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Was Captain Atom realy voiced by American politician Charles Christopher Cox in the episode "The Greatest Story Never Told"? The link seems to suggest so

 * No it isn't. Chris Cox to whom it refers is a cartoon and video game voice artist. I'll see what I can do. --Jason Kirk 05:48, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The DC/Wildstorm offical synopsis of CAPTAIN ATOM: ARMAGEDDON #7 says: Captain Atom uses his draining power to look into the future.

Could someone who knows a bit more tell me the details of this?

Suggestions to add/edit
What, nothing about Identity Crisis? Needs to be added. Also, why have a spoiler warning in the middle when you've already revealed the info in the introduction? User:Dyslexic agnostic 22:00, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

I propose we make a separate article about the revamped Captain Atom. That one is way different.Brian Boru is awesome 16:15, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes Lets make one then!

What about the Hanna-Barbara cartoon character Atom Ant, who was created around the same time (early 1960s) and has the same battle cry? "Up and at'em, Atom Ant!" "Up and at'em, Captain Atom!"

"scientist Allen Adam in the Charlton version, Air Force pilot Nathaniel Adam in the DC version)" Not sure the source of this, but its incorrect. From day one, Captain Atom was really Air Force Captain Adam.  AFAIK, the first name of Allen was given in only 1 of the short Charlton comics.  Most never gave his first name, and when they did again it was Nathaniel.  So this needs to be fixed.  ---emb021  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.182.158.153 (talk) 21:06, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Powers
The powers section was sorely lacking. It made it seem that he could only shoot energy blasts. I have updated it.

Merger
This is rather ridicilious in my opinion. There's no need for a split page, and there's more relevant info in this page than there is the other one. Kusonaga 13:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Survey

 * Merge --Kusonaga 13:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * No merge. --Brian Boru is awesome 21:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge HalJor 21:39, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge —Lesfer (talk/@) 22:50, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge ~ZytheTalk to me! 23:16, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Discussion is closed. Consensus is to merge Brian Boru is awesome 00:38, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Discussion
It should not be merged. The top half of Captain Atom is about Charlton One. No merge --Brian Boru is awesome 21:57, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * So? Nightshade (comics) has it the normal way too. Same as Blue Beetle (Ted Kord), Peacemaker (comics), Judomaster, Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt. There is not enough information to warrant a splitting of the page. Fundamentally anyway, the two are the same character, and elements from the Charlton comics are still referenced (such as the relationship between Nightshade and Cap). Kusonaga 06:38, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Kusonaga is right. This is about the same character. —Lesfer (talk/@) 22:51, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * There's already a precedent here, including the Charlton version with the DC version on the same page. The modern version is the same basic character, as opposed to, say, Hal Jordan and Alan Scott who deserve separate pages. HalJor 23:54, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Good point ;) —Lesfer (talk/@) 14:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Donjgfgccfgce
I read both articles and found that, with the exception of the History and "Project Atom" introduction, virtually everything in the "Modern Age" article was verbatim in the regular "Captain Atom" article already. I merged this fresh text from the "Modern Age" into here and did some general clean-up. I'm sure it can be improved further, but at least everything is ghkccccccccccffrdrjfcvg--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)--68.34.113.247 (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC) on the same page now. HalJor 03:44, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, I also edited the articles that linked to the "Modern Age" article. Actually, there was only one: Monarch (comics) -- so the "Modern Age" article was nearly lost anyway. HalJor 03:47, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, mate. I totally forgot this as I went away for a weekend. Good job. Kusonaga 10:01, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Bombshell
In the Teen Titans comics they introduced a character named "Bombshell" who claims to have the same powers. But she's not mentioned at all here..--Marhawkman 15:49, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I found and linked the appropriate article.--Marhawkman 15:51, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Captain Atom II's Hair
I remember in early stories Captain Atom's hair was longer, but it's shorter nowadays. How? Did he "cut" it or what? Bluecatcinema 09:31, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I'm confused...
In Infinite Crisis #7 Captain Atom returned after Breach was blown up by Superboy-Prime. But in Battle For Bludhaven It is stated that he returned right after the Chemo disaster. Which is it? Bluecatcinema 10:36, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Refutation of Original Research Charge
The sentence "Captain Atom's powers were similar to such other nuclear-powered superheroes as Gold Key's Doctor Solar and Dell Comics' Nukla. ..." gets an "original research?" tag. Considering that Wikipedia's own Nukla page shows not only very similar powers but the exact same origin as the Charlton Captain Atom, and that Doctor Solar has nuclear-based powers derived from a massive dose of radiation (thus sharing a few points of both origin and power with Captain Atom), I move that the "original research?" tag be stricken. Not only can the data in question be verified, but it's already right here on Wikipedia, with bibliographic citations and everything. There's also the small matter that WP:NOR criteria also require that the passage cited as such be the basis for opinion. The statement is that Captain Atom has powers similar to those of two other superheroes who in fact do have powers similar to his. Nukla's, in fact, are almost identical, and so is his origin. QED. In fact, I also move that Watchmen's Dr. Manhattan be added to the passage, since he too has nuclear energy-oriented powers obtained as the result of a catastrophic radiation incident. P.F. Bruns (talk) 07:53, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Mass Murderer
I had removed mass murderer earlier, as the destruction or Earth-51 was in the context of the Captain's containment suit rupturing. Though the death of the planet was high in magnitude, it does not appear that it was intentionally brought upon by the Captain, merely collatoral damage due to the battle. An unfortunate circumstance, but I do not believe that meets the criteria for mass murder. -66.109.248.114 (talk) 21:26, 6 March 2008 (UTC).

Except that's not the reason he's a mass murderers - in the area mini-series (issue 2), he kills everyone living on the earth-12 (I think it's earth 12, I'd have to check) version of America simply because that's earth's version of night-shade tries to leave the area. It's not in battle, it's not because his suit ruptures - it's because he decides to kill them all. That makes him a mass-murderer. --Fredrick day (talk) 21:52, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Nice note, I stand corrected, thanks for clarifying. -66.109.248.114 (talk) 23:02, 6 March 2008 (UTC).

No problem, it's tricky keeping this stuff straight - especially when the writing sucks as much as it currently does at DC! --Fredrick day (talk) 23:11, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Recently, I read through the series. Nightshades family dies in issue #1, a note is that he feels death between multiversal versions as that of suicide or "fading away of shadows."  I interpret this as Monarch/Atom feeling the deaths while caring an emotional weight on the heroes, has no lasting implication, as those persons are still alive in the multiverse.  This is really sematics, but I'm interested to to see what other editors feel whether this has any affect on the mass murderer label. Personally, I'm rather drawn, and some consesnus of interpretation he might help to guide editorially the Countdown/OYL section.  -66.109.248.114 (talk) 22:10, 8 March 2008 (UTC).

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Dilustel & X-Ionizer
Sections added so they could be linked to correctly by other pages. --68.81.70.65 (talk) 13:26, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

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Infobox edits
While it is probably best that the infobox was swapped out for Infobox comics character and title, there are some problems with the change. - J Greb (talk) 15:52, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) The character image: File:Cap atom v2 01.jpg misses almost all of WP:CMOS. This including swapping the "new" costume for the more recognized one.
 * 2) Setting up the auto catting.
 * 3) Generally we don't split and identify things by "re-boot" in the infobox.
 * 4) Splits are normally delineated by character name.
 * 5) Powers... wow... "Keep it short" is best. If it can't be, then "See: Powers and abilities" with link is appropriate.
 * 6) Volumes are an issues since the numbering tends to follow the title regardless of publisher. Volume 1 was a run published by Nation-Wide Publishing in 1950-1951 even though it featured a different character. Volume 2 was the Charlton run from 1965-1967. And the DC runs are volumes 3 and 4.

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Teen Titans TV Apparence
Shouldn't Val-Yor from the "Troq" episode of Teen Titans (TV series) be mentiond in the "In other media" section 121.218.57.155 (talk) 06:51, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

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Please make a series about Captain Atom in Tv we oive hso much
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bazrey

 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 --cesarb 16:24, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bazrey
I think this is a rather non-notable nickname. Sjakkalle 13:56, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn Xcali 14:22, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete redundant. Karol 14:24, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable. Megan1967 02:51, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

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Yerevan TV Tower

Yerevan TV Tower (Երևանի հեռուստաաշտարակ, Yerevani herustaashtarak) is a 311.7 m high lattice tower built in 1977 on Nork Hill near downtown Yerevan, Armenia. It is the tallest structure in the Caucasus, fourth-tallest tower in Western Asia (The Milad Tower in Tehran being the tallest), sixth-tallest free-standing lattice tower and thirty-eighth-tallest tower in the world.

Construction
In the late 1960s it was decided to replace the 180 m-high TV tower in Yerevan due to the insufficient capacity of the latter.

The preparatory work on Yerevan TV tower and Tbilisi Tower, which also needed replacement, started simultaneously at the Ukrainian Institute for Steel Structures. The project leaders were Isaak Zatulovsky, Anatoli Perelmuter, Mark Grinberg, Yuri Shevernitsky, and Boris But. Tbilisi and Yerevan were the first among the Soviet capitals where towers were built. The same group later worked on the project of Kyiv TV Tower though it was finished earlier than in Yerevan). Tbilisi Tower is lower, lighter and slightly tilted compared to Yerevan Tower.

Construction started in 1974 and finished 3 years later. The steel was shipped from Rustavi Metallurgical Plant in Georgia.

The old tower was moved to Leninakan, current Gyumri, where it is still functional today.

Structure
The structure of the TV tower in Yerevan is virtually divided into three parts: base, body, and antenna.

The base is a truss-steel tetrahedron that at the height of 71 metres becomes a closed-platform observation deck and technical offices. On the roof of this lower-tower basket are radio antennas. The triangular truss-steel structure continues to the height of 137 metres where a two-storey 18-metre structure in the shape of an inverted-truncated cone is situated. The lattice grid structure continues another 30 meters.

In the centre of this structure there is a concrete vertical pipe structure with a diameter of 4.2 metres, in which, among other things, the lift-shaft is hidden. The pipe projecting from the basement continues as an antenna carrier. This form was widespread in the Soviet Union with steel towers. For example, the Kyiv TV Tower and the Saint Petersburg TV Tower follow this construction principle.

The antenna carrier tapers (diameter per section: 4 meters, 3 meters, 2.6 meters, 1.72 meters and 0.75 meters) between five maintenance bridges to the top. The entire steel structure is painted white and international orange to comply with air safety regulations (similar to the Tokyo Tower and the Tbilisi TV Tower).

The weight of the structure is 1900 tonnes and the basement is 1170 metres above the sea level.

Broadcasting History
Installation of the tower in 1977 allowed to receive a wide variety of programs from the Moscow Central television, as well as from other Soviet Union republics. In those years the average daily length of programs broadcast by Armenian television reached twelve hours, of which two-and-a-half hours in color, including four hours and thirty-five minutes of their own programming. Ninety-six percent of the population watched the first program. In 1978 it became possible to also receive the fourth channel of the Central television in Armenia In 1978 the programs watched were news (25%), music (23%), educational (13%), pre-adult entertainment (14.5%), political (9%) and military (6%), sport (4%), movies (3.5%) and others.

By 1978, the number of TV sets reached 500 000, of which 100 000 were color. Armenian SSR was the second in the Soviet Union with the popularization of TV. The length of TV programs per day reached 19 hours. About 50% of the programs were in color and 70% were recorded. In the subsequent years Armenia became the first of the republics of the Soviet Union by the percentage of the TV audience and the volume of programs.

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Talk:WarioWare: Touched!

Two releases in Japan?
The article has two Japanese release dates in the infobox. They're about a year apart, was there some kind of players choice reissue or something? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.3.222.63 (talk) 12:08, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅. ~ P*h3i   (📨)  05:53, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Secret Toy
Yesterday, I turned on WarioWare: Touched! for the first time with my WaroWare: Twisted! cart in slot 2, and immediatly after entering the character screen, I recieved a new toy. The toy is called "Mona Pizza", and it's sort of a music video that makes some references to WarioWare: Twisted! (particularly, Pizza Dinosaur in their black and white Twisted! uniforms, instead of their more elaborate Touched! costumes). I thought this was worth mentioning in the article, so I wrote a little section on it (I hope it's not too long). Atomic Cosmos 13:56, May 27, 2005
 * ❌, this is unsourced. ~ P*h3i   (📨)  05:53, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Cleanup?
That's a big list you've got there. Of the game cameos that is. --gakon5 (talk)
 * ✅. ~ P*h3i   (📨)  05:53, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Multiplayer?
Can anyone write a little about the multiplayer mode of the game?

RE: Multiplayer?: There is no multiplayer in this game, aside from one toy which requires two players to hold the DS (using one shoulder button each) to hit a ball back and forth on a ping pong table.
 * ❌, there is no multiplayer mode in this game. ~ P*h3i   (📨)  05:53, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Reception
I think the Reception section should somehow reflect that this game is considered the worst of the series by almost all fans
 * ❌, that is subjective. Metacritic currently classifies Snapped! as the worst in the WarioWare series. ~ P*h3i   (📨)  05:53, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

?
Shouldn't we have a reference about the whole sumbliminal message rumor? Bassium!
 * ✅. ~ P*h3i   (📨)  07:00, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

yes —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.101.30.107 (talk) 19:31, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Animal Crossing parody
The fountain is not a parody from animal crossing, it's based off a popular myth (or whatever you call it) where a man drops something crummy into a fountain, and a goddess of some sort appears, and asks if he dropped the crummy thing, or the nice looking thing. The man picks the crummy thing, as he is honest, and gets both items in return.

There's a few versions of it. It's been featured in Harvest Moon as well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChapperIce (talk • contribs) 18:53, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅. ~ P*h3i   (📨)  05:53, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Subliminal Message
Should there be a small reference to the supposed subliminal message in Ashley's Song?(Oinkers42) (talk) 00:19, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

the ashley debacle
whoever added the "i have granted kids to hell" redirect is a fucking madlad i swear, regardless i still think its quite worthless to include it anyways if there isnt gonna be a section in the article that discusses the ashley incident in question so i think it should probably be removed. Miner Eleven (talk) 01:04, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

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List of parliamentary constituencies in Devon

The ceremonial county of Devon, which includes the unitary authorities of Torbay and Plymouth, is divided into 12 Parliamentary constituencies: 4 Borough constituencies and 8 County constituencies.

Constituencies
In the 2024 United Kingdom general election, Devon elected the following MPs:

2024 boundary changes
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

The Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021. Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.

The commission has proposed that Devon be combined with Avon and Somerset as a sub-region of the South West Region, resulting in significant change to the existing pattern of constituencies. In Devon, East Devon, and Tiverton and Honiton would disappear, being replaced by Exmouth and Exeter East, Honiton and Sidmouth, and the cross-county boundary constituency of Tiverton and Minehead. Torridge and West Devon and Totnes would be renamed Torridge and Tavistock, and South Devon respectively.

The following seats are proposed:

Containing electoral wards from East Devon Containing electoral wards from Exeter Containing electoral wards from Mid Devon Containing electoral wards from North Devon Containing electoral wards from Plymouth Containing electoral wards from South Hams Containing electoral wards from Teignbridge Containing electoral wards from Torbay Containing electoral wards from Torridge Containing electoral wards from West Devon
 * Exmouth and Exeter East (part)
 * Honiton and Sidmouth (part)
 * Exeter
 * Exmouth and Exeter East (part)
 * Central Devon (part)
 * Honiton and Sidmouth (part)
 * Tiverton and Minehead (part in the Somerset District of Somerset West and Taunton)
 * North Devon
 * Plymouth Moor View
 * Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
 * South West Devon (part)
 * South West Devon (part)
 * South Devon (part)
 * Central Devon (part)
 * Newton Abbot
 * Torbay
 * South Devon (part)
 * Torridge and Tavistock (part)
 * Central Devon (part)
 * South West Devon (part)
 * Torridge and Tavistock (part)

Results history
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019

2019
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Devon in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Percentage votes
1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966 and one National candidate in 1945

2pre-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Meaningful vote percentages are not available for the elections of 1918, 1922, 1923, 1931 and 1935 since at least one seat was gained unopposed.

Seats
1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966

21950-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

Historical results by party
A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

2010 to present (12 MPs)
1parts transferred in 2024 to Tiverton and Minehead which is mostly in Somerset


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Gull Island Shoal (Lake Erie)

Gull Island Shoal is a former island of the U.S. state of Ohio, located in Lake Erie. Although it still appears on some old maps of Lake Erie as "Gull Island", it is no longer an island, but rather is now just a shoal south of Middle Island. The island was last seen above water 120 years ago.

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Tekirdağ Province

Tekirdağ Province (Tekirdağ ili, ) is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is 6,190 km2, and its population is 1,142,451 (2022). It is located in the East Thrace region of the country, also known as European Turkey, one of only three provinces entirely within continental Europe. Tekirdağ Province is bordered by Istanbul Province to the east, Kırklareli Province to the north, Edirne Province to the west, and the Gallipoli peninsula of Çanakkale Province to the south. Tekirdağ is the capital of the province, and the third largest city in European Turkey after Istanbul and Çorlu.

Agriculture
The province of Tekirdağ is one of Turkey's the most important regions for viticulture and winemaking. The coastline between Tekirdağ and Şarköy, particularly Mürefte, are notable centers of wineyards. 22 of the 27 villages of Şarköy grow grape and produce wine. There are well-known wine producers in the region, including "Doluca", "Gülor", "Kutman", "Bağcı" and "Latif Aral". Other wine producers of the region are "Melen" in Hoşköy and "Umurbey" in Tekirdağ.

Places of Interest

 * Şahinköy Church

Districts
• Çerkezköy

• Çorlu

• Ergene

• Hayrabolu

• Kapaklı

• Malkara

• Marmara Ereğlisi

• Muratlı

• Saray

• Şarköy

• Süleymanpaşa

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Mount Yamantau

Mount Yamantau, or Yamantaw (Ямантау, гора Ямантау) is a mountain in the Ural Mountains, located in Beloretsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. Standing at 1,640 m it is the highest mountain in the Southern Ural section, and is featured within the South Ural Nature Reserve.

A secret extensive bunker complex has been allegedly built under Mt. Yamantaw, claimed by the United States to be owned by the Russian government or Russian Armed Forces, similar to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.

Name
The name of the mountain is derived from "Yaman taw" (Яман тау), which translates to "evil mountain", "bad mountain", or "wicked mountain" in the local Bashkir language. The meaning behind the name is believed to originate from the many inconveniences of the mountain: big bear population, surrounding swamps and rocky slopes, resulting in its area being a troublesome herding place.

Geography
Yamantaw has two peaks - Big Yamantaw 1640 m and Small Yamantaw 1,512 m. Both peaks are plateaus, with a big area and flat relief.

Up to 1,000 - 1,100 m elevation, the mountain slope is covered with mixed forest, in some places with driftwood, occasional alpine meadows and rocky outcrops. Above 1,100m elevation, there are no trees or bushes, and instead rock streams of various sizes, with grass, flowers and moss start to appear.

Bunker complex claims
Yamantaw, along with Kosvinsky Mountain (600 km to the north), are claimed by the United States of being home to a large secret nuclear facility or bunker, or both. Large excavation projects have been observed by U.S. satellite imagery after the fall of the Soviet Union, as recently as the late 1990s during the government of Boris Yeltsin. During the Soviet era two military garrisons, Beloretsk-15 and Beloretsk-16, and possibly a third, Alkino-2, were built on the site. These garrisons were unified into the closed town of Mezhgorye (Межгорье) in 1995, and the garrisons are said to house 30,000 workers each, served by large rail lines.

Repeated U.S. questions have yielded several different responses from the Russian government regarding Yamantaw, including it being a mining site, a repository for Russian treasures, a food storage area, and a bunker for leaders in case of nuclear war. Responding to questions regarding Yamantaw in 1996, Russia's Defense Ministry stated: "The practice does not exist in the Defense Ministry of Russia of informing foreign mass media about facilities, whatever they are, that are under construction in the interests of strengthening the security of Russia." In 1997, a United States Congressional finding, related to the country's National Defense Authorization Act for 1998, stated that the Russian Federation kept up a "deception and denial policy" about the mountain complex after U.S. officials had given Cheyenne Mountain Complex tours to Russian diplomats, which the finding stated "... does not appear to be consistent with the lowering of strategic threats, openness, and cooperation that is the basis of the post-Cold War strategic partnership between the United States and Russia."

In popular culture

 * Yamantau is featured in the video game Metro Exodus where it has been taken over by cannibals.
 * Yamantau is featured in the 2010 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops where it houses a base for a fictional chemical weapon – the Nova 6.
 * Yamantau is featured the video game Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War as one of the multiplayer maps.
 * Yamantau is the name of a map in the video game War Robots, it is based on Yamantau. The map was remastered in version 9.2

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Leigh Creek, South Australia

Leigh Creek is a former coal-mining town in eastern central South Australia. At the 2016 census, Leigh Creek had a population of 245, a 55% decrease from 550 in the previous census in 2011.

Situated to the west of the northern Flinders Ranges, the current town is 13 km further south than the original town—it was moved in 1982 to allow for the expansion of the mine. As a result, most facilities and buildings in the town are only a little over thirty years old, and with relatively modern designs.

The mine and associated railway station are named Telford.

History
The area was named Leigh's Creek after its first settler, Harry Leigh, in 1856. Coal was discovered and small quantities mined from 1888 from an underground mine. The town to support the mine at that time was called Copley, after William Copley, an MP and Commissioner of Crown Lands. However the coal was not mined in a significant commercial manner until 1943 in an effort to make South Australia more self-sufficient for its energy needs, with less dependence on New South Wales. The premier Thomas Playford saw the need to be seen not to rely on interstate energy if he was to attract business to South Australia.

Coal mine
The former open cut mine operation was for low-grade, sub-bitumenous black coal which is frequently referred to as hard brown coal or just brown coal. It was transported 250 km by rail to power stations outside Port Augusta on the east side of Spencer Gulf. The coal occurs in several nested bowl-shaped seams, each several metres thick. The coalfield at Leigh Creek was operated by Alinta Energy and produced over 2.5 million tonnes a year of coal. Alinta Energy also operated the power stations at Port Augusta which were the only remaining coal-fired generators in South Australia, and the only users of coal from Leigh Creek.

Downsizing and closure
Since the early 1990s, more changes occurred in Leigh Creek. Massive restructuring of mining operations resulted in the reduction of a workforce of over 750 to about 200. The township also became a lot smaller. The population dropped from about 2500 in 1987 to less than 250 in the year 2016.

On 30 July 2015, Alinta Energy announced they were bringing the closure dates of all three facilities forward by 12 months, and now intended to no longer operate them past March 2017 and could shut them down as early as March 2016. On 7 October 2015, it was confirmed that the Leigh Creek mining operations would cease on 17 November 2015.

Leigh Creek Energy Project
In 2015 the media announced that another coal project at Leigh Creek was in the planning process. Leigh Creek Energy Project (LCEP), proposed by the ASX listed company Leigh Creek Energy, intends to extract gas from Leigh Creek's coal seams by drilling injection and extraction wells and igniting the coal underground using a process known as in-situ coal gasification. The company has proposed that the gas would then be exported to Australia's eastern states via existing pipeline networks. An additional plant to produce ammonium nitrate fertilizer and explosives for use in the mining sector would also be built adjacent to the coal gasification plant.

Environment
The Aroona Sanctuary is one of the best examples of environmental rehabilitation in Australia. By 1985, the lands of the Aroona Sanctuary were badly degraded. Massive numbers of rabbits and feral goats depleted the native vegetation. The vegetation losses led to extensive sheet and gully erosion. Widespread soil erosion also led to rapid silting of Aroona Dam. The lands around Leigh Creek showed serious sign of desertification. Overgrazing and the unrestricted use of 4-wheel vehicles, motorbikes and horses also added to land degradation. For example, the local Pony Club occupied an area near Windy Creek. A large number of horses were left grazing uncontrolled and totally destroyed all vegetation. "Dust devils" originating in this area were visible from a long distance. Sand drifts started to occur and rainwater was no longer able to penetrate into the soil layer, because of the talcum powder like structure of the soil surface.

A large-scale environmental rehabilitation project was started in late 1985, under the direction of Beat Odermatt, Environmental Scientist for ETSA. Rehabilitation was done by destroying rabbits and feral goats and by undertaking erosion control works, such as disk pitting and the construction of water velocity reducers. The removal of rabbits and feral goats helped the native vegetation to return. Over 1 million trees and shrubs emerged in the degraded area and silting of waterways and Aroona Dam was drastically reduced.

In 1995, the Government of South Australia declared the area around Aroona Dam a Flora and Fauna Sanctuary. Within less than 10 years, an extremely badly degraded area had recovered to a situation where it could again support a diverse range of native plants and wildlife. The programme provided proof that degraded lands can be rehabilitated. It is one of the best environmental land rehabilitations in arid areas.

In the meantime, a captive breeding programme of yellow-footed rock-wallabies at Monarto Safari Park in South Australia had become too successful. The Royal Zoological Society of South Australia and scientists from the SA Department of Environment and Heritage were looking for a suitable site for the world's first free release of captive yellow-footed rock-wallabies. The Aroona Dam Sanctuary was chosen as the best suitable site. Yellow-footed rock-wallabies once populated the Aroona Dam area. They became extinct in the area because of competition from feral goats and rabbits and predation from feral foxes and cats. Hunting of wallabies by "local yokels" had destroyed the last remaining animals. A programme was initiated to control potential predators such as feral cats and foxes. In 1996, a small number of captive-bred yellow-footed rock-wallabies was released in the Aroona Sanctuary. The released animals were closely monitored with the help of radio collars and keen volunteers and scientists. Monitoring was undertaken with the help of a large range of people, such as local school students, mine workers and scientists from many other Zoos around Australia and the United States of America.

Various stages of the Aroona Dam Sanctuary project became widely recognised. The project was awarded 3 SA State Landcare Awards and a Mining Industry Award for Environmental Excellency. The project had become one of Australia's most successful and most awarded environmental rehabilitation projects. The Aroona Bio-Diversity Project was also supported by Landcare National Heritage grants from the Commonwealth Government, by active support from adjoining landholders and is currently administered and funded by NRG Flinders.

Land degradation has remained the biggest single environmental problem in Australia. Land degradation is also one of the biggest factors contributing to silting of rivers and creeks in Australia and subsequent water shortages in many areas.

In popular culture

 * Leigh Creek Road is referred to in the John Schumann song of the same name on his 1993 album True Believers.
 * It features in the 2022 movie, Gold starring Zac Efron.

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Princess Delphine of Belgium

Princess Delphine of Belgium (Delphine Michèle Anne Marie Ghislaine de Saxe-Cobourg; born 22 February 1968), known previously as Jonkvrouw Delphine Boël, is a Belgian artist and member of the Belgian royal family. She is the daughter of King Albert II of Belgium with Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, and the half-sister of King Philippe of Belgium. On 1 October 2020, she was lawfully recognised as Princess of Belgium with the style "Her Royal Highness". Earlier, she had belonged to the Belgian titled nobility and was legally Jonkvrouw.

Early life and career
Princess Delphine is the daughter of Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, whose first husband was a Belgian nobleman and industrialist Jonkheer Jacques Boël. They divorced in 1978. Her biological father is Albert II, former King of the Belgians.

Delphine attended boarding school in England and Switzerland, and studied at the Chelsea School of Art and Design in London, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in fine arts (with honours) in 1990. She has been a guest lecturer at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK), Antwerp, and the Maastricht Art School.

She is the founding patron of the Princess Delphine of Saxe-Coburg Fund based at Ghent University Hospital, promoting the use of art in health care. The Belgian brewery Struise produced a "Cuvée Delphine" beer for which she designed the artwork for the bottle label. Her sculpture Ageless Love is in the Gerdapark, Sint-Niklaas. In 2021, she designed the decoration of the Lamborghini Art Car.

Personal life
James "Jim" O'Hare, an American businessman of Irish descent, is Delphine's husband. The couple have two children:
 * Her Royal Highness Princess Joséphine O'Hare, Princess of Belgium (born 17 October 2003). Princess Joséphine attended the Notre-Dame des Champs School, a French language school in Uccle, Brussels. In 2022, she enrolled in the Liberal Arts and Sciences course in an unnamed university in the Netherlands. She speaks French and English.
 * His Royal Highness Prince Oscar O'Hare, Prince of Belgium (born 28 April 2008). Prince Oscar attends school in Brussels.

Paternity case
On 19 October 1999, an 18-year-old Flemish schoolboy, Mario Danneels, published his unauthorized biography of Queen Paola, Paola, van 'la dolce vita' tot koningin (Paola, from 'la dolce vita' to Queen). The book contained a statement referring to the existence of a daughter born out of wedlock to King Albert. The Belgian press investigated, and traced Delphine. At first, both Boël and her mother refused to comment on the matter, and the palace dismissed Danneels' book as gossip and rumor.

The Belgian press interpreted a short passage in the king's 1999 Christmas speech as acknowledgement that Delphine Boël was, in fact, his natural daughter:

"Christmas is a time for each of us to think of our family, of the happy periods but also the difficult times. The Queen and I remember very happy times, but also the crisis that we experienced more than 30 years ago. Together we could, over a long time, overcome those difficulties and recover a deep understanding and love for each other. This period was recalled to us recently. We don't wish to dwell on that subject which belongs to our private lives. But, if those who encounter similar difficulties today could get some encouragement from our own experiences, we would be very happy."

The press interpreted this to refer to the king's 18-year-long relationship with Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps.

Boël gave an interview on 15 May 2005, to the France 3 presenter Marc-Olivier Fogiel in the broadcast "On ne peut pas plaire à tout le monde" (You Can't Please Everyone) in which she alleged for the first time that she was King Albert's daughter. She claimed that when she and her mother moved to England, when she was 9, Albert (not yet king) wished to divorce his wife and join them. Her mother apparently opposed this because of the political consequences for Albert. She said her mother told her the truth about her parentage when she became 17. In her upcoming interviews, Boël said she made a telephone call to Albert when she was 33 years old asking for help. According to her statement, he replied "Never call me again. You are not my daughter," which she said was hurtful. Boël added that her efforts to contact her father via telephone and sending letters or through friends and politicians failed.

In June 2013, when King Albert lost his immunity to prosecution, Boël summoned him and his children Prince Philippe and Princess Astrid to appear in court. She hoped to use DNA tests to prove that she was the king's daughter. As king, Albert was immune under the law, and Delphine decided to summon her half-siblings too. When the king abdicated on 21 July 2013 his immunity ceased, and Boël relaunched proceedings against him. In March 2017, the court ruled that her claim was unfounded, and her lawyers said she would take the claim to appeal.

On 5 November 2018, a court ruling was published which instructed Albert to submit to a DNA test to determine whether he was Boël's biological father. DNA testing is not obligatory in Belgium, but not submitting to it is considered evidence of paternity. In January 2019, Albert appealed in cassation against the verdict, but on 16 May of the same year, the Brussels's Court of Appeals ordered the former king to pay a fine of 5,000 euros a day to Boël for every day he refused to take a DNA-test.

On 27 January 2020, the DNA tests showed that King Albert II was the father of Delphine Boël. In October 2020, she and her children were granted princely titles by the Belgian court of appeals. As she was born out of wedlock, Princess Delphine and her descendants are not in the line of succession to the Belgian throne. Although court costs totalling €3.4m were awarded to her on a substantial indemnity basis, she was not granted a royal endowment.

She and her half-brother, King Philippe of Belgium, met on 9 October 2020 at the Palace of Laeken. The next day, King Albert II reacted in a press release, rejoicing over the meeting and stating "My wife and I are very happy by the initiative of the King, presage of happier days for all and in particular for Delphine."

On 25 October 2020, she was received at Belvédère Castle by her father and his wife, Queen Paola. At the occasion of the Belgian National Day on 21 July 2021, she and her partner joined the royal family at the military parade for the first time.

Titles and styles
Delphine and her children have been granted the titles of prince and princess of Belgium with the style of Royal Highness following a court decision of 1 October 2020. Earlier, she had been styled as Jonkvrouw Delphine Boël.

Filmography

 * Delphine: My Story (2022)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert McCrae

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Robert McCrae
This looks like nonsense to me, especially the bit with the Essay Builder. Googling the gentlemen's name with his invention returns zero results. I think it should be deleted. Akerkhof 14:06, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. hoax or joke article Shoaler 17:33, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Vandalism. See the picture that is the link at the end. Geogre 18:23, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Xcali 19:30, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Who? Not notable! Next! ShureMicGuy 19:12, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mechanical restoration

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Mechanical restoration
No content. Cannot be made a sub-stub as there is no information at all related to mechanical restoration. Cannot make a redirect to restoration as mechanical restoration links from there. Jay 14:08, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep — there's nothing at all about refurbishing old furniture or fixing up an old car? Seems like there should be a boat-load, unless I completely misunderstand this. :) — RJH 15:10, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Material is already well covered. Follow the "related topics" links, and you'll see.  If we're talking about hanging onto this in the hopes that it will contain information, then we need to debate the naturalness and usfulness of the title.  To me, this title is not at all a natural search. Geogre 18:24, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep potential for expansion. JamesBurns 11:05, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete it adds nothing new and in fact the article creates a loop back to itself from the disambig page. The work done is better covered in another article and the disambig page was modified to reflect this.  Vegaswikian 06:49, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Anthrax - Stomp 442 album cover.

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Hen Island (Ontario)

Hen Island is an island on Lake Erie in Ontario. There are three smaller islands, called "chickens," surrounding the island; their names are Big Chicken Island, Chick Island, and Little Chicken Island.

Quinnebog Fishing Club
This small wooded Island is home to the Quinnebog Club, which owns the island. The club was founded in 1897, still exists and is active. The main clubhouse holds the dining hall and kitchen facilities as well as staff bedrooms on the second floor. According to the club's website the U.S. Presidents Grover Cleveland and William McKinley have visited the club to do some fishing.

The Club may have bought the island from either a certain "Colonel Blanchard", the first resident of the island, or Rudolph Siefield, an Ohio businessman.

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Andrew Hallidie

Andrew Hallidie may refer to:

 * Andrew Halliday (physician), or Andrew Hallidie, royal physician to King William IV and Queen Victoria
 * Andrew Smith Hallidie, promoter of the first line of the San Francisco cable car system

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Nisbet

Nisbet could refer to:

People

 * Nisbet (surname)

Places

 * Canada:
 * Nisbet Provincial Forest

 * United Kingdom:
 * Nisbet, Scottish Borders
 * Nisbet House, Berwickshire

 * United States:
 * Nisbet, Indiana
 * Nisbet, Pennsylvania

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Talk:Allele frequency

The effect of mutation
Does anybody recognize the equations in "The effect of mutation" section? I added a cite box but accidentally submitted without an edit message. –  mono lemma  t  – 17:47, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Definition seems wrong
2nd line says "Specifically, it is the fraction of all chromosomes in the population that carry that allele." but consider a species with 28 pairs of chromosomes and only one pair has the gene with the allele in question. Presumably it should read "Specifically, it is the fraction of the relevant genes in the population that carry that allele." ? - Rod57 (talk) 17:03, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

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Laccadive Sea

The Laccadive Sea, also known as the Lakshadweep Sea, is a body of water bordering India (including its Lakshadweep islands), the Maldives, and Sri Lanka. It is located to the southwest of Karnataka, to the west of Kerala and to the south of Tamil Nadu. This warm sea has a stable water temperature through the year and is rich in marine life, the Gulf of Mannar alone hosting about 3,600 species. Mangaluru, Kasaragod, Kannur, Kozhikode, Ponnani, Kochi, Alappuzha, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram, Tuticorin, Colombo, and Malé are the major cities on the shore of the Laccadive Sea. Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of peninsular India, also borders this sea.

Extent
The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Laccadive Sea as follows: On the West. A line running from Sadashivgad Lt. on West Coast of India (14.8°N, 74.11667°W) to Corah Divh (13.7°N, 72.16667°W) and thence down the West side of the Laccadive and Maldive Archipelagos to the most Southerly point of Addu Atoll in the Maldives.

On the South. A line running from Dondra Head in Sri Lanka to the most Southerly point of Addu Atoll.

On the East. The West coasts of Sri Lanka and India.

On the Northeast. Adams Bridge (between India and Sri Lanka).

Hydrology
Water temperature is rather constant through the year, averaging 26–28 °C in summer and 25°C in winter. Salinity is 34‰ (parts per thousand) in the center and northern part and up to 35.5‰ in the south. The coasts are sandy and the deeper parts covered in silt. There are numerous coral reefs in the sea, such as the Lakshadweep islands which are made up of atolls and contain 105 coral species.

Fauna and human activities
The Gulf of Mannar is known for its pearl banks of Pinctada radiata and Pinctada fucata for at least two thousand years. Pliny the Elder (23–79) praised the pearl fishery of the gulf as the most productive in the world. Although extraction of natural pearls is considered too expensive in most parts of the world, it is still conducted in the gulf. Also collected in large numbers are Shankha mollusks (Xancus pyrum) whose shells are used as a ritual and religious object. Other mollusks of the sea are either too scarce or not popular in Indian society and therefore have no commercial value.

Another traditional occupation in the Laccadive Sea is fishing. The annual fish catch is 2,000 to 5,000 tonnes from the Lakshadweep islands, which is mostly constituted by tuna (about 70%) and shark. Perches, halfbeaks, Carangidae, needlefish and rays are also caught near the reefs. Shrimp, Achelata and small fish, such as Sprattus, Pomacentridae and Apogonidae are widely used as a bait by the Laccadive islanders.

With about 3,600 species of flora and fauna, the Gulf of Mannar is regarded as one of the richest marine biological resources in the world. Of these 3,600 species, 44 are protected, 117 are corals, 79 crustaceans, 108 sponges, 260 mollusks, 441 fin fishes, 147 seaweeds and 17 mangroves. In 1986, a group of 21 islands and nearby waters with a total area of 560 km2 were declared as the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park. The park and its buffer zone were designated as a Biosphere Reserve in 1989. The Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve covers an area of 10,500 km2 of ocean, islands and the adjoining coastline, and is the largest such reserve in India. Most of its area is restricted for outsiders and the access of boats is subject to strict rules, but local people continue fishing activities which they crucially depend on. About 150,000 people live in the buffer zone, and more than 70% of them depend on the coastal marine resources. There are about 125 fishing villages with 35,000 active fishers and 25,000 divers for sea cucumbers in the area, about 5,000 women collect seaweed. About 106,000 tonnes of fish were produced in the gulf in 2006, mostly oil sardines (Sardinella longiceps), lesser sardines(Sardinella spp.), ponyfish (Letognathus sp.), mackerel, penaeid shrimp, perches, squid (Sepioteuthis arctipinni), deep-sea lobster (Puerulus sewelli), crab (Varuna littorata), skates and sting rays. The seaweed collection aims at shallow-water species Gelidiella acerosa (marikozhundu passi), Gracilaria edulis (Agarophytes, Kanchi passi), Sargassum spp. (kattakorai), Turbinaria (Alginophyte, Pakoda passi) and Ulva lactuca, and is conducted between October and March. Because of National Park related restrictions, the production of seaweeds declined from 5,800 tonnes (dry weight) in 1978 to 3,250 tonnes in 2003.

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Kenny Rogers and The First Edition

Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, until 1970 billed as The First Edition, were an American rock band. The band's style was difficult to singularly classify, as it incorporated elements of country, rock and psychedelic pop. Its stalwart members were Kenny Rogers (lead vocals and bass guitar), Mickey Jones (drums and percussion) and Terry Williams (guitar and vocals). The band formed in 1967, with folk musician Mike Settle (guitar and backing vocals) and the operatically trained Thelma Camacho (lead vocals) completing the lineup.

As the counterculture of the 1960s was developing, the First Edition signed with Reprise Records in 1967 and had their first big hit in early 1968 with the psychedelic single "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" (US No. 5). After other chart hits, "But You Know I Love You" (US No. 19) and "Tell It All Brother" (US No. 17), the group, newly billed as "Kenny Rogers and the First Edition", once again hit the top ten, this time in 1969 with the topical "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" (US No. 6, UK No.2).

For the next six years, the First Edition enjoyed worldwide success. By the mid-1970s, frontman Kenny Rogers had embarked on a solo music career, becoming one of the top-selling country artists of all time.

Early days
Kenny Rogers and The First Edition were mostly made up of former members of the New Christy Minstrels who felt creatively stifled. The exception was Mickey Jones, who had been part of Bob Dylan's backing group on his first electric world tour. In 1967, with the help of Terry Williams' mother, who worked for producer and executive Jimmy Bowen, they signed with Reprise and recorded their first single together, "I Found a Reason", which had minor sales. Settle had first come up with the idea of forming the band as his work took on the characteristics of rock. Over the previous seven years, Settle had been writing decidedly more folk-oriented songs, most notably the oft-covered "Sing Hallelujah".

It was their follow-up (sung by Rogers), the psychedelic single "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)", that first got notice. The single, with an arrangement by their producer, Mike Post, had Glen Campbell playing the backward guitar intro and Mike Deasy providing various psychedelic sounds. It became a hit early in 1968, climbing to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Terry Williams played the solo that later led Jimi Hendrix to tell Rogers that it was his favorite record. The group's next three single releases failed commercially, as did their second album. The 1968 release "But You Know I Love You" (composed by Settle) possessed a distinctive brass-tinged country-folk sound, broadening their fan base. In the group's rendition on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour that aired on 8 December 1968, the audience was unwittingly fooled into applauding too soon, right after the false ending but well before the real ending. The record peaked at No. 19 on the Hot 100 just under a year after "Just Dropped In" was at its Billboard summit.

According to Mickey Jones' book That Would Be Me, Thelma was fired from the group in late 1968 (soon after the release of "But You Know I Love You" and the aforementioned Smothers Brothers television appearance, but before the record would chart on the Hot 100), after missing too many gigs and rehearsals. For her part, Thelma did not see it the same way. She has stated that while she always loved being with them in the studio, the road was too hard on her from a health and personal standpoint. All agreed that the situation could not continue, and she was replaced by her roommate, Mary Arnold, an Iowa-born singer who beat out newcomer Karen Carpenter for the job. Thelma appears on the first three LPs plus half of the fourth album. Arnold made her debut on "Reuben James".

By the end of the decade Rogers had long brown hair, an earring, and pink sunglasses. Known affectionately in retrospect as "Hippie Kenny". Rogers had a notably smoother vocal style at the time. During mid-1969 the band scored another Top Ten hit with Mel Tillis' "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town". Mickey's drumming was part of the hook. At Rogers' shows the song was often clapped along to, or joked around with, but it was meant seriously at the time. Telling the graphic story of a crippled veteran was admirably daring at the height of America's involvement with the war in Vietnam. The song lyrics were originally meant to address the Korean War, albeit in such a vague way that it could have referred to Korea, Vietnam, or even the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The song was picked up by some disc jockeys, and there was suddenly great demand to release the final track recorded for, and included on, the First Edition '69 album. In order to release "Ruby" at the same time as the "But You Know I Love You" soundalike "Once Again She's All Alone", the group renamed themselves "Kenny Rogers and the First Edition". When "Ruby" became the hit, the name stuck. Terry later said that this made him feel like one of Gladys Knight's Pips. This, their third major hit single, like the previous two featured Kenny Rogers on lead, along with the band name change, these factors cemented Kenny's fate as a global household name.

Prime period
Kenny Rogers and the First Edition had five hits. A man Rogers at first took to be a rude fan first pitched "Reuben James" to Rogers at a golf match. The man, who turned out to be a song pitcher for American songwriter Alex Harvey, followed him around the greens singing the song until Rogers listened. Rogers loved the song's look at a black man raising a white boy and agreed to record it. "Reuben James" came out at the end of 1969, by which time Mike Settle had been gone for several months. During his absence, he was replaced by Kin Vassy. The group continued to record country, rock, and folk by fairly equal measures, blurring the lines among the genres.

The First Edition reached what was arguably the peak of their fame with "Something's Burning", a No. 11 hit in early 1970. A blatantly sexual song, it was slightly hindered chart-wise by the controversy surrounding it. Regardless, Kenny's soft voice on verses and rock shouting on the chorus earned the group much acclaim. "Burning" opened with a sample of an actual heartbeat played backward to replicate the song's rhythmic beat.

Meanwhile, Terry Williams had begun to record some solo singles. Williams' "I'm Gonna Sing You A Sad Song Susie" was part of the First Edition's next LP Tell It All Brother. The title track (also written by Harvey), which dealt with love and brotherhood, was a national top 20 hit and topped WRKO's August 13, 1970, top 30 survey for one week. Released a month or so after the Kent State shootings, the song drew a standing ovation the night it debuted live.

In addition to the band's continuing frequent appearances on television, songs by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition were featured in two 1970 films. First up was the never released on record "If Nobody Loved" for the camp political comedy Flap. A few months later they recorded "Someone Who Cares" and "A Poem I Wrote For Your Hair" to appear in the soundtrack for the romantic film Fools starring Jason Robards Jr., and Katharine Ross. The Fools (soundtrack) was released in 1971.

At the end of 1970, the First Edition had their seventh Top 40 hit with the Vassy-penned "Heed the Call". Another song about the need for brotherhood, it was seen as an uptempo counterpart to the balladry of "Tell It All Brother." The next single, "Someone Who Cares", was taken from the Fools movie soundtrack. Though scoring high on the easy listening charts, "Someone Who Cares" failed to reach the pop top fifty. This ushered in a period during which the First Edition attempted to retool its image. Keyboard player John Hobbs was briefly in the lineup, but, though he played on future recordings, was not in the group long enough to appear on any album covers or publicity photos. His brief tenure was captured in the PBS television special Tell It All. The special provided an unusually in-depth look at the group, all of whom were at ease speaking in front of the camera. In mid-1971 the First Edition released a gospel single called "Take My Hand", which barely scraped into the bottom of the charts.

TV and later releases
After the success of a pilot shot in late 1970, the fall of 1971 saw Kenny Rogers and the First Edition become hosts of their own television series Rollin' on the River. Later to be shortened to Rollin, this was a variety show that was taped in Canada (taking advantage of recently imposed Canadian content requirements) which geared itself toward rock, blues, and folk performers and groups. Unlike the more Las Vegas-styled The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, Rollin was focused on harder-edged guests like Ike and Tina Turner, veterans like Bo Diddley, veteran Canadian based artists such as Ronnie Hawkins, and up and coming performers such as Jim Croce. The show also gave the First Edition a chance to do the comedy Kenny and Terry had long made a part of their act. Though it got good ratings, Rollin did have one ill side effect: the First Edition were now seen as television personalities instead of recording stars. Terry Williams' signature song, "What Am I Gonna Do", was to become the group's next single in late 1971. It was the first First Edition 45 not to chart since 1968.

Recorded over six months in 1971, and released in March 1972, The Ballad of Calico was written by future star Michael Martin Murphey and the First Edition's musical director and arranger Larry Cansler. Cansler replaced Hobbs on stage during this period, but despite his large creative role here, and on Rollin' on the River, he was not promoted on either as a member of the group. The album was a country rock opera about a late 19th-century mining town, but unlike most like-minded projects of the era, all of the songs were based on fact. The sleeve and booklet of this two-LP set had genuine and period-styled photos depicting the era, with all of the lyrics presented in hand-written script. The music was critically well received, with all of the group (outside of Mickey) taking at least one lead. The song chosen for a single was "School Teacher," an acoustic rhythm and blues song with a lead by Kin. "The Ballad Of Calico" has since picked up a large cult following, but back in 1972 it was all but ignored. According to Mickey Jones' book That Would Be Me, Vassy was fired several months after the "Calico's" release following a drunken backstage confrontation with Terry Williams.

By early 1972, Gene Lorenzo replaced Larry Cansler on stage and was made a full First Edition member. Jimmy Hassell joined the group about six months later to replace Vassy. Lorenzo was a keyboard and piano virtuoso. Hassell was a hard rock singer similar to Vassy, and physically resembled a friend of Terry's, actor Gary Busey. Both fit in well, without marring the public impression of the original members. Around the same time, Rogers formed his own label, Jolly Rogers (distributed by MGM. Rogers retained the name when he started his own publishing company as a solo artist) and the group left Reprise.

Their first Jolly Rogers release was a late 1972 country LP called Backroads. The third single from the album, a version of Merle Haggard's "Today I Started Loving You Again" reached the lower regions of the country charts in mid-1973. Then came a soundtrack from Rollin'. The album consisted mainly of cover songs, of which Kenny's remake of "The Long and Winding Road" and Gene and Terry's reworking of Bach's "Joy" were most notable. The album did not do well, and the TV show was soon canceled. The group increasingly played on the county fair circuit.

It was decided that a new image far away from their TV persona was required. Monumental tried to give them just this. Combining a wide variety of styles, it ranged from a Rogers-written rocker about prostitute "Morgana Jones" (later rerecorded by Rogers for his album The Gambler in 1978) to the nostalgic "42nd Street." The latter compared the New York of 1973 to the Broadway of the 1930s. "The Hoodooin' of Miss Fannie Deberry" (also re-recorded by Rogers for "The Gambler") and "The Ritual", was the LP's centerpiece. Monumental was one of their biggest sales failures in the United States, but in New Zealand it went gold. Following on the local success of "Rollin'" and the understated ballad "Lady, Play Your Symphony," "Lena Lookie" went to number six, and the group embarked on three New Zealand tours over the next two years. A documentary of their first trip, in late 1973, was aired as a 1975 TV special, Rollin Through New Zealand.

As their domestic popularity continued to decline, Terry wanted to focus on the hard rockers that had done so well for them overseas. Kenny disagreed, wanting a more conservative agenda. Kenny admitted in his book Making It with Music, that he perhaps should not have complained about MGM's poor distribution on a radio show. Despite their mounting problems, New Zealand continued to consider the First Edition as superstars. Their next album was titled I'm Not Making My Music for Money especially for their New Zealand fans. An LP of this title was to have come out in the US but MGM rejected it. The US LP was basically going to be the same but with two new cuts replacing the two songs reused from "Monumental." Despite the retreads, the album did show continued development. A mix of new songs and remakes (possibly done because some songs were not available in New Zealand), "Love Woman" was now a hard rock jam featuring Jimmy on lead. This arrangement was borrowed from the band's stage performances of Bill Haley's "Rockin' Through the Rye". The ballads "Dirty Work" and "Daddy Was a Traveling Man" were a return to the more adult style of Terry's early work. "Making Music for Money" (another song remade for "The Gambler") is a song about art vs. commerce that Jimmy Buffett later covered. It charted well, but again only in New Zealand.

The split
In late 1974, they filmed a television movie called The Dream Makers. It was a drama about the music business and they played the group Catweazel. It was a small role with only Kenny and Mickey speaking any major lines. Despite the film giving them a chance to perform recent songs, the exposure did not halt their decline. Kenny had become short on money by 1974, and was in debt when he decided to hawk guitar lesson records on a commercial.

Wanting to give a solo career a shot, Terry left in the late spring of 1975. Kenny was upset but agreed to it, succeeding in getting Kin to come back so they could fill their pending engagements. Though he was hired to stay permanently, the reunion with Vassy did not go well and he ended up playing only one night. Mickey was the first to decide to leave in order to pursue his other dream, which was acting. Kenny began recording as a solo act that fall. The First Edition played their last scheduled shows in the fall of 1975 at Harrah's in Reno. Without Mickey, there were a few First Edition gigs in early 1976, done as a favor to Kenny who had not yet formed his solo band. Kenny later said that writing the song "Sweet Music Man" made him cut his hair and let it go gray, plus get rid of the earring. Mary Arnold often sang "Sweet Music Man" on the First Edition's post Terry Williams gigs and Kenny also tried the lead out a few times. This was to become one of Rogers' most covered compositions, and he himself had a No. 9 country hit with it in the fall of 1977.

After the split
Kin and Terry fronted a new First Edition in 1993–94. They continued on a few months after Vassy's death, but they disbanded several months later. It was to be an attempt at relaunching the group as a contemporary country band who also played their hits. Terry's younger brother Ress played the drums.

In 1980, a compilation of some of the First Edition's greatest hits and album cuts, titled "Shine On", was issued in the United Kingdom. It sold fairly well but was overshadowed by The Kenny Rogers Singles Album, a Kenny Rogers solo greatest hits collection that, in addition to his solo hits, featured reworkings of the group's best known songs. Currently there are many compilations of their work in print on various labels, some miscredited to Kenny alone with picture not of the period.

"Live Vegas '72" is the first new First Edition music to be released since 1974. The recording was a Kin Vassy era performance of an unknown date.

The band scored a total of 11 hit singles and eight hit albums on the Billboard charts.

On April 10, 2010, Kenny, Mike, Mickey, Terry, Mary, and Gene reunited as part of the Kenny Rogers: The First 50 Years TV special. This was filmed at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut. They were joined by Wynonna Judd on a rendition of "Just Dropped In".

The First Edition semi-reunited with Rogers several times in 2014-2015 when he was elected to the Country Music Hall Of Fame. These were brief press conferences and performances only.

Available on DVD

 * 2005: Kenny Rogers: Going Home-Live at the House Of Blues UK DVD compatible with US format contains a 1994 Disney Channel documentary. Includes a five-minute First Edition segment with rare footage.
 * 2005: Remember The 70's 60 min compilation of Rollin' hosted by Mickey Jones. Two First Edition performances are included as well as their intros for other artists.
 * 2006: Kenny Rogers – The Journey with the First Edition Dottie West, Willie Nelson, and Dolly Parton
 * 2007: Flashbacks: Pop Parade (includes selections from the View Video Rollin' releases)
 * 2007: Flashbacks: Easy Lovin' (includes selections from the View Video Rollin' releases)
 * 2007:  Kenny Rogers: Rollin' Volume 1 with the First Edition, Ike Turner, Tina Turner, Gladys Knight & the Pips
 * 2007:  Kenny Rogers: Rollin' Volume 2 with the First Edition, Jim Croce, Bo Diddley, and Ronnie Hawkins

Note: all View Video releases were originally issued on VHS in the early nineties.

Numerous releases with miscellaneous Rollin' footage have come out in Europe and Australia. They are of dubious legality and were all quickly pulled from the market.

Documentaries

 * "Tell It All"-Airdate: syndicated in fall of 1972. A PBS special filmed in early 1971 during a date in South Carolina. Goes backstage, shows rehearsals, and has in depth interviews with all of the group. Some of this was reused in "Kenny Rogers-The Journey". The rest is yet to be released on home video.
 * "Rollin' Through New Zealand"-Airdate: syndicated in early 1975. The First Edition star in this look at their visits and success in New Zealand. No official home video released, but producer Tony Williams put it online.
 * "Kenny Rogers: A Gambler's Tale"-A&E Biography 1999. Kenny and Mike Settle are interviewed for this 60 min doc. Was available on VHS
 * "The Life and Times of Kenny Rogers"-CMT 2002. In depth look at Rogers includes interviews with Kenny, Mickey Jones, and Terry Williams
 * "Kenny Rogers-The Journey"-DVD 2006. A performance based documentary, that devotes about a quarter of its two-hour playing time to the First Edition. Includes vintage and new interviews with Rogers, as well as a new one by Mickey Jones.

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Andijan Region

Andijan Region (Uzbek: Andijon viloyati/Андижон вилояти, اندیجان ولايتى, Андижанская область) is a region of Uzbekistan, located in the eastern part of the Fergana Valley in far eastern Uzbekistan. It borders with Kyrgyzstan (Jalal-Abad and Osh Regions), Fergana Region and Namangan Region. It covers an area of 4,300 km2. The population is estimated to be around 3,253,528 (2022) thus making Andijan Region the most densely populated region of Uzbekistan.

The name Andijan has originated from the Persian word of اندکان Andakan. The traditional etymology connects the name with the Turk, ethnonym Gandhi (Gandhi Turks), known from pre-Islamic period.

Andijan Region is divided into 14 administrative districts. The capital is the city of Andijan. The climate is a typically continental climate with extreme differences between winter and summer temperatures.

Natural resources include deposits of petroleum, natural gas, ozokerite and limestone. As with other regions of Uzbekistan, it is famous for its very sweet melons and watermelons, but cultivation of crops can be accomplished exclusively on irrigated lands. Main agriculture includes cotton, cereal, viticulture, cattle raising and vegetable gardening.

Industry includes metal processing, chemical industry, light industry, food processing. The first automobile assembly plant in Central Asia was opened in Asaka in Andijan Region by the Uzbek-Korean joint venture, UzDaewoo, which produces Nexia and Tico cars and the Damas minibus.

Administrative divisions

The Andijan Region consists of 14 districts (listed below) and two district-level cities: Andijan and Xonobod.

There are 11 cities (Andijan, Xonobod, Jalaquduq, Poytugʻ, Qoʻrgʻontepa, Qorasuv, Asaka, Marhamat, Shahrixon, Paxtaobod, Xoʻjaobod) and 79 urban-type settlements in the Andijan Region.

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Copley, South Australia

Copley is a town in the Australian state of South Australia.

The township adjacent to Leigh Creek Railway Station was officially dedicated as the Town of Copley by a proclamation published on 27 August 1891. The name honours William Copley, who at the time the town was proclaimed was a member of the Legislative Council for the Northern District.

According to Rodney Cockburn (in his Nomenclature of South Australia) the name Leigh Creek for the railway station and post office "was officially abandoned in 1916 on the advice of the Nomenclature Committee, who acted upon the suggestion of Lachlan McTaggart of Wooltana Station The Committee pointed out that it was most undesirable to have a town of one designation and a railway station and post office of another. The name Leigh Creek had no legal status by way of dedication, while the town of Copley was proclaimed under the Crown Lands Act and there were many sound reasons why the latter appellative should be adopted for all Government purposes. It seemed absurd to have a name wholly foreign to the title deeds used for the post office and railway station. At a public meeting the residents protested vigorously against the change.

Copley is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Stuart and the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia. As of 2016, the community within Copley received municipal services from a South Australian government agency, the Outback Communities Authority.

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