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Nordic Africa Institute

Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet) serves as a research, documentation and information centre on modern Africa for the Nordic countries. The Institute conducts independent, policyrelevant research, provides analysis and informs decisionmaking, with the aim of advancing research-based knowledge of contemporary Africa.

The Nordic Africa Institute was founded in 1962 and is financed jointly by Sweden, Finland and Iceland. Denmark and Norway were also members of the original group of founding and funding partner countries, but they backed out in 2013 and 2015, respectively. Administratively, the institute functions as a Swedish government agency that answers to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. It is located in Uppsala.

The Nordic Africa Institute is part of AEGIS, a network of African Studies Centres in Europe, and organized its 4th international conference (ECAS) in 2011. The institute is headed by a Director, and a Programme and Research Council has the task of monitoring and advising the Director. On 18 July 2019, the Swedish government appointed Therése Sjömander Magnusson as new Director of NAI, a position which she took up on 1 October 2019.

Previous Directors of NAI
The list is partly based on a report to the Nordic Africa Institute's 50th Anniversary in 2012.
 * Iina Soiri 2013-2019
 * Carin Norberg 2005-2013
 * Lennart Wohlgemut 1993-2005
 * Anders Hjort af Ornäs 1984-1993
 * Carl Gösta Widstrand 1962-1984

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Jack McFarland

John Philip "Jack" McFarland is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Will & Grace, played by Sean Hayes.

Character overview
Jack is Will Truman's (Eric McCormack) best friend in the American television sitcom Will & Grace. In the show, Jack is considered a "camp" gay man. He is very mercurial and changes careers rapidly from cater waiter, Banana Republic and Barneys New York sales clerk, to acting teacher, to student nurse, to surfer, to back-up dancer for Jennifer Lopez and Janet Jackson. Although he considers all his relationships serious, only one lasted longer than a few weeks (with Stuart, a client of Will's played by Dave Foley), and even that one ended with Jack's cheating. Jack's character is unashamedly vain and self-absorbed, and adores all gay icons, particularly Cher, of whom he has a rare doll. According to Will, he has the best gaydar in the tristate area. He is a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, particularly lesbian character Willow Rosenberg. He also collects clippings of celebrities' hair, including a complete collection from the four main actresses on The Golden Girls, as well as Broadway icons Bernadette Peters, Betty Buckley, Idina Menzel, and – as of season seven — Patti LuPone. Jack also stalks actor Kevin Bacon, briefly becoming the actor's assistant.

He believes in gay rights, and is an LGBTQ advocate, but tends to lend his support to shallow causes, such as protesting NBC censoring a gay kiss on a television show ("What about our Constitutional right to see two hotties get it on?"). Even though his character has flaws, in the end his intentions are essentially good and this can be seen as the story progress throughout the seasons.

Character history
Jack was born February 16, 1969, and was raised by his mother Judith (Veronica Cartwright) and stepfather Daniel (Beau Bridges). He also had a babysitter named Sissy (played in one episode by Demi Moore). His mother did not know he was gay, and his stepfather was not close to him. He claims to have come out as early as preschool. While he was in high school, Jack befriended Will and helped him come to terms with his sexuality. They have been best friends ever since.

Since the first season, Jack has established a close bond with alcoholic socialite Karen Walker (Megan Mullally), who works as Grace's secretary. Karen is his closest female friend, and they bond due to their shared narcissism and materialism. Jack also strikes up a friendship with Will's other best friend Grace Adler (Debra Messing), through association with Will and Karen.

In the pilot episode, Jack is living with Will while his floors are re-done, but has to find elsewhere to live when Grace moves in. At the end of season one, Jack agrees to marry Karen's maid Rosario (Shelley Morrison) to secure her green card. Jack lives with Karen for the entirety of season two, but after a year together, the marriage is annulled when Rosario wants to marry Karen's gardener. Therefore, at the end of season two, Jack moves in with Will, but when Will takes Grace in after an attempted burglary at her apartment, Jack agrees to sublet Grace's apartment — although Will, Karen, and his mother pay the rent. (In "Moveable Feast Part 1," it emerged that each of the three pays one half of the cost, meaning that Jack is actually collecting one and a half times the actual amount of his rent.)

In season three, Jack undertakes a search for his biological father, which ends when he discovers that his father died several years back. Jack does, however, meet Elliot (Michael Angarano), his own biological son, whom he fathered by depositing at a sperm bank as a teenager so that he could buy a leather jacket. He later discovers that the boy's mother Bonnie (Rosie O'Donnell) is a lesbian; she was a nurse at the sperm bank who stole Jack's deposit and was inseminated with it.

Jack's most consistent vocation results from his taking over the class of his acting teacher Zandra (Eileen Brennan) after she is fed up with his lack of talent. After taking everyone's money and leaving, another student (Stacy Keach) takes over the class and begins teaching the "McFarland method" ("acting is attracting") without Jack's knowledge. He also trains to be a student nurse, but ultimately gives it up when, during Karen's fourth wedding, he meets Jennifer Lopez and becomes her back-up dancer (and, for a short time, Janet Jackson's back-up dancer ), a career that fizzles as well.

In the seventh season, Jack embarks on a proper career as a producer for OutTV, a new gay television network. By season's end, his profile rises to the point that he is given a talk show of his own to host. In season eight, however, Jack loses his job at the network after he speaks out against the new right-wing ownership of the show, which has given him a conservative co-host named Amber Louise (Britney Spears). He has a hard time finding work, and out of desperation auditions for a minor role on a television show. Feeling depressed and rejected at the time, he displays real emotion instead of his usual over-dramatic acting style, and ends up getting the lead role of Chuck Rafferty, a straight, alcoholic, womanizing cop.

In the series finale, Jack is forced into a relationship with Karen's nemesis Beverley Leslie (Leslie Jordan); Karen, who has recently lost all of her money, demands that he take up with the obnoxious millionaire so he can inherit Leslie's fortune and keep her in the lifestyle to which she is accustomed. Eventually Karen realizes that she is doing to Jack what her mother did to her, and tells him that she cares more about his happiness than the money. When Beverley dies after being swept off his balcony by a gust of wind, Jack is left with his money, which he shares with Karen. A flash forward reveals that, 16 years later, Jack and Karen are still living together.

When the series was revived in 2017, however, the events of the finale were retconned. In the new continuity, Jack was never engaged to Beverly Leslie, is not rich, is still living across the hall from Will and Grace, and is still pursuing an acting career while throwing himself at every available man in sight. During the ninth season, he takes up a part-time job as rehearsal pianist and acting teacher at the Bronx Boys and Girls Club. In the 11th season, he takes over as owner and manager of Cleo's, a legendary New York gay bar.

In the series finale, Jack is cast in a Broadway show as a "fifth understudy", and finally achieves his dream of appearing on the Great White Way when the original actor and all four other understudies call in sick. In the final scene, he goes with Will, Grace, and Karen to the hospital when Grace goes into labor.

Romantic relationships
Jack is known for his several various flings throughout the show. Most of them are mentioned but not shown, and Jack never seems to take any of them seriously or settle down with anyone for very long. Jack's longest relationship is with Stuart Lamarack (Dave Foley), which lasts several months during the sixth season, until Jack cheats on him. During the ninth season, Jack enters into a relationship with Drew (Ryan Pinkston) after realising he fears growing old and lonely. Drew later abruptly breaks up with Jack after two months, claiming he is not ready for a committed relationship and wants to see other people, which devastates Jack as he realises he is now ready to settle down with someone. In the ninth season finale, he instantly goes on a rebound fling and quickly gets engaged to Estéfan Gloria (Brian Jordan Alvarez), a man he met on said rebound vacation. While Jack at first struggles with the idea of a lifelong commitment, he finally realizes that he loves Estéfan, and marries him in the 10th season finale.

Will
The episode "Lows in the Mid-Eighties" reveals that Jack met Will at a party in 1985 and realized immediately that he was gay. After Will comes out of the closet, he and Jack become best friends, with Jack helping Will navigate life as an openly gay man.

While they care deeply for each other, however, Jack and Will fight and make fun of each other constantly. Jack often calls Will "bald and fat" (which he clearly isn't), while Will makes fun of Jack's promiscuity, shallowness, and perpetual unemployment. Nevertheless, Will pays virtually all of Jack's bills, including half his rent (with Karen and Jack's mother also paying half each).

Several episodes suggest that Jack has feelings for Will. In "Lows in the Mid-Eighties," he confesses his love to Will, but tries to pass it off as a 'test of friendship' when Will doesn't feel the same. He has a similar reaction in an eighth-season episode when Will's boyfriend James (Taye Diggs) accuses him of being jealous of their relationship.

Karen
Jack and Karen meet in the second episode of the first season, and become instant best friends. Karen calls Jack "poodle" and he calls Karen “Kare Bear” as well as sometimes entering a room asking Karen “Who’s Your Daddy” and she responds “You are.” Karen lavishes him with gifts and attention, while also paying half Jack’s rent. They also provide each other with emotional support (in their own self-absorbed fashion), with Karen defending him from people who treat him unkindly and Jack giving her a shoulder to cry on when her marriage falls apart.

In the series finale, Jack reluctantly moves in Karen's nemesis Beverley Leslie to provide for a newly bankrupt Karen. However, Karen realizes that she doesn't want him to make a mistake and stops him from marrying Beverley. After Beverley dies, Jack inherits his money, and he and Karen live together in luxury for the rest of their lives. The 2017 revival retcons these events as one of Karen's drug-induced hallucinations, though Karen does not tell Jack about what happened to him in this dream. Eric McCormack has referred to Jack and Karen as the “fun house mirror reflection of Will and Grace”.

Grace
Jack and Grace initially dislike each other, seeing each other as competition for Will's attention. Eventually, they bond over their shared love of ice skating. For the remainder of the series, they are good friends, although they make fun of each other constantly.

Elliot
In the third season, Jack finds out that he has a son, Elliot (Michael Angarano), conceived through in vitro fertilization using sperm that Jack donated to a sperm bank years before. Jack initially has trouble adjusting to fatherhood, especially since Elliot's mother Bonnie (Rosie O'Donnell) dislikes him. Eventually, however, Jack realizes that he loves Elliot and commits (in his own way) to being a good father.

In the revived series, Jack and Elliot have been estranged for several years. Jack learns that Elliot has a son, Skip, who is presumed to be gay. He is horrified to learn that Elliot and his wife are sending Skip to "hetero camp", and follows the boy there to tell him that there is nothing wrong with him. Elliot realizes the error of his ways and invites Jack into his family.

Reception
The character has gained a mixed reception from critics for perpetuating gay stereotypes. Nevertheless, Hayes won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2000 for his performance.

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Paul Mellon

Paul Mellon (June 11, 1907 – February 1, 1999) was an American philanthropist and a breeder of thoroughbred racehorses. He is one of only five people ever designated an "Exemplar of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He was co-heir to one of America's greatest business fortunes, derived from the Mellon Bank created by his grandfather Thomas Mellon, his father Andrew W. Mellon, and his father's brother Richard B. Mellon. In 1957, when Fortune prepared its first list of the wealthiest Americans, it estimated that Paul Mellon, his sister Ailsa Mellon Bruce, and his cousins Sarah Mellon and Richard King Mellon, were all among the richest eight people in the United States, with fortunes between $400 million and $500 million each (between about $4.3 billion and $7.6 billion in today's dollars).

Mellon was married to Mary Conover Brown from 1935 until her death in 1946. They had two children, Catherine Conover Mellon (first wife of John Warner) and Timothy Mellon. In 1948, Paul Mellon married his second wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon (a.k.a. Bunny) (August 9, 1910–March 17, 2014) who had two children, Stacy Lloyd III and Eliza, Viscountess Moore with her first husband, Mr. Stacy Barcroft Lloyd, Jr. whom she had divorced in 1948.

Mellon's autobiography, Reflections in a Silver Spoon, was published in 1992. He died at his home, Oak Spring, in Upperville, Virginia, on February 1, 1999.

Early life and education
Mellon was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 11, 1907, the son of Andrew W. Mellon, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932, and Nora McMullen of Hertford Castle, England and brother of Ailsa Mellon-Bruce. When he was 5 years old his parent divorced. He graduated from The Choate School, now Choate Rosemary Hall, in Wallingford, Connecticut, in 1925, where he wrote for the literary magazine. He then went on to graduate from Yale College, where he was a member of the Chi Psi fraternity, Scroll and Key, and served as vice-chairman of the Yale Daily News. He was a great benefactor of his alma maters, donating to the Forbes-Mellon Library at the University of Cambridge, the Mellon Arts Center and the Mellon (now Icahn) Science Center to Choate, two residential colleges at Yale (Ezra Stiles and Morse), and the Yale Center for British Art.

In 1930, he was a founding member, alongside Sir Timothy William Gowers, of the CRABS, the Clare Rugby And Boating Society, the oldest of the collegiate Gentlemen's societies still active. In 1938, he received an Oxbridge MA from Clare College, Cambridge. He was a major benefactor to Clare College's Forbes-Mellon Library, opened in 1986.

After graduating from Yale University, he went to England to study at the University of Cambridge, receiving a BA in 1931, while his father served as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's from 1932 to 1933.

Career
Mellon returned to Pittsburgh, to work for Mellon Bank and other businesses for six months.

He enrolled at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland in 1940 but six months later joined the United States Army, asking to join the cavalry. Mellon served with the Morale Operations Branch of the Office of Strategic Services in Europe. He rose to the rank of major and was the recipient of four battle stars in the European Theatre of Operations.

Art collection
While Mellon did not share his father's interest in business, the two found common ground in their love of art and philanthropy. Shortly before Andrew Mellon's death in 1937, construction began on the West Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., for which Andrew Mellon had provided funds. Four years later Paul Mellon presented both the building by John Russell Pope and his father's collection of 115 paintings to the nation. He served on the museum's board for more than four decades: as trustee, as president (twice), as board chair, and as honorary trustee. Mellon commissioned I. M. Pei to build the East Building and, with his sister Ailsa, provided funds for its construction in the late 1970s. Over the years he and his wife Bunny donated more than 1,000 works to the National Gallery of Art, among them many French and American masterworks.

In 1936, Mellon purchased his first British painting, Pumpkin with a Stable-lad by George Stubbs, who became a lifetime favorite of Mellon's. Beginning in the late 1950s, with the help of English art historian Basil Taylor, Mellon amassed a major collection by the mid-1960s. London art dealer Geoffrey Agnew once said of his acquisitions: "It took an American collector to make the English look again at their own paintings." Mellon's collection was catalogued by Dudley Snelgrove and Judy Egerton.

Mellon granted his extensive collection of British art, rare books, and related materials to Yale University in the 1960s, along with the funding to create an appropriate museum to house it (designed by Louis Kahn). He characteristically insisted that it not be named in honor of him, but rather would be called the Yale Center for British Art, to encourage others to support it as well. Mellon also provided extensive endowment support to fund not only operations but also an ongoing program of acquisitions, and he made a generous bequest to the Center at the time of his death. The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art was founded in 1970 through a generous grant to Yale University, as a London-based affiliate of the New Haven center, to encourage study of British art and culture both at the undergraduate and the research scholar levels.

Mellon also provided important leadership gifts to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, as well as Choate Rosemary Hall.

Rokeby Stables
Mellon owned many thoroughbred horses under his Rokeby Stables, including Kentucky Derby winner Sea Hero. Two of his horses, Arts and Letters and Fort Marcy, were named American Horse of the Year in 1969 and 1970 respectively. Both are inductees in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He also owned three European champions, Mill Reef, Forrest Flower, and Gold and Ivory. Mill Reef was the #8 rated horse in the world for the 20th Century in A Century of Champions, by John Randall and Tony Morris. Mellon won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder in 1971 and again in 1986.

Establishment of philanthropic foundations
Mellon established the Old Dominion Foundation in 1941 and the Bollingen Foundation in 1945, both to support advancement and learning of the humanities and liberal education. The Bollingen Foundation published over 100 books before closing in 1969, the same year the assets of the Old Dominion Foundation were merged into those of his sister Ailsa's Avalon Foundation. The combined organization was renamed The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in honor of their father.

Yale University
Paul Mellon's foremost philanthropic interest was his alma mater, Yale University. His most generous and well-known gifts established the Yale Center for British Art, but his legacy makes itself felt across the campus.

Mellon's other major gift was to provide extensive funding to support the creation of two new undergraduate residential colleges at Yale, Ezra Stiles College and Morse College. Designed by Eero Saarinen, these colleges along with the Kahn-designed British Art Center demonstrated Mellon's commitment to bringing modern architecture to Yale. Perhaps most importantly, the additional undergraduate capacity that these colleges provided were a critical prerequisite to the ability of the university to transition to co-education.

Beyond these capital gifts, Mellon endowed the masterships and deanships of each of Yale's 12 residential colleges. He created the Mellon Senior Forum program, which provides a weekly meal for seniors in each of the residential colleges where they can share progress on their senior essays and projects with one another.

Mellon was active in the humanities at Yale. He provided the funding necessary to create the Directed Studies program of intense freshman-year focus on the humanities. He supported significantly the undergraduate theater studies program, and endowed named professorships in schools throughout the University, particularly in the humanities.

Other philanthropy
Mellon was highly supportive of causes that advanced the preservation of horses, including the United States Jockey Club's Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation. This organization allocates grants towards specific research projects for the safety, welfare, longevity and improvement of life for racehorses.

He donated the $1 million bonus that Sea Hero won in the Chrysler Triple Crown Challenge to the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation. Furthermore, he requested that double that amount be raised in response to his donation. That goal was met during the 1995–1996 fiscal year. Upon his death, he left yet another $2.5 million to the Foundation's endowment.

In 1999, Paul Mellon bequeathed $8 million to the University of Cambridge in England for the Fitzwilliam Museum. During his lifetime he agreed that £1 million of that sum could be allocated to the museum's courtyard development and, under the terms of his will, following his death in 1999, his executors subsequently allocated a further $12.5 million to complete the renovations associated with the courtyard, including the re-lighting of all of the museum's galleries. The remaining balance was added to the Paul Mellon Fund which was established as a trust fund for the museum at the time of the bequest, the income from which is being used to support education, exhibitions and publications.

He also helped to buy the 28625 acre Cape Hatteras National Seashore and the 1500 acre Sky Meadows State Park in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where he used to go to look at the stars.

He was also a major benefactor of Clare College and Clare Hall, both in Cambridge, England. Indeed, Clare Hall, founded 1966, gains much from his benefaction; his generous bequest serves the intellectual needs of the graduate college members. The Mellon Fellowship is another example of his generosity, permitting the reciprocal exchange of two students from Yale and two from Clare College for graduate study in each other's institutions.

He developed his great love of England and English culture while studying at Clare College from 1929-1931. "It was while I was at Cambridge that I embarked on the dangerous seas of collecting", Paul Mellon once said—a statement by the man who described himself as "the incurable collector" that has had profound implications for his major beneficiaries, both in the US and the UK.

Mellon helped to arrange the merger of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, founded by his father Andrew W. Mellon and uncle Richard B. Mellon with Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1967 to create Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Additionally, he donated substantial funds to Carnegie Mellon.

Honors and awards
Mellon was a trustee of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame and one of the only five people ever designated an "Exemplar of Racing" by the Hall of Fame. He was also inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and the English Jockey Club Hall of Fame.

Among honors, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1971, created an Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1974, awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1985, elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992, and awarded the National Humanities Medal in 1997.

In 1978, Mellon received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.

Personal life
In 1935, he married Mary Conover Brown and the couple, who had two children, Catherine and Timothy, moved to Virginia.

After his wife Mary's death in 1946 from an asthma attack, he married Rachel Lambert Lloyd, known as "Bunny", the former wife of Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr. She was a descendant of the Lambert family who formulated and marketed Listerine and an heiress to the Warner-Lambert corporate fortune (Warner-Lambert is now part of Pfizer, following a 2000 merger). Bunny Mellon was an avid horticulturist and gardener, whose fondness for French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, as well as American art, Mellon came to share. By this marriage, he had two stepchildren: Stacy Lloyd III and Eliza Lambert Lloyd (d. 2008; who married and divorced Viscount Moore).

Quotations

 * "I have been an amateur in every phase of my life; an amateur poet, an amateur scholar, an amateur horseman, an amateur farmer, an amateur soldier, an amateur connoisseur of art, an amateur publisher, and an amateur museum executive. The root of the word "amateur" is the Latin word for love, and I can honestly say that I've thoroughly enjoyed all the roles I have played." —Paul Mellon from his autobiography Reflections in a Silver Spoon.

News stories

 * Paul Mellon remembered by the National Gallery of Art

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Likas Stadium

Likas Stadium (Malay: Stadium Likas; nicknamed: Rumah Sang Badak) is a multi-purpose stadium in Likas, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. It is mainly used for association football and athletics and it is located within Likas Sports Complex. It has been the home stadium of Sabah FC since its opening in 1983 and renovated in 2001, and then secondary renovation in 2023 for AFC preparation usage. Likas Stadium has a capacity of 35,000, making it the 11th largest football stadium in Malaysia in terms of seating capacity.

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Talk:Saltcoats

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This article is not neutral.

Explain WHY it is not neutral? Douglasnicol 21:39, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Origin of name
Sorry to disagree, but I believe that salt production came from saltpans and not salt salt mining.

 * That might be correct, I didn't put in the mining Douglasnicol 14:37, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Or haps an occult rendition of ‘QuetSaltcoats’ (Quetzalcoatl)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:9C97:5D01:D090:E2A:EAC:702B (talk) 10:24, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Boundaries
My recollection of the Saltcoats/Stevenston boundary is at variance with the author's, and that the boundary with Stevenston was a few hundred yards to the east of the railway bridge. Auchenharvie was within Saltcoats, as were the Campbell Lands between Auchenharvie and the sea.

 * Sorry, I'll have to disagree with your assertion. Auchenharvie is within Stevenston.  If you want clarification, the address of the leisure centre is marked as Stevenston.  Look at this web site (The Council one, you can't get much more official than that)Douglasnicol 14:41, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

http://www.naleisure.co.uk/index.php?f=3

Douglas, it is correct that the postal address of the leisure is given as Stevenston, but that was built after the burgh disappeared and the three towns merged. The west end of the old Auchenharvie estate was a public park with playing fields, within the Saltcoats boundary. To east were the grazing fields of the estate, which were in Stevenston. I would counsel caution about taking a modern postal address as being the definitive bounds of the old burgh. The maps available at http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10361965 tend to confirm that the boundary was to the east of the old Caledonian railway line, thus including the sports fields of Auchenharvie within Saltcoats.

As I recall the boundary was on the Stevenston side of the entrance gates to the now demolished Auchenharvie House. I believe that the House was within Saltcoats as were the farm buildings and the early 18th century dovecot. The fields to the east of the farm were with Stevenston as I recall. The boundary maps quoted above certainly back that up. The maps also show the Campbell Lands as being in Saltcoats.

 * See, one other thing I'm using is the Stenlake local history books. R McSherry wrote each book on the three towns and he has lived in that vicinty as far as I know all his life (If you look in those books he appears in some pictures when he was young).  He has a picture of the old engine house that is the other side of the road from Auchenharvie, the one that's often mistaken as either an old keep or coal mine, and its in the Stevenston book.  Now, R McSherry is involved, or at least was, to some extent with the North Ayrshire Museum in Saltcoats.  Douglasnicol 14:50, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I know that this is a very old conversation, but after consulting the OS maps of 1911 available for viewing at Old Maps, I thought I'd clear this up once and for all:

 * The Burgh boundry for Saltcoats was indeed a few hundred yards east of the Caledonian railway bridge, next to the west entrance to Auchenharvie House.
 * The land that Harvies Leisure Centre sits on was part of the Saltcoats Burgh.
 * Auchenharvie House was part of the Stevenston Burgh, as was the Beam Engine House (barely, it was right next to the border)

 * The original burgh boundary can still be identified today: there is a path between Harvies and the large orange gravel area next to Auchenharvie Academy that runs down the exact position of the boundary. I even believe that the sign post for 'Saltcoats' is on the same former boundary. --Dreamer84 18:50, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Page move
Hi folks I hope you don't mind, but I moved the page for contunuiy reasons, to identify that Saltcoats is in North Ayrshire in the article. EwanMclean2005 21:48, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

I think that quite a few people actually do mind, you need to discuss changes like this, you could simply have mentioned North Ayrshire in the article if it isn't already there. Fraslet 21:52, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

 * I have requested the disambig at Saltcoats be deleted so that this page can be restored at that location. That, along with the removal of the Largs redirect, should clear up the remainder of this absolute mess. --Dreamer84 22:19, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Admin has refused this request. Technically, he is correct, so I have set up a correct disambiguation article at Saltcoats (disambiguation). Note that I did this by setting it up from scratch, instead of moving the infernal disambiguation article currently at Saltcoats, so as to avoid leaving any links or redirects pointing at the disambiguation article. Note that the new disambig article points at Saltcoats, not Saltcoats, North Ayrshire. See also the Talk:Largs page for discussion of this mess.

 * I have to go out now for most of the rest of today, so maybe someone can put in a request to move this page back to Saltcoats at WP:RM? Thanks.
 * --NSH001 08:00, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Dreamer re-submitted his delete request, and this time it was successful, so I've now moved this page back where it belongs. That finally clears up all the North Ayrshire page move messes. Whew!
 * --NSH001 23:13, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Excellent. I've also submitted deletion requests for the remaining 'X, North Ayrshire' redirects as I think they are pretty much pointless now. --Dreamer84 23:23, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

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What was her real last name?
So was the woman's last name "Sullivan" or "Macy"? Which one was it? 174.71.92.119 (talk) 06:38, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

 * The article says she was born Sullivan, and she married John Macy. What's the difficulty?  140.147.236.194 (talk) 16:18, 18 March 2010

anniesullivan.org
It would be wonderful if you would add my website for my distant cousin, Annie Sullivan, to your great and accurate page "Anne Sullivan Macy." Thank You, cmburke@anniesullivan.org (173.2.88.197 (talk) 01:47, 3 September 2010 (UTC)).

name of article

 * She was best-known as "Anne Sullivan" or "Annie Sullivan"; this article really should be named "Anne Sullivan" with a redirect from "Anne Sullivan Macy". --Lquilter (talk) 20:46, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I've moved the article to Anne Sullivan from Anne Sullivan Macy. She is referred to internationally as "Anne Sullivan"; she is referred to in the article itself as "Anne Sullivan"; and throughout Wikipedia, she is generally referred to as "Anne Sullivan" or "Annie Sullivan" with a pipe trick to direct the article to "Anne Sullivan Macy".  She herself throughout her life generally referred to herself as "Anne Sullivan".  There are no competing "Anne Sullivan"'s to cloud the picture.  It makes absolutely no sense to title her article by a name that is practically never used to refer to her.  --Lquilter (talk) 20:57, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Problems noted
I noticed that the area of text in the beginning of the article is incorrect (in grammer in my opinion) and the html is showing on the article. The book reference also has an incorrect html layout. I checked now, its been hours, and still no change. I made this text to bring this matter to attention. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.4.248.126 (talk) 04:54, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * It would be helpful if you'd be more specific about each of the problems you have identified. Alternatively, you should be able to edit the article yourself to fix them, but I'd be happy to help if I knew exactly where to look and what to look for. Rivertorch (talk) 09:20, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Citation for burial
I don't know how to list a reference or create a citation, but the one needed for Anne Sullivan's burial is at Findagrave.com ( http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=sullivan&GSfn=anne&GSby=1866&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1936&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=659&df=all& There is a picture of the wall plaque for Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller on that page. A better shot of it is on the Helen Keller entry at this link:   http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=567&PIpi=76331 Can someone please edit this in?  Thanks. History Lunatic (talk) 06:33, 6 March 2013 (UTC)History Lunatic

 * Although it does pop up in articles from time to time, findagrave.com doesn't really meet Wikipedia's guidelines on reliable sources. (If you're really curious, you can search the archives at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard, where I believe the question has been raised more than once.) For information about creating citations, please see WP:CITE. Rivertorch (talk) 07:17, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

 * Thanks much! I'll check into a more reliable resource.  And I appreciate the link to directions on citing.  :)  History Lunatic (talk) 06:37, 15 September 2013 (UTC)History Lunatic

 * No problem. Glad to see you're still editing! Rivertorch (talk) 18:29, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Exchange photo for identical image in higher quality
I would like to replace the photo with this higher resolution image

Perkinsarchives (talk) 18:09, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Not done: I am reluctant to use that file because the uploader claimed it to be their own work instead of correctly attributing the photo and noting that the copyright has expired. Please click on the current image to see the correct attribution. If you would like to re-upload the image correctly, you can re-open this request. Thanks, Celestra (talk) 20:39, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Inconsistency on age
The first paragraph says Anne was eight when she contracted the bacterial infection that damaged her eyesight. Later in the article, the age is given as five. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NTgenes (talk • contribs) 15:58, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

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1920 Census - Keller as head of household
Wouldn't Keller have been 39 or 40 depending on which month the Census was taken? --Bronwyn Gannan (talk) 09:33, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Wrong date of birth
I will correct the date of birth in this article. In the biography of Helen Keller it says April 4, 1866. Here it is also dated April 4.--Zartesbitter (talk) 14:38, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

What is the point of saying 157 years ago?
Shouldn't you just have the date? The only thing that this does is make it so that every year it has to be changed. JazzaMATE (talk) 03:00, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

 * ✅ I have removed that from . Incidentally, that template (start date and age) does update itself magically without human input, but I agree, it was unnecessary. It was also potentially problematic for the page’s “start date” output, which was already provided in the infobox. Cheers for calling that out, . — HTGS (talk) 04:07, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Digital Stewardship Online
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Anne Sullivan Memorial
I will be adding my own photo of the Anne Sullivan Memorial in Feeding Hills to the Childhood section. Neville2023 (talk) 13:31, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Anne Sullivan Memorial photo
Changes copied over from User:Neville2023/Anne_Sullivan Neville2023 (talk) 20:03, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Mess of a paragraph on Tewksbury
The third paragraph of the "Childhood" section states:

"In 1875, as a result of reports of cruelty to inmates at Tewksbury, including sexually perverted practices and cannibalism, which she partook in, the Massachusetts Board of State Charities launched an investigation into the institution."

There are several major problems with this. First of all, the cited source in reference [5] makes zero mention of sexual abuse or cannibalism at Tewksbury or any subsequent investigation. Second of all, "which she partook in" implies that 9 year-old Sullivan was somehow a perpetrator rather than a victim. Thirdly, 1875 would have likely been one year before Sullivan even arrived at Tewksbury according to this article, which implies that she arrived at age 10:

"When she was eight, her mother died from tuberculosis, and her father abandoned the children two years later for fear that he could not raise them on his own. She and her younger brother, James (Jimmie), were sent to the run-down and overcrowded almshouse in Tewksbury, Massachusetts"

by the way, the [citation needed] sections in the paragraphs above and below the paragraph I mentioned actually are supported directly by reference [5] 2601:646:A101:8680:71E1:71D0:32C6:1857 (talk) 01:53, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

 * Text appears to be verbatim from here with the addition of the offending phrase "which she partook in". Since the matters mentioned are merely rumor, I would surmise the editor meant that she "partook" in the almshouse, and not, per se, cannibalism, etc. Graft | talk 05:49, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

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Mary Bergin

Mary Bergin (born September 13, 1949) is an Irish folk musician who is widely acknowledged as one of the great masters of the tin whistle. She plays in both the Irish Traditional and Baroque styles.

Biography
Mary Bergin was born in Shankill, County Dublin, Ireland. Her parents Joe and Máire were melodeon and fiddle players, respectively. Mary started learning to play the tin whistle at the age of nine.

Bergin won the All Ireland tin whistle championship in 1970. Her two virtuosic recordings of the solo tin whistle, Feadóga Stáin (1979) and Feadóga Stáin 2 (1993), have been critically cited as "outstanding and unequalled".

Bergin moved to An Spidéal, County Galway, in the early 1970s and played with many of the up-and-coming stars of the Irish music scene, notably De Danann and Ceoltóri Laighin. She is currently a member of the group Dordán, who perform Irish traditional music and Baroque music with pieces by George Frideric Handel, Henry Purcell and a tune from Johann Sebastian Bach's Little Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.

In addition to releasing two solo albums, which aided the popularisation of modern traditional Irish tin whistle playing, and three albums with Dordán, Bergin has taught hundreds of students, in Ireland, across Europe, and in the United States, to play the whistle.

Playing style
Bergin was exposed to the music of many renowned musicians from an early age, but her style is particularly influenced by flute player Packie Duignan and the whistle playing of Willie Clancy. She plays the whistle "left-handed", with the right hand covering the upper tone holes, unlike most whistle players who play with the left hand on top.

Bergin's playing is characterized by great feeling, technical virtuosity, and a respect for the music. Music scholar Fintan Vallely has described her playing as "brightly ornamented but uncluttered", with "crisp articulation". Writer and flute player Grey Larsen uses similar terms, describing her playing as "precise", "elegant", and "streamlined".

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 * Feadóga Stáin (1979)
 * Feadóga Stáin 2 (1993)

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 * Irish Traditional and Baroque Music (1 July 1991)
 * Jigs to the Moon (18 October 1994)
 * The Night Before...A Celtic Christmas (25 August 1998)
 * Celtic Aire (13 July 1999)

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Aliens Appeals Board of Sweden

Aliens Appeals Board (Utlänningsnämnden, UN) was a Swedish government agency that answered to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The agency was located in Stockholm.

The Board's powers were similar to those of a court of law. It tried cases under the old Swedish Aliens Act of 1989 and the Swedish Citizenship Act. It also bore a responsibility for the development of case law in these areas. Its decisions could not be appealed, although in special cases the Board would submit an application to the Swedish Government for a decision.

The Aliens Appeals Board was discontinued and replaced by Migration Courts on 31 March 2006 when the new Aliens Act entered into force. The new rules of jurisdiction and procedure mean that individuals appealing against the decisions of the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket) will be able to obtain an oral hearing in a Migration Court, in accordance with the provisions governing administrative courts. The opposite party in court proceedings will be the Swedish Migration Board.

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Faurot Field

Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium is an outdoor sports stadium in Columbia, Missouri, United States, on the campus of the University of Missouri. It is primarily used for football and serves as the home field for the Missouri Tigers' program. It is the third-largest sports facility by seating capacity in the state of Missouri, behind The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis and Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. In 1972, Memorial Stadium's playing surface was named Faurot Field in honor of longtime coach Don Faurot.

During the offseason, soccer goals are set up in the end zones and it is used for intramural matches. Until 2012 it was the site of the annual "Providence Bowl" game between Hickman and Rock Bridge high schools, so named because both schools are located on Providence Road in Columbia, and Faurot is roughly equidistant between the two. This tradition stopped when Missouri joined the Southeastern Conference and conference scheduling made hosting the game more difficult. Faurot Field has also served as the host of Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) football championships.

The stadium is an early 20th century horseshoe-shaped stadium, with seating added on in the "open" (south) end zone. The original horseshoe is completed by a grass berm in the curved end, which is used for general admission on game days. The berm is famous for the giant block "M" made of painted white stones located behind the end zone. A paved path encircled the west, north and east sides of the field taking the place of the track, but was removed in 1994.

Early history
Fundraising began in 1921 for a "Memorial Union" and a "Memorial Stadium" to be constructed at the university. The names of the two projects were a tribute to Mizzou alumni who lost their lives during World War I. Ground was broken on the site of the future stadium in December 1925. The site was a sizeable natural valley that lay between twin bluffs south of the campus. Original plans called for the stadium to seat 25,000, with proposed stages of expansion in capacity to 35,000, 55,000, 75,000 and 95,000. According to legend, a rock crusher and truck were buried during initial blasting, which still remain buried under the field.

Memorial Stadium was dedicated on October 2, 1926, to the memory of 112 alumni and students who lost their lives in World War I. The 25,000-seat stadium—the lower half of the current facility—was built with a 440 yd track that circled the playing field. That first October game against Tulane was marred by rainstorms that washed out a bridge into Columbia coming from the western side of Missouri. While the game sold out, the field could not be sodded due to the wet conditions. Therefore, a surface of sawdust and tree bark was used, and "the Tigers and Green Wave played to a scoreless, mudpie tie", in the words of sportswriter Bob Broeg. Grass would be installed thenafter until the 1980s.

The highly recognizable rock 'M' of the northern end zone debuted on October 1, 1927, to a 13-6 victory over Kansas State. The monument was built by members of the freshman class using leftover rocks from the original stadium construction. The 90 ft wide by 95 ft high 'M' has continued to watch over the field and provide seating for fans since that day.

Rock M
The stadium's most historic and identifiable landmark is the rock "M" above the stadium's north end zone. The "M" is formed by whitewashed rocks and measures 90 feet wide by 95 feet high. The landmark was built in 1927 by a group of freshman students, using leftover rocks from the original construction of Memorial Stadium. This distinctive feature has not been immune to pranks, such as enterprising Nebraska or Kansas fans attempting to change the "M" to an "N" or a "K", but groundskeepers and students have in the past protected the landmark. One of the traditions of the football team is that seniors, after playing their final home game, take a rock from the "M" as a souvenir. The rock "M" is also whitewashed every year by incoming freshmen during welcoming activities prior to the first home game.

MIZ-ZOU chant
The "M-I-Z," "Z-O-U," chant came about in 1976 after a game in Columbus, Ohio against Ohio State, famous for its seismic "OH/IO" chant. After an unexpectedly stunning 22–21 defeat of the Buckeyes and during the long bus-ride home, Missouri's cheerleaders were determined to come up with a signature chant equally awe-inspiring for home.

The nickname, "Mizzou," while quite old and well-known, was not often used to describe the University of Missouri by the late 1970s. Nonetheless Mini-Mizzou member Cedric Lemmie suggested MIZ-ZOU as something that might work and the cheerleaders agreed to devise a plan to get it started. According to Jess Bushyhead, cheerleading varsity co-captain (1976–1978) the plan was implemented during the next home game against the North Carolina Tar Heels on October 2, 1976. During the first half Marching Mizzou split in two and occupied the lower student section and the lower Alumni section. Unfortunately, the attempts were too scrambled and mostly failed to take off. So during halftime, Bushyhead deployed the cheerleaders, megaphones and PA bullhorns in hand, to get up into the stands to instruct alumni, "When you hear 'MIZ! from the students across the field, answer 'ZOU!" Students were to listen for that "ZOU" from the alumni, then return that with an even louder "MIZ!" This tepid start caught fire and by the end of 1976/77 football and basketball seasons, "MIZ-ZOU" had entered Missouri legend as the primal scream of Mizzou Pride. Nearly half a century later you can travel almost anywhere in Missouri and yell, "MIZ!" and any number of perfect strangers will return "ZOU!"

Today the chant is often started by the "Big MO" drum (the world's largest marching bass drum). The student section yells out "M-I-Z" and the alumni section responds "Z-O-U". This tradition has expanded to Tiger first downs; the PA announcer says, "First down, M-I-Z..." and the crowd finishes with "Z-O-U!"

1949–1978 seating expansions
Throughout its history, numerous expansion and renovation projects have taken place at Faurot Field. Beginning in 1949, MU expanded Memorial Stadium by constructing a second tier of seating above the original 1926 construction. The 1949 construction included seats between the 30 yard lines on the east side and between the south 30 and north 40 yard lines and a new press box on the west side of the stadium. A second project in 1961 filled in the northeast and northwest sections of the second tier and two final projects in 1963 and 1965 completed the second tier construction with new southwest and southeast stands. In 1967 the MU Board of Curators awarded contracts totaling $460,000 for construction of a new three story press box. The new press box was completed for the start of the 1969 season.

In 1974, Athletic Director Mel Sheehan studied the possibility of lowering the field to add additional seats on each side closer to the sidelines, but the plan did not move forward due to a prevalence of bedrock just below the playing surface.

During the summer of 1978, the south end zone (open end of the original horseshoe) was enclosed with 10,800 permanent seats, which brought total permanent seating capacity to 62,023 and overall seating capacity to around 75,000.

1985 Omniturf
On May 18, 1985, Mizzou replaced the natural grass surface with a new artificial surface called Omniturf, which was also installed at Autzen Stadium (Oregon) and Martin Stadium (Washington State). The conversion was completed on August 30. Mizzou was the last school in the Big Eight Conference to switch from grass to artificial turf. Six of the other seven conference schools switched to artificial turf in the early 1970s, and Iowa State followed suit in 1975 when the Cyclones' new Jack Trice Stadium opened. The first game on the new artificial turf was a 27–23 loss to Northwestern University played on September 14, 1985. The Tigers went on to finish 0–7 at home during the 1985 season. The OmniTurf surface became infamous to Tiger fans as the "lousy field" on which The Fifth Down Game was played on October 6, 1990. The surface was also panned by opponents as well. In 1992, Big Eight Conference coaches issued a statement that read, in part: "Big Eight Conference football coaches wanted to report that the football field at the University of Missouri is a detriment to the home and visiting teams and takes away from the integrity of the game played on such a field."

1990s
On September 18, 1994, The Rolling Stones performed, during their Voodoo Lounge Tour, before 45,000 fans at Memorial Stadium in a concert that raised almost $100,000 for the conversion of the Omniturf surface back to natural grass. The final game on the infamous Omniturf surface was played on November 19 of that same year against the University of Kansas, a 31–14 Kansas victory. Mizzou's all-time record on the Omiturf was a disappointing 20–38–3.

The artificial Omniturf playing surface was removed and replaced with natural grass over the summer of 1995. Legendary Coach Don Faurot put down the last piece of sod as a symbolic gesture. Faurot had helped to lay the sod of the original playing surface in 1926. He died later that year in October, during Homecoming week. As part of the installation of the new playing surface, grass-covered terraces were extended up from the field to the seating area, where they met a new low brick wall that was designed to give Memorial Stadium a traditional college ambiance. The brick wall also honors the greatest figures in Tiger football (including Faurot, Kellen Winslow and Dan Devine) by listing the team's honored numbers on each panel. The first game on the new natural grass resulted in a 28–7 victory for Mizzou over North Texas. The game was also historic as the first game played under permanent lights—previously, night games only were played under temporary lights paid for by television broadcasters, and as part of the renovations four large light stanchions were erected outside each corner of the stadium.

In 1996, four permanent light towers were installed, allowing Missouri to begin playing night games on a regular basis. The first game under these new lights was on September 14, 1996, when the Memphis Tigers defeated Missouri 19–16.

1997 brought a major renovation that included the installation of the Diamond Vision video board above the Rock "M" at the north end zone. The video board measured 21 feet high by 27 feet wide, and the screen utilized Clearvision Signal Processing. The concourses were also refurbished, with new signage and expanded concessions. New ticket booths were constructed, and the north entrance was reconfigured with more brick work to accent the new brick wall installed at field level in 1995.

2000–2012: pre-SEC entry
Prior to the start of the 1999 football season, construction of a new press box and luxury suites began. The $13.1 million 15-story tower was completed in August 2000, and it contained state-of-the-art facilities for the coaches and media, as well as several executive suites, hundreds of premium club seats and a restaurant. FieldTurf replaced the natural grass in 2003. With installation of the new FieldTurf, the traditional "M" was removed from the 50 yard line of the field, and it was replaced by the oval "Power Tiger" logo at the center of the field.

In 2005, the south end's antiquated auxiliary scoreboards were replaced with new ones, as well as a second high-definition video monitor.

In 2009, the university installed a new $5 million 30x80 foot north end zone scoreboard with updated video capabilities and new sound system. The new north end zone video board and audio upgrades replaced the 10-year-old DiamondVision equipment. At the time of construction, it was the fourth largest scoreboard in the Big 12 Conference, behind Godzillatron at Texas' DKR Stadium, the south scoreboard at Owen Field in Norman, Oklahoma, and "12th Man TV" at Kyle Field in College Station. When the Tigers entered Southeastern Conference play, the Faurot Field video scoreboard was the ninth largest in the SEC.

In 2012, Athletic Director Mike Alden announced a $1.5 million modification plan for Faurot Field in anticipation of increased game attendance in the SEC. Changes to the stadium included a redesigned FieldTurf surface featuring a larger "Power Tiger" logo at midfield, SEC conference logos, black and gold "M-I-Z-Z-O-U" end zone diamonds to replace the previous white "M-I-S-S-O-U-R-I" diamonds, and gold trim surrounding the field. Additionally, Marching Mizzou was moved from the south end zone to the southeast corner of the seating bowl, and a "Touchdown Terrace" premium seating section was added to the south end zone.

2012–present: SEC entry
As part of the entry into the SEC, renovation plans were expanded to increase the current capacity by approximately 6,000 seats at a planned cost of $72 million: In 2013, the west side press box complex was renovated, moving all press facilities to the sixth floor and converting the existing space to new premium suites. In addition, the "Rock M" and grass berm were moved closer to the north end zone and the northern concourse was expanded. For the 2014 season, an upper bowl was completed on the east side of the stadium, providing 5,200 general admission seats and 800 club seats as well as adding two elevators, new stairs and a new entryway for the student section.

Mizzou approved an $89 million renovation of the south end zone at the end of the 2017 season. The complex includes 16 suites, field- and stand-level club decks, as well as general seating. A new video board and control room was also constructed, and full concessions and restrooms were added to an expanded concourse--previously, fans in the south stand had to go to either sideline stand to use the toilet and the only refreshments offered were chips and bottled drinks from portable carts. The showpiece of the SEZ project was an entirely new base for the football program featuring new locker rooms for both Mizzou and their opponents, a football-specific weight room, meeting rooms, medical and nutritional centers, and offices for the Tiger football staff. When finished the overall capacity of the stadium decreased to roughly 65,000, and was completed before the 2019 season.

In 2023, the university's Board of Curators approved a plan to renovate the north end zone in phases, starting with the installation of a new video board and sound system during the 2023-24 off-season. Additional elements of the plan include upgrades to the north concourse, additional fan amenities, and a new Tiger Team Store.

Record crowds
The stadium's current capacity is 62,621, though in the past the stadium has been able to hold more fans. The record attendance for Faurot Field is 75,298 when Missouri hosted Penn State on October 4, 1980.

All-time largest crowds

 * 75,298, vs. Penn State, October 4, 1980
 * 75,136, vs. Texas, September 29, 1979
 * 74,575, vs. Nebraska, November 3, 1979
 * 73,655, vs. Alabama, September 16, 1978
 * 72,348, vs. Nebraska, October 15, 1983
 * 72,333, vs. Colorado, October 18, 1980
 * 72,001, vs. Nebraska, October 24, 1981
 * 71,291, vs. Oklahoma, November 17, 1979
 * 71,168, vs. Georgia, October 11, 2014
 * 71,168, vs. Arkansas, November 28, 2014

Largest crowds since 1995 (when possible seating was reduced to 68,174 capacity from 75,000). For the 2008 season official seating capacity was increased to 68,349. For the 2009 season official seating capacity was increased to 71,004. For the 2013 season official seating capacity was decreased to 67,124 while construction of the East side of the stadium was completed. The construction of the upper deck completed for the 2014 season brought the stadium's capacity to 71,168.

 * 71,168, vs. Arkansas, November 28, 2014
 * 71,168, vs. Georgia, October 11, 2014
 * 71,004, vs. Alabama, October 13, 2012
 * 71,004, vs. Arizona State, September 15, 2012
 * 71,004, vs. Georgia, September 8, 2012
 * 71,004, vs. Iowa State, October 15, 2011
 * 71,004, vs. Oklahoma, October 23, 2010
 * 71,004, vs. Texas, October 24, 2009
 * 70,767, vs. Florida, October 10, 2015
 * 70,079, vs. Connecticut, September 19, 2015

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Moshood Abiola National Stadium

Moshood Abiola National Stadium (formerly known as National Stadium, Abuja) is a multipurpose national sports stadium located in Abuja, in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. The stadium serves as a home to the Nigerian national football team, as well as a center for various social, cultural, and religious events. The Federal Government of Nigeria approved the contract for the construction of the National Stadium complex and Games Village on 18 July 2000. The stadium was constructed to host the 8th All Africa Games which took place in October 2003. On Wednesday, 12 June 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari announced the change of the name of the National Stadium, Abuja to Moshood Abiola National Stadium after former Nigerian politician chief M.K.O. Abiola. President Buhari made this pronouncement during his speech at the Democracy Day celebration at the Eagle Square, Abuja.

Construction and Architecture
Moshood Abiola National Stadium is one of the 5,000 most expensive stadiums ever built in the world.

Structure
The stadium is designed to accommodate 60,491 spectators covered by a lightweight roof construction. The main characteristics are the two overlapping spectator tiers; the lower tier accommodating 32,000 seats and the upper tier 28,000 seats. The lower tier also incorporates 56 corporate suites with viewing terraces and one presidential lounge for 50 guests. All functional and secondary areas are accommodated in the entrance building which provides a gross floor area of approximately 25,000 m2. This building is arranged below the concourse level which serves as the spectators‘ distribution level and provides several kiosks, banks, first aid stations and toilets. The structure of the stadium is a combination of in situ and precast concrete elements. There are 36 towers supporting the upper tier and the roof structure. These towers are founded on 140 bored piles with diameters of 1.30 m and 1.50 m in a depth of 8.00 m to 30.00 m. Precast concrete elements varying between 13 and 15 meters in length are placed between the towers, forming the spectator stands. A total of 6,300 precast elements were produced in the company's production yard 15 kilometers away. The towers are connected on the top by a 2.50 m high and 2.00 m wide hollow concrete ring beam with a wall thickness of 0.35 m. The roof structure is fixed on 36 massive concrete points to the ring-beam. For the first time in the world, the ringbeam for this kind of roof structure was made of concrete. The roof structure itself is a cable construction with a weight of 800 tons carrying a 28.000 m2 membrane.

Facilities
All facilities within the stadium are designed and engineered in compliance with the requirements of international sport associations, particularly the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

The complex includes:
 * 60,491 capacity covered main bowl
 * A Velodrome
 * Presidential suite and viewing area
 * 56 corporate suites
 * Post offices
 * Banks
 * Media facilities
 * Two scoreboards and floodlights
 * Shops and kiosks for snacks
 * Helipad
 * 3000 capacity indoor sports hall
 * 2000 capacity gymnasium
 * 2000 capacity swimming pool
 * Tennis Courts
 * 3000 capacity hockey stadium
 * Baseball and softball complex

Moshood Abiola National Stadium meets the requirements of the International safety standards; it is equipped with emergency service units, closed circuit security cameras as well as crowd control steel fencing. There are also stand-by fire fighting equipment and metal detectors which have been put in place to avoid any misfortunes.

History of the Stadium
Although Nigeria had several stadiums scattered throughout the country, there was a lack of stadiums that met international standards. The capital city of Nigeria, Abuja, was selected to host the 8th All Africa Games in 2000 (a regional multi-sport event held every four years, organized by the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa) despite having no facilities for such a major sporting event. The Federal Government of Nigeria embarked on a multimillion-dollar project for the construction of a state-of-the-art stadium and games village to be completed in time to host the All Africa Games. The contract was awarded on 18 July 2000 from a choice list of about 80 different bidders. Construction of the complex was initiated.

Citizens and athletes had doubts as to whether the completion of the stadium was feasible before the games. However, construction went very smoothly and ended up being ahead of schedule. As a matter of fact, the stadium was scheduled to be the host center for the Miss World Beauty Pageant that took place later in 2002. Unfortunately, the stadium not being fully completed by then as well as an uprising amongst citizens especially in the northern city of Kaduna which resulted in loss of lives forced the pageant to relocate to London, England. The construction of the main bowl went on from its inception in September 2000 to its completion in April 2003, well in time for the games. The Games Village construction went on from September 2000 to August 2003.

The official commissioning of the complex was on 8 April 2003. Following its commissioning was the final leg of preparations for the games. The games that year were the largest in All Africa Games history; 6,000 athletes from 53 countries competed in 22 sports, watched over by 1,200 officials. Over 1,500 journalists reported for the world's media. The games took place from the 4th to 18 October 2003 and was deemed successful by many. The host country, Nigeria, accumulated a total of 226 medals, emerging as leader of the games that year.

Apart from the All African Games, the stadium has hosted important football matches, such as World Cup qualifiers between Nigeria and other countries. The first game played at the stadium was a football (soccer) match between two local rival teams; the Shooting Stars of Ibadan and Sunshine Stars of Akure on 8 April 2003 The first goal scored in the complex was from Shooting Stars' striker Shakiru Lawal who scored the only goal of the game after just five minutes.

The complex has given the country confidence to bid for various up-coming international events. The Federation of International Volleyball (FIVB) has given the Nigeria Volleyball Federation (NVBF) the provisional hosting rights of the 2007 World Youth Championship because of the facilities the stadium has.

Other uses
Apart from its function as a sports center, Moshood Abiola National Stadium serves as a home to cultural and religious events. Its capacity attracts various events such as concerts, and religious conferences, events which sometimes have preference over sports. Nigeria is a highly religious country with a population split almost equally between Christianity and Islam. Due to this fact, several religious events occur each year that attract a lot of citizens and require a large capacity arena. For example, in September 2006, the Nigeria Football Association was rendered helpless over the Presidency's preference of a religious event in the main bowl of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium to an international football match against Rwanda.

Some citizens are however concerned about the use of the stadium for such large events. Similar events held at the Stadium in Lagos resulted in its demise. The management of the stadium, however, intends to keep these events coming. Cost of maintenance is an issue and renting out the facility for various events is a strategy that has been employed to cover these costs. There were no plans whatsoever by the former military ruler late general Sani Abacha to build a national stadium in Abuja as some people might think.

Maintenance
Several issues have risen concerning the maintenance of the sports complex. The National Stadium in Lagos, the most populous and industrialized city in the country, was built for the 1973 All-Africa Games. Though it initially was considered state-of-the-art, it today is considered below any standard facility-wise and environmental-wise. The Nigerian sports boss Amos Adamu advised the government to privatize the Abuja stadium immediately after the 2003 All-Africa Games in order to forestall the vandalisation typical of publicly owned buildings.

The federal government of Nigeria, who owns 100% equity on the property at the moment, has faced a lot of antagonism both locally and internationally. The average estimate for annual maintenance since its inauguration has been about $7 million, a number considered high by many standards. Due to the high cost of maintenance, the federal government has been seeking options for privatization of the facility. Through the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), the Federal Government of Nigeria intends to grant a concession to a sole Concessionaire who will enter into an investment commitment, and essentially operate the stadium with a primary goal of generating revenue from the proceeds of sporting events, concerts, religious activities, corporate sponsorship, corporate advertising and other promotional activities.

The Concessionaire has the choice of assuming the role of Facility Manager for the property encompassed in the National Stadium and the Indoor Sports Complex, or employ a firm to perform the task. The BPE will act as the monitor in the arrangement, and the Concessionaire will report to the federal government through the BPE. A minimum tenure of 20 years was recommended, subject to review every five years. Maintenance of the Stadium and its external areas will be the responsibility of the Concessionaire.

Change of Name
On June 12, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari renamed the national stadium in Abuja after the winner of the 1993 presidential election, Moshood Abiola. It is widely believed that Mr Abiola won the June 1993 presidential election based on available results, but the election was cancelled by the military government of Ibrahim Babangida. President Buhari in 2018 recognised Mr Abiola's mandate by conferring on him the country's highest national honour of the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic, reserved only for presidents. While President Muhammadu Buhari was delivering his speech at the change of name event, which also marked Nigeria's 20th year of uninterrupted democracy, President Buhari said “Henceforth it will be called the Moshood Abiola National Stadium". The event at the Eagles Square was attended by other foreign leaders, including the president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame.

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Hollingworth Lake

Hollingworth Lake is a 130 acre reservoir at Smithy Bridge in Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England. It was originally built as the main water source for the Rochdale Canal, but developed as a tourist resort from the 1860s. Hotels were built around it, helped by the arrival of the railway in 1839, which brought day-trippers and weekend visitors from Manchester, Bradford and Leeds.

The popularity of the lake as a resort declined in the early twentieth century and the area was used as an army camp in the First World War. The canal company sold the reservoir to Oldham and Rochdale Corporations for water supply in 1923. After the Second World War, boating rights were bought by Rochdale Council, who developed the area into the Hollingworth Lake Country Park in 1974. There has been a steady increase in facilities since, and it is now a thriving centre for water sports and other activities.

Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club has been in continuous existence since 1872.

History
In 1794, an Act of Parliament sanctioned the construction of the Rochdale Canal. Hollingworth Lake with its three earth dams was a main feeder source completed in 1800, four years before the canal. The lake covers an area of 130 acre and the path around it originally measured 2.5 mi. In places the lake was 25 ft deep, with the average depth being about 10 ft. When first constructed, it was capable of holding 400 million gallons (1,800 Ml) of water. The site was not a natural choice for a reservoir, as there was no natural hollow and plans exist which indicate the reservoir could have been built in the Ealees Valley which did. Consequently, three large earth embankments were built to enclose the reservoir. The main embankment, Hollingworth Bank, is approximately 36 ft high and about 220 yd in length. Fens Bank is 30 ft high and 220 yd long while Shaw Moss Bank is 26 ft high and 140 yd long. The lake surface is about 557 ft above sea level, A steam engine was installed to lift water 45 ft into a 4 mi channel which fed it into the summit pound at Chelburn. The pumping engine was demolished around 1910.

Local mill owners feared the canal would take water from the rivers and streams that powered their mills, and succeeded in defeating the first two attempts to obtain an act to authorise building the canal. The third attempt succeeded, largely because the canal company alleviated the millowners' concerns, and the Act contained conditions on the siting of reservoirs, so they would not interfere with water supplies to the River Roch, River Irk or River Medlock. The lake, or "The Lodge" when first built, benefitted some millowners by supplying water to mills close to the canal and on the new low-level road from Todmorden to Littleborough. Houses were built for railway workers, reservoir workers, and workers in the new factories and cotton mills. The Lodge became known as The Lake, and became a popular place to walk.

By the 1920s, the Rochdale Canal was in serious decline, and in 1923 the Oldham and Rochdale Corporations Water Act authorised the sale of Hollingworth Lake and seven other reservoirs in the vicinity to the local authorities for use as a public water supply. The company received £396,667, from which it paid £98,334 to the Manchester Ship Canal Company in compensation for the loss of the water supplied by the Rochdale company, who retained the water rights to certain local streams, and could draw on the reservoirs under certain exceptional circumstances.

A major programme of civil engineering work to strengthen and reshape the earth dams was carried out in 1985. The outlet from the reservoir was rebuilt, and the level of the overflow was reduced. The work cost £2.5 million, and resulted in the lake being closed for leisure activities for almost a year. A ten-year statutory inspection of the reservoir in 2011 identified the need to improve the outflow arrangement so that water levels could be lowered more quickly in an emergency or after heavy rainfall. The £1.25 million project included a 9 ft concrete tower, with equipment on top raising its height by 9 ft but concerns expressed by the Friends of Hollingworth Lake and local councillors resulted in a tower half the height of the original design and clad in stone to fit in with the surroundings. The four-month project began in autumn 2011 and the water level was reduced by 6.6 ft while the work was in progress, but the lake remained open for watersports.

United Utilities is responsible for the maintenance of the reservoir whose main function is to supply water to the Rochdale Canal and has never been used to provide drinking water for the public supply network.

During 2020 a debris barrier was installed by United Utilities to prevent potential blockage of the overflow. There are regular inspections carried out due to the construction of the dams which mirror those of located at Whaley Bridge,

Tourist resort
The area developed rapidly after the arrival of the Manchester and Leeds Railway in 1839, and the construction of Summit Tunnel in 1841, the longest railway tunnel in Europe at that time. In the 1850s, Henry Newall of Harehill, owner of Harehill Woollen Mill and a recently built gasworks, and his engineer, Mr. Sladen, later the landlord of the Mermaid Inn, saw the potential of the lake as a tourist attraction. They leased the lake from the canal company and created novelty amusements and facilities for boating. Despite very cold water and strong undercurrents caused by water entering and leaving the lake, small rowing boats became popular, and two paddle steamers were operated from 1856. By 1860, there was a rowing club, and a regatta was held in 1862. Two hotels, the Beach Hotel and the Lake Hotel and Gardens, catered for day trippers and weekend visitors. The facilities were advertised by the railway companies, who transported visitors to Smithybridge and Littleborough stations, for the short walk to the lake and its facilities.

The resort became known as the Weighver's Seaport, and Davenport's "Guide to Hollingworth Lake", published from 1860 onwards, extolled its virtues in typical Victorian fashion. ''.. As you step on the embankment, which is considerable and scarcely looks artificial, the broad expanse of water at once presents itself to your vision. Your first feeling on beholding it is that of astonishment that so vast a basin, lying in that cup of hills, should not have become known to you before. ... You will see Blackstone Edge to the east, towering above its fellows, and preaching from its rocky pulpit sermons to the solitude around.''

There were two hotels in the area before the reservoir was built, the Fisherman's Inn, developed from farm buildings at Littleborough, and the Blue Ball at Smithy Bridge, which was demolished and rebuilt in the 1970s. The Beach Hotel built at the start of development had accommodation and refreshment rooms, as well as outdoor platforms illuminated by gaslight which were used for picnic parties and dancing. The Lake Hotel and Pleasure Grounds, to which visitors could walk, travel by carriage around the eastern shore, or cross the lake by steamer, was built in the Swiss style on the opposite side of the lake. The company maintained a booking office at the ferry terminal which was connected to the hotel by a "Subaqueous Telegraph cable", laid on the lake bed. Its grounds were designed by Mr Henderson of Birkenhead, and had a bowling green, a croquet lawn, shrubberies and rustic arbours. Refreshments were served in a small building by the water's edge built for the boat club in 1860. Only the foundations of the hotel remain.

The Mermaid Inn had a 1777 date stone but this was not thought to be original. It closed in 1911. The Lodge Inn at Rakewood provided accommodation and food, and stabling for horses, as did the other hotels. It opened in 1826 and closed in 1917, and became two houses. Peanock Farm, on the south side of the lake, was rebuilt as the Queens Hotel in 1857, and had "a spacious pavilion and dancing stage in the grounds." It has reverted to being a farm. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Hotel, built in 1876, had an outdoor dancing platform covering 18360 sqft. When it was demolished, the stone was reused to construct several houses. Now a private house, the Star Inn was in Littleborough near the Fishermans Inn and close to both stations were hotels called the Railway. Smithy Bridge had a beer house called the Royal Oak, and there were unlicensed refreshment rooms around the lake. Many private houses supplied "tea in jugs and sandwiches". The resort catered for 6,000 miners, who arrived at the lake on 13 August 1866 for a conference.

In November 1865, Mr Newhall was notified of "the immoralities which it is stated take place in connection with the dancing stages at Hollingworth." Two months later he replied that if such immoralities were taking place, they were certainly not doing so on any part of the reservoir or land which he was leasing from the canal company.

At the height of its popularity in the late 19th century, there were three lake steamers, and visitors arrived by trains from Manchester, Leeds and Bradford. The rowing club folded after a few years, and the clubhouse was used by the Lake Hotel for refreshments but the club reformed in 1872 and is still active. Fishing developed after 30,000 fish, mostly bream, dace and perch were introduced in 1863. A variety of stalls and lock-up shops, many close to the landing stage for the ferry, were soon trading in sweets, snacks and souvenirs, and on special holidays, there were fortune tellers, conjurers and tricksters. Although photography was in its infancy there were six businesses listed in Davenport's Guide as taking photographic portraits of visitors. Other attractions included a camera obscura, a stereoscopic exhibition, and a gymnasium, which was attached to the Beach Hotel. A roundabout with galloping horses, powered successively by a hand winch, a steam engine, a gas engine and finally electricity, remained at the lake until after the Second World War.

The lake's surface froze to a sufficient thickness to allow activities on the ice in 1860 and 1864, when over 2,000 people were recorded as skating. Teams from Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester used the lake for curling matches, and local teams even played cricket. Cricket was played in 1871, and in the 20th century the lake froze in 1902, 1907, 1924, 1929, 1941 and 1947. The lake almost dried up in 1934, when the water level dropped so low that stone farm buildings which had not been seen since 1800 became visible.

The fortunes of the resort improved in 1883, after a law was passed allowing boats to operate on Sundays. Huge crowds flocked to the lake, although a claim of 40,000 visitors on one occasion may be an exaggeration. Swimming became popular, despite the cold water, perhaps inspired by Captain Matthew Webb, who used the lake for training before becoming the first man to swim the English Channel from Dover to Calais in 1875. He competed against G A Jennings of Tunbridge Wells in a 5-hour endurance swim in 1881. Regular swimming competitions were held from 1882, including the mile championship. The distance was covered in 26 minutes 8 seconds by a local man named Joseph Nuttall when he swam against McCusker from the United States, in the "World Professional Mile Championship", allegedly watched by a crowd of 20,000.

Decline
By the beginning of the 20th century, travel was easier, people took longer holidays, and the lake's attraction started to diminish. Some hotels closed and the Beach Hotel burned down in 1901 although it was rebuilt. The stunts and shows stopped and by the start of the First World War the lake was in decline. There was an upsurge in activity when a training camp for the Manchester Regiment was set up in the Ealees Valley and the hotels and local houses accommodated wives and visitors. Most soldiers from the camp were sent to the Dardanelles, but few returned as many were killed on the beaches when they tried to land. After that war, the rowing club developed and the lake was used for sailing. Day visitors could hire rowing or motor boats, but only the Fisherman's Inn and the Beach Hotel remained open.

Revival
In 1950, the boating rights which had been held by the Water Board since 1923 were taken over by Rochdale Council, who also planned to turn the area into a country park in 1974. Ten years later, it was in a list of the top ten country parks in England. It is now used for recreation and includes a wildlife sanctuary. Currently there are two public houses by the lake, the Beach Hotel and the Wine Press, which was formerly the Fisherman's Inn.

Activities
The lake supports watersports like sailing, windsurfing, canoeing, swimming, rafting, rowing and fishing. Since 1989, Hollingworth Lake Water Activity Centre has offered tuition in outdoor activities, including kayaking, canoeing, power boating and sailing. In summer, visitors can hire rowing boats. The centre used to operate a 34 ft launch The Lady Alice at weekends during the summer months to provide trips around the lake, but the boat has been out of service since 2009 as the local authority would could not justify the investment in retaining the vessel in a fit state. A new pleasure boat, The Lady Katherine was launched in May 2019. But to date has not fulfilled the role intended partly due to COVID but also due to the lack of opportunities to use implemented by Link 4 Life.

The scenic walk, 2.5 mi around the lake, passes a nature reserve with a bird hide in the south-western corner of the lake, in an area from which boats and watersports are excluded. The lake provides habitat for a variety of wildlife and is used for fishing. The variety of fish has been expanded by stocking the lake with carp, tench and roach, in addition to those introduced in 1863. The country park is used for activities for children, who catch various types of pond life. The path around the lake is a gravel track from the Beach Hotel to the far side of the Lake, and then follows Rakewood Road and Hollingworth Road. A children's playground and trim trail for adults known as the Woodland Enviro Gym situated where the path joins Rakewood Road, was opened on 7 August 2010. The facility was funded by the Big Lottery Community Spaces fund, and was the idea of the Friends of Hollingworth Lake, a group working to improve the facilities, which was set up as an informal society in November 2007, but was registered as a private company limited by guarantee in May 2010 to enable it to handle grant applications.

Lake users have included:
 * Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club, whose yearly regatta has attracted many other clubs since it was first held in 1964. The club was re-formed in 1872 after its initial demise.
 * Hollingworth Lake Sailing Club, which was founded in 1946, offers open handicap racing and social sailing in a variety of different class of dinghy sailing.
 * The Sea Cadets training centre "T.S. Palatine", located on the south side of the lake, was opened on 16 May 1960 by Lord Derby, and offered training in rowing, sculling and seamanship. Despite providing training for around 1,500 young people each year, the Sea Cadets took the decision to close the centre from 30 April 2011, as the organisation would be better served in the north west of England by the new Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre.

To the east, a visitor centre shows children's artwork and objects found in the lake. The annual Easter fun fair runs from the Thursday before Easter until the following Sunday, on a car park by the lake.

As of 2020 Rochdale MBC/Link4life had agreed to the redevelopment of the visitor centre with the property being transferred to the RSPCA. This effect of the sale would involve the existing visitors centre being redeveloped to remove the current facilities available with the addition of smaller cafeteria area accessible to the general public.

Transport
The lake and its surroundings are served by the Smithy Bridge and Littleborough railway stations, which link west to Rochdale, Oldham and Manchester, and east to West Yorkshire. Smithy Bridge station stands beside a barrier-operated level crossing.

Hollingworth Lake is served by buses from Rochdale including the 455 (Rochdale, Smallbridge, Hollingworth Lake and Littleborough), and the 456 (Rochdale, Wardle and Hollingworth Lake).

It is easily accessible by road from junction 21 of the M62 motorway (via the A640 and B6225 roads) and has three pay and display car parks.

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Wuhan Sports Center

The Wuhan Sports Centre Stadium ( or Zhuankou Stadium is sports complex with a multi-use stadium in Wuhan, China. Completed in 2002, it has an all-seated capacity of 54,000.

Local football team Wuhan Guanggu played some high attendance matches at the stadium. It was one of the venues for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup and the sole venue for the final stage of the 2015 EAFF East Asian Cup. Football club Wuhan Zall were tenants. They drew an average home attendance of 14,403 in their inaugural top division league season in 2013. Currently, it is the home of Wuhan Three Towns.

The stadium also hosted the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships.

At the height of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the stadium was one of the locations serving as Fangcang Hospital.

Notable events

 * G.E.M. - Queen of Hearts World Tour - 28 May 2017
 * Joker Xue - I Think I've Seen You Somewhere Tour - 22 April 2017

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Early queries
For disambig purposes, would anyone know if the Jupiter locomotive is named after the Planet Jupiter or the Roman God? -- BD2412 talk 17:20, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)

Why no dates? Here or on the dukedog page? Brunnian 16:43, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Photograph
Is there any reason why the photograph on Wikimedia Commons isn't included here? It immediately explains what is meant by the Duke class's "curved frame" in the GWR 3200 Class article. --Rfsmit (talk) 11:19, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

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Chihuahua International Airport

Chihuahua International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional de Chihuahua); officially Aeropuerto Internacional General Roberto Fierro Villalobos (General Roberto Fierro Villalobos International Airport) is an international airport located in Chihuahua, Mexico. It handles both national and international air traffic for the city of Chihuahua and is operated by Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte. The airport was named after Roberto Fierro Villalobos, an aviator pilot of the Mexican Air Force known for his role during the Mexican Revolution. In addition to serving national and international passengers, Chihuahua Airport accommodates military facilities for the Mexican Army and supports logistics and cargo airlines. It also facilitates various tourism, flight training, and general aviation activities.

This airport is one of the most isolated commercial airports in Mexico, as the nearest airport with passenger flights is located over 300 km away in Ciudad Juárez. It is also one of the few airports in Mexico equipped with three runways, with the others located in Tampico and Mexico City-AIFA. In 2022, the airport served 1,727,006 passengers, and this number increased to 1,905,714 passengers in 2023, a growth of 10.35%.

Facilities
The airport is located 12 km northeast of the city center, at an elevation of 1330 m above mean sea level. It features three asphalt-surfaced runways: Runway 18L/36R is the primary runway measuring 2600 by 45 m. Runway 04/22 measures 1100 by 30 m in width, and Runway 18R/36L spans 2400 by 20 m.

The commercial aviation apron features seven parking positions, while there are two general aviation aprons, known as the north and south aprons, designed to accommodate both fixed-wing aircraft and heliports for private aviation. Furthermore, there are additional parking spots at the cargo terminal with the operational capability to receive narrow-body aircraft. The passenger terminal is a single-story building that includes arrival and departure facilities for both domestic and international flights. It provides typical services found at a regional airport, such as check-in counters for domestic and international flights, a security checkpoint, migration and customs facilities, car rental services, taxi stands, and retail stores. The departure concourse offers seven gates and features a mezzanine from which three jet bridges facilitate passenger boarding. The terminal can handle 40 operations and up to 450 passengers per hour. It also houses two VIP lounges, one of which is Aeromexico´s Premier Lounge. The parking facility offers both short-term and long-term parking spaces.

Chihuahua Airport is home to Air Force Base No. 13 (Base Aérea Militar No. 13 Chihuahua, Chihuahua) (BAM-13). The base accommodates Air Squadron 110, which operates Cessna 182 aircraft, and Air Squadron 205 with Beechcraft T-6 Texan II aircraft. The base includes an aviation platform covering 14500 m2, three hangars, and various facilities for the housing of Air Force personnel.

Accidents and incidents
Aeromexico Flight 230 ran off the runway on July 27, 1981. 30 people died.

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National Board for Consumer Complaints (Sweden)

The National Board for Consumer Disputes (Allmänna reklamationsnämnden, ARN) is a Swedish government agency that answers to the Ministry of Finance. The agency is headquartered in Stockholm. Its main task is to issue non-binding recommendations on the resolution of disputes between consumers and business operators. A person can, free of charge, file complaints against a company. If the company does not follow the recommendation from ARN, the consumer has the possibility to take the matter to court.


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Jupiter?
For disambig purposes, would anyone know if the Jupiter locomotive is named after the Planet Jupiter or the Roman God? -- BD2412 talk 17:21, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)

I wish some 3300 class engines were preserved.
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