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WCW Light Heavyweight Championship

The WCW Light Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship that was contested in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) between 1991 and 1992. Conceived in 1991, the championship was first awarded as the result of a single-elimination tournament; its subsequent lineage ended when the final champion Brad Armstrong was stripped of the title due to injury. A second tournament to decide Armstrong's successor was announced, but never took place. The title was held by four different champions; the inaugural champion Brian Pillman was the only wrestler to win it on more than one occasion.

History
The light heavyweight division which contested the championship had proved popular with fans, but its viability suffered as a result of WCW's creative decisions; in 1992, Bill Watts became the head booker, and implemented storyline changes in WCW's product which stymied the division's style. WCW would later introduce a similar title as the WCW Cruiserweight Championship; the two titles are now considered to share the same lineage by the wrestling promotion WWE, which purchased WCW's assets in 2001.

Creation
The WCW Light Heavyweight Championship was created in 1991, with the inaugural champion decided though a single-elimination tournament held over several weeks. Seven wrestlers were used for the tournament—three quarter final matches, one of whom entered at the semi-final stages. The first two quarter finals were broadcast on WorldWide in August 1991, and saw The York Foundation's Richard Morton defeat Johnny Rich, and Badstreet defeat Joey Maggs. The next month, WCW's Main Event featured the last quarter final, in which Mike Graham triumphed over another York Foundation member in Terrance Taylor.

Both of the semi-final matches were held at September's Clash of the Champions XVI event in Augusta, Georgia; Morton defeated Graham in a heel finish which depicted him using several illegal advantages to win. In the other leg of the tournament, Badstreet was defeated by the newly-entering Brian Pillman with a body press from the top rope. Morton and Pillman contested the final round at the 1991 Halloween Havoc event, held in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Pillman won the match and championship with another top rope body press.

Defending the title
Pillman's reign as champion continued until December 1991, when he began to feud with masked Japanese wrestler Jushin Thunder Liger, who defeated Pillman for the championship at a house show held in Atlanta, Georgia on December 25, 1991. Pillman reclaimed the title in a rematch at the SuperBrawl II pay-per-view event on February 29 the following year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, becoming the only wrestler to hold the championship more than once.

Pillman successfully defended the championship against Tom Zenk at the May 17 WrestleWar event in Jacksonville, Florida, before being defeated by Scotty Flamingo in Mobile, Alabama, during the June 20 Beach Blast pay-per-view. Flamingo's brief reign was ended by Brad Armstrong during a house show; the match was filmed out-of-sequence with several other televised championship matches, which meant Flamingo would tape a defense against Scott Sandlin despite having already lost the championship, while Armstrong recorded a match against Tracy Smothers that would air as a title defense despite being shot before his win was officially acknowledged. Armstrong's reign saw the return of Liger as a challenger; they fought on several occasions, either with Armstrong winning or the match ending in a draw. Armstrong's last successful defense of the Light Heavyweight Championship was against Flamingo on August 14 in Fort Myers, Florida.

Vacancy and legacy
As the September 1992 Clash of the Champions XX approached, Armstrong suffered a knee injury in a match with The Great Muta during a tour with New Japan Pro-Wrestling, and was unable to participate in a planned title match against Pillman at the event. Armstrong was formally stripped of the belt at Clash of the Champions, depicted as the result of him not defending it for thirty days, and another tournament to appoint a new champion was announced. However, Bill Watts had taken over the role of head booker for WCW and began to implement several changes in the work being produced. Among Watts' edicts was a new rule that would depict any maneuver performed from the top rope of the ring as illegal and resulting in disqualification; this effectively ended the viability of the light heavyweight style, which relied extensively on such moves, even though the matches involved in the championship picture had been considered "outstanding" by the fans. As a result, the planned tournament was never held and the light heavyweight division was ignored for the remainder of Watts' tenure.

In 1996, WCW once again held a tournament to crown a champion for the weight class, this time under the title WCW Cruiserweight Championship. The first champion under this new lineage was Shinjiro Otani, who defeated Chris Benoit in the tournament final. After the acquisition of WCW's assets by rival company WWE, both title lineages were considered to be related, and WWE refers to the holders of the Light Heavyweight Championship as former Cruiserweight Champions.

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1915 in Norwegian football

Results from Norwegian football (soccer) in the year 1915.

Class A of local association leagues
Class A of local association leagues (kretsserier) is the predecessor of a national league competition. The champions qualify for the 1915 Norwegian Cup.

Vesterlen

 * Vidar and Viking withdrew in autumn.

Romsdalske

 * Rollon became champion after a position play-off.

National team
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Jo Kendall

Josephine Mary Kendall ( Robinson, 17 February 1940 – 29 January 2022) was a British actress and writer. She was known for her work on the BBC radio comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, which debuted in 1964, and for her role as Peggy Skilbeck on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale (then Emmerdale Farm) from 1972 to 1973, in which she also spoke the programme's first line of dialogue in the inaugural episode.

Early life
Kendall was born Josephine Mary Robinson in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, on 17 February 1940. After leaving Leicester she trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and gained her Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM).

Career
While teaching English and drama at a state secondary school for girls at Cambridge, she acted with the university's dramatic society's productions with roles ranging from Desdemona in Othello at the ADC Theatre in 1962 to Maisie King in Expresso Bongo. She also trained as a studio manager with the BBC.

In August 1963, she appeared in the West End in London, New Zealand and Broadway, in the Cambridge University revue Cambridge Circus directed by Humphrey Barclay, alongside Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, David Hatch and Chris Stuart-Clark. She was already known to the cast from her experience with the Footlights' productions and had even been on a date with Chapman – "Should I bring a book with me this time?", she quipped when he asked her for another. Her audition included an impromptu rendition of "My Funny Valentine". She could not remember the lyrics but Barclay accepted her readily, "... a witty and clever performer. There was no competition, we all very gladly and warmly welcomed her into the cast."

In radio comedy, she was a regular performer in the BBC's I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (with John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and David Hatch). She then appeared in the first episode of the spinoff panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue in 1972, teamed with Garden against Brooke-Taylor and Oddie. From 1976, she was in the radio comedy series The Burkiss Way and played Lady Cynthia Fitzmelton in the opening episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 1978. The character never appeared again after the first episode and was omitted completely from subsequent remakes.

In 1978, she appeared in the comedy drama The Unvarnished Truth at London's Phoenix Theatre with Royce Ryton, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden. In 1993 and 1994 she played Aunt Maud opposite Kate Copstick in the BBC children's series Marlene Marlowe Investigates.

Kendall appeared in straight drama. She appeared as Adelaide Palliser in The Pallisers (1974), as the matron Miss Biggs in the film version of Scum (1979), as Annie in the film adaptation of Howards End (1992), directed by James Ivory, and as a publican's wife in another Merchant Ivory film The Remains of the Day in 1993. She played Peggy Skilbeck in the ITV series Emmerdale Farm and spoke the first ever line of the programme. Among her television roles, she played Mrs Bardell in The Pickwick Papers (1985), Anne Stanhope in The Six Wives of Henry VIII and had a semi-regular part in Grange Hill in the 1980s as the mother of regular character Roland Browning. In addition, she played the abrasive Miss Elizabeth Wait in the BBC's adaptation of the Vivien Alcock book The Cuckoo Sister (1986).

Personal life
Kendall never married. She retired in 1999, though she made occasional appearances as late as 2017, when she took part in a stage tour of I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again. As of 2007, she lived in a cottage near Bury St Edmunds, but towards the end of her life, she resided at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in London, where she died on 29 January 2022 at the age of 81.

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Safe as Milk

Safe as Milk is the debut studio album by American music group Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, released in June 1967 by Buddah Records. A heavily blues-influenced work, the album features a 20-year-old Ry Cooder, who played guitar and wrote some of the arrangements.

Background
Before recording Safe as Milk, the band had released a couple of singles through A&M Records, and it was to this company that the group first proposed their début album in 1966. They presented the label with a set of R&B-influenced demos, which the label felt were too unconventional and decided to drop the band. Beefheart later said the label dropped them after hearing the song "Electricity" and declaring it "too negative". A&M's Jerry Moss thought the content too risqué for his daughter's ears. This, plus Leonard Grant's severance as manager, added to the discontent. The band instead turned to Bob Krasnow, who was then working for Kama Sutra Records; he recruited them to record for the company's new subsidiary label, Buddah.

Meanwhile, Beefheart had been secretly planning changes to the Magic Band's line-up—a practice common throughout the group's existence. The group that recorded the two A&M singles had consisted of Doug Moon and Richard Hepner on guitars, Jerry Handley on bass, and Alex St. Clair on drums. Hepner had already left, and Beefheart was keen to replace Moon with Ry Cooder, who was then playing with Gary Marker and Taj Mahal in the Rising Sons. These and other changes resulted in a Magic Band with Handley on bass, St. Clair on guitar, and John French on drums, with Cooder providing additional guitar parts. Cooder's arrival had been swayed by Marker, who had spent time with Beefheart and had been given to believe he would produce the album; in fact, Marker was only engaged in demo recording.

Don Van Vliet has said that the title "Safe as Milk" is a sarcastic reference to the contamination in women's breast milk, either with the pesticide DDT or radioactive strontium-90 in different published interviews.

Music and lyrics
The album is heavily influenced by the Delta blues, and this is apparent from the opening bars of the first track, "Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do", based on Muddy Waters' "Rollin' and Tumblin. The opening lyric, "Well I was born in the desert ...", quotes "New Minglewood Blues" by Cannon's Jug Stompers, an early version of "Rollin' and Tumblin". Elsewhere, the album features a version of Robert Pete Williams' "Grown So Ugly" arranged by Cooder.

Another of the more distinctive songs on the album is "Abba Zaba", one of three compositions credited solely to Beefheart using his real name. An AllMusic review of the track states, "Although not directly blues influenced 'Abba Zaba' contains peripheral elements of the wiry delta sound that informed much of the album", noting that Cooder's influence is heard here in the "chiming, intricate guitar lines" and "up front and biting bass work". The track is named after the Abba-Zaba candy bar, which was supposedly a favorite of the young Beefheart. The band had, at one point, planned to name the album after the confection, but the bar's manufacturer, the Cardinet Candy Co., refused permission for use of the name, and the album was retitled. The black and yellow checkerboard pattern on the album's back sleeve, designed by Tom Wilkes, is a relic of this idea—echoing the black and yellow colors of the candy bar wrapper. Writing an obituary for Beefheart in 2010, for The Washington Post, Matt Schudel said: "Mr. Van Vliet's lyrics and song titles owed a great deal to surreal poetry. Try as they might, his fans had a difficult time analyzing such lines as these from "Abba Zabba" on the 1966 album Safe as Milk:
 * Mother say son, she say son, you can't lose, with the stuff you use
 * Abba Zabba go-zoom Babbette baboon
 * Run, run, monsoon, Indian dream, tiger moon.

For some time, the involvement of Herb Bermann as co-writer on eight of the tracks was a point of confusion, as Vliet did not employ him, or indeed any regular co-writer at any other time in his career, and never discussed or clarified his role in the album. There was little record of his existence, though his name incidentally also appeared in a reference to an unproduced screenplay for After the Gold Rush on the 1971 Neil Young album of the same name. Various Magic Band members had in fact indicated that the name may have been nothing other than a publishing-related pseudonym. It was only in 2003 that Bermann himself was finally located and interviewed, and his involvement as co-writer confirmed.

Critical reception
Safe As Milk was prominently advertised in Billboard, World Countdown and elsewhere in June 1967. However, the band's planned appearance at the Monterey Festival that month fell through, and the record did not achieve popular success, failing to chart in either the United States, where none of Beefheart's albums would ever enter the top 100, or in the United Kingdom, where the band would enjoy modest success with later works such as Trout Mask Replica (1969). John Lennon had two Safe As Milk promotional stickers on cupboard doors at his home. In 1968, Rolling Stone praised Beefheart's voice, but stated that the album "failed by lapsing into dull commercial rock on the order of Love's early efforts."

The album made a greater impact in Europe than in the U.S., with the British underground DJ John Peel being a noted admirer from the start, though the original British release was in mono only.

The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 1999, Jon Savage reflected in Mojo: "Safe as Milk remains a towering achievement: an avant-garde pop masterpiece from the time when they had only just started to make them. Along with the first couple of Love and Mothers' albums and The Velvet Underground and Nico, Safe as Milk had a huge impact in the UK, largely thanks to radio play by John Peel; don't forget that it was hardly possible to get any actual San Franciscan albums until the end of 1967."

It was voted number 172 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000).

Reissues
The album was released in the UK on Pye International, and subsequently reissued in Pye's budget Marble Arch series (albeit bearing Pye International labels on the disc itself) as a 10-track, omitting "I'm Glad" and "Grown So Ugly". When Buddah's UK distribution passed to Polydor in 1970 it was again reissued, this time on Buddah in Polydor's budget 99 series and retitled Dropout Boogie. Initially the track listing of this release matched the Marble Arch version, but the missing tracks were quickly restored. This 99 series release was also the first appearance in the UK of a stereo mix of the album.

In 1999, the now-correctly spelled Buddha Records, owned by Sony BMG who had acquired Buddah's back catalogue, remastered the album onto CD. They added seven bonus tracks, taken from the sessions for the unreleased Brown Wrapper follow-up album. These tracks had been recorded around November 1967 (two months after Safe as Milk's release), and were from the same sessions that yielded the songs on Mirror Man (1971). BMG's Buddha also released The Mirror Man Sessions on CD in 1999, effectively an official issue of the unphased versions of Mirror Man, with five further bonus tracks taken from the same sessions.

In 2013, Sundazed Records released the mono mix of Safe As Milk on LP and CD.

Track listing
All songs written by Herb Bermann and Don Van Vliet except where noted. All CD bonus tracks written Don Van Vliet.

Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band

 * Don Van Vliet – lead vocals, harmonica, marimba, arrangements
 * Alex St. Clair Snouffer – guitar, backing vocals, bass (9, 10), percussion
 * Ry Cooder – guitar, slide guitar, bass (8), percussion, arrangements
 * Jerry Handley – bass (except 8, 10), backing vocals
 * John French – drums, backing vocals, percussion

Additional musicians

 * Samuel Hoffman – theremin (6, 12)
 * Milt Holland – log drum, tambourine, percussion (2, 4 and 8)
 * Taj Mahal – tambourine, percussion (7)
 * Russ Titelman – guitar (12)

Production

 * Richard Perry – producer (at RCA Studio), harpsichord
 * Bob Krasnow – producer
 * Hank Cicalo – engineer (at RCA Studio)
 * Gary Marker – engineer (demos at Original Sound & Sunset Sound)

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brucellosis in bison
Contact Dr. Krieger, a wildlife veterinarian

I added a short bit, reablly don't have time to do much moreWsvlqc (talk) 01:47, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

This bit on transmission seems unnecessarily obscure: "Leftovers from parturition are also extremely rich in highly virulent brucellae." I'm not sure how to rewrite it clearly. Believe it talks about the placenta or afterbirth left on the ground and consumed by another animal, presumably one that can be infected. 70.174.109.211 (talk) 03:34, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

biological warfare
Added a section on the biological warfare history of brucellosis Reid Kirby

House
The episode was not euphoria, that one dealt with a brain eating parasite and not a infection of brucellosis.

Goat fever
I think what I had years ago, and what doctors in USA completely failed to identify, was this type of fever. Only an Argentinian psychitrist acquaintance was able to name it as Brucellosis. I had made the connection to my military service in South West of Turkey, where goat meat consumption was common. For a number of years, a wave of tremors and shivering would come on instantly, then followed by extreme fever and sweat, and then the whole thing would be over in one hour or so. It became less frequent and disappeared in a few years. Probably a result of antibiotics I took for other reasons. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.77.156.149 (talk) 13:06, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Review of treatment
reviews all treatment trials.

 * 10.1056/NEJMra050570 NEJM 2005, 10.1016/S1473-3099(07)70286-4 Lancet Infect Dis 2007.

Assessment comment
Substituted at 08:51, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

It should make sense now.
"The two main causes for spontaneous abortion in animals are erythritol, which causes infections in the fetus and placenta, and the lack of anti-Brucella activity in the amniotic fluid."

Erythritol is an indigestible sugar. Not sure how all the "animals" are managing to encounter and ingest it. The second part of that sentence contains a double negative, and none of the sentence has a cited source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.36.113.60 (talk) 07:11, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

The animals are eating the Erythritol

Brucellosis in Wildlife
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There is a list of obsolete names; some of these are trivial (eg "Maltese fever" when "Malta fever" appears in the main article), some just look like Latin translations of English names, and some look like jokes inserted by anonymous users ("Backdoor trauma", "Chumble fever", "Fist of Mercy", "Satan's fever") which don't appear to have any existence on the web apart from lists obviously taken from here. I am minded to start this list again, with just ones we can find an external source for - http://www.bmj.com/content/329/7460/272 is reliable. I've added an "unreferenced section" template. Can anyone find any other reliable sources? Peace Makes Plenty (talk) 18:53, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

I used the BMJ and a Time magazine citation, and removed anything not appearing in those 2, and removed the unreferenced section template. Peace Makes Plenty (talk) 08:38, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

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WCW Women's Championship

The World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Women's Heavyweight Championship (referred to mostly as the WCW Women’s Championship) was a title for the women's professional wrestling division in World Championship Wrestling. It lasted from 1996 until 1998, when it was abandoned. It is not to be confused with prior women's titles recognized by the promotion.

Prior women's titles recognized by World Championship Wrestling
In the mid-1980s, Jim Crockett Promotions (which eventually became World Championship Wrestling) was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance and recognized the NWA World Women's Championship, which was held by Debbie Combs. The Kansas City promotion that recognized Combs as the champion withdrew from NWA in 1987 and closed in 1988. During this time, the NWA vacated Combs' title and awarded Misty Blue Simmes the reactivated NWA United States Women's Championship (a replacement of the prior NWA World Women's Championship held by Combs). Simmes defended the title from 1987–1989, when the title was no longer recognized by Jim Crockett Promotions.

In 1990, the organization recognized Ladies Professional Wrestling Association Champion Susan Sexton as the World Women's Champion. Sexton defended the title against Bambi at Clash of the Champions XII.

WCW attempted to create a new women's division in 1991. At WrestleWar, a women's match was featured pitting Itsuki Yamazaki and Mami Kitimura against Miki Handa and Miss A. Later in the year, former United States Women's Champion Misty Blue Simmes returned to the organization and competed in matches against Linda Dallas and Kat LeRoux. During this time, the organization also featured televised matches involving Madusa, Bambi, Leilani Kai, and Judy Martin. By the end of the year, all of the female wrestlers departed from the organization except Madusa (who was retained as a valet).

New championship introduced
The women's division in WCW was slowly revived in 1996 following the return of Madusa, who spent the first half of the year feuding with Sherri Martel and Bull Nakano. This led to the creation of the WCW Women's Championship. The first official WCW Women's Champion was crowned in an 8-woman tournament that began on an episode of WCW Monday Nitro on November 4, 1996, and concluded at Starrcade on December 29, 1996. The tournament used only seven wrestlers; five of these wrestlers were Japanese talents from the GAEA Japan promotion (Akira Hokuto, Chigusa Nagayo, KAORU, Meiko Satomura, and Sonoko Kato). The other competitors were Madusa and Malia Hosaka. Akira Hokuto actually competed twice in the first round of the tournament, losing to Madusa wrestling under her masked Reina Jabuki gimmick and defeating Satomura competing as Hokuto.

The two primary competitors over the history of this title were Akira Hokuto and Madusa, as they met in the tournament finals and at subsequent PPV events. Other women that competed in the division included Malia Hosaka, Leilani Kai, Peggy Lee Leather, Debbie Combs, and Luna Vachon. The last defense of the title occurred at The Great American Bash on June 15, 1997 when Hokuto defeated Madusa in a title vs. career match. Madusa retired and Hokuto went back to Japan and the title was apparently vacated. On September 20, 1997 in Japan, Devil Masami won the vacated title; however, it was abandoned shortly thereafter. In the United States, WCW continued to feature women's wrestling occasionally on its minor TV shows during 1998. During the match between Malia Hosaka and Starla Saxton that aired on December 26, 1998, Mike Tenay acknowledged Akira Hokuto as the reigning WCW Women's Champion, even though the title had been won by Devil Masami in Japan and retired by the GAEA promotion.

In late 1999 and early 2000, WCW rebuilt the women's division by hiring several female wrestlers, as well as training the Nitro Girls to wrestle. An onscreen angle featured Madusa attempting to revive the WCW Women's Championship, but she was consistently halted in her efforts by the chauvinistic Oklahoma (who had been feuding with her over the WCW Cruiserweight Championship). During this time, the women's division included Madusa, Mona, Sherri Martel, Rhonda Sing, Patty Stonegrinder, Brandi Alexander, Little Jeanne, Dee Dee Venturi, Fantasy, Lexie Fyfe, Asya, Midnight, Daffney, Major Gunns, Miss Hancock, Torrie Wilson, Kimberly Page, Spice, Paisley, and Tygress. Although women's matches were featured regularly, the WCW Women's Championship was not reinstated.

In addition to the WCW Women's Championship, the organization also recognized the WCW Women's Cruiserweight Championship in 1997.

Reigns
Over the championship's one year history, there have only been two reigns between two champions. Akira Hokuto was the inaugural champion, and her reign was the longest at 168 days, while Devil Masami's reign, which was the last, lasted for 110 days. Masami is the oldest champion at 35 years old, while Hokuto is the youngest at 29 years old.

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Pietro Citati

Pietro Citati (20 February 1930 – 28 July 2022) was an Italian writer and literary critic.

He was born in Florence. He wrote critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short memoir on his thirty-year friendship with Italo Calvino.

In Kafka, Pietro Citati had the great writer declare: "'I am like you, I am a man like you, I suffer and rejoice as you do, like a meticulous and buoyant angel, a being who lives far away in a world that did not belong even to him."

From 1973 to 1988, he contributed to the cultural section of Corriere della Sera and was the literary critic for la Repubblica between 1988 and 2011, before returning to write for Corriere della Sera.

He died at his villa in Roccamare, in the municipality of Castiglione della Pescaia, on 28 July 2022 at the age of 92.

Filmography

 * Dans la peau d'Italo Calvino (2012), documentary by Damian Pettigrew with Pietro Citati and Neri Marcorè in the role of Italo Calvino

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Food Force

Food Force is an educational game published by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in 2005. Due to its content, it is considered a serious game (game with educational purpose). Players take on missions to distribute food in a famine-affected country and to help it to recover and become self-sufficient again. At the same time they learn about hunger in the real world and the WFP's work to prevent it.

In 2011, a new, socially interactive game was launched in November by the World Food Programme in partnership with Konami. The game, which takes place entirely on Facebook, is amongst the first games ever to feature a real world impact through virtual goods.

Gameplay
The game takes place on the fictional island of Sheylan in the Indian Ocean, which is suffering from both drought and civil war. The player's character is a rookie who has joined a team of UN experts, including a nutritionist, a logistics officer, a pilot, an appeals officer, and the director of food purchasing.

The game contains six missions:
 * 1) Air surveillance: Locating hungry citizens in a helicopter
 * 2) Energy pacs: Produce a balanced diet of rice, cooking oil, beans, sugar and salt within a budget of only 30 cents per day
 * 3) Food drop: drop food supplies in a target zone, while compensating for wind direction
 * 4) Locate and dispatch: co-ordinate supplies of purchased and donated food from around the world
 * 5) Food run: Lead a food convoy to a depot, dealing with hazards like landmines and roadblocks
 * 6) Future farming: Use food aid to help a village develop over 10 years, by investing in it carefully with nutrition training, schooling, "food for work" and HIV/AIDS treatment

Most of the gameplay is arcade oriented, with time-limited sequences. All six missions could be played through in under an hour, though players might replay the individual missions, as their high scores could be uploaded online for worldwide comparison with other players, until another game, under the same name, was made by the WFP and Konami.

Availability
The game was freely downloadable, but with the release of a game under the same name by WFP, the game's website has been shut down along with all of the official download links. The game is still mirrored on various websites, but there is no official download link. It had versions for the Windows and Macintosh. Linux users could use Wine to install the Windows version of the game and the QuickTime bundled with the package. The Macintosh version of the game is PowerPC only and as such, the game could only be run on PowerPC Macs with Mac OS X Jaguar or higher or on Intel powered Macs running Mac OS X Tiger to Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Users are encouraged to burn the game onto CDs and distribute it to friends. Developed by the British studio Playerthree and the Italian company Deepend, the program uses Macromedia for gameplay and QuickTime for video.

The Food Force website also had lesson plans for teachers, reports on recent WFP work, a high score table and other features.

Food Force 2
Food Force 2, based on Food Force, has been developed as free software under the terms of version 3 of the GNU General Public License. It is cross-platform as it is written in the Python programming language, and runs on platforms including the One Laptop Per Child XO and the Sugar desktop environment. Food Force 2 is available for download on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms.

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Keith Courage in Alpha Zones

Keith Courage in Alpha Zones is a 1989 science fantasy platform game released by NEC for the TurboGrafx-16. It was the pack-in game for the console in North America. It was originally released in Japan by Hudson Soft on August 30, 1988 for the PC Engine (The TG-16's Japanese counterpart), under the title Mashin Hero Wataru (魔神英雄伝ワタル) which is adapted from the anime television series of the same name. Hudson later released in 1990 another game for the Famicom based on the franchise titled Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru Gaiden Famicom, which is a role-playing video game.

Plot
The player controls Keith Courage. In this game, Earth has been struck by a giant meteor, carrying an invasion force from another planet. Burrowing deep within the planet's surface, the planet of B.A.D. (Beastly Alien Dudes) seeks to take over the Earth. As a member of N.I.C.E. (Nations of International Citizens for Earth), Keith's mission is to defeat B.A.D. and bring peace to the world. Armed with a sword, Keith must first defeat the outpost guards. Then, enter the Underworld. Here Keith activates the awesome Nova Suit. A secret force left to him by his fallen father, he is half man, half mechanical monster. Nearly invincible, his sword cracks with the power of lightning, as you wreak havoc on the fearsome Dudes. His goal is to reach the Robo Zone (the seventh Alpha Zone), headquarters of B.A.D. Succeed here and the player will win the game, recapturing the Earth and restoring humanity's place in the universe. Four friends offer Keith advice, swords, bombs, and extra lives. The player's goal is to collect the stolen riches left behind by the invaders and buy your way out of trouble with money.

Gameplay
The game is an action-adventure platform game, with two styles of play depending on whether the player is above (overworld) or below ground (underworld). There are a total of seven levels in the game, each of which is broken into two areas, the overworld and underworld. Overworld areas consist of simple rightward travel and platform hopping. In the overworld, one controls Keith Courage in his human form, using a dagger to fend off enemies which take the form of birds, moles, and even cats that drop from the sky. Upon reaching the end of the overworld level, Keith is transported via rainbow to the underworld, whereupon he adopts the Nova Suit. The underworld levels are more complex and menacing than the colorful overworld, with aggressive nightmare creatures and a larger landscape to travel with more of a focus on navigating not only horizontally but also vertically. At the end of each underworld level is a boss. In the overworld, the player can go into buildings at times and buy power ups.

Overworld gameplay
In the overworld, Keith is a simple adventurous human with a short sword and three heart containers. The overworld, while simple, is where Keith will collect coins and spend those coins to obtain "bolt bombs," health regeneration, and better equipment for the underworld by going to houses that have NPCs to talk to.

Underworld gameplay
Transporting to the underworld places Keith in the Nova Suit, a suit of armor that grants him extra hearts on his health bar and a better sword depending on what was purchased in the overworld. Additionally, Keith is now able to use the "bolt bombs." When used, bolt bombs are similar to bullets that are fired in the eight cardinal directions depending on how many are left.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nine Famous Irishmen

 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 deleted as copyvio (listed as copyvio since June 5) --cesarb 20:34, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Nine Famous Irishmen
Nothing against the Irish - but this ain't an article, it's an anecdote (probably circular e-mail cruft). The title is hopeless - the facts suspect (Australia didn't have a PM in 1874). Some stuff here may be suitable for merging elsewhere- but the article should be deleted. --Doc (?) 14:29, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * At least one of the references (Thomas Francis Meagher) is consistent with the reported history in his individual article. Keep (and clean up) for now.  Kelly Martin 14:56, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep an article on the incident, but move to a better title. Otherwise it seems to invite articles on "X Famous Foomen". -- BD2412 talk 19:01, 2005 Jun 5 (UTC)
 * There are probably places where the verifiable content can be merged, though that is likely to be in more than one place. From a cursory examination of external sources, these do not all appear to be a part of a single incident, at the article implies.  Needs some research to determine if the grouping is appropriate, and should moved to a better title if a clearer relationship is discerned. --Tabor 19:13, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, researched further. Appears to mostly be copyvio of .  Whoever copied it here left out this part:
 * The story of the Irish rebels is popular in Ireland and Australia. Elements of the story are factual and elements of the story are myth.
 * Despite not being the whole truth, the creation of the mythical aspects is a fact in itself, and so reflects the wants and spiritual aspirations of vanquished generations.''
 * --Tabor 19:27, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep but perhaps move to simply the "Nine Irishmen". The anecdote, whether true or not, seems to have a real life of its own.  There is a pub and restaurant Nine Fine Irishmen in the New York New York casino in Las Vegas.  Also, see "Notes Over the Air Waves", The Lowell Sun (March 8, 1938), p. 15, col 3, which reported that
 * Ripley Will Remember St. Patrick...
 * Bob Ripley, presents an all-Irish program, appropriate to the approach of St. Patrick's day on his "Believe It Or Not" program over the NBC-Red network on Saturday, March 12, at 8 p.m., E. S. T.
 * The guest star will be Rev. Thomas J. Wheelright, half-brother of the Irish patriot Eamon de Valera, who will tell an hitherto unrevealed story about the latter.
 * The Ripley players will dramatize the story of nine Irishmen sentence to death for treason in the middle of the nineteenth century. Pardoned by Queen Victoria, they were exiled to Australia. The amazing destiny of each one will be revealed during the dramatization.
 * The word "famous" does not appear to be standard in the story. However, the number "nine" does seem central to identifying this particular story.
 * - DS1953 19:42, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: If kept, clarify its notability as a popular story, rather than presenting it as historical fact. --Tabor 20:37, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * No vote, since copyvios are an entirely different process and this article should be dealt with through that process. RickK 21:49, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Appears to be copyvio. I note that the text from which the article was copied referred to an Attorney-General of Australia being occupied by Morris Lyne and Michael Ireland being Attorney-General and Sir Charles Duffy as Prime Minister of Australia. The Commonwealth of Australia was not formed until 1901. Charles Duffy was Premier of Victoria in 1871 not 1874. However, he was jailed as part of the Young Ireland movement but freed after his fifth trial. He served a term in the House of Commons from 1852 to 1855 but became disillusioned and migrated to Victoria in 1855 where he was elected to Parliament in 1856. On the other hand, the Australian Dictionary of Biography does not have entries for either Morris Lyne and Michael Ireland. If they had achieved any notability in colonial Australia such as being Attorney-General of Victoria, the Australian Dictionary of Biography would have an entry for them. You could possibly justify an entry as a prominent hoax but it should clearly note that it is a hoax not factual. Capitalistroadster 01:20, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand with more context ··gracefool |☺ 08:14, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * 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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Cephalocarida

The Cephalocarida are a class in the subphylum Crustacea comprising only 12 species. Both the nauplii and the adults are benthic. They were discovered in 1955 by Howard L. Sanders, and are commonly referred to as horseshoe shrimp. They have been grouped together with the Remipedia in the Xenocarida. Although a second family, Lightiellidae, is sometimes used, all cephalocaridans are generally considered to belong in just one family: Hutchinsoniellidae. Fossil records of cephalocaridans has been found in 462 million year old deposits.

Taxonomy

 * Class Cephalocarida Sanders 1955
 * Order Brachypoda Birshteyn 1960
 * Family Hutchinsoniellidae Sanders 1955
 * Genus Chiltoniella Knox & Fenwick 1977
 * Chiltoniella elongata Knox & Fenwick 1977
 * Genus Hampsonellus Hessler & Wakabara 2000
 * Hampsonellus brasiliensis Hessler & Wakabara 2000
 * Genus Hutchinsoniella Sanders 1955
 * Hutchinsoniella macracantha Sanders 1955
 * Genus Lightiella Jones 1961
 * Lightiella floridana McLaughlin 1976
 * Lightiella incisa Gooding 1963
 * Lightiella magdalenina Carcupino et al. 2006
 * Lightiella monniotae Cals & Delamare Deboutteville 1970
 * Lightiella serendipita Jones 1961
 * Genus Sandersiella Shiino 1965
 * Sandersiella acuminata Shiino 1965
 * Sandersiella bathyalis Hessler & Sanders 1973
 * Sandersiella calmani Hessler & Sanders 1973
 * Sandersiella kikuchii Shimomura & Akiyama 2008

Description and anatomy
These are hermaphroditic and pigmentless crustaceans with an elongated and translucent body that measures 2 to 4 mm in length. A heart is present, and their exopods and pseudepipodites appears to be used for gas exchange. They have a large head, the hind edge of which covers the first thoracic segment. The thorax consists of nine limb-bearing segments (thoracic limb VIII absent in Lightiella), followed by 10 limbless abdominal segments and a telson. In the larva, all the trunk segments are ring-shaped, but more dorsoventrally flattened than in the adults. During growth the anterior segments turns into the thorax and the posterior segments which makes up the abdomen remains ring-shaped. No eyes have been observed in either the adult or larval stages, presumably because of their muddy natural habitat. The second pair of antennae is located behind the mouth; in all other crustaceans the antennae are in front of the mouth at the adult stage, and only their larvae have antennae that have the same location as adult cephalocaridans.

The mouth is located behind the large upper lip, flanked by mandibles. The first pair of maxillae is very small, and the second pair has the same structure as the following thoracic legs: a large basal part, equipped with outgrowths on the inner side, used in locomotion, a forked inner branch and two outer lobes - referred to as the "pseudoepipod" and the "exopod". The structural and functional similarity between the maxillae and the legs may be a sign of primitive organization; the maxillae are not specialized, as they are in other crustaceans.

Ecology
Cephalocaridans are found from the intertidal zone down to a depth of 1500 m, in all kinds of sediments. Cephalocaridans feed on marine detritus. To bring in food particles, they generate currents with the thoracic appendages like the branchiopods and the malacostracans. Food particles are then passed anteriorly along a ventral groove, leading to the mouthparts.

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Okada Izō

Okada Izō (岡田 以蔵) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, feared as one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period. He was a member of Tosa Kinnoto (Tosa Imperialism party, a loyalist clique of Tosa) in his hometown, Tosa Domain. Izō and Tanaka Shinbei were active in Kyoto as assassins under the leadership of Takechi Hanpeita.

His personal name (imina (諱)) was Yoshifuru.

Biography
Okada Izō was born in Iwamura, Kami, Tosa as the eldest son of a country samurai Okada Yoshihira. He had a younger brother named Okada Keikichi who also joined the Kinnoto.

First self-taught in swordplay, Okada later became a pupil of Takechi Hanpeita under Nakanishi-ha Ittō-ryū (中西派一刀流) school, a branch of Ono-ha Ittō-ryū school. Following Takechi, in September 1856 Okada went to Edo and studied Kyōshin Meichi-ryū at Shigakukan, which was the training hall of Momonoi Shunzō. He returned to Tosa the following year.

In 1860, Okada followed Takechi and practiced martial arts in Chūgoku and Kyushu regions. Takechi considered that house of Okada would have difficulties with covering travel expenses and so asked the feudal lord of Oka domain in Bungo province to accommodate his student. In Oka, Izō studied Jikishi-ryu school of kendo. Around May, 1861, he left to Edo and returned to Tosa in April of the following year. The same year he joined Tosa Kinnoto, organized by Takechi and loyal to the Sonnō Jōi movement. For some reason however, he was later crossed off from the name list, along with Ike Kurata and 弘田恕助.

Starting with Inoue Saichiro, who was the shita metsuke (low class inspector of foot soldiers) of the Tosa Domain, Izō assassinated Honma Seiichiro who was his comrade, Ikeuchi Daigaku, Mori Magoroku, Ogawara Juzo, Watanabe Kinzan, and Ueda Jonosuke, who were government officials and yoriki (police sergeants) that belonged to the Kyoto City Magistrate, Tada Tatewaki (son of Nagano Shuzen who commanded Ansei no Taigoku [suppression of extremists by the Shogunate] and Murayama Kazue, who during the assassination was tied to a bridge and made a public display alive). Those killings were conducted in the name of "Heaven's punishment" (天誅, Tenchū), as Takechi called it. Izō became known as 'Hitokiri (man-slayer) Izō' and feared, with a fellow hitokiri Tanaka Shinbei of Satsuma Province.

Izō later worked as a bodyguard; in 1863 Izō, owing to the mediation of Sakamoto Ryōma, was hired by Katsu Kaishu. Three assassins attacked Kaishu, but when Izō cut one of them down and gave a roar, the remaining two assassins ran away. Katsu, confident in Izō's skill as his own bodyguard, made him become a bodyguard of Nakahama Manjirō. When they went to a western style grave that Manjirō had built, four assassins tried to attack Manjirō, but Izō had sensed the two ambushes that were hiding, and told Manjirō not to escape impulsively but to stay put with his back against the gravestone, and slew the two attackers down. The remaining two attackers made an escape.

After the Coup of August 18 in 1863, the Kinnoto lost its momentum. Around June 1864, he was captured by a shogunate official, and on the charge of being tattooed, he was banished from the capital Kyoto; at the same time, an official of the Tosa Domain captured him, and deported him to his hometown.

In 1865 however, he was involved in yet another assassination, that of Yoshida Tōyō, the regent of Tosa whom he killed before his rise to power. In the Tosa Domain, all his comrades of the Tosa Kinnoto were arrested for that assassination and the series of assassinations that took place in the capital Kyoto. With the exception of Takechi, who was a Joshi (superior warrior) rank, they all underwent severe torture. Takechi, who learned of Izō's arrest, wrote in a letter to his home, 'it is better for such a fool to die soon, and how his parents would lament over him for returning unashamedly to his hometown,’ which indicates his ill feeling towards Izō. Letters which were considered to be written by Tauchi Keikichi (Takechi’s real younger brother) and so on tell that since his house stood in Shichiken machi, Izō was also disdainfully referred to as '七以.’ On learning of Izō's arrest, some comrades both in and out of prison, including the Yamauchi family who was behind Yoshida's assassination, became afraid that Izō's confession may put them on line, and planned to poison Izō; however, Takechi successfully argued against the plan. Izō endured severe torture, but he finally made a full confession and was beheaded on May 11, 1865, and his head was put on public display.

His death poem read 'My mind that served for you came to nothing, and will only clear up after you've gone.' (君か為 尽す心は 水の泡 消にしのちそ すみ渡るべき)

His grave is the family grave in the mountains near Azo Station at Kōchi City, Kōchi Prefecture. He was buried under his personal name, Okada Yoshifuru.

There are some photographs passed around as photos of Izō, but most of them show Chojiro Kondo and Seizo Okada. There are no known photographs of actual Izō.

Izō in fiction
Several films feature Okada Izō as protagonist, most notably Hideo Gosha's Hitokiri (1969) (portrayed by Shintaro Katsu) and Takashi Miike's Izo (2004) (portrayed by Kazuya Nakayama). The NHK Taiga drama Ryōmaden (2009) featured him several times (portrayed by Takeru Sato) as one of Sakamoto Ryōma's friends and Takechi Hanpeita's assassins.

In manga, Nobuhiro Watsuki based the character Kurogasa Udō Jin-e of his series Rurouni Kenshin on Izō; the author admits that the character bears little resemblance to Izō. Hideaki Sorachi also based Nizo Okada, a character in his work Gintama, on Izō. Masami Kurumada, author of the popular Saint Seiya manga series, more recently added a character to his work, called Capricorn Izō, who is inspired by Okada. The manga Assassin by Hiroshi Hirata is based on the same story depicted in the film Hitokiri.

Video game Way of the Samurai 4 - one of the charactor Kogure is a maybe inspired that Izo Okada.

Okada also appeared in Kengo, a video game based on nine legendary swordsmen. In the game, his full name is revealed to be Okada Izō Nobutoshi and it is explained he uses a Goken style of swordsmanship, meaning to overpower the opponent through physical strength and audacious assaults, much like the Jigen-ryu used by some other hitokiri of the Bakumatsu period.

Okada appears as a character in the 2014 video game Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin!, as well as its 2023 remake, bearing similarities with Yakuza series character Akira Nishikiyama.

In 2018 he appeared in the mobile game Fate/Grand Order as an Assassin-class Servant.

Okada appears as a character in the 2024 video game "Rise of the Rōnin". His name is done as Izo Okada.

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Elisa Saunalahti

Saunalahti (previously Jippii) was a Finnish mobile phone operator and an internet service provider.

History
The company was founded in 1996 when three middle-sized internet operators merged.

In 2009 the Helsinki Court of Appeal convicted Jippii leadership of using inside information when selling its own shares, accounting mistakes and too good information of the company finance to public in 2001. The case was brought back to the court in 2012 and all 26 convictions were overturned. The Finnish state was obliged to pay 4 million euros from the trial.

In 2005 Saunalahti merged with Elisa.

Icelandic-led Novator acquired a large share of the company in 2005. Subsequently Elisa acquired all stock and Saunalahti was delisted from the Helsinki Stock Exchange in the first half of 2006.

Elisa joined its marketing brands together as 15 October 2014, and marketing its telecommunications-services to private personal's, as the new joined Elisa-Saunalahti -brand name.

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Talk:Dong Fangzhuo

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How can he be at united's home games if he plays professionaly in belgium - where league matches are also played on saturday afternoon?A.K.A.47 14:34, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Rocketfoot?
I did not find anything about this "Rocketfoot Ersin", thus I removed this content (it looks to be a hoax). --Angelo 04:18, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Two pages about Dong?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Fangzhou what is going on? Toge 11:53, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciation
How do you pronounce his name? --202.47.49.11 02:53, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Dong Fang-joo-oh – PeeJay 17:29, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I always thought it was Dong Fang-joo. Or at least Dong Fang-jor Spiderone (talk) 15:40, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * You're probably right, actually, with maybe a slight modification to "Dong Fang-jwor". I used to do Mandarin, so I should be better at this. However, doing a pronunciation key without being fluent in the IPA is pretty hard. – PeeJay 18:07, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Dong(the third tone) Fang(the first tone) Zhuo(the second tone)-58.152.132.250 (talk) 11:19, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Pity!
He was able to score 4 goals in 3 matches in the reserves before suffering from injuries caused by the ferocious Blackburn defender!That was a pity!It was that savage defender who ruin the potential bright future of being the next Cristiano Ronaldo, the next Wayne Rooney, the next Golden Ball winner, the next World Footballer, the next Chinese Footballer and the next Asian Footballer.He will soon fall to become the next Qu Bo, the Chinese Michael Owen. This also ruin China bright future to recover from the trough they are currently having and the chance to win the Olympics gold medal, as well as the Asian Cup and the World Cup. The Chinese are going to face their deepest trough after the downfall of the Greatest Chinese Player and potential World Footballer King Dong. What a pity! The whole country will be in the blood of that disgusting, dirty, injustice, boorish, unmannerly, cruel, brutal, barbaric, fierce and foul Blackburn defender. No wonder Blackburn is the foulest team ever! Even their reserves are foul like that.-58.152.132.250 (talk) 11:28, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

 * And in all of that, what's your source? I haven't seen a single one. Latics (talk) 12:46, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah in the "reserves..." User:Jhlee97 —Preceding undated comment added 15:30, 18 October 2009 (UTC).

Back to China section
"Although the experience in the Manchester United made almost all people think there's no wonder Dong Fangzhuo would have a bright future, his performance in the Chinese Super League after return was very poor. Because of scoring no goal in a series of matches, Dong had to return to the reserves where he took a long time to stay in England. The poor performance in the league also made him not to be called for Chinese National Team."

what the fuck?

Honours
UEFA Champions League 2007-2008 Jasonhuhu (talk) 22:49, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

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AWA World Heavyweight Championship

The AWA World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship and the highest ranked championship in the defunct American Wrestling Association (AWA). All AWA trademarks, including the AWA World Heavyweight Championship, are now owned by WWE. The championship was generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute worked finishes rather than contend in direct competition.

History
The AWA World Heavyweight Championship was established in May 1960, after the AWA was formed by the departure of the Minneapolis, Minnesota-area territory from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Pat O'Connor was conditionally recognized as the first champion upon the AWA's secession from the NWA as O'Connor held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, which he had won on January 9, 1959, though he was ordered to defend against Verne Gagne within 90 days or he would forfeit the AWA title to Gagne.

The creation of the AWA World Heavyweight Championship along with the NWA World Heavyweight Championship would pave the way for the creation of many other world championships in other wrestling promotions. The AWA and the title became inactive in late 1990 and the organization officially closed down in August 1991 with the title also being decommissioned. The championship is featured in the video games WWE '13 as a downloadable title and as an unlockable title in WWE 2K14 and the seventh-generation console versions of WWE 2K15, WWE 2K16, and WWE 2K17.

Trademark infringement
In 1996, Dale Gagner and his associate Jonnie Stewart, former AWA employees, began using the AWA name in the state of Minnesota and formed a promotion known as AWA Superstars of Wrestling, infringing on the AWA name. The promotion also created their own version of the AWA World Heavyweight Championship. In April 2007, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) filed a lawsuit against Dale Gagner citing trademark infringement, as WWE owned all American Wrestling Association properties due to their purchase after the AWA's closure,  including the AWA World Heavyweight Championship. In October 2008, the court ruled in favor of WWE. The court ruling prohibits Gagner from exploiting or trading on the AWA name or any other derivatives.

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Plym

Plym can refer to:
 * River Plym, in Devon
 * HMS Plym (K271), a River class frigate
 * Plym and Plym II, former and current Torpoint Ferries
 * Plym, a GWR Caliph Class locomotive

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Lynher

Lynher may refer to:
 * River Lynher in Cornwall
 * Lynher (electoral division), an electoral division of Cornwall
 * Lynher, Tamar Barge
 * Lynher, one of the Torpoint Ferries

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Anja Silja

Anja Silja Regina Langwagen (, born 17 April 1940 ) is a German soprano singer.

Biography
Born in Berlin, Silja began her operatic career at a very early age, with her grandfather, Egon Friedrich Maria Anders van Rijn, as her voice teacher. She sang Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville in Braunschweig in 1956, followed by Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss.

She had a breakthrough in 1959 as the Queen of Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Vienna State Opera, conducted by Karl Böhm, and also at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. France-Soir dubbed her "a second Callas." Other early roles included Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, Santuzza in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, the four heroines of Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann, Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte.

She made her debut in 1960 at the Bayreuth Festival, as Senta in Der fliegende Holländer. At Bayreuth (until 1967), she also sang Elsa von Brabant in Lohengrin (opposite Astrid Varnay), both Venus and Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Freia in Das Rheingold and Waldvogel in Siegfried, among others. Outside Bayreuth, the soprano appeared in Wieland Wagner's productions of Salome by Strauss, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Die Walküre and Siegfried (as Brünnhilde), Elektra by Strauss, Beethoven's Fidelio, Verdi's Otello, Alban Berg's Lulu and Wozzeck (conducted by Pierre Boulez). Of her Salome, Harold Rosenthal wrote in Opera in 1968:

"Anja Silja's performance was a tour-de-force. Her voice is not beautiful by any stretch of the imagination, but it is clearly projected, and every phrase carries its overtones—psychological not musical—which suggest the child-like degenerate, over-sexed princess in all too clear a manner. Her nervous, almost thin body is never still; she rolls on her stomach and on her back; she crawls, she slithers, she leaps, she kneels…. There is no denying that this is one of the great performances of our time."

Additional new roles in the 1960s were Jenny Smith in Weill's Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny), Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth, Violetta Valéry in Verdi's La traviata, first Liù, then the title role in Puccini's Turandot, Lucy in Menotti's The Telephone, Cassandre in Les troyens (opposite Jon Vickers) and Renata in The Fiery Angel. She appeared at the Oper Frankfurt, in Toulouse, Paris, Turin, Naples, Stuttgart, Zürich, Barcelona, Geneva, the Netherlands, Budapest, London (Royal Festival Hall and Royal Opera House), San Francisco Opera (her American debut, in 1968, as Salome), and Chicago. Her first Lady Macbeth, in 1967, was conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi, with whom she had a long relationship, including a marriage that produced three children. They divorced in the 1990s, during Dohnányi's tenure with the Cleveland Orchestra.

Silja continued her career with appearances at Trieste, the Edinburgh Festival (Lulu, 1966), the Salzburg Festival, Metropolitan Opera (Fidelio and Salome, 1972), Paris (Schoenberg's Erwartung, under Sir Georg Solti), Berlin, Cologne (La fanciulla del West), Vienna (world premiere of Einem's Kabale und Liebe) and Brussels. Other new roles in this period were Emilia Marty in The Makropoulos Case, Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino, Médée, Die lustige Witwe, Carmen (staged by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle), La juive, Katya Kabanova, Tosca, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, and Die Königin von Saba (conducted by Julius Rudel).

In the 1980s, Silja added Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opposite Chester Ludgin), La Cubana, Regan in Lear, Prinz Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus (with Karita Mattila and Judith Blegen, staged by Maurice Béjart), the Kostelnička in Jenůfa (at the Glyndebourne Festival), Grete in Der ferne Klang, and the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten (opposite Dame Gwyneth Jones as Barak's Wife).

Silja made her debut as a stage director in 1990 at Brussels with Lohengrin. She then assumed the roles of Agave in The Bassarids (at Carnegie Hall), Ortrud in Lohengrin (in Robert Wilson's production), Herodias in Salome, Anna I in Die sieben Todsünden, Klytämnestra in Elektra, Jocasta in Œdipus rex (opposite René Kollo), Mother Marie of the Incarnation in Dialogues des Carmélites, Pierrot lunaire, Judith in Bluebeard's Castle, Countess Geschwitz in Lulu, Madame de Croissy in Dialogues des Carmélites (her Teatro alla Scala debut, under Riccardo Muti, 2004; three years later she sang in Jenůfa there), Míla's Mother in Osud, the Comtesse in Pique-dame, and the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel. She was first heard in Cleveland, Boston, Madrid, Leipzig, Prague, and Rio de Janeiro in these recent seasons. Her 2001 recording of Jenůfa, from Covent Garden, won a Grammy Award.

Silja now resides in Paris, having purchased the former home of the conductor André Cluytens. In 2008, the soprano remarked that, following her performances in Dialogues des Carmélites, that opera “had the most influence on my life. Of course people like Wieland [Wagner] and my grandfather had influenced me a lot, but I can only say that this piece really changed my life. I found it so amazing in the way that it depicted the destiny of those nuns and how they lived their lives that because of it, and out of my tremendous admiration for Pope Benedict XVI, I became a Catholic. Until then I had never been baptised, but I don’t think that you can just suddenly become religious. I think that some sense of religion and faith was always within me but that something was needed to bring it out and that opera did it. I’m very thankful that it happened and it’s a great help and strength to me.” In January 2013, she sang the role of the Grandmother ("Babulenka") in The Gambler, in Frankfurt, in the production by Harry Kupfer, and in 2017 she performed Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire and was the narrator in Gurre-Lieder in Hamburg, conducted by Kent Nagano.

Recordings

 * Wagner
 * Der fliegende Holländer (Crass; Sawallisch, 1961) [live] Philips
 * Lohengrin (Varnay, Thomas, Vinay; Sawallisch, 1962) [live] Philips
 * Tannhäuser (Bumbry, Windgassen; Sawallisch, 1962) [live] Philips
 * Das Rheingold (Windgassen, Adam; Böhm, 1966) [live] Philips
 * Götterdämmerung (Nilsson, Windgassen; Böhm, 1967) [live] Philips
 * Der fliegende Holländer (Adam, Talvela; Klemperer, 1968) EMI
 * Die Walküre (Schnaut, Marc, Elming, Hale; Dohnányi, 1992) Decca Records
 * Beethoven
 * Fidelio: excerpts (Stahlman, Sergi; Matačić, 1964) Eurodisc
 * Puccini
 * Tosca: excerpts [in German] (King, Fischer-Dieskau; Maazel, 1966) Decca Records
 * Berg
 * Lulu: Lulu-Suite (Dohnányi, 1973) Decca Records
 * Lulu (Fassbaender, Berry, Hotter; Dohnányi, 1976) Decca Records
 * Wozzeck (Wächter; Dohnányi, 1979) Decca Records
 * Wozzeck (Cassilly, van Dam; Levine, 1980) [live] Polygram Records
 * Strauss
 * Salome: final scene (Dohnányi, 1973) Decca Records
 * Salome (Nielsen, Hale; Schønwandt, 1997) Chandos Records
 * Schoenberg
 * Erwartung; Sechs Lieder (Dohnányi, 1979) Decca Records
 * Pierrot Lunaire (Craft, 1999) Koch Entertainment
 * Erwartung (Craft, 2000) Koch Entertainment
 * Henze
 * La Cubana (Latham-König, 1982) WERGO
 * Weill
 * Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Schlemm, Neumann; Latham-König, 1985) Capriccio
 * Die sieben Todsünden (Nowak, 2002) hänssler
 * Janáček
 * Jenůfa (Mattila, Silvasti, Hadley; Haitink, 2001) [live] Erato Records
 * Russian Songs (Andrej Hoteev, 2007) (Rachmaninoff: 10 songs; Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death) Sony/RCA Red Seal

Commercial videography

 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Fidelio (Popp, Cassilly, Adam; L.Ludwig, Hess, 1968) Arthaus
 * Engelbert Humperdinck
 * Hänsel und Gretel (Damrau, Kirchschlager, Allen; C.Davis, Leiser/Caurier, 2008) [live] Opus Arte
 * Leoš Janáček
 * Jenůfa (R.Alexander; A.Davis, Lehnhoff, 1989) [live] Kultur
 * The Makropulos Affair (Tear; A.Davis, Lehnhoff, 1995) [live] Kultur
 * Richard Strauss
 * Salome (Malfitano, Terfel; Dohnányi, Bondy, 1997) [live] Decca
 * Francis Poulenc
 * Dialogues des Carmélites (Schellenberger, Aikin; Muti, Carsen, 2004) [live] TDK

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Wouldn't it be better to put the candidates in order of the the number of votes won? (ie, Kerry, Bush, Badnarik, Cobb, Others) And for the breakdown by counties I would suggest putting it in order of % vote for the candidate which won in the state (in this case Kerry) instead of alphabetical order, so San Francisco would be at the top and Modoc county at the bottom - I think it's more interesting and useful this way. -- Joolz 14:40, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi and thank you for your comment. I agree with you, as presented now, the table in this article is not very interesting, but I don't think we should put the counties in order of % vote for Kerry. Indeed, there are 58 counties in California, so if we don't list them in alphabetical order, I think it will be kind of a mess : I know where to find Colusa County in an alphabetical list, not in a list by % of vote for Kerry. In order to give an easy view of the political trend of each county, I wanted to do the way I already did for New York. Moreover, if we change the way we list the counties in California, we shall do this for the 22 election results page I've already created. It's quite a boring job, especially alone. Best regards --Revas 14:14, 15 August 2005 (UTC)(sorry for my English, I'm not an English-speaker)
 * I think putting them in %vote for Kerry is a more useful and interesting order than alphabetically, I don't think there will be that many users who will be looking for the result in the county in such way, and I don't think it will make it any more difficult. I will help out with any changeover, so it's only 11 or so each, and I'm more than used to boring jobs ;) And your english is excellent :P -- Joolz 14:49, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok. Let's discuss about how we should organize the changes on our talk pages.--Revas 16:13, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Contradictory data
The Secretary of State lists 21,213 votes for Nadar in the PDF version of the Statement of the Vote, and 20,714 in the spreadsheet (Excel) version of it. This should be looked into further, and the results section should also be updated.  Psych  less   02:04, 20 January 2009 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nowacka

 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. — Trilobite (Talk) 15:22, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Nowacka
This smells like a hoax. It is from the same IP who wrote Calcino, listed above. -- Marcika 14:41, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Well, I don't want to leap to conclusions here or nothin', but frankly, any treatment on a supposedly ancient Tibetan family name that has its roots in English and Polish and was also adopted by a bunch of very nice Vikings who threw the best parties in the neighborhood and sported a tribesman named "the Mighty Bubba" smells like bullshit -- excuse me, nonsense -- to me... -- Captain Disdain 17:46, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete all articles based on Anglo-Polish-Tibetan puns attributed to "the Mighty Bubba". Isaac R 19:00, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Terrible writing and is almost definitely fiction -- Acyso 19:22, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete funny, but nonsense. --Etacar11 01:12, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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List of Vertigo Comics publications

Vertigo Comics was an American comic book imprint started in 1993. It was DC Comics' most famous imprint, aimed at "mature readers", and has published many critically acclaimed titles, both company-owned, such as The Sandman and Hellblazer, and creator-owned, such as Preacher and Y: The Last Man. It was discontinued in January 2020, with ongoing series moved to the DC Black Label imprint, and future reprints also published under the new imprint.

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Huntsville-Madison County Public Library

The Huntsville-Madison County Public Library is a public, Carnegie library in Huntsville, Alabama. Founded in 1818, when Alabama was still a part of the Mississippi Territory, it is the oldest continuing library in the state.

It was first located in the office of attorney John Nelson Spotswood Jones, in the Boardman Building, which is now a part of Constitution Hall Park. The Library also occupied space in the Green Academy from 1821 until Union soldiers burned the school during the Civil War, and moved to borrowed spaces several times until the Carnegie Library opened in 1916. It was designed by Huntsville architect and preservationist Edgar Lee Love. A new building was constructed to accommodate city and county growth, and opened in 1966. The area enjoyed rapid growth with the influx of government employees involved in the development of the space program, including the United States Army and NASA, and the library eventually needed more space as early as 1969. Library officials began planning for a new building in 1983.

The current facility's main branch, sometimes referred to as "Fort Book" for its fortress-like appearance, opened on Monroe Street in April 1987 and serves as the headquarters for the Huntsville Madison County Public Library System. The building contains 123000 sqft, has a seating capacity of 930 and contains over 530,000 volumes, with administrative offices located on the third floor. The library had a circulation of 1,915,548 in 2007, making it the highest-circulating library in Alabama.

The Huntsville-Madison County Public Library received a federal grant from the Library Services and Technology Act in 2004 specifically to digitize photographs from the Library's Archives for inclusion in the Alabama Mosaic Project.

Locations
HMCPL systems owns and operates the Downtown Huntsville Public Library, and 10 branch libraries throughout Madison County:

The Triana branch has a new building after the original was destroyed by fire in late 2009. The new building opened in the spring of 2014, adjacent to the old location. The Bailey Cove branch was combined with the Eleanor Murphy Branch to create a new South Huntsville Public Library in 2021. The Bessie K. Russell and Shower Branch Libraries were combined to form the North Huntsville Public Library in 2021. The New Hope Public Library relocated in 2022 to a new building on Main Drive in New Hope.


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Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel

Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (27 March 1776 – 12 September 1854) was a French botanist and politician. He was a founder of the science of plant cytology.

A native Parisian, at the age of twenty, he became an assistant-naturalist with the French National Museum of Natural History. While there he began to examine plant tissue under a microscope.

In 1802, Mirbel published his treatise Traité d'anatomie et de physiologie végétale which established his position as a founder of cytology, plant histology and plant physiology in France. He proposed that all plant tissue is modified from parenchyma (supporting tissue). His observation, in 1809, that each plant cell is contained in a continuous membrane, remains a central contribution to cytology.

In 1803, Mirbel obtained the post of superintendent of the gardens of Napoleon's Château de Malmaison. There he studied and published on structure of plant tissue and the development of plant organs. He also studied and described the genus Marchantia of liverworts. His 1802 treatise and these publications enabled him, in 1808, to join the French Academy of Sciences and to become the chair of the botany department of the Sorbonne. His combined tissue studies were published in 1815 as Eléments de physiologie végétale et de botanique.

With the Bourbon Restoration, Mirbel's friend Élie, duc Decazes, then Minister of Interior, offered him the post of Secretary General. But the fall of the government in 1829, marked the end of Mirbel's political career, and he returned to a position with the National Museum of Natural History as head of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, and eventually became the Director of Culture (chaire de culture) for the museum. Mirbel was elected a foreign member of the British Royal Society of London in 1837.

In 1823, Mirbel married Lizinska Aimée Zoé Rue, a French painter of miniatures. He died in Champerret, France in 1854. The plant genus Mirbelia and the orchid Dendrobium mirbelianum are named in his honor.

The standard botanical author abbreviation Mirb. is applied to plants described by this botanist, which abbreviation also appears on this list.

Selected works

 * Traité d'anatomie et de physiologie végétale, 1802
 * Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière de plantes, 1802–1806
 * Exposition de la théorie de l'organisation végétale, 1809
 * Éléments de physiologie végétale et de botanique, 1815
 * Éléments de physiologie végétale et de botanique, 1815

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