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Titanic (magazine)

Titanic is a German monthly satirical magazine based in Frankfurt. It has a circulation of approximately 37,000.

History
Titanic was founded in 1979 by former contributors and editors of pardon, a satirical monthly, which the group had left after conflicts with its publisher. (Pardon ceased to exist three years later.) The founding writers and cartoonists of Titanic were mainly based in Frankfurt. They called themselves Neue Frankfurter Schule (New Frankfurt School), alluding to the Frankfurter Schule of the 1930s. The heading of Titanic's monthly reviews of humorous publications bears the portrait of philosopher Theodor W. Adorno wearing a fake goatee.

As of October 2022, the editor-in-chief is.

Chancellor Helmut Kohl was a favourite subject of the magazine, appearing on the front page more often than any other person. In the 1980s, Titanic coined his nickname "Birne", the German word for pear (accompanied with drawings of his head resembling a pear). One of Titanic's most widely known cover pages appeared in November 1989, following the Fall of the Berlin Wall. The East Germans' perceived obsession with bananas was spoofed by a Titanic cover depicting "Zonen-Gaby (17) im Glück (FRG): My first banana", where Gaby is shown holding a large peeled cucumber. "Zone" refers to the GDR's informal name "sowjetische Besatzungszone" (soviet-occupied area). To make light of the prevailing public sentiment that strongly favoured German reunification, Titanic purported to oppose it. This culminated in the founding of the Titanic party Die PARTEI (The Party), whose sole agenda is to revoke reunification and to reconstruct the inner German border. The former editor-in-chief Martin Sonneborn is the party leader. In addition, Titanic changed its mission to "The ultimate division of Germany — our commitment".

Titanic staff members have frequently engaged in activities that took aim at the media and entertainment. For example, then editor-in-chief, Bernd Fritz, made an incognito appearance at the game show Wetten, dass..?, followed by his revelation of how easy it was for him to cheat on the show. In recent years, the magazine has repeatedly attracted attention, for example by attempting to bribe a FIFA delegate to bring the football world cup to Germany (see below).

Before the German federal election, 2005 Titanic was running a campaign against "das Merkel" ("das" being the neutral gender definite article) and was publicly searching for a female contender for chancellor with the slogan "Frau? Ja, aber schön" ("Woman? Yes, but beautiful").

Titanic has generated a number of scandals, some of which have resulted in lawsuits against the magazine. Up to 2001, 40 plaintiffs had brought lawsuits against Titanic. Politician Björn Engholm, for example, received 40,000 Deutsche Mark in compensation, and the magazine incurred 190,000 DM in legal fees.

The July 2012 issue of the magazine was banned by a state court in Hamburg due to its front cover being an image of Pope Benedict XVI soiling himself.

In September 2023, Titanic announced it was facing bankruptcy, requiring money or new subscribers. As reason, Titanic cited high paper and publishing costs as well as subscription cancellations due to inflation. Editor in Chief Julia Mateus said, "Our finances have never been in good shape. But if we don't do something now, our magazine will cease to exist in a few months."

2006 FIFA World Cup bribery affair
In July 2000, Martin Sonneborn (then Titanic's editor-in-chief) sent hoax bribery faxes to a number of delegates of the FIFA World championship committee. In these letters, he offered the delegates gifts if they showed their support of the German bid for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Leading up to the vote, it had been widely expected that the tournament would take place in South Africa. However, New Zealand's representative, Charlie Dempsey, who had been instructed to vote for South Africa by the Oceania Football Confederation, abstained from voting at the last minute. His vote for South Africa would have brought the tally to 12:12, resulting in FIFA's President Sepp Blatter—who had supported South Africa's bid—having to break the tie. Dempsey was one of the eight members of the executive committee who had received Sonneborn's fax on Wednesday, the night before the vote. In his letter to Dempsey, Sonneborn promised him a cuckoo clock and Black Forest ham in exchange for Dempsey's vote for Germany:

"In this difficult situation, Germany would like to emphasize the urgency of its appeal to hold the World Cup 2006 in Germany.

Let me come straight to the point: In appreciation of your support we would like to offer you a small gift for your vote in favor of Germany: A fine basket with specialties from the black forest, including some really good sausages, ham and — hold on to your seat — a wonderful KuKuClock! And a beer mug, too! Do we leave you any choice?

We trust in the wisdom of your decision tomorrow, sincerely yours

Martin Sonneborn Secretary TDES"

Dempsey himself famously stated "This final fax broke my neck." He argued that the pressure from all sides had become too much for him.

According to reports by Spiegel magazine in 2015, there allegedly have been less-satirical bribery attempts involving billionaire Robert Louis-Dreyfuss and former German football player Franz Beckenbauer to assure a German victory in the bidding process (see main article).

In July 2000, the biggest German tabloid BILD-Zeitung urged its readers to phone Titanic and express their outrage at damaging Germany's reputation through bribery. Titanic recorded those phone calls and published an audio CD with a selection of the funniest of them, called "BILD-Leser beschimpfen Titanic" ("BILD-readers insult Titanic").

The German Football Association threatened Sonneborn with DM 600 million (approx €300 million) in damages, requiring him to swear never again to influence a FIFA decision through the use of a fax machine.

In November 2005, Sonneborn published a book about the affair, ''"Ich tat es für mein Land" — Wie TITANIC einmal die Fußball-WM 2006 nach Deutschland holte. Protokoll einer erfolgreichen Bestechung ("I did it for my country" — How Titanic once brought the Football World Cup 2006 to Germany. Story of a successful bribery''), Bombus Verlag, ISBN 3-936261-37-7.

In 2006, the year the World Cup took place in Germany, Titanic arranged an exhibition called "Wie Titanic einmal die Fußball-WM 2006 nach Deutschland holte" ("How Titanic once brought the Football World Cup 2006 to Germany") in the Historical Museum of Frankfurt am Main, which displayed the events surrounding Titanic's bribery faxes.

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Paul Bravo

Paul Bravo (born June 19, 1968) is an American former soccer player who was most recently head coach of NISA side Oakland Roots SC. He played six seasons in Major League Soccer, two in the American Professional Soccer League and two in the USISL. He also earned four caps, scoring one goal, with the United States men's national soccer team. After his retirement from playing, Bravo served for several years as an assistant coach in both Major League Soccer and the NCAA and was most recently Technical Director for the Colorado Rapids.

Youth and college
Bravo was a student-athlete at Santa Teresa High School in San Jose, California. He then played two years of college soccer at Foothill Community College and winning State Championships and while at Santa Clara University and helped his team to the NCAA co-championship in 1989. While he left college early, he continued to work on his education and earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Santa Clara in 1993.

Professional
In 1991, Bravo signed with the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks of the American Professional Soccer League (APSL). He earned Rookie of the Year honors that season as the Blackhawks took the APSL championship. In 1993, the Blackhawks ownership moved the team to the lower division USISL and renamed the team the San Jose Hawks. Despite the reduced team costs, the Hawks folded at the end of the 1993 season. Bravo then remained in the San Francisco area with the San Francisco Greek-Americans, winning the U.S. Open Cup in 1994. In 1995, he moved to the Monterey Bay Jaguars.

The San Jose Clash of Major League Soccer (MLS) drafted Bravo with the eighth overall pick of the MLS Inaugural Player Draft. Bravo spent just a season with San Jose, and, despite the presence of Eric Wynalda, led the team with thirteen goals. He was an MLS All Star this year. On December 15, 1996, the Clash traded Bravo and Rafael Amaya to the Colorado Rapids for Dominic Kinnear and a second round pick in the 1998 MLS Supplemental Draft. Bravo spent the next five years with Colorado, and would retire with a club record 39 league goals (he added five in the playoffs). In November 2001 the Rapids waived Bravo, but as no team chose to offer him a contract, he retired from playing professionally. In his six-year MLS career, Bravo scored 52 goals and added 27 assists. He repeated as an All Star in 1998 and 1999.

After his retirement, Bravo continued to play for the amateur Hollywood United F.C. in Los Angeles.

National team
Bravo earned four caps for the United States national team. His first cap came in a December 11, 1994 tie with Honduras. He did not play again until April 22, 1995, a 1–0 loss to Belgium. In 1999, Bruce Arena called up Bravo for the 1999 Confederations Cup. He started the July 30, 1999 game against Germany, then earned his last cap in the third-place 2–0 victory against Saudi Arabia. The U.S. won that game on the strength of goals from both Bravo and Brian McBride.

Coach
After retiring as a player, Bravo went into coaching. He began as an assistant with the Colorado Rapids in 2002. In 2004, UCLA hired Bravo as an assistant to its men's soccer team. On June 15, 2006, he became an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Galaxy of MLS. On August 24, 2007, he became the Galaxy's Director of Soccer.

On January 10, 2009, he was named as the Technical Director for the Colorado Rapids. He signed a three-year contract extension with Colorado on February 1, 2012.

In May 2019, Bravo was announced as the first head coach of Oakland Roots SC of the new National Independent Soccer Association. On October 31, 2019, the club announced that it and Bravo had mutually agreed to part ways.

Honors
Individual

 * MLS All-Star: 1996, 1998, 1999

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Guimet Museum

The Guimet Museum (full name in Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet; MNAAG; abbr. Musée Guimet) is an art museum located at 6, place d'Iéna in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. Literally translated into English, its full name is the National Museum of Asian Arts-Guimet, or Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts.

The museum has one of the largest collections of Asian art outside of Asia.

History

Founded by Émile Étienne Guimet, an industrialist, the museum first opened at Lyon in 1879 but was later transferred to Paris, opening in the place d'Iéna in 1889. Devoted to travel, Guimet was in 1876 commissioned by the minister of public instruction to study the religions of the Far East, and the museum contains many of the fruits of this expedition, including a fine collection of Chinese and Japanese porcelain and objects relating not merely to the religions of the East, but also to those of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. One of its wings, the Panthéon Bouddhique, displays Buddhist artworks.

Some of the museum's artifacts, originating from Cambodia, are connected with the studies conducted by the first scholars to be interested in Khmer culture, Louis Delaporte and Etienne Aymonier. They sent examples of Khmer art to France at a time when museums were not existing in Southeast Asia, with the agreement of the King of Cambodia, to show to Europe the high level of the ancient Khmer culture.

From December 2006 to April 2007, the museum harboured collections of the Kabul Museum, with archaeological pieces from the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai-Khanoum, and the Indo-Scythian treasure of Tillia Tepe.

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Eugène Minkowski

Eugène (Eugeniusz) Minkowski (17 April 1885 – 17 November 1972) was a French psychiatrist of Jewish Polish origin, known for his incorporation of phenomenology into psychopathology and for exploring the notion of "lived time". A student of Eugen Bleuler, he was also associated with the work of Ludwig Binswanger and Henri Ey. He was influenced by phenomenological philosophy and the vitalistic philosophy of Henri Bergson, and by the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler; therefore his work departed from classical medical and psychological models. He was a prolific author in several languages and regarded, as a great humanitarian. Minkowski accepted the phenomenological essence of schizophrenia as the "trouble générateur" ("generative disturbance"), which he thought consists in a loss of "vital contact with reality" and shows itself as autism.

Life and career
Minkowski was born in Saint Petersburg, the capital of the Russian Empire, into a Jewish Polish family. He was second of the four sons of August Minkowski, a Warsaw banker and his wife, Tekla, née Lichtenbaum. When he was 7 years old, the family returned to the Polish capital, where he attended school and started his medical studies at the Imperial University of Warsaw. However, because of political repression from the czarist government, the university was temporarily closed in 1905. He was obliged to continue his studies at Breslau University (3 semesters), at Göttingen University (2 semesters) and finally, at Munich University (3 semesters) where he obtained his medical degree in 1909. As a Russian subject, he went on to practice medicine in Kazan to obtain Russian certification, and while there met his future wife, Franciszka Brokman, also a doctor and later known as 'Françoise'. They married in 1913. The couple settled in Munich, where Françoise pursued further work in psychiatry while Eugène took up the study of mathematics and philosophy, attending lectures by Alexander Pfänder and Moritz Geiger, pupils of Edmund Husserl. In Munich he became acquainted with Germanic philosophy. The outbreak of World War I forced them to seek refuge in Zürich with Minkowski's brother, Mieczysław (Michel). There, Minkowski and his wife both became assistants to Eugen Bleuler at the Burghölzli, a university clinic where Carl Gustav Jung and Ludwig Binswanger had practised earlier. In 1914 he finished a work entitled "Les éléments essentiels du temps-qualité" – "The Essential Elements of Time-Quality". At the beginning of the World War I Minkowski volunteered in the French Army in 1915 as a military medic. In 1915, the couple had a son, Alexandre Minkowski, later a pioneer of French neonatology and father of the noted orchestra conductor, Marc Minkowski, followed in 1918 by a daughter, Jeannine, a lawyer. In the war he saw action at the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Verdun, where his bravery earned him several citations and military decorations, including the Croix de Guerre. He became an officer of the Legion of Honour and obtained French nationality. In France Minkowski came under the influence of the famous French philosopher Henri Bergson, who critiqued standard scientific views of time and of life. Minkowski was convinced that psychopathology should be closer to philosophy and closer to individual philosophers' views. For Minkowski, Bergson was the paradigmatic philosopher.

After the war he said: "During the war we were waiting for peace, hoping to take up again the life that we had abandoned. In reality, a new period began, a period of difficulties and deceptions, of setbacks and painful, often fruitless efforts to adapt oneself to new problems of existence. The calm propitious to philosophic thought was far from reborn. Long, arid, and somber years followed the war. My work lay dormant at the bottom of my drawer".

After World War I, when his enlistment came to an end, he adopted French nationality. The family moved again to Paris permanently and Minkowski returned to medicine and partially abandoned his philosophical pursuits. He worked on the perception of time as a vector in psychopathology, drawing heavily on his unpublished work on Bergson, whom he had known personally. In 1925 he became one of the co-founders of a movement and a French journal in psychiatry, known as "L'Évolution psychiatrique" – "Psychiatric Evolution". "L'Évolution psychiatrique", which introduced the work of Eugen Bleuler and several other psychiatrists, such as Karl Jaspers and Ludwig Binswanger. Directors of "l'Ėvolution psychiatrique" were A. Hesnard and R. Laforgue. Original works and critical studies in the journal have been made by messieurs R. Allendy, A. Borel, A. Ceillier, H. Claude, H. Codet, J. Damourette, A. Hesnard, R. Laforgue, Mme F. Minkowska, E. Minkowski, É Pichon, Robin, R. de Saussure, Schiff and J. Vinchon. In 1925 Minkowski contributed articles to the first volume of "L'Ėvolution psychiatrique" : "La Génèse de la Notion de Schizophrénie et ses Caractères Essentiels" – "Genesis of the Notion of Schizophrenia and its Essential Features". As a bonus he published a page about the modern history of psychiatry.

In 1926 he wrote a doctoral thesis on ""La notion de perte de contact avec la réalité et ses applications en psychopathologie"" – The Notion of Loss of Contact with Reality and its Applications in Psychopathology, which was based on the works of Henri Bergson and Eugen Bleuler, and began work at Sainte-Anne's Psychiatric Hospital, a leading mental hospital in Paris. Minkowski thought that autism is the patient's loss of vital contact with reality (perte de contact vital avec la réalité). He distinguished two types of schizophrenic autism: 'rich or florid autism' (autisme riche) & 'poor autism' (autisme pauvre), i.e. autism characterized by affective and cognitive "poverty". But Minkowski disagreed with Bleuler on several points. First, he did not believe that the necessary component of autism is "the predominance of inner fantasy life". In truth, he claimed that a typical schizophrenic patient has the "poor autism", which he characterized by the poverty of affective and cognitive processes. On that subject, he also criticized Bleuler's description of schizophrenic autism together with Emil Kraepelin. Minkowski claimed that "rich autism" happened only when a schizophrenic patient was equipped with an autism-independent inclination toward affective and cognitive expressivity. Just as important, Minkowski considered autism as a both fundamental and primary disorder of schizophrenia. Other psychopathological features of schizophrenia could be comprehended in terms of it.

In 1927 he published "La Schizophrénie" on schizophrenia, followed in 1933, by "Le Temps vécu. Études phénoménologique et psychopathologiques" – "Lived Time. Phenomenological and Psychopathological Studies". In this, his only book so far translated into English, Minkowski sought to use phenomenology as an approach to psychopathology. He proposed that the pathology of patients should always be interpreted in light of their subjective experience of time. Unable initially to find a publisher he funded a thousand copies himself. It was eventually published by J.L.L. d'Artrey to whom Minkowski dedicated the new edition of the work. Minkowski was in the Resistance during World War II and directed the work of a charity to protect children from the Shoah that saved thousands of Jewish children. In 1946 he gave one of the first Basel lectures on psychological suffering during Nazi persecution and went on to testify as an expert witness in numerous subsequent lawsuits. He was the author of some 250 clinical papers and publications. Eugène Minkowski died in 1972. His funeral was attended by a large crowd, including his psychiatrist friend and collaborator, Henri Ey.

Philosophy and psychopathology
Philosophically, Minkowski was influenced by Bergson and the phenomenologist Max Scheler, who had developed separate accounts of Time, (see Bergson's 1889 work Time and Free Will and his analyses of the irrational nature of time). Following Bergson's account of élan vital, Minkowski developed what he named as vital energy, an account of the essence of time. He was also attracted by the practice of the Swiss psychiatrist, Eugen Bleuler and attempted to synthesize ideas from psychiatry with philosophy, taking an approach similar to Karl Jaspers. He introduced phenomenology as part of his investigations into psychopathology. He sought thereby to explain the experience of patients who appeared to suffer from distortions of time and/or space. Minkowski's first research into the psychopathology of schizophrenia was inspired by Bergson and appeared in his 1927 work La Schizophrénie, which he thought was "due to a deficiency of intuition, a sense of time and to a progressive hypertrophy of the grasp of spatial factors". Based on his dissertation, he considered that schizophrenic patients display a "loss of vital contact with reality" unlike others who experienced life as a "lived synchronism" or what he called "syntony", a notion borrowed from Ernst Kretschmer. According to R.D. Laing, Minkowski made "the first serious attempt in psychiatry to reconstruct the other person's lived experience" and was "the first figure in psychiatry to bring the nature of phenomenological investigations clearly into view". He is quoted on the first page of Laing's classic The Divided Self: "Je donne une œuvre subjective ici, œuvre cependant qui tend de toutes ses forces vers l'objectivité." I offer you a subjective work, but a work which nevertheless struggles with all its might towards objectivity. He was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Zurich in 1955 and the University of Warsaw in 1965.

Major works in French

 * La Notion de perte contact vital avec la réalité et ses applications en psychopathologie (Paris: Jouve, 1926)
 * La schizophrénie: Psychopathologie des schizoïdes et des schizophrènes (Paris: Payot, 1927). 2nd, revised and augmented, edition (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1953).
 * Le Temps vécu. Étude phénoménologique et psychopathologiques (Paris: D'Artrey, 1933)
 * Vers une cosmologie. Fragments philosophiques, (Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1936)
 * Traité de psychopathologie (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968)
 * Au-delà du rationalisme morbide (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000)
 * Écrits cliniques, (Eres, 2002)

Articles in French

 * 1920 "Famille B... et famille F..., contribution à l'étude de l'hérédité des maladies mentales" (in collaboration with F. Minkowska). Annales médico-psychologiques (Paris), LXXVII, 303–28.
 * 1923 "Étude psychologique et analyse phénoménologique d'un cas de mélancolie schizophrénique.", Journal de psychologie normale et pathologique, 20, 543–558.
 * "Contribution à l'études des ideés d'influence" (in collaboration with R. Targowla). L'Encéphale, XVIII, No.10, 652–59.
 * 1925 "La genèse de la notion de schizophrénie et ses caractères essentiels", L'Évolution psychiatrique.
 * 1927 "De la rêverie morbide au délire d'influence", L'Évolution psychiatrique.
 * 1938 "Á propos de l'hygiène mentale : Quelques réflexions", Annales médicopsychologiques, avril.
 * 1946 "L'Anesthésie affective", Annales Médico-Psychologiques, 104, 80–88.
 * 1952 "Le Rorschach dans l'œuvre de F. Minkowska", Bulletin du groupement français du Rorschach.
 * 1963 "Vers quels horizons nous emmène Bachelard", Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 17e année, no. 66, fasc 4.
 * 1964 "Métaphore et Symbole", Cahiers Internationaux de Symbolisme, n°5.
 * 1965 "À l'origine le un et le deux sont-ils nécessairement des nombres ? À propos du monisme et du dualisme", Revue philosophique de Louvain, 63.

Articles in German

 * 1911 "Zur Müllerschen Lehre von den spezifischen Sinnesenergien." Zeitschrift für Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane (Leipzig), XLV, 129–52.
 * 1913 "Die Zenkersche Theorie der Farbenperzeption (Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis und Beurteilung der physiologischen Farbentheorien)." Zeitsschrift für Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane, XLVII, No. 2, 211–22.
 * 1914 "Betrachtungen im Anschluss an das Prinzip des psychophysischen Parallelismus". Archiv für die gesamte Psychologie (Leipzig and Berlin), XXXI, 132–243.
 * "Inhalt, symbolische Darstellung und Begründung des Grundsatzes der Identität als Grundsatz unseres Vorstellens". Archiv für systematische Philosophie (Berlin), XX, No. 2, 209–19.
 * 1923 "Bleuler's Schizoidie und Syntonie und das Zeiterlebnis". Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie (Berlin), LXXXII, 212–30.
 * "Probleme der Vererbung von Geisteskrankheiten auf Grund von psychiatrischen un genealogischen Untersuchungen an zwei Familien" (in collaboration with F. Minskowska). Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie und Psychiatrie (Zurich), XII, 47–70.

Major work in English

 * Lived Time: Phenomenological and Psychopathological Studies, trans. by Nancy Metzel, Northwestern University Press, Evanston. 1970.

Articles in English

 * 1923 "Findings in a Case of Schizophrenic Depression", trans. Barbara Bliss in Existence: A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology. (pp. 127–138) New York, NY, US: Basic Books. Rollo May (ed.), 1958.
 * 1926 "Bergson's Conceptions as Applied to Psychopathology", Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 63, n°4, juin, 553–568.
 * 1947 "The Psychology of the Deportees", American OSE Review 4, Summer-Fall.

Articles in Polish
These include:
 * Przyroda, zwierzęcość, człowieczeństwo, bestializm „Przegl. Filoz". R. 44: 1948 – 'Nature, animalism, humankind and bestiality' in the Polish Philosophical Review, 44. 1948
 * ''Psychopatologia i psychologia („Neurologia, Neurochirurgia i Psychiatria Pol". 1956), Z zagadnień schizofrenii (tamże 1957) – 'Psychopathology and Psychology' in the Polish Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. 1956.
 * Prostota (w: „Szkice filozoficzne Romanowi Ingardenowi w darze", W.–Kr. 1964) – 'Simplicity' in Philosophical Sketches dedicated to Roman Ingarden, Kraków, 1964.

Articles in Spanish

 * 1933 "La Psiquiatria en 1932" (in collaboration with P. Guiraud). Revista de criminologia, psiquiatria y medicina légal (Buenos Aires), XX, 322–37.
 * "La Psiquiatria en 1933" (in collaboration with P. Guiraud). Revista de criminologia, XXI, 250–364.

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Delete. Vanity. Amusing vanity, but vanity nonetheless qitaana 13:06, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

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Apocalypse (1990 video game)

Apocalypse is a futuristic 3D space shoot 'em up game released in 1990 for the Acorn Archimedes written by Gordon J. Key and published by The Fourth Dimension.

Plot
Sometime in the future, computers have evolved into sentient, mobile life-forms known as 'Rakonans'. They then proceed to conquer numerous planets, depleting the natural resources until nothing is left, and then swarming in a locust-like fashion to the next planet. The consequence of this is that humans then enter into conflict with the Rakonans in order to survive.

The game sees the player acting as a Llanerk (a type of assault aircraft in the form of a flying saucer) pilot for the 'Royal Guild of Spacing'. During the course of the game, nine planets must be 'sterilised' by removing a set number of Rakonan units.

Apocalypse is notable for the extremely high review scores awarded by The Micro User, and was only the second game on the Archimedes to feature fast, realtime true 3D polygon graphics (the first being David Braben's Zarch (1988), published by Superior Software).

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Harry Weedon

Harold William "Harry" Weedon (1887 – 17 June 1970) was an English architect. Although he designed a large number of buildings during a long career, he is best known for his role overseeing the Art Deco designs of the Odeon Cinemas for Oscar Deutsch in the 1930s. Influenced by the work of Erich Mendelsohn and Hans Poelzig – the Odeons "taught Britain to love modern architecture" and form "a body of work which, with London Underground stations, denotes the Thirties like nothing else".

Education and early career
Weedon was born in Handsworth, Birmingham, the son of a commercial traveller, and educated at King Edward's School in the city. He studied architecture at the Birmingham School of Art from 1904, before being articled to the architectural practice of Robert Atkinson. In 1912 at the age of 24 he was made an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects and went into partnership with Harold Seymore Scott, with whom he designed a cinema in Birchfield, completed in 1913, and several upmarket houses in Warwickshire.

The outbreak of World War I saw building work dry up, however, and in 1914 he volunteered as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, serving until 1917. On his demobilisation he set about re-establishing his architectural practice, but an affair with the wife of a neighbour resulted in a scandalous double divorce that destroyed his reputation, and he spent the following years in Leamington Spa working as a manager in the catering industry.

The Odeon era
Weedon returned to Birmingham and to architecture in 1925, quickly building up his practice designing housing estates and commercial and industrial premises. It was his work in 1932 designing the enlargement of a factory in Hockley, Birmingham for the firm of Deutsch and Brenner that brought him to the attention of Oscar Deutsch – the factory's owner's son – who was in the process of building up his Odeon chain of cinemas and was dissatisfied with the interior proposed for his cinema under construction in Warley near Birmingham. Weedon was approached by Deutsch to complete the design, but at the time his office numbered only six staff and had nobody other than Weedon himself with any cinema experience, so the young Cecil Clavering was recruited to complete the work.

It was Clavering's next cinema design, for the Odeon, Kingstanding, built in Birmingham's expanding Kingstanding suburb in 1935, that cemented the relationship between Deutsch and Weedon. Originally designed for another chain and to be called the "Beacon", Deutsch saw in Clavering's simple and original Art Deco design the making of the house style he sought to distinguish the Odeon chain from his rivals. The cinema was quickly bought for the Odeon group and Weedon was appointed to oversee all of the group's designs.

Between Weedon's appointment in 1934 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939 the Weedon office was to design or act as consultant architect to over 250 of Deutsch's cinemas. Not all of these were designed by the practice itself: of the thirty-six Odeons that opened in 1936 only eight were Weedon designs. Even those that were designed by the Weedon practice were not designed by Weedon himself – Weedon's role has been likened to that of an executive producer, creating the house style and maintaining consistent quality. The practice's other major notable building of the era – the Villa Marina, an early British example of a house in the International Style built in Llandudno in 1936 – was designed by Weedon personally.

Clavering himself designed three more Odeons for Weedon after Kingstanding – in Sutton Coldfield, Colwyn Bay and Scarborough, "one masterpiece after the other" considered "the finest expressions of the Odeon circuit style". Later in 1935 however Clavering stunned Weedon by resigning to take up a job with the Office of Works. Weedon approached Clavering's former tutor who recommended Robert Bullivant as Clavering's replacement.

Post-war
In March 1939, Weedon brought four of his senior staff into partnership to form the Weedon Partnership. The outbreak of World War II later that year, and the take-over of the Odeon group by J. Arthur Rank on the death of Deutsch in 1942, saw cinema design work evaporate, and Weedon spent most of the war overseeing the dispersal of Birmingham's wartime industries to protect them during the Birmingham Blitz. This resulted in a wide range of contacts with the Midlands' engineering and industrial firms and the post-war era saw the Weedon Partnership focusing on the design of factories, including notable work at the British Motor Corporation's Longbridge plant and in Cowley, Oxford, and a large factory for Typhoo Tea in Digbeth, Birmingham.

Weedon himself continued design work until his final illness.

The Partnership is still in business as WeedonArchitects and celebrated its centenary in 2012 with a move to new offices in Harry's Yard in the Jewellery Quarter close to Birmingham City Centre. It has maintained Harry's links with the Automotive industry with buildings for Aston Martin, Jaguar Land Rover and Toyota amongst others. The partnership has been involved in a variety of projects including ones at Brindleyplace (Birmingham), Piccadilly Place (Manchester), The Mailbox (Birmingham) and Hicking Pentecost (Nottingham).

Weedon had a love of shooting and was involved in the Solihull Home Guard Rifle Club after the war. The club was formed in 1944 and Harry Weedon donated a three-quarter acre disused sand pit to the club in 1952. This became the location for the club and it still operates today as the Solihull Rifle and Pistol Club.

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The Life with God Study Bible

The Life with God Bible is a study Bible published by Harper in 2005, and utilizes the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV). It was formerly published under the name Renovaré Spiritual Formation Bible, but has been republished under the Life with God title.

The Deuterocanonical Editions
There are two editions of the Bible; those with the Deuterocanonical books, and those without them. The reasoning for adding the books (according to former Renovaré president, Richard Foster) is summarized as, ''"1. The Deuterocanonical books were part of the ancient Greek Bible, the Septuagint, which was in circulation during the time of Christ. It was the Bible of the early Church. This Bible shaped the conscious awareness of God for the first Christians. 2. The Deuterocanonical books help Christian readers understand the New Testament context—the context of Jesus' ministry as well as of the writers of the New Testament books. The people Jesus encountered and taught were in many ways spiritually formed by these writings.3. Most of the Church throughout most of her history has included the Deuterocanonical books as part of the Bible. The Eastern Orthodox Bible, the Greek Bible, the Slavonic Bible, the Anglican Bible and the Roman Catholic Bible all currently include the Deuterocanonical books. Plus, while not viewing them as Scripture, early Protestant Bibles—Luther's translation, the Great Bible of 1539, the Geneva Bible of 1560 (supported by John Calvin and John Knox), the Bishops' Bible of 1568, and the King James Bible of 1611—included the Deuterocanonical books, or "Apocrypha," as something of an appendix. 4. Throughout the ages, many questions have persisted about the value of the Deuterocanonical books. Even those groups in our time who include and use the Deuterocanonicals do not give them the same authority as the primary canon. And we, the General Editors of The Life with God Bible, would not want to accord these books the same authority as revealed Scripture. Still, their role in bridging the gap between Malachi and Matthew is unquestioned and they provide marvelous insight into the way in which the first Christians understood their relationship to God. 5. The Deuterocanonical books do not affect any central doctrine of the Christian faith, but they do contain many helpful insights for spiritual formation. For this reason alone they are worth reading and can function for us today in much the same way that good sermons and devotional writings do. Of them, Luther wrote, "Apocrypha—that is, books which are not regarded as equal to the holy Scriptures, and yet are profitable and good to read.""'' The Deuterocanonical Books that appear in the Bible are the same as those translated by the NRSV. Foster, however, is incorrect in stating that the 'Anglican Bible' includes the Deuterocanonical books.  (Anglican doctrine on the matter is exactly the same as the attitude he attributes to Luther, above.)

Some of the Editors
Editors and contributors include Walter Brueggemann, Marva Dawn, Richard Foster, James Earl Massey, Thomas Oden, Eugene Peterson, Andrew Purves, Dallas Willard, William Willimon, and Ben Witherington III.

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Onward Muslim Soldiers

Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West, published in October 2003, is a nonfiction book by Robert Spencer. Spencer described the book as an "in-depth study of the doctrine of jihad and how it is exploited today by terrorists to justify what they’re doing and to recruit and motivate new terrorists".

Description
In the book, Spencer discusses issues relating to radical Islam, Jihad, and Islamic terrorism, and claims that these are more serious threats to the non-Muslim world than the media and world leaders accept. Examining current events and sources from the Qur'an, he suggests that jihad, in the sense of physical violence against non-Muslims, is an inherent component of Islam and that Islamic tolerance (the tolerance of Muslims for other religions) is exaggerated by the media. He cites this as the reason for what he claims to be lack of support from the more moderate Islamic community for anti-terrorism measures and for what he claims to be their failure to openly or widely criticise Muslim extremists. He asserts that a direct reading of the Koran and texts that interpret it leads to Islamic extremism.

The book makes a number of controversial claims. These include that mosques in the United States should be monitored more closely to protect national security, and that Muslims living in Western Europe are eroding traditions of 'secularism, free enquiry and open societies'. He also makes the assertion that non-Muslims living in Muslim countries suffer legalised oppression that stems from teachings in the Qur'an.

Reviews and reception
The book was reviewed in a September 2003 article in Human Events. In addition, the book was with eight other books the focus of a January 2004 article in The Middle East Journal entitled: "The Islam Industry and Scholarship", in which the author wrote that the book's author "is very good at finding quotations from the Qur'an or from obscure Muslim clerics to 'prove' the danger of Islam... Spencer states that '[w]hen modern Muslims like Jaffar Umar Thalib [sic] and Usama Bin Ladin declare Jihad, Muslims take them seriously... In present-day studies of Islam, one can easily cite as a source for research 'a writer on a Muslim bulletin board.'

In June 2004, Khalid Hasan wrote in an article in Pakistan's  Daily Times that the book was part of the “great Islamic conspiracy.” Hasan says that the book's opinion that Muslims in the United States have failed to “disavow terrorism and condemn the 9/11 attacks with a clear voice” is "not correct by a long shot." Hasan concluded by writing: "How one can fight such ignorance, I am unable to say."

Bat Yeor cites the book approvingly in Eurabia: the Euro-Arab axis, describing it as a "well documented" book that examines what she believes to be calls to Jihad by Muslims in Europe. Sabina Citron says the book provides "deep insights" into the major tenets of political Islam, and says it should be required reading for Western leaders, alongside Hugh Fitzgerald's detailed review of the book, which appeared in Outpost.

It was banned in Malaysia in 2007.

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Bathsheba Spooner

Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner (February 15, 1746 – July 2, 1778) was the first woman in American history to be executed following the Declaration of Independence.

The daughter of prominent Loyalist brigadier general and jurist Timothy Ruggles, Bathsheba Ruggles had an arranged marriage to wealthy farmer Joshua Spooner. After becoming pregnant by her lover, Continental Army soldier Ezra Ross, she enlisted the assistance of Ross and two others to murder her husband. On the night of March 1, 1778, Spooner was beaten to death and his body deposited in a well. Bathsheba and the three conspirators were soon arrested, tried, and convicted of Spooner's murder and sentenced to death.

Bathsheba petitioned to have her execution delayed because of her pregnancy, which was first denied and then supported by some members of a group charged with examining her to verify the pregnancy. After the four were executed, a postmortem examination revealed that she was five months pregnant. Historians have pointed out that the trial and execution may have been hastened by anti-Loyalist sentiment.

Background
Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner was the daughter of Brig. Gen. Timothy Ruggles, a lawyer who had served as chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1762 to 1764. Timothy Ruggles refused to sign the Stamp Act protest when serving as Massachusetts representative to the Stamp Act Congress in 1765. An avowed Loyalist who threatened to raise an army to protect his and other Loyalist farms against attacks by Patriot forces, Ruggles joined forces with the British Army in Boston in 1775.

Bathsheba Ruggles married Joshua Spooner on January 15, 1766. He was a well-to-do Brookfield farmer, the son of a wealthy Boston merchant. The Spooners lived in relative affluence in a two-story house in Brookfield, and had four children between 1767 and 1775. Spooner was later described as an abusive man for whom his wife developed "an utter aversion."

Plotting murder
In the spring of 1777, sixteen-year-old Ezra Ross, a soldier in the Continental Army, fell ill en route to his home in Linebrook, a village in Ipswich. Bathsheba nursed him back to health. On his travels to and from army service, Ross visited the Spooner home in July and December 1777. On the latter occasion he stayed into the new year, traveled with Spooner on business trips and had an affair with Bathsheba. She became pregnant mid-January and began urging Ross to kill her husband. In February 1778, Ross accompanied Spooner on an extended trip to Princeton, bringing along a bottle of nitric acid given to him by Bathsheba with the aim of poisoning Spooner. Ross backed out of the plan and returned directly to his Linebrook home.

While Ross and Spooner were in Princeton, Bathsheba invited two runaway British soldiers—escaped prisoners of war Pvt. Williams Brooks and Sgt. James Buchanan—to stay at the Spooner home and discussed ideas for killing her husband with them. When Spooner returned, she recruited them to assist her. She also wrote to Ross to inform him of these developments, and he returned to Brookfield on February 28. When Spooner returned home from a local tavern the following evening, Brooks committed the murder and Buchanan and Ross helped hide the body in the Spooners' well. Bathsheba distributed paper money from her husband's lockbox and articles of his clothing to the three men, who then took one of the Spooner horses to Worcester, fourteen miles away.

Brooks and Buchanan spent the remainder of the night drinking, and the next morning Brooks showed off Spooner's silver shoe buckles engraved with his initials. Once the murder was discovered, the three men were arrested in Worcester within 24 hours. When Ross was discovered hiding in the attic of a tavern, he asked for a confessor. The trio implicated Bathsheba and three of her household servants in the crime. Brooks was charged with the assault on Spooner; Buchanan and Ross with aiding and abetting in the murder; and Bathsheba with inciting, abetting and procuring the manner and form of the murder. All were arraigned and pleaded not guilty.

Trial and execution
Robert Treat Paine, later the first Attorney General of Massachusetts, prosecuted the case. At the trial on April 24, 1778, the household servants testified for the prosecution. Levi Lincoln, later U.S. Attorney General under President Thomas Jefferson, defended the accused. Brooks and Buchanan had no defense to offer, having signed lengthy confessions. Though Ross had signed a similar confession, Lincoln argued that he had no intention of harming the deceased, was not aware of the plan until a few hours before the murder, had not assisted in the murder and pretended to support it to maintain his affair with Bathsheba. He argued that Bathsheba had a "disordered mind," that her actions were irrational as evidenced by the lack of a getaway plan.

All four defendants were found guilty the next day and sentenced to death, with the executions set for June 4, 1778. Bathsheba petitioned for a postponement, citing her pregnancy, based on common law principle that protected the life of a fetus if it had quickened. Bathsheba was examined by a panel of twelve women and two male midwives. All swore that she was not "quick with child." When Bathsheba and her confessor, the Rev. Thaddeus Maccarty, protested the report, four of the examiners joined by another midwife and Spooner's brother-in-law, Dr. John Green, conducted a second examination and supported the claim of pregnancy. The court did not accept those findings and Bathsheba was hanged alongside Ross, Brooks and Buchanan on July 2 in Worcester's Washington Square before a crowd of 5,000 spectators. A post-mortem examination, performed at Bathsheba's request, showed that she was pregnant with "a perfect male fetus of the growth of five months."

Bathsheba's body was claimed by her sister, Mary Ruggles Green, wife of Dr. John Green. She was buried in an unmarked grave on the Green Estate, which today is the site of Green Hill Park in Worcester.

Assessments
Shortly after the executions, on July 5, Rev. Ebenezer Parkman, the minister of the nearby town of Westborough, delivered a sermon entitled The Adultress Shall Hunt for the Precious Life in which he said: "So keep thee from the Evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. There are a thousand dangers, that poor young wretches are in by reason of the snares & traps which are everywhere laid ... particularly the poor beardless youth not quite 18." One historian says the judgment of the first panel that examined Spooner–"they refused to acknowledge what must have been obvious"–and blames "vindictiveness". Others question the motivation of the Massachusetts Executive Council. Some suggest Bathsheba was executed because the community opposed her father's Loyalist stance. John Avery Jr., the deputy secretary and leader of the Massachusetts Executive Council, who signed Bathsheba's death warrant, belonged to a group of Patriots called the Loyal Nine, who formed the innermost circle of the Sons of Liberty and was a step-brother of the murder victim.

In popular culture
The CBS radio program Crime Classics dramatized the case in an episode entitled "The Crime of Bathsheba Spooner" that aired on June 15, 1953. Bathsheba Spooner's case was also featured in Season 11, Episode 10 of Deadly Women.

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Spiritual Formation Bible

The Spiritual Formation Bible is a study Bible that has an emphasis on Spiritual formation. It may refer to any of these 4 published titles:

 * The Spiritual Formation Bible (NIV)
 * The Spiritual Formation Bible: Growing in Intimacy with God Through Scripture (NRSV)
 * The Renovare Spiritual Formation Study Bible (NRSV)
 * The Life with God Bible (NRSV)

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Amy Hempel

Amy Hempel (born December 14, 1951) is an American short story writer and journalist. She teaches creative writing at the Michener Center for Writers.

Life
Hempel was born in Chicago, Illinois. She moved to California at age 16, which is where much of her early fiction takes place. She moved to New York City in the mid-seventies. There, she connected with writer and editor Gordon Lish, with whom she maintained a long professional relationship. She formerly was professor of creative writing at the University of Florida. She was the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer of English at Harvard University from 2009 to 2014. Additionally, she taught fiction in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Writing at Bennington College. She has previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Duke University, The New School, Brooklyn College, and Princeton University. She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

A dog enthusiast, Hempel is a founding board member of the Deja Foundation.

Career
Hempel is a former student of Gordon Lish, in whose workshop she wrote several of her first stories. Lish was so impressed with her work that he helped her publish her first collection, Reasons to Live (1985), which includes "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried", the first story she ever wrote. Hempel credits Lish's influence for the lack of pressure she has felt to become a novelist rather than a short story writer. Originally published in TriQuarterly in 1983, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" is one of the most frequently anthologized stories in contemporary fiction.

Hempel has produced three other collections: At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (1990), which includes the story "The Harvest"; Tumble Home (1997); and The Dog of the Marriage (2005). Tumble Home was Hempel's first novella, which she structured as a letter to an unspecified recipient and called "the most personal thing I've ever written." Both "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried" and Tumble Home highlight animals' ability to express emotions and draw them out of people. In an interview in BOMB Magazine, Hempel explained, "I think there's a purity of feeling there that humans can connect with if we're lucky, or if we're looking for it."

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (2006) gathers all the stories from the four earlier books. She co-edited (with Jim Shepard) Unleashed–Poems by Writers' Dogs (1995), which includes contributions by Edward Albee, John Irving, Denis Johnson, Gordon Lish, Arthur Miller, and many others. She writes articles, essays, and short stories for such publications as Vanity Fair, Interview, BOMB, GQ, ELLE, Harper's Magazine, The Quarterly, and Playboy. Hempel has participated in several conferences including The Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers. In 2015, Hempel judged a flash fiction contest for Nat. Brut magazine.

Generally termed a minimalist writer, along with Raymond Carver, Mary Robison, and Frederick Barthelme, Hempel is one of a handful of writers who has built a reputation based solely on short fiction. Hempel purposefully leaves her stories' narrators unnamed, as "there are more possibilities when you don't pin down a person with a name and an age and a background because then people can bring something to them or take something from them."

Hempel currently teaches in the MFA Program at the Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas at Austin.

Awards
In 2000, Hempel received the Hobson Award and was awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006, she was awarded a USA Fellowship grant by United States Artists, an arts advocacy foundation dedicated to the support and promotion of America's top living artists. She won the Ambassador Book Award in 2007 for her Collected Stories, which was also named as one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of the year. In 2008, she won the Rea Award for the Short Story. In 2009, she received the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction along with Alistair MacLeod. In 2015, Hempel received the John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence from Centenary College.

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 * I wasn't sure how to translate Тарковское шамхальство into English, so I decided to go with Tarki Khanate, which is not really correct. Could someone knowledgeable in the history of this region correct this if they know what it is in English? KNewman 13:18, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

Tarki Shamkhalate :) --Mega programmer

Chechen politician?
I don't beleive this man qualifies as a Chechen politician, I will remove the category. Let me know if you disagree. ForrestSjap 15:31, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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Upper Room (disambiguation)

The Upper Room is location of the Last Supper that Jesus Christ took with his disciples.

The Upper Room may also refer to:

 * The Cenacle, the traditional site of the Last Supper.
 * The Upper Room (band), a defunct UK rock music band
 * The Upper Room (Devotional and Ministry Organization), a worldwide publisher of the daily devotional guide of the same name
 * The Upper Room (paintings), an installation of paintings by Chris Ofili
 * In the Upper Room, a ballet by U.S. choreographer Twyla Tharp, first performed in 1986
 * "The Upper Room", a song made popular by Mahalia Jackson

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The Fourth Dimension (company)

The Fourth Dimension (4D) was a major video game publisher for the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Acorn Archimedes and RiscPC between 1989 and 1998. Previously, The Fourth Dimension had been known as Impact Software, which specialised mainly in BBC Micro games. Some of 4D's staff had worked for Superior Software. Notable release included Cyber Chess, Stunt Racer 2000, Galactic Dan and Chocks Away.

History
In 1989, The Fourth Dimension was founded by brothers Mark and Steve Botterill in Sheffield. Originally it was called Impact Software. It released software for Acorn's 8-bit and 32-bit computer ranges.

Following the demise of Acorn and the subsequent contraction of the RISC OS games market, The Fourth Dimension brand and rights to the software back-catalogue was acquired by CJE Micro's.

In 2002, the publisher backed a scheme subsidising the cost of hardware for developers.

In 2004, CJE Micro's sold the rights to the software to APDL, the Archimedes Public Domain Library.

Market focus
Although the Archimedes market was relatively small, it had a fast 32-bit RISC processor with a slim accelerated pipeline that encouraged fast graphics operations. Certain of 4D's games anticipate the 3D, first-person viewpoint style of graphics that was becoming popular on the much larger PC market at the same time. For example, E-type is a car racing game; Chocks Away is an air combat game with a two-player dogfight mode; and Galactic Dan is a primitive 1992 first-person shooter with a pre-Wolfenstein 3D graphics style, combining a 3D Maze look with ray-traced sprites.

List of published games

 * Apocalypse (Gordon J. Key, 1990)
 * Arcade Soccer (Peter Gillett, 1989)
 * Birds of War
 * Black Angel (Gordon J. Key, 1992)
 * Boogie Buggy (Coin-Age, 1991)
 * Break 147 & Superpool (Gordon J. Key, 1991)
 * Carnage Inc. (Coding: Chris & Stuart Fludger; Graphics: Andrew Jackson; Screen & puzzle design: Chris Fludger; Vector Graphics: Stuart Fludger 1993)
 * Cataclysm (David Postlethwaite)
 * Chocks Away (Andrew Hutchings, 1990)
 * Chocks Away Extra Missions (Andrew Hutchings, 1991)
 * Chopper Force (Andrew Norris, 1992)
 * Cyber Chess (William Tunstall-Pedoe, 1993)
 * Custom McCoy (4 games chosen by buyer from list of applicable games)
 * Demon's Lair (Dr. Kevin Martin)
 * Drop Ship (Andrew Catling, 1990)
 * The Dungeon (Martin Dennett & John Parker, 1993)
 * Enter The Realm (Audio, Visual & Code: Graeme Richardson, Music: Peter Gillett, 1991)
 * E-Type (Gordon J. Key, 1989)
 * E-Type Track Designer (Gordon J. Key, 1989)
 * E-Type Compendium (Gordon J. Key)
 * E-Type 2 (Gordon J. Key)
 * The Exotic Adventures of Sylvia Layne
 * Galactic Dan (Coding: Ian Holmes; Graphics: James Davidson, 1992)
 * Grievous Bodily 'ARM (Software Engineering: Simon Hallam; Graphics: Sophie Neal; Music: The Byford Brothers, 1991)
 * Haunted House (Gordon J. Key)
 * Holed Out! (Gordon J. Key, 1989)
 * Holed Out Designer (Gordon J. Key, 1990)
 * Holed Out Extra Courses Vol. 1 & 2 (Gordon J. Key)
 * Holed Out Compendium (Gordon J. Key, 1991)
 * Inertia (David Postlethwaite, 1990)
 * Logic Mania - Gloop, Blindfold, Atomix, Tilt (Robin Jubber, Dave Williams, 1996)
 * Man At Arms (Coding: Matthew Atkinson; Music: Peter Gillett, 1990)
 * Nevryon (Coding & Graphics: Graeme Richardson; Music: Peter Gillett, 1990)
 * The Olympics (1990)
 * Pandora's Box (Coding: Chris & Stuart Fludger; Graphics: Andrew Jackson; Additional Graphics: Chris Fludger; Title Music: Simon Carless, 1992)
 * Powerband (Gordon J. Key, 1990)
 * Pysanki (Coding: Matthew Atkinson; Music: David Postlethwaite, 1990)
 * Quazer (1990) (Published as Impact Software)
 * Real McCoy Compendium series:
 * Real McCoy 1 - Arcade Soccer, Quazer, U.I.M and White Magic (1990)
 * Real McCoy 2 - Apocalypse, Holed Out!, Inertia and The Olympics (1991)
 * Real McCoy 3 - Drop Ship, Nevryon, Powerband and The Wimp Game.
 * Real McCoy 4 - Cataclysm, Galactic Dan, Grievous Bodily 'ARM and X-Fire.
 * Real McCoy 5 - Anti-Grav, Chopper Force, Demon's Lair and Pandora's Box.
 * Real McCoy 6 - Bloodlust, Carnage Inc., Silverball and Technodream.

 * Saloon Cars (Andy Swain 1991)
 * Saloon Cars Deluxe (Andy Swain, 1992)
 * Saloon Cars Deluxe Extra Courses Vol. 1 (Andy Swain)
 * Spobbleoid Fantasy (Graeme Richardson, 1995)
 * Stunt Racer 2000 (Fednet aka. Andrew Hutchings and Tim Parry, 1993)
 * The Time Machine (Gordon J. Key)
 * U.I.M: Ultra Intelligent Machine
 * Virtual Golf (Gordon J. Key)
 * White Magic (John Whigham, 1989)
 * White Magic 2 (John Whigham, 1989)
 * The Wimp Game (Thomas E.H. Nunns, 1990)
 * X-Fire (The Soft Lads aka. Mark Neves, Martin Portman and Paul Carrol, 1992)

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Little Bunny Foo Foo

"Little Bunny Foo Foo" is a children's poem and song. The poem consists of four-line sung verses separated by some spoken words. The verses are sung to the tune of the French-Canadian children's song "Alouette" (1879), which is melodically similar to "Down by the Station" (1948) and the "Itsy Bitsy Spider". The person performing the song usually includes hand gestures, e.g. for "scooping" and "bopping".

The song has many different variations and is often passed on as childlore. Beverly Cleary's 1970 children's book Runaway Ralph mentions "Little Rabbit Fru-Fru" as a song heard at summer camp, and a 1970 issue of The New Yorker acknowledges "Little Bunny Phoo Phoo, a character in a children's story."

Description
A bunny rabbit named Little Bunny Foo Foo is harassing a population of field mice by scooping them up and bopping them on their heads. The rabbit is scolded and threatened by a fairy known as the "Good Fairy", who punishes the disobedient rabbit by transforming it into a "goon" or "goonie".

Lyrics
One of the more popular versions of the song is:

The verses then repeat three more times, with the spoken verse altered to reflect Little Bunny Foo Foo's decreasing number of chances. The alteration appears in the first line of the verse, which changes to "I'll give you two more chances" and "I'll give you one more chance", in the second and third iterations, respectively.

In the fourth and final iteration, when the bunny has run out of chances, the entire spoken verse is altered as follows:

Sometimes "bopping" is replaced with "kissing".

One common ending has Little Bunny Foo Foo turned into a goon, with a pun ending "And the moral of the story is: Hare today, goon tomorrow." This form of story telling with a pun ending is also known as a feghoot.

In popular culture
In Brazil the song was translated into Portuguese by the Brazilian singer Xuxa for the album Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos 3 ("Xuxa Only for Little Ones"), with the name "Coelhinho Fufu". In it, instead of bopping the field mice on the head, he sharply kisses them and (though not said in the song lyrics) drops them, and the Good Fairy (known literally as the Fairy Godmother) gives him a long lecture, and the penalty for using up his three chances by disobeying is being turned into a duckling.

In Cori Doerrfeld's children's book Little Bunny Foo Foo: The Real Story, a female Little Bunny Foo Foo is portrayed making small cakes. However, mice would constantly come and steal her desserts. This irritates her so much that she gently bops their heads. The fairy, who is unaware of the thievery, blames Little Bunny Foo Foo for the pounding, and tells her to stop. As mice, birds, and squirrels continue to steal her delicacies, her Little Bunny Foo Foo becomes enraged. After three warnings ignored, the fairy transforms Little Bunny Foo Foo into a giant vicious gerbil. The giant gerbil gets revenge by chasing and finally devouring the fairy. The gerbil returns home to enjoy her cakes. The attendees at her party don't seem to mind her appearance.

In Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl, Lenore plays as Little Bunny Foo Foo and gets told to stop bopping field mice on the head by the Good Fairy. She continues bopping other animals instead, and so the Good Fairy reappears and reprimands her by saying: "No bopping ANY animals on the head!" Lenore responds by bopping the fairy. The moral of the story was: "Be more specific".

The Moldy Peaches included a version of this song on their only studio album, also called The Moldy Peaches.

This was used in the English dub of Episode 2 of Pop Team Epic in place of the Japanese children's folk song "At a Quiet Lakeside" (しずかな湖畔の).

The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic chapter book Fluttershy and the Fine Furry Friends Fair references the poem with a mentioned circus rabbit whose routine involves field mice.

The story was used in the first Barney video, The Backyard Show. In that video, one of the end lines was, "Down came the Good Fairy, and turned Little Bunny Foo Foo into a goon."

The Sesame Street segment Abby's Flying Fairy School, has Abby Cadabby bring Little Bunny Foo Foo to school for B-day, where the students bring something that starts with B.

The poem also provides part of the plot for The 7D episode "Hop to It Dopey!" in which Dopey attempts to halt Foo Foo's attacks on the field mice.

In the South Park episode "Something You Can Do with Your Finger", Butters sings "Little Bunny Foo Foo" to audition for a boy band.

In one children's book, illustrated by Paul Brett Johnson, the bunny picks up muddy pies and splats rats on his wagon. The Good Fairy doesn't like it when it's not polite to go around bopping folks, but the bunny gets a motorcycle and has a lasso in his hand to tie up gophers, and the second time he gets a big tractor to pick up foxes, and the third time he gets a big crawler crane to take down grizzly bears.

In Disney's Silly Songs album, the bunny appears on a pogo-stick and carrying a net while bouncing through a large meadow.

Wee Sing features the character Foo Foo and in place of the field mice, there are the Meecy Mice.

The Wiggles included a version of the song on their Taking Off DVD. "Little Bunny Foo Foo" was played by Captain Feathersword who scooped up the field mice and tickled them on the head.

"Bunny Foo Foo", a 35-foot statue of a leaping rabbit that is named for the poem, is installed at a winery in St. Helena, California.

Parody
A parody version, "The Fúfumal", is Norse-mythology-themed and was composed (in English) by Kate Gladstone, who was, at the time, a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. It has been since sung by other members.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leah Parcell

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was Delete Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:32, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Leah Parcell
According to Google there's no such person. Details seem to be a mixture of other people's lives. For example, Leah Purcell is an Australian actress but has never appeared in Diff'rent Strokes. The whole article should be deleted as gibberish (and possibly replaced by a stub about the real Leah Purcell).

Al Clark 13:22, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Appears to be a work of fiction. Xcali 14:21, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as non-verifiable and probable nonsense. Supposedly born in 1971 and played leading role in the Australian TV series Number 96 which aired between 1972 and 1977. Capitalistroadster 17:53, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Prank. Recreate a stub, perhaps, but the real Leah Purcell (doing a pictorial in Playboy in her teens?) might not pass WP:BIO, either.  Geogre 18:14, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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John Atkinson Grimshaw

John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was an English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes. He was called a "remarkable and imaginative painter" by the critic and historian Christopher Wood in Victorian Painting (1999).

Grimshaw's love for realism stemmed from a passion for photography, which would eventually lend itself to the creative process. Though entirely self-taught, he is known to have openly used a camera obscura or lenses to project scenes onto canvas, which made up for his shortcomings as a draughtsman and his imperfect knowledge of perspective. This technique, which Caravaggio and Vermeer were suspected to have also used in secret, was condemned by a number of his contemporaries who believed it demonstrated less skill than painting by eye, with some claiming that his paintings appeared to "show no marks of handling or brushwork", while others "were doubtful whether they could be accepted as paintings at all". However, many recognised his mastery of colour, lighting and shadow, as well as his unique ability to provoke strong emotional responses in the viewer. James McNeill Whistler, whom Grimshaw worked with in his Chelsea studios, stated, "I considered myself the inventor of nocturnes until I saw Grimmy's moonlit pictures."

His early paintings were signed "JAG", "J. A. Grimshaw", or "John Atkinson Grimshaw", though he finally settled on "Atkinson Grimshaw".

Life
He was born on 6 September 1836 in a back-to-back house in Park Street, Leeds to Mary and David Grimshaw. In 1856 he married his cousin Frances Hubbard (1835–1917). In 1861, at the age of 24, to the dismay of his parents, he left his job as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway to become a painter. He first exhibited in 1862, mostly paintings of birds, fruit, and blossom, under the patronage of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. He and his wife moved in 1866 to a semi-detached villa, which is now numbered 56 Cliff Road in Headingley and has a Leeds Civic Trust blue plaque, and in 1870 to Knostrop Old Hall. Grid Reference: SE 32125 32100. He became successful in the 1870s and rented a second home, Castle-by-the-Sea in Scarborough. Scarborough became a favourite subject.

He died on 13 October 1893 of tuberculosis and is buried in Woodhouse Cemetery, now called St George's Fields, in Leeds.

Four of his children, Arthur E. Grimshaw (1864–1913), Louis H. Grimshaw (1870–1944), Wilfred Grimshaw (1871–1937), and Elaine Grimshaw (1877–1970) also became painters.

Work
Grimshaw's primary influence was the Pre-Raphaelites. True to the Pre-Raphaelite style, he created landscapes of accurate colour and lighting, vivid detail and realism, often typifying seasons or a type of weather. Moonlit views of city and suburban streets and of the docks in London, Hull, Liverpool, and Glasgow also figured largely in his art. His careful painting and his skill in lighting effects meant that he captured both the appearance and the mood of a scene in minute detail. His "paintings of dampened gas-lit streets and misty waterfronts conveyed an eerie warmth as well as alienation in the urban scene."

Dulce Domum (1885), on whose reverse Grimshaw wrote, "mostly painted under great difficulties", captures the music portrayed in the piano-player, entices the eye to meander through the richly decorated room, and to consider the still and silent young lady who is listening. Grimshaw painted more interior scenes, especially in the 1870s, when he worked under the influence of James Tissot and the Aesthetic Movement.

On Hampstead Hill is considered one of Grimshaw's finest works, exemplifying his skill with a variety of light sources, in capturing the mood of the passing of twilight into night. In his later career his urban scenes under twilight or yellow streetlighting were popular with his middle-class patrons.

His later work included imagined scenes from the Greek and Roman empires, and he painted literary subjects from Longfellow and Tennyson — pictures including Elaine and The Lady of Shalott. Grimshaw named his children after characters in Tennyson's poems.

In the 1880s, Grimshaw maintained a London studio in Chelsea, not far from the studio of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. After visiting Grimshaw, Whistler remarked that "I considered myself the inventor of Nocturnes until I saw Grimmy's moonlit pictures." Unlike Whistler's Impressionistic night scenes, Grimshaw worked in a realistic vein: "sharply focused, almost photographic", his pictures innovated in applying the tradition of rural moonlight images to the Victorian city, recording "the rain and mist, the puddles and smoky fog of late Victorian industrial England with great poetry."

Grimshaw's paintings depicted the contemporary world but eschewed the dirty and depressing aspects of industrial towns. Shipping on the Clyde, a depiction of Glasgow's Victorian docks, is a lyrically beautiful evocation of the industrial era. Grimshaw transcribed the fog and mist so accurately as to capture the chill in the damp air, and the moisture penetrating the heavy clothes of the few figures awake in the misty early morning.

Reputation and legacy
Grimshaw left behind no letters, journals, or papers. His reputation rested on, and his legacy is based on, his townscapes. There was a revival of interest in Grimshaw's work in the second half of the 20th century, with several important exhibitions devoted to it. A retrospective exhibition "Atkinson Grimshaw – Painter of Moonlight" ran from 16 April – 4 September 2011 at the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate and subsequently in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.

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Nest (disambiguation)

A nest is a place animals live or raise offspring.

Nest may also refer to:

 * Bird nests in particular

Places

 * Nest Lake, a lake in Minnesota, US
 * Nest Island, an island in Nunavut, Canada

People

 * Nest ferch Cadell, mother of Rhodri the Great, King of Wales
 * Nest ferch Rhys, daughter of the last King of South Wales
 * Nest, daughter of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn and Ealdgyth, daughter of Earl Ælfgar

Entertainment

 * Nest Family Entertainment, an animation studio
 * Nest (album), a music album by the Odds
 * Nest (band), a Finnish band
 * NEST, a fictional organization in the film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
 * NESTS, a fictional organization from The King of Fighters
 * Nest (magazine), a magazine published from 1997 to 2004
 * Nest, a 2022 Icelandic short film directed by Hlynur Pálmason

Organizations

 * Google Nest (formerly Nest Labs), an American manufacturer of smart home products
 * Near East School of Theology
 * Northland Emergency Services Trust
 * Nuclear Emergency Support Team

Science and technology

 * Google Nest, a smart home control system (and its derivatives)
 * Nest algebra, a mathematical concept
 * Nest (histopathology), a microscopic pattern of cells
 * Nest (protein structural motif)
 * NEST (software), a simulation software for neuronal networks

Other

 * National Employment Savings Trust, the UK's default workplace pension scheme
 * National Entrance Screening Test, an entrance exam in India
 * Nest Learning Thermostat, an electronic, programmable, and self-learning Wi-Fi-enabled thermostat
 * Nest (horse), an American thoroughbred horse

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Mark James (golfer)

Mark Hugh James (born 28 October 1953) is an English professional golfer who had a long career on the European Tour and captained Europe in the 1999 Ryder Cup. He has also played senior golf on the European Senior Tour and the U.S.-based Champions Tour.

Early life and amateur career
James was born in Manchester, England and educated at Stamford School. He won the English Amateur championship at Woodhall Spa in 1974 and was a member of the Great Britain & Ireland 1975 Walker Cup team.

European Tour
His first professional win was the 1977 Lusaka Open and the following year he picked up the first of his eighteen wins on the European Tour at the Sun Alliance Match Play Championship. He also holds the record for the highest European Tour event 18-hole-round of 111 strokes at the 1978 Italian Open in Sardinia, when refusing to with-draw despite an injury. Four years later he won the same tournament.

James never won a major championship, but he had four top-five finishes at The Open Championship. He was consistently competitive on the European Tour winning 12 times with 20 top-30 finishes on the Order of Merit, including seven top-10 finishes, the best of them third place in 1979. He was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2000, but after treatment began playing golf again in 2001.

Ryder Cup
James represented Great Britain & Ireland or Europe in the Ryder Cup seven times including 1989 when Europe tied the match and retained the cup they had won in 1987, and 1995 when they won it outright. He was the European captain in the controversial "Battle of Brookline" in 1999, when the behaviour of the American galleries and team created a great deal of resentment in Europe, and also James' own actions during the matches drew fire from both sides of the Atlantic.

Prior to the event, James controversially chose Andrew Coltart as his second captain's pick on the team, thus leaving out Nick Faldo and Bernhard Langer (veterans who were the two most successful players for the European team in Ryder Cup history). In one of the most discussed moves in the Ryder Cup, James then kept Jean van de Velde, Jarmo Sandelin and Coltart on the bench during all sixteen matches during the first two days of play, relegating them to singles matches on Sunday only. His refusal to play those three first-time players helped lead to Europe's defeat, as none of the three won their one match. On the other hand, United States captain Ben Crenshaw played all twelve players at least once during the first two days, even though Mark O'Meara only played once.

James published a best selling book about the event called Into the Bear Pit in 2000. In addition to criticising the behaviour of the Americans at Brookline, it also detailed James' clashes with some of his fellow Europeans including Faldo, the fading superstar whose merits as a potential captain's pick for the Ryder Cup had been much debated in the UK. James revealed in his book that just before the Ryder Cup began he had thrown a letter of encouragement from Faldo into the bin rather than share it with team. The controversy that this revelation aroused led to James resigning as one of Europe's Ryder Cup vice-captains for 2001.

A follow-up book, called After the Bear Pit, covering James' cancer and his experiences as a European Tour player, as well as further thoughts on the Ryder Cup, appeared in 2002.

Senior Tour and other commitments
James qualified to play senior golf when he turned fifty in late 2003. He chose to play mainly in the U.S. and was second in the Champions Tour Qualifying Tournament Finals that November. In 2004 he became the first European player to win one of the Champions Tour's senior majors with victory at the Ford Senior Players Championship. In 2005, he won on the Champions Tour for a second time at the ACE Group Classic and finished in the top 20 on the money list for a second consecutive season. His last full season on the Champions Tour was 2010 and he has played mainly on the European Senior Tour since then.

James has also worked as a golf commentator for the BBC.

European Tour wins (18)
European Tour playoff record (5–4)

Southern Africa Tour wins (1)
Southern Africa Tour playoff record (0–1)

Other wins (5)

 * 1980 Euro Masters Invitational (Italy – not a European Tour event)
 * 1981 Heublein Open (Brazil)
 * 1982 Hennessy Cognac Cup Individual
 * 1983 Euro Masters Invitational (Italy – not a European Tour event)
 * 2011 Gary Player Invitational (with George Coetzee)

European Senior Tour wins (2)
European Senior Tour playoff record (2–0)

Other senior wins (2)

 * 2011 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf - Raphael Division (with Des Smyth)
 * 2012 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf - Raphael Division (with Des Smyth)

Results in major championships
{{legend|yellow|Top 10}} {{legend|#eeeeee|Did not play}} CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1974, 1977 and 1978 Open Championships) "T" indicates a tie for a place

Summary

 * Most consecutive cuts made – 7 (1980 Open Championship – 1986 Open Championship)
 * Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (five times)

Results in World Golf Championships
{{legend|#eeeeee|Did not play}} "T" = Tied

Results timeline
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Team appearances
Amateur
 * Walker Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1975
 * European Amateur Team Championship (representing England): 1975

Professional
 * Hennessy Cognac Cup (representing Great Britain and Ireland): 1976 (winners), 1978 (winners), 1980 (winners), 1982 (winners & individual winner), (representing England) 1984 (winners)
 * Ryder Cup (representing Great Britain and Ireland/Europe): 1977, 1979, 1981, 1989 (tied and retained cup), 1991, 1993, 1995 (winners), 1999 (non-playing captain)
 * World Cup (representing England): 1978, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1999
 * Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing England): 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999
 * Four Tours World Championship (representing Europe): 1988, 1989, 1990

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User:Humanbot~enwiki

Status: spelling spelling2  spelling3 NOTE: THIS MEANS ALL PROJECTS ARE DONE

Humanbot is not a real bot. Rather, it is a distributed system for fixing mistakes on Wikipedia. It automatically sends you to the right page, makes the change for you, even presses the preview button so you can check it! You just need to check the edit is reasonable.

It is similar to human-controlled bots, but now everybody will be able to "control" it. Edits are made under your username, contributing to your edit count and remaining your responsibility.

You need Mozilla Firefox, Greasemonkey 0.5 beta or later, and a special script. See the images below for how to install, turn on, and use the script.

This only works with the (default) Monobook theme. Feel free to petition on the talk page.

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New fixes to make
Important note: Suggestions for new spelling mistakes should be added directly to List of common misspellings.

 * Change See Also to See also. a common miscapitalisation. Bluemoose 10:26, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Ditto "External Link" and "External Links" in headers, both of which should -> "External links" -- The Anome 08:24, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * No, "External Link" should be "External link" if there's one. We're not innumerate (or, at least, we're not meant to make our users think that we are :-)). James F. (talk) 16:21, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Could these two not be done by a standard bot? I can't see the need for checking. the wub (talk) 12:05, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * You have a point. I'm not here just to boost edit counts! ;) I'll update the User:Grammarbot codebase - they were always meant to integrate. r3m0t talk 13:58, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

Faux "British" spellings
Here's a good category of spelling mistakes that should be fixed. As you all know, the British/Canadian/Australian versions of plenty of words end in -our rather than the American -or. However, even many native speakers of British English get things wrong when the word is modified — for about half of the -our endings, it should properly revert to the -or form when modified. To make this absolutely clear, this is NOT an America vs. Commonwealth distinction - in these cases, the -our form is always wrong. Examples as follows:

 * arbour, but arbourist -> arborist, arbouretum -> arboretum
 * clamour, but clamourous -> clamorous
 * clangour, but clangourous -> clangorous
 * colour, but colouration -> coloration
 * glamour, but glamourous -> glamorous, glamourless -> glamorless, glamourize -> glamorize, glamourise -> glamorise
 * honour, but honourary -> honorary, honourarium -> honorarium, honourific -> honorific
 * humour, but humourist -> humorist, humourous -> humorous
 * labour, but labourious -> laborious
 * odour, but odourous -> odorous, odouriferous -> odoriferous
 * rancour, but rancourous -> rancorous
 * rigour, but rigourous -> rigorous
 * tumour, but tumourous -> tumorous

If you decide to take this up, you should be careful to point out in the edit summary that this is NOT a Brit vs. US change to avoid reversion,, and perhaps make the edit summary point to here or elsewhere that makes this distinction.

Cheers, Fawcett5 15:29, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Most of these are (surprisingly) highly debatable. We're currently on IRC with a bunch of UK residents playing "stump the r3m0t" and finding actual current usage examples of all these "errors". While calling Fowler's and the OED foul prescriptivists. It's all go here ;-) - David Gerard 16:26, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, this is wrong. For example both 'coloration' and 'colouration' are correct spellings in UK English, c.f. OED. -- Solipsist 18:50, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Even though both spellings may be correct, i dont think it is right that we use both different spellings, i think it would be best if we standardised and choose one or the other. Bluemoose 08:54, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Standardization (I prefer using z!) seems a dangerous path. "Coloration" may be acceptable UK usage but it looks alien to me and I shall not be using it.Richard Barlow 09:59, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I dont mean standardise between american and english, but as there are apparantly 2 correct english spellings, we should choose 1 of them and stick to it. Bluemoose 10:21, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * You may be better leaving that to the bot rather than trying to convince stick-in-the-muds like me! I won't revert if they get changed. I just think heading this section "faux" is plain wrong when more than half the examples listed are not incorrect at all. Richard Barlow 10:44, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't think there is any need to standardise spellings, even within UK English. If it ain't broke - don't fix it. -- Solipsist 13:36, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree wholeheartedly. Richard Barlow 15:22, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree too. Standardization is for suckers. --Tubby 20:26, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Personally I don't care about how much these misspellings have crept into this already linguistically-debased society, I myself would mercilessly change these spellings if they caught my eye. Oh I would find some other minor change to make so it wouldn't look so pointless, but I would be sure to make it! Wikipedia's goal is to offer an academic level of writing perfection, and part of that is, surely, that we spell correctly, even if the outside world can't.
 * And as for being in current "use", where is that, in newspaper columnists' unspellchecked tracts? I've seen some disgraceful errors there. I've already had difficulty explaining the rules of "u" inclusion to Americans, and surely Wikipedia shouldn't be providing such a confusing variety of alternates of the alternates? Or maybe that's just me *looks up the page* OK, me and some other ruthless purists... Master Thief GarrettTalk 00:55, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Something similar: I notice that licenced and licencing were recently removed from List_of_common_misspellings with the edit summary "this is not America".  This is, at best, an inadequate explanation because the correct British spelling of the verb is always license and hence the inflected verb forms with the noun spelling are, indeed, always wrong in British spelling.
 * I therefore propose that use of licence as a verb is a Faux British Spelling (and that the inflected verb forms should go back on the misspelling list, though obviously licence itself can't). Same with practice as a verb practise as a noun is a Faux British Spelling.  Offencive and defencive would be candidates too, though I had never known anyone be silly enough to write them until I thought to search Wikipedia for them just now.
 * Incidentally, I have a vague idea I saw it asserted somewhere that some of these c spellings for verbs were correct in some variant of English that was neither British nor American (Ireland? New Zealand?  India?), in which case we would need to decide whether they were allowable.  Can anyone confirm or deny this? —Blotwell 07:40, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I see Fawcett5 addressed licenced, licencing on the talk page. (I stand by my claim that the edit summary was wrong, dammit, and this confirms my suspicion that I don't know US spelling reliably.)  I still think practise (noun), offencive, defencive are faux British spellings. —Blotwell 09:00, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * At 11:00 PM I can't remember which practi*e is which, but the last two are definitely wrong. Or at least I've never seen them in any book I've read. Heck, I've never seen them *anywhere* but just here right now! Weird. Master Thief GarrettTalk 11:09, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Related to British English vs. American English: It has been pointed out that many Wikipedia articles with titles in one version of English do not have redirects from the other version of English. Is there some way of adapting Humanbot to look for these articles, then check for redirects, and then ask for human input for creating the redirects if they don't exist? Blank Verse  ∅ 04:58, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Incorrect image tags
These are difficult to spot in the main, but there's one easy one - any image that has but also the words "non" and (/or?) "commercial" in them. James F. (talk) 16:38, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Software or interface changes, performance, accuracy

 * Support of Mozilla: as soon as greasemonkey does.
 * Support of Opera, IE and other browsers: never.

Two very common grammar/punctuation errors
Two ugly errors that I'm continually seeing all over wikipedia:
 * Placing punctuation inside quote marks, instead of outside. Unless, of course, the fullstop is part of the quote (which is pretty rarely; 90% of the cases I see are wrong).
 * Example: The ship was named "Indefatigable." - should be: The ship was named "Indefatigable". MPF 00:22, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I believe this is actually a matter of editorial style, not an error. Fawcett5 12:49, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Standard American usage has them inside the quotes. There's been a long history of organizations going against this, most notably The Chicago Manual of Style.Themeparkphoto 04:06, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * WP:MOS advocates "logical" quotes. There are not easy to automatically spot, and I doubt people would be interested in correcting them. r3m0t talk 15:51, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * It is a matter of style and a US/UK distinction, but the MoS does take a stand on this point. smoddy 15:55, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC) (With edit conflict, r3m0t, I'd be very keen to check them)
 * This certainly is not an error. In U.S. English, punctuation always goes inside the quotation marks. Andre ( talk ) July 2, 2005 20:27 (UTC)
 * But on Wikipedia, the manual of style insists on the "logical" British approach. smoddy 2 July 2005 20:37 (UTC)

 * Placing external link references at the start of a new sentence, when they're references applying to the previous sentence.
 * Example: It was stated that X happened. New sentence starts. - should be: It was stated that X happened . New sentence starts.

MPF 00:22, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Wouldn't this one be a bit difficult to detect? It seems to me that it would be difficult to differentiate between "end of a sentence. [external link]" and "end of a sentence. Wikilink" – ugen64 05:43, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * While that fix seems logical when you look at the source, it looks ugly in the rendered document. The period is pushed far past the last word in the sentence.
 * Original: We're on Wikipedia .
 * Worse: We're on Wikipedia .

 * Putting the reference link in small, superscripted text and removing the external link icon would allow the your fix to work decently, though. — 131.230.133.185 1 July 2005 20:41 (UTC)

 * No. MPF was entirely correct.  It is very similar to the difference between, "George Bush is a very stupid man (according to many Democrats).  John Kerry is the Antichrist." and "George Bush is a very stupid man. (According to many Democrats) John Kerry is the Antichrist."  The link must clearly show that it refers to a particular sentence.  Personally, I would do this with endnotes, but inline links should indeed be formatted in MPF's way, for clarity's sake. smoddy 1 July 2005 23:44 (UTC)

 * I strongly disagree — it's clear by convention that a footnote or number block applies to the material preceding it, never following it. Trying to squish it in before the period just separates the period from the final word in the sentence, making the end of sentence more difficult to read. Deco 01:59, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Repeated words
Seems to me that Humanbot would be ideal for finding and checking repeated words (e.g. those at User:Topbanana/Reports/This article contains a repeated word) the wub  "?/!"  10:37, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Ideally it would ignore legal combinations like "that that" (as in "considering that that movie was a bestseller..."). Otherwise you have to read the sentence about three times to ensure it wasn't correct before, and we don't want Humanbot users breaking acceptable grammar. Master Thief GarrettTalk 11:26, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * "Had had" ("he had had his appendix out") and some homophones ("she records records for a living") are also exceptions. Can't think of anymore offhand.  Pakaran 04:11, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, "win win" can be legit too. Pakaran 04:18, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, no, that should be "win-win" because it's a reference to a games score, like 5-nil or whatever. Therefore, instead of having scores, it's a win-win situation. Master Thief GarrettTalk 05:39, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * "Win-win situation" takes a hypen because it's a compound modifier. I don't understand the comment about it being a "games score." DavidH July 3, 2005 00:19 (UTC)
 * "Had had" is always bad English - in Pak's example, you should write "He had his appendix out", no repeated 'had' necessary. Better yet, "He had his appendix removed".  And avoiding consecutive homophones is always possible via some creative writing ("She makes recordings for a living").  Repeated words are always bad English, there are no legal exceptions.  It should be "considering that this movie was a bestseller" or "considering that the movie was a bestseller", or, better yet, "as the movie was a bestseller". Proto t c 13:29, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
 * "Had had" is certainly not incorrect English, and neither are repeated words. Consider the following sentence: "If I had had a car I would have driven to work".  It is an example of the 'Past Unreal Conditional', and is different in meaning to "If I had a car I would drive to work", which is the present unreal conditional.  The first is telling us that 'at the time being referred to' the writer didn't have a car, whereas the second is telling us that 'at present' the writer doesn't have a car.  I agree that you could re-write any of these sentences to avoid the repeated word, but that is a matter of subjective style, not grammatical legality. Robin McKenzie, 20 August, 2005.

 * Piece of trivia - make this sentence correct by adding punctuation marks: (Start) Peter had had had had but Simon had had had had had had had the teacher's approval (Finish) Perhaps you see how ridiculous the situation can get sometimes?! Mark Lewis 22:19, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I remember this as a riddle: Q: "How many 'had's can you use consecutively in a sentence?". A: "11. Ann while Bob had had had had had had had had had had had the teachers approval". (If you want the punctuated version, click here).

Google Maps links
Many people add Google Maps links to articles, when a use of coor d (or if in external links, one of the geolinks-US-cityscale wtc templates) would be preferable. The lat/long is in the Google Maps URL, so it's easy to convert that (remember to replace negative with S or W). Scale might be a bit harder - I think there are scale arguments for coor d but I'm not sure how to use them. --SPUI (talk) 23:17, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Possessive: S's or S'
There is an uncertainty in some words that end in s and for possessive to add the 's or to make it s'. I think we should use what The Elements of Style say. WpediaIsNotPaper 3 July 2005 14:41 (UTC)

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