What does GT stand for in "GT score"? - Eagleamn 07:12, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Why does Gran Turismo redirect here when there is a page for "gran turismo (series)"? 82.40.128.125 (talk) 11:48, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Hobohippie
Plainly just a fictional breed of a hybrid of a hobo and a hippie. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.249.193.65 (talk) 03:34, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Manifold/Archive 1

 * A manifold can be thought of as a set of coordinate systems such that any point in one coordinate system can be made the origin of coordinates in other coordinate systems of the set. The application of a manifold is that if one observer sets up coordinates to study space or space time at one origin, while another does the same thing somewhere else, and then the structure of the manifold describes the relationships between points in one set of coordinates and those of the other. Manifolds inherit many of the local properties of Euclidean space. But if parallel lines are drawn in one coordinate system, and extended across others, they do not necessarily remain parallel.

I moved this paragraph here because while I think our manifold article needs a first paragraph explaining the use and ideas behind manifolds for non-specialists, the above paragraph doesn't do the job: --AxelBoldt
 * a manifold is not a set of coordinate systems: a manifold is some "curved" space or surface where coordinate systems can be introduced locally. The space or surface is the central object; the coordinate systems are just crutches.
 * space time is conceptualized as a manifold, and that definitely should be stated.
 * the parallel line statement has to do with Riemannian manifolds; you can't talk about parallel lines in manifolds unless you have a concept of distance and angle.

 * I suspect that the bit about parallel lines was actually a reference to lines with constant coordinates (except for 1 coordinate). In a Riemannian manifold (or more generally, a manifold with a connection on the tangent bundle), parallel lines are chart independent, and lines that are parallel in one chart will be parallel in another.  What the paragraph's claim really comes down to is that charts can't be used to define a notion of parallelism in a general manifold, which is indeed the case.  -- Toby Bartels

Perhaps someone could add a definition for paracompact? I assume I'm not the only one who's clueless in this regard... --Belltower

The article says to look at the Topology Glossary. I don't think we really need a whole article on paracompactness, unless someone is keen to write one. --Zundark, 2001 Sep 21

I'm keen to write one -- there's a lot more to the idea of paracompactness than the definition; otherwise, it would never have been defined in the first place (except maybe once, in sombody's doctoral thesis, and then forgotten) -- although it may be a while before I get to it -- there are several other articles that I'm keen to write. -- Toby Bartels 2002/05/07

There is a selflink on the page, the link to differential space goes to a redirect which goes back to — manifold. Somebody knows where it is supposed to point? Mikez 18:28, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The phrase "however there is a classification simply connected manifolds of dimension ≥ 5." seems to be missing a word. Perhaps what was meant was, "however there is a classification of simply connected manifolds of dimension ≥ 5."

Also, since I came here from the Wikipedia page about General Relativity, somewhere we need a definition of _Pseudo_ Riemannian manifolds. Here I found only that for Riemannian. Or does that really belong back on the General Relativity page?

See pseudo-Riemannian manifold. Charles Matthews 08:14, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

 * If you see a mistake or omission like that, be bold and edit it yourself. No need to discuss it here first. -- Fropuff 17:56, 2004 Mar 18 (UTC)

''Two Ck atlases are called equivalent if their union is a Ck atlas. This is an equivalence relation, and a Ck manifold is defined to be a manifold together with an equivalence class of Ck atlases.''
 * I have little background in manifolds, but I have seen two (essentially equivalent) definitions -- this one, and the definition that a Ck structure is defined to be a maximal Ck atlas (existence usually guaranteed by choice) and then Ck manifold defined as manifold with a Ck strucutre. Of course, this is practically identical, but not quite. Even so, just a mention of this alternate definition might be worthwhile for someone who is first seeing a definition.

Categories
I discovered Category:Manifold_theory was orphaned. It has one subcategory, Category:Surfaces. Should this article be in Category:Manifold_theory? Should Category:Manifold_theory be merged with or be added to Category:Differential_geometry or Category:Differential_topology, should those be added to it, or should it be deleted? -- Beland 05:17, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I'd say just delete it. Surfaces is already listed as a subcategory of Differential geometry. -- Fropuff 05:45, 2004 Aug 14 (UTC)

 * Agree Tosha 23:26, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Look at the nice, informative table in the German version. I hope somebody can translate it into English. Andries 18:41, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Simplified introduction
I remove it again, it might go to dimension (if it would be written better) Tosha 06:15, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Please do not add it any more, it has little to do with concept of manifold Tosha 01:06, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * On the manifold article: i disagree. I'll be terse here with all due respect.

 * If one wants peer review stuff and the whole bag of academia, one can go edit professional math publications or professional encyclopedias. The world are not lacking those.

 * the spirit and essential advantage of wikipedia is speedy, haphazard, incremental improvement, by any joe. It is what made wikipedia a success. In many aspects, far beyond the scope and up-to-dateness and perspectives than professional publications. If an article or paragraph is badly written, it's probably better to edit it in whatever amount one can spare instead of deleting it.

 * my point of view above about math expositon is my own, and i admit not the existing professional practice de jure. But i'm certain that in the communication tech advancement of today as exhibited by the internet, the traditional way of knowledge dissemination is changing fast. Wikipedia is just the tip of an ice burg. In mere a couple of years, it is competitive with professionally edited encyclopedias by PH Ds etc, and in many aspects better.

 * that short paragraph in question isn't a tech description of manifold. The tech description follows. Manifold in a few words, is a smooth shaped-space in arbitrary dimensions. Top mathematicians cannot deny that. Math should avoid habituating in a collection of jargonization or latest paraphenalia of technicalities understandable only to a small clique of experts of the field in question.

 * It is great to have an explanation of manifold to 99.99% of intelligent, inquisitive, encyclopedia reading readers, including professionals and science students in diverse fields. Without that, arguably the remaining iota of percentage of those educated who has as far as 2 years of calculus, will get away with 0 understanding of what manifold mean.

 * Tosha, please consider my arguments.

 * i will put the simple exposition one more time for now. Feel free to edit, or delete if you see fit, as that is the process of argument and progress. Xah Lee 09:37, 2004 Nov 22 (UTC)

 * I have to agree with User:Tosha and User:Charles Matthews. Exposition of math topics for the laymen is a difficult topic but your edits do not provide any value. Your choice of words (like progenitor) and your spelling mistakes on important names (like Reiman and Frederic Gauss) show a lack of serious effort to increase the value of the article. If you are really serious about trying to explain manifold then start a new article like manifold for the laymen trying to clearly communicate your ideas there. Later any good paragraphs can be incorporated into the main article.

 * In my opinion User:Tosha and User:Charles Matthews are not trying to obfuscate topics or introduce unnecessary jargonization into articles. They probably both have teaching experience and are aware of the difficulty of trying to explain mathematical concepts to mathematicians and laymen alike. You on the other hand, having read about those topic on your own (which is laudable), have probably no expericence trying to clearly communicate those ideas to other persons. Your explanation may make sense to yourself (most people have a specific way of making ideas clear to themselves) but it confuses other people.

 * MathMartin 12:57, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I agree that the current introduction by Xah Lee is poorly written and adds little to the article. That being said, I must agree with his sentiment that this article desperately needs a more gentle introduction. The first paragraph at least should be understandable to someone without any training in topology. Physics students in particular come across manifolds before ever having seen the word topology, let alone words Hausdorff, paracompact, or homeomorphic. For many of these students manifolds are their first introduction to topology. I've been meaning for a long time to write a better introduction, I just haven't had the time. In the meantime the current introduction by Xah Lee should probably be removed. -- Fropuff 16:34, 2004 Nov 22 (UTC)

To make myself clear, I do not think the manifold article has a good introduction, but this is no reason to add poorly written content to an otherwise solid article. Perhaps Fropuff should have a try at writing a better introduction (without using Hausdorff, paracompact, or homeomorphic) MathMartin 17:12, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * jesus...

 * why can't academicians understand anything? with either their verbiage of jargonization or simplistic populariralizazations.

 * a manifold is a generalization of curves and surfaces. In 3 words: a smooth shaped-space, Period.

 * Readers: fight a good war. Try to put the right intro back.

 * Xah Lee 11:13, 2004 Nov 23 (UTC)

No, not all manifolds are smooth, actually. And there can be more than one smooth structure on a manifold. These are very unobvious facts. But we can't have anything in the introduction that actually contradicts the facts.

Charles Matthews 11:24, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hmmm...interesting discussion going on. I agree that Xah Lee's explanation is rather incoherent. As MathMartin has cogently observed, it's difficult to explain mathematics to laymen in an intuitive manner without introducing notions that describe something quite different. I hope we all agree that any layman explanation is something that it should be possible to build on, without having to tear down previously set ideas. The current intro looks great! Personally, I would like more mention of how patches of Euclidean space are glued together (with a note that the degrees and kinds of niceness in gluing give rise to different structures), but as it stands, I can't complain. --C S 00:59, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

the bout of a quality explanation
I, Xah Lee, hereby declare, that the original explanation i inserted for this article, roughly equivalent to the cited following, is an excellent explanation of manifold, if not the best. Further, i hereby declare all academics who say otherwise, are grave morons. Morons, i say, and i mean it.

Manifold explanation by Xah Lee: Manifold, like polytope, is a generic name for certain concept of arbitrary dimensions. In 2-D, we have curves. For example, take out a piece of paper and scribble on it with a pencil in one stroke. What you have drawn, is a curve, or plane curve. The curves themselves are of 1-dimension, but they sits in a 2-dimensional plane. Now imagine the path of a fly. That would be a curve in space, called space curve. The curve itself is still one dimensional, but sits now in a 3 dimensional space. But now in 3-dimensions, we can have something else beside curves, namely surfaces. The paper you took out earlier, would be a flat surface called a plane, which is a 2-dimensional object, sitting in 3-d space. You can bend the paper or roll up into a cylinder and its still a surface in space. There can be lots of surfaces. A soap bubble, is a specific surface called sphere or hemisphere. A flag is a surface. A open umbrella is a surface. The gist here is that in 3-D space we can have 1-D objects like curves, or 2-D objects like surfaces. As with regular solids of higher dimensions, mathematician's imagination faculties thought about curves and surfaces in higher dimensions. Basically, in n-dimension you can have "curves/surfaces thing" that has dimensions less then n. For example, in 3-D we've seen the 2-D surfaces or the 1-D curves, and in 2-D plane we can have 1-D curves or 0-D dots. Therefore, in 4-dimensional space, we can have not only 0-D dots or 1-D curves or 2-D surfaces, but we can also have "curve/surface-like thing" that is 3-dimensional, sitting in a 4-dimensional space. The general name for these curve/surface-like "things" in arbitrary dimensions is called _MANIFOLD_. Thus, a curve is just a 1-dimensional manifold. A surface is a 2-dimensional manifold.

The above is exerpted from originally a newsgroup posting, archived here: http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/mathterms.html (will needs to be turned into an essay later)

Now, there are few mathematicians here. I have a advice for you: acquaint diverse fields, and get an overview of the history of mathematics, and step outside of your abode and understand social sciences and history of literature of human animals. Then you may perecive the quality of my manifold explanation. (baring a few grammatical errors or non-standard phrasings)

Xah Lee 17:36, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)

gentlemen, have a look at the Curves page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve a simple idea of length is chalked up by moronic math academicians to metric space with incomprehensible formulas. Xah Lee 20:11, 2004 Dec 30 (UTC)

here and now i'll explain the moronicity of the current introduction.

First, assume our audience is someone who, is a math student, and has already painstakingly finished 2 years of undergraduate math courses of USA standard, including multivariable calculus, and as well as first courses in linear algebra and differential equations. A commendable task that less than one percent of college-educated elite can say for themselves, and perhaps one in a million among the literate of the world.

Now, in my introduction of manifold, any non-moron who are ignorant of calculus will however understand fully, and come away with an appreciation of the imagination of mathematics and the depth of mathematicians.

Now, in the current introduction, it gives: * near every point of the space, we have a coordinate system; or   * near every point, the environment is like that in Euclidean space of a given dimension.

Now, what is meant by these clauses? Coordinate system?? Euclidean space??? laymen would have no clue. College-going sophomores share the befuddlement.

Some academicians obsess about certain minute correctness or rigor. These academicians, when pressed, would know zilch of alternative representations of the object under different systems of foundation. They write what they wont because all their life they have submerged in mediocre conventional math texts of this era of associated styles and thoughts. And their ignorance of the whole establishment of mathematics and its movements and their professorship status exasperated and habituated a haughtiness to them.

To our readers, the current introduction with Coordinate Systems and Euclidean Space is as good as none. They are mere guises of an underlying formal system sans the actual jargon. They fail to capture the meaning of manifold that captured the (great and real) mathematician's imaginations. The current into is good only to math professors who ALREADY KNEW what manifold is. It's a masturbation. (the vast majority of math texts are all like that.)

Mathematicians in general are a class of specialized morons. They know only an extremely narrow specialization, like that of calculator to numbers, a plumber to pipes. They know almost nothing or understands nothing outside of a tiny math cavity or academic bureaucratics.

The concept of a manifold and huge number of other math subjects are something a child can appreciate, but mathematicians actively prevented that. This in part, unbeknownst to themselves, subconsciously a protection mechanism of their own status. And this is in general is true of scholars in other fields.

Xah Lee 08:18, 2005 Jan 5 (UTC)

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Category:Uranium compounds

List of compounds containing uranium.

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Little Southwest Miramichi River

The Little Southwest Miramichi River is a river in Northumberland County, New Brunswick, Canada. In Mi'kmaq it is referred to as "Tooadook".

This river has its origins at Gover Lake in the Miramichi Highlands, part of the Appalachian Mountains. The river flows between the Northwest Miramichi River, to its north, and the Renous River to its south. It joins the Northwest Miramichi River at Red Bank, whereas the Renous River joins the Southwest Miramichi River at Renous.

The Northwest Miramichi River then joins the Southwest Miramichi River at Newcastle to form the Miramichi River.

The river is noted for Atlantic Salmon fishing. Many of the upper and middle stretches of the river are whitewater, and dangerous for canoeing; the lower part of the river is much more commonly canoed.

Tributaries

 * Northwest Branch Little Southwest Miramichi River
 * Lower North Branch Little Southwest Miramichi River
 * North Pole Stream
 * Tuadook River

"Lower North Branch Little Southwest Miramichi River" is the ninth longest place name in Canada.

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Thats a really nice picture User:Darknexus 27th May 2005

it's not really Roath Park
Or at least, that's my opinion - I identify Roath Park as the bit with the lake in it (and assume many other cardiffians do the same). Isn't this a photo of the flower gardens? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.13.83.244 (talk) 17:25, 29 January 2007 (UTC).
 * It is the bit to the south of the A48, by the tennis courts. I think it is still technically Roath Park. --Moochocoogle 18:58, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't argue that it is technically Roath Park, but if someone (for whatever reason) wanted to see where this photo was taken and asked to be directed to 'Roath Park' they'd end up at the lake 1/2 a mile away --82.13.83.244 00:00, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

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Andy Wells (Canadian politician)

Andrew Wells (1944/5 – June 2021) was a Canadian politician who served as the 13th mayor of St. John's from 1997 to 2008 in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

He graduated from Prince of Wales College in 1961 and later obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and a Bachelor of Arts degree in education in 1966 and 1969, respectively. He was elected as a councillor in 1977, and served on the St. John's City Council until he resigned as Mayor in 2008. Wells ran for Mayor in the 2017 municipal election, but was unsuccessful.

Mayor of St. John's
He was first elected as the city's mayor in 1997, and was re-elected in 2001 and 2005.

Wells attracted considerable media attention in Newfoundland and Labrador and other parts of Canada due to his gruff, outspoken personality. He appeared on the Rick Mercer Report as a nominee for "Craziest Mayor in Canada." He is noted for many scandals such as various insults to other council members.

In 1998, Wells flew the Tibetan flag as a protest of the Chinese occupation of Tibet during a visit by a Chinese delegation.

Wells has also been an object of controversy regarding neighbouring communities. He is famous for wanting to amalgamate its sister city, Mount Pearl. His most notable saying is "bring it on, I have never backed down from a good fight".

Resignation and Public Utilities Board
In 2008, Wells was appointed chair and chief executive officer of the provincial public utilities board, which oversees power, water, waste, etc., for towns and cities. Controversy arose soon after when Wells refused to resign his position as mayor, citing reasons such as higher costs for a by-election or a lack of legislation against it. Many believed a conflict-of-interest would result, and that Wells would not be objective in his decisions. Most of the controversy was settled, however, when on February 12, Premier Danny Williams released a statement saying that while he still believed Wells could perform both tasks, he would be delaying Wells' appointment until after he resigned as mayor.

On February 19, 2008, Wells announced that he would step down from the mayoral position on March 3. Wells was attempting to delay his departure long enough so the city of St. John's would not have to run a by-election that Wells claimed would cost the city $400,000.

On March 3, 2008, Wells became head of the Public Utilities Board. He was suspended from this position in 2017 as a result of criticisms against the St. John's City Council sent from his government email. The investigation into his conduct was dropped soon after when Wells resigned to run for mayor again in the 2017 municipal election.

Later life and death
Wells announced in August 2017, that he would run for Mayor of St. John's again in the 2017 municipal election. His announcement came after weeks of criticizing St. John's City Council, specifically then-Mayor Dennis O'Keefe and councillors Danny Breen and Jonathan Galgay. He lost the mayoral election to Breen, winning 33.09 per cent of the vote to Breen's 53.19 per cent.

Wells died on June 25, 2021.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DuckyP

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. · Katefan0(scribble) 03:17, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

DuckyP
Article is an advertisement, and it only gets 39 hits on google. CryptoDerk 17:03, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * This nom was malformed and hence no-one ever voted on it. Formatting and re-listing today.  No vote.  JYolkowski // talk 19:49, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Jll 22:11, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * More eyeballs needed. I'm not comfortable deleting with only one concurring editor — but someone tell me if I should be deleting these anyway. -Splash 00:30, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Ashibaka (tock) 00:53, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete advertising. Jaxl | talk 01:28, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete ad. — Stevey7788 (talk) 03:26, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - nn, vanity. Sorry, ducky. CLW 08:06, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
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Bankers Trust Building

Bankers Trust Building can refer to one of several New York City skyscrapers owned by the Bankers Trust, a financial institution acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1998:

 * 14 Wall Street – the original, extant Bankers Trust Building erected in 1912 and expanded in 1933
 * The Deutsche Bank Building, originally The Bankers Trust building located at 130 Liberty Street, erected in 1974 and heavily damaged in the September 11 attacks, which has since been deconstructed.
 * 280 Park Avenue – designed by Henry Dreyfuss and completed in 1963
 * 80 Eighth Avenue – Neo-Gothic building completed in 1929, originally known as Bankers Trust Company Building

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