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NEEDS HELP!!!!
When I first saw the article, it really needed Wikification 26 May, 2007 2:44 (UTC)

The Sir Grantley Adams Airport and Denver Airport in the USA look similar.
When was the membrane tenting design installed at Denver's Airport? CaribDigita (talk) 19:45, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

external linking
Only one official link should be included as per WP:ELMINOFFICIAL. LibStar (talk) 22:58, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
 * continually adding other links is a violation of this policy. LibStar (talk) 23:38, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Further decimation of references on this article will be considered and reported for vandalism. WP:EL clearly states where and when multiple links are allowed. Such as for references on the article topic. What WP:EL part are you referring to that says article may have only a single link? CaribDigita (talk) 00:02, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

WP:ELMINOFFICIAL there is only one official website of the airport. LibStar (talk) 00:07, 29 May 2014 (UTC) If they are references they should be cited in article. LibStar (talk) 00:08, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

 * For the record -- The links listed are as follows:

Under WP:ELOfficial **none** of these other links are linked from the official website of GAIA. As WP:EL reads: "More than one official link should be provided only when the additional links provide the reader with significant unique content and are not prominently linked from other official websites. For example, if the main page of the official website for an author contains a link to the author's blog and Twitter feed, then it is not appropriate to provide links to all three. Instead, provide only the main page of the official website in this situation. In other situations, it may sometimes be appropriate to provide more than one link, such as when a business has one website for the corporate headquarters and another for consumer information. " The airport photos one can even be taken out because I got a personal tour and took my own photos and other persons have done the same. CaribDigita (talk) 00:34, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
 * One Airport link.
 * The Civil Aviation authority of the airport
 * 2 references of independent review of the airport Good + Bad. (Not just Wikipedian glorification about the airport.)
 * Customs and Immigration policy of entry to the aiport
 * 2 listing of sister Wiki projects. What is excessive????
 * The Civil Aviation authority of the airport and Customs and Immigration policy of entry to the airport are websites not actually about the airport and are only indirectly related. you will see other airport articles do not contain such links. LibStar (talk) 01:24, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

New Airline
I have notice for the past 3 Wednesdays Air Antilles Express Has been coming to Barbados even though the reference states it will begin February 2017, Have anyone else notice...Arrivals Wednesdays 9:30PM Bridgetown-Departs 10:00pm Fort-De-France. Can't seems to find to find any reference for the already inaugural flights. Comments or suggestions anyone? (33aircharter) talk —Preceding undated comment added 02:07, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

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WestJet
If WestJet only serves it in the summer should it be tagged as seasonal? Huskermax5 (talk) 15:47, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

Air Antilles not operating--edit?
Clearly not operating per Flightradar24, and per renewed lockdown measures in FDF and PTP

COI tag (May 2024)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3A33aircharter&diff=1221112334&oldid=1221106516 The Banner  talk 22:47, 8 May 2024 (UTC)


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Al-Maqdisi

Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr (شَمْس ٱلدِّيْن أَبُو عَبْد ٱلله مُحَمَّد ابْن أَحْمَد ابْن أَبِي بَكْر; c. 945/946 – 991), commonly known by the nisba al-Maqdisi (ٱلْمَقْدِسِي) or al-Muqaddasī (ٱلْمُقَدَّسِي) was a medieval Palestinian Arab geographer, author of Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm (The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Regions), as well as author of the book, Description of Syria (Including Palestine).

Al-Maqdisi is one of the earliest known historical figures to self-identify as a Palestinian during his travels.

Early life and education

He was born in Jerusalem in c. 946 and belonged to a middle-class family whose roots in the city's environs dated from the period approximate to the 7th-century Muslim conquest. According to historian André Miquel, al-Maqdisi was "very much attached to the Palestine of his birth and to the town whose name he bears". Al-Maqdisī or alternatively al-Muqaddasī was a nisba indicating that he was from "Bayt al-Maqdis" or "Bayt al-Muqaddas", the Muslim names for Jerusalem. His paternal grandfather, Abu Bakr al-Banna, had been responsible for the construction of Acre's maritime fortifications under orders from Ahmad ibn Tulun (r. 868–884), the autonomous Abbasid governor of Egypt and Syria. Al-Maqdisi's maternal grandfather, Abu Tayyib al-Shawwa, moved to Jerusalem from Biyar in Khurasan and was also an architect.

As can be inferred by his work and social background, al-Maqdisi was likely well-educated. Miquel asserts that al-Maqdisi's use of "rhymed prose, even poetry" is indicative of a strong knowledge in Arabic grammar and literature. Likewise, his writings show that he possessed an early interest in Islamic jurisprudence, history, philology and hadith.

Pursuits in geography
Al-Maqdisi made his first Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) in 967. During this period, he became determined to devote himself to the study of geography. To acquire the necessary information, he undertook a series of journeys throughout the Islamic world, ultimately visiting all of its lands with the exception of al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sindh and Sistan. The known dates or date ranges of al-Maqdisi's travels include his journey to Aleppo sometime between 965 and 974, his second pilgrimage to Mecca in 978, a visit to Khurasan in 984 and his stay in Shiraz in 985 when he decided to compose his material. The finished work was titled Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fi maʾarfat al-aqalīm (The Best Divisions for the Knowledge of the Provinces).

Work

Though possibly influenced by predecessors al-Jahiz (d. 869), who introduced the "science of countries", and Ibn al-Faqih (fl. 902), al-Maqdisi "surpassed" both "all to the advantage of what certainly should be called a true geography", according to Miquel. Moreover, Miquel surmises that al-Maqdisi "was probably the first to have desired and conceived" true geography as an "original science", an assertion that al-Maqdisi himself makes in the preface of Aḥsan al-taqāsīm. He belonged to the school known as the "atlas of Islam", inaugurated by Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (d. 934) and developed by Istakhri (d. 957) and al-Maqdisi's contemporary Ibn Hawqal (d. 978).

Al-Balkhi's school almost exclusively dealt with the Islamic world, to which al-Maqdisi too devoted his studies. Al-Maqdisi refers to this world as al-mamlaka or al-Islām (the Domain of Islam), a unique concept in which all of the lands of Islam constituted a single domain. He subdivided this domain into two parts: mamlakat al-ʿArab (domain of the Arabs) and mamlakat al-ʿAjam (domain of the non-Arabs). The former consisted, from east to west, of the six provinces of Iraq, Aqur (Upper Mesopotamia), Arabia, Syria, Egypt and the Maghreb, while the latter consisted of the eight provinces of the Mashriq (Sistan, Afghanistan, Khurasan and Transoxiana), Sindh, Kirman, Fars, Khuzistan, Jibal, Daylam and Rihab (Armenia, Adharbayjan and Aran).

Description of Palestine
Aḥsan al-taqāsīm gives a systematic account of all the places and regions al-Maqdisi had visited. He devoted a section of his book to Bilad al-Sham (the Levant) with a particular focus on Palestine. In contrast to travelers to Palestine, such as Arculf (c. 680s), Nasir Khusraw (c. 1040s) and others, who were pilgrims, al-Maqdisi gave detailed insights into the region's population, way of life, economy and climate. He paid special attention to Jerusalem, detailing its layout, walls, streets, markets, public structures and landmarks, particularly the Haram ash-Sharif (Temple Mount) and the latter's Dome of the Rock and Jami Al-Aqsa. He described the city's people and customs, focusing on its Muslims, but also its Christian and Jewish communities, whose significant presence he lamented.

Al-Maqdisi also gave extensive overviews of Ramla and Tiberias, the capitals of the Palestine and Jordan districts, respectively. To a lesser extent, he described Acre, Beisan, Bayt Jibrin, Caesarea, Amman and Aila. In his descriptions of the aforementioned cities, al-Maqdisi noted their prosperity and stability and gave a general impression of Palestine as densely populated and wealthy, with numerous localities.

Guy Le Strange comments on al-Maqdisi's work: "His description of Palestine, and especially of Jerusalem, his native city, is one of the best parts of the work. All that he wrote is the fruit of his own observation, and his descriptions of the manners and customs of the various countries, bear the stamp of a shrewd and observant mind, fortified by profound knowledge of both books and men."

Description of Eastern Arabia
"Hafit {Tuwwam} abounds in palm trees; it lies in the direction of Hajar {Al-Hasa}, and the mosque is in the markets ... Dibba and Julfar, both in the direction of the Hajar, are close to the sea ... Tuwwam has been dominated by a branch of the Quraysh ..."

Al-Maqdisi mentioned regions in Eastern Arabia which form parts of what are now Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Oman. Al-Hasa is an important oasis region in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia, whereas Tuwwam is another oasis region split between the UAE and Oman, comprising the modern settlements of Al Ain and Al-Buraimi on different sides of the Omani-UAE border. Dibba is another region split between the UAE and Oman, touching the Musandam Peninsula, which is partly ruled by the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, where the ancient settlement of Julfar is located.

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Maurice Abrahams

Maurice Abrahams (March 18, 1883 – April 13, 1931) was an American songwriter and music publisher, who was successful in the early years of the 20th century.

Biography
Abrahams was born in Odessa, Russia, and emigrated to the US as a child in 1892, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1910. He became a songwriter, writing popular ragtime songs in Tin Pan Alley in New York City. Successful songs co-written by Abrahams included "Hitchy-Koo" (1912, written with L. Wolfe Gilbert and Lewis F. Muir); "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" (1912, written with Muir and Grant Clarke); and "He'd Have to Get Under — Get Out and Get Under (to Fix Up His Automobile)" (1913, written with Clarke and Edgar Leslie). His biggest success, "Ragtime Cowboy Joe", was a pop hit for Bob Roberts (1912), Pinky Tomlin (1939), Eddy Howard (1947), Jo Stafford (1949), and David Seville and the Chipmunks (1959). Some of his songs were written for his wife, the vaudeville performer Belle Baker, whom he married in 1919.

Abrahams became manager of several music publishing firms, before starting his own publishing business in 1923. He died in New York in 1931, aged 48.

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Talk:Confederation of Regions Party of Canada

Party colour
The talk over at Talk:National Party of Canada has prompted me to revisit this chat I had with Jord last month:

 * I imagine your recollection of CoR's colouration in NB is better than everyone else's, so thanks for switching it over to green. The thing is, I have a feeling that the CoR federal colour (moccasin, I think) was selected some time ago purely because that end of the colour wheel was unclaimed and there was no solid info of any actual colouration.  That makes me wonder if we should, barring evidence to the contrary, use the NB colours nationally.  (As an added bonus, it would stop the clash between CoR-Ontario and the Family Coalition Party that's on the charts at the moment).  The amount of free colour space is getting a little tight around the green end of the spectrum (GPC, Socreds, Libertarian and Reform all cohabitated in that era, unfortunately) which might complicate things a little, though.  Thoughts? -The Tom 23:52, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It really doesn't matter to me - the federal party was pretty minor and only contested a couple of elections. I wonder if they had enough money to produce any signs or coloured documents?  If not it may be impossible to tell!!  I'd say leave well enough alone for now as we only know that CoR was green in NB. - Jord 00:36, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm curious if anyone's game for a hunt to resolve this one. My default option, considering we have nothing on CoR aside from their NB colours, is to stick them everywhere to #66CC66 (on the right, pretty much halfway between Reform and the Green Party, and the only corner of the green spectrum with breathing room) and then switch Family Coalition back to mocassin. Thoughts, or spectacular evidence to the contrary showing them as using hot pink? -The Tom 20:32, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I dug up a logo for the Confederation of Regions from Ontario, [[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg]]

and to contrast that, I found a federal CoR Logo on a french language site. --Cloveious 14:12, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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Borujerd

Borujerd is a city in the Central District of Borujerd County, Lorestan province in western Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

Among the existing modern cities in Iran, Borujerd is one of the oldest reported at least since the 9th century. In Sassanid Empire, Borujerd was a small town and region neighboring Nahavand. Gaining more attention during Great Seljuq Empire in the 9th and 10th centuries, Borujerd stood as an industrial, commercial and strategic city in Zagros Mountains until the 20th century. In its golden ages, Borujerd was selected as the state capital of Lorestan and Khuzestan region during Qajar dynasty in the 18th and 19th centuries. Due to the existence of a large number of production and industrial units and the supply of their products in the domestic and foreign markets, Borujerd is considered the industrial hub of Lorestan province.

Foundation and name
The history of Borujerd before the advent of Islam is not well known. Parthian-era artifacts have been discovered in its environs by non-professional excavators. Moreover, one of Iran's oldest mosques, the Jameh Mosque of Borujerd, was constructed on the remains of a Zoroastrian fire temple. This proves that the region was populated before Islam arrived. The Parthian king Orodes II ((r. 57 – 37)) is credited by some academics with laying the city's foundation. They believe that "Borujerd" stems from the Middle Persian word Wurūgird/Wulūgird/Orodhkard, meaning "built by Orodes." Others consider it to have been built by the Sasanian king Peroz I ((r. 459 – 484)), arguing that "Piruzgird" was its original name, before being changed into "Burugird", and then later Arabicised into "Burujird".

History
Only from the 9th-century does the name "Borujerd" appear in Islamic chronicles. It first appears in the Kitāb al-buldān of Ibn al-Faqih, and is later reported in various forms, such as "Warukird", "Warugird", "Barugird" and "Barujird".

Esteemed religious institutions operated in Borujerd during the Qajar era, producing two distinguished Shia scholars, Asad Allah Borujerdi (died c. 1854) and Hossein Borujerdi (died 1961).

Language
The linguistic composition of the city:

Population
Borujerd is the 31st largest city in Iran and the 2nd largest in Lorestan. Borujerd is the industrial point of Lorestan. Its historical and cultural background as well as its remarkable nature, has changed it to a tourist destination. The city has been named as Dār-Al-Sorur which means the house of happiness. Borujerd's population was estimated about 20000 in mid-1800s.

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 334,497 in 59,388 households. The following census in 2011 counted 240,654 people in 71,730 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 234,997 people in 74,146 households.

Location
Borujerd city is located approximately 1670 meters above sea level and has a moderate climate with cold winters. The highest point is Garrin Mountain 3623 m above sea level and the lowest area is Gelerood River in South with 1400 m elevation. Borujerd Township has 2600 km2 area with approximately 400,000 inhabitants distributed in the city of Oshtorinan and more than 180 villages. Owing to favorable topographic and climatic conditions, the plains are devoted to cultivation of grain. Wherever irrigation is possible (by means of qanāts, wells, diversion of water of streams), cotton, melons, grapes, and fruit trees (especially almonds) are grown.

Borujerd is located on Silakhor Plain which is the largest agricultural land of Lorestan. The high-elevated Zagros Mountains surrounds it from South East to North West and the peaks are covered with snow most of the times. Rural people work in farms or keep their domestic animals. Other people work in governmental offices, armed forces, factories or small local businesses. The feet of Zagros Mountains is a great destination for nomads and many Lurs and Bakhtiari nomads move there in summer. The area is paved with highways and is a crossroad between Tehran and Khuzestan Province as well as Isfahan Province and Kermanshah Province.

Climate
Borujerd's climate is classified as Mediterranean(Köppen: Csa) with dry and very hot summers and cold winters. Most of the precipitation falls in colder months from November to April. Snowfall can be observed in winter, which can sometimes become heavy and cause school closures in the county. Road access to villages can also be disturbed because of snow.

Historical attractions

 * Jameh Mosque of Borujerd
 * Soltani Mosque of Borujerd
 * Imamzadeh Ja'far, Borujerd
 * Imamzadeh Ghasem, Borujerd
 * Imamzadeh Ibrahim, Borujerd
 * Imamzadeh Shahzadeh Abol-Hasan, Borujerd
 * Imamzadeh Vallian, Borujerd
 * Imamzadeh Ghasem, Borujerd
 * Zavvarian Tomb of Borujerd
 * Ghaleh Hatam Bridge, Borujerd
 * Chalanchulan Bridge, Borujerd
 * Ghorogh Hill, Borujerd
 * Roomian Hill, Borujerd
 * Bazaar of Borujerd

Parks and natural attractions

 * Goldasht Valley, Borujerd
 * Vennaii Village, Borujerd
 * Chogha Hill of Borujerd
 * Bishe Dalan Pound, Borujerd
 * Oshtorankuh, Dorood
 * Women's Park of Borujerd

Notable people

 * Hossein Borujerdi, religious leader
 * Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob, writer and historian
 * Loris Tjeknavorian, musician
 * Zahra Rahnavard, artist and politician
 * Mostafa Abdollahi, director and actor
 * Jafar Shahidi, historian and bibliographer
 * Mehrdad Avesta, poet 20th-century
 * Arvin Moazzami, athlete
 * Moḥammad Mahdi Baḥr al-Ulūm, mystic
 * Ahmad Khatami, professor
 * Ehsan Mohajer Shojaei, athlete
 * Mahvash, singer, dancer and stage performer
 * Ehsan Rouzbahani, athlete
 * Mohammad Boroujerdi, commander
 * Ali Abdo, athlete
 * Saman Salur, film director
 * Mohammad Boroujerdi, commander
 * Reza Beiranvand, athlete
 * Iraj Rad, actor
 * Farnaz Esmaeilzadeh, athlete
 * Mahmoud Saremi, reporter
 * Abdolmohammad Ayati, author and field of philosophy
 * Mir Shamsuddin Adib-Soltani, philosopher
 * Mohammad Hanif, writer
 * Mohammad-Reza Zarrindast, pharmacologist
 * Mahmoud Khatami, philosopher
 * Bahram Ghasemi, diplomat
 * Asadullah Boroujerdi, prominent
 * Abolghasem Khazali, shi'i cleric
 * Farnaz Esmaeilzadeh, speed climber
 * Shahram Entekhabi, video and installation artist
 * Salar Abdoh, novelist
 * Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi, twelver Shi'i
 * Ahmad Moballeghi, professor
 * Ehsan Mohajer Shojaei, middle-distance running

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Octave (album)

Octave is the ninth album by the Moody Blues (the eighth by this particular line-up), released in 1978, and their first release after a substantial hiatus following the success of the best-selling Seventh Sojourn in 1972. Released after a considerable break, which saw The Moody Blues returning in an era of punk music and disco, Octave produced a reduced commercial outcome for the band, but reached No. 6 in the United Kingdom and went platinum in the United States, where the album reached No. 13. The album produced the hit single "Steppin' in a Slide Zone", which hit No. 39 in the US, in addition to "Driftwood". The album's title is a musical pun: it references both the notion of an octave; and as a word derived from the Latin octavus it refers to this being the eighth album by this line-up of the Moody Blues (following on from the previous album title Seventh Sojourn).

Background
Octave was considered a departure from previous Moody Blues albums, mainly because of the group's use of lounge-style organs and synthesizers in place of a Mellotron or Chamberlin (Pinder's song "One Step Into the Light" references the Mellotron). Real strings were used on three songs: "Under Moonshine" and "I'm Your Man" (both written by Ray Thomas), as well as "Survival" (written by John Lodge). The album was something of a comeback for the group, who had not released an album as a full group in six years. Justin Hayward remembers, "We were apart for three years, and we knew we were going to record another album together, but, in interviews, none of us were going to say it until we actually did it. We never thought we would be able to come back in the same way. We thought we had been away too long, so we were really making a record for ourselves. But then it just took off again--it's like what people couldn't have, they wanted even more."

The album proved to be the last for the group with keyboardist Mike Pinder, who left during the album's sessions and declined an offer to tour with the group. He had just started a new family in California, and found that he was not getting along with his bandmates as he previously had. Hayward remembers, "He left the band halfway through the album, and then when we wanted to go out on tour, he decided he didn't want to tour anymore, either. And, apart from a few letters of business, we haven't had much contact. I just think his priorities became different, whereas mine--and everyone else's--were always music, No. 1. And I still really miss him, because, when I first came into the band, it was our singing and writing that really got us going; we kind of started together." Hayward reflects further on Pinder's creative role in the band, and how his and Clarke's departure resulted in a stylistic change for the group: "A number of things changed. Two of the mystics left - Mike Pinder and Tony Clarke. They were the strange ones - the rest of us were quite normal! Mike leaving meant a change in emphasis of lyric, because I always had to play things to Mike, and I always wanted Mike's approval. He was a hero of mine, there's no getting away from it, and he was the most important figure in the band for a long while. And he knew that I was the one that was going to make it happen, but he was the one who was behind me making it happen."

Pinder would be replaced by former Yes keyboardist Patrick Moraz in time for their 1978-1979 tour, beginning a new era in the band's history.

Writing
The lead single and opening track, "Steppin' in a Slide Zone" was influenced by a mudslide that occurred during the recording sessions. Lodge recalls, "Mike built a studio up in Malibu called Indigo Ranch, we went up there, and we were hit by the mudslides, and we were marooned up there on the top of The Hills of Malibu. We couldn't get down because the roads washed away, and I said, 'Ah, yep. Looks like we're steppin' in a slide zone down here'."

Justin Hayward shares his fondness for Mike Pinder's "One Step into the Light" in a 2019 interview: "One Step Into the Light" was the song that Mike had written several years before and that we recorded in his little home studio. I cannot listen to that song, because it just wells up in me. It's just one of the most beautiful songs, ever. He gave me some great gifts, and one of them was to be able to play that song. And then he left. Things were, just personally, not right for him inside that band. So that's when we became four instead of five. Somewhere in there are those two old guitars — because he was a guitar player, too — that we played together on the original version. And I think his vocal is the original version, too. I remember the oxide was falling off that tape, it had been played so many times."

Hayward shares the inspiration for the closing track, "The Day We Meet Again": "That particular song was about people in my family — I come from a family with a very strong faith, and so that's in my background as well. And I come from a part of England that is full of history — the west country. It's a very evocative part of England. It's about people that I loved, and the loss of them. I'm talking about men and women. I find in life that it doesn't matter. If you meet someone, and something inside you says, 'Stay close to this person. Stay close to them,' I always make a point of doing that. Those are the people that I write about. And they're in that song. in the Record Plant in Los Angeles where we recorded it...there was this funny old little Farfisa organ. Late one night, I asked the engineer to put it up. I just started playing that [sings organ groove], and then I thought, 'Hang on, I can just do this three chord thing all the way through the song, in this particular kind of syncopated thing'. That's the bit I like about it most."

Recording
The album proved to be a struggle to produce, being their first to be recorded in the United States, at the Record Plant in Los Angeles and Indigo Ranch in Malibu. Octave would also be the final studio album from the band produced by Tony Clarke. The sessions were marked by marital troubles among the group's members, fires, floods, mudslides and a broken arm. Justin Hayward remembers, "I was mental at the end. There was a great lethargy around that album. Tony Clarke, our record producer, had personal disaster during that album and didn't finish it. And Mike couldn't make up his mind whether he wanted to stay or not. I missed him terribly. I played a lot of the keyboards on it. It was in the time when nobody was showing any interest in anybody else's songs. It's weird to be in a group like that.

John Lodge elaborates on the difficulties, "When we recorded what became the Octave album, I was never too sure it was the right time to make the album. Also we were recording in America and it was the first album we were going to record outside of the UK. While we were recording so many things went wrong, not with the band as people, but we were starting recording at the Record Plant. And the Record Plant burned out while we were recording. That was one. I broke my arm. Another one. I recorded after the album with a broken arm and it set with my bass there and said, set it like this so it could still play. And I did that. It was awkward getting in and out of cars, I tell you! Arm up the air. Then private lives in the band between guys and wives, that started to fall apart. We lost our producer during the making of the album, he disappeared. So it really left it to Justin and myself, to continue making the album and producing it. Then we went up to Indigo Ranch in Malibu. And while we were up there, there were the worst floods ever. The mountain slid down the hill and we were stuck up in the mountain in the studio. For days we couldn’t get out. And Steppin' In the Slide Zone seemed to conjure up everything to me that was wrong. Or fighting the tide, probably. Yeah, fighting the tide. But it's a great album. It ended up being a really nice album. It was really hard work. But it was a great learning experience for us.

Graeme Edge reflects on the improved dynamic within the band during the sessions despite the loss of Pinder and Clarke and the group's struggles during recording: "Making your solos shows you how much work actually goes into making an album that other people were covering and you weren't perhaps paying enough attention to. So when we got back together, we had a lot more respect for each other."

Release
The cover art was designed by artist John Kosh, famous for his work with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, among others.

The original album was released on clear blue vinyl in Canada.

In November 2008, the album was remastered and released on CD, with five previously unreleased, live, bonus tracks.

Side One

 * 1) "Steppin' in a Slide Zone" (John Lodge) – 5:29 (lead singer: John Lodge)
 * 2) "Under Moonshine" (Ray Thomas) – 5:00 (lead singer: Ray Thomas)
 * 3) "Had to Fall in Love" (Justin Hayward) – 3:42 (lead singer: Justin Hayward)
 * 4) "I'll Be Level with You" (Graeme Edge) – 3:48 (lead singers: Justin Hayward, Mike Pinder, Ray Thomas, John Lodge)
 * 5) "Driftwood" (Hayward) – 5:03 (lead singer: Justin Hayward)

Side Two

 * 1) "Top Rank Suite" (Hayward) – 3:42 (lead singer: Justin Hayward)
 * 2) "I'm Your Man" (Thomas) – 4:21 (lead singer: Ray Thomas)
 * 3) "Survival" (Lodge) – 4:09 (lead singer: John Lodge)
 * 4) "One Step into the Light" (Mike Pinder) – 4:29 (lead singer: Mike Pinder)
 * 5) "The Day We Meet Again" (Hayward) – 6:19 (lead singer: Justin Hayward)

2008 CD Expanded Edition tracks (UK)
 "Steppin' in a Slide Zone (Live in Seattle 25 May 1979)" (Lodge) - 4:57 "I'm Your Man (Live in Seattle 25 May 1979)" (Thomas) - 4:51 "Top Rank Suite (Live in Seattle 25 May 1979)" (Hayward) - 4:28 "Driftwood (Live in Seattle 25 May 1979)" (Hayward) - 5:02 "The Day We Meet Again (Live in Houston 7 December 1978)" (Hayward) - 7:16

Personnel

 * Justin Hayward – vocals, guitars, keyboards
 * John Lodge – vocals, bass, keyboards
 * Mike Pinder – vocals, organ, synthesizer, Mellotron, piano, electric piano, acoustic guitar
 * Ray Thomas – vocals, flute, harmonica, tambourine
 * Graeme Edge – vocals, drums, percussion

Additional personnel
Source:
 * Tony Clarke - Producer
 * Garry Ladinsky, Chris Brunt, Richard Kaplan, Pete Carlsen, Dennis Hansen - Recording Engineers
 * R. A. Martin - horns, saxophones and arrangement on "Top Rank Suite" and "Driftwood"
 * Dr. Terry James - strings arrangement and conductor on "Under Moonshine" and "I'm Your Man"
 * Jimmy Haskell - strings arrangement and conductor on "Survival"
 * Richard Roth - cover coordination
 * David Alexander - photography
 * Kosh - design and art direction

 * Patrick Moraz - keyboards on live bonus tracks
 * Ted Jensen – mastering

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What happened at this point to make it so important?
 * Nothing; see Promontory Summit. --SPUI (talk) 00:58, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Who said it was important?

--140.247.239.74 00:56, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

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Dissanthelium californicum

Dissanthelium californicum (California dissanthelium, Catalina grass) is a rare species of grass in the family Poaceae. It was originally discovered on Santa Catalina, an island off California's coast in 1847 by U.S. botanist and naturalist William Gambel. It was later identified as growing on Guadalupe Island (off Baja California Peninsula), on San Clemente Island and Catalina Island (both off southern California).

Last seen in 1912, Dissanthelium californicum was generally thought to be extinct, until examples were found on March 29, 2005, by Jenny McCune of the Catalina Island Conservancy on Catalina Island. In 2010, two populations were found on San Clemente Island. It has not reappeared on Guadalupe Island.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sean Lubin

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Sean Lubin
Vanity for a high school student. Page was given the "cleanup-importance" tag on May 4. His friend Devlin Gandy is currently on his way to having his article deleted. Quale 20:39, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

speedy nonsense. 578 (Yes?) 20:54, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. --Etacar11 23:26, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. JamesBurns 09:59, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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User:Jmason

Justin Mason -- see http://jmason.org/

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User:Spamguy

Greetings. I am Spamguy. I am just one of the many people who make their presence known not only on Wikipedia, but across the Internet. Just as dogs mark their existence through urination, my passage through some nook in the network is usually signified by the 'Spamguy' name. You may remember me from such projects or websites as

 * Ambrosia Software (beta tester and forum entity)
 * Slashdot (complete with a front page article last year!)
 * Lilypond (bug testing)
 * Mutopia Project (music transcriber)
 * my blog

In addition, I sometimes exist out in the real world. I come from Austin, Texas, and I lived in Lexington, Virginia and Toledo, Ohio before that. I study computer science (with minors in both mathematics and music) at Case Western Reserve University, and I have a weekly radio show on WRUW-FM Cleveland.

Articles I started

 * Whitehead link May 31, 2005
 * Petrushka chord February 3, 2006
 * List of calculator words March 3, 2006

Articles I made major contributions to

 * Nabucco (although I trashed the original and started over)
 * Franz Welser-Möst (same) July 3, 2005
 * Eric Fensler September 16, 2005
 * Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
 * Tinkle Pit (stop laughing, that's what it's called) February 9, 2006
 * Calculator spelling March 3, 2006

Articles I really, really oughta start someday

 * Richard Elfman
 * God microphone
 * Gregg shorthand
 * sleigh bell

Interests

 * Literature
 * Bringing everything I've ever read that qualifies (around 100 books and growing) into the WikiProjectNovels group, mainly by adding Infoboxes and adding the standard template. If the article is particularly sucky I'll burn the whole thing and start over to bring it up to snuff. 3 novels Infoboxed, 0 redesigned.
 * Music
 * Petty tweaks to classical and independent music articles here and there.
 * Mathematics
 * Kinda inactive with this ever since I dropped this as my major. Did a bit with knot theory, though.
 * Video games
 * Infoboxing where I can. 3 games Infoboxed, 1 redesigned.

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B. R. Rees

Brinley Roderick Rees (27 December 1919 – 21 October 2004) was a Welsh academic. He wrote extensively on classics, particularly the study of the Greek language. His early work was devoted to Greek papyri; a later publication was devoted to the life and letters of Pelagius.

Life and career
Rees was born on 27 December 1919. His father was a winder in the Mynydd Colliery in Gorseinon, and Brinley was one of four children including the academic and Welsh nationalist Alwyn D. Rees. Rees was educated at Christ College, Brecon, and at Merton College, Oxford. After wartime service in the Royal Welch Fusiliers took his first academic position at Cardiff High School for Boys, where he was an assistant master between 1947 and 1948.

Rees then started his long career in higher education. In 1948, he became lecturer in classics at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, then senior lecturer in Greek at the University of Manchester from 1956. From there, he went to the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (which became Cardiff University), where he was Professor of Greek from 1958 to 1970. During that time, he was also successively Dean of Arts (1963–1965) and Dean of Students (1967–1968). In 1970 he moved to the University of Birmingham, but stayed there only five years, for in 1975, he was appointed as principal of St David's University College, Lampeter, the very first principal in the college's long history who was not in holy orders. He was a Welsh Supernumerary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, in 1975–1976 by virtue of his position as Principal of St David's.

Rees' time at Lampeter came to an end when he retired in 1980, but his involvement in higher education had not come to an end, for he was vice-president of the University of Wales College, Cardiff, between 1986 and 1988.

In 1981, the University of Wales awarded him an honorary LLD in recognition of his service to the colleges at Lampeter, Cardiff and Aberystwyth.

In 1951 Rees married Zena Muriel Stella Mayall; they had two sons. Rees died on 21 October 2004.

Publications

 * Ieuan Gwynedd: Detholiad o'i Ryddiaith, 1957
 * The Merton Papyri, Vol. II (with H. I. Bell and J. W. B. Barns), 1959
 * The Use of Greek, 1961
 * Papyri from Hermopolis and other Byzantine Documents, 1964
 * Lampas: a new approach to Greek (with M. E. Jervis), 1970
 * Classics: an outline for intending students, 1970
 * Aristotle’s Theory and Milton’s Practice, 1972
 * Strength in What Remains, 1980
 * Pelagius: A Reluctant Heretic, 1988, Boydell Press ISBN 0851155030
 * The Letters of Pelagius and his Followers, 1991
 * Pelagius: life and letters, 1998

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henrik Petersen

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Henrik Petersen
I am a Dane, and I have never heard of him. Delete as not notable. Thue | talk 20:36, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Obvious advertising --Fred-Chess 21:17, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm not a Dane, but I know how to use Google. There is a Henrik Petersen Jr. who has published economics papers, a Jørn Henrik Petersen who is a University Prof (I can't read the rest of it, as I don't speak Danish). I'm still looking, but this guy might be notable. The "I have never heard of him" criteria is not conclusive; until today I could have sworn I had never heard of W. Mark Felt. --Scimitar 21:52, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, good point. My vote is (and was meant as) delete unless somebody can point out that he is notable. Thue | talk 21:56, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. This link I think shows him to be a fairly non-notable digital designer. I will now vote delete. Some of the other Henrik Petersen's seem notable, but evidently not this one n particular. --Scimitar 22:03, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Biography/CV does not suggest particular influence or importance in his field. Average Earthman 13:13, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. I wrote the article as (what I thought would be) a "safe topic" for my first post. Please go ahead and delete it - I actually tried to delete it myself right after creating it but being a new poster I didn't have the permissions to do so. I figured I would wait till I got the required permissions - but please go ahead and delete the article now. EchoEcho 17:55, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete (or userfy, if EchoEcho wants it). Uppland 21:36, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedied. Author added a delete notice with the reason "test page". I obliged.   — Gwalla | Talk 03:11, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Symphonie espagnole

The Symphonie espagnole in D minor, Op. 21, is a work for violin and orchestra by Édouard Lalo.

History
The work was written in 1874 for violinist Pablo Sarasate, and premiered in Paris on February 7, 1875.

Although called a "Spanish Symphony" (see also Sinfonia concertante), it is considered a violin concerto by musicians today. The piece has Spanish motifs throughout, and launched a period when Spanish-themed music came into vogue. (Georges Bizet's opera Carmen premiered a month after the Symphonie espagnole.)

The Symphonie espagnole is one of Lalo's two most often played works, the other being his Cello Concerto in D minor.

The orchestra consists of a piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, snare drum, triangle, harp, and strings.

Structure
The piece has five movements:

1. Allegro non troppo
 * Orchesterwerke Romantik Themen.pdf

2. Scherzando: Allegro molto
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3. Intermezzo: Allegretto non troppo
 * Orchesterwerke Romantik Themen.pdf

4. Andante
 * Orchesterwerke Romantik Themen.pdf

5. Rondo: Allegro
 * Orchesterwerke Romantik Themen.pdf

A typical performance runs just over half an hour. One of the shorter recordings, conductor Eugene Ormandy's 1967 recording with the Philadelphia Orchestra, featuring violinist Isaac Stern, runs 32 minutes and 43 seconds. It was common practice until the middle of the 20th century for performances of the work to omit the Intermezzo, leaving a four-movement work that more closely reflected the traditional structure of a symphony.

Influence on Tchaikovsky
The Symphonie espagnole had some influence on the genesis of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major. Other Russian composers like Glinka had travelled to Spain, starting a vogue among young Russian composers for the bolero and Spanish subjects. Tchaikovsky loved Mozart's "Don Giovanni" (set in Seville), heard Bizet's "Carmen" during its opening run in 1876, and later played castanets during a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnol" in 1887, as reported by cellist Yulian Poplavsky, who knew Tchaikovsky at the time ("Tchaikovsky Through Others’ Eyes" (Indiana University Press, 1999), pp. 236–237).

In March 1878, Tchaikovsky was staying at Nadezhda von Meck's estate at Clarens, Switzerland, while recovering from the breakdown of his disastrous marriage and his subsequent suicide attempt. His favourite pupil (and allegedly his lover), the violinist Iosif Kotek, shortly arrived from Berlin with a lot of new music for violin. His collection included the Symphonie espagnole, which he and Tchaikovsky played through to great delight. This gave Tchaikovsky the idea of writing a violin concerto, and he immediately set aside his current work on a piano sonata and started on the concerto on 17 March. With Kotek's technical help, the concerto was finished by 11 April.

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I nominated Monty Hall problem as a featured article candidate and one of the comments was about the copyright status of the images (which was what the original query was about). I ended up doing new images for the solution, based on the PD image created by user:aarchiba (:Image:Monty-hall.png), partially to address the copyright status but also to clean up the image (the one that was there was kind of noisy at the pixel level). The new image also doesn't have any text which makes it more useful for non-English versions of Wikipedia. I ended up putting a "presumed GFDL" on Robert's images, but haven't been able to contact him. Was your version recently deleted as part of the great image cleanup campaign? -- Rick Block (talk) 23:22, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

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Maqdisi

Maqdisi (مقدسي) is an Arabic nisba referring to a Jerusalemite. It is derived from Bayt al-Maqdis, an Arabic name for Jerusalem, by way of the Hebrew Beit HaMikdash, the Temple in Jerusalem. Today, the common Arabic name of Jerusalem is al-Quds.

Al-Maqdisi (المقدسي) is surname the most commonly refer to Al-Maqdisi, a medieval Arab geographer born in Jerusalem.

It can also refer to a number of other people, including:

 * Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi, classical Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar
 * Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, contemporary Jordanian-Palestinian Salafi Islamist scholar
 * Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi, a Hanbali Islamic scholar
 * Ibn Qudamah, Imam Mawaffaq ad-Din Abdullah Ibn Ahmad Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi, a Hanbali Islamic scholar
 * Ibn Tahir of Caesarea, Muslim historian and traditionist (c. 1057–1113)
 * Kamel al-Budeiri, governor of Ramla district during the later Ottoman period
 * Hisham Al-Saedni, known by the nom de guerre Abu al-Walid al-Maqdisi

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Battle of Otterburn

The Battle of Otterburn took place according to Scottish sources on 5 August 1388, or 19 August according to English sources,  as part of the continuing border skirmishes between the Scots and English.

The best remaining record of the battle is from Jean Froissart's Chronicles in which he claims to have interviewed veterans from both sides of the battle. His account is still regarded with some concern as details, such as the distance between Newcastle upon Tyne and Otterburn, are incorrect.

The Scottish nobles James, 2nd Earl of Douglas and John Dunbar, Earl of Moray led their army toward Durham while Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas at the time Lord of Galloway, and Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, at the time Earl of Fife, coordinated a simultaneous attack on Carlisle Castle. It was timed to take advantage of divisions on the English side between Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland who had just taken over defence of the border and partly in revenge for King Richard II's invasion of Scotland three years previously.

Battle
The Scots fielded two armies, with Archibald Douglas's force and their baggage train heading to attack Carlisle, while another force under the Earl of Douglas and Earl of Moray ravaged the countryside around Durham and Newcastle. Northumberland sent his two sons Harry Hotspur and Sir Ralph Percy to engage while he stayed at Alnwick to cut off the Scottish retreat.

Froissart says that the first fighting included a meeting of the Earl of Douglas and Henry Percy in hand-to-hand combat, in which Percy's pennon was captured. The Earl of Douglas then moved off, destroying the castle at Ponteland and besieging Otterburn Castle (now Otterburn Tower). Percy attacked Douglas's encampment with a surprise attack in the late afternoon, but first encountered the Earl's serving men, giving the bulk of the forces time to muster and attack them on their flank.

James Douglas led the left wing, while Dunbar led the right. Hotspur's men, having ridden up from Newcastle, were tired and disorganized as they made their way onto the field. Hotspur was so overly confident that he attacked the Scots while the rest of his force was still marching up through Otterburn.

During the battle on a moonlit night Douglas was killed; his death had no influence on the outcome of the battle and went unnoticed until much later. The Percys were both captured. Sir John Montgomery, 9th of Eaglesham, captured Henry Percy (later using the ransom to build Polnoon Castle) with the remaining English force retreating to Newcastle. Despite Percy's force having an estimated three to one advantage over the Scots, Froissart records 1,040 English were captured and 1,860 killed whereas 200 Scots were captured and 100 were killed. The Westminster Chronicle estimates Scottish casualties at around 500.

Some have suggested that Hotspur's rashness and eagerness to engage the Scots and the added tiredness of the English army after its long march north, were without doubt, the reasons for English defeat, despite having a three to one advantage in numbers. It is possible that the reasons for this defeat may be more complex, however.

Aftermath
Such a decisive victory kept the two sides apart for some time. Of such renown was the battle of Otterburn that several ballads were composed in its honour including The Battle of Otterburn and The Ballad of Chevy Chase (Child ballads 161 and 162). Chevy Chase rather mangles the history of the battle and may be confusing other conflicts at around the same time but it is still cited as one of the best of the ancient ballads.

The Percy Cross, located just off the A696, was erected before 1400 to commemorate the Battle of Otterburn.

Houses involved in the battle
Some of the various Scottish Lowland families involved in this battle were the Clan Hall Swintons, Johnstones, Grahams, Gordons, Lindsays, Leslies, Herons, and Montgomerys.

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Propeller walk

Propeller walk (also known as propeller effect, wheeling effect, paddle wheel effect, asymmetric thrust, asymmetric blade effect, transverse thrust, prop walk) is the term for a propeller's tendency to rotate about a vertical axis (also known as yaw motion). The rotation is in addition to the forward or backward acceleration.

Knowing of and understanding propeller walk is important when maneuvering in small spaces. It can be used to one's advantage while mooring off, or it can complicate a maneuver if the effect works against the pilot.

Effect

A propeller is called right-handed if it rotates clockwise in forward gear (when viewed from the stern). A right-handed propeller in forward gear will tend to push the stern of the boat to starboard (thereby pushing the bow to port and turning the boat counter-clockwise) unless the rotation is corrected for. In reverse gear, the turning effect will be much stronger and with opposite direction (pushing the aft to port). A left-handed propeller acts analogically to the right-handed but with all rotation directions reversed.

Cause
Propeller walk is caused by the water, moved by the propeller in an axial direction and in a rotation. The water, coming from the propeller, gets a cone shape, widening when it leaves the propeller. If the rotating water cone contacts the ship's hull, a sideways force is generated. Propeller walk is hardly noticeable when sailing forward, since the propeller water will not hit a large surface of the ship's hull and corrections to the ship's course can easily be made with the rudder. When in reverse gear, the water will hit the hull directly, resulting in propeller walk.

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Aligudarz

Aligudarz is a city in the Central District of Aligudarz County, Lorestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 78,690 in 18,115 households. The following census in 2011 counted 87,967 people in 23,181 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 89,268 people in 25,646 households.

Location
Aligudarz is located 420 km from Tehran and is in a region that is a mixture of plains and foothills, thus enjoying a mountainous, mild climate. Oshtorankuh Mountain range and Aligudarz River are here.

Climate
Aligudarz has a dry-summer continental climate (Dsa), bordering on a mediterranean climate (Csa) in Köppen climate classification.

Main sights
In the mountains and hills around Aligudarz, ancient objects have been discovered, including rectangular brick earthenware from the thirteenth century AD.

Important natural and historical sites of Aligudarz include:
 * Ab Sefid (literally "White Water") waterfall
 * Aligudarz Forests
 * Sayleh castle
 * Tamandar and Bexnavid caves
 * Masisilan Ancient Hill
 * Mandish mountain
 * Chakan Waterfall
 * Shoul Abad landscapes

Notable people

 * Mehdi Karroubi, politician
 * Morteza Mousavi, Shia Cleric
 * Hamed Lak, football player
 * Omid, singer

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Bangal

Bangal (বাঙাল; a.k.a. Purbô Bôngiyô; ) is a term used to refer to the Bengali people of East Bengal (usually from the areas of Mymensingh, Dhaka, Barisal, Sylhet, Comilla and Chittagong), now in Bangladesh (as opposed to the Ghotis of West Bengal). The term is used to describe Bengalis from the east, who are marked by a distinct Bengali accent. It is usually assumed that the Bramhaputra-Padma river system is the demarcation line between the Western and Eastern wings of the Bengal region. The areas to the East of the Bramhaputra-Padma river system are traditionally held to be the homeland of the Bangal people.

Overview
Going by the more strict definition, the Bangals are those people whose ancestry is connected to the Eastern Bengal plains of Mymensingh, Dhaka, and Comilla. Further, some opinions exist that among the East Bengal Plains origin people, only people belonging to the more affluent economic groups should be classified as Bangal. Going by this opinion, the designation Bangal has an ethno-geographic as well as a social connotation.

Some of the people from East Bengal, mainly Hindus, migrated to West Bengal during the Partition of India in 1947. These refugees were sometimes referred to as Bangals by the native population of West Bengal. As such, the terms Ghoti and Bangal are mostly used in West Bengal while in Bangladesh, the usage of these is rare except in regions with relatively high concentrations of immigrants from West Bengal. In modern times, amongst Bengalis, "Bangal" and "Ghoti" are used as social sub-groups. Those whose families came from East Bengal at the time of Partition are Bangals and those whose families were staying in West Bengal at that time are Ghotis. Similarly, the people who came to West Bengal from East Bengal before the Independence of India in1947 are also known as Ghotis as they were staying in West Bengal, India, at the time of Independence. The term as used here has little relation to actual geography since most members of these groups all now live in India. Historically, in addition to marrying within their castes, people from these groups also preferred to marry within the group, whether Bangal or Ghoti. Bangals and Ghotis keep up their cultural rivalry through their respective support of the football clubs East Bengal (Bangals) and Mohun Bagan (Ghotis). They also cherish a rivalry through a claim of the supremacy of their respective cuisines and especially river-food delicacies, i. e., Chingri (prawn) for Ghotis and Ilish (hilsa) for Bangals.

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Talk:Student exchange

Student exchanges are not always foreign. Many student exchanges occur within the boundaries of a single country.
 * And foreign is relative.

Reasons to merge
We can put "foreign exchange" in "student exchange" under "foreign exchange". It makes it more comprehensive. And less confusing to readers.

Exchange student
It is also less confusing to readers if you sign your comments. ;)

How about merging both articles with Exchange student? TheMadBaron 17:33, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

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Kuhdasht

Kuhdasht is a city in the Central District of Kuhdasht County, Lorestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

Language and religion
The people of the city speak Laki Kurdish and are Shia Muslim.

Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 85,519 in 58,087 households. The following census in 2011 counted 92,927 people in 22,819 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 89,091 people in 24,347 households.

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Ghoti people

Ghoti (ঘটি; a.k.a. Pôshchim Bôngiyô; ) is a term used to refer a social group of Bengali people native to the Indian states of West Bengal and Jharkhand.

Sports culture
Traditionally, West Bengal has been a major centre for football and a longstanding rivalry between Ghoti and Bangal people on the football field have been a hallmark of the larger social friction between the groups.

In a typical season, the clubs currently meet at least 3 times a year; twice in the Indian Super League and once in the Calcutta Football League. The ultimate showdown between the teams takes place during the annual Kolkata Derby, which features in FIFA's classic derby list.

The primary venue of the match—the 85,000-seat Salt Lake Stadium—has remained sold out on match day, for decades. The Kolkata Police Force has in recent years maintained strict supervision after riots between fans claimed lives on multiple occasions. Often the clubs also meet in other competitions like the Federation/Super Cup, the IFA Shield, and the Durand Cup among others.

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ICOC

ICOC may refer to:

 * International Churches of Christ, a global family/network of churches.
 * International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation, also known as the "Hague Code of Conduct"
 * International Commission for Orders of Chivalry, a scholarly organization studying chivalric orders.
 * International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers

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Azna, Lorestan

Azna is a city in the Central District of Azna County, Lorestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

At the 2006 National Census, its population was 37,645 in 9,178 households. The following census in 2011 counted 40,145 people in 11,128 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 47,489 people in 14,208 households.

Geography
In the Zagros Mountains, the city is 133 km. east of Khoramabad and 75 km. south of Arak. The city is en route Esfahan–Khuzestan and is connected to the railway network of the country.

Climate
Azna has a dry-summer continental climate(Dsa) in Köppen climate classification with precipitation being higher in winter months than summer. Summers are dry and hot with very low precipitation from June to September. Winters are very cold and relatively wet.

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User:Phil Wardle

Phil Wardle is a teacher at Merchant Taylors' Junior Boys School in Crosby, Liverpool. Born in Lytham St Anne's on 29th November 1960, he moved to Derby in the early 60s, moving to West Derby, a village near Liverpool, following the death of his father.

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List of companies of Liberia

Liberia is a country on the West African coast. Liberia means "Land of the Free" in Latin. The Central Bank of Liberia is responsible for printing and maintaining the Liberian dollar, which is the primary form of currency in Liberia. Liberia is one of the world's poorest countries, with a formal employment rate of 15%. GDP per capita peaked in 1980 at US$496, when it was comparable to Egypt's (at the time). In 2011, the country's nominal GDP was US$1.154 billion, while nominal GDP per capita stood at US$297, the third-lowest in the world. Historically, the Liberian economy has depended heavily on foreign aid, foreign direct investment and exports of natural resources such as iron ore, rubber and timber.

Notable firms
This list includes notable companies with primary headquarters located in the country. The industry and sector follow the Industry Classification Benchmark taxonomy. Organizations which have ceased operations are included and noted as defunct.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Teh l0rd of teh Ringz0rs

 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 speedy delete (patent nonsense). - Mailer Diablo 22:06, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Teh l0rd of teh Ringz0rs
I'm not sure. Source text? Copyright violation? unencyclopedic? Anyway, it shouldn't be here. DJ Clayworth 20:50, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy surely? --Doc (?) 20:52, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy --Xcali 20:57, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy... not even really an article. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 20:59, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. --Carnildo 21:18, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Deleted as patent nonsense. - Mailer Diablo 22:06, 31 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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Virgin Missing Adventures

The Virgin Missing Adventures were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which had been cancelled in 1989, featuring stories set between televised episodes of the programme. The novels were published from 1994 to 1997, and featured the First through Sixth Doctors. (The Seventh Doctor also appeared in one novel.) The Missing Adventures complemented the Virgin New Adventures range, which had proved successful.

Publication history
Virgin had purchased the successful children's imprint Target Books in 1989, with Virgin's new fiction editor Peter Darvill-Evans taking over the range. Target's major output was novelisations of televised Doctor Who stories, and Darvill-Evans realised that there were few stories left to be novelised. He approached the BBC for permission to commission original stories written directly for print, but such a licence was initially refused. However, after the television series was cancelled at the end of 1989, Virgin were granted the licence to produce full-length original novels continuing the story from the point at which the series had concluded.

The first range covered only the continuing adventures of the Seventh Doctor, but when that proved successful, Virgin also created this range covering the previous Doctors, with new stories that fit in between the televised serials.

In addition to original novels, the Missing Adventures series also incorporated two novelisations: The Ghosts of N-Space, based upon a mid-1990s BBC audio play, and Downtime, which was based upon an independent video production featuring several characters from the Doctor Who series (the novelisation is one of the few Doctor Who novels in which the Doctor does not appear as a central character).

When the BBC decided in 1996 to do their own line of novels with the Eighth Doctor, they withdrew the license from Virgin to publish the Eighth Doctor Adventures. The adventures of the previous Doctors were taken up by the BBC in the Past Doctor Adventures line of books.

Reprints
In 2014, both The Scales of Injustice and The Sands of Time were reprinted as part of BBC Books' The Monster Collection. These were followed with The English Way of Death, a part of The History Collection (2015).

List of Virgin Missing Adventures
Including books featuring two of the Doctors, the total tallies are: First Doctor, 5 books; Second, 4 books; Third, 6 books; Fourth, 8 books; Fifth, 5 books; Sixth, 5 books; and Seventh, 1 book.

Continuity
Three of the Missing Adventures were sequels to televised serials, they were:
 * The Sands of Time — Pyramids of Mars
 * The Shadow of Weng-Chiang — The Talons of Weng-Chiang
 * Twilight of the Gods — The Web Planet

Two of the Missing Adventures were novelisations:
 * The Ghosts of N-Space — the BBC Radio audio drama The Ghosts of N-Space
 * Downtime — the Reeltime Pictures direct-to-video spin-off Downtime, featuring the Great Intelligence and forming a sequel to The Abominable Snowmen (1967) and The Web of Fear (1968).

Many Missing Adventures featured old foes, including:
 * Killing Ground — The Cybermen
 * The Dark Path — The Master
 * The Scales of Injustice — The Silurians
 * Lords of the Storm — The Sontarans
 * State of Change — The Rani
 * Millennial Rites — The Valeyard
 * The Well-Mannered War — The Black Guardian
 * The Romance of Crime — The Ogrons

Speed of Flight is the only novel in the series that is a prequel; to Timelash.

Who Killed Kennedy
In 1996, Virgin Books published Who Killed Kennedy, a Doctor Who novel by David Bishop. Although set during the time of the Third Doctor, Virgin published this book as a standalone work and not as part of the Missing Adventures series.

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Percentage point

A percentage point or percent point is the unit for the arithmetic difference between two percentages. For example, moving up from 40 percent to 44 percent is an increase of 4 percentage points (although it is a 10-percent increase in the quantity being measured, if the total amount remains the same). In written text, the unit (the percentage point) is usually either written out, or abbreviated as pp, p.p., or %pt. to avoid confusion with percentage increase or decrease in the actual quantity. After the first occurrence, some writers abbreviate by using just "point" or "points".

Differences between percentages and percentage points
Consider the following hypothetical example: In 1980, 50 percent of the population smoked, and in 1990 only 40 percent of the population smoked. One can thus say that from 1980 to 1990, the prevalence of smoking decreased by 10 percentage points (or by 10 percent of the population) or by 20 percent when talking about smokers only – percentages indicate proportionate part of a total.

Percentage-point differences are one way to express a risk or probability. Consider a drug that cures a given disease in 70 percent of all cases, while without the drug, the disease heals spontaneously in only 50 percent of cases. The drug reduces absolute risk by 20 percentage points. Alternatives may be more meaningful to consumers of statistics, such as the reciprocal, also known as the number needed to treat (NNT). In this case, the reciprocal transform of the percentage-point difference would be 1/(20pp) = 1/0.20 = 5. Thus if 5 patients are treated with the drug, one could expect to cure one more patient than would have occurred in the absence of the drug.

For measurements involving percentages as a unit, such as, growth, yield, or ejection fraction, statistical deviations and related descriptive statistics, including the standard deviation and root-mean-square error, the result should be expressed in units of percentage points instead of percentage. Mistakenly using percentage as the unit for the standard deviation is confusing, since percentage is also used as a unit for the relative standard deviation, i.e. standard deviation divided by average value (coefficient of variation).

Related units

 * Percentage (%) 1 part in 100
 * Per mille (‰) 1 part in 1,000
 * Permyriad (‱) 1 part in 10,000
 * Basis point (bp) difference of 1 part in 10,000
 * Per cent mille (pcm) 1 part in 100,000

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Malachy McCourt

Malachy Gerard McCourt (September 20, 1931 – March 11, 2024) was an American actor, writer and politician. Born in Brooklyn, McCourt appeared in several films and soap operas, including The Molly Maguires, Brewster's Millions (1985), and Another World. He also wrote three memoirs, describing his life in Ireland and in the United States. McCourt was the 2006 Green Party candidate for governor of New York, losing to the Democratic candidate Eliot Spitzer. He was the younger brother of author Frank McCourt.

Early life
Malachy Gerard McCourt was born in Brooklyn on September 20, 1931, the son of Irish parents Angela (née Sheehan) and Malachy Gerard McCourt Sr. By the time of his death in 2024, he was the longest-lived of their seven offspring, following the death of his younger brother Alphonsus in 2016. McCourt was raised in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to the United States in 1952.

Career

McCourt acted on stage, on television and in several movies, including The Molly Maguires (1970), The Brink's Job (1978), Q (1982), Brewster's Millions (1985), Tales from the Darkside (1985), The January Man (1989), Beyond the Pale (2000), and Ash Wednesday (2002). He appeared on several New York City-based soap operas: Another World, Ryan's Hope, Search for Tomorrow, and One Life to Live. He is also known for his annual Christmas-time appearances on All My Children as Father Clarence, a priest who shows up to give inspirational advice to Pine Valley citizens.

In 1970, McCourt released a spoken word album on vinyl, And the Children Toll the Passing of the Day, which was produced by David Hess.

In the 1970s, he hosted a talk show on WMCA.

McCourt occasionally appeared on various programs on New York City's political radio station, WBAI, as late as 2023. Among the shows on which he appeared were Radio Free Éireann. He was also a regular guest artist at Scranton Public Theatre in Scranton, Pennsylvania, having performed in Inherit the Wind, Love Letters, and A Couple of Blaguards, which he co-wrote with brother Frank McCourt. He hosted a Sunday morning call-in radio forum on WBAI. He also had a short-lived role as a Catholic priest on the HBO prison drama Oz. McCourt played Francis Preston Blair in Gods and Generals (2003).

McCourt was the owner of Malachy's, a bar on Third Avenue in New York City. One of his frequent patrons was his friend the actor Richard Harris, who worked for a short time behind the bar for McCourt.

Writing

McCourt wrote three memoirs, A Monk Swimming, Death be Not Fatal, and Singing My Him Song, all of which detail respectively his life in Ireland and his later return to the United States. He also authored a book on the history of the ballad "Danny Boy", and put together a collection of Irish writings, called Voices of Ireland.

Politics
In April 2006, McCourt announced that he would seek to become governor of New York in the November 2006 election as a Green Party candidate. Running under the slogan "Don't waste your vote, give it to me", McCourt promised to recall the New York National Guard from Iraq, to make public education free through college, and to institute a statewide comprehensive "sickness care" system. McCourt polled at 5% in a October 10 Zogby poll, versus 25% for Republican John Faso and 63% for Democrat Eliot Spitzer. McCourt was endorsed by Cindy Sheehan, mother of a fallen soldier in the Iraq War. The League of Women Voters excluded him from the gubernatorial debate because he had less than 10% of support in a public opinion poll. He placed third in the general election, receiving 40,000 votes, or nearly 1%, losing to Democrat Eliot Spitzer.

Personal life
McCourt married Linda Wachsman, and had two children with her: daughter Siobhán and son Malachy III; he had two more children by his second wife, Diana Galin: sons Conor and Cormac. He also has a stepdaughter, Nina Galin.

In 1960, he was one of the four founding members of the Manhattan Rugby Football Club. Malachy appears in his older brother Frank McCourt's memoirs. He was portrayed by Peter Halpin in the film version of his brother's memoir Angela's Ashes.

In 2023, McCourt told The New York Times that he was ill with a number of health problems, including a heart condition, skin cancer, prostate cancer and a form of muscular degeneration. He died at Lenox Hill Hospital on March 11, 2024, at the age of 92.

Books

 * Death Need Not Be Fatal with Brian McDonald (2017), Center Street, ISBN 9781478917052,
 * "I Am Not Myself at All"—essay in The Face in the Mirror: Writers Reflect on Their Dreams of Youth and the Reality of Age (2009), Victoria Zackheim, editor; Prometheus Books, ISBN 978-1-59102-752-2
 * Bush Lies in State (2004), Sensei Publications, ISBN 0-9755746-0-4
 * Harold Be Thy Name: Lighthearted Daily Reflections for People in Recovery (2004), Carhil Ventures, ISBN 978-1-56649-296-6
 * History of Ireland (2004), Running Press, ISBN 978-0-7624-3181-6
 * The Claddagh Ring: Ireland's Cherished Symbol Of Friendship, Loyalty And Love (2003), Running Press, ISBN 0-7624-2014-6
 * Danny Boy: The Legend of the Beloved Irish Ballad (2003), New American Library, ISBN 0-451-20806-4
 * Voices of Ireland: Classic Writings of a Rich and Rare Land (2002), Running Press, ISBN 0-7624-1701-3
 * Singing My Him Song (2000), HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-06-019593-9
 * A Monk Swimming: A Memoir (1998), Hyperion, ISBN 0-7868-6398-6
 * Through Irish Eyes: A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt's Ireland (1998), Smithmark Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7651-0887-6

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User talk:Mongol

24 character Zhou
Hello there! Over at the 24wiki we are trying to determine if Zhou's full name is Zhou Yong after all. A fellow user found a sound clip here, http://www.angelfire.com/planet/gatty790/zhou.mp3, and it seems that Cheng Zhi is addressing Zhou. I was just curious: how many times do you recall Zhou addressed as Yong? More importantly, because you speak Chinese: what are the odds that Cheng could be saying something else? I can't determine anything because I don't speak a syllable of Chinese, and your expertise would be perfect. Thank you for any help! Blue Danube 17:35, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Thank you for the reply on my talk page. I figured I'd post here in response: have you tried copying and pasting the link? http://www.angelfire.com/planet/gatty790/zhou.mp3 - Sometimes clicking them doesn't work all the time. If you can hear it this time, please let me know what you think. And thanks again for the info you had earlier. Blue Danube 02:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Good news, if there was any doubt about what you heard, it's gone now... the release of the 24 Trading Card Game confirmed that Zhou Yong was his actual name! Blue Danube 23:46, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

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A jiao
Hi, didn't you read the "discussion" page for Ar Jiao before moving the page? You should have, and contributed there first. The first syllable is "a" according to Wiktionary. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF If no response on the "discussion" page of Ar Jiao I am moving the page back. Badagnani 03:06, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. But the right way would have been to contribute to "discussion" at that article first. Badagnani 04:41, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Zhou Tong comic book
Have you ever heard of the comic book Zhou Tong Zhuan Qi ? I came upon it while I was doing research for my Jow Tong page. This website seems to have covers to all ten volumes of the comic book. I can’t read Chinese (I used an internet translator), so I was wondering if you could possibly find a good description of it and add the material to the article's "Literature" section.

This website mentions that the "Legend of Zhou Tong" was made into an opera (or it could mean the comic book came from the opera). If a scholarly page about this opera could be found, the info could be added to a "theatre" section. (Ghostexorcist 11:11, 20 March 2007 (UTC))

 * The comic book takes place before Zhou takes Yue as his disciple. One chinese blog page says this about the comic book: "这套书籍讲述了他从投军到剿灭太湖水寇，抵御辽军，最近归隐，传授技艺于岳飞的一生经历. "

 * I have a feeling that Zhou Tong's wuxia biography was based upon this comic book. The descriptions of both sound similar and one of the covers from the comic book is exactly the same (plus more detail and color) as one from his biography. It features what I can only assume is a young Zhou Tong tugging on a ladies leg under water. I have my own copy of Zhou’s fictional biography, but my Chinese literacy is embarrassing at the moment. You can view the book's cover here. (Ghostexorcist 18:43, 20 March 2007 (UTC))

 * I know the Zhou Tong from the Water Margin is a different person, that’s why I added his name to the top to cut down on confusion. I also know the novels and comic books about Zhou are new. I believe his fictional biography was published in 1986. I’m not sure when the comic book was made. I would like to write a book on Zhou when I gather enough info about him. I wrote 99% of the Yue Fei page. All of Yue’s biography info used to be on Zhou’s page. (Ghostexorcist 19:08, 20 March 2007 (UTC))

interwiki
I know you are the person who created the interwiki Chinese Zhou Tong article. I was looking at some of the sources for that page and I was wondering if you could look up the person who provided the info for this source:

http://ks.cn.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1406042001678

The page says the info came from here:

http://www.cchere.com/topic/211208/

I can’t say that I trust a blog, but I would like to know where this person got there info. If it came from a wuxia novel or some type of published folktale, I want to know its source. Thanks. (Ghostexorcist 02:06, 9 April 2007 (UTC))

FA
My Zhou Tong (archer) article just passed Featured article. I've seen a template on English language articles that says it's foreign language version passed FA and should be used as an example in order to expand the English version. Do you know if the Chinese wiki has that same template? I think the Chinese Zhou Tong page needs to be expanded a little more.(Ghostexorcist 19:24, 21 July 2007 (UTC))

 * Nevermind. I just saw the Chinese page and it has a similar template. (Ghostexorcist 19:28, 21 July 2007 (UTC))

 * Can you please change the date of Zhou's death on his Chinese article. 1040-1119 is a fictional date created by the author of Yue's fictional Wuxia biography. I have historical info that states he died in 1121. --Ghostexorcist 23:59, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

templates
The date syntax is:, but if you leave the date off it will be added by a WP:BOT.

History of the hippie movement
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DIY translation is OR?
It's not; my error. See WP:NOTOR. I've undone my own undo on the article. Mea culpa (DIY translation: "my bad"). Would you be good enough to review the NOTOR essay, and make sure you're in line with it, especially the "Any original translations should be faithful, to the point of literalness; if interpretation is called for, it should be explicitly in parenthetical notes." It would be best if you could incorporate the original Chinese text, and your translation of it, into your footnote. Thanks, and sorry. TJRC (talk) 01:02, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Shaochang
Ouch. First of all, I haven't seen anyone saying someone's edit was wrong. They just change it. Second of all, I would much perfer constructive critisism. By the way, can you tell me the correct charachters for the word. I really want to know leujohn 09:24, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Akmal Shaikh
I would be grateful if you were to comment here.  Jolly  Ω   Janner  18:15, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

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Greetings, Mr Mongol. I'm Manwë986. Are you online?--Manwë986 (talk) 11:25, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

November 2022
It may not have been your intention, but one of your edits, specifically one that you made on National anthem of Hong Kong, may have been a change that some consider controversial. Due to this, your edits may have been reverted. When making possibly controversial changes, it is good practice to first discuss your edit on the article's talk page before making it, to gain consensus over whether or not to include the text, phrasing, etc. If you believe that the information you added was correct, please initiate that discussion. Thank you. Bailmoney27 talk 19:31, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Anything can be controversial nowadays. And Hong Kong has never been a nation is a fact. --Mongol (talk) 21:05, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

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