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USS Converse (DD-509)

USS Converse (DD-509), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for George A. Converse (1844–1909).

Converse was launched 30 August 1942 by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; sponsored by Miss A. V. Jackson; and commissioned 20 November 1942.

Solomon Islands, May 1943 – March 1944
After training at Guantanamo Bay and Pearl Harbor, Converse arrived at Nouméa 17 May 1943, and through the summer covered convoys carrying men and supplies to New Georgia, then escorted ships moving between Espiritu Santo and Guadalcanal. Arriving at Port Purvis in the Solomon Islands 16 September 1943, she joined Destroyer Squadron 23 (DesRon 23), with whom she was to win a Presidential Unit Citation (US) for operations in the northern Solomons between 31 October 1943 and 4 February 1944.

On the first of those dates, Converse sortied with her squadron and cruisers to provide cover for amphibious landings on Bougainville, and on the night of 31 October – 1 November 1943, bombarded Buka and Bonis airfields and targets in the Shortlands. The next night her force intercepted a Japanese group of cruisers and destroyers heading for an attack on the transports lying at Bougainville, and opened fire in the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay. The Japanese lost one cruiser and one destroyer in this action, and were turned back from their intended attack on the transports, although the American defenders came under severe attack by aircraft from Rabaul supporting the Japanese ships.

Converse continued bombardments and escort duty supporting the Bougainville operation, and on the night of 16–17 November 1943 joined USS Stanly (DD-478) in firing on a surfaced submarine, scoring several hits. On the night of 24–25 November, the squadron intercepted five Japanese destroyers attempting to evacuate critically needed aviation troops from Buka to Rabaul. In a skillfully-executed torpedo attack followed by a persistent chase, during which Converse was struck by a torpedo which failed to explode in the engine room, the squadron sank three of the enemy ships and caused heavy damage to a fourth, while emerging unscathed themselves.

While escorting a group of ships carrying reinforcements and supplies to Bougainville 3 December 1943, Converse came under heavy attack from six waves of Japanese bombers. A near miss caused an electrical failure, putting her radar out of commission and resulting in a loss of power forward. Repairs were quickly made, and the Japanese force fought off, but Converse sailed from Port Purvis 14 December for complete repairs at Sydney, Australia. She rejoined her squadron at Port Purvis 30 January 1944 for bombardments and hunting forays against Japanese shipping through February and March in the northern Solomons.

Central Pacific, March – August 1944
Converse cleared Port Purvis 27 March 1944 to join the Fast Carrier Task Force (then-TF 58) for screening duty during the air strikes on the Palaus from 30 March to 1 April, and with that force covered the Hollandia landings through preinvasion air attacks and bombardment, continuing their fire during the landings 22 April. Carrier attacks on Truk, Satawan, and Ponape at the close of the month found Converse continuing her screening duties.

Attacks preparatory to, and covering, the invasion of Saipan began 12 June as targets throughout the Marianas were hit. While the landings themselves were made on 15 June, Converse's task force hit at Japanese bases in the Bonins, then returned to the Marianas to continue their close support. When the Japanese fleet challenged the American operations in the Marianas on 19 June, Converse continued her screening through the resulting aerial Battle of the Philippine Sea, a 2-day engagement which resulted in the sinking of three Japanese carriers and the loss to Japan of many aircraft and their irreplaceable pilots. After joining in shore bombardment of Guam and Rota at the, close of June, Converse replenished at Eniwetok, and on 4 August, sailed for overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.

Philippines and Okinawa, November 1944 – August 1945
The destroyer returned to action 3 November 1944 when she joined the screen of carriers covering the convoy routes to newly invaded Leyte. On 21 December, while escorting the first resupply echelon to Mindoro, Converse came under attack by desperate Japanese suicide planes, and fired to drive them away as well as rescuing 266 survivors of LST-749. She gave fire support to the landings in Lingayen Gulf on 9 and 10 January 1945, and then joined the task unit assigned to recapture Corregidor. Her guns destroyed gun emplacements, barges, suicide boats, and entombed about 100 enemy troops by sealing the entrance to Malinta Tunnel.

After brief overhaul in Subic Bay, Converse patrolled off Corregidor until mid-March 1945, and from 18 March to 1 April joined in the invasion of Panay and Negros. Through the next month she carried out a variety of duties in the development of Iloilo as a staging center for the planned invasion of Japan. On 16 May, Converse arrived off Okinawa, where she operated on dangerous and demanding radar picket duty until the close of the war. Often firing to drive off suicide-bent Japanese aircraft, she received no damage during the difficult months that followed.

On 10 September she sailed from Okinawa for Pearl Harbor, the Panama Canal, and Washington, D.C., where on 19 October, the ceremonial award of the Presidential Unit Citation was made to her squadron. After overhaul at Brooklyn, she was decommissioned and placed in reserve at Charleston, South Carolina, 23 April 1946.

In addition to the Presidential Unit Citation, Converse received 11 battle stars for World War II service.

Almirante Valdés (D23)
On 1 July 1959 Converse was transferred under the Mutual Assistance Program to Spain, where she was renamed Almirante Valdés (D23).

The ship was stricken 17 November 1986 and scrapped in 1988.

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Tanda

Tanda may refer to:

Places

 * Tanda, Ambedkar Nagar, India, a city and municipal board
 * Tanda (Bor), Serbia, a village
 * Tanda, Bengal, a historical medieval city
 * Tanda Dam and Lake, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
 * Tanda Department, a department in Ivory Coast
 * Tanda, Egypt, a town
 * Tanda, Gujrat, Pakistan, a town
 * Tanda, Ivory Coast, a town in Ivory Coast
 * Tanda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Town & Union Council
 * Tanda, Niger, a village and rural commune
 * Tanda, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
 * Tanda, Rampur, India, a city and municipal board
 * Tanda, Russia, a rural locality (selo) in the Sakha Republic, Russia
 * Tanda, Bhopal, a village in India

People

 * Nicola Tanda (1928–2016), Italian philologist, literary critic and writer
 * Dario Tanda (born 1995), Dutch-born footballer

Other uses

 * Tanda (informal loan club), voluntary rotating loan associations
 * Tanda (milonga), a collection of songs in the same genre played by an orchestra
 * MV Tanda, a coaster or coastal trading vessel originally named Empire Seacoast

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Silurian (disambiguation)

The Silurian is the geological period and system lasting roughly from 445 million years ago to 415 million years ago.

Silurian may also refer to:

 * Silurian, the society, culture, language, and ethnicity of the Silures, an ancient Welsh tribe
 * Silurian, the racehorse that won the 1923 Doncaster Cup
 * Silurian Press Club, the society established at 1924 by a group of maverick Park Row newspaper veterans
 * Silurian (Doctor Who), a fictional race of humanoid reptiles who existed before humanity
 * Silurian hypothesis, a thought experiment that speculates if a prior advanced civilization on Earth would leave behind present day evidence of its existence
 * Silurian Hills, a small range of hills in the Mojave Desert
 * Siluria Technologies, a San Francisco-based technology company
 * Eriopygodes imbecilla, the Silurian, a moth of the family Noctuidae

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Talk:Timeline of ancient Greece

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I see no reason to distinguish any "date' before 776 BC from mythology; and propose to move the Early archaic dates accordingly.

Along the same lines, is there any reason to believe Pausanias's history of the first Messenian war is not a Hellenistic figment? Septentrionalis 21:32, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * What a load of utter nonsense. All the dates between 1103 BC and 776 BC are valid historical dates and are given in Jerome's Chronicon and by Diodorus. They are not mythology but historical fact which is corroborated archaeologically. They are not Hellenistic inventions and the very idea that they might be is so ridiculous that it is unbelivable. There is no corroboration from any ancient sources whatsoever that the dates from 1103 BC downwards are anything but recorded history so I do not understand where you would get such an idiotic idea from.

 * If you don't like Pausanius account and dating of the first Messenian War then that's your problem. Since it falls within the Olympiads the only reason I can think of why you don't want it published is because of your own personal prejudice.

 * It not up to you do decide for other people what history they should believe but for them to make up their own minds after they have seen the unadulterated facts. --Argyrosargyrou 00:22, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I never said I didn't like Pausanias IV; it's one of the more charming Hellenistic novels, with almost as much unity of action as Daphnis and Chloe. I merely asked if there has been any evidence that it derives from pre-existing Messenian tradition or history; thank you for confirming my understanding that it does not.

 * I do strongly suggest making the line between this article and the myth article the Lelantine war, with a mention of the first Olympiad - otherwise one will suggest to the casual browser that 940 for Homer is as strongly confirmed as 403 for Socrates, which will tend to mislead. This would not remove anything, only move it from one article to another. Septentrionalis 02:05, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I suggest you read Plutarch's biography of Lycurgus for the dating of Homer a generation before the reign of Charillus at Sparta. Since the majority of the chronology from 1103 BC to 650 BC is that of Sparta and how it conquered its neighbours it only makes sense to use the Spratan date for Homer which is the middle date given by Jerome in his Chronicon (which I suggest you read) and whcih is also given by Tatian.

 * If you deny that the Spartan kings existed and claim there wasn't a Messenian War then you are living in Cloud Cuckoo Land. You might as well claim that World War 2 never occurred and astronauts did not land on the moon and we were made to believe all this because of some great international conspircy. Oh please don't tell me that the Messenian and the Spartans made it all up and they did this in league with the Argives and Arcadians.

 * This is a page about HISTORY and history is what is WRITTEN DOWN in words by Historians. Now since there is NOT ONE historian from the past who denies the existence of the Spartan kings or any of their acts there is no basis to question their existence. Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Diodorus, Plutarch, Pausanius, Strabo, Eusebius and Jerome all say the same thing and agree with each other on the facts. All the archaeological evidence proves that the Dorians migrated to the Peloponnesus in around 1100 BC. It proves that the Ionian migration to Asia-Minor and depopulation of the Greek peninsula took place in around 1050 BC. It proves that Messenia, Sparta, Tegea and Athens all existed during this period and were inhabited be the people who they were supposed to be inhabited by, and that trade occurred between them and Asia-Minor and Italy and Cyprus. --Argyrosargyrou 01:33, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Even if I go with that dating of Homer, and do not (for example) place him contemporary with Hesiod, as the Contest of Homer and Hesiod would require, the dating by the Spartan kings has a noticeable margin of error built into the method. Homer's date should therefore be in a different article from dates we know to the year, sometimes the day, like the death of Socrates. Septentrionalis 01:50, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Its in the same category as Jerome's dating for Empedocles, Parmenides, Heraclitus, Xenophon, Eudoxus and others. Its the time during which he was supposed to be well known. Even if you did not have a historical record of when he lived you would still have to put Homer before Hesiod by language alone, and in at least 900 BC since the Greek he uses is midway between Mycenaean and the Greek of Herodotus and there are indications from the rhythm that certain Homeric words that are even older were removed by later copyists. --Argyrosargyrou 04:02, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

When did Ancient Greece Decline again? It’s not written on this at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.196.175.216 (talk) 21:58, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

=Hippias' Death?!= This page has Hippias dying prior to 490bc. Wasn't Hippias present at the battle of Marathon?! What's up?! Adenosine 22:12, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

What the...? Apparently Archimedes marries Abe Lincoln??? Look at the bottom of the page...

Also date error on Democritus (about 460- not 330??)

Cleanup

 * All the Pythagoras stuff is off kilter, I don't know his dates, but the ones here are out of order and out of the formatting norm. Carlossuarez46 20:48, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Removed vandalism "Alexander is done smokin weed at the party" and "Alexander has sex with mary lou" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.195.113.194 (talk) 03:44, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Some gobbledy-gook code at the beginning shows up and needs cleaning up. Can anyone take a look at it?  Jesterjester (talk) 19:16, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Timeline
I assume that there is no problem adding events prior to the 8th century.Alexikoua (talk) 00:41, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Timeline of Greece
we have aan a article Timeline of ancient Greece. I think it should be an artickle Timeline of Greece .We can start a Draft:Timeline of Greece--3210 (talk) 07:26, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

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Department of Energy and Mines (New Brunswick)

The Department of Energy and Mines is a part of the Government of New Brunswick. It is charged with the administration of New Brunswick's energy policy including electricity, natural gas and refined petroleum products; as well as the regulation of the development and exploration of minerals from New Brunswick's land.

The department was established as the Department of Energy on June 27, 2003 when it was separated from the former Department of Natural Resources and Energy. In October 2012, it added further responsibilities from Natural Resources governing mines and minerals and its name was changed accordingly.

In a 2016 cabinet shuffle, the Department of Natural Resources and Department of Energy and Mines rejoined to form the new Department of Energy and Resource Development.


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Talk:Macromolecule

IUPAC recommendation
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According to IUPAC recommendations the term macromolecule is reserved for an individual molecule, and the term polymer is used as to denote a substance composed of macromolecules. Polymer may also be employed unambiguously as an adjective, according to accepted usage, e.g. polymer blend, polymer molecule.

The reasons are as follows:

 * The sentences are lifted verbatim from a 1996 IUPAC report. The citation is not noted in quotations and may constitute plagiarism.  Original Source
 * The IUPAC recommendation appears to be an attempt to disambiguate the usage of the term polymeramong polymer scientists. The full report (here) suggests that the terms macromolecules and polymer molecule are indistinguishable.  This may be true for the narrow purview of polymer science but ignores the well-established practice of describing large biologicall molecules (such as proteins, which are rarely described as polymers) or lipids (definitely not polymers) as macromolecules.

That being said, the referenced IUPAC report has some valuable information which should be added in future revisions to the article. Irene Ringworm 18:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 09:59, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Merge discussion
The DNA,_RNA_and_proteins:_The_three_essential_macromolecules_of_life page is an in depth discussion of DNA, RNA and protein and the main Macromolecule page is pretty short.

 * Merge - I think they could sensibly be combined if the synthetic macromolecule section was also expanded to balance the influx of biological information. The DNA, RNA, protein page has far fewer visits but currently the more useful information. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 00:55, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and merged the articles, since I think that the information is useful here and macromolecule gets 4 times the traffic. I've also edited the prose to fit encyclopaedic style a little more. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 06:15, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

I've added a branched biopolymers section. Someone with more chemistry knowledge will have to deal with synthetic macromolecules. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 06:24, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Old talk section moved over from DNA, RNA and proteins: The three essential macromolecules of life
The purpose of this article is to provide a single location whereby people who are confused about molecular biology can come to understand the functional and chemical differences between DNA, RNA and proteins. John Mackenzie Burke (talk) 12:51, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 22:45, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

General Comments
I found the article to be heavily focused on linear polymers, such as DNA and RNA. In fact, a bulk of the article revolves around the central dogma and how DNA encodes the for RNA, which will ultimately encode proteins. Also, there is a clear bias, in that the author uses words like "far better" when phrases such as "more efficient" can be used to separate the functional consequences of the structures of both DNA and RNA. The section on branched polymers is quite sparse, and ideally, should include the specific alpha and beta linkages that are seen amongst glucose polymers to form glycogen, cellulose, and etc. Yes, there are links to those aforementioned articles, however, a brief discussion may be useful. As mentioned earlier, there is a clear preference for biological macromolecules and very little material devoted to synthetic macromoleculesPolymer33 (talk) 18:01, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

I think that the "Properties" section of the article could use extensive editing and addition of material. As of now, it only mentions insolubility and alteration of rates/equilibrium constants. There is also a lack of good citations in this section. More properties should be added, such as crystallinity, heat conductivity, permeability, thermal expansion, etc. It should also be explained more in depth in the beginning of this section why exactly there are different properties for macromolecules compared to smaller molecules. Then, this can be expanded to relate to the specific properties that are important for macromolecules, as mentioned previously. -Polymersrock (talk) 02:01, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

The article did a good job at defining the term "macromolecule" by covering its usage in a variety of disciplines such as biology and chemistry, and the intricacies of its IUPAC definition. However, the section on "Properties" could be improved and appears to be in need of additional information and citations. For example, more information could be provided to explain specifically how macromolecules have unusual properties that do not occur for smaller molecules. Furthermore, I think the article placed a lot of emphasis on linear bipolymers including DNA, RNA, and proteins, and could expand more on the sections focused on branched bipolymers and synthetic macromolecules. Also, citations should be incorporated into the "Synthetic Macromolecules" section to offer more credibility. Chemdartmouth115 (talk) 03:03, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

The structure of this article seems confusing to me. The article introduces macromolecules by dividing the topic into two main categories: biopolymers and synthetic macromolecules. However, the synthetic macromolecules part takes only one paragraph. In addition, the author mentioned macrocycles in the lead but it is not explained in the article. The biopolymers section only includes linear polymers and branched polymers. This article is more about linear biopolymers but not macromolecules.--Nekosenseiii (talk) 14:10, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

I have a quick comment on the Figure "dendrimers". A typical dendrimer may have several generations so that it can be called "macromolecules", but the one shown on the figure has only one generation, and should only be counted as "a large molecule" instead of "a very large molecule". Alanzhangyj (talk) 06:03, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

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'macromolecule' vs 'polymer'

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Note: You'll notice that the article on macromolecules seems to imply that 'macromolecule' and 'polymer' are synonymous. They are not, at least not to those chemists working in the field. - 15:41, 3 February 2020  2405:204:a021:a4b0:c249:2573:2351:1114  (talk)

Non-biological macromolecules
Diamonds, graphene, carbon fibers (nano-tubules), and silicone analogs constitute a large unaddressed category of macromolecules that might reasonably be addressed here. Boldklub-PJs (talk) 21:56, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sam Toupin

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. — Trilobite (Talk) 15:33, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sam Toupin
This is a very short vanity page on a 15 year old girl. It is quite short and unnotable, and basically says she's beautiful. There really isn't much else I can say about it, since it is so short. --Phroziac 21:33, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Not notable--Henrygb 21:43, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. More to being notable than being a 15-year old girl who likes Dance Dance Revolution... pretty or not. -- Captain Disdain 21:59, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. At first, I was leaning towards "keep", because "the most beautiful girl in the world" would be inherently notable, but then I realized that she was too young to have been the girl Prince was talking about in that song. Also, the article claims that she "can make you feel great in spaeking or hanging out with her" - did she mean to say speaking or spanking? Either way, not notable, probable vanity. -- BD2412 talk 22:02, 2005 Jun 5 (UTC)
 * Delete teenage vanity. Or someone who wants to be her boyfriend. --Etacar11 01:51, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete It's easier to convince pretty girls to like DDR than it is to put up with girls that already like DDR but put a vanity entry on Wikipedia. --Tomunist 00:35, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Until she writes a good book or cures cancer, nobody really cares about her, no matter how good she is at DDR. Quagscorner 04:45, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. JamesBurns 07:32, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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Gnaeus Hosidius Geta

 Gaius or Gnaeus Hosidius Geta (c. 20 – after 95 AD) was a Roman Senator and general who lived in the 1st century. Geta was a praetor some time before 42. In the latter year, commanding a legion, probably the Legio IX Hispana in the Africa Province, he was a part of Gaius Suetonius Paulinus' campaigns into Mauretania.

Geta defeated Sabalus, a chief of the Mauri, twice, and after gathering as much water as could be carried, pursued him into the desert. Sabalus' forces were more used to the conditions and the legion's water began to run out. A native friendly to the Romans persuaded Geta to perform a rain ritual used by his people and rain began to fall. The Romans' thirst was relieved and the Mauri, seeing the heavens come to their enemies' aid, surrendered.

Geta and his legion were part of the Roman conquest of Britain, led by Aulus Plautius, the following year. Geta was almost captured in the Battle of the Medway in the early part of the campaign, but recovered and turned the battle so decisively that he received the ornamenta triumphalia, which was unusual as he had not yet been a Consul. He was a Legatus in Britannia about 45. An inscription found in Rome reveals that he became Suffect Consul in 49.

Geta married, but the name of his wife is unknown. He had a daughter called Hosidia, born about the year 65. Hosidia married Marcus Vitorius Marcellus, a man of consular rank and a friend of the poet Statius. Hosidia and Marcellus had a son called Gaius Vitorius Hosidius Geta.

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Hans Niessl

Hans Niessl (in official documents, his surname is spelt Nießl, born 12 June 1951 in Zurndorf) is an Austrian politician, member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria and former governor of Burgenland.

From 1987 till 2000, Niessl was mayor of Frauenkirchen, he has been a member of the parliament of Burgenland since 1996.

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Power Macintosh 7500

The Power Macintosh 7500 is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from August 1995 to May 1996. The 7500 was introduced alongside the Power Macintosh 7200 and 8500 at the 1995 MacWorld Expo in Boston. Apple referred to these machines collectively as the "Power Surge" line, communicating that these machines offered a significant speed improvement over its predecessors. The 7500 introduced a new case design, later dubbed "Outrigger" by Mac enthusiasts. There were two derivative models: the Power Macintosh 7600, identical to the 7500 except for the CPU which was a PowerPC 604 or 604e processor instead of the 7500's 601; and the Power Macintosh 7300, identical to the 7600 but without the video inputs found in both the 7500 and 7600.

Hardware
The 7500 is one of the first PCI-capable Macs manufactured by Apple; NuBus expansion cards are not supported. It has a PowerPC 601 processor rated at 100 MHz that is replaceable via a daughtercard. It also includes full composite video and S-Video input capability, but no output, as the 7500 was designed to be a video conferencing system, not a multimedia editing machine—this was the 8500's task.

The main bus runs at 45 MHz or 50 MHz (set by the CPU daughtercard), and the CPU at integer or half-integer multiples of this speed. The bus can be temperamental with sensitivity to different kinds of RAM or of L2 cache, which could cause problems with aftermarket CPU cards trying to increase the clock speed.

Models
In addition to the standard matrix of configurations available from Apple, various third-party resellers offered a wide variety of configurations.
 * Power Macintosh 7500/100: 8 or 16 MB RAM, 512 MB or 1 GB HDD, AppleCD 600i 4x CD-ROM drive.

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Ulrich Wille

Conrad Ulrich Sigmund Wille (5 April 1848 – 31 January 1925) was the General of the Swiss Army during the First World War. Inspired by the Prussian techniques that he had been able to observe at the time of his studies in Berlin, he attempted to impress the Swiss Army with a spirit based on instruction, discipline and technical control.

Nomination as general

At the dawn of the First World War, Switzerland confirmed its will to remain neutral and to avoid the conflicts which were going to set Europe ablaze. However, Switzerland was divided between the German-speaking Swiss who favored the Central Powers, and the French and Italian-speaking Swiss whose opinions tended to support the Allied Powers.

As a Germanophile, close to Kaiser Wilhelm II, Wille benefitted from the pro-German current and the disparity within the Swiss Federal Council, which counted only one member from the French areas.

In 1914, upon the outbreak of war, a general mobilization of all military forces was issued. Wille, then a Colonel, was named General of Switzerland by the Federal Parliament on 8 August 1914 with 122 votes, against 63 votes for the other candidate, Theophil Sprecher von Bernegg. Von Bernegg would soon assume the post of Chief of the General Staff and become a reliable partner of Wille's. The opponents of the general described him as "militarist" whereas his partisans saw in him a chief ready to manage an army in mobilization thanks to his pedagogical talents. Wille decided to concentrate the bulk of his forces (238,000 men and 50,000 horses) close to the borders, particularly in Ajoie and Engadine.

Political issues
The mandate of Wille was rife with political problems. A scandal occurred in the French-speaking area of Switzerland when Wille proposed to the Federal Council on 20 July 1915, to enter the war on the side of the Central Powers. Thereafter, the "Colonels' Affair" in 1916 also had a great repercussion. Two Swiss colonels had given German and Austro-Hungarian diplomats specimens of the "Staff Gazette", a confidential journal, and Russian messages deciphered by Swiss cryptanalysts. The affair risked Swiss neutrality since it implied collusion with one of the belligerents. Wille decided to condemn the two colonels to 20 days' detention, an unsatisfactory sentence in the eyes of the pro-Allied party.

The confrontation between French-speaking Switzerland and German-speaking Switzerland widened. The Germanic newspapers supported the German actions in Belgium, whereas the French ones highlighted the resistance of the Allied forces against German troops.

The economic situation was poor and many strikes occurred, reaching their apogee with the Swiss general strike from 11 November to 14 November 1918. In a note dated 10 November 1918, Wille announced his concern for the rise of Bolshevism and the internal disorders to come in the country:

Two years ago, I was brought on several occasions to share with the Federal Council my conviction that the congresses of Zimmerwald and Kiental had decided to begin with Switzerland the process of inversion of the established order in Europe. The triumph of the Bolsheviks in Russia supported this project. Everyone knows that many messengers of Russian Bolsheviks, having vast sums of money, are in Switzerland with an aim of exploiting the situation and to accelerate the execution of this plan.

But he added that it was necessary to avoid violence:

We should not seek the confrontation, nor the civil war. Our duty is to prevent them. (...) All risings which occurred in Zurich so far showed clearly that the local authorities are not capable of intervening without causing serious bloodshed. I do not reproach the persons in charge. Their difficulties are inherent in the democratic institutions. This has been known for a long time and this is why the Confederation must intervene in time.

Meanwhile, Wille had to manage the pandemic of the Spanish influenza, which affected the troops and the recruit schools. In order to combat the spread of the epidemic, enlistment of new recruits was delayed.

Personal life
Ulrich Wille's family was from La Sagne in the Canton of Neuchâtel. One of his ancestors settled in Hamburg and altered the family name from "Vuille" to the more German "Wille". Ulrich's parents were journalist and politician François Wille (1811–1896) and novelist Eliza Wille-Sloman (1809–1893). They were liberals and, after being disillusioned by the failed German revolutions of 1848–49, they left Hamburg for Switzerland with their newborn son Ulrich. They settled in Meilen in the Canton of Zürich, where Ulrich grew up in Mariafeld, the family estate.

Wille was married to Countess Constanza Maria Amalia Clara von Bismarck (1851–1946), the daughter of Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, a distant relative of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.

His eldest son, also named Ulrich Wille, followed his father's footsteps in the military, ultimately becoming a Corps Commander. Wille Jr. also managed to keep his father's pro-German tendencies throughout his career, including during the Second World War. This would contribute to his tensions with the next Swiss General, Henri Guisan.

His daughter Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille, who was married to silk tycoon Alfred Schwarzenbach, was an Olympic horsewoman and prolific photographer. His granddaughter was the renowned author, traveler, and photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach.

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Battle of Gabiene

Battle of Gabiene was the second great battle (the third battle in total; see: the battles of Orkynia and Paraitakene) between Antigonus Monophthalmus and Eumenes, two of Alexander the Great's successors (the so-called Diadochi). The battle was fought near Gabiene in Persia in the winter of 316-315 BC and ended the Second War of the Diadochi. It established Antigonus as the most powerful of the successors.

Since the sole reference of this battle is ultimately from Eumenes' personal aide Hieronymus of Cardia (later transmitted through the historian Diodorus), who later switched his allegiance to Antigonus, he provides a unique perspective from both sides' point of view.

Background
After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, his generals immediately began squabbling over his empire. Soon it degenerated into open warfare, with each general attempting to claim a portion of Alexander's vast kingdom. One of the most talented generals among the Diadochi was Antigonus Monophthalmus (Antigonus the One-eyed), so called because of an eye he lost in a siege. During the early years of warfare between the Successors, he faced Eumenes, a capable general who had already crushed Craterus. The two Diadochi fought a series of actions across Asia Minor, and Persia and Media before finally meeting in what was to be a decisive battle at Gabiene (Γαβιηνή).

Antigonus had been a general for Philip II of Macedon and after his assassination for his son Alexander. Skilled and experienced in war, he had proved himself in many battles. Eumenes was not of Macedonian origin, unlike the rest of Diadochi. He had first been Philip's then Alexander's secretary, but Alexander seemed to have recognized a military talent in Eumenes, and gave him several senior commands in the campaign in India. After Alexander's death, Eumenes quickly showed his skill, allying himself with Perdiccas and winning over much of Anatolia.

In 319 BC, Antigonus marched his army into Cappadocia (Eumenes's satrapy) and in a lightning campaign (see: battle of Orkynia) drove Eumenes to Nora, a strong fortress on the border between Cappadocia and Lycaonia. Here Eumenes held out for more than a year until the death of Antipater threw his opponents into disarray. He escaped from Nora through trickery, allied himself with Polyperchon (the new Regent of the Empire) and, after gathering a small army, he marched into Cilicia where he made an alliance with Antigenes and Teutamos, the commanders of the Macedonian Silver Shields and the Hypaspists. Eventually Eumenes secured control over these men by playing on their loyalty to, and superstitious awe of, Alexander. He used the royal treasury at Kyinda to recruit an army of mercenaries to add to his own troops and the Macedonians of Antigenes and Teutamos. In 317 BC, Eumenes left Cilicia and marched into Syria and Phoenicia, and began to raise a naval force on behalf of Polyperchon. When it was ready he sent the fleet west to reinforce Polyperchon, but off the coast of Cilicia it was met by Antigonus's fleet and changed sides. Meanwhile, Antigonus had settled his affairs in Asia Minor and marched east to take out Eumenes before he could do further damage. Eumenes somehow had advance knowledge of this and marched out of Phoenica, through Syria into Mesopotamia, with the idea of gathering support in the upper satrapies. When Antigonus arrived in Syria, he found out Eumenes had left his base in Phoenica and had marched into the east. They marched and counter-marched through Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Susiana and Media until the two armies finally met in southern Media and fought the indecisive Battle of Paraitakene. Antigonus, whose casualties were more numerous, force marched his army to safety the next night.

Prelude
During the winter of 316-315 BC, Antigonus tried to surprise Eumenes in Persia by marching his army across a desert to try and catch his enemy off guard. Unfortunately he was observed by some locals who reported it to his opponents. Eumenes then tricked Antigonus in believing he had his entire army with him. He gathered together a body of troops and, marking out on the hills a large camp, he had each soldier tend a campfire during the night giving the impression that a large army encamped there. Antigonus gave up his plan and awaited the rest of his army. A few days later, the armies drew together and encamped opposite of each other about five miles apart. They were on a broad plain, entirely uncultivated because of the loose and salty soil.

Battle
Antigonus, having a superiority in cavalry, resolved to mass his heavy cavalry and most of his elephants and light infantry on his right and strike against Eumenes's left flank, while refusing his center (infantry) and left (light horse). Antigonus and his son Demetrius commanded the heavy cavalry themselves. Eumenes, having seen Antigonus' deployment, placed himself and his best cavalry opposite Antigonus' heavy cavalry along with his own elephants and light infantry. He intended to hold Antigonus's charge while using his elite Argyraspides (the Silver Shields) phalanx to win in the center. The Argyraspides were a unit of veterans who had fought under Philip and then Alexander. Despite the fact that these battle-hardened veterans were old enough to be their opponents' grandfathers, they were still highly respected and thought to be invincible in combat.

Before the battle opened, Antigenes, the leader of the Argyraspides, sent a horseman over to Antigonus' phalanx heckling them, "Wicked men, are you sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander?". The morale of Antigonus' phalangites sank and the phalanx of Eumenes raised a great cheer in response. Eumenes saw an opportunity and began advancing.

The skirmishers and elephants were the first to engage. At once a great cloud of dust was raised from the loose soil, obscuring most of the action. Antigonus observed this and decided to take advantage of it. He selected a body of Median and Tarentine light cavalry and ordered them to ride around Eumenes's left flank and attack his camp; they were to seize his baggage train and carry it back to Antigonus's camp. Because of the dust, this action went entirely unnoticed by Eumenes's army. Finding the enemy camp inadequately guarded, Antigonus's men captured and carried off most of their opponents baggage train, containing the wives, children, servants, and accumulated savings of the army.

On the right flank, using the thick dust to cover his movements, Antigonus and Demetrius rode with their heavy cavalry around the engaged skirmishers and elephants to unexpectedly hit Eumenes's horse on their flank. Taken by surprise a great part of Eumenes's heavy cavalry under Peucestas routed. Despite Eumenes's heroic efforts to drive off the Antigonids, he was seriously outnumbered and was driven back. Antigonus and Demetrius used their cavalry to form a screen between Eumenes and the rest of his army. The battle of the elephants and skirmishers was decided when Eumenes' lead elephant was killed and the rest became so unnerved they fled. Antigonus had clearly won the battle on the right flank.

Meanwhile, in the center the two phalanxes had engaged. Spearheaded by the nigh invincible Silver Shields, Eumenes's phalanx had won a clear victory. Eumenes now ordered Peucestas to go back into combat with his cavalry and exploit the advantage, but the latter refused, retreating even further instead. Antigonus ordered Pheiton (in command of the right flank) to attack Eumenes's phalanx in the rear. This forced Eumenes's heavy infantry to break off their victorious pursuit, but being battle-hardened veterans, they kept their head, formed a square and marched safely off the battlefield.

Aftermath
The battle's result was, like Paraitacene, inconclusive, with Eumenes still possessing a strong force. That evening, Eumenes attempted to convince the army to fight Antigonus again the next day. His army was reluctant, as they had just found out their camp had been plundered, the satraps wanted to retire to protect their satrapies. It was the Silver Shields who took matters into their own hands. Learning that Antigonus had their wives, children, servants and booty, they secretly opened negotiations with Antigonus. A deal was struck whereby Antigonus would return their baggage and families in return for Eumenes and a promise of future allegiance. The Silver Shields promptly arrested Eumenes and his senior officers and handed them over to Antigonus.

Eumenes was put under heavy guard while Antigonus held a council to decide his fate. Demetrius and Nearchos urged Antigonus to spare Eumenes's life, but most of the council members insisted he execute Eumenes. So it was decided, then, and Eumenes met his end, his body being turned over to his friends for burial. Eudemus, who had come from India as an ally of Eumenes and was responsible for the recruitment of Eumenes' elephants and light infantry was also executed, as was the leader of the Argyraspides, Antigenes.

The Macedonians of Eumenes's army were drawn into the ranks of Antigonus's army. Given the fickle loyalty of the Silver Shields (betraying Eumenes and Antigenes), Antigonus decided to send the 1,000 unruliest of them to the far off satrapy of Arachosia to fight in the frontier war with the Indians, the local satrap Sibyrtius was given special orders to regard them as expendable.

Popular culture
Alfred Duggan's novel on the life of Demetrius, Elephants and Castles, also covers the battle.

The third novel in Christian Cameron's Tyrant series, Funeral Games features the Battle of Gabiene.

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Theresa Saldana

Theresa Saldana (August 20, 1954 – June 6, 2016) was an American actress, activist, and writer. She is known for her role as Rachel Scali, the wife of Police Commissioner Tony Scali, in the 1990s television series The Commish, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, in 1994. Major film roles include Lenora LaMotta, the wife of Joe Pesci's character in the 1980 film Raging Bull, and as a Beatles fan in Robert Zemeckis' 1978 Beatlemania ensemble I Wanna Hold Your Hand. She was also known for raising public awareness of the crime of stalking after surviving a knife attack by an obsessed fan at her home in 1982.

Early life
Saldana was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, and was adopted at five days old by Divina and Tony Saldana, a family of Puerto Rican and Italian-American heritage.

Saldana took dance lessons as a child. After suffering a serious shoulder injury while part of a tumbling team, she enrolled in acting classes at age 12. After being spotted by a talent scout while performing in an Off Broadway musical called The New York City Street Show in 1977, she was cast in the 1978 film Nunzio.

Stalking incident
On March 15, 1982, Saldana was stalked by Arthur Richard Jackson, a 46-year-old drifter from Aberdeen, Scotland. Jackson became obsessed with Saldana after seeing her in the 1980 films Defiance and Raging Bull. He hired a private investigator who obtained the unlisted phone number of Saldana's mother. Jackson then called Saldana's mother and posed as Martin Scorsese's assistant, saying he needed Saldana's residential address in order to contact her for replacing an actress in a film role in Europe. Jackson approached Saldana in front of her West Hollywood residence in broad daylight on March 15, 1982 and attacked her with a 5½-inch (14 cm) hunting knife, puncturing a lung. His attack was so fierce that the blade bent. Although there were many nearby onlookers, including children, the attack was interrupted only when a deliveryman, Jeff Fenn, intervened after hearing her cries, rushed from the second floor of an apartment building, and incapacitated Jackson. Following the assault, Saldana was hospitalized with 10 stab wounds and underwent a four-month hospital stay at the Motion Picture Hospital. She relived the incident in the television film Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story and again in an episode of Hunter.

Jackson served almost 14 years in prison for the assault and making subsequent threats against Saldana and her rescuer while in prison. He was then extradited to the United Kingdom in 1996 to be tried for a 1966 robbery and murder. Jackson (who once saw himself as "the benevolent angel of death") was found not guilty by diminished responsibility in 1997 and committed to a British psychiatric hospital, where he died of heart failure in 2004, at the age of 68.

Jackson's method of finding and approaching Saldana inspired stalker Robert John Bardo to hire a private investigator to contact Rebecca Schaeffer, a young TV sitcom star whom he subsequently murdered, also in West Hollywood, on July 18, 1989.

Victim advocacy
Following her long recovery, Saldana founded the Victims for Victims organization and participated in lobbying for the 1990 anti-stalking law and the 1994 Driver's Privacy Protection Act, both of which came into being partly as a consequence of the attack. The experience also inspired Saldana to play herself in the television film Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story, and she authored the book Beyond Survival, a memoir of her experiences after being attacked.

Personal life
Saldana's first marriage was to Fred Feliciano from February 11, 1979 to 1986. In March 1989, she married for the second time, to Phil Peters, with whom she had a daughter, Tianna Saldana Peters (born August 30, 1989, in Los Angeles). They remained together until her death.

Death
Saldana died on June 6, 2016, at age 61, after being hospitalized with pneumonia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Michael Chiklis, who played Saldana's husband on The Commish, wrote that it was "painful to hear the news."

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Bomb Factory Studio

 Bomb Factory is a recording studio and manufacturer of music plugins based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Music studio
Bomb Factory Studios features an extensive collection of vintage and historic equipment and musical instruments. Between 1996 and 1999, Bomb Factory was the host and benefactor involved in the restoration of dozens of instruments now part of the non-profit National Music Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Music plugins
Erik Gavriluk, the owner of Bomb Factory Studios, met Dave Amels while restoring the museum pieces. Together they decided to take their music production expertise and knowledge of vintage equipment and apply it to digital signal processing for Pro Tools by forming Bomb Factory Digital.

Key innovations included:

 * Using mathematical models to emulate the original analog circuitry of real-world equipment
 * Using 3D computer graphics to provide the original ergonomic usability of classic devices
 * Working with original analog equipment inventors in the digital engineering process, such as synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog

In 2004, Digidesign acquired all 27 shipping Bomb Factory products. Bomb Factory retained rights to more than 30 unreleased products and associated technologies.

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Walton-le-Dale

Walton-le-Dale is a large village in the borough of South Ribble, in Lancashire, England. It lies on the south bank of the River Ribble, opposite the city of Preston, adjacent to Bamber Bridge. The population of the South Ribble Ward at the 2011 census was 3,792. To the west of Walton-le-Dale is the residential area of Walton Park.

Toponymy
Walton is derived from walh and tun and means the farmstead or settlement of the Britons. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Waletune. In the 13th century it was recorded as Waleton and since about 1300 Waleton in le (la) Dale, or Walton in the valley.

Early history
The remains of a Roman fort at the junction of the River Darwen and River Ribble at Walton-le-Dale were discovered by accident in the mid 19th century. Roman remains found here include pottery and coins. The fort may have been the Rigodunum of Ptolemy, although most people locate it at Castleshaw.

Manor
Two oxgangs of land in Walton belonged to King Edward the Confessor in 1066, and after the Norman conquest, was the demesne of Roger de Busli and Albert Grelley. The manor passed in about 1130 to Henry de Lacy of Pontefract and was later granted to the Banastres and their successors the Langtons. John de Langton obtained the right to hold a weekly market and an annual fair in October in 1301. The manor passed from the Langtons to the Hoghtons of Hoghton who held the manor as mesne lord.

Battles
During the English Civil War the bridges over the river were the scene of skimishes between the Royalists and Roundheads. In 1644 Royalists were captured by Parliamentarians and Walton was the principal scene of the first Battle of Preston, fought on 17 August 1648 between Cromwell and the Duke of Hamilton.

In 1715, during the second Battle of Preston, the bridge over the River Ribble was successfully defended against the Jacobites by Parson Wood and his parishioners of Chowbent.

Industrial Revolution
During the Industrial Revolution there were four cotton mills, including Flats Mills belonging to William Calvert which employed 400 workers and James Livesey and Son's Moon Mill employing 130 workers. There was a cotton printing business and in 1800 Robert Whittaker established an iron foundry.

Governance
Anciently Walton-le-Dale was a township and chapelry in the parish of Blackburn and a part of the hundred of Blackburnshire. In 1701 the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Derwentwater and other Jacobites incorporated the town by the style of the "mayor and corporation of the ancient borough of Walton."

It became part of the Preston Poor Law Union, formed in 1837, which took responsibility for the administration and funding of the Poor Law and built a workhouse in that area. A local board was formed in 1877, and in 1894 an urban district council of twelve members representing four wards was formed. Walton-le-Dale was in the Darwen parliamentary division of Lancashire. Since 1974 the local council is South Ribble based in Leyland and the area is part of the Ribble Valley parliamentary constituency.

Transport
Walton-le-Dale is served regularly by Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire and Blackburn Bus Company buses. The Park & Ride service into Preston City Centre is located in Walton-le-Dale, at the Capitol Centre retail park. The Capitol Centre is a large retail and leisure facility, which was built on the site of the former Flats Mills.

Religion
The church of St Leonard, situated on high ground to the east of the village, was originally erected in the 11th century. The earliest portions of the present building are the Perpendicular chancel and tower, the nave having been rebuilt in 1798, while the transepts were erected in 1816. There are a number of interesting old brasses and monuments.

The church of Our Lady and St Patrick is located on Higher Walton Road in the village. Originally formed in 1855 by the Benedictine order, the Parish of Our Lady and St Patrick (originally the Mission of St Patrick) includes both The Pugin Church of Our Lady and St Patrick and St Patrick's RC Primary School, and has served Walton-le-Dale and surrounding area for over 150 years.

Culture
In 1701 some of the local gentry including the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Derwentwater and other Jacobites formed the Mock Borough of Walton, a social club, which lasted for about 50 years, and met in the Unicorn Inn, near Darwen Bridge. The mock corporation had officers which included a mayor, his deputy, recorder, bailiff, chaplain, serjeant, physician and mace-bearer but which also appointed a house-groper, jester, poet laureate, master of the hounds, sword-bearer, in 1708 a slut-kisser and in 1711 a custard-eater.

Legends
At midnight on 12 August 1560, under the moonlight in St Leonard's Churchyard, occultist and scholar John Dee allegedly summoned the spirit of a man who had died before giving the whereabouts of a considerable amount of money. It is said that he was successful and the spirit did indeed tell the occultist the whereabouts of the wealth, but not before also predicting to Dee the fate of many of the locals, which is said to have later come true. This section incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.

Notable people

 * Corporal John McNamara VC (1887–1918), recipient of the Victoria Cross, was born here.
 * Edward Baines (1774–1848), newspaper proprietor and politician, was born here.
 * Joseph Livesey (1794–1884), temperance campaigner, social activist, writer, publisher and local cheese seller, was born here.
 * Ian McCulloch, 2005 World Snooker Championships Semi-finalist, was born here.
 * Samuel Ryder (1858–1936), mayor and sponsor of the Ryder Cup was born here.

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An Evening's Love

An Evening's Love, or The Mock Astrologer is a comedy in prose by John Dryden. It was first performed before Charles II and Queen Catherine by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal on Bridges Street, London, on Friday, 12 June 1668. Samuel Pepys saw the play on 20 June of that year, but did not like it; in his Diary he called it "very smutty."

The play was first published in 1671 by Henry Herringman; Dryden dedicated the work to William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle.

Plot
The action of the play takes place in Madrid on the last night before Lent, 1665, and involves two young English gentlemen, Wildblood and Bellamy, and their comic servant Maskall, who fall in love with two beautiful young Spanish ladies, Donna Theodosia and Donna Jacinta, and their clever servant Beatrix.

Cast
The original production featured Charles Hart as Wildblood, Michael Mohun as Bellamy, Nell Gwyn as Jacinta, Nicholas Burt as Don Lopez, William Wintershall as Don Alonzo, Robert Shatterell as Maskal, Edward Lydall as Don Melchor de Guzman, Elizabeth Boutell as Donna Theodosia, Anne Marshall as Aurelia, and Mary Knep as Beatrix.

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The Prince and the Showgirl

The Prince and the Showgirl (originally titled The Sleeping Prince) is a 1957 British romantic comedy film starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier, who also served as director and producer. The screenplay written by Terence Rattigan was based on his 1953 stage play The Sleeping Prince. The Prince and the Showgirl was filmed at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.

Plot
In London in June 1911, George V will be crowned king on 22 June and in the preceding days, many important dignitaries arrive, including the 16-year-old King Nicholas VIII of the (fictional) Balkan country of Carpathia, with his father the stiff and pompous widower prince regent Charles, and his maternal grandmother the widowed queen dowager of Carpathia (inspired by King Michael I of Romania, King Carol II of Romania and Queen Marie of Romania).

As the British Government had decided that keeping Carpathia in the Triple Entente is critical amid the rising tensions in Europe, they wish to pamper the royals during their stay in London and assign civil servant Northbrook for the task. Northbrook takes Charles to the musical performance The Coconut Girl. During the intermission, Charles meets the cast backstage and is smitten with performer Elsie Marina, to whom he sends a formal invitation for midnight dinner at the Carpathian embassy.

Elsie meets Northbrook at the embassy before Charles arrives and expects a large party, but soon she realizes that Charles' true intentions are to seduce her over a private supper, something a girl with her abundant feminine charms has been through too many times to fall for, and she attempts to leave. Northbrook persuades her to remain, promising to provide an excuse for her to escape after supper. When Charles makes a clumsy pass at her, she immediately rebuffs him and explains that she had hoped that he would sway her with romance, passion, and "gypsy violins." In response, Charles changes his style and tactics, complete with a violinist. The two eventually kiss and Elsie admits that she may be falling in love, turning aside Northbrook's pre-agreed attempt to help her leave the embassy. When Elsie passes out due to being encouraged to drink too much vodka, Charles has four servants carry her on their shoulders like a log into an adjoining bedroom, where she spends the night.

The following day, Elsie overhears that Nicholas is plotting with the German embassy to overthrow his father. Promising not to tell, Elsie then meets the dowager queen, Charles' mother-in-law, who invites Elsie to join them for the coronation in place of her sick lady-in-waiting. The ceremony passes and Elsie refuses to tell Charles of the treasonous plot. Nicholas invites Elsie to the coronation ball, where she persuades him to agree to a contract in which he will confess his and the Germans' intent, but only if Charles agrees to a general election. Charles is impressed and realizes that he has fallen in love with Elsie. The morning after the ball, Elsie helps reunite Charles and Nicholas. Her honesty and sincerity have inspired Charles to finally show sincere love to his son.

The next day, the Carpathians must return home. Charles had planned to have Elsie join them, but his regency will end in 18 months and he will then be a free citizen. Elsie reminds him that her music-hall contract will expire at the same time. They both realize that much can happen in 18 months and they say goodbye to each other.

Cast

 * Marilyn Monroe as Elsie Marina
 * Laurence Olivier as Charles, the Prince Regent of Carpathia
 * Sybil Thorndike as the Dowager Queen
 * Richard Wattis as Northbrook
 * Jeremy Spenser as King Nicolas
 * Paul Hardwick as Major Domo
 * Esmond Knight as Colonel Hoffman
 * Rosamund Greenwood as Maud
 * Aubrey Dexter as The Ambassador
 * Maxine Audley as Lady Sunningdale
 * Harold Goodwin as Call Boy
 * Jean Kent as Maisie Springfield
 * Daphne Anderson as Fanny
 * Gillian Owen as Maggie
 * Vera Day as Betty
 * Margot Lister as Lottie
 * Charles Victor as Theatre Manager
 * David Horne as The Foreign Office
 * Gladys Henson as Dresser

Production
The film was produced and directed by Laurence Olivier. It was shot in Technicolor at Pinewood Studios. Marilyn Monroe had formed her own company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, through which she purchased the rights to Terence Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince. Olivier and Vivien Leigh had played the lead roles in the original London production of the play.

Production was marred with difficulties between Monroe and her costars and the production team. According to Jean Kent, Monroe "appeared dirty and dishevelled" and "never arrived on time, never said a line the same way twice, seemed completely unable to hit her marks on the set and couldn’t and wouldn’t do anything at all without consulting her acting coach, Paula Strasberg." Kent claimed that she witnessed her costar Richard Wattis, who appeared in many scenes with Monroe, "take to drink because takes had to be done so many times" and that Monroe had an uneasy relationship with the normally quiet and placid cinematographer Jack Cardiff, who said that Olivier referred to her as a "bitch." Olivier also reportedly showed a strong dislike of Monroe and Strasberg, whom he evicted from the set at one point, causing Monroe to refuse to continue shooting until Strasberg returned. The relationship between Olivier and Monroe worsened when Olivier told her to "try and be sexy." According to Kent, Olivier's difficulties with Monroe caused him "to age 15 years."

Donald Sinden, a contract star for the Rank Organisation at Pinewood Studios, had a permanent dressing room four doors from Monroe's during filming, although he was working on a different film. Sinden said: "She was still suffering from the effects of the Method school of acting, so one day I had the props department make up a notice that I fixed to my door saying:
 * Office of the Nazak [Kazan, backwards] Academy. You too can be inaudible. New egos superimposed. Motivations immobilised. Imaginary stone-kicking eradicated. Um's & Er's rendered obsolete. Motto: 'Though 'Tis Method Yet There's Madness In It'.

I waited inside and presently heard the usual footsteps of her and her entourage. They paused outside and from the entire group I only heard one laugh—that of Monroe. The door burst open and in she came, slamming the door in the faces of her livid retainers. From that moment on, whenever the poor girl could not face the problems of her hybrid existence—which was frequently—she popped in for a natter and a giggle. Of course as a sex symbol she was stunning, but sadly, she must be one of the silliest women I have ever met."

Monroe had an uncredited English body double for the movie, a young model whose stage name was Una Pearl. It was announced in Picturegoer magazine 18 August 1956.

Release
The film opened on 13 June 1957 at the Radio City Music Hall in New York and in Los Angeles and London on 3 July 1957.

Box office
The Prince and the Showgirl was not a major box-office success, faring poorly in comparison to Monroe's earlier releases, such as The Seven Year Itch and Bus Stop. Particularly popular in the United Kingdom, it failed to find the same success in the U.S. but managed to earn a substantial profit.

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 56% based on nine critics' reviews, with an average score of 5.7/10. Variety wrote in its original review: "This first indie production of Marilyn Monroe's company is a generally pleasant comedy, but the pace is leisurely. Filmed in London with a predominantly British cast, the film is not a cliche Cinderella story as its title might indicate." The New York Times stated that the film lacked originality and that Rattigan's characterizations were "too limiting" and "dull" to allow Monroe and Olivier to be showcased to their fullest potential.

Monroe and Olivier received particular praise for their performances. Thorndike's performance was also described as "excellent" by Variety.

Associated works
The 2011 film My Week with Marilyn depicts the week in which Monroe was escorted around London by personal assistant Colin Clark during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl. My Week with Marilyn is largely based upon two books written by Clark recounting his experiences during the production: My Week with Marilyn (2000) and The Prince, the Showgirl, and Me: Six Months on the Set With Marilyn and Olivier (1996). Both books and the film depict Monroe beginning a friendship and semi-romantic relationship with Clark for a brief time during production.

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Buda Chronicle

The Buda Chronicle (Budai krónika) is a 15th-century chronicle treating the early and medieval Hungarian history. While its original name is Chronica Hungarorum (Latin for "Chronicle of the Hungarians"; A magyarok krónikája), the chronicle is better known as the "Buda Chronicle" since the 19th century. Its text is eponymous part of the so-called Buda Chronicle family. The Buda Chronicle was printed in the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary in Buda by András Hess in 1473, becoming the first book printed in Hungary. With printing, the Buda Chronicle was not forgotten for centuries long as its predecessor Hungarian medieval chronicles, which were in manuscript codices, however the content of the Buda Chronicle soon became obsolete due to the more extensive Hungarian history of the Thuróczy Chronicle, which was published in 1488, which also bears the same title "Chronica Hungarorum".

History
The Buda Chronicle was published on the eve of Pentecost, 5 June 1473. It was produced by András Hess in Buda, and this is the first incunabulum ever printed in Hungary. Thus, the year 1473 is considered the beginning of Hungarian book printing. The Chronica Hungarorum from the Hess printing house is about the history of the Hungarians, which is unique, because the history of book printing in other European countries does not begin with the publication of the history of the nation, (only Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo's Compendiosa historia Hispanica precedes it as printed national historical work in 1470, but this was printed in Rome by Ulrich Han). The Hungarian book printing preceded England, Spain, and Austria. At the end of the 1470s, 66 printing houses could operate in whole Europe, two of which were in the Kingdom of Hungary: in the Hungarian capital Buda and in Pozsony (now Bratislava). With printing, the Buda Chronicle avoided the fate of its predecessor chronicles (for instance, Gesta Hungarorum, Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum, Chronicon Pictum), which were in manuscript codices and were forgotten for many centuries until they were discovered by historians of the later centuries. "I took on a huge job that required many days, namely the printing of the Chronicle of Pannonia, a job that I believe is kind and heartwarming to all Hungarians."

Content
The Chronica Hungarorum (Chronicle of the Hungarians) tells the history of Hungarians subdividing into 246 chapters in 133 printed pages, starting from the Hun-Hungarian origin until the reign of King Matthias of Hungary up to 1468. The Buda Chronicle was created by merging several historical works. The first part of the chronicle is a text variant of the 14th-century Hungarian chronicle composition that tells the history of the Hungarians from the earliest times to 1334. The second part contains the last times of the reign of King Charles I of Hungary, the events of the period between 1335 and 1342. The third part contains the history of King Louis the Great. The fourth part contains the period between 1382 and 1468, which also describes the events related to the contemporary reign of King Matthias of Hungary.

First part (–1334)
The first part of the Buda Chronicle is a text variant of the 14th-century Hungarian chronicle composition, which itself was produced by the compilation of several older gestas and chronicles made at different times. It narrates history from biblical times. The basic premise of the Hungarian medieval chronicle tradition that the Huns, i.e. the Hungarians coming out twice from Scythia, the guiding principle was the Hun-Hungarian continuity. The 14th-century Hungarian chronicle composition included the history of the Huns and the history of the Hungarians from the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin to the year 1334 of the reign of King Charles I of Hungary. The Buda Chronicle preserved the most detailed narration on the assassination of Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1290).

Second part (1335–1342)
The second part of the chronicle contains the last regnal years of King Charles I of Hungary. András Hess used a version of the 14th-century Hungarian chronicle from the era of King Charles I up to 1342, which contains many differences compared to both the Acephalus Codex and the Sambucus Codex. The part about the last years, death and burial of King Charles I can only be read in the Buda Chronicle. Originally, this part was recorded by a contemporary eyewitness of the events. In addition to the detailed prose narration, the text also contains a 15-line leonine verse about Charles' death.

Third part (1342–1382)
The third part of the Buda Chronicle contains the Chronicle of John of Küküllő, which is about the history of King Louis I of Hungary until 1382. András Hess does not mention John of Küküllő, the name of the author, omitting its prologue. Hess (or the text editor) revised the first half of the first chapter significantly, but after that he is faithful to John's chronicle. The editor completely omitted the 5th and 14th chapters of the aforementioned work, while other sections were slightly modified.

Fourth part (1382–1468)
The last fourth part of the chronicle is only four pages, the editor has condensed the events of the recent past and of his own time, it tells the story of eight decades from the death of King Louis I in 1382 to the end of the Moldavian campaign of King Matthias Corvinus in 1468. The editor of this part is unknown, this is the only original content of the chronicle, which was compiled either by András Hess himself or by a chancellery employee. This section until 1458 is nothing more than a chronological data series of the monarchs with their times of reign, family relations, places of deaths and burials, which is annalistic in character. Historian Gyula Kristó argued the fourth part of the work, compared to a 15th century chronicle, is "antiquated" and "flat" in its text, manner of narration and perception. The chronicle says that "In Queen Mary, the branch of the holy kings of Hungary in both sexes became extinct". Kristó considered that this indicated the success of the Capetian House of Anjou's effort to present their own dynasty as a close and direct continuation of the Árpáds.

In this part, the content has a big disproportion: despite that King Albert of Habsburg (1437–1439) reigned for barely 2 years, he received almost as much content as King Sigismund of Luxemburg (1387–1437), who reigned for 50 years. The author sympathized with Regent John Hunyadi, whose person receives as much surface in the narrative as the kings. King Matthias Corvinus, Hunyadi's son, is only mentioned in a short chapter at the end of the chronicle: about his election as king in 1458, the recapture of Jajca from the Ottomans in Bosnia in 1463, the recovery of the Holy Crown of Hungary from Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor in 1464, and the return of King Matthias from his Moldavian campaign in 1468, which ended in a victory for Matthias according to the chronicle. The story of the Buda Chronicle ends suddenly at 1468, the Hungarian history of the last four years (1469–1473) is missing, possibly in order to avoid discussing politically sensitive developments (e.g. John Vitéz's failed conspiracy against the monarch and the invasion of King Casimir IV of Poland in 1471, the captivity and death of John Vitéz in 1472). Nevertheless, Matthias is called as "brave and invincible lion" by the chronicle. The fourth part confirms that this text was written in Buda: for instance, it narrates that Matthias placed his victory badges and flags after the Moldavian campaign in the Church of the Assumption in Buda, "where they can still be seen today". The Hess printing house was not far from the Church of the Assumption (better known as Matthias Church), and the editor of the Buda Chronicle might have been Ladislaus Karai, who lived nearby in Buda.

Prints
András Hess dedicated his chronicle to Ladislaus Karai, chief justice of the court, who had invited him to Hungary and supported his publishing house financially, providing accommodation and workshop to Hess. Initially, Archbishop John Vitéz, who by then had fallen from favor and died, is also cited as patron of the printing. According to assumptions, Hess would have originally dedicated the work to Vitéz, but due to the changing political situation, he was forced to modify this. Due to the smaller font size, it is plausible that this part of dedication was completed last beside the colophon. In 1473, the production cost of the Buda Chronicle was about 100 gold coins, and the price of the paper was about half amount of the cost. At that time, it was possible to buy a house in the field below the Buda Castle for 100 gold coins. The purchase price of the more decorative edition of the chronicle was 2 gold coins, the less decorative one was 1 gold coin. At that time, 1 gold coin was equal to 100 denarius, which was the monthly wage of a day laborer. High priests and educated, high-ranked officials of the royal court, and lower-ranked clerks were the buyers of the chronicle. Philologist János Horváth Jr. noted that Hess' Chronica Hungarorum contains "quite a lot of typos".

About 240–250 copies were printed, with 10 surviving to modern day, not least because they were sent abroad before the Battle of Mohács in 1526. Only two copies remained in the original decorative binding from the bookbinding workshop in Buda. Currently, two of the surviving printed copies are in Hungary: in the National Széchényi Library and in the Eötvös Loránd University Library. The other surviving printed copies are in the Polish National Museum in Kraków, in the University Library in Leipzig, in the France National Library in Paris, in the Charles University Library in Prague, in the Scheide Library in Princeton, in the National Academy of Lincei Library and Corsiniana in Rome, in the Russian National Library in Saint Petersburg, and in the Austrian National Library in Vienna. The book stored in Princeton is the most recently discovered original print, the chronicle was sold at an auction for 420,000 West German marks in 1990.

At the end of the printed chronicle text, the edition which stored in the National Széchényi Library also contains handwritten leonine verses from three authors about dates of birth and death of Hungarian monarchs, some historical events in accordance with the perpetual calendar Cisiojanus. The last verse refers to the sack of Várad (today Oradea, Romania) by the Ottomans in February 1474.

Legacy
The Buda Chronicle was the main source for the creation of the manuscript Dubnic Chronicle in 1479, which took over the text of the second part (1335–1342) regarding the death and burial of Charles I, in addition to the last events of his reign too. The Thuróczy Chronicle also pasted this section. An earlier draft of the Buda Chronicle was utilized by the author of the Chronicon Posoniense too.

The content of the Buda Chronicle soon became obsolete due to the more extensive summary of Hungarian history of the Thuróczy Chronicle, which was printed and published in 1488, which also bears the same title "Chronica Hungarorum". There is also an argument that King Matthias preferred ornate, illustrated and representative codices in comparison to printed books that are simple in appearance, like the Buda Chronicle, which accelerated the development of its neglect. Following John Vitéz's political fall, this project lost its only true patron.

Several handwritten copies of the Buda Chronicle are known from the Middle Ages (the first known is Johannes Menestarffer's from 1481) to the 18th century. Since the 15th century, the Chronica Hungarorum by András Hess was first republished in 1838 by academician József Podhraczky as Chronicon Budense in Latin, since that time the historiographical name of the chronicle is "Buda Chronicle". By the re-release, the chronicle became easily accessible to everyone, while important other chronicle manuscripts still had to be discovered in the hidden corners of libraries. Those manuscripts that became known later were compared to the Buda Chronicle and the Illuminated Chronicle from the perspective of the kinship of texts, thus a group of other Hungarian chronicles were named after the Buda Chronicle: the so-called Buda Chronicle family. And another group of other Hungarian chronicles were named after the Illuminated Chronicle: the so-called Illuminated Chronicle family, which preserved more extensive passages of text with several interpolations. The 14th-century Acephalus Codex, the 15th-century Sambucus Codex, Vatican Codex and the aforementioned Dubnic Chronicle made in 1479 belongs to the Buda Chronicle family.

A facsimile edition of the Buda Chronicle was published in 1900 by Gusztáv Ranschburg, an introductory study was provided by historian Bishop Vilmos Fraknói. At the 500th anniversary of the chronicle, the first complete Hungarian translation was published in 1973 by Magyar Helikon. On the occasion of the 550th anniversary of the publication event, the National Széchény Library published a new facsimile edition of the chronicle in 2023. This most complete edition includes the reprints and the Hungarian translation and study.

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Masters of Doom

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture is a 2003 book by David Kushner about video game company id Software and its influence on popular culture, focusing on co-founders John Carmack and John Romero. The book goes into detail about the company's early years, the success of their franchises such as Doom, and the dynamics between Carmack and Romero and their different personalities. The book also focuses on Romero's firing and the founding and the eventual collapse of his game studio Ion Storm.

Upon release, Masters of Doom received positive reviews from critics and has been placed on numerous "best of" lists for video game books. The book would later influence Palmer Luckey to establish the technology company Oculus VR, and Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman to found reddit. There have been two attempts to adapt the book: a television movie on Showtime, and a pilot episode greenlit by USA Network in 2019 for a potential series.

Background
David Kushner was a contributor for news outlets such as The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Wired. A gamer, Kushner saw an opportunity to write a book about the video games industry, choosing to focus on John Carmack and John Romero as he considered their careers as "a great story waiting to be told". Due to it being his first book, he spent five years on research. He moved to Dallas, Texas to conduct the interviews with the subjects, interviewing them late into the night. Basing his writing technique on Tom Wolfe's 1979 book The Right Stuff, Kushner wrote every line of dialogue and internal monologue based on interviews the author had with the subjects.

Content
The book describes the respective childhoods of the "two Johns", their first meeting at Softdisk in 1989 and the eventual founding of their own company, id Software. It discusses in detail the company's first successes, the popular and groundbreaking Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D games, and the new heights the company reached with Doom, which granted the company unprecedented success, fame, and notoriety. It discusses id's next project, Quake, the aftermath of Romero's departure from the company, and his founding and the eventual collapse of Ion Storm, his new game development studio. Kushner describes the new gamer culture created by Doom and its impact on society.

The games are discussed in detail, and Kushner's main focus is in the work dynamic and personalities that enabled their creation. He describes Carmack and Romero as the driving forces of id Software, but with very different personalities. Romero is presented as having unbridled creativity and considerable skill, but he loses focus when the spectacular success of the games allows him to adopt a rock star-like public persona. Carmack is depicted as an introvert, whose unparalleled programming skills are the core of id Software, enabling the company to create extremely sophisticated games. However, he has little interest in – or even understanding of – the social niceties that enable people to enjoy working together.

Much of the book concentrates on this dynamic. The two initially complement each other well, but eventually conflicts develop, leading Romero to be fired. Carmack, the skilled creator of the complicated and fast game engines the company's products use, is repeatedly referred to as the only person in the company who is not expendable, and this gives him a great degree of authority and influence. However, this influence transforms id Software into a considerably less pleasant and fun place to work and causes its games to become increasingly repetitive, though technologically sophisticated. Romero is on the opposite end of the spectrum; his Ion Storm is intended to be a very fun place to work, where "[game] design is law" (Ion Storm's slogan was "Design is Law") and that technology must be created to realize the designer's vision, instead of the other way around. However, his lack of management and organizational focus leads to poor and financially disastrous results.

Although Kushner adopts a novel-like narrative, Masters of Doom is a work of video game journalism. According to his notes in the book, it is based on hundreds of interviews conducted over a six-year period. Kushner was an early entrant into the field of video game journalism, and recycled some of his own original reporting in the book.

Publication
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture was first published in May 2003 by Random House in hardcover and ebook form. Random House released an excerpt of the book before its release. Random House later negotiated a deal with UK publisher Piatkus, releasing a trade paperback in autumn 2003. An audiobook version of Masters of Doom was published in 2012 by Audiobooks.com and was narrated by Wil Wheaton.

Reception
Seth Mnookin for The New York Times called it "an impressive and adroit social history", positively noting its pacing and detail. Jeff Jensen for Entertainment Weekly gave it a "B" rating. Thomas L. McDonald for Maximum PC praised its prose and its representation of the subjects. Edge described the book as being akin to a Greek drama without the pathos, adding that the story was "a cautionary tale of relationships in the games industry". Hardcore Gaming 101 considered the book "a highly entertaining and quite informative read". Scott Juster for PopMatters praised Kushner's extensive research and interviews of Carmack and Romero. Kirkus Reviews summarized the book as "laudable coverage of an undeniably important, unsettling cultural transition." Since its release, the book has been on several "best video game books" lists. In 2023, Chris Plante of Polygon termed it "arguably the most popular work of nonfiction about video game development".

Salon contributor Wagner James Au, while declaring the book to be "excellent", criticized David Kushner for giving too much credit to the technical merit of Catacomb 3-D in comparison to Ultima Underworld. Ann Donahue for Variety considered the character study of "the two Johns" to be interesting but thought the book had "problematic tunnel vision" by rarely taking a broader look at the impact Doom had outside of the gaming industry. Computer Gaming World's Charles Ardai called it "clumsily written but nonetheless compelling". Publishers Weekly considered Kushner to have given too much leeway about the violence in the games, and criticized the narration as dry in parts of the book.

Legacy
Palmer Luckey, the founder of the technology company Oculus VR, first became interested in virtual reality after reading Masters of Doom. John Carmack later left id Software in 2013 to join Oculus as chief technology officer. In a 2013 blog post, Alexis Ohanian revealed that the book inspired Ohanian and Steve Huffman to start a company, which resulted in them founding reddit. In 2016, Kushner released an audiobook follow-up titled Prepare to Meet Thy Doom and More True Gaming Stories. The book is a compilation of Kushner's long-form journalism which includes a "where-they-are-now" article on Carmack and Romero. The book was read in by Wil Wheaton. On his website, John Romero sells signed copies of Masters of Doom.

In 2021, Kushner wrote in a Substack post that he was writing a sequel to Masters of Doom. Titled Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future, Kushner planned to serialize the book in his newsletter and include new interviews with Carmack and Romero.

Lawsuit
In 2005, former Ion Storm chief executive officer Michael Wilson sued publisher Random House Inc., claiming the book made false allegations against him making a questionable business deal to purchase a BMW with funds from the company. Wilson sought $50 million in damages, with further punitive damages from the publisher. A spokesperson for Random House issued a statement announcing the publishing company's support of David Kushner. No outcome of the suit was ever reported.

Adaptation
A movie adaptation was first conceived in 2005, when it was announced that producer Naren Shankar was planning a television movie for Showtime based on the story. The movie never materialized beyond the initial announcement.

In June 2019, USA Network greenlit a pilot episode of a potential series based on the book, to be written and produced by Tom Bissell under James and Dave Franco's Ramona Films label. The series, if it should continue, is expected to be an anthology series. The series would feature Eduardo Franco as Romero, Patrick Gibson as Carmack, and star John Karna, Jane Ackermann, Siobhan Williams, and Peter Friedman, directed by Rhys Thomas. In 2020, it was reported that the pilot was in post-production by Gotham Group, though no further announcement has been made.

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