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The Spiderwick Chronicles

The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series of children's fantasy books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. They chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into the Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of fairies that they never knew existed. The first book, The Field Guide, was published in 2003 and then followed by The Seeing Stone (2003), Lucinda's Secret (2003), The Ironwood Tree (2004), and The Wrath of Mulgarath (2004). Several companion books have been published including Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You (2005), Notebook for Fantastical Observations (2005), and Care and Feeding of Sprites (2006). A second series, entitled Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, includes The Nixie's Song (2007), A Giant Problem (2008), and The Wyrm King (2009).

A feature film adaptation, also titled The Spiderwick Chronicles, was produced by Nickelodeon Movies and premiered on February 14, 2008; an accompanying video game was released in early February 2008.

The Field Guide
The first book in the series was published in May 2003. It opens in Maine, where nine-year-old identical twins Jared and Simon and their thirteen-year-old sister Mallory move into the decrepit Spiderwick Estate with their mother, Helen. On the first night, they discover a secret library on the second floor using a dumbwaiter. They later discover that the library connects to the rest of the house via a hidden door in a hall closet. A brownie named Thimbletack, who has lived in the house for years, becomes angry with the Grace children when they destroy his nest inside the walls, and Jared is blamed for the ensuing havoc wrought by the brownie in retaliation including assaults on Mallory, Simon, and the trashing of the kitchen. Following a clue in the form of a riddle-poem, Jared finds Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You in a secret compartment in a trunk in the attic. The Field Guide is an old hand-written and illustrated book with information on different types of faeries in the surrounding forest. The novel ends as the Grace children make amends with Thimbletack by building him a new home out of an old birdhouse. Thimbletack then warns them that the book which they found is dangerous and was not meant to be in the hands of mortals.

The Seeing Stone
The Seeing Stone was published alongside the first book in May 2003. After the Grace children ignore Thimbletack's warning to destroy the Guide, Simon is abducted by a group of goblins who live in the woods surrounding the house. Thimbletack leads Jared and Mallory to the old carriage house where they find a "seeing stone" (a stone with a natural hole in it) which gives the wearer, in this case Jared, the ability to see faeries (called the Sight). After Jared and Mallory narrowly avoid being captured by the goblins, they go searching for Simon in the woods. On their way through the forest, they encounter a troll residing in the river by a decrepit stone bridge. Partially protected by the daylight, they are able to avoid it, but lose their fencing weapons. Then they find a single brown shoe belonging to Simon. After encountering a wounded griffin, they find the goblin camp and a plethora of prisoners hanging in cages made from refuse from the trees. While trying to rescue Simon, they meet a prisoner named Hogsqueal, a hobgoblin, who convinces them to help him escape in exchange for his help in rescuing Simon. Hogsqueal offers to spit in their eyes, which gives them the Sight without using the stone. Hogsqueal distracts the goblins from the children's escape and in return, Jared, Simon and Mallory attract the goblins' attention away from Hogsqueal and then flee, leading the goblins back to the troll. Jared convinces the troll to let them escape in return for leading the goblins to him to eat. After they arrive home, Simon convinces them to return to the now empty camp to release the rest of the goblins' victims and they take the injured griffin to the carriage house. After getting grounded by their scared and angry mother for worrying her and coming home late, they discover that Thimbletack, enraged at Jared's forceful taking of the seeing stone, has again become a Boggart and reverted to his mischievous ways.

Lucinda's Secret
Lucinda's Secret was published on October 1, 2003. The novel opens upon an argument among the Grace children on whether or not to destroy the Field Guide, Jared alone insisting that they keep it. They eventually agree to consult their Great-Aunt Lucinda, who is now staying in a psychiatric hospital and is the only person whom they know to have been in contact with Arthur Spiderwick, who was her father. When they ask her about Arthur, it is revealed that the last time she saw him was one day when she was a little girl, on which Arthur had set out from the house on foot and never returned. She is horrified that the Grace family is staying at the Estate, which she says is not safe, and even more worried when she hears that they have the Guide, believing her father to have taken it with him when he disappeared. Lucinda warns the children that they have to get out of the house with the guide. However, when Jared takes the book from his backpack to show her, it has been replaced with another book by Thimbletack. Once home, the Grace children decide to find out what happened to their great-great uncle, and set out from the Estate with a map of the area on which is written "September 14th. Five O'clock. Bring the remains of the book." On their journey they meet a Phooka: a creature that talks only in riddles. They finally reach a river grove inhabited by elves, who threaten to trap one of the children there unless the guide is given to them. The children flee, however, promising to bring the Guide as soon as they can. On passing by the Phooka again, one of his riddles leads them to think that Arthur is still alive, but imprisoned in Faerie with the elves.

The Ironwood Tree
Published on April 6, 2004. The family attends Mallory's fencing match at school. During the tournament, Jared finds a boy identical to him going through Mallory's bag. He transforms into a smaller child when Jared attempts to scare him with his pocket knife. When Jared and Simon discover that Mallory has disappeared, they search for her in an abandoned quarry, but wind up being kept prisoner by dwarves. Mallory is revealed to be sleeping in a glass-coffin dressed in medieval garb (similarly to Snow White), with the dwarves saying she is now immortal, so long as she stays in the coffin. Escaping their cage, the twins free Mallory and meet a strange creature, called a knocker, who tells them the way out by listening to the stones. They next see a huge metal tree, made by the dwarves, called the Ironwood Tree. After a narrow escape from the dwarves' mechanical dogs, they make their way out of the tunnel but have to hide before leaving. They secretly watch Mulgarath, a shapeshifting ogre who wants to rule the world, callously orders the death of the dwarves for having been tricked into not getting the Field Guide from Jared. The dwarves are mauled to death by the goblins and Mulgarath reveals that he had the Guide the whole time. The siblings escape just after Mulgarath leaves with his goblins and the weapons made by the dwarves.

The Wrath of Mulgarath
The Wrath of Mulgarath was published on September 7, 2004. The Grace children return from the quarry to the Spiderwick estate, only to find the house in ruins and their mother gone. Hogsqueal the hobgoblin informs them that the house was destroyed by the goblins who have kidnapped their mother and taken her to the palace of their fearsome master, Mulgarath the ogre. Accompanied by Hogsqueal, the siblings journey to Mulgarath's palace, an immense citadel made of garbage where they battle a legion of goblins. Mallory runs the leader through with her sword and is greatly traumatized by having actually killed a living sentient being. Nevertheless, she and her brothers defeat the goblins and discover Mulgarath's plan. The ogre has learned from the Field Guide that fresh cows' milk makes young dragons rapidly mature. He has stolen a number of cows and is using them to breed an army of dragons with which he plans to conquer the world. Byron, the griffin, successfully vanquishes the mother dragon and Simon kills the young ones. Infiltrating the palace, they find their mother and father held captive. They release their parents, but discover that their father is actually Mulgarath in disguise. Jared has Thimbletack wrap chains around Simon and Mallory to save them. The ogre brags of his plan and reveals that the Field Guide is underneath his throne, and Jared mockingly tells Mulgarath that he and his siblings have killed all the dragons. In a rage, Mulgarath flings Simon and Mallory out of the window but Thimbletack's chains hold, and they don't fall far. Jared stabs Mulgarath in the foot with Mallory's sword, then knocks him out of the window. Mulgarath falls and transforms into a swallow to escape, but is snatched and eaten by Hogsqueal.

The children return home, where Jared and his mother reconcile. Although Jared is expelled from school, he and Simon are enrolled in a private school. The Grace family meets Arthur Spiderwick, who had been living with the elves and so had not aged. He and his daughter Lucinda, now an elderly woman, share a poignant goodbye, and he turns to dust. With Mulgarath defeated, the Grace family is now free to live happily ever after.

The Nixie's Song
This story takes place in Florida, where 11-year-old Nick Vargas lives with his brother, Jules, his weird stepsister, Laurie, his father, Paul, and his stepmother, Charlene, in his father's housing development. Laurie has read the Spiderwick Chronicles and believes in faeries. Nick thinks she is "lame" and wishes she would leave him alone. After finding a four-leafed clover (which allows people to see faeries) he sees a nixie unconscious in his yard, which he and Laurie carry into a nearby artificial pond.

On the following day, the Nixie, named Taloa, gives Nick and Laurie the Sight and sends them to find her six sisters, who were separated when their pond was destroyed. They leave after a faerie fills Nick's father's car with sand to look for Taloa's sisters at her old pond. They find the pond dried, the surrounding forest burnt and the bodies of three of the nixies, accidentally waking up a giant, which they mistook for a hill. They flee from the giant, who becomes hypnotized and calm when it hears Taloa's singing.

The children decide to ask the authors of The Spiderwick Chronicles themselves for advice at a book signing, convincing Jules to drive them. Once there, they are disappointed when Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black don't believe them, but they then run into Jared and Simon Grace, who offer to help them gather useful information. Jared tells them about a giant expert who lived nearby and they plan to meet at his address. The place appears to be deserted, and after a quick incident with will-o'-the-wisps, the kids take several papers including a diagram of a giant trap. While the giant is hypnotized by the nixie's song, the three kids use a rope to tie the giant's foot to its neck. It thrashes around, strangling itself with the cords, leaving the kids horrified at what they've done. When the giant stops moving, an old man called Noseeum Jack ("Noseeum" due to his poor eyesight, and "Jack" being a reference to the story of Jack the Giant-Killer) approaches, revealing to be the son of the giant expert who met Arthur Spiderwick, and a giant slayer himself, killing the giant definitely. He explains that the giants sleep for 500 years at a time and all wake up at once, bringing panic and destruction to anywhere they go, and that soon all of Florida's giants would be waking up.

A Giant Problem
Nick and Laurie start taking giant hunting lessons from Noseeum Jack, which Nick finds pointless. One night, Jack shows up at their house when their parents are fighting and takes them to see a fight between two giants who had woken up too close to each other. He approaches one of them when it gets injured and is swatted away, hurting his leg. The kids help him to his house and, once home, Laurie gives Jules a keychain containing the four-leafed clover (which they no longer need, having been given permanent Sight by Taloa).

The next day they find a small faerie (who Nick has seen days before) playing with a message that Taloa had left for them, saying she had gone to look for her surviving sisters alone. They catch the little faerie, whom Laurie names Sandspur and assumes to be a hobgoblin, based on the Field Guide. Later that day, two giants start fighting near their house. They escape with Jules, who can see the giants, but most of the development is destroyed. They go to Jack's house for help, but instead meet Jack's son (simply called Jack Junior), who tells them that he's taking his father to live with him and his wife. Noseeum Jack apologizes to Nick for not helping them and tells him he kept something for them in his backyard, which Nick doesn't even bother to investigate.

That night, the family stays at a hotel where they try to come up with a plan and Jules shows Sandspur to his girlfriend, Cindy. Based on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Nick thinks about the possibility of asking the merfolk to lure the giants to the sea, since they seem to be hypnotized by a nixie's singing. The kids sneak out to the beach, where they find that the mermaids hate land-dwellers and kidnap Jules, promising to let him go and sing the giants to the sea if the kids bring them a fish that has never been in their sea. They steal a tropical fish from Cindy's father's aquarium and race back to the beach. The mermaids are amazed that they completed the task and return Jules. Keeping their promise but intending to trick the humans, the mermaids sing for only a little while and to no effect before disappearing. However, Nick manages to tape their song in a tape recorder, which they intend to use to lure the giants themselves.

After getting Nick's model Viking ship from the hotel, they drive around a route provided by Sandspur of where the giants are, playing the mermaids' song. The giants follow the sound to the sea, where Nick drops the little boat (with the tape recorder) into the ocean. The giants follow it out to sea and the kids go back to the hotel where they find the Grace kids waiting for them with the news that the giants woke up all at the same time because they were there to kill something even worse.

The Wyrm King
The last book of the Spiderwick Saga, the story starts with the Vargas family going to a family therapist because of the children's latest strange behavior, which Nick's father thinks is caused by his remarrying. Meanwhile, sinkholes have been appearing everywhere throughout Florida, where small black serpent-like creatures are vaguely seen by Nick. Under the assumption that these sinkholes are caused by the creatures that the giants were supposed to destroy, the Vargas kids (plus Sandspur) meet up with Jared, Simon and Mallory at Noseeum Jack's house, which is now deserted and has a massive sinkhole in the front yard. After breaking into the house, they find more of Jack's annotations, which compare the hydra, shown as a group of intertwined wyrm dragons, to the legend of the Rat King.

Finally going to Jack's backyard, Nick and Laurie find what Jack had meant to give them: a small pool filled with lime and muck with Taloa and two of her sisters, Ooki and Ibi, whom Jack had captured some days earlier. Meanwhile, Mallory goes into the sinkhole to investigate, but finds herself unable to breathe and surrounded by the small snake-like dragons. They manage to get her out and put three of the creatures in a jar. They figure that the creatures produce methane, which makes the air around them unbreathable, and realize that these were the creatures that the giants ate in order to breathe fire (which they originally believed to be salamanders).

Seeing how fast the dragons can grow after feeding them a chunk of pizza, the children all drive to the beach in order to get the giants back to land so they can kill the dragons. The three nixies eventually agree to use their singing to lure the giants, and one of them is taken to the water with Nick and Jared in a surfboard (since nixies are used to freshwater, salt water hurts their skin). Before they can accomplish this, however, Nick is taken underwater by the merfolk, who tell him how they're glad that the land-dwellers are doomed and give him a magical cap in the process that allows him to breathe underwater. The nixies manage to get some of the giants to follow them to land, where they immediately start eating the small reptiles and fighting each other again. As the children drive away from the giants, their car falls into a sinkhole and only after some time do they manage to get out. A giant then attacks them, being saved by the showing up of Jack Junior, who suddenly decided to listen to his father and come help the children kill the giants (being surprised when they reveal him that killing giants is no longer their plan).

After dropping the nixies in a nearby pond (their reward for having sung to the giants), Jules, Laurie and Nick pass by Cindy's house and notice a large sinkhole close to it. When they go to warn Cindy and her parents, Laurie and Sandspur fall into the growing sinkhole and a tree falls on Jules's legs when attempting to rescue her. When Nick tries to help Laurie get out of the sinkhole, he finds that she still hadn't died from the methane exhaled by the dragons because Sandspur (who had grown to a huge size, revealing himself to be a spriggan) had been eating them, proceeding to eat Nick whole and only regurgitating him when Laurie drops rocks into the creature's mouth to make him sick. Nick and Laurie get out of the sinkhole and go back to meet Jack Jr. and the Grace kids, leaving Jules at Cindy's house waiting for an ambulance (being followed back by Sandspur, back in his small size, like nothing had happened).

Noticing that all sinkholes are connected, they come to the conclusion that the biggest hydra must be in the center, laying the eggs that hatch into the smaller hydras who wander through the tunnels. They notice that the giants are all going to meet that alpha hydra, and Jack Junior leaves to go kill it, followed by the children. There, they meet the giant multi-headed dragon, who had already started to kill the giants that had gathered to fight it. After hurting Jack Junior and the Grace kids, Nick has an idea and realizes it's up to him to save the day. Using the cap given to him by the merfolk so he could safely breathe, he goes into one of the tunnels with Jack's machete so to meet the hydra from below. When he gets there, instead of trying to kill the beast, he cuts the substance that keeps all the dragons together, thus making them separate from each other and easier for the giants to kill.

At the hospital, all the children get their injuries treated, Jules gets back with Cindy, Jack calls his father to tell him what happened, the Grace kids meet their father there and the Vargas family decides to all stay together. The Spiderwick Saga ends with the Vargas family going home, being watched by a silent giant in the distance.

Accompanying books

 * Arthur Spiderwick's Notebook for Fantastical Observations, June 2005
 * Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You, November 2005
 * The Spiderwick Chronicles: Care and Feeding of Sprites, December 26, 2006
 * The Chronicles of Spiderwick: A Grand Tour of the Enchanted World, Navigated by Thimbletack, November 13, 2007

Humans
The Spiderwick Chronicles: Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles:
 * Jared Evan Grace – The protagonist and a 9-year-old boy. Jared is a brave and resourceful natural leader, shown to be good at creating plans. Due to his parents' divorce, Jared has trouble controlling his anger and is prone to flashes of violence that he later regrets. While at the beginning of the story he shows no hobbies or particular interests like Simon's love for animals and Mallory's fencing, he shows evidence of wanting to keep records of his experiences with faeries, making additional notes in Arthur's Field Guide and practicing his drawing, and is revealed to know a great deal about faerie lore in "Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles".
 * Simon Grace – Jared's identical twin brother. At first Simon seems to be the near opposite of his brother. He keeps a tidy appearance, is said to enjoy reading, and loves collecting and caring for animals, particularly ones that he's rescued (his two pet mice had been caught in a trap in their apartment complex in New York). His other pets include cats, goldfish and eventually a griffin (Jared calls them Simon's "menagerie"). However, he also is shown to succumb to flashes of anger, particularly when defending a person or animal in a helpless state, twice in the story going out of his way to save the life of the griffin Byron, with no thought of his own safety.
 * Mallory Grace – Jared and Simon's 13-year-old sister and the story's heroine. She is an avid fencer who takes nearly every opportunity to practice, sometimes enlisting the help of an unfortunate brother. This skill comes in handy when defending herself against goblins in The Seeing Stone. She enters her brothers' adventures in the faerie world slightly reluctantly at first, but acts in later books as the occasional single-word-of-caution, and is quick to accept Jared's superior knowledge of the faerie world. She dislikes being caught unawares and "being bossed-around by faeries", and often lets herself show her deep affection for her siblings despite herself.
 * Arthur Spiderwick – The author of Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You. He worked as a publicity artist and spent many years researching faeries by doing field work and by contacting other researchers (for example, for his entries on dragons and giants). His Field Guide eventually made him be seen as a threat by the elves, who ordered him to destroy it and imprisoned him for 80 years when he refused. Much like the Irish hero Oisín, who spent hundreds of years in the faerie world, Spiderwick also dies when he steps on the ground after being kept alive for more years than he was supposed to live.
 * Lucinda Spiderwick – The daughter of Arthur Spiderwick and the cousin of Helen Grace's mother, making her the Grace children's great aunt. She was abandoned by her father after he was kidnapped by the elves, never knowing where he'd gone and being raised by the Grace children's grandmother. In adulthood, she was attacked by Mulgarath's army and subsequently put in a clinic for the insane. Because she tasted the food of the faeries, she can no longer eat regular food, only being kept alive by the fruits given to her by the sprites she played with as a child.
 * Helen Grace – The mother of Jared, Simon, and Mallory, who is overprotective of them. She is strict at times, which stems from the pain of her divorce, but she can also be caring.
 * Richard Grace – Helen Grace's ex-husband and the neglectful father of the Grace children.
 * Nicholas Vargas - The main character, who has "stopped bothering" since his mother died and doesn't get along well with anyone. Like Jared, he also shows skills in outwitting the faeries and tricking them just as they trick humans. He's said not to be good at sports, but is able to kill a giant and the Wyrm King almost by himself.
 * Laurie Vargas - Nick's step sister, who truly believes in faeries, and first introduced Nick to the idea through a published copy of the Field Guide. She is disappointed when she finds that the faerie world is actually more dangerous and more real than she thought.
 * Noseeum Jack - An old giant hunter (named after Jack the Giant Killer) and the son of a giant-expert friend of Arthur Spiderwick's. He had the Sight, but is now almost blind, going to live with his son and daughter-in-law after getting hurt by a fighting giant. He lived in an old house protected by will-o'-the-wisps, having captured Taloa and two of her sisters and keeping them in a swimming pool.
 * Julian (Jules) Vargas - Nick's older "annoying brother", who spends all day surfing, stays out of his dad's way, and treats Nick like a kid. He eventually gets the Sight as well and helps the younger kids whenever driving is needed.
 * Paul Vargas - Nick and Jules' dad, owns a housing development and doesn't understand his kids, having remarried probably too soon, in Nick's opinion.
 * Charlene Vargas - Laurie's mom and stepmother of Nick and Jules, an "okay" person to Nick, although he wishes she wasn't around all the time. She suggests a break-up when the children start to act strange, but agrees to go back to Nick's dad in the end.
 * Cindy - Jules' girlfriend who also likes surfing. She is friendly and helps the kids after Jules is kidnapped by the mermaids. She gets grounded after she helps Nick and Laurie steal a fish from her father's aquarium.

Faeries
In the Spiderwick universe, faeries usually remain invisible or disguised to human eyes, who are generally not aware of their presence. However, a small percentage of humans have the ability to see faeries, commonly called the 'Sight', acquired naturally (for example, by being the seventh son of a seventh son or having red hair) or artificially (by looking through a holed stone or possessing a four-leafed clover). In the series, the Grace children receive the Sight when the hobgoblin Hogsqueal spits in their eyes, and the Vargas kids receive it when they are held under the water that a nixie had been soaking in.

They are portrayed as living many years, so many of the faeries encountered by the main characters also met Arthur Spiderwick and other long-dead humans in the past, without having aged. The species of fairies in the series are mainly taken from European mythology and folklore and Medieval bestiaries, including brownies, goblins, dragons, sprites, and elves, among many others.

The Spiderwick Chronicles:
 * Thimbletack - The Spiderwick Estate's Brownie, a fairy who guards the Spiderwick mansion but, if angered, can become a vengeful and nasty boggart. Later in the series he ends up stealing the Field Guide and hiding it, believing this will be for the better. However, at the end of the books he is ultimately friendly and apparently becomes friends with Hogsqueal. He is able to make himself visible and invisible to humans at will, though only when he has to; saying, "Now you don't see us, now you do, but only when we want you to."
 * Hogsqueal – One of Mulgarath's goblins who is actually a hobgoblin, the anti-hero of the story, changing sides depending on what fits his necessities at the moment. When Jared fails to kill Mulgarath, Hogsqueal saves the day by eating him while in swallow form, ending up staying with the children. Hogsqueal uses children's teeth as his own, claiming that he is the Tooth Faerie. He uses odd insults when addressing the children, Thimbletack and his own group of goblins, never calling anyone by their name. Tony DiTerlizzi reveals in his blog that Hogsqueal's first name was Horace in an early draft of Spiderwick, and that Hogsqueal is his favourite character in the series.
 * Mulgarath – An evil, shapeshifting ogre who wants to take over the world by using the information in the Guide to find out the weaknesses of humans and the many faerie species. The main antagonist of the series, he lives in a palace made of garbage, keeping an army of goblins (led by a redcap named Wormrat and temporarily featuring Hogsqueal as a soldier), dragons, and dwarves (before having the latter ones killed). Mulgarath dies in The Wrath of Mulgarath, eaten by Hogsqueal after being tricked in to taking the form of a swallow, making his army scatter and his spells broken.
 * Byron - A griffin saved by the children from Hogsqueal's gang of goblins, who were going to eat it. Simon took care of him and made him his pet. Resembling a hawks head with a lion's body, Byron often behaves like a cat, attempting to eat Hogsqueal and Mulgarath's dragons, and serving as a ride for the children and for Spiderwick.
 * River Troll – A troll who appears in The Seeing Stone. He lives in a nearby river, underneath local bridges. A reference to the many dumb trolls of faery tales, Jared tricks him into letting him and his siblings live and to eat the goblins chasing them. He is probably the same troll who ate Arthur Spiderwick's infant brother.
 * The Korting – The ruler of the dwarves. In The Ironwood Tree, he tricks Jared and Simon into being held prisoners, but keeps Mallory in a coffin to preserve her in time. He works for Mulgarath because the ogre had promised him they could rebuilt the world entirely in metal, making weapons for his army. After he gets the weapons, however, Mulgarath has his goblins kill all the dwarves.
 * Dragons - Their shape is similar to that of a snakes, and they are as fast as a whip. Their species is named by Spiderwick as the "European wyrm". Despite being poisonous, all of Mulgarath's dragons are eaten by Byron, who was badly injured during the process.
 * Goblins - Mischievous and grubby, goblins love smoke, fire, metal, a good bloodshed and a few tasty cats or dogs. Most species are born without teeth, so they make their own from such materials as glass shards, pieces of metal (except iron) and wood.  Sometimes they use the teeth of other animals. They are unorganized and savage, only gathering themselves to an army (under the leadership of a redcap bull goblin named Wormrat) when Mulgarath takes power. After his death, the surviving goblins flee the area and go back to their small violent gangs.
 * Elves - Elves act as the authority in the faerie territory of Spiderwick's Estate. They are shown as humanoid, a group of them living in the forest, making their clothes out of leaves. They have enough knowledge of magic to keep Spiderwick alive for nearly 100 years, they keep Stray Sods around their forest so humans cannot reach it, and they somehow employ Byron to take Spiderwick to his family.
 * Phooka - On their way to the elves, the Grace kids find a phooka, a shapeshifter resembling a cross between a monkey and a black cat. It sits in a tree branch, talks in riddles and plays with its body shape in a way resembling the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. Although he doesn't seem to be related to the elves nor to Mulgarath and his army, he seems to be aware of the destiny of Arthur Spiderwick and his nephews, giving them advice in riddles.
 * Knocker - A strange creature who helps the children to find their way through the caves of the dwarves, in which it appears to live. It has batlike ears and a long finger similar to an aye-aye's, which it uses to tap stones, claiming that it can hear the stones speak.

Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles:
 * Taloa - A nixie rescued by Nick and Laurie after her pond was destroyed by a fire-breathing giant. She gives them the Sight and demands that they find her lost sisters, eventually doing it herself and getting caught by Noseeum Jack. At the end, the Vargas kids keep their promise and deliver her and her two surviving sisters to a nearby pond.
 * Sandspur - A small trash-eating with a fondness for sand and a pang of constant hunger, Sandspur is caught by Laurie and Nick and kept as a pet. Despite his first attempts to escape, he accepts Nick and Laurie and follows them around even after they try to get rid of him. Although Taloa calls him a "hob" in The Nixie's Song and Laurie calls him a hobgoblin in A Giant Problem, he is later identified by Laurie as a spriggan in The Wyrm King when his hunger makes him swell up. He is therefore the only creature in the books (other than the Wyrm King and the humanoid insects from The Nixie's Song) whose species is not mentioned in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide. Despite this under Goblins in the Field Guide, there is a Goblin with a bottle on its back just like Sandspur. In the end of the book, he apparently is also able to use glamour to make himself look like a cat.
 * Giants - Hill giants are large humanoid creatures that can disguise themselves as small hills and mountains. They wake up all at the same time to control the hydra population by eating them in order to breathe fire, which they use to fight other giants. They are commonly attracted by the singing of nixies or mermaids.
 * Mermaids - Stubborn, yet loyal and true to their word, mermaids have amazing voices that can hypnotize giants and humans. They are not easy to strike a deal with, as they frequently want something in return and usually take people as hostages to ensure the deal is kept. They seem to be able to do some magic as well, as they owned a cap able to make humans breathe underwater (similarly to the caps worn by merfolk in fairy tales to walk on the shore).
 * The Wyrm King - Like the Rat King, the Wyrm King is a group of many wyrm dragons stuck together that devastate the land, creating sinkholes and millions of offspring. It is also compared to the Lernaean Hydra, the multi-headed snake from Greek mythology (ironically, the Wyrm King was killed by fire-breathing giants while the Lernaean Hydra was also killed with fire by Heracles and his nephew Iolaus).
 * Ooki and Ibi - Two nixies, the only surviving sisters of Taloa, who get captured by Noseeum Jack with her and eventually make their home in a new pond. They both accept to help Nick after he swears his life to get them a home, convincing Taloa to help him as well.
 * Manticores - Briefly seen by Nick in The Nixie's Song, a cougarlike creature with a barbed tail eating roadkill by the side of a road.
 * Dragonfly-faeries - After receiving the sight from Taloa, Hugo, Jared and Simon saw these small dragonfly-like creatures while riding on their bike. Like spriggans and hydras, these faeries are not mentioned in the Field Guide, probably not being known by Arthur Spiderwick. However, they may just be a subspecies of the sprite. Their favorite drink is Pepsi.

Writing
DiTerlizzi stated that, due to the collaborative effort he and Black put into the books, there is no individual credit as to who did the writing and who did the illustrations.

Film
A feature film adaptation of the series was released by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies on February 14, 2008. Directed by Mark Waters, it starred Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, Martin Short, Nick Nolte, and Seth Rogen. It followed the basic overall plot of the five novels in the Spiderwick Chronicles series, but left out the majority of the plot from the fourth book and contained several major differences.

Television
On November 12, 2021, it was announced that a television adaptation was in development for Disney+. Production started in February 2022, with Kat Coiro joining as a director and executive-producer in May 2022; Coiro is set to helm the first two episodes. In August 2023, Deadline reported that the series was no longer moving forward at Disney+ despite having been already completed due to cost cutting reasons, it will be shopped to other networks. In October 2023, The Roku Channel had picked up the U.S. exclusive rights to the series, and released it in its entirety on April 19, 2024, consisting of eight episodes.

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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Grue

Grue
final (19/5/4) ending 18:06 21 June 2005 (UTC)

 * I discovered Wikipedia in 2004 and started editing since August of that year. I'm visiting Wikipedia every day, checking stuff on my Watchlist, and then browsing through different pages till my eyes begin to hurt. I think this time could be spent more productively if I'll be an admin (see the answers for what I intend to do). So, I'm nominating myself, have your say whether I'm good enough.  Grue   18:06, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Seems like a great user who routinely goes to VfD and has contributed many quality edits to Wikipedia. It seems time to hand him the mop- work on the edit summaries, though! :) Flcelloguy 19:30, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, by the way, you forgot to put a link to your RfA in the "Vote Here" button, so I went ahead and fixed it. Flcelloguy 19:30, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) It's just a useful thing for me to have a Russian speaking administrator in English WP. Besides I know Grue is a very sober Vikipedician. Slavik IVANOV 21:52, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support. A very good user. Sjakkalle (Check!)  06:26, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Pro. MaxiMaxiMax 09:41, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support-JCarriker 10:59, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support-Seems like a worthy candidate. Bratsche talk  5 pillars 22:53, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support - Because he'll eat you if you don't. Grues are like that. --FCYTravis 23:14, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support. Good inclusionist. Remember me 03:22, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Cool. JuntungWu 15:06, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a Support. A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  18:42, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Meelar (talk) 21:33, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Grue is an inclusionist? Yay!  Support (of course, not for that reason alone).—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 13:18, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support. Mike H 22:58, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) mmm-hmmm. Grutness...  wha?  00:06, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support -- Francs2000 | Talk 00:07, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Suppport If RickK thinks he is too inclusionist that is worth a vote from me. SchmuckyTheCat 15:00, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Noted. RickK 21:25, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Support Very active on vfd, an inclusionist and a great contributer. Falphin 17:29, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Weak Support. Very active on VfD, which can be a pro and a con, and i've had a minor dispute with him over Radio KoL and its importance. However, is a good user and I think could be a good administrator, but its only a weak support due to lack of article namespace activity. Hedley 22:39, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Pcb21| Pete 07:31, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 07:36, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Rationale, please? Remember me 09:29, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Boothy443 has just opposed all the nominations which can be opposed, giving no reason on any of them. Sjakkalle (Check!)  09:34, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Because Boothy443 has opposed every adminship request on this page without reason, I have left him a polite comment/suggestion on his user talk page that he either provide reasons for his opposition or withdraw his votes. Flcelloguy [[Image:Bass clef2.gif|25px|Cello today?]] Give me a note! Eighth note (crop).gif Desk  21:31, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Can I ask whether you do the same for those who vote support without comment?Grace Note 02:43, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Too few article edits. Also pursuaded by the thoughtful comments in the section below, which lead to the conclusion that this editor is not yet ready for admin, but may well be in the future if those areas are addressed. Jonathunder 02:55, 2005 Jun 19 (UTC)
 * 2) Neutral - constructive personality, but I'm somewhat put off by the lack of edits to mainspace. We do need organizers and cleaners in Wikispace, but it's important not to lose touch with main.  Changed to oppose because I see no effort in addressing the issues raised by neutral voters and oppose voters, which would be especially important for a self-nom. Would probably support a couple months from now, though. Radiant_ >|<  09:11, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) In light of Shmucky's comments, I have changed my vote to oppose. RickK 04:52, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * who is Shmucky, and where is he commenting on anything? dab (ᛏ) 08:54, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * See User:SchmuckyTheCat's support vote. Besides, in light of RickK's latest "if we keep schools we can keep (headmasters, principals, churches, ...) as well", I don't know who is more inclusionist here :)  Grue   09:15, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Oppose. I won't support anyone, even inclusionists, who concentrates on VfD rather than creating content. Would reconsider in a month or so if I'm reminded to. Grace Note 02:43, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) Neutral. Ummm... I'm not against supporting, but I'm not against oppose, either; not right now, at least. From your contributions, I don't see what you would benefit from if you were granted admin powers. You seem to be extremely active on VFD (which is not bad! please don't take that as such), but I do not see much evidence of RC patrol/vandalism fighting. The thing that's really sinking me from giving you support is the conservative use of the edit summary. You may very well be doing wonderous things, but no one can tell that just from looking at your contribution page. If you want to be an admin, I suggest you participate beyond VFD and balance yourself out with the articles. Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 18:35, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) I can't bring myself to support this candidate. I don't see how administrative powers would be particularily helpful.  Low edit count combined with extreme concentration on VfD does not help matters any.  Kelly Martin 22:04, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * I can't support a person who is so pro-inclusionist. RickK 06:20, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) I would prefer to see more contributions doing RC patrol, CFD, TFD, and other janitorial work besides voting on VFD. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:29, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) no gripes, but edit count is a bit on the low side for me to support. would willingly support after another 1000 edits or so. dab (ᛏ) 09:05, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Comments
 * As of this count, 473 article edits (274 marked as major), 78 Talk edits, 49 User edits, 50 User talk edits, 745 Wikipedia edits, 21 Wikipedia talk edits, 7 Image edits, 0 Image talk edits, 0 MediaWiki edits, 0 MediaWiki talk edits, 3 Template edits, 8 Template talk edits, 0 Help edits, 0 Help talk edits, 0 Category edits, 1 Category talk edits. Kate's tool reports 1505 edits at the time of this post. Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 18:35, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. Speedy deletions (I'm highly unlikely to delete something valuable), vandalism reversion (already doin' that quite often - but saving a few clicks could improve efficiency), all sorts of other work no one else wants to do...
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. Well, I tent to edit on quite obscure subjects so good articles rarely emerge... See Kingdom of Loathing/Radio KoL split (um, joint?) for "brilliant" prose, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Magic:_The_Gathering_sets for my community skillz. Ah, and Wikifun/Round 7, actually I think that's the best thing I done.
 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
 * A. I had some debates on VfD/VfU grounds, very often my opinion is against the majority, but I'm always voting in good faith and ready to explain my vote. I do not consider myself inclusionist and I'm certainly not deletionist, so there's been some disagreements. Most often I'm just clearly explaining my position and accept whatever the result of debate is. I never got in personal conflicts and RFC-able stuff so I guess I'm doing quite well.

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ISO 2145

International standard ISO 2145 defines a typographic convention for the "numbering of divisions and subdivisions in written documents". It applies to any kind of document, including manuscripts, books, journal articles, and standards.

Description
The ISO 2145 numbering scheme is defined by the following rules:

 * Only Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, …) are used.
 * The main divisions are numbered continuously starting from 1.
 * Each main division (first level) can be divided further into subdivisions (second level), which are equally continuously numbered. This can be continued for further levels of subdivision.
 * A full stop is placed between numbers that designate subdivisions of different levels. No full stop is placed after the number that designates the final subdivision.
 * A number 0 (zero) can be assigned to the first division of each level if it forms an introduction, preface, foreword, or the like.

Example
A table of contents might look like:

Support in word processing software

 * All standard LaTeX document classes generate chapter, section, subsection, figure, table, etc. numbers as defined by ISO 2145.
 * As of 2003, all Microsoft Word versions were by default set up to add a full stop after the final section number. This does not conform to ISO 2145. However, users can change style settings to match the ISO standard. In Word 16, for example, in the “Styles pane”, right-clicking on the relevant heading style to select “Modify Style”, then following Format/Numbering.../Outline Numbered leads to a graphical choice of numbering styles that includes one closely matching ISO 2145, which can then be customized to remove any trailing dot.

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User talk:Davidcannon/Lebanon

Tashnak
You said that you've created the article "Tashnak". But after reading the article, I didn't find any reference to this world, instead it's called the "Dashnak". After searching, I found that there's no Dashnak party in Lebanon. So could you explain to me?500LL 18:06, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

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Young Bengal

The Young Bengal was a group of Bengali free thinkers emerging from Hindu College, Calcutta. They were also known as Derozians, after their firebrand teacher at Hindu College, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.

The Young Bengal Movement peripherally included Christians such as Reverend Alexander Duff (1809–1878), who founded the General Assembly's Institution, and his students like Lal Behari Dey (1824–1892), who went on to renounce Hinduism. Latter-day inheritors of the legacy of the Young Bengal Movement include scholars like Brajendra Nath Seal (1864–1938), who went on to be one of the leading theologians and thinkers of the Brahmo Samaj. The Derozians however failed to have a long-term impact. Derozio was removed from the Hindu college in 1831 because of radicalism. The main reason for their limited success was social conditions prevailing at that time which were not ripe for adoption of radical ideas. Further, they did not link masses through peasant causes.

Young Bengal followed classical economics and was composed of free traders who took inspiration from Jeremy Bentham, Adam Smith, and David Ricardo:

 * "With respect to the questions relating to Political Economy, they all belong to the school of Adam Smith. They are clearly of opinion that the system of monopoly, the restraints upon trade, and the international laws of many countries, do nothing but paralyse the efforts of industry, impede the progress of agriculture and manufacture, and prevent commerce from flowing in its natural course."

Organisations
Derozio and the Young Bengal group set two establishments and published journals that played a role in the Bengal Renaissance. These are noted below:

Academic Association
Derozio joined Hindu College in 1826 and within a short period attracted students. The Academic Association was established in 1828 under the guidance of Derozio and settled down in Maniktala. Derozio was its president. One of his students, Uma Charan Basu, was its secretary. The principal speakers in the association were: Rasik Krishna Mallick, Krishna Mohan Banerjee, Ramgopal Ghosh, Radhanath Sikdar, Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee, and Hara Chandra Ghosh. Amongst its organisers were Ramtanu Lahiri, Sib Chandra Deb and Peary Chand Mitra.

Society for the Acquisition of General Knowledge
The Society for the Acquisition of General Knowledge was established on 20 February 1838. It had 200 members in 1843.

Prominent members

 * Krishna Mohan Banerjee (1813–1885) Christian convert
 * Tarachand Chakraborti (1805–1855), prominent in the Brahmo Sabha and Young Bengal
 * Sib Chandra Deb (1811–1890), a prominent Brahmo Samaj leader of Konnagar
 * Hara Chandra Ghosh (1808–1868), judge of the Small Causes Court
 * Ramgopal Ghosh (1815–1868), businessman and public speaker
 * Ramtanu Lahiri (1813–1898), teacher who publicly removed his sacred thread in 1851
 * Rasik Krishna Mallick (1810–1858), refused to swear by the holy Ganges water and ran away from his orthodox home
 * Peary Chand Mitra (1814–1883), founded the Monthly Magazine in Bengali and helped establish the Calcutta Public Library in 1831
 * Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee (1818–1887), donated the site for the Bethune College for women
 * Radhanath Sikdar (1813–1870), surveyor, mathematician, diarist, writer, public speaker and the calculator of the height of the Himalayas.

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Dogo Argentino

The Dogo Argentino (plural Dogos Argentinos) is an Argentine breed of large dog of mastiff type. It was bred in the early twentieth century in Córdoba in central Argentina, primarily for hunting large game such as peccaries, wild boar and pumas. The foundation stock included the now extinct Córdoba fighting dog, a fighting dog of bulldog type, a Bull Terrier and a Mastín del Pirineo.

History
In the 1920s Antonio Nores Martinez, a young student of Córdoba in central Argentina, set out with his brother Augustin Nores Martinez to create a new breed of big game hunting dog, especially wild boar. He wanted it to have the fighting qualities of the Old Cordoba Fighting Dog, but with greater size and strength. He started with a Bull Terrier bitch with considerable fighting ability, which he bred to a spotted fighting dog of bulldog type. He selected and inter-bred their offspring, selecting for white coat colour and rejecting any animal that was retrognathous (undershot). In the eighth generation he introduced a Pyrenean mastiff bitch; by the twelfth generation his dogs were breeding true. They became well known for their success in the ring. Nores Martinez later introduced crosses with a variety of other dogs including the Irish Wolfhound, Boxer, Great Dane, Bull Terrier, Dogue de Bordeaux and Spanish Mastiff.

In 1947 he presented his breed to the Club de Cazadores ('hunter's club') of Buenos Aires; in 1948 a breed standard was published in the magazine Diana. Antonio Nores Martinez was murdered in 1956; however Augustin, now an international ambassador, would continue to promote the Dogo during his travels.

The Dogo was definitively accepted by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale in 1973.

Characteristics
The Dogo Argentino is a large dog: weights for dogs are some 40 - 45 kg, for bitches slightly less; heights at the withers are in the range 60 - 65 cm for bitches and 60 - 68 cm for dogs. The length of the body is slightly greater than the height at the withers, up to a maximum of one tenth more.

The coat is short and always white. A single black or dark-coloured spot on the head is tolerated as long as it is no larger than one tenth of the size of the head. The muzzle is of about the same length as the skull.

Like many other breeds, the Dogo has some genetic predisposition to congenital deafness; it is also predisposed to laryngeal paralysis/polyneuropathy complex. The dogs usually live for some 10 to 12 years.

Use
The Dogo is kept principally for hunting large game such as peccaries, wild boar and pumas. It has a good nose, and good speed and stamina; it may occasionally be trained for police or military work.

Regulation
Ownership of dogs of this breed is illegal or restricted in some countries, including Australia, Austria (Lower Austria, Vienna and Vorarlberg ), the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Norway, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

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User:John Z/drafts/international law notes

http://www.walter.gehr.net/default.html for excellent intro to international treaty law and links

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/alumniRelations/events/20050106t1205z001.htm

Jerusalem, golan not annexed

http://www.passia.org/jerusalem/meetings/98/J1.htm

better:

http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/journal_vol5/9701_lustick.asp

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:T2XfC-dbrlsJ:www.ciaonet.org/olj/sa/sa_99kup02.html+%22golan+heights%22+begin+annex+what+belongs+to+you&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

151 The binding nature of decisions is not determined by whether they are taken under Chapter VI or Chapter VII, but by whether they were intended to bind all member states. See, for example, Rosalyn Higgins, "The Advisory Opinion on Namibia: which Resolutions are Binding under Article 25 of the Chapter?," International and Comparative Law Quarterly, vol.21, p.280. The author states that the Charter offers no support for the view that Article 25 applies only to measures under Chapter VII, but rather applies to "all decisions of the Security Council adopted in accordance with the Charter." The ICJ's advisory opinion on the "Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in Namibia (South West Africa), Notwithstanding Security Council Resolution 276," 1971 ICJ Rep.4-345 (1970), indicates that a range of factors may point to the intention to bind member states of the U.N., and that the Chapter under which it is passed is not definitive of the binding nature of a resolution.

152 Moreover, the intention to bind would be more readily assumed if the decision were made under Chapter VI. This is particularly so in the light of the "Case Concerning Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention Arising from Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Libya v.USA) 1998," International Court of Justice, February 29, 1998. The International Court of Justice, while not stating that only decisions under Chapter VII are binding, clearly considered the fact that it was an exercise of Chapter VII power a relevant factor in determining whether or not a particular resolution was intended to bind.

The Court did not elaborate on how the general powers of the Security Council applied to its establishment. Unlike the resolutions [27] creating the ICTY and the ICTR which specifically invoked Article Chapter VII of the UN Charter, the Security Council did not expressly state that it was acting under Chapter VII when it authorized the Secretary-General to conclude a treaty to create the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The Appeals Chamber noted that the lack of a Chapter  VII mandate "does not by itself define the legal status of the Special Court," [28] but a question remains whether mere  reiteration in the preamble to Resolution 1315 that the situation in Sierra Leone continued to constitute a threat to the   peace carries the same weight as the unequivocal language contained in the resolutions establishing the ICTY and ICTR.

If the Security Council does not clearly state the nature and the scope of the authority under which it is acting, [29] states  may question, or perhaps even challenge, its authority to create criminal tribunals that were not contemplated by the   framers of the UN Charter. [30] This is particularly so given the active role that the Security Council has assumed since  the end of the Cold War to formulate and enforce decisions with serious ramifications for States and individuals as well as

[29] While there is general consensus among international lawyers that the most robust of the Security Council's powers are grounded in Chapter VII, the ICJ has held that the binding force of Council resolutions is not limited to measures  taken pursuant to Chapter VII, see Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in Namibia (South West Africa) notwithstanding Security Council Resolution 276 (1970), 1971 I.C.J. 16 (Advisory Opinion of June 21). For the implications of that decision in relation to Article 25 of the UN Charter, see Rosalyn Higgins, The Advisory Opinion on Namibia: Which UN Resolutions Are Binding Under Article 25 of the Charter? (1972) 21 INT'L & COMP. L.Q. 270.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/wldcourt/roberts.htm

70. The Court notes that General Assembly resolutions, even if they are not binding, may sometimes have normative value. They can, in certain circumstances, provide evidence important for establishing the existence of a rule or the emergence of an opinio juris. To establish whether this is true of a given General Assembly resolution, it is necessary to look at its content and the conditions of its adoption; it is also necessary to see whether an opinio juris exists as to its normative character. Or a series of resolutions may show the gradual evolution of the opinio juris required for the establishment of a new rule.

71. Examined in their totality, the General Assembly resolutions put before the Court declare that the use of nuclear weapons would be "a direct violation of the Charter of the United Nations"; and in certain formulations that such use "should be prohibited". The focus of these resolutions has sometimes shifted to diverse related matters; however, several of the resolutions under consideration in the present case have been adopted with substantial numbers of negative votes and abstentions; thus, although those resolutions are a clear sign of deep concern regarding the problem of nuclear weapons, they still fall short of establishing the existence of an opinio juris on the illegality of the use of such weapons.

Shaw's Int Law

incl pss excerpt

http://assets.cambridge.org/052182/4737/excerpt/0521824737_excerpt.pdf

45. The situation with respect to Security Council decisions on the other hand is clear. Article 25 of the Charter states that:

"The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter."

Thus decisions of the Security Council are legally binding on the members of the United Nations and under paragraph 6 of Article 2 may be enforced not only with respect to Members but also with respect to States that are not Members of the United Nations. There has, however, been a view expressed that Article 25 applies only to decisions on enforcement measures under Chapter VII of the Charter. The International Court of Justice has rejected this view:

"It is not possible to find in the Charter any support for this view. Article 25 is not confined to decisions in regard to enforcement action but applies to 'the decisions of the Security Council' adopted in accordance with the Charter. Moreover, that Article is placed, not in Chapter VII, but immediately after Article 24 in that part of the Charter which deals with the functions and powers of the Security Council. If Article 25 had reference solely to decisions of the Security Council concerning enforcement action under Articles 41 and 42 of the Charter, that is to say, if it were only such decisions which had binding effect, then Article 25 would be superfluous, since this effect is secured by Articles 48 and 49 of the Charter." 95/

The Court consequently held that decisions of the Security council taken in accordance with its general powers under Article 24 Of the Charter were legally binding and that States were under an obligation to accept and carry them out. 96/ The principal question with respect to Security Council resolutions is whether the Council adopted them as decisions, in which case they are binding, or merely as recommendations.

46. It is of course for member States, the General Assembly and the Security Council and, if requested, the International Court of Justice to determine the effect of particular United Nations resolutions.

http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/6d55c7f840e6da06052567c9004b75de?OpenDocument

95/ Namibia Advisory Opinion, I. C. J. Reports, 1971, p. 53.

96/ Ibid., p. 53. See p. 52 for the power of the Security Council to take decisions under Article 24. See Rosalyn Higgins, "The Advisory opinion on Namibia: which United Nations resolutions are binding under Article 25 of the Charter?", The International and Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 21 (1972), pp. 270-28

PBS's idiosyncratic view
for listmilocc

This site http://worldatwar.net/timeline/other/diplomacy39-45.html lists lots of declarations of war, and breaks in diplomatic relations during World War II. Under Hauge "Art. 42. Territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army. The occupation extends only to the territory where such authority has been established and can be exercised". So if the Germans put in a quisling government and no longer has troops on the street it is no longer under military occupation whether or not those civilian authorites are recognised internationally or not. The whole point of Article 6=> Article 47 of the Fourth Geneva Convention was to stop an occupier benefiting from an act of agression which lead to occupation. Before 1949 there was no international agreement on this, only what Hague said about the mechanics of military occupation. Which proceedings at the Nuremberg trials do you think contradicts this reading of Hague 42? Philip Baird Shearer 13:42, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

I disagree with this reading of the Hague definition; it is clearer on when occupations start than end. (And there were usually plenty of German troops in the quisling governed areas.) This  (4GC art 47 commentary) has more towards the similar issue of wartime annexation, but  points out "Such practices were incompatible with the traditional concept of occupation as defined in Hague Art. 43 ..."  I agree that matters were not then as clear-cut as they are now, for international law was changing rapidly, but the direction was clearly against restricting the scope of "occupation." The Germans

Of course the Stimson doctrine, applying to Manchukuo is exactly the quisling case, so I am outlining the US view before the war.

"Military occupation" of East Jerusalem and Golan Heights
By definition a territory can only be militarily occupied if it has not been annexed. Once it is annexed, it is no longer militarily occupied. You might want to argue that the annexation was illegal, but that is an argument for a different article. Jayjg |  (Talk)  22:40, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Israel considers the Golan Heights to be annexed, the rest of the International Community considers the annexation to be null and void. Palestine-info 22:53, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * It doesn't really matter; once a country officially annexes a territory, the status is no longer one of a "military" or "belligerent" occupation:
 * Belligerent occupation in a foreign war, being based upon the possession of enemy territory, necessarily implies that the sovereignty of the occupied territory is not vested in the occupying power. Occupation is essentially provisional. On the other hand, subjugation or conquest implies a transfer of sovereignty, which generally takes the form of annexation and is normally effected by a treaty of peace. When sovereignty passes, belligerent occupation, as such, of course ceases, although the territory may and usually does, for a period at least, continue to be governed through military agencies. . Jayjg |  (Talk)  22:57, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

So the argument is that since East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights are no longer under military rule and are quite peaceful areas they are no longer occupied? Palestine-info 23:07, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Um, no, that's not the argument. Please read what I've said. Also, you keep claiming that "the International Community" has said something, without any evidence it has done so. Jayjg  |  (Talk)  23:20, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Does UN GA resolutions count? Note that the note does not say belligerent occupation, which may or may not be something other than occpuation. Palestine-info 23:25, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * If there were unanimous they might be mildly interesting, at least. Somehow I doubt they were.  More importantly, UNGA resolutions have absolutely no impact on International Law.  And "Belligerent occupation" is just the legal term for "Military occupation". Jayjg  |  (Talk)  23:43, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * GA Resolution
 * SC Resolution:

The SC Resolution was passed 12 Yes to 0 No. The GA Resolution seems to have been passed without a vote. What that means is that the resolution had a very large majority in the GA. Palestine-info 00:02, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * What are you talking about? GA resolutions are never passed without a vote. In this case it Part A of the resolution was adopted by 94 in favor, 16 against and 28 abstentions. On part B of the resolution, 121 voted in favor, 2 against and 20 abstained.  Not that it's relevant, since GA resolutions are not "the International community".  Nor is the Security Council, or its resolutions, so your text is still false. Jayjg  |  (Talk)  03:04, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

myst
Some eccentric comments: I think that one should use divinity, God and ultimate reality for several reasons. divinity is ambiguous between one or many, or even an adjective, with a bias towards the latter, God is unitary, while ultimate reality is atheistic or agnostic, so the more redundancy the merrier and more mystical. Also, someone might want to just go off and read these articles too.

This is an article on mysticism. To me, this means that (a) it should be a bit mystifying (b) It should be paradoxical and self-contradictory - i.e. any definition should be followed by, "on the other hand, (some mystics might say) that this definition is completely wrong, that mysticism is not all of or even none of these things." I mean - the dao that can be daoed is not the eternal dao, the name that can be named, etc. and (c) reading it should lead one to a mystical experience :-).

For example, saying mysticism is non-rational contradicts at least one great philosopher. Hegel, who put the mystic Boehme as one of two major predecessors of Descartes at the beginning of modern philosophy (the other member of the odd couple was Bacon) identified mysticism with Reason (Vernunft, especially as opposed to Understanding/ Verstand)   in particular with the third, dialectical, positive, negation of negation, synthesizing stage of cognition. Hegel - and I would wager half my grasp on ultimate reality, lots of other mystics (Suzuki?) would probably and perhaps did divide up people not between those who had mystical experiences and those who hadn't, but between those who realized they had and those who had not.

zero
By the way, you made a comment recently somwhere about Transjordan being part of the British Mandate of Palestine between 1920 and 1922. As far as I can tell, in spite of this being in a remarkable number of references, it is completely untrue, and  apparently is nothing but an incredibly successful fairy tale concocted by Jabotinsky. You might want to take a look at Bernard Wasserstein's Israelis and Palestinians ...., ca p.100, where he makes this assertion, which I have checked as much as I easily can - e.g. take a look at the San remo conference article, which

ot to bibigon

 * I have to agree with Cybbe; the definition of occupation is much older, much less disputed and much clearer that that of terrorism.  You are just factually incorrect here.   Just look at the fights on the terrorism page, it is a commonplace .  Occupation has been understood as a legal term for a very long time, and in this particular case, basically everybody is in agreement, contrary to what Cybbe says, this includes Israel. "War" is also a charged term.  If someone said we shouldn't talk about the 6 day war and replace it with 6-day dispute, should this be done  The territories are occupied according to the Hague definition, according to Israel.  This should be the decisive fact, why it is not understood as so here is hard to understand.


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Talk:Treaty of Accession 2005

Agreed without a division - what does it mean
I took the liberty to copy here a message from User:Dbiv from another's user talk page for clarification of a few cases of votes:

 * For example, in the British House of Commons, the European Union (Accessions) Act 2005 approved the treaty. At no stage during its Parliamentary approval were there any votes on it: it was always approved on a 'voice vote' in which all the voices supported it. Therefore there are no numbers, and will never be any numbers in the future.

 * The Austrian Parliament does things in a similar way. They raise their hands, and if the proposal has a clear majority, they simply note the number of members against without counting the much larger number who are for. Your insistence on putting in question marks is misleading - it implies that there is a number which has yet to be found and added. The real situation is that there is no number and never will be.

-Mihai -talk 11:32, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

European Parliament
I think European Parliament vote should not be in the table. They have no right so ever to vote such a treaty. They can only give assent Bulgaria and Romania to enter the Union. Then the counsil votes as well. This is very brief summary the procedure. The Treaty as such is between souvern states. So by very nature EU has little rights there. In general it has s special status. So I remove the European parliament vote from the table, so it does not give a wrong impression that they have actually approaved or ratified the treaty. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 193.174.111.250 (talk • contribs).

I see where your point of view is coming from but the vote was taken on the treaty and i think in the fullness of the encylopedia it should be included in the table.I also do not think that it gives the wrong impression because there aproval my only be ceremonial but it would be impossible for the treaty to proceed if the EU parliament rejected the treaty--Lucy-marie 15:28, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, its ok with me really. The results of the vote in the European parliament are shown earlier on the page. I can't agree that they actually voted on the Treaty. Although the treaty in reality is prepared by the institution of the European union, it is a treaty between 27 states. For this reason no official of the European union have signed it. I am not sure about this technicality, but it might be that the countries could have agreed even without refering to EU. For this reason I removed the vote of the European parliament, changed the section title to Ratification, re-ordered the countries according to the date of completion and made changes in the text. Now in the text there is an introduction to history of the treaty with the pre-liminary steps. Here in the discussion I made a proposal for the changes in the page. let me know what you think. Regards. Herzog Tryn 15:56, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Re-organization
As the treaty is going to enter into force on 1 January 2007, I think the page should be reorganized a bit. I think th efollowing sections might be good 1. Itroduction 2. Summary of the treaty and additional documents 3. History of the treaty, where the ratification table and other voting results will go. I will try to authenticate the vote results, using the data from individual parliaments, but it will take a bit. Please let me know what you think. Herzog Tryn 15:57, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I have started the reorganization of the page by adding references about the ratification procedure where ever possible. The section about the history of the treaty will be modified further considering that the treaty enters into force on 1st of January. I will as I am not an native English speaker and I do this in my free time (when I am pretty tired) it will be nice if you can check the language and style. Herzog Tryn 14:52, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Merge
All information in this article could easily fit in the 2007 enlargement of the European Union article (which is relatively short). - SSJ t 21:57, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Neither article is overly short and this article can be expanded further with the Protocol, the Act and the Final Act. James500 (talk) 06:01, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Belgium
I've corrected the table for Belgium. There were several problems:

Brussels Regional Parliament: The reference given was not for the Regional Parliament but for the "United Assembly" which is the same people, but with a different voting procedure, a majority in each language group being necessary there contrary to the Regional Parliament. Both the Regional Parliament and the United Assembly needed to assent. So I have given them both, indicating votes by language group for the latter, because that's relevant for adoption there.

Flemish Parliament: That parliament had to vote on a single bill but twice (once with and once without members from Brussels) because it covers both community matters (extending to Brussels) and regional matters (not extending to Brussels). I've indicated both votes.

Walloon Parliament: Here as well there were votes on regional and (some) community matters (although for different reasons than on the Flemish side). They had two distinct bills. Again, I've indicated both votes (one with and one without members from the German-speaking region).

COCOF/Brussels French-speaking Parliament: This assembly also needed to assent (even though there were some hesitations on this at some point; for the legal position now see this opinion of the Belgian Council of State) in relation to the same community matters on which the Walloon Parliament also votes. Alas, the assembly's website doesn't contain the relevant documents for 2006, I therefore only have the official publication of the assent decree (which proves the assembly's assent, but doesn't give the votes). The assembly is identical to the French language group of the United Assembly, so probably the vote was the same (66 to 0), but that's just a supposition, someone might have changed their mind or have been absent at one vote and not the other. Therefore I didn't indicate the vote. Sigur (talk) 08:29, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

 * Wow really great job! Could this help you with the COCOF vote? Tomi566 (talk) 17:10, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Great! Your search abilities are manifestly much better than mine. Mind you, there now is an inconsistency of dates, but I guess one day (the MFA must really have done it on purpose...) isn't worth a big comment. Sigur (talk) 18:46, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

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William Pickersgill

William Pickersgill (1861 – 2 May 1928) was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the Caledonian Railway from 1914 until Grouping in 1923. He was appointed locomotive superintendent of the Northern Division of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway but retired in 1925. He died in Bournemouth.

Great Eastern Railway
Pickersgill was born in Nantwich, Cheshire. He started work on the Great Eastern Railway at Stratford in 1876, where he was a Whitworth Exhibitioner, and after several posts in the running department he was appointed district locomotive superintendent in Norwich in 1891.

Great North of Scotland Railway
In 1894, he succeeded James Johnson as the locomotive superintendent of the Great North of Scotland Railway, where he continued to develop the 4-4-0 type for that railway and was responsible for the new locomotive works at Inverurie which replaced the unsatisfactory premises at Kittybrewster. He was chairman of the Association of Railway Locomotive Engineers in 1912 and was interested in flange and check rail dimensions.

Caledonian Railway
In March 1914 succeeded John F. McIntosh as locomotive, carriage & wagon superintendent of the Caledonian Railway. He further developed the McIntosh 4-4-0 type, introduced the class 60 4-6-0 for freight service, and an extraordinary 4-6-0 with derived motion which was highly unsuccessful.

London Midland and Scottish Railway
Following the Grouping, he was appointed mechanical engineer of the Northern Division of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway but retired in 1925.

Locomotive designs
William Pickersgill's locomotive designs for the Great North of Scotland Railway included:
 * GNoSR class T 4-4-0: 26 built 1895–98 – became part of LNER class D41
 * GNoSR class V 4-4-0: 18 built 1899–1915 – 5 sold new to South Eastern and Chatham Railway, becoming SECR G class; remainder became part of LNER class D40
 * GNoSR class W 0-2-2 Railmotor: 2 built 1905

William Pickersgill's locomotive designs for the Caledonian Railway included:
 * Caledonian Railway 191 Class 4-6-0 (3P)
 * Caledonian Railway 60 Class 4-6-0  (4P)
 * Caledonian Railway 956 Class 4-6-0 (5P)
 * Caledonian Railway 113 class 4-4-0 Dunalastair V (3P)
 * Caledonian Railway 72 Class 4-4-0 Dunalastair V (3P)
 * Caledonian Railway 300 Class 0-6-0 (3F)
 * Caledonian Railway 159 Class 0-4-4T (2P)
 * Caledonian Railway 431 Class 0-4-4T (2P)
 * Caledonian Railway 944 Class 4-6-2T (4P)

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Wikipedia:Wikifun/Round 9/Answers/Question 1

Ajax confirms that 8 Royal Navy ships, four cars, two kings (from the Iliad), and our friendly bathroom cleaning product all share that name. King Ajax the Great, a.k.a. Telamonian Aias, killed himself after a madness-induced slaughter. Not sure about the "owner" mocking reference. A search for various segments of "Telamonian Aias" reveals that Lamon Brewster (first hit on a search for "lamon") is the World Boxing Organization's current world heavyweight champion of boxing. Chris Amon is a race car driver (from list of racing drivers) -- Amon was also a formula one team for one year in 1974. Of course there are numerous athletes and drivers with "ian" in their names. - Bryan is Bantman 18:11, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

 * You got one part correct. That's all you got.  -- AllyUnion (talk) 04:16, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Answer?
Kurt Busch, champion of the Nextel Cup (NASCAR) zellin 17:48, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * No, sorry. -- AllyUnion (talk) 20:29, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Getting Bothersome...
I've figured that the name of the three drivers is AJ, but that's the closest I've gotten... --Solo Maxwell

A quite classical try...
The page about Ajax tells that 8 ships, 4 cars, 2 kings and the cleaning product share that name. One of the kings, Telamonian Aias, killed himself. Among the names on the list of racing drivers, only three share the letters "ian", all of them just like this king as the last 3 letters of their "first name" (in quotes for the king). Among these three, only Christian Lautenschlager won a world championship, the French Grand Prix.

PS: I'm just sorry that this is not so interesting in what concerns the "what sport?" questions. I had another idea of a champion in a more "special" sport, but I find not much he would have in common with the king and three other drivers... — MFH: Talk 9 July 2005 04:42 (UTC)

 * It doesn't answer "we learn of a leader who killed himself and was mocked by the "owner" of the Wikipedia." part. --AllyUnion (talk) 09:45, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

michael schumacher

Another try
We know that Jimbo Whales is the "owner" of wikipedia.--Zxcvbnm 02:51, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Ajax

Hint
This question deals with an inside joke. --AllyUnion (talk) 08:25, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Stab in the dark
I believe the answers could be Hans Von Stuck and hill-climbing. The eight ships, four cars, etc. lead, fairly easily to Ajax. Now things get a little more difficult. I thought the leader who killed himself could be Ajax the Great but that seemed to be a dead end. Instead, a little investigation of one of the ships - HMS Ajax (22) - showed that it was involved in the pursuit of the Admiral Graf Spee whose captain, Hans Langsdorff later committed suicide. Could this be the leader mentioned in the question? Certainly there are a number of F1 racing drivers named Hans, including Hans Von Stuck who also happened to be a champion hill-climber. Spondoolicks 15:55, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Answer
Ajax

I'm a little irritated that it wasn't listed under the suicides category (even after I found his real name). I finally went for cleaners and knew Ajax was a popular name in history and warships.

- Tεx  τ  urε  23:36, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Hint 2
The inside joke relates to the unofficial holiday celebrated by many in April. The content in question was also copied on one of this round's answer pages. --AllyUnion (talk) 01:40, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

WDAASD
MICHAEL SHUMACHER

 * Nope. You should be looking for a surname which is shared by a racing car driver and someone connected with one of the HMS Ajax's. Alphax τεχ 15:35, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

This is hard..
Adding on to other people's answer's, I have found that the HMS Ajax (1912) is a King George V-Class Ship, and was made by the Vickers company. Vickers is the last name of Brian Vickers, who is one of the people who share a portion of their last name with Telamonian Aias.Magicmonster 06:23, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Think a few hundred years earlier. The sharing of the name part is that the people have the same surname. Alphax τεχ 14:27, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Got it at last (I hope)
HMS Ajax (1798) fought at the Battle of Trafalgar, after which the French Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve committed suicide. The three Villeneuves who were racing drivers were Gilles Villeneuve, his son Jacques Villeneuve (F1 world champion) and the brother of Gilles, Jacques Villeneuve (elder), who as well as being a racecar driver was a champion snowmobile racer. --Spondoolicks 21:04, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes! Well done! 3 points! Alphax τεχ 13:59, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * How was he "mocked by the owner of Wikipedia"? N (t/c) 14:12, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Would that be referring to the scathing article about him in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica? --Spondoolicks 15:31, 21 September 2005 (UTC)


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Rush Green, London

Rush Green is a suburban area in Romford in East London, England. It straddles the boundary of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and the London Borough of Havering, and is located 13.5 mi east-northeast of Charing Cross.

Government
Rush Green is divided between the Eastbrook Ward in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and the Brooklands Ward in the London Borough of Havering, electing three councillors to Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council and three councillors to Havering London Borough Council. It is also divided between the Dagenham and Rainham and Romford parliamentary constituencies, each electing a member of parliament.

Geography
The central part of the district is at the crossroads of Rush Green Road and Dagenham Road (in Havering), approximately half a mile south of Romford town centre. Several shops and businesses are located around this junction. Other parts extend further south along Dagenham Road into Barking and Dagenham; this neighbourhood is the location of Barking and Dagenham College and Rush Green Library, and was the site of Rush Green Hospital (once the main maternity unit for this part of London), now replaced by a housing estate.

Nearest places are Romford, Dagenham, Elm Park and Becontree Heath. Rush Green is roughly 70% White British, 10% Asian and 10% Black (2011).

Transport
The nearest tube station is Dagenham East tube station and the nearest railway station is Romford railway station.

Sport
Since December 2015, Rush Green has been the site of the training ground for West Ham United F.C. after the club decided to move from their previous facility at Chadwell Heath. The women's team use Rush Green for home matches.

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Mosquito Lagoon

Mosquito Lagoon is a body of water located on the east coast of Florida in Brevard and Volusia counties. It is part of the Indian River Lagoon system and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. It extends from the Ponce de Leon Inlet to a point north of Cape Canaveral, and connects to the Indian River via the Haulover Canal. The Mosquito Lagoon Aquatic Preserve includes 4740 acre in the northern end of the lagoon. The preserve originally extended to the southern end of the lagoon, but close to two-thirds of the preserve in the central and southern lagoon were transferred to the Federal government, and is now part of the Canaveral National Seashore. The cities of New Smyrna Beach and Edgewater, the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and the Kennedy Space Center adjoin the lagoon.

The Nature Conservancy is coordinating an oyster restoration project, developed by the University of Central Florida. The goal is to restore about 40 acre of oyster reef habitat within the Canaveral National Seashore.

Winter, the bottlenose dolphin notable for her prosthetic tail (whose story was featured in the film Dolphin Tale and the sequel Dolphin Tale 2) was rescued from Mosquito Lagoon in December 2005.

In recent years the Mosquito lagoon has experienced several algal blooms, called "brown tides", that have resulted in extensive fish kills. The species of alga thought to be primarily responsible for the blooms, Aureoumbra lagunensis, was first detected in the lagoon in 2005. Blooms causing fish kills have occurred in the lagoon in 2012, 2016, 2018 and 2020.

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Additional source of information
There is some additional material on the current Mackintosh company at this Google cached version of an article on thefashionspot.com in 2004.

As this is a cache article, it would probably be worth gathering information from it before it disappears. -- Solipsist 18:13, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I think it moved here. It seems to be a copy and paste of a newspaper article, which is similar to this 2002 Scotsman piece. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 13:33, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Here is an interesting 2007 article, which names Daniel Dunko as a 31-year-old entrepreneur who bought the Cumbernauld company in the 1990s and apparently oversaw its revivial. Maybe worth someone looking to include that in the article.  --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 13:42, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Error in origins
Judging by Charles Macintosh's entry at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, we have got it wrong regarding the relationship of Hancock and Mackintosh. See http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17541 (subscription or library card needed)

Also perhaps useful: http://www.lakelandelements.com/rainwearhistory/notes/mackintosh_heyday.htm (extract from S. Levitt 'Manchester Mackintoshes: A History of the Rubberized Garment Trade in Manchester', published in Textile History in 1986. ) Be nice to get a look at the whole article.

--Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 01:41, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Against the 'k'
I am against the use o K in Mackintosh as used presently in this article. Obviously it is correctly spelled without a k, and those who use the letter are in error. Why should wikipedia perpetuate this error teaching new people others' mistakes? — Nicholas (reply) @ 07:40, 27 June 2008 (UTC)'''
 * The article itself seems to support this argument. --BDD (talk) 00:35, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Mackintosh with the K is a brand name, Macintosh without the K is the generic for this type of raincoat. It seems to me pretty obvious that the entry is (and ought to be) about the generic type of raincoat named for its inventor, with a necessary subsidiary mention of the variantly spelt brand which traces its roots (though not a neatly as suggested here) to the same man. Or is Wikipedia now substituting copyright protected brand names and approved corporate histories for common English words and scholarship? TheCormac (talk) 16:52, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

I agree should be a redirect from the K form to the correct origins cf Hoover: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_cleaner —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.113.96.60 (talk) 06:24, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

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