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Texas Revolution (indoor football)

The Texas Revolution were an American professional indoor football team and a founding member of Champions Indoor Football (CIF). The Revolution were based in Allen and Frisco, Texas, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

Founded in 2000 as the Arkansas Twisters, the Little Rock-based team played 10 seasons in af2 before that league folded. The team jumped to the Indoor Football League as the Arkansas Diamonds for the 2010 season. Remaining in the IFL, the team moved to Texas to become the Allen Wranglers for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. In 2012, former NFL standout and future hall of famer Terrell Owens played eight games for the Wranglers before being cut in late May.

In 2012, the Wranglers franchise was transferred to a new ownership group and the team was renamed the Texas Revolution for the 2013 season. After five seasons in the IFL, the team moved to the Champions Indoor Football league for that circuit's inaugural season.

Arkansas Twisters
The franchise began play as the Arkansas Twisters in 2000 as the only professional football team in the state of Arkansas. The team played 10 seasons as a charter member of af2, the "developmental" league of the original Arena Football League. The Twisters played their home games at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The team enjoyed success on the field, twice reaching the league's championship game. After the AFL took a season off and was forced into bankruptcy in 2009, the af2 was dissolved and the Twisters were announced as a planned charter member of Arena Football 1.

Arkansas Diamonds
Concerns for stability with Arena Football 1 lead to a November 2009 shift by Arkansas to the Indoor Football League. However, the rights to the Twisters name and logo belonged to Arena Football 1 so the Arkansas franchise held a "name the team" contest in late January and became the Arkansas Diamonds of the IFL's Intense Conference for the 2010 season. The new team colors for 2010 were Carolina blue, black, and gray. Arena football veteran Danton Barto took over as head coach, leading the team to an 11–3 regular season record and first place in the 2010 Lonestar East Division. The team's playoff run ended with a loss to the Billings Outlaws in the Intense Conference Finals. With the team struggling financially, co-owners Jim Smith and Jeff Everetts announced in September 2009 that the franchise was relocating to Allen, Texas, a prosperous suburb of Dallas.

Allen Wranglers
After a name-the-team contest, the team announced on September 29, 2010, it would be called the Allen Wranglers, starting with the 2011 Indoor Football League season. The relocated Intense Conference team would play their home games at the Allen Event Center in Allen, Texas. The team shared the name with a previous indoor football team in Allen, the Texas Wranglers, who played the 2009 and 2010 seasons in the Independent Indoor Football Alliance.

In October 2010, the team announced that Chris MacKeown would be the Wranglers' head coach for the 2011 season. Former Dallas Cowboys player Drew Pearson was named general manager of the franchise in early December 2010. The team finished with a 10–4 regular season record and first place in the Lonestar Division. They advanced through two rounds of the IFL playoffs before losing the Intense Conference Championship to the Tri-Cities Fever of Kennewick, Washington.

The Wranglers started the 2012 season strong under new head coach Pat Pimmell but after consecutive losses dropped their record to 5–3 in April, Pimmel was let go and the team's offensive and defensive coordinators shared the title "co-interim head coach" through the end of the season. The team finished with a 9–5 regular season record and reached the IFL playoffs but lost in the Intense Conference semi-finals to the Wichita Wild.

National attention was focused on the Wranglers in 2012 when NFL veteran wide receiver Terrell Owens joined the team. Recovering from surgery and receiving no offers from NFL teams, Owens accepted a generous contract and partial ownership in the franchise to play in Allen. He swelled attendance at Wranglers home games. His debut drew a crowd of 5,711 people, larger than the Wranglers' home attendance for the entire 2011 season, but his contract allowed him to skip many away dates. Owens was released by the Wranglers on May 29, 2012, with three games left in the season, for his "lack of effort both on and off the field", failure to show up for a scheduled appearance at a children's hospital, and refusal to play in two upcoming road games, Along with his release, Owens also relinquished his ownership stake in the team.

Texas Revolution
In June 2012, Wranglers owner Jon Frankel ceased operations of the team. The IFL then transferred franchise ownership to a new ownership group called Championship Sports Group led by CEO Tommy Benizio, the former IFL commissioner, with co-owners in Tim Brown and Ken Paxton. On September 19, 2012, the team unveiled its new name and colors as the Texas Revolution. After three seasons in the Intense Conference, the team was realigned to the United Conference for the 2013 season. In November 2012, the team named Billy Back as head coach for the 2013 season.

After a disappointing 5–9 campaign, the Revolution released head coach Billy Back and hired Chris Williams from the New Mexico Stars. The league released its 2014 schedule in late October 2013 with the Revolution staying in the United Conference but the Chicago franchise replaced by the Bemidji Axemen in the 9-team IFL. The team re-signed several key players for 2014 and, in mid-January, announced the signing of running back Jennifer Welter as the first female professional football player for a position other than kicker. The team finished with a 3–11 record, missing the post-season, and head coach Chris Williams resigned after the season.

In late August 2014, the team hired former Dallas Cowboys cornerback Wendell Davis as head coach and director of football operations. Days later, the team announced it was leaving the Indoor Football League for the new Champions Indoor Football. The team's 2015 schedule began with a pre-season home game on February 27 and two regular season road games before the home opener on March 20. On March 30, after just four regular season games, the team released Wendell Davis and promoted defensive coordinator Devin Wyman to head coach. The team made its best playoff run since moving to Allen, advancing to Champions Bowl I but falling to the Sioux City Bandits, 76–61. Later that year, a team and potential regional rival called the Mesquite Marshals were launched in nearby Mesquite for the 2016 season.

In 2017, the Revolution won Champions Bowl III. The team then relocated to Frisco, Texas, and the Dr Pepper Arena for the 2018 season. On April 9, 2018, Victor Mann returned as head coach. The team finished the 2018 season 5–7 but advanced as far as the conference championship, where they lost to the eventual league champion Duke City Gladiators 41–28.

For the 2019 season, the Revolution again moved to a new arena in the Ford Center at The Star, the Dallas Cowboys' practice facility, on a three-year lease. Sometime just prior to the start of the season, a new ownership group called Owner's Box Inc obtained the majority ownership of the team, keeping Benizio as the CEO. However, after three home games into the 2019 season, the Revolution cancelled their home game scheduled for May 4. The remainder of the team's home games were then cancelled as well and the Ford Center stated that the team's games would no longer be played there. On May 9, the team announced it had ceased operations after the new ownership failed to back its financial obligations.

All-IFL players
The following Revolution players have been named to All-IFL Teams:
 * RB Darius Fudge (1)
 * WR Clinton Solomon (1)
 * DL Demario Dixon (1)
 * LB James Lancaster (1)
 * LB/DB Javicz Jones (1)
 * DB Joey Longoria (1), Frankie Solomon Jr. (3)

Notable players

 * WR Terrell Owens
 * RB Jennifer Welter

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South Georgia Wildcats

The South Georgia Wildcats were a professional arena football team based in Albany, Georgia. They were member of the South Division of the American Conference of Arenafootball2 (AF2).

The Wildcats joined the AF2 in 2002 as an expansion team, after the league granted an expansion franchise to Fayetteville, North Carolina. During their first 3 seasons they were known as the Cape Fear Wildcats until they relocated to Albany, Georgia in 2005. They played their home games at Albany Civic Center in Albany, Georgia.

Cape Fear Wildcats
The team began as the Cape Fear Wildcats. The Wildcats began play in the 2002 season as an expansion team in the AF2. Their home games were played at Cumberland County Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, North Carolina. They made a splash quickly in the AF2, reeling off three straight playoff berths. The team combined to go 35–13 in their first three seasons, (21-8 at home) establishing themselves as a perennial contender. They garnered an average attendance of 4,635. However, they relocated to Albany, Georgia following the 2004 season.

The Wildcats relocated to Albany, Georgia after the 2004 season. The team retained the Wildcat nickname from its earlier years. Relocation was tough, however, as the team went a combined 6-26 its first two seasons, winning just three home games.

Season-by-season
!Totals || 78 || 60 || 0
 * colspan="6" align="center" | Cape Fear Wildcats
 * 2002 || 13 || 3 || 0 || 1st AC Atlantic || Won AC Round 1 (Richmond 57–48) Won AC Semifinal (Albany 46–30) Lost AC Championship (Florida 43–23)
 * 2003 || 10 || 6 || 0 || 1st AC Atlantic || Lost AC Round 1 (Mohegan 50–47)
 * 2004 || 12 || 4 || 0 || 2nd AC Northeast || Won AC Round 1 (Birmingham 54–53) Lost AC Semifinal (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 40–37)
 * colspan="6" align="center" | South Georgia Wildcats
 * 2005 || 3 || 13 || 0 || 4th AC South || --
 * 2006 || 3 || 13 || 0 || 5th AC South || --
 * 2007 || 10 || 6 || 0 || 2nd NC South || Won NC Round 1 (Florida 59–50) Lost NC Semifinals (Tulsa 49–28)
 * 2008 || 12 || 4 || 0 || 1st AC South || Lost AC Round 1 (Manchester 46–42)
 * 2009 || 11 || 5 || 0 || 2nd AC South ||Lost AC Round 1 (Kentucky 66–63)
 * 2005 || 3 || 13 || 0 || 4th AC South || --
 * 2006 || 3 || 13 || 0 || 5th AC South || --
 * 2007 || 10 || 6 || 0 || 2nd NC South || Won NC Round 1 (Florida 59–50) Lost NC Semifinals (Tulsa 49–28)
 * 2008 || 12 || 4 || 0 || 1st AC South || Lost AC Round 1 (Manchester 46–42)
 * 2009 || 11 || 5 || 0 || 2nd AC South ||Lost AC Round 1 (Kentucky 66–63)
 * 2007 || 10 || 6 || 0 || 2nd NC South || Won NC Round 1 (Florida 59–50) Lost NC Semifinals (Tulsa 49–28)
 * 2008 || 12 || 4 || 0 || 1st AC South || Lost AC Round 1 (Manchester 46–42)
 * 2009 || 11 || 5 || 0 || 2nd AC South ||Lost AC Round 1 (Kentucky 66–63)
 * 2009 || 11 || 5 || 0 || 2nd AC South ||Lost AC Round 1 (Kentucky 66–63)
 * 2009 || 11 || 5 || 0 || 2nd AC South ||Lost AC Round 1 (Kentucky 66–63)
 * colspan="2"| (including playoffs)
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Albany Firebirds (af2)

The Albany Firebirds were a professional arena football team of the AF2 based in Albany, New York. Albany was granted an expansion team in 2002 and began play as the Albany Conquest. The Firebirds played their home games at the Times Union Center. They are the second arena football team for Albany, as the city was granted an expansion team, the Albany Firebirds, in the Arena Football League in 1990. The team moved to Indianapolis, Indiana in 2000 and played as the Indiana Firebirds through 2004 before disbanding.

Then the city of Albany ventured into the world of arena football again, this time joining the AF2 in 2002, creating a new franchise by the name the Albany Conquest. The team enjoyed little success and in 2009 for marketing purposes changed their name back to the Albany Firebirds before disbanding in 2010. They cited low attendance and poor fan support. Due to financial difficulties and low support, the Conquest were expected to fold following the 2008 season when a new investor could not be found. The franchise had notified the league in late September that it would not return, but following a meeting with the Albany Times Union and the operator of the Times Union Center, an agreement was reached that would allow the team to return for 2009. The team also acquired the rights to the old Firebirds name and logo in a rebranding effort to raise interest in the team, hoping to bring back fans from the days of the original Firebirds team.

On April 28, 2009, it was announced that the Albany Firebirds had offered former NFL quarterback Michael Vick a contract. Under the terms of this contract, Vick would be required to donate $100,000 to a local animal shelter. The following day, the team retracted the announcement, claiming that it had been a publicity stunt created by the team's marketing department. The team's owner, Walter Robb, who knew nothing of the stunt, was cited as saying, "I'm a dog lover and I don't want anything to do with (Vick)."

Original team name
In a September 2016 article in Sports Illustrated, it was discovered that the Conquest/Firebirds almost became known as the Albany WarBirds. In 2001, 20-year-old college students Jason Klein and Casey White of branding firm Brandiose were chosen to come up with a new catchy name for a new franchise for Albany. The name that was chosen was the "WarBirds" and logos, helmet and uniform designs were created. They filed for a trademark on August 15 and set September 12 as the day to unveil the name, logo and uniforms. Then, the September 11th attacks occurred in New York City, The Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It was then determined that all parties involved agreed that the concept, which Klein described as a "weaponized airplane", would have to go. The "Empire" was the frontrunner for the new team name but they ran into a trademark issue, so they eventually settled on "Conquest". However, in 2018, the new AFL franchise became known as the Albany Empire with no trademark issues.

The team name was revived in 2023 for a new member of the Arena Football League.

Season-by-season
!Totals || 60 || 72 || 0
 * colspan="6" align="center" | Albany Conquest
 * 2002 || 13 || 3 || 0 || 1st AC Northeast || Won AC Round 1 (Rochester 31–26) Lost AC Semifinal (Cape Fear 46–30)
 * 2003 || 13 || 3 || 0 || 1st AC Northeast || Lost AC Semifinal (Macon 59–47)
 * 2004 || 6 || 10 || 0 || 3rd AC Northeast || –
 * 2005 || 4 || 12 || 0 || 5th AC East|| –
 * 2006 || 5 || 11 || 0 || 6th AC East || –
 * 2007 || 6 || 10 || 0 || 4th AC East || –
 * 2008 || 5 || 11 || 0 || 3rd AC East || –
 * colspan="6" align="center" | Albany Firebirds
 * 2009 || 7 || 9 || 0 || 2nd AC East || Lost AC 1st Round (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 78–21)
 * 2006 || 5 || 11 || 0 || 6th AC East || –
 * 2007 || 6 || 10 || 0 || 4th AC East || –
 * 2008 || 5 || 11 || 0 || 3rd AC East || –
 * colspan="6" align="center" | Albany Firebirds
 * 2009 || 7 || 9 || 0 || 2nd AC East || Lost AC 1st Round (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 78–21)
 * 2008 || 5 || 11 || 0 || 3rd AC East || –
 * colspan="6" align="center" | Albany Firebirds
 * 2009 || 7 || 9 || 0 || 2nd AC East || Lost AC 1st Round (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 78–21)
 * 2009 || 7 || 9 || 0 || 2nd AC East || Lost AC 1st Round (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 78–21)
 * 2009 || 7 || 9 || 0 || 2nd AC East || Lost AC 1st Round (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 78–21)
 * colspan="2"| (including playoffs)
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Green Bay Blizzard

The Green Bay Blizzard is a professional indoor football team based in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, founded in 2003. The Blizzard began play in the Indoor Football League in 2010, after having played the previous seven seasons in af2, the now-defunct minor league of the Arena Football League. They play their home games at the Resch Center. The team's logo represents Bruiser, the team mascot.

af2: 2003–2009
The Blizzard started out as an af2 expansion team in 2003 with Jose Jefferson as the team's head coach. The team finished 2–14, last in the National Conference Midwest Division. They only averaged 2,957 fans a game.

At the beginning of the 2004 season, the Blizzard replaced Jose Jefferson with former Green Bay Packers linebacker Brian Noble. Despite the team improving during the 2004 season, the Blizzard finished 6–10.

In 2005, the team moved from the National Conference to the American Conference of AF2. The Blizzard became a member of the American Conference's East division. The team also replaced Noble with veteran Arena Football League Bob Landsee. The team continued their trend of improvement in 2005 finishing 9–7, good for 3rd in the East Division, and reaching the postseason for the first time. They fell in the first round to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.

Blizzard head coach Bob Landsee became the first coach in team history to return for their second season. The Blizzard also came under new ownership as former coach Brian Noble lead an investment group that purchased the team. Noble became the new President of the four-year-old franchise and began a complete revitalization of the organization, drastically lowering ticket prices in an attempt to boost their average game attendance. The team set a new single game attendance record of 7,184 in the season finale against Louisville. The team experienced an improvement on the field as well, going into the final game of the 2006 regular season tied with the Louisville Fire for first in the East Division at 9–6. This set up a showdown between the two teams at the Resch Center for the East Division title, which the Blizzard won 54–53. The Blizzard earned a first round bye before facing the 2005 ArenaCup Champion Memphis Xplorers in the Blizzard's inaugural home playoff game, which they won 67–50. This victory sent them to the American Conference Championship Game against the Florida Firecats, which they won 60–47, capturing the conference title and advancing to ArenaCup VII, where they lost to the Spokane Shock 54–37.

Coach Bob Landsee had difficulties resulting from surgery and was forced to take a leave of absence for the 2007 season. He was replaced by defensive coordinator Doug Lytle, who led the Blizzard to a 9–7 season, remaining undefeated at home yet losing all but one road game. The Blizzard made the playoffs for the third consecutive year and surprised their rival and Midwest Division Champion Quad City Steamwheelers 39–34 in the first-round game. The Blizzard carried over their success at home from the regular season by defeating Louisville in the second round 37–27, but lost to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers in their second consecutive American Conference championship game, 46–43.

Head coach Bob Landsee returned in 2008 and led the Blizzard to an 11–5 record and a Midwest Division title. The Blizzard set a single-game record for attendance against Lexington with 7,258 and had the largest average attendance in team history with an average of 6,125 fans per game. In the first round of the playoffs the Blizzard defeated Lexington 65–37 after having lost twice to them in the regular season. The Blizzard then hosted Manchester in a second-round game, losing 55–54 on a last minute Manchester two-point conversion.

After beginning the season by defeating the defending ArenaCup Champion Tennessee Valley Vipers. The Blizzard failed to capture a consecutive Midwest Division title and finished the season 10–6, earning the #6 seed in the 2009 af2 playoffs. The Blizzard advanced to their third American Conference Championship, losing to #1 seed Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers 72–67.

Indoor Football League: 2010–present
In October 2009, the team announced that unless the team found additional investors that they would be forced to cease operations. The Blizzard found new investors in an ownership group named Titletown Football Group, LLC, led by Green Bay Bullfrogs president Jeff Royle, who purchased the team in late October. In November 2009, the team announced that they would play the 2010 season in the Indoor Football League (IFL) due to AF2 filing for bankruptcy. At a team open house on November 17, 2009, the Blizzard announced their new head coach would be Rik Richards.

On December 5, 2009, the Blizzard announced a name-the-team contest. The Blizzard name and intellectual property was held by the then-defunct Arena Football League (AFL), which was the parent of the Blizzard's former league, af2. The assets of the former AFL were purchased by the newly formed Arena Football 1. The team ownership group was still attempting to purchase the rights to the Blizzard name and had decided to continue with the contest in case the Blizzard name was not able to be purchased, but the owners were able to acquire the Blizzard name and imagery.

Early success
On December 15, 2009, the IFL announced the divisional alignment and schedule for the 2010 season. The Blizzard competed in the United Conference, Central North Division with the La Crosse Spartans, Chicago Slaughter and Bloomington Extreme. The Blizzard won the Central North Division, but lost their first round playoff game against the Chicago Slaughter.

For the 2011 season, the Blizzard competed in the United Conference, Great Lakes Division, which was a renamed Central North Division (the Spartans, Slaughter, and Extreme, along with the Blizzard). The Blizzard won the division title again and improved to 11–3 record. They defeated the Reading Express in their first round playoff game, but lost the United Conference Championship game to the eventual champions, the Sioux Falls Storm.

Because of various teams leaving the IFL, either to join other leagues or cease operations altogether, the league played the 2012 season format in two conferences with no divisions. While the Spartans had ceased operations, the Blizzard's divisional rivals, the Slaughter and the newly renamed Bloomington Edge joined in the single-table United Conference along with the Reading Express, Sioux Falls Storm, Cedar Rapids Titans, Lehigh Valley Steelhawks and Omaha Beef. The Blizzard finished 11–3 again, for second place in the conference and three games behind the undefeated Storm. The Blizzard defeated the Edge in the first round, but again lost to the Storm for the United Conference Championship.

2013 season
With the Beef, Edge, and Steelhawks leaving the IFL for other leagues and the Express suspending operations, the United Conference was reduced to five teams for the 2013 season, with the Blizzard, Slaughter, Titans, and Storm all returning and the newly renamed Texas Revolution (formerly the Allen Wranglers) moving from the Intense Conference. Junior Aumavae, a nose tackle who spent the 2012 season playing for the Blizzard, was signed by the New York Jets in late March 2013. After compiling a 1–5 record in the season's first six games, head coach Robert Fuller was replaced by defensive coordinator Chad Baldwin. They finished the season 4–10.

2014 season

After the 2013 season, the Chicago Slaughter moved to the Continental Indoor Football League, but the United Conference continued to have five teams with the expansion Bemidji Axemen. In September 2013, Titletown Football Group, LLC sold their majority ownership stake in the team to Larry and Kathy Treankler. The Blizzard began the 2014 season under head coach Chad Baldwin. After the team began the season 0–6, Baldwin was replaced by offensive coordinator Tommie Williams for the remainder of the season. They finished 2–12, losing all of their road games as well as losing their last four games. The Blizzard also introduced their new logo during this season.

2015 season

Tommie Williams had his interim tag removed and was named the head coach of the Blizzard. The Blizzard brought back veteran quarterback Donovan Porterie and traded for Carl Sims. The Blizzard finished with a record of 6–8.

2016 season

On November 3, 2015, Williams and the Blizzard agreed to part ways. On December 7, 2015, Chris Williams was hired as the head coach of the Blizzard. The team finished with a record of 5–11, losing all but one road game.

2017 season

For the 2017 season, the Blizzard had a home record of 1–7 with the only home win being the last home game against the Salt Lake Screaming Eagles. The Blizzard finished with a record of 3–13;

2018 season

To open the 2018 season, the Blizzard started out 0–5 which lead to coach Chris Williams being relieved of his duties following the Week 6 bye, in which he was replaced by Corey Roberson as interim head coach. The Blizzard finished the season 2–12.

2019 season
Corey Roberson was named head coach for the 2019 season. Under Roberson, the Blizzard had a 9–5 regular season record and qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 2012. Corey Roberson was named the IFL's Coach of the Year.

2020 season
The League started on March 7 with two games, but after the COVID-19 pandemic, the IFL postponed and later canceled all of their games for the season.

2021 season
After the hiatus from the previous season, the IFL returned and the Blizzard won only one road game, while they lost their last four games again for the second time in five complete seasons. The team finished 5–9.

2022 season
In 2022, the IFL made the return of conferences for the first time since 2017, and the Green Bay Blizzard was selected to be in the Eastern Conference. The team finished 6–10.

2023 season

In 2023, the Green Bay Blizzard won 4 of their 7 home games and only won 3 of their away games to finish 7-8 and missing playoffs. The Blizzard were awarded Community Relations of the Year, Franchise of the Year, and the owner Kathy Treankler won the John Petit Person of the Year award.

Head coach records
Note: Statistics are correct through the 2022 Indoor Football League season

Individual awards
The following is a list of all Blizzard players who have won league awards:

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Nicholas Throckmorton

Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (or Throgmorton; c. 1515/1516 – 12 February 1571) was an English diplomat and politician, who was an ambassador to France and later Scotland, and played a key role in the relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots.

Early years
Nicholas Throckmorton was the fourth of eight sons of Sir George Throckmorton of Coughton Court, near Alcester in Warwickshire and Katherine, daughter of Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden and Elizabeth FitzHugh, the former Lady Parr. Nicholas was an uncle of the conspirator Francis Throckmorton. He was brought up in the households of members of the Parr family, including that of his cousin Catherine Parr, the last queen consort of Henry VIII. He became acquainted with young Lady Elizabeth when he was serving in the household of the dowager queen and her new husband Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley and became a close confidant. In his youth, he also became favourable to the Protestant Reformation.

After the execution of Lord Thomas Seymour in 1549 and the downfall of Protector Somerset later in the year, Throckmorton managed to distance himself from those affairs and eventually became part of the circle of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland and confidant of the young king Edward VI.

He sat in Parliament from 1545 to 1567, initially as the member for Maldon and then from 1547 for Devizes (a seat previously held by his brother Clement Throckmorton). During the reign of Edward VI, he was in high favour with the regents.

In 1547, he was present at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh during the invasion of Scotland. He was knighted in 1551, and the title included numerous benefits, including land grants, that gave him financial security. He held the post of under-treasurer at the Tower mint from 1549 to 1552. In March 1553, he was elected knight of the shire for Northamptonshire and then MP for Old Sarum (November 1553, which by then was already a rotten borough ), Lyme Regis (1559) and Tavistock (1563).

Tudor successions
During the short-lived attempt to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne after the death of Edward VI in 1553, Throckmorton tried to keep contact with both supporters of both her and Queen Mary I. Eventually, he began to support the latter.

However, in January 1554, he was suspected of complicity in Wyatt's Rebellion and arrested. Later historians have suspected he was at least involved, either because of his Protestantism or due to his dismay at the growing Spanish influence in the court.

Throckmorton was brought to trial at the Guildhall on 17 April 1554. He managed to convince the jury, which included Simon Lowe alias Fyfield, of his innocence, although the judges were openly hostile to him. They included Sir Roger Cholmeley, who was trying to impress Queen Mary. As a result of the verdict, the court fined and imprisoned the jury and sent Throckmorton to the Tower. When he was released the next year, he fled to exile in France. Though people wanted to put him on trial again, he was pardoned in 1557, and was employed by Queen Mary.

Ambassador to France
After Elizabeth's accession in November 1558, Throckmorton rose rapidly into favour because of his personal acquaintance with her. He sent her advice on the formation of her government, some of which she followed and from May 1559 to April 1564, he was ambassador to France. He was appointed both Chief Butler of England and Chamberlain of the Exchequer in 1564 for life. He continued to send letters and messengers with advice to the Queen and she often took his advice.

Throckmorton acknowledged that Elizabeth had a central and active role in government, and in August 1560 he wrote to Elizabeth that peace between England and Scotland "dothe cheffely depend uppon your majesties order & conducte". During these years in France, Throckmorton became acquainted with Mary, Queen of Scots. He conducted the negotiations with the English court regarding her travel arrangements when she decided to return to Scotland from France. Though he supported the Reformation, he became her close friend, willing to assist her and do her personal favours. It was said that Throckmorton had worked hard to organise a meeting between the two queens, which never took place. According to rumour, he had been motivated by rewards of "great silver pots and other plate" given to him by Mary, Queen of Scots.

As an ambassador to France, Throckmorton encouraged Elizabeth to aid the Huguenots, and he surreptitiously took a part in the war of religion. Throckmorton was allowed leave from his duties in October 1559 to visit his sick wife in England. Henry Killigrew was left as his deputy. When Throckmorton returned to France in 1560, the Roman Catholic leader Francis, Duke of Guise imprisoned him as a persona non grata. Guise was convinced that Throckmorton had been involved with the Tumult of Amboise, a Huguenot plot. Throckmorton later remarked that he was afraid he would be killed, but he was released and retained his post as an ambassador.

In 1562, when religious violence began to intensify in France, Throckmorton wanted to support the mediation efforts of Catherine de' Medici. Later in 1562, when the Huguenot Prince of Condé had taken over Newhaven (modern-day Le Havre) in April, Throckmorton convinced the Queen to send military aid to the Huguenots in what was later called the Newhaven expedition. English troops garrisoned Le Havre in October 1562, but soon fell afoul of the Huguenots and, after the negotiations, the Huguenots turned against the English. After an outbreak of plague, they had to surrender the next year. Catherine de' Medici was suspicious of Throckmorton's schemes, however, and when Elizabeth sent him to negotiate with her in 1563, she placed him under house arrest. Elizabeth sent Sir Thomas Smith to negotiate his release. The two men soon began to dislike each other and in one stage almost came to blows, but Throckmorton was eventually released in 1564.

Envoy to Mary, Queen of Scots
After Throckmorton's return to England, the Queen sent him as an ambassador to Scotland in May 1565. His mission was to prevent the marriage of Queen Mary and Darnley. He went to Stirling Castle on 15 May 1565 where ceremonies were being held to grant Darnley and his followers new titles. At first, he was refused entry to the castle, then Mary agreed to speak with him. The marriage went ahead in Edinburgh on 16 July.

After the murder of Darnley, Elizabeth sent Throckmorton to Scotland in June 1567. The Scottish lords had rebelled and captured Mary at Carberry Hill, and Elizabeth wished the lords to restore Mary to her authority. Throckmorton himself had recommended that Elizabeth should support the lords. Mary was held at Lochleven Castle and Throckmorton was not allowed to see her. On 25 July 1567, William Maitland of Lethington came to see Throckmorton. As instructed by Elizabeth, Throckmorton asked Lethington if the plan was to restore Mary to the throne. If so, Elizabeth promised to help prosecute Darnley's murder and preserve Prince James. Throckmorton recorded Lethington's personal answer, which outlined that English interference was not welcome at this time, and might even be counterproductive, and Throckmorton would not be allowed to see Mary;"Being in place to knowe more than you can knowe, I saye unto yowe ..., in case you doe on the Quenes majesties behalf your mestris, presse this company to enlarge the Quene my soveraigne, and to suffer you to goe unto her, or doe use any thretnynge speache in those matters, the rather to compasse them (rather than achieve them), I assure you, you wyll put the Quene my soveraigne in greate jeopardye of her lyffe: and therefore there is none other waye for the present to do her good but to give place and use mildness."

Elizabeth repeated her instructions to Throckmorton by letter on 27 July 1567. Elizabeth told Throckmorton he should argue that the lords had deposed Mary against scriptural law, citing Paul's letter to the Romans. Elizabeth noted that as she planned not to send financial aid to the rebel lords, there was a risk they might renew the Auld Alliance with France. Throckmorton was not to give a signal of approval or confirmation to the rebellion by attending the coronation of the infant Prince James as ambassador. Throckmorton sent his junior assistant Henry Middlemore to the coronation instead of going himself.

Throckmorton was working against his own advice and had contradictory orders from both his Queen and Sir William Cecil. The Scottish lords knew him as a friend of Mary and as a supporter of her claim to be a successor to Elizabeth, so he was an unwelcome guest. Some of Elizabeth's messages also offended the lords. Throckmorton was recalled in August after he offended Elizabeth by showing his instructions to the Scottish lords.

In 1569, Throckmorton was suspected of involvement in the Duke of Norfolk's conspiracy in favour of Mary, and was imprisoned for a time at Windsor. Throckmorton may have erroneously believed Norfolk's idea would suit the wishes of the Queen. He was not put on trial, but did not regain the Queen's confidence afterwards.

Throckmorton died on 12 February 1571. He is buried in St Katharine Cree parish church, Leadenhall Street, London.

Family and legacy
Throckmorton married Anne Carew, daughter of Sir Nicholas Carew, a Knight of the Garter and his wife Elizabeth Bryan, and they had 10 sons including Sir Nicholas Throckmorton and three daughters. Their daughter Elizabeth became the wife of Sir Walter Raleigh. After his death, Anne married Adrian Stokes, the second husband, and former Master of Horse of Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk.

Contemporary political figures regarded Throckmorton with respect. One of these was Sir Francis Walsingham who had worked with Throckmorton in France. In 1560 William Cecil said he would be prepared to resign if Throckmorton would take his place and spoke well of him after his death, in spite of their constant disagreements. Some contemporaries also suspected Throckmorton was the éminence grise behind Robert Dudley.

At the time of his death, Throckmorton held the posts of the keeper of Brigstock Park, Northamptonshire; Justice of the Peace in Northamptonshire; and Chief Butler of England and Wales. London's Throgmorton Street is named after him.

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South Vanuatu languages

The nine South Vanuatu languages form a family of the Southern Oceanic languages, spoken in Tafea Province (Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Erromango, and Aniwa) of Vanuatu.

Languages

 * Erromango family
 * Southern: Sie, Sorung†
 * Northern: Ifo (Utaha)†, Ura (See Erromanga language for a description)
 * Tanna family
 * Southern: Kwamera (South Tanna), Southwest Tanna
 * Northern: Lenakel (West Tanna), Whitesands (Weasisi, East Tanna), North Tanna
 * Aneityum
 * Aneityum (Anejom̃)

François (2015)
François (2015:18–21) lists the following names and locations for the 9 South Vanuatu languages.

Proto-South Vanuatu
Proto-South Vanuatu was reconstructed by John Lynch in 2001.

The language, compared to Proto-Oceanic, went through a series of vowel reductions, leading to the creation of a new vowel written as *ə, such as in *na-waiR "fresh water" resulting in Proto-South Vanuatu *nə-wai of the same meaning.

However, it also preserves some, but not all final consonants. For example, *tanum "to plant, bury" is reflected in Proto-South Vanuatu as *(a)-tenum "to bury", but *taŋis "to cry" is instead reflected as *(a)-taŋi.

Vowels
The vowels of Proto-South Vanuatu, according to Lynch, are:

Consonants
The consonants of Proto-South Vanuatu, according to Lynch, are:
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Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers

The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers were a minor league arena football team that played in the AF2. The team was part of the East Division in the American conference. The Pioneers were an expansion team for the league's 2002 season, and were the runners-up in ArenaCup VIII and ArenaCup X.

2001
The AF2 announced their expansion into the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area on July 24, 2001. Ownership would comprise a Baltimore-based group, Smith Sports International, and NFL legend Johnny Unitas. The team signed a 10-year lease with the First Union Arena at Casey Plaza (later Wachovia Arena and now Mohegan Sun Arena) and would begin play with the 2002 season in the league's Northeast Division. Terry Karg was hired as the team's first head coach.

The team name was chosen on September 20 following a name-the-team contest. Of over 1500 entries, the name Pioneers was chosen in recognition of the early settlers of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

2002
The Pioneers got off to a shaky start in the AF2. The team took a 21-10 lead into halftime against the Greensboro Prowlers, but the Prowlers would come back to win the game 42-28, handing the Pioneers their first franchise loss and first loss at home. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton lost their next five games before finally taking a win against division rivals New Haven Ninjas in New Haven. With a 3-3 record following the win, the Pioneers were still in the playoff hunt and could secure a berth with a win against the Rochester Brigade or a loss by the Brigade to the Mohegan Wolves the following week. Both the Pioneers and Wolves lost, ending Wilkes-Barre/Scranton's hopes for a playoff spot. Their season came to a close with a 6-10 record.

Following the season, head coach Karg resigned and left the Pioneers. Larry Kuharich, who had played for the AFL's Tampa Bay Storm and was running back coach for the New Orleans Saints, was hired as the team's second head coach.

2003
The Pioneers’ second season got off to the same start that their first one did with an opening game loss to the Greensboro Prowlers. Soon afterwards, Coach Kuharich resigned as head coach to be replaced by Dean Cokinos. The Pioneers would finish the season with a 6-10 record, the same as in 2002, and without a spot in the playoffs.

Attendance for home games fell in 2003. After averaging nearly 6200 fans per game in 2002, attendance dropped more than 1000 to average 4975 per game in 2003. The ownership blamed itself, rather than the product on the field, for moving games to Friday nights from Saturday nights; they vowed to return to Saturdays as often as possible in 2004.

Following a tumultuous season that included the resignation of both the head coach and general manager, the Pioneers hired Les Moss, who had been working with the Orlando Predators of the AFL, as the team's fourth head coach.

2004
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton's third season began on a noticeably different note than the previous two seasons. In a first-time matchup against the Columbus Wardogs, the Pioneers won their home and season opener. The team would continue to win, going 5-0 until suffering their first loss to the Albany Conquest. The Pioneers went on to lose only two more games, ending with a 13-3 record. They had not only secured a playoff spot, but they had won the Northeast Division and earned a first-round bye. Their first playoff game, against divisional rival Cape Fear Wildcats, resulted in a win, propelling them to the Conference Championships. The Pioneers would lose the championship game to the Florida Firecats, ending their first postseason run.

Following their first playoff season, Coach Moss was named the AF2 Coach of the Year. He also signed on to coach the Pioneers in 2005, becoming the first Pioneers coach to remain for a second season.

2005
The Pioneers returned to action in 2005 with nine players returning from the 2004 roster, including 2004 AF2 Rookie of the Year J. R. Thomas. With nine scores on ten possessions, the Pioneers won their season and home opener over the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgs. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton won two more games before 2004 starting quarterback Tim Hicks was traded to the Bossier-Shreveport Battle Wings. The Pioneers then suffered three straight losses and the loss of star receiver Thomas to a broken leg. The Pioneers would endure a further hardship with the hospitalization of coach Moss due to a "weight-related issue". Despite the problems, the Pioneers would finish fourth in the Eastern Division with a 9-7 record and clinched a wildcard playoff berth.

With a win over the Green Bay Blizzard, the Pioneers advanced to the Conference Semifinals to face Florida, the top-seeded team in the conference. Their championship aspirations would die in the second round in a 59-45 loss.

Following the season, Coach Moss signed a three-year contract with the Orlando Predators as an assistant coach, leaving the Pioneers to find their fifth coach in as many seasons. Pittsburgh native Rich Ingold, former Quad City Steamwheelers coach and Dallas Desperados coordinator, was hired in this capacity for the 2006 season.

2006
Ingold's first game with the Pioneers began with new quarterback Mike Granieri throwing two interceptions against the Louisville Fire; it ended with a score of 45-37 and a win. The Pioneers would continue their season-opening winning streak to 5-0 before losing to the Tulsa Talons. After two wins in the next four games, Ingold released receiver Thomas for "insubordination". A four-game losing streak would befall the team, but a victory over Albany in the season closer would propel them into the playoffs with a 9-7 record. Their season would end one week later, losing the first playoff round to Manchester.

In the offseason, the Pioneers signed former Penn State quarterback Zack Mills to lead the offense. However, Mills only spent four days training with the Pioneers before departing from the team, citing a waning passion for the game.

2007
For the fourth straight season, the Pioneers opened with a win, this time against Manchester. In their second game, against the Cincinnati Jungle Kats expansion team, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton's 94-25 win set a team record for most points scored in a game; the 69 points of separation was also the fourth-highest margin of victory in league history. The Pioneers would extend their winning streak to 13 games before losing to Albany in week 16. They finished the regular season with a 14-2 record and home field advantage throughout the playoffs.

The Pioneers defeated the Tri-Cities Fever in the first round of the playoffs. In the second round, they emerged victorious over the Central Valley Coyotes to advance to their second-ever American Conference Championship, where they overcame defending conference champions Green Bay to advance to ArenaCup VIII. Playing against the Tulsa Talons, the only team in the league with a better record, the Pioneers lost the championship 73-66 on a dropped touchdown pass to end the game.

2008
In 2008, the Pioneers began to reload to take another shot at the ArenaCup. The team re-signed several key players from the 2007 squad, including quarterback Ryan Vena. The season got off to a rocky start, however, when the team lost the season opener to the Quad City Steamwheelers. After winning handily over the Daytona Beach ThunderBirds, the Pioneers began their season at Wachovia Arena with a win over the Mahoning Valley Thunder. The Pioneers lost only one game in their division in 2008 and won all of their home matches, giving them seventeen straight regular season home victories dating back to the 2006 season. The Pioneers began their playoff run with a victory over the Steamwheelers but lost in the conference semifinals to eventual ArenaCup champion Tennessee Valley.

2009
The 2009 campaign began in the same way the 2008 season did: rebuilding a strong team with the ArenaCup in sight. Several key players returned to the team in 2009, including Ryan Vena, David Davis, and Micheaux Robinson. The Pioneers began the season with two home wins over division opponents but dropped the Week 3 contest to the Kentucky Horsemen. The Pioneers lost only two other games in 2009, one to Tulsa and one to Spokane. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton also kept up the tradition of winning at home, racking up another perfect season at Wachovia Arena and extending their regular season home win streak to 25. The Pioneers locked up the Eastern Division crown for the third straight year and held homefield advantage throughout the playoffs.

All of the Pioneers playoff games would be rematches from the 2009 regular season. The team took easy wins over Albany and Kentucky and won a nail-biter against Green Bay to advance to the ArenaCup. The Pioneers took a tie game into halftime against the Spokane Shock in the ArenaCup, but the game ended in disappointment again; the Pioneers were denied the ArenaCup.

Sale
Shortly after the Pioneers lost ArenaCup X, owner Cosmo DeNicola announced that he had put the team up for sale. DeNicola, a resident of the Philadelphia area, cited his other business responsibilities and length of time away from home during the AF2 season as the reasons for putting the team on the market. He had hoped that an owner could be found in northeast Pennsylvania to keep the team in Wilkes-Barre and that an owner could be found in time to field a team for the 2010 season. No one was found to step in as owner, and the team announced that it was in the process of shutting down the team offices and would not field a team in 2010, though any potential investors were still encouraged to step up and begin negotiations to purchase the franchise. (As it would turn out, the entire league would disband in 2010, with several of its teams "moving up" into a reorganized, one-tier Arena Football League that year.)

In popular culture
In multiple episodes of the American television comedy, The Office, Michael Scott and other characters are seen wearing Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers sweatshirts and undershirts. The Office takes place in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Also in some episodes, the gold AFL football with the blue stripe is seen on some of the employees' desks.

Season-by-season
!Totals || 93 || 50 || 0
 * 2002 || 6 || 10 || 0 || 3rd AC Northeast || --
 * 2003 || 6 || 10 || 0 || 3rd AC Northeast || --
 * 2004 || 13 || 3 || 0 || 1st AC Northeast || Won Round 1 (Cape Fear 40-37) Lost Week 2 (Florida 41-31)
 * 2005|| 9 || 7 || 0 || 4th AC East || Won Round 1 (Green Bay 48-41) Lost AC Semifinal (Florida 59-45)
 * 2006 || 9 || 7 || 0 || 3rd AC East || Lost AC Round 1 (Manchester 55-47)
 * 2007 || 14 || 2 || 0 || 1st AC East || Won AC Round 1 (Tri-Cities 57-54) Won AC Semifinals (Central Valley 70-53) Won AC Championship (Green Bay 46-43) Lost ArenaCup VIII (Tulsa 73-66)
 * 2008 || 14 || 2 || 0 || 1st AC East || Won AC Round 1 (Quad City 57-29) Lost AC Semifinals (Tennessee Valley 34-30)
 * 2009 || 13 || 3 || 0 || 1st AC East || Won AC Round 1 (Albany 78-21) Won AC Semifinals (Kentucky 82-49) Won AC Championship (Green Bay 72-67) Lost ArenaCup X (Spokane 74-27)
 * 2006 || 9 || 7 || 0 || 3rd AC East || Lost AC Round 1 (Manchester 55-47)
 * 2007 || 14 || 2 || 0 || 1st AC East || Won AC Round 1 (Tri-Cities 57-54) Won AC Semifinals (Central Valley 70-53) Won AC Championship (Green Bay 46-43) Lost ArenaCup VIII (Tulsa 73-66)
 * 2008 || 14 || 2 || 0 || 1st AC East || Won AC Round 1 (Quad City 57-29) Lost AC Semifinals (Tennessee Valley 34-30)
 * 2009 || 13 || 3 || 0 || 1st AC East || Won AC Round 1 (Albany 78-21) Won AC Semifinals (Kentucky 82-49) Won AC Championship (Green Bay 72-67) Lost ArenaCup X (Spokane 74-27)
 * 2008 || 14 || 2 || 0 || 1st AC East || Won AC Round 1 (Quad City 57-29) Lost AC Semifinals (Tennessee Valley 34-30)
 * 2009 || 13 || 3 || 0 || 1st AC East || Won AC Round 1 (Albany 78-21) Won AC Semifinals (Kentucky 82-49) Won AC Championship (Green Bay 72-67) Lost ArenaCup X (Spokane 74-27)
 * 2009 || 13 || 3 || 0 || 1st AC East || Won AC Round 1 (Albany 78-21) Won AC Semifinals (Kentucky 82-49) Won AC Championship (Green Bay 72-67) Lost ArenaCup X (Spokane 74-27)
 * 2009 || 13 || 3 || 0 || 1st AC East || Won AC Round 1 (Albany 78-21) Won AC Semifinals (Kentucky 82-49) Won AC Championship (Green Bay 72-67) Lost ArenaCup X (Spokane 74-27)
 * colspan="2"| (including playoffs)
 * }

Past head coaches

 * Terry Karg (2002)
 * Lary Kuharich (2003)
 * Dean Cokinos (2003)
 * Les Moss (2004–2005)
 * Rich Ingold (2006–2009)

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Quad City Steamwheelers

The Quad City Steamwheelers were a professional arena football team. They were a charter member of the AF2 and played their home games at iWireless Center in Moline, Illinois.

The team was founded on September 1, 1999 when the Quad Cities was awarded an arena football franchise. Managing owner (and inventor of arena football) Jim Foster coined the team's nickname.

In December 2009, it was confirmed that the Steamwheelers had ceased operations, opting not to join the new Arena Football League after the bankruptcy of the Arena Football League and subsequent disbanding of af2.

Back-to-back ArenaCup wins
The Steamwheelers played their inaugural season in 2000 and dominated the league for its first two seasons. They went undefeated in 2000 behind coach Frank Haege, even winning one game by a score of 103-3 over Greensboro in Greensboro, en route to capturing the first-ever ArenaCup Championship. In 2001, the Steamwheelers nearly repeated that accomplishment by finishing 18-1 and winning a second-straight league title. During this two season span, the Steamwheelers set a record for the longest winning streak in the af2 at 24 consecutive wins.

Banned from 2002 playoffs
Allegations of rules violations plagued the Steamwheelers during the second season and they were eventually banned from the 2002 playoffs for salary cap violations under Haege.

Second coach
Coached by Rich Ingold from 2002–2004, the Steamwheelers were still successful as they clinched two more division titles. However, the team failed to win any additional league championships and lost 14 games over that three-year span. Ingold left the Steamwheelers after the 2004 season and was replaced by Rick Frazier, former coach for the Milwaukee Mustangs of the Arena Football League.

The 2006 season, under coach Frazier, was the first losing season for the franchise in its history.

New ownership and the search for a new league
In October 2006, the league awarded the right to operate the franchise to a new ownership group. The resulting change in ownership oversaw the change in team leadership from Frazier to new head coach Sean Ponder. Ponder was the team's offensive coordinator during the 2006 season. In 2009, the tenth and final af2 season, the Steamwheelers had their second losing season in franchise history.

With the folding of af2 in 2009, the Steamwheelers considered joining Indoor Football League and the newly re-formed Arena Football League. They opted to cease operations instead.

In 2018, a new Steamwheelers' team returned, but were not under the same operations as the previous team.

Season-by-season
!Totals || 108 || 53 || 0
 * 2000 || 16 || 0 || 0 || 1st NC || Won Round 1 (Pensacola 55–19) Won Semifinal (Norfolk 75–27) Won ArenaCup I (Tennessee Valley 68–59)
 * 2001 || 15 || 1 || 0 || 1st NC Midwest || Won Round 1 (Macon 80–55) Won Semifinal (Carolina 35–16) Won ArenaCup II (Richmond 55–51)
 * 2002 || 10 || 6 || 0 || 2nd NC Midwest || Banned from playoffs
 * 2003 || 14 || 2 || 0 || 1st NC Midwest || Lost NC Semifinal (Arkansas 63–61)
 * 2004 || 10 || 6 || 0 || 1st NC Midwest || Lost NC Round 1 (Louisville 53–48)
 * 2005 || 9 || 7 || 0 || 3rd NC Midwest || Lost NC Round 1 (Rio Grande Valley 56–38)
 * 2006 || 7 || 9 || 0 || 5th AC East || Did not qualify
 * 2007 || 10 || 6 || 0 || 1st AC Midwest || Lost AC Round 1 (Green Bay 39–34)
 * 2008 || 8 || 8 || 0 || 3rd AC Midwest || Lost AC Round 1 (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 57–29)
 * 2009 || 5|| 11 || 0 || 3rd AC Midwest || Did not qualify
 * 2005 || 9 || 7 || 0 || 3rd NC Midwest || Lost NC Round 1 (Rio Grande Valley 56–38)
 * 2006 || 7 || 9 || 0 || 5th AC East || Did not qualify
 * 2007 || 10 || 6 || 0 || 1st AC Midwest || Lost AC Round 1 (Green Bay 39–34)
 * 2008 || 8 || 8 || 0 || 3rd AC Midwest || Lost AC Round 1 (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 57–29)
 * 2009 || 5|| 11 || 0 || 3rd AC Midwest || Did not qualify
 * 2007 || 10 || 6 || 0 || 1st AC Midwest || Lost AC Round 1 (Green Bay 39–34)
 * 2008 || 8 || 8 || 0 || 3rd AC Midwest || Lost AC Round 1 (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 57–29)
 * 2009 || 5|| 11 || 0 || 3rd AC Midwest || Did not qualify
 * 2009 || 5|| 11 || 0 || 3rd AC Midwest || Did not qualify
 * 2009 || 5|| 11 || 0 || 3rd AC Midwest || Did not qualify
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Remembrance Day bombing

The Remembrance Day bombing (also known as the Enniskillen bombing or Poppy Day massacre) took place on 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. A Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded near the town's war memorial (cenotaph) during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony, which was being held to commemorate British military war dead. Eleven people (10 civilians and a police officer) were initially killed, many of them elderly. A twelfth man was fatally wounded, entering a coma from which he would later die, and 63 were injured. The IRA said it had made a mistake and that its target had been the British soldiers parading to the memorial.

The bombing was strongly condemned by all sides and undermined support for the IRA and Sinn Féin. It also facilitated the passing of the Extradition Act, which made it easier to extradite IRA suspects from the Republic of Ireland to the United Kingdom. Loyalist paramilitaries responded to the bombing with revenge attacks on Catholic civilians. The bombing is often seen as a turning point in the Troubles, an incident that shook the IRA "to its core", and spurred on new efforts by Irish nationalists towards a political solution to the conflict.

Background and planning
The IRA said that the bombing was an attempt to kill British soldiers. It has also been suggested that it was partly a retaliation for the alleged harassment of Republican memorial services by the security forces. A week before the bombing, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) clashed with mourners at the funeral of IRA volunteers Eddie McSheffrey and Paddy Deery. When an IRA gunman fired a three-volley salute over the coffins, police baton charged and fired plastic bullets into the crowd. One of the coffins was knocked to the ground and a number of civilians and officers were injured.

The bombing was thought by the British and Irish security forces to have involved at least two IRA units, from both sides of the border. Although IRA units were given "a degree of operational autonomy" at the time, they believed that such a bombing must have been sanctioned by IRA Northern Command. However, a high-ranking IRA member said that it was suggested by IRA men at the local level and sanctioned by a "middle level" officer.

Denzil McDaniel, author of Enniskillen: The Remembrance Sunday Bombing, later interviewed security and IRA contacts, putting together an account of the bombers' movements. He wrote that the 40 lb bomb was made in Ballinamore, County Leitrim, and brought to Enniskillen by up to thirty IRA volunteers, moving in relay teams to avoid security patrols. It is thought to have taken over 24 hours to transport the bomb. On the night of 7 November, the bomb, hidden in a sports bag, was left at the gable wall inside the town's Reading Rooms, and set to explode at 10:43 am the next day,  minutes before the ceremony was to start. The security forces searched the route of the planned military parade for explosives, but did not search the Reading Rooms as it was thought to be a "secure area".

Explosion
The bomb exploded as a parade of Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldiers was making its way to the memorial and as people waited for the ceremony to begin. It blew out the wall of the Reading Rooms, where many of the victims were standing, burying them under rubble and hurling masonry towards the gathered crowd. Bystanders rushed to free those trapped underneath. Evidence indicated that the bomb used in the attack was made from Semtex supplied by the Libyan government under Muammar Gaddafi.

Eleven people were killed, including three married couples. The dead were Wesley and Bertha Armstrong (aged 62 and 55), Kit and Jessie Johnston (aged 71 and 62), William and Agnes Mullan (aged 74 and 73), John Megaw (67), Alberta Quinton (72), Marie Wilson (20), Samuel Gault (49) and Edward Armstrong (52). Edward Armstrong was a serving RUC officer and Gault had recently left the force. Gordon Wilson, whose daughter Marie died in the blast and who was himself injured, went on to become a peace campaigner and member of Seanad Éireann. The twelfth fatality, Ronnie Hill, died after spending 13 years in a coma (aged almost 69). Sixty-three people were injured, including thirteen children, some of them permanently. Ulster Unionist politicians Sammy Foster and Jim Dixon were among the crowd; the latter received extensive head injuries but recovered. A local businessman captured the immediate aftermath of the bombing on video camera. His footage, showing the effects of the bombing, was broadcast on international television. All the victims were Protestant.

A few hours after the blast, the IRA called a radio station and said it had abandoned a 150 lb bomb in Tullyhommon, 20 mi away after it failed to detonate. That morning, a Remembrance Sunday parade (which included many members of the Boys' and Girls' Brigades) had unwittingly gathered near the Tullyhommon bomb. Soldiers and RUC officers had also been there, and the IRA said it attempted to trigger the bomb when soldiers were standing beside it. It was defused by security forces and was found to have a command wire leading to a firing point across the border.

Reactions
The IRA apologised, saying it had made a mistake and that the target had been the UDR soldiers who were parading to the memorial.

Denzil McDaniel, author of Enniskillen: The Remembrance Sunday Bombing, commented: "I don't believe the IRA set out to specifically kill civilians. I think they made mistakes, probably with their intelligence on the timetable for the service, but the IRA was reckless about civilian life". RUC Detective Chief Superintendent Norman Baxter said: "Their intention was to inflict casualties. The only mistake in the operation was that the bomb went off before the parade arrived". Many Irish nationalists and republicans were horrified by the bombing and described it as a blow to the republican cause. Sinn Féin's weekly newspaper, An Phoblacht, criticised the bombing, calling it a "monumental error" that would strengthen the IRA's opponents. The IRA disbanded the unit responsible.

The bombing led to an outcry among politicians in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said: "It's really desecrating the dead and a blot on mankind". The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Tom King, denounced the "outrage" in the House of Commons, as did the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brian Lenihan in Dáil Éireann (the lower house of the Oireachtas, the Republic's legislature), while in Seanad Éireann Senator Maurice Manning spoke of people's "total revulsion". Many public figures used terms such as "barbarism" and "savagery" to describe the bombing.

The bombing was seen by many Northern Irish Protestants as an attack on them, and loyalist paramilitaries retaliated with attacks on Catholic civilians. The day after, five Catholic teenagers were wounded in a shooting in Belfast, and a Protestant teenager was killed by the Ulster Defence Association after being mistaken for a Catholic. In the week after the bombing, there were 14 gun and bomb attacks on Catholics in Belfast.

Irish band U2 were holding a concert in Denver, Colorado, US the same day. During a performance of their song "Sunday Bloody Sunday", singer Bono passionately condemned the bombing, stating "fuck the revolution" in his mid-song speech, as well as criticising the armchair republicanism of many Irish-Americans and stating that the majority of people in his country did not want "the revolution". The footage is included in U2's rockumentary Rattle and Hum. Simple Minds had a number 1 single in the UK with "Belfast Child", inspired by the bombing. Irish singer-songwriter Chris de Burgh wrote the song 'Remembrance Day' about the Enniskillen bombings which he only performed twice in a solo piano version. The song contains the line 'Whatever you believe in, whatever flag you wave, let us not forget what happened on Remembrance Day'.

Long-term results
At the time, the British and Irish governments were negotiating an Extradition Act that would make it easier to extradite IRA suspects from the Republic to the UK. The Act was to come before the Irish parliament less than a month after the bombing. The Irish government wanted the British to reform the justice system in Northern Ireland (such as by abolishing "Diplock courts") before it would pass the Act. Many in the Republic insisted that the Act should only be passed after the reforms took place. However, after the bombing, opposition to the Act dwindled and it was passed by the Irish Parliament, albeit with some changes.

The bombing is often seen as a turning point in the Troubles. It undermined support for the IRA's campaign, both locally and internationally. Crucially, Libya, whose bomb was responsible for the attack, withdrew its support and with it the supply of weapons and ammunition to the IRA. The bombing also harmed Sinn Féin's electoral support. In 1989, in the first local elections held after the bombing, Sinn Féin lost four of its eight seats on Fermanagh District Council and was overtaken by the SDLP as the biggest Irish nationalist party there. It was not until 2001, fourteen years after the bombing, that Sinn Féin support returned to its 1985 level. The bombing drove new efforts by Irish nationalists towards a political solution to the conflict. It led to the resumption of talks between Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and SDLP leader John Hume, paving the way for formal talks between the two parties and the beginnings of the Northern Ireland peace process. In 1997, Adams apologised for the bombing on behalf of the republican movement.

Enniskillen's Remembrance Day service was re-staged two weeks after the bombing, and attended by about 5,000 people, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The site of the bomb, which was owned by the Catholic Church, was rebuilt as The Clinton Centre, a youth hostel, in 2002. The hostel was opened by and named after former US President Bill Clinton.

Letter released under thirty-year rule
Under the thirty-year rule, a letter sent after the bombing was released by the Irish Government in 2018. The author was anonymous but claimed to be working for MI5, and the letter was sent to then Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brian Lenihan. Without providing any evidence, it claimed that MI5 had advance knowledge of the Remembrance Day bombing but allowed it to go ahead, so that the public could turn against the Provisional IRA and new security measures could be justified.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fan film

 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 KEEP. --TenOfAllTrades(talk) 23:52, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Fan film
Compound dict-def, neologism. --W(t) 02:09, 2005 May 29 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Article is less than a day old and is marked as a stub. I can foresee a great article being written here. Let's not eat our young. — Phil Welch 02:16, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * But they're so tasty! Isaac R 01:30, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, 138,000 google hits indicate someone already created this word. Kappa 02:30, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I myself have heard of this term for the past several years. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:42, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, why not. --Sn0wflake 03:45, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Definitely not a neologism (in the Wikipedia sense). There have been fan-produced Star Trek movies for years now. So they're entitled to a Wikipedia article -- just as long as I don't have to watch any of them! Isaac R 04:45, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, a real phenomenon deserving of an article, tho individual fan films might not be. Nateji77 04:57, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete dicdef --Xcali 05:29, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep -very notable and this article has the capablity of being greatly expanded -CunningLinguist 06:52, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Some fan films are article-worthy in their own right, so this can definitely stay. — Xezbeth 06:54, May 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep not a neologism. Wasn't it Star Wars that promted the creation of fan films in the first place? Mgm|(talk) 10:44, May 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Notable topic. Capitalistroadster 01:23, 30 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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USS McCawley

USS McCawley may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:

 * USS McCawley (DD-276), a Clemson-class destroyer, commissioned in 1919 and decommissioned in 1930.
 * USS McCawley (APA-4), a transport commissioned in 1940 and later recommissioned as APA-4. She was sunk by a combination of enemy and friendly fire in 1943.

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Pietro Raimondi

Pietro Raimondi (December 20, 1786, Rome – October 30, 1853) was an Italian composer, transitional between the Classical and Romantic eras. While he was famous at the time as a composer of operas and sacred music, he was also as an innovator in contrapuntal technique as well as in creation of gigantic musical simultaneities. He was the director of the Palermo Conservatory from 1833-1852.

Raimondi was born in Rome, and received his early education in Naples. He spent part of his early career in Genoa, and then in Sicily, where he had operas performed in Catania and Messina; however he moved back to Naples in 1820, and began a career as an opera composer there. While he was best known as an opera composer during this time, he was obsessed with counterpoint, and spent his spare time writing fugues for many voices, as well as simultaneous fugues in different keys and modes for multiple groups of different instruments. He considered this work to be experimental, and did not incorporate his experimentation, early in his career, into his operas.

Few of Raimondi's operas were successful, and as soon as he realized he was being eclipsed by Rossini, and later by Bellini and Donizetti, he changed his compositional direction from production of operas to sacred music; in that domain he had a better opportunity to indulge his love of counterpoint. He published a counterpoint treatise in 1836, around the same time as the first of his experimental compositions for multiple choruses and orchestras; from this year forward he devoted most of his energies to such creations. However he had not forgotten his previous career as an operatic composer, and made a few last attempts to achieve a success on the operatic stage.

One of the most spectacular of his experiments in musical simultaneity was his triple oratorio, Putifar-Giuseppe-Giacobbe (1848). This work was a set of three independent oratorios designed to be performed first consecutively, and then simultaneously, one of the few such experiments before the music of Charles Ives in the twentieth century. Unlike the music of Ives, however, Raimondi's musical language was conservative, even anachronistic, using only the tonal language of the eighteenth century. The parts of the oratorios were designed to fit together tightly, all obeying the standard rules of counterpoint. The triple oratorio was first performed in Rome in 1852, in a concert lasting six hours, and requiring 430 performers. According to the contemporary account, Raimondi was so overcome with the colossal sound of the three oratorios together at the end that he fainted, and the concert caused the sensation he had desired for so long. As a result of this success he was honored by the Pope, receiving from him the position of maestro di cappella at St. Peter's, a level of acknowledgement he had never achieved in the operatic realm.

Raimondi followed the triple oratorio with the composition of a double opera, one serious and one comical, which like the triple oratorio was designed to be performed either consecutively or simultaneously. This work (Adelasia/I quattro rustici) was left incomplete at his death in 1853; however, much of the orchestration, counterpoint, and many of the scene changes had been worked out. As conceived, each opera would have served as a commentary on the other. This double opera has never been completed or staged, and along with Raimondi's other late music is an example of an experimental trend in the middle nineteenth century which was never followed up by anyone else.

In his actual musical language, Raimondi was conservative, and his simultaneities work by following traditional rules of counterpoint, as well as by staying in a limited tonal universe.

Raimondi makes a dramatic appearance in Michael Ayrton's satirical novel Tittivulus.

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Amarillo Venom

The Amarillo Venom are a professional indoor football team based in Amarillo, Texas. They play their home games at the Amarillo Civic Center. The Venom began play in 2004 as the Amarillo Dusters, a charter member of the Intense Football League, a small indoor football league based in Texas. They won the championship in their first and only season with the Intense Football League.

In 2005, the Dusters became the first team to leave the Intense Football League and join the AF2, the minor league of the Arena Football League, where they played for four seasons until the AF2's folding in 2009. At that point, the team held a fan vote as to whether to join some of their AF2 brethren in the new Arena Football 1 (later gaining rights to the name as Arena Football League) or enjoy numerous Texas rivalries in the Indoor Football League. In 2009, it was announced that the Dusters would be moving to the Indoor Football League for the 2010 season. It was then announced that the Dusters would have to be renamed because the Arena Football League owned the rights to the Dusters name and logo and the team became the Venom.

The Venom then joined the Lone Star Football League for the 2012 season, which eventually merged into Champions Indoor Football (CIF) prior to the 2015 season. Prior to the 2021 season, the Venom withdrew from the CIF and later formed the Arena Football Association for the 2022 season. However, the team suspended operations in February 2022.

The team was featured on an episode of Only in America, a show that aired on the Discovery Times channel.

The Venom were relaunched for the 2024 season as members of the revived American Indoor Football league, but did not complete the season and went silent on May 30, 2024.

Expansion championship (2004)
The Amarillo Dusters were led by head coach Don Carthel and finished their only season in the Intense Football League with a 13–3 record en route to a league championship over the Lubbock Lone Stars. The Dusters left the league to play in the AF2 the following season.

Move to AF2 (2005–2009)
In their first year in the AF2, the Amarillo Dusters reached the playoffs with an 8–8 record, which was good enough for a wildcard. The Dusters, quarterbacked by Julian Reese, came from 21 points down at the start of the fourth quarter to win Round 1 over the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz. The Dusters fell in Round 2 to the eventual champion Memphis Xplorers.

The Dusters tried to build on the moderate success they had in 2005. However, in 2006, the team suffered many injuries and failed to make it to the AF2 playoffs. Quarterback Steve Panella was injured early in the season, forcing numerous backups to take the job. They ended the season with a 4–12 record. Carthel left to take the head coaching job at West Texas A&M two games into the Dusters first AF2 season.

For 2005, Steve Perdue took over the head coaching job and lead the team playoffs and a first round victory over the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgs. Looking to rebound after the previous losing season, injuries plagued the Dusters' offense. After a win against the Lubbock Renegades the Dusters struggled for the remainder of the year but were still able end the Quincy Carter-led Bossier-Shreveport Battle Wings' perfect season with a 51–49 upset.

On July 5, 2008, Dusters running back Donte Newsome was shot to death outside of a nightclub in Huntington, West Virginia, home of his alma mater Marshall University.

In 2008, under the leadership of head coach Chris MacKeown and quarterback Julian Reese, the Amarillo Dusters went 10–9 and played for the AF2 National Conference ArenaCup Finals. Following the Dusters most successful season in their AF2 history, MacKeown moved up to the Arena Football League as the offensive coordinator for John Elway's Colorado Crush.

On December 21, 2008, the Dusters introduced a new color scheme for the team with crimson, grey, and black.

Moving to the IFL (2010–2011)
With the AF2 breaking up and its larger market teams moving to the newly reformed Arena Football League, the Dusters were forced to find a new league. On October 9, 2009, it was announced that, because of a 65–35 percent margin in the fan vote, the Dusters would be moving to the Indoor Football League for the 2010 season. Owner Randy Sanders applied for his team's spot in the Indoor Football League (IFL) and they were accepted as an expansion franchise. It was announced on January 28, 2010, that the Dusters would have to be renamed, because the Arena Football League owned the rights to the Dusters' name and logo. On February 8, the new Amarillo Venom name and logo was unveiled.

Move to the LSFL (2012–2014)
In August 2011, the Venom were sold to local couple Stephanie and Toby Tucker, with Stephanie taking on the role of general manager. For the 2012 season, the Venom joined the Lone Star Football League (LSFL). In their inaugural season in the LSFL they won the 2012 championship. Under the leadership of quarterback Nate Davis and coach Julian Reese, the Venom finished the 2013 season with a 9–3 record. In the playoffs, the finished off the Abilene Bombers, 70–40.

On July 13, 2013, they faced the Laredo Rattlesnakes, where they won 70–69, winning back-to-back championships in the LSFL. Davis won the MVP of the Game.

Champions Indoor Football (2015–2020)
In 2014, after the completion of their third season in the LSFL, the league merged with Champions Professional Indoor Football League to become Champions Indoor Football. The Venom qualified for the playoffs in each of the next five seasons, including making it to the 2016 championship game where they lost to the Wichita Force 48–45. Prior to the start of the 2020 season, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused the season to be cancelled.

Lone Star Series and Arena Football Association (2021–2022)
The 2021 season was then delayed, but the local capacity and interstate travel restrictions in Texas led the Venom and the West Texas Warbirds to withdraw from participating in the 2021 CIF season. The Venom and Warbirds instead launched the Lone Star Series, a series of games between the two CIF Texas teams and a few other Texas-based semiprofessional teams. Amarillo lost the series championship game to West Texas, 79–60.

Amarillo and West Texas officially left the CIF and turned their Lone Star Series from the previous season into the Arena Football Association (AFA) in November 2021. The new league also announced its initial membership consisting of former Lone Star Series member Texas Jets, former American Arena League champions North Texas Bulls, the dormant Rio Grande Valley Dorados, and the Texas Crude.

On February 17, 2022, team co-owner Stephanie Tucker announced the team had withdrawn from participating in the AFA for the 2022 season and that the team was for sale.

American Indoor Football (2024–present)
On August 24, 2023, the AIF announced that the Venom would return and join the AIF for the 2024 season. The team finished a very successful season lead by new owner, Robert Reyna. However, have gone silent since May 24, 2024.

Head coaches
Note: Statistics are correct through the 2024 American Indoor Football season.

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User talk:BeBop~enwiki

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Hi and welcome to wikipedia. I noticed you had a blank talk page, so I decided to welcome you. I hope you like it and decide to stay. Here are some handy links for newcomers. Also you can sign your name on talk pages and vote pages with three tildes like this, and your name with a time stamp with four like this ~. Howabout1 02:10, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
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Stop disrupting wikipedia or you will be blocked. Use discussion pages, that's what they're there for. --W(t) 03:11, 2005 May 29 (UTC)

BeBop: You need to stop violating Wikipedia policy. If you disagree with how the speedy deletion mechanism works, that's fine. However, you must go through the proper channels. Do NOT remove the speedy deletion tag; this is vandalism. Also, do NOT revert the same article more than three times in a day. That's violating the three revert rule. I suggest you follow the rules, or else you will find yourself banned. Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 18:55, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm afraid that Linuxbeak is wrong, as you're doubtless aware. You're perfectly entitled to remove a speedy delete tag if you think that it's incorrectly applied, or if you are going to improve the article.
 * On the other hand, you should avoid using the template to explain matters to other users (as at User talk:Feydey) — their Talk pages then appear on Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, which is a pain for admins trying to clear up speedies. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 19:32, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Don't create empty user pages
Please don't create empty user pages for other users. It should be up to them to decide when/if to create their user page. --cesarb 16:27, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

User pages, even their main page, are owned by the community. BeBop 18:11, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, but it's a longstanding unwritten tradition of courtesy that, except for the User talk: pages, the User: pages should be edited only by their corresponding user. --cesarb 19:16, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Vandal
Please do not revert a page that is awaiting to be deleted. This is known as vandalism. • Thorpe • 17:44, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Those other comments on your Talk page back this up as well. • Thorpe • 19:28, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Adminship nomination
I see you nominated Alistair McMillan for adminship, but didn't think to notify him. Please bear in mind that if someone isn't told of their nomination there is no way they can accept it, and hence they cannot be promoted. In this case someone else had to sort out the formatting of the nomination, and tell the nominee they were actually up for a vote! — Trilobite (Talk) 20:35, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

purposeful deadend pages
(from the village pump) Now listen here, I have no problem with blank pages being deleted. However, In an effort to make Special:Wantedpages useful I have created some blank pages at places like User:Anthony DiPierro/warning because they appear high on the list of wanted pages. Lots of stale links point to this. The obvious solution is to fix Wanted Pages, but that is a long way coming. There are a ton of other userspace pages there that would do no harm in being blank, dead-end pages. I've been threatened as a vandal with being blocked for creating some of them. I'm being bold and these pages do no harm. In the case of making Wanted Pages useful it is helpful. If someone has a solution other than blank dead-end pages at these locations, WONDERFUL. Until that exists, can we leave these in place and stop the vandalism threats? BeBop 15:25, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Creating empty pages doesn't solve anything. These links are on Most wanted pages, because they are linked to and need content. They will still be wanted if you create an empty page.

Still, user pages are an special case here. User:Anthony DiPierro/warning, for example, probably had some sort of template on it Anthony used in his editing. The links are left, but his decision not to use it anymore should be respected. If you think this creates annoying redlinks you could ask Anthony to redirect it userpage himself.

In general it's a smart thing to only create articles on this list and leave all the other links. If you want something changed in someone's userspace it's common courtesy to ask first. This will help people get a grip on your intentions and help prevent accusations of vandalism. They can only know what you're doing if you're telling them.

I hope I've been somewhat helpful. Mgm|(talk) 13:23, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

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The Archaic Course

The Archaic Course is the third studio album by Norwegian heavy metal band Borknagar. It is the first album to feature Simen "ICS Vortex" Hestnæs on vocals following the departure of Kristoffer "Garm" Rygg (who, according to Øystein Brun, "didn't want to scream anymore"), and the first with guitarist Jens F. Ryland. The album also features contributions from Enslaved guitarist Ivar Bjørnson, although he was not credited as part of the band in the album's liner notes. This is also the last album to feature drummer and founding member Erik "Grim" Brødreskift, who died of a deliberate drug overdose shortly after its release.

Personnel

 * Borknagar
 * Simen Hestnæs (credited as "ICS Vortex") – vocals, synthesizer and sound effects (on "Ad Noctum")
 * Øystein G. Brun – electric guitar
 * Jens F. Ryland – electric guitar
 * Kai K. Lie – bass
 * Erik Brødreskift (credited as "Grim") – drums, percussion
 * Ivar Bjørnson – synthesizer and sound effects (all tracks, except "Ad Noctum")

 * Additional personnel
 * Christophe Szpajdel – logo

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text: Category:Books by Hugh MacLennan

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Leopold Labedz

Leopold Łabędź (22 January 1920 – 22 March 1993) was an anti-communist Anglo-Polish commentator on the Soviet Union.

Łabędź was born to a Polish Jewish doctor in Russia. The family soon returned to Warsaw and the young Łabędź decided to follow his father into the medical profession. He studied medicine in Paris. In 1939, he fled to the Soviet zone of occupation and was imprisoned by the Soviets in the Gulag.

He left the Soviet Union in 1942 as part of the Polish Army led by General Władysław Anders. After the war he studied at the University of Bologna before settling in London, where he studied at the London School of Economics. Strongly anti-communist, Łabędź edited Survey journal and headed the London office of Committee for the Defense of Workers known by its Polish abbreviation as KOR.

Łabędź often campaigned for the Solidarity union in Poland, and for political prisoners in the Soviet Union. Łabędź was one of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's principal champions in the West and often defended the Russian writer against the charge of antisemitism.

title: Leopold Labedz


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Talk:Unit prefix

"The CGPM has decided to extend this z–y backwards through the alphabet"
The citation for this is a personal website that claims it without giving a source. I can't find evidence of it. Does anyone have a RS (ideally BIPM) for this? 128.12.245.10 (talk) 08:00, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

S used as an SI prefix?
In this page i came across this: The initial letters were changed because s and h, from previously proposed ascending hepta and descending septo, were already used as SI units and prefixes (in German, septo would be pronounced as English zepto), and because the o of octa/octo could be confused with zero. I checked the SI prefixes and none have the letter S as their symbol. Also the article clearly states: or if letters such as S and T, which are already in use as SI units or prefixes, will again be skipped. Are there any SI prefixes using the letter S as their symbol? Could someone tell me about this? Thanks! 24.150.136.68 (talk) 00:45, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

 * S, s, and H are SI units, while hour is an accepted non-SI unit. Adding them as prefixes would create confusion. Jeblad (talk) 19:54, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

quecca and ronna
Proposed new ones for 10^27, 10^30. "If approved, the new terms could be formally introduced in 2022. They would be the first prefixes added since 1991." Tom Ruen (talk) 18:42, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

 * They have now been confirmed: https://phys.org/news/2022-11-earth-ronnagrams-metric-prefixes-voted.html
 * > Joining the ranks of well-known prefixes like kilo and milli are ronna and quetta for the largest numbers—and ronto and quecto for the smallest. wjdp 23:17, 21 November 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pimms1 (talk • contribs)

x, w, v prefixes
Although these old speculations are now about to be overtaken, the x and v prefixes did make it into Greg Egan's Schild's Ladder with its "vendeks" and "xennobes". Shame about the w, though. :) Double sharp (talk) 20:22, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

"Una (prefix)" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Una_(prefix)&redirect=no Una (prefix)] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at until a consensus is reached. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 15:27, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

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Memphis Xplorers

The Memphis Xplorers were a professional arena football team. They were a 2001 expansion member of the af2. They played their home games at DeSoto Civic Center in Southaven, Mississippi (a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee). The team's logo featured the likeness of the namesake of both the venue and the team, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.

On October 11, 2006, the team announced that they would not return for the 2007 season.

In October 2007, local teacher Patrick Smith and a partner purchased the Memphis Xplorers for $100,000. There were plans to bring the team back for the 2009 season, with the possibility of the team's name being changed to the Midsouth Mafia. These plans never came to fruition.

Season-by-season
Won National Conference Championship (Memphis 58, Rio Grande Valley 49) Won ArenaCup VI (Memphis 63, Louisville 41) Lost Round 2 (Green Bay 67, Memphis 50) !Totals || 52 || 50 || 0
 * 2001 || 3 || 13 || 0 || 7th NC South Central || --
 * 2002 || 5 || 11 || 0 || 4th NC Central || --
 * 2003 || 6 || 10 || 0 || 3rd NC Central || --
 * 2004 || 10 || 6 || 0 || 2nd AC Mid-South || Lost Round 1 (Florida 35, Memphis 33)
 * 2005 || 13 || 3 || 0 || 1st NC Midwest || Won Round 2 (Memphis 71, Amarillo 30)
 * 2003 || 6 || 10 || 0 || 3rd NC Central || --
 * 2004 || 10 || 6 || 0 || 2nd AC Mid-South || Lost Round 1 (Florida 35, Memphis 33)
 * 2005 || 13 || 3 || 0 || 1st NC Midwest || Won Round 2 (Memphis 71, Amarillo 30)
 * 2005 || 13 || 3 || 0 || 1st NC Midwest || Won Round 2 (Memphis 71, Amarillo 30)
 * 2005 || 13 || 3 || 0 || 1st NC Midwest || Won Round 2 (Memphis 71, Amarillo 30)
 * 2006 || 11 || 5 || 0 || 2nd AC Southern || Won Round 1 (Memphis 83, Louisville 61)
 * 2006 || 11 || 5 || 0 || 2nd AC Southern || Won Round 1 (Memphis 83, Louisville 61)
 * colspan="2"| (including playoffs)
 * }

title: Memphis Xplorers


text: User talk:24.211.109.216

title: User talk:24.211.109.216