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Home for the Holidays (song)

"(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays" is a 1954 song commonly associated with the Christmas and holiday season. The lyrics detail the joys of being in your home community during the holidays and give examples of how some people will travel long distances to be with their loved ones. The music was composed by Robert Allen, with the lyrics written by Al Stillman.

Perry Como versions
The best-known recordings of "Home for the Holidays" were made by Perry Como, who recorded the song twice, both times accompanied by Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers.

The first recording of "Home for the Holidays", arranged by Joe Reisman, was made on November 16, 1954. It was released as a single for Christmas that December by RCA Victor. The flip side was "Silk Stockings" (which scored in the Cash Box magazine top 50). In the United States, "Home for the Holidays" peaked at number eight on Billboard magazine's Most Played by Jockeys chart (in the issue dated January 8, 1955) and at number 18 on Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart (in the issue dated January 1, 1955). The next Christmas the song was released again, with "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" as the flip side. The same recorded version was released in the United Kingdom by HMV, with the flip side "Tina Marie". This recording has appeared on many compilation albums over the years and remains a Christmas radio regular.

Como's second recording of "Home for the Holidays", in stereo and with a different musical arrangement by Joe Lipman, was made on July 15, 1959. It was released as a 33rpm single, with flip side "Winter Wonderland", by RCA Victor in the U.S. and as a 45rpm single by HMV in the UK. This 1959 version was also included on the album, Season's Greetings from Perry Como, and has appeared on many compilations, as well as being played on some radio stations during the holidays.

Other versions
In 1968, Robert Goulet covered the song for his holiday album, Robert Goulet's Wonderful World Of Christmas.

Perhaps the most iconic version of the song, other than the original Perry Como version, is the Carpenters’ recording on their 1984 LP release, An Old Fashioned Christmas.

In 1987, the Muppets sang it in the ABC special, A Muppet Family Christmas.

In 1992, Joe Pass recorded a jazz guitar instrumental cover for his holiday album, Six-String Santa.

In November and December 1993, Sears aired a "Home for the Holidays" ad campaign, using instrumental renditions of the song itself.

In January 2000, a Garth Brooks version, from Garth Brooks & the Magic of Christmas, reached No. 63 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

In 2010, Mandy Barnett recorded the song for her holiday album, Winter Wonderland.

On December 1, 2011, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon directed about six singing and dancing mall performances of "Home for the Holidays" by Carly Foulkes and 100 Chicago-area women in magenta dresses at the Woodfield Mall. It was used in a television commercial for T-Mobile starting on December 12.

A 2011 duet between Cyndi Lauper and Norah Jones did well on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, peaking at No. 11 on the Adult Contemporary Radio Airplay Chart in the U.S.

Pentatonix covered the song for their 2021 Christmas album Evergreen.

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Tejeda

Tejeda is a village and a municipality in the mountainous central part of the island of Gran Canaria in the province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.

Location
The village of Tejeda is situated 6 km north-west of the Pico de las Nieves and 23 km south-west of the island capital Las Palmas.

Geography
The municipality's area is 103.3 km2, spreading near the centre of the island, on the latter's west side.

The south-eastern part of its territory includes the second highest point of Gran Canaria island, Pico de las Nieves ("Snows Peak") - 1949 m. Other remarkable summits in the municipality are Roque Nublo ("Cloud Rock") 813 m and Roque Bentayga ("Bentayga Rock") with its ritual place (almogarén) and other features. Close by are the cuevas del Rey ("the King's caves", 1 km to the west of Rock Bentayga), an antique cave house village with granaries; and 2 km further west the antique cave house village of Acusa Seca. All these sites are listed Spanish Heritage as Properties of cultural interest ("Bien de Interés Cultural").

Geology : caldera de Tejeda
The village of Tejeda sits on the eastern edge of a volcanic basin or crater that bears its name (caldera de Tejeda).

The caldera’s dimensions are 28 km x 18 km, with a surface that extends from the head of Agaete's ravine (barranco de Agaete) near Artenara, to Verde Andén ("Green Platform") in the west, Veneguera and the head of Mogán ravine (barranco de Mogán) up to Arguineguín's ravine (barranco de Arguineguin). Only half of its perimeter remains standing; on what is left of it are found a few green-bluish peaks (such as "azulejos" de Veneguera - "Veneguera's tiles") and below these are the oldest basalts of the island, primitive substrate of Grand Canary.

The caldera was produced in probably less than two hours, by the explosion of the residual magma chambers During the collapse of the caldera de Tejera ignimbrite rock was produced, with a pink matrix dotted with white crystals. It exists because the explosive eruption by which the caldera collapsed was so powerful that the magma was pulverized in a very fine spray and created almost microscopic structures in the matrix rock. Ignimbrita is found on the outside of the periphery of the caldera. The caldera also bears traces of a 2 million year period of evolution. This is especially notable at the heads of the Agaete ravine (barranco de Agaete) and Mogan ravine (barranco de Mogan), where we can see horizontal basaltic lavas in their lower parts and, above, thicker material in sloping layers.

Another rare feature of the caldera is its system of conical dykes in its center, that were damaged by the eruptions and determined the structure of the island by their own structure. The lava passed through these dykes during some eruptions, in particular basaltic eruptions ; this created a crack in the surrounding channels where the lava was injected, and from them the volcano arose. In Grand Canary these conical dykes were centered on a focal point located roughly 2 km under sea level, at what was in the past the center of the island. New magma would then tend to also take the same conical shape. Conical dykes of this size are not found in other islands; Vallehermoso on La Gomera island has some smaller ones.

Biologist Juan Sergio Socorro considers this crater to be one of the few clear examples in the world of a very large collapsed volcanic crater, particularly in comparison to the Cañadas del Teide for which several theories are held regarding its formation.

""El espectáculo es imponente. Todas aquellas negras murallas de la gran caldera, con sus crestas, que parecen almenas, con sus roques enhiestos, ofrecen el aspecto de una visión dantesca. No otra cosa pueden ser las calderas del Infierno que visitó el florentino. Es una tremenda conmoción de las entrañas de la tierra; parece todo una tempestad petrificada, pero una tempestad de fuego, de lava, más que de agua." ("The spectacle is impressive. All those black walls of the great caldera, with its crests, which look like battlements, with its erect rocks, offer a Dantesque vision. The cauldrons of Hell that the Florentine visited can be no different. It is a tremendous commotion of the entrails of the earth; it looks quite like a petrified storm, but a storm of fire, of lava, more than of water.")"

- Miguel de Unamuno

Population
Its population was 2,028 in 2013.

Villages
• El Carrizal

• La Casa de la Huerta

• Casas del Lomo

• El Chorrillo

• Cuevas Caídas

• La Culata

• La Crucita

• La Cruz Blanca

• La Degollada

• El Espinillo

• El Fondillo

• La Higuerillla

• Juán Gómez

• El Juncal

• Lomito de las Lajas

• Lomo de Los Santos

• El Majuelo

• Peña Rajada

• El Rincón

• El Roque

• La Solana

• Timagada

• La Tosca

• El Toscón

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Korea Sinhung Trading

Korea Sinhung Trading Corporation (Chosongul: 조선신흥무역총회사) is a trading company in Pyongyang, North Korea. It is involved in seafood export and is also involved in the import of household appliances and furniture.The company registered the trademark "chotnun(첫눈,meaning first snow)"at the World Intellectual Property Organization in 2019.

Names
Old korean names were Choson sinhungmuyok sangsa(조선신흥무역상사,朝鮮新興貿易商社,name in the early 2000s.), Choson sinhung muyok hoesa(조선신흥무역회사,朝鮮新興貿易會社), and many others.

Leadership
The company was led by Om Kyong Chol or Om Kwang Chol in the early 2010s, who is part of the North Korean secret police.

Address
Tongan-dong Chung-guyok,Pyongyang.

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Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires

Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires is an album by the dub musician Scientist. It was originally released in 1981. A digitally remastered version was released by Greensleeves Records as the 25th of their Reggae Classics series in 2001.

Album information
The album was produced and arranged by Henry "Junjo" Lawes. All tracks were recorded at Channel One and played by The Roots Radics Band, and mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's studio.

Scientist sourced his material for this album from artists Michael Prophet, Wailing Souls, Johnny Osbourne and Wayne Jarrett. Here are Scientist's mixes and their original equivalents:

Grand Theft Auto III
Several tracks from the album ("Dance of the Vampires", "The Mummy's Shroud", "The Corpse Rises", "Your Teeth In My Neck" and "Plague of Zombies") were featured in the soundtrack to the popular video game Grand Theft Auto III. They comprised the fictional radio station K-Jah and were the inspiration for many of the DJ's irreverent-sounding comments.

Despite being paid a royalty on these and all recordings he made for Henry "Junjo" Lawes, Scientist sued Greensleeves Records unsuccessfully in a US court. The court ruled that according to precedent a recording mixer was not considered the author of a musical work, and so Rockstar were correct to treat the producer Henry "Junjo" Lawes as the copyright holder of the album.

Track listing

 * 1) "Voodoo Curse" – 3:48
 * 2) "Dance of the Vampires" – 3:26
 * 3) "Blood On His Lips" – 3:00
 * 4) "Cry of the Werewolf" – 4:25
 * 5) "The Mummy's Shroud" – 4:25
 * 6) "The Corpse Rises" – 3:27
 * 7) "Night of the Living Dead" – 4:14
 * 8) "Your Teeth In My Neck" – 4:38
 * 9) "Plague of Zombies" – 2:49
 * 10) "Ghost of Frankenstein" – 3:24

Personnel

 * Errol "Flabba" Holt – Bass guitar
 * Lincoln "Style" Scott – Drums
 * Carlton "Santa" Davis – Drums
 * Noel "Sowell" Bailey – Rhythm Guitar
 * Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont – Rhythm Guitar
 * Gladstone "Gladdy" Anderson – Piano
 * Ansel Collins – Keyboards
 * Winston Wright – Organ
 * Winston "Bo Peep" Bowen – Lead Guitar
 * Alan Bassford – Lead Guitar
 * Noel "Scully" Simms – Percussion
 * Uziah "Sticky" Thompson – Percussion
 * Christopher "Sky Juice" Blake – Percussion

 * Horns
 * "Deadly" Headley Bennett – Saxophone
 * Dean Fraser – Saxophone
 * Ronald "Nambo" Robinson – Trombone

 * Technical
 * Henry Junjo Lawes - production, arrangements
 * Scientist - mixing at King Tubby's Studios
 * Tony McDermott - cover artwork


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Parents' Day

Parents' Day is observed in South Korea on May 8 and in the United States on the fourth Sunday of July. The South Korean designation was established in 1973, replacing the Mother's Day previously marked on May 8, and includes public and private celebrations. The United States day was created in 1994 under President Bill Clinton. June 1 has also been proclaimed as "Global Day of Parents" by the United Nations as a mark of appreciation for the commitment of parents towards their children. In the Philippines, while it is not strictly observed or celebrated, the first Monday of December each year is proclaimed as Parents' Day.

International
The United Nations proclaimed June 1 to be the Global Day of Parents "to appreciate all parents in all parts of the world for their selfless commitment to children and their lifelong sacrifice towards nurturing this relationship".

In the United States
In the United States, Parents' Day is held on the fourth Sunday of July. This was established in 1994 when President Bill Clinton signed a Congressional Resolution into law for "recognizing, uplifting, and supporting the role of parents in the rearing of children." The bill was introduced by Republican Senator Trent Lott. It was supported by members of the Unification Church which also celebrates a holiday called Parents' Day, although on a different date. Parents' Day is celebrated throughout the United States.

In South Korea
In South Korea, Parents' Day (어버이날 Eobeoinal) is annually held on May 8. Parents' Day is celebrated by both the public and the government. Family events focus on the parents; popular actions include giving parents carnations. The ceremony to designate Parents' Day as an anniversary and to wear carnations originated in Christian culture in the United States. Western religion, culture, and Confucian ideas combined to make it a traditional holiday. Public events are led by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and include public celebrations and awards.

The origins of Parents' Day can be traced back to the 1930s. Starting in 1930, some Christian communities began to celebrate Mother's Day or Parents' Day. This tradition was combined with Korea's traditional Confucianism culture to eventually establish Mother's Day. In 1956, the State Council of South Korea designated May 8 as an annual Mother's Day. However, the question of Father's Day was discussed and on March 30, 1973, May 8 was designated as Parents' Day under Presidential Decree 6615, or the Regulations Concerning Various Holidays (각종 기념일 등에 관한 규정). When Parents' Day was first established, the entire week with the 8th day was designated to be a week to respect the elderly, but respecting elders in the month of May was abolished in 1997 with October becoming the month designated for respecting the elderly.

In the Philippines
Mothers' Day is traditionally celebrated on the first Monday of December. On this day, children placed pink cadena de amor on their chest. Children who no longer have mothers place white cadena de amor.

In 1921, Circular No. 33 designating the first Monday every December as Mothers' day was issued, as a response to the appeal Ilocos Norte Federation of Woman's Clubs. During the Philippine Commonwealth Government, then President Quezon issued Proclamation No. 213, s. 1937 declaring the day designated as Mothers' Day as Parents' Day. This was due to finding petitions to set a special date for Fathers’ Day not advisable as there are already set of numerous holidays set, and deeming it more fitting to celebrate both Mothers' and Fathers' Day together and not apart. In 1980, a proclamation was issued declaring first Sunday and the first Monday of December as Father's Day and Mother's Day respectively. In 1988, the issued presidential proclamation followed the international day of celebration of Father's and Mother's Day which most Filipinos are familiar with. However, then President Estrada tried to revive the tradition through Proclamation No. 58, s. 1998.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Parents’ Day, also called Siku ya Wazazi in Swahili, is one of the public holidays especially celebrated on August 1 each year. This day is devoted to honor the role played by mothers and fathers in the Congolese society and the significance of the family unit. The origin of this celebration is attributed to Mobutu in 1979 who decided to replace All Saints' Day, a vestige of the colonial era, with this holiday now dedicated to parents and ancestors in general. Early in the morning, people go to clean up the cemeteries in remembrance of the deceased relatives before giving cards and gifts to their parents. This accentuates the traditional roles of parents, which is to look after and provide for the family as numerous as it may be. Culturally, parents are not only the individual that gave you birth and brought you up to face this challenging world. They are all those who placed the building blocks of your life. Thus, this is the unique day consecrated to relax and think of parents with beautiful gifts that make them realize that they are not taken for granted but, in the contrary, are loved and cared for.

Elsewhere

 * In India, Parents' Worship Day is celebrated on 14 February.

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NWA Florida Global Tag Team Championship

The NWA Florida Global Tag Team Championship was a major tag team title in Florida Championship Wrestling from 1982 until fall 1983, when it was replaced by the NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship.


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Alice band

An Alice band is a type of hair accessory. It can consist of flexible horseshoe-shaped plastic or elastic material forming a loop. The band is designed to fit over the head and hold long hair away from the face, but let it hang freely at the back.

History
The Alice band is said to have originated in the period around 1871, following the publication of Lewis Carroll's novel Through the Looking Glass; at any rate, the name of the Alice band certainly comes from Carroll's heroine. In John Tenniel's illustrations for this book, Alice is shown wearing a ribbon which keeps her long hair away from her face.

The Alice band has had periods of popularity in adult fashion, most recently in the late 20th century, when velvet versions were popular among Sloane Rangers in the United Kingdom.

The Alice band used to be an almost universally female item of clothing, but it has gained popularity among men in some countries, being used, for example, by David Beckham and Jack Grealish.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kiss related movies

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Kiss related movies
Not only is this list mistitled, it is also unmaintainable as nearly every film has some relation to kissing. Delete. Mgm|(talk) 18:42, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Silly, delete. --W(t) 18:46, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete - this nutjob is creating garbage articles complete with their own built-in VfD heading. There's no need to waste time on these. -- Cyrius|✎ 18:49, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Even though the article has already been speedy deleted, I'm going to vote delete purely on principle. -- BD2412 talk 21:36, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)

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Stephen Regelous

Stephen Regelous is a computer graphics software engineer from New Zealand. He is best known as the creator of the Massive simulation system that generated the battle scenes of the Peter Jackson movie trilogy The Lord of the Rings. In 2004, Regelous received an Academy Award for Scientific and Engineering Achievement. He is the founder of the company Massive Software.

Prior to working on Lord of the Rings, Regelous had worked as a Technical Director on Jackson's earlier movie, The Frighteners. In 1996, Jackson asked Regelous to work on The Fellowship of the Ring, the first movie in the LOTR trilogy. Regelous was asked by Jackson to come up with a program that could create the huge battle scenes in the trilogy. Regelous wrote the software over several years and it was used in all three Lord of the Rings movies. The 'revolutionary' new software generated individual 'agents' which, at the time, were the closest any program had come to artificial intelligence in digital characters.

In 2005, Regelous opened an office in Bangkok.

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User talk:JHen

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have.  You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox.  When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines.  First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette.  Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

Be sure to get involved in the community – you can contact me at my talk page if you have any questions, and you can check out the village pump, where lots of wikipedians hang out and discuss things. If you're looking for something to do, check out the community portal. And whenever you ask a question or post something on a talk page, be sure to sign your name by typing ~~~~.

Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame)  18:42, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Cpl.Luke

Nice catch!
Hey Chouggs, nice catch on Compton wavelength! I'm so wary of mixing up Planck's constant and Dirac's, I should've found it, especially consdering my past involment with that topic, (see the history of Compton length... Oh yea, you need to create yourself a user-page, have some fun with it! -- Rmrfstar 03:14, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

user page formatting
Do you really want the "thats you" to be in a text box? If not make sure that the text is at the beginning of the line instead of indented with spaces... hope that helps! -- Rmrfstar 00:40, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Rmrfstar's RfA
Hi

What are his FA's? I will vote to support based on meets User:Mailer diablo/One Featured Article. Thanks, :) Dlohcierekim 19:53, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Rmrfstar (second nomination) ·
Thanks for your reply. I have voted for his RfA. Cheers. :) Dlohcierekim 17:32, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

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Lens (geometry)

In 2-dimensional geometry, a lens is a convex region bounded by two circular arcs joined to each other at their endpoints. In order for this shape to be convex, both arcs must bow outwards (convex-convex). This shape can be formed as the intersection of two circular disks. It can also be formed as the union of two circular segments (regions between the chord of a circle and the circle itself), joined along a common chord.

Types
If the two arcs of a lens have equal radius, it is called a symmetric lens, otherwise is an asymmetric lens.

The vesica piscis is one form of a symmetric lens, formed by arcs of two circles whose centers each lie on the opposite arc. The arcs meet at angles of 120° at their endpoints.

Area
The area of a symmetric lens can be expressed in terms of the radius R and arc lengths θ in radians:
 * Symmetric
 * $$A = R^2\left(\theta - \sin \theta \right).$$

The area of an asymmetric lens formed from circles of radii R and r with distance d between their centers is
 * Asymmetric

 * $$A=r^2 \cos^{-1} \left(\frac{d^2+r^2-R^2}{2dr}\right) +R^2\cos^{-1}\left( \frac{d^2+R^2-r^2}{2dR}\right) -2\Delta$$

where

 * $$\Delta = \frac{1}{4} \sqrt{(-d+r+R)(d-r+R)(d+r-R)(d+r+R)}$$

is the area of a triangle with sides d, r, and R.

The two circles overlap if $$d<r+R$$. For sufficiently large $$d$$, the coordinate $$x$$ of the lens centre lies between the coordinates of the two circle centers:

For small $$d$$ the coordinate $$x$$ of the lens centre lies outside the line that connects the circle centres:

By eliminating y from the circle equations $$x^2+y^2=r^2$$ and $$(x-d)^2+y^2=R^2$$ the abscissa of the intersecting rims is

 * $$x=(d^2+r^2-R^2)/(2d)$$.

The sign of x, i.e., $$d^2$$ being larger or smaller than $$R^2-r^2$$, distinguishes the two cases shown in the images.

The ordinate of the intersection is

 * $$y=\sqrt{r^2-x^2} = \frac{\sqrt{[(R-d)^2-r^2][r^2-(R+d)^2]}}{2d}$$.

Negative values under the square root indicate that the rims of the two circles do not touch because the circles are too far apart or one circle lies entirely within the other.

The value under the square root is a biquadratic polynomial of d. The four roots of this polynomial are associated with y=0 and with the four values of d where the two circles have only one point in common.

The angles in the blue triangle of sides d, r and R are
 * $$ \sin a_r = y/r;\quad \sin a_R = y/R$$

where y is the ordinate of the intersection. The branch of the arcsin with $$a_r>\pi/2$$ is to be taken if $$d^2<R^2-r^2$$.

The area of the triangle is $$\Delta = \frac12 yd$$.

The area of the asymmetric lens is $$A=a_r r^2+a_R R^2-yd$$, where the two angles are measured in radians. [This is an application of the Inclusion-exclusion principle: the two circular sectors centered at (0,0) and (d,0) with central angles $$2a_r$$ and $$2a_R$$ have areas $$2a_r r^2$$ and $$2a_R R^2$$. Their union covers the triangle, the flipped triangle with corner at (x,-y), and twice the lens area.]

Applications
A lens with a different shape forms the answer to Mrs. Miniver's problem, on finding a lens with half the area of the union of the two circles.

Lenses are used to define beta skeletons, geometric graphs defined on a set of points by connecting pairs of points by an edge whenever a lens determined by the two points is empty.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anders Tarleton

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Anders Tarleton
Nonsense. --W(t) 18:44, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)
 * It is just barely coherent enough to avoid the speedy delete. Hoax/nonsense/unverifiable/non-notable, etc., etc., etc. Delete. --Scimitar 19:08, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nonsense/joke. --Etacar11 00:02, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nonsense. JamesBurns 07:02, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unverifiable Samw 01:44, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete What are you waiting for?
 * Delete. This is probably an article by a ten year old, so don't be too fierce. Denni ☯ 23:35, 2005 Jun 17 (UTC)
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Heaviside (disambiguation)

Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925) was a mathematician and physicist.

Heaviside may also refer to:

Science

 * Heaviside step function
 * Heaviside cover-up method
 * Heaviside condition
 * Heaviside layer or Kennelly–Heaviside layer
 * Heaviside (lunar crater)
 * Heaviside (Martian crater)
 * Heaviside's dolphin, named in honour of 19th-century mariner Captain Haviside (also spelled Heaviside)

People

 * John Heaviside Clark (c. 1771–1836), Scottish artist
 * John Heaviside (footballer) (born 1943), English footballer
 * Michael Heaviside (1880–1939), Victoria Cross recipient

Others

 * Heaviside, an electric-powered aircraft under development by the Kitty Hawk Corporation

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André Gonçalves (explorer)

André Gonçalves (15th century/16th century), Portuguese explorer who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil. Gonçalves was one of Cabral's captains of the fleet during the second Portuguese voyage to Brazil in 1501-1502.

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Robert Wilson (British Army officer, born 1777)

General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (17 August 1777 – 9 May 1849) was a British general and politician who served in Flanders, Egypt, the Iberian Peninsula, Prussia, and was seconded to the Imperial Russian Army in 1812. He sat as the Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Southwark from 1818 to 1831. He served as the Governor of Gibraltar from 1842 until his death in 1849.

Early career
Born in London, he was the grandson of a Leeds wool merchant, and the fourth child of painter and portraitist Benjamin Wilson. Orphaned at the age of twelve he was raised and educated by his uncle and guardian, William Bosville, later attending Westminster School.

He eloped in his twenties with Jemima, the daughter of Colonel William Belford. They had thirteen children in the following 15 years.

Military life
He had a distinguished career in the Army and the diplomatic service. In 1794, as an ensign in the 15th Light Dragoons, Wilson fought in the celebrated Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies where a handful of cavalry smashed a much larger French force. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1801. That year also saw him serving in Egypt under General Abercromby and later General Hely-Hutchinson as the French were driven out of Cairo and Alexandria. In 1804 he became a lieutenant-colonel in the 19th Light Dragoons. In 1806 he joined a diplomatic mission to Prussia led by Hutchinson, with whom he had served in Egypt. Wilson was present at the battle of Eylau and Friedland. He was briefly at Tilsit at the signing of the Treaty of Tilsit and claimed to have crossed to the French side of the river while disguised as a Cossack in the company of a friend who was also a Cossack general. After the treaty was signed he travelled to St Petersburg and unaware of the secret clauses, campaigned vigorously for continued friendship between Britain and Russia. When the British ambassador discovered that Russia was about to declare war, Wilson was despatched to Britain with the news. It was hoped that he could overhaul a Russian courier who had been sent ahead of him, which he did in Stockholm. Having left St Peterburg on the eighth of November, he arrived in Scarborough Yorkshire, England on the thirtieth. By four AM on the second of December he was waking up the British Foreign Secretary, George Canning, with the news. The early warning enabled Britain to detain Russian frigate Speshnyi then in its waters and unaware of the impending war declaration.

During the Peninsular War he organized Portuguese soldiers into the Loyal Lusitanian Legion. During the British retreat from the Iberian peninsula in January 1809, Wilson refused to comply with the withdrawal and instead decided to oppose the incoming 9,000-man corps commanded by the French General Pierre Belon Lapisse. He installed half of his 1,200 Lusitanian Legion in the fortress of Almeida and arranged the rest in a thin screen. He then harried the opposition with such remorseless energy that Lapisse, convinced he was confronted by a far more numerous enemy, switched entirely to the defensive. In summer 1809, Wilson's Legion again formed an important part of the Anglo-Portuguese network of advance posts and was placed on the Spanish frontier to provide early warning of French moves while the British commander Wellington advanced on Oporto. In Wellington's advance on Talavera in spring 1809, Wilson's Lusitanians again formed a valuable flank guard. Although heavily outnumbered, they managed to stop Marshal Victor's advance into Portugal by partially blowing up the bridge at Alcantara. In the aftermath of the Battle of Talavera, when the French General Victor and his corps threatened to cut Wellington's forces off from the south, Wilson's small flank column of 1,500 men surprised Victor's 19,600 men from the north. In the face of this unclear threat, Victor panicked and precipitously withdrew to Madrid. On 12August 1809, Wilson with 4,000 men, including two battalions of the Legion, was defeated by French forces under Marshal Michel Ney at the Battle of Puerto de Baños. Facing treble the number of French, Wilson nevertheless managed to maintain his position for nine hours. He lost nearly 400 men while inflicting 185 casualties on the French.

Wilson returned to Russia in 1812 as a liaison officer joining and describing in detail Kutuzov's campaign against Napoleon, showing that he was a sharp observer, an experienced general but also a British politician during the events of Napoleon's disastrous retreat from Moscow. In addition he assisted in the November 1815 escape of the Bonapartist Lavalette from Paris.

Parliament
In 1817, near the start of the Great Game, he published the anti-Russian "A Sketch of the Military and Political Power of Russia".

In 1818, Wilson became an MP for Southwark. In 1821 and by now a Radical, he attended the funeral of Queen Caroline whose treatment by her husband George IV had made her popular. Her supporters became unruly, and soldiers fired over the heads of the crowd. Wilson intervened, stating that "It is quite disgraceful to continue firing in this manner, for the people are unarmed. Remember you are soldiers of Waterloo; do not lose your honours gained on that occasion.  You have had cannon shot at your head, never mind a few stones." The firing ceased as the officer in charge recognised Wilson, and the troops backed off. A few weeks later Wilson was dismissed from the Army by the Duke of York.

Later career
Wilson was reinstated in the Army and promoted to lieutenant-general in 1830. He reached the rank of full general in 1841 and was appointed Governor of Gibraltar in 1842. He wrote a great deal about history and politics.

Death
Wilson died suddenly on 9May 1849 at Marshall Thompson's Hotel in Cavendish Square, London. He is buried along with his wife in the north aisle at Westminster Abbey.

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Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad

The Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad was a railroad in Dutchess County, New York, United States. Its line ran 58.9 miles northeast from the Hudson River in Fishkill to the Connecticut state line near Millerton. The Dutchess and Columbia Railroad (D&C), was chartered in 1866 to link rural villages with the Hudson River Railroad and New York and Harlem Railroad. The under-construction line was leased by the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad (BH&E) in 1868. The first segment opened in July 1869, and it reached Pine Plains the following February.

The BH&E failed in March 1870, and the D&C officers took back the railroad in an overnight escapade. The final segment to the state line opened in 1871. In the mid-1870s, the railroad became part of the New York, Boston and Montreal Railway. That railroad's failure resulted in the D&C being sold at foreclosure in August 1876. It was reorganized in January 1877 as the Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad (ND&C). In 1881, BH&E successor New York and New England Railroad (NY&NE) began using the southwestern portion of the ND&C. It built a short new branch to reach Fishkill Landing on the Hudson River. The connecting Clove Branch Railroad, built in 1869 and extended in 1877, was closed in 1897.

The ND&C was bought by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (NYNH&H) in 1905. It was assigned to NYNH&H subsidiary Central New England Railway in 1907. Passenger service ended on parts of the line in 1921 and 1925, and on the rest of the line in 1933. Most of the former ND&C was abandoned in sections between 1925 and 1938. The remaining section between Beacon and Hopewell Junction was retained for freight use. After passing through several owners, it is now part of the Beacon Line, used by Metro-North Railroad for equipment transfers.

Beginnings
The Dutchess and Columbia Railroad (D&C) was chartered September 4, 1866. It was to run from Plumb Point in Fishkill northeast to meet the New York and Harlem Railroad at Hillsdale station in Craryville. Despite the connection with the Harlem, it was not intended to be a bridge line; instead, it was expected to carry lead and iron ore from the Ancram area westbound, and coal from the Coal Region of Pennsylvania eastbound. Columbia County townships proved reluctant to fund the northern portion of the line, so it was rerouted eastward from Pine Plains to meet the Harlem at Millerton. This missed most of the Ancram mines, but would allow connection with the Connecticut Western Railroad then building west from Hartford, Connecticut – thus making the railroad a bridge line after all. Construction began from Plumb Point in 1868.

In November 1868, the D&C was leased by the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad (BH&E). The BH&E had completed lines from Waterbury, Connecticut, to Boston and Providence by 1855, but had struggled building through the hills of western Connecticut. Intending to bypass New York City and compete with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (New Haven) for New England business, the Erie Railroad (which controlled the BH&E) planned to ship coal across the Hudson River from Newburgh. The BH&E constructed a steamship terminal at Denning's Point at the mouth of Fishkill Creek and built a trestle from the D&C to the point.

Service began on the D&C line between Dutchess Junction (Plumb Point) and Hopewell Junction (the planned junction with the BH&E) on June 21, 1869. The BH&E supplied all rolling stock for the line. For a short time before the Dutchess Junction station was completed, trains ran over the Hudson River Railroad between Fishkill Landing and Dutchess Junction. Later in 1869, the associated Clove Branch Railroad opened its 4.25 miles line from Clove Branch Junction (north of Hopewell Junction) to the mines at Sylvan Lake. The D&C line reached Millbrook by October 1869 and Pine Plains in February 1870.

Expansion
The overextended BH&E failed in March 1870. Rather than submit to the receivers appointed for the BH&E, the D&C officers decided to take back their railroad. In the early morning hours of March 22, the president and secretary led what a local historical society later called a "dramatic midnight train run". Beginning at Pine Plains, they tore up tracks at the engine house, woke up a conductor to operate a train, and took possession of the stations along the line. Regular service on the line resumed by March 25 using a purchased locomotive and coaches rented from the Hudson River Railroad. After a multiple-month court battle, the BH&E abandoned its claim to the line.

The D&C extended its line through Millerton, meeting the Connecticut Western at the state line on July 24, 1871. Through service began soon after. Millerton became the connection point between the two railroads; the Connecticut Western leased the D&C between State Line and Millerton later in 1871. The Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railroad (P&E) opened from Poughkeepsie, New York to a junction with the D&C at Stissing on January 24, 1871. It opened a second section of its line from Pine Plains to State Line on October 1, 1872. Between Stissing Junction and Pine Plains, it used trackage rights on the D&C.

In 1870, the Harlem Extension Railroad was formed by a merger of the Lebanon Springs Railroad and the Bennington and Rutland Railroad, forming a Chatham, New York–Rutland, Vermont line. Late in 1872, the D&C was merged with the New York and Boston Railroad, the unbuilt Putnam and Dutchess Railroad, and the Clove Branch to form the New York, Boston and Northern Railway. In 1873, it joined with the Harlem Extension and the unbuilt Pine Plains and Albany Railroad to form the New York, Boston and Montreal Railway (NYB&M). The Clove Branch and the D&C between Clove Branch Junction and Pine Plains were to become part of its New York–Rutland mainline.

Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut
The Rhinebeck and Connecticut Railroad opened in 1875 with a shorter and flatter route to the Hudson than the D&C, which allowed it to charge lower rates. The Rhinebeck and Connecticut replaced the D&C as the C&W's primary western connection for through traffic, hurting revenues of the D&C. The Panic of 1873 stopped the construction of the two new segments by 1875; the NYB&M went bankrupt, followed by the D&C. The Clove Branch again became independent. The D&C was sold at foreclosure in August 1876. It was reorganized January 15, 1877, as the Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad. Company headquarters were at Matteawan. In 1877, the Clove Branch was extended by 4.01 miles to Clove Valley, where an iron works was located. The extension was partially built on right-of-way that had been graded for the NYB&M. The New York and New England Railroad (NY&NE), successor to the BH&E, opened its extension from Danbury, Connecticut to Brewster, New York in July 1881. That December, the NY&NE opened a further extension to Hopewell Junction. As had been planned in 1868, the ND&C was used to reach the Hudson, albeit with trackage rights rather than ownership. The NY&NE built a short branch from the ND&C to reach Fishkill Landing. Passenger service between Fishkill Landing and Boston began on December 12, 1881. Train ferry service across the Hudson, connecting with the Erie Railroad, also began that day; the first freight car carried 800 turkeys from Livonia, New York, bound for Providence. Within weeks, the NY&NE was carrying more freight than all other railroads in Dutchess County combined.

The Poughkeepsie Bridge opened in 1889, along with connecting lines west to the Erie Railroad and northeast to Silvernails, as part of the Central New England and Western (successor of the Connecticut Western). The Dutchess County Railroad from the bridge to Hopewell Junction was completed in 1892. These through lines vastly decreased the demand for the ferry at Fishkill Landing. The ND&C thereafter handled primarily local traffic; much of its income was local coal delivery within Dutchess County. The NY&NE fell under control of its archrival New Haven in 1895 and was merged into it in 1899. The Clove Branch, leased by the ND&C, ended service in 1897 as the iron mines ran out and was torn up in 1898.

Central New England Railway
The Central New England and Western was consolidated with the Poughkeepsie Bridge and Railroad Company in 1892 as the Philadelphia, Reading and New England Railroad, under control of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. It was succeeded in 1899 by the Central New England Railway (CNE), still controlled by the Reading. The New Haven obtained control of the CNE in 1904, primarily to obtain the Poughkeepsie Bridge. Although subsidiary to the New Haven, the CNE operated largely independently. The New Haven also transferred the ex-NY&NE Fishkill Landing branch to the CNE. By 1905, daily passenger service on the ND&C included two Fishkill Landing–Pine Plains round trips and two Fishkill Landing–Millerton round trips, plus a Millerton–State Line round trip connecting with a CNE train. The New Haven agreed in July 1905 to purchase the ND&C – primarily to obtain control of the segment between Wicopee Junction and Hopewell Junction, and to prevent the New York Central Railroad from obtaining the line. The transfer took place on September 14, 1905, after which the ND&C was operated as part of the CNE. Some service was rerouted to Poughkeepsie rather than Fishkill Junction. The ND&C, the Poughkeepsie and Eastern, the Dutchess County, and the Poughkeepsie Bridge were formally merged into the CNE in 1907.

The CNE soon began to consolidate its duplicative lines crossing rural Dutchess County. On October 2, 1909, the railroad abandoned the former Poughkeepsie and Connecticut Railroad between West Pine Plains and West Salt Point. Trains were rerouted over the parallel ex-Poughkeepsie and Eastern, including the portion of the ex-ND&C between Pine Plains and Stissing Junction. By 1912, the line had two daily Fishkill Landing–Millerton round trips and one daily Fishkill Landing–Pine Plains round trip, all operating via Dutchess Junction. Two daily round trips on the ex-NY&NE used the line between Fishkill Landing and Hopewell Junction; three daily CNE round trips used the line only between Stissing Junction and Pine Plains.

By 1915, the line had $1 1/2$ daily Beacon (formerly Fishkill Landing)–Pine Plains round trips, a daily southbound trip from Pine Plains to Hopewell Junction, and one daily Beacon–Millerton round trip. One daily CNE round trip used the line between Millerton and Stissing Junction, and two between Pine Plains and Stissing Junction; two daily ex-NY&NE round trips used the line west of Hopewell Junction. The 1.03 miles between Wicopee Junction and Dutchess Junction was abandoned in 1916, leaving only the connection to Beacon (formerly Fishkill Landing) at its south end.

Abandonment
The CNE ended passenger service between Shekomeko and Millerton on December 18, 1921. That 7.73 mile section of track was generally disused for freight until January 21, 1925, when the Interstate Commerce Commission authorized abandonment. Passenger service between Millerton and Pine Plains via Boston Corners (using the ex-ND&C between Millerton and State Line) also ended at that time. The CNE began using a gasoline railcar between Beacon and Pine Plains in October 1923. The single daily round trip between Pine Plains and Shekomeko was discontinued in 1927. The final service east of Millerton on the ex-ND&C was cut back to Canaan, Connecticut in December 1927, shortly before all CNE passenger service ended in Connecticut.

The CNE was merged into the New Haven in 1927. By 1932, the only remaining passenger service on the ex-CNE was operated by a single gasoline railcar: one Beacon–Pine Plains round trip on the ex-ND&C, plus one Poughkeepsie–Copake round trip that used the line between Pine Plains and Stissing Junction. These trips were discontinued on September 9, 1933. The 5.1 miles between Pine Plains and Shekomeko was abandoned in late 1935. On July 1, 1936, the New Haven discontinued freight service between Stissing Junction and Millbrook because two trestles were in poor condition. In April 1938, the Interstate Commerce Commission allowed the New Haven to abandon most of the remaining ex-CNE lines in New York. This included the former ND&C between Hopewell Junction and Pine Plains. Abandonment of the long-unprofitable lines took place on August 1, 1938. The New Haven continued operating the Maybrook Line as a major freight route over the Poughkeepsie Bridge. The Beacon–Hopewell Junction portion of the ex-ND&C was also retained for freight service.

The New Haven was merged into Penn Central in 1969, which in turn merged into Conrail in 1976. The Poughkeepsie Bridge was damaged by fire in 1974, cutting off the Maybrook Line from west-of-Hudson connections. This left the ex-ND&C spur to Beacon as the only western connection for the line; Conrail soon upgraded it to handle additional freight traffic. However, in 1981, Conrail applied to abandon the segment along with the Maybrook Line between Poughkeepsie and Hopewell Junction (the former Dutchess County Railroad). The latter segment was abandoned in 1982, but the Beacon–Hopewell Junction segment remained in use.

Maybrook Properties, a subsidiary of the Housatonic Railroad, purchased the remaining Maybrook Line (Beacon–Hopewell Junction–Derby) from Conrail in 1992. The Metro-North Railroad purchased the New York portion of the line from Maybrook Properties in January 1995 as the Beacon Line. Metro-North filed for federal permission for adverse abandonment of the line in 2021; the Housatonic, which retained freight rights on the line; opposed. In early 2023, Metro-North filed for federal permission to acquire the Housatonic's freight rights and to discontinue the New York portion of the Beacon Line, which would be converted to a rail trail. The Housatonic indicated that it had not operated any trains on the line in two years and did not object to abandonment. However, in July 2023, the Surface Transportation Board denied Metro-North's request on procedural grounds. Metro-North again filed for abandonment in December 2023. The filing was approved and took effect in February 2024.

Route
The Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad ran about 58.9 miles diagonally across Dutchess County, New York, from the Hudson River to the Connecticut state line. Its southwest end was at Dutchess Junction in Fishkill, where it connected with the Hudson River Railroad. The line followed the Fishkill Creek valley northeast to Hopewell Junction, where it crossed the New York and New England Railroad and Dutchess County Railroad. From there the line gradually turned northward into steeper terrain, with a difficult grade from Moore's Mills to Verbank then a curving route around Oak Summit into Millbrook.

The Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway joined the ND&C at Stissing Junction, with trackage rights on the ND&C up to a split just south of Pine Plains. (After 1910, the connector to the CNE mainline also split at the latter junction.) The ND&C turned east at Pine Plains, with an average grade of nearly 1% for the next 10 miles to Winchells. This included sections of 2.8% near Shekomeko and 1.9% approaching Winchells. Some 3.5 miles of 1.5% downgrade followed as the line approached Millerton, where it crossed the New York and Harlem Railroad. At the state line, the line met the Hartford and Connecticut Western Railroad and the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railroad. The maximum speed allowed between State Line and Pine Plains for passenger trains was just 23 mph due to the steep grades.

A short branch at the southwest end, originally constructed by the NY&NE, split at Wicopee Junction west of Matteawan. It ran northwest, crossing over the Hudson River Railroad and terminating at the ferry landing at Fishkill Landing (now Beacon). The Clove Branch Railroad, always closely associated with the ND&C, ran 8 miles east from Clove Branch to Clove Valley.

Station listing
Most stations on the line were simple square structures with flat roofs.


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Lister Storm

The Lister Storm was a homologated GT racing car manufactured by British low volume automobile manufacturer Lister Cars with production beginning in 1993. The Storm used the largest V12 engine fitted to a production road car since World War II, a 7.0 L Jaguar unit based on the one used in the Jaguar XJR-9 that competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Due to the high price of the vehicle at £220,000, only four examples were produced before production of the road-going Storm ceased. Only three Storms survive today, although the company continues to maintain racing models. The Storm was claimed to be the fastest four-seat grand tourer during the 1990s and early 2000s.

The bored and stroked twenty-four-valve V12 engine generated a maximum power output of 407 kW at 6,100 rpm and 790 Nm of torque at 3,450 rpm. The car weighed 1664 kg, and was capable of accelerating from 0–97 km/h in 4.1 seconds.

Storm GTS
The Lister Storm GTS debuted at the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans as a competitor in the GT1 class, going up against cars such as the McLaren F1 GTR, Ferrari F40 LM, Jaguar XJ220S, and the Porsche 911 GT2. The car, driven by Geoff Lees, Rupert Keegan, and Dominic Chappell, did not perform well, failing to finish due to gearbox failure after 40 laps.

In 1996, the team signed a sponsorship deal with football club Newcastle United and hired engineer Geoff Kingston. It decided to give an updated Storm an early test for Le Mans by entering a lone car in the 24 Hours of Daytona, driven by ex-F1 drivers Geoff Lees, Tiff Needell and Kenny Acheson. It failed to finish due to a high-speed crash while Acheson was behind the wheel. The car was destroyed and according to an interview in Octane in November 2020, Kenny suffered from temporary vision loss in his right eye, chest injuries, a broken rib and still suffers from a reduced lung capacity on the left side.

Even with this letdown, the team pushed on towards Le Mans with the Storm GTS. A new car had to be built by G-Force due to the timescales involved. Lees and Needell were joined by Anthony Reid. The car was able to improve on its disappointing start by finishing the race in 1996, although it was classified in 19th place, 59 laps behind the winner. Lister decided after Le Mans that they would enter the Storm GTS into the BPR Global GT Series, debuting in the fifth round at the Nürburgring but sadly retiring while in third place. The car was then entered at the Suzuka 1000km with Christophe Bouchut this time joining Lees and Needell. It was running in third, before retiring thanks to gearbox troubles.

The car once again proved its speed during round eight of the 1996 BPR Global GT Series at Brands Hatch, qualifying third overall. It sadly retired, this time with an engine issue, while still in that third position.

Storm GTL
For 1997, Lister realized that the Storm GTS was too slow in comparison to some of the newer GT1 class competitors, such as the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR and Porsche 911 GT1. The Storm was therefore redesigned, with a longer and more aerodynamic front end added to the existing car. This car was referred to as the Storm GTL and also used a carbon fibre structure and body panels. The car debuted at the 24 Hours of Daytona, where it managed to take 19th place overall and fourth in its class. Later that year, for Le Mans, two new Storm GTLs were entered, but neither of them was able to finish, with both cars out of the race by lap 77. Later in the year, a Storm GTL would travel to the United States to participate in the final two rounds of the FIA GT Championship at Sebring and Laguna Seca. The car failed to finish both races. It did take one race win and one second place, both results at Donington Park, in the 1997 British GT Championship, however.

1998 saw the team again attempt Daytona, but again they suffered problems early on, and did not finish. Updates to the car meant that it failed scrutineering and was not allowed to take part in the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans despite the team entering the event and turning up to pre-qualify. One bone of contention was the lack of a rear window in the refreshed design.

Also in 1998, the Lister Storm GTL finished fifth overall in the British GT Championship in the hands of Tiff Needell and Julian Bailey (with Anthony Reid subbing for Tiff at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps round). There were three Storm GTLs entered this season and between them they achieved two victories and seven podiums including winning the Silverstone Golden Jubilee Trophy race.

An updated version of the car – featuring a longer nose design – won the overall 1999 British GT Championship driven by Jamie Campbell-Walter and Julian Bailey, winning seven races that season. The championship result was contentious, with a furore surrounding changes to the rear aerodynamics of the Storm GTL. Multiple protests were launched against the car by the rival Blue Coral Porsche team and the championship results remained provisional until after the season had ended. This was futile, and the Lister was victorious.

Meanwhile, the Storm GT also won the GT2 category of the championship that same year. It became apparent that the GT1 rules were going to disappear and that Lister was very competitive in GT2, which was to become the leading class in 2000. Thus, the end of the GTL.

Storm GT
For 1999, the Storm reappeared, a reworked version of the earlier GTS. The car had lost the aerodynamic bodywork seen on the GTL, instead using a more stock front and rear ends. According to Malcolm Cracknell's book Taking the World by Storm, there was a shortage of new suitable GT machines at the time, so Lister was allowed to use the Storm despite road car production long since ceasing.

The team announced they would participate in the full FIA GT Championship season under the new GT2 class rules. After a poor start – retiring from fourth place in Monza and retiring from second place at Silverstone – the team managed to take fourth place at Hockenheimring, a mere two laps behind the winning pair of Chrysler Viper GTS-Rs. This was followed by pole position and third place at Zolder, and finally, a second place at Donington, with the Lister finishing 26 seconds behind the winning Viper. These successes brought Lister into a tie for fifth place overall in the teams championship at the season's end, despite only entering half the races. In the 1999 British GT Championship, David Warnock won the GT2 category for Cirtek Motorsport in a Lister Storm GT.

Going into 2000, Lister was more upbeat about their possibilities. Chrysler-Oreca had officially left the championship, eliminating a challenge from a factory team. Thus, Lister would face competition only from privateers. With this, Lister proved its capabilities by winning the first race of the season at Valencia. Lister would follow this up with four more wins during the season, all claimed by drivers Julian Bailey and Jamie Campbell-Walter. By round seven at the A1 Ring, the team was saddled with a new inlet restrictor to try to slow them down relative to its on-track rivals. With these victories, Lister claimed the team's and driver's championships with chassis number SA9STRM1BYB053119 GTM002.

At the same time, Lister competed in the British GT championship both as a factory team, as well as with a customer car for Cirtek Motorsport. The two teams were able to take nine victories. David Warnock finished second overall in the championship using a Storm GT while Tiff Needell won the races at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps and Silverstone in the Cirtek (CSi branded) Lister.

Returning as champions to FIA GT, Lister continued into 2001 with two factory cars. Although the Storm GT was very rapid and able to take four victories over the year, the team had to settle for third in the team's championship – beaten by Larbre Competition and Carsport Holland's Vipers. Jamie Campbell-Walter lead the charge, with Tom Coronel as teammate initially. Tom only did a part-season, however, and drivers Mike Jordan, Bobby Verdon-Roe and Richard Dean took it in turns to partner Campbell-Walter's championship efforts. The second car featured Julian Bailey alongside German businessman Nicolaus Springer. This was the last season Julian drove the Lister.

In terms of the 2001 British GT season, Lister won the championship with David Warnock and Mike Jordan at the wheel of a Storm GT, taking victory in no less than seven races. Lister also won the one and only ever race in the Interactive Sportscar Championship 2001 at Donington Park in the hands of James Pickford and David Warnock.

A similar situation occurred in 2002, with Lister managing three victories but only able to take second in the team's championship, again beaten by Larbre. The main challenge this season was relying on a Pro-Am driver strategy across the two cars, as opposed to a Pro-Pro driver line-up by most other teams. The cars were shared by Jamie Campbell-Walter alongside German businessman Nicolaus Springer in car 14 and Bobby Verdon-Roe and British businessman Paul Knapfield in car 15. At times, the amateur drivers would lose one minute to the leaders during their stints. Despite this, Campbell-Walter and Springer finished third overall in the driver's championship. From a British GT point of view, the Storm GT was once again driven by David Warnock and Mike Jordan. This combination delivered 3 race wins and 4 podiums, finishing second in the championship. A great season, but the writing was on the wall for the Lister as the new Saleen S7-R proved to be the dominant vehicle in its first season.

In 2003, Lister was joined in FIA GT with a customer Storm, run by Creation Autosportif. The Lister factory team managed only a single win, yet were still able to take second place in the team's championship. Creation was not far behind, with a fourth-place finish in the championship, after gaining a second customer Storm. At the same time, Lister began work on a new project, the Storm LMP which would bring the marque back to Le Mans. Meanwhile, in British GT, a rule change for the season outlawed cars of the Storm's ilk and thus the team did not enter. This was, therefore, the beginning of the decline of the Storm GT.

For 2004, Creation Autosportif would take over as the main competitor in FIA GT, with the factory squad appearing only at selected races. Creation managed to take only eighth in the teams championship after the team decided to move to Le Mans Prototypes as well, while the factory squad was only able to score a single point all season.

Lister would continue to attempt to campaign the car into 2005, but was only able to gather enough points for 10th place in the team's championship. Following 2005, the factory officially retired the cars to concentrate on the Storm LMP.

In 2006, French squad Red Racing would purchase a Storm for the FFSA GT Championship. The team would make one attempt at the FIA GT Championship, but failed to make it beyond seven laps in the race at Paul Ricard. A year later, the Storm would never be raced in any championships again.

Specifications

 * Engine: Jaguar V12 SOHC 24 valves
 * Displacement: 7.0 L 6996 cc
 * Compression: 10.5:1
 * Power: 554 PS at 6,100 rpm
 * Torque: 786.37 Nm at 3,450 rpm
 * Top speed: 335 km/h
 * Coefficient of drag:

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pop metal

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 03:16, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Pop metal
This article merely creates an uncecessary fork of goth metal and new metal, maybe of pop punk also, which are inherently more likely to become mainstream, due to the very nature of their sound. There is no such thing as pop metal. When conservative heavy metal music fans want to describe this sort of band, they merely tag them as posers. This article generates yet more needless discussion over genres, which is already a big enough problem. Thus, delete. --Sn0wflake 18:50, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC) * don't delete POV issues yes, but just needs a re-write rather than complete deletion of a valid genre of music. People who vote for deletion merely have their own judgement clouded my their musical tastes rather than the validity of the genre. * don't delete the key issue here is that wether you like it or not this is a genre of music commonly known and populary used to describe certain music/bands. keep * don't delete i found the article informative. little bit biased but otherwise fine. the guy who wrote the first comment is talking utter rubish. Three "votes" by the same anon. --Sn0wflake 19:35, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak delete While music genres are always a topic for discussion, this article seems to have POV problems (unsigned comment by User:Varnav)
 * Utterly useless non-musical genre. delete or replace with a redirect to nu metal --KharBevNor 18:56, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, definitely POV issue here, music genres seem to be bit of a mess at the moment.
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .


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User:Kingnat

Surface Effect Ship- A type of hovercraft consisting of slim catamaran sidewalls, flexible bow and stern sections and compressors to maintain a cushion. The sidewalls, being in the water, permit the use of more efficient water propulsion as compared to air propulsion neccessitated by the periphirally flexible sealed hovercraft.

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Berytos Airlines

Berytos Airlines was an airline based in Hazmieh, Lebanon.

History and profile
The airline was established in 2003 and operated ad hoc charter flights. In 2008, it was closed down.

Fleet
In 2005, Khors Aircompany wet leased a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50 to the airline.

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Authentic Socialist Party (Argentina)

The Authentic Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Auténtico; Plaid Sosialaidd Dilys; PSA) is a minor socialist political party in Argentina.

Formed in the 1960s as a division of the Popular Socialist Party as the Argentine Socialist Party, it was forced to change its name in 1983 after the prohibition for political parties to have the terms National or Argentine in their names.

In 2002, the party refused to join the Popular Socialist Party and the Democratic Socialist Party in the reborn Socialist Party. In 2007, film director Fernando 'Pino' Solanas stood for the Party to be President of Argentina. The Party gained one deputy in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, Claudio Lozano.

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Hilla von Rebay

Hildegard Anna Augusta Elisabeth Freiin Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, known as Baroness Hilla von Rebay or simply Hilla Rebay (31 May 1890 – 27 September 1967), was an abstract artist in the early 20th century and co-founder and first director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She was a key figure in advising Solomon R. Guggenheim to collect abstract art, a collection that would later form the basis of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum collection. She was also influential in selecting Frank Lloyd Wright to design the current Guggenheim museum, which is now known as a modernist icon in New York City.

Early life and education
Hilla von Rebay was born into a German aristocratic family in Strasbourg, Alsace–Lorraine, then part of the German Empire. She was the second child of Baron Franz Josef Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, an officer in the Prussian Army, and his wife, Antonie von Eicken. She showed an early aptitude for art and she studied at the Cologne Kunstgewerbeschule during the academic year 1908/09. She then attended the Académie Julian in Paris from 1909 until 1910, where she received traditional training in landscape, portraiture, genre and history painting. Her portraiture skills supported her before she turned to more abstract art. Under the influence of the German Jugendstil painter Fritz Erler, Rebay moved to Munich in 1910 where she lived until 1911. Here, she began to develop her interest in modern art.

Invited by Dr. Arnold Fortlage, Rebay participated in her first exhibition at the Cologne Kunstverein in 1912. Fortlage was the author of the foreword to the 1911 Ferdinand Hodler exhibition in Munich, which inspired Rebay greatly to pursue her interest in modern art.

In March 1913, Rebay was exhibited alongside Archipenko, Brâncuși, Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Gleizes, Diego Rivera and at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. This experience, however, was disheartening for Rebay, who seemed to judge her own work as inadequate. In 1915, Rebay met Hans (Jean) Arp in Zurich. This meeting was extremely influential upon Rebay's artistic taste, since it was through Arp that she was introduced to the non-objective modern art works of Kandinsky, Klee, Franz Marc, Chagall and Rudolf Bauer. At this time, Rebay was also introduced to Herwarth Walden and the avant-garde Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin. In 1920, she, along with Bauer and Otto Nebel founded the artist group Der Krater.

Career in the United States
In January 1927, Rebay immigrated to the United States and settled in New York City. An avid art collector, she became a friend and confidante of Solomon R. Guggenheim, and helped advise his art purchases. In particular, she encouraged him to purchase non-objective art by Rudolf Bauer and Kandinsky.

These purchases later founded the basis of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation's Museum of Non-Objective Painting, which opened in 1939 in a showroom located at 24 East 54th Street. The first exhibition, entitled Art of Tomorrow, opened on June 1, 1939. Rebay served as the director of the museum until 1952. The next director was James Johnson Sweeney, who had previously been a curator at the Museum of Modern Art.

In June 1943, Rebay wrote to the noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright to commission a "museum-temple" to house the growing collection. While the new museum was being designed, the Museum of Non-Objective Painting moved to a townhouse located at 1071 Fifth Avenue, the intended location of the new building, where Rebay continued to organize exhibitions. When ground was finally broken in 1956, the collection was temporarily moved to a townhouse at 7 East 72nd Street. The new museum opened on October 21, 1959, as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Rebay was acknowledged to have excellent taste in modern art. She continued to paint and achieved some recognition for her abstract works. Although she was long a confidante to Solomon Guggenheim, others in the family found her personally difficult, especially his niece Peggy. After Solomon Guggenheim died in 1949, the family expelled her from the board of directors.

When the museum was completed, Rebay was not invited for the opening. She never set foot in the museum she helped create. Embittered, Rebay retreated from public life and spent her final years at her estate in Westport, Connecticut.

After her death in 1967, she was buried according to her wishes in her family grave in Teningen, Germany.

Legacy and honors
Following Rebay's death in 1967, part of her extensive personal collection of art was given to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as the Hilla Rebay Collection, which includes works by artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Albert Gleizes and Kurt Schwitters.

In 2012 a Hilla von Rebay Association was founded in Teningen dedicated to the memory of Rebay and her work. It operates a museum in her parents' house, which they purchased in 1919 and which she donated to Teningen after their deaths, with the request that it be used for a good purpose.

 * 2004, the German documentary filmmaker Sigrid Faltin made the film The Guggenheim and the Baroness: The Story of Hilla Rebay.
 * In 2005, a companion book Die Baroness und das Guggenheim Hilla von Rebay – Eine Deutsche Künstlerin in New York was published.
 * In 2005, nearly forty years after her death, the Guggenheim Museum honored Rebay with a special exhibition dedicated to her role in the foundation and her collection, entitled Art of Tomorrow: Hilla Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim (May 20 – August 10, 2005). It opened in New York and traveled to Europe.
 * The Hilla von Rebay Foundation was established in her name at the Guggenheim Museum to promote non-objective art.
 * The Hilla Rebay International Fellowship was founded in 2001 to offer a current graduate student the opportunity to undertake a paid rotating position at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice.
 * In 2014, Rebay was depicted in Bauer, a play about the life and art of Rudolf Bauer and his relationship with Rebay. The play had its world premiere at San Francisco Playhouse.
 * In 2017, a selection of Rebay's work was on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York as part of the Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim exhibition.

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User talk:Coniston1

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User talk:Hommedeneige1

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have.  You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox.  When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines.  First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette.  Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

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Gonçalo Coelho

Gonçalo Coelho (fl. 1501–04) was a Portuguese explorer who belonged to a prominent family in northern Portugal. He commanded two expeditions (1501–02 and 1503–04) which explored much of the coast of Brazil.

Biography
In 1501 Coelho was sent on an expedition to follow up on Pedro Álvares Cabral's discovery of Brazil. On 10 May, he sailed from Lisbon as "Captain General" of three caravels. Among his crew was a Florentine resident in Seville, Amerigo Vespucci. On 17 August his expedition made landfall off the Brazilian coast at about 5° S. The fleet continued south, reaching Guanabara Bay (23° S) on New Year's Day 1502, naming it "Rio de Janeiro". They sailed two degrees further south (reaching modern Cananéia), before leaving Brazil on 13 February 1502. If Amerigo Vespucci`s account is to be believed, the expedition reached the latitude "South Pole elevation 52° [S]", in the cold latitudes of present-day Patagonia, reaching inhospitable seas and shores (or islands), before turning back, but this is still a matter of controversy. Only one of the three caravels returned to Lisbon, arriving there on 7 September 1502. Brazilian historian Varnhagen believed that in April 1502 the expedition might have discovered the South Georgia Island, finding evidence of this in a report by Vespucci.

Coelho again sailed from Lisbon on 10 May 1503, this time with a fleet of six sail. Vespucci once more accompanied him, now as captain of one of the ships. After stopping at the Cape Verde Islands the ships came to "an island in the midst of the sea" (probably Fernando de Noronha), where the flagship struck a reef and wrecked on 10 August. All the men were saved, being loaded into Vespucci's ship. They found a harbor, where they rendezvoused with one of the fleet. They then sailed to Brazil, arriving there in November at a bay they named "Todos os Santos" (today Baía de Todos os Santos). After waiting here in vain for the rest of the fleet, they sailed south to another bay, where they stayed for five months, building a fort and loading logwood. They left twenty-four men at the fort to load more logwood, and sailed for Lisbon, which they reached on 28 June 1504.

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