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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dawn Sheppard

 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. CDC  (talk)  23:48, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Dawn Sheppard
Sounds like a nice enuf kid, just not encyclopedic yet. Seems to be from the same folk that produced the similar valentine to Rebecca Gunter, VfDd above. Niteowlneils 19:54, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity, does not assert notability. A и D я 01D TALK EMAIL  21:13, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete obvious vanity--Sophitus 22:32, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Vanity page. -CunningLinguist 03:04, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Norrland

Historical? How fascinating, since Norrland is an extremely normal concept although not important from an administrative point of view. See map at sv:Norrland. /Habj 19:54, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Entire Norrland
At the time of Engelbrekt, the concept of Norrland must have been very unprecise. How is it possible to say that someone conquered entire Norrland - or did I misunderstand the meaning of that phrasing? / Habj 02:16, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * The references is there to provide you with the possibility to check that, Habj. // Fred-Chess 01:20, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

 * If it is unclear to someone reading the article but not checking the references, then maybe it can be phrased differently? It makes sense that someone tells someone to conquer the whole of a badly defined area but it is more difficult to say that the person did conquer the whole area without a finer definition of what he actually conquered. As you noticed, I removed that he did conquer entire Norrland ("which he did") since it is not really comprehendable in context. / Habj 11:11, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Jämtland/Härjedalen
Needless to say, but Jämtland/Härjedalen was never part of the historical Norrland. Still today jamtlanders have some problem to accept being called norrlanders. THis is probably mainly due to the fact that one is making a too vast generalisation, but also to some degree to the historical fact that Jämtland/Härjedalen used to be in the backyard of Norway's old capital Trondheim rather than somewhere up in the far north far away from the Mälardalen region. / Hunef 19:23, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Norrland's Eastern border
As far as I know, the border between the Uppsala and Turku dioceses was drawn on Kaakamojoki in 1346. As this was the most stable and important adminstrative division in the area at the time, I think it should be accepted as the border between Norrland and Ostrobothnia. At least, Parish of Ii, about 50 km north of river Oulu (Oulujoki/Uleåälv) has never been considered part of Norrland but was a part of Ostrobothnia. This was evidenced in the raids of men of Ii and Liminka (definitely part of Ostrobothnia) against the Russian-Karelian settlements of Kem on White Sea in the 1550's. Had they been considering themselves part of Norrland, the men of Ii would not have allied themselves with the Ostrobothnian people of Liminka.

As can be seen from the fact that the area we are talking about was actually a hotbed of tribal warfare still in the 16th century, we also see that the only adminstrative division that really mattered was the ecclestiastical. There were no essentially temporal authorities in the area until the 17th century. At that time, the parish of Ii was definitely part of Ostrobothnia, given as a county to the family Natt och Dag. --MPorciusCato 23:54, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

The other Norrland flag
There is also another unofficial Norrland flag which is dark green with a golden cross. It is used for example by this web community. Since they are both unofficial, none can be said to be more correct than the other. --Anon        21:00, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Geographically
When you look on provinces in full I think this article is very good. Although it should have a reference to the climate and geographic line of Norrland, the river Dalälven. The northernmost part of the province of Dalarna is pretty much Norrland in many ways. "North of Dalälven" is another way to talk about Norrland. Or?

Fjollträsk
While Fjollträsk is a term that exists (although I'm not sure many use it anymore, the joke ruined by being stereotyped as using it) "träsk" absolutely does not mean "town". Its an old dialect word for big lake that is a common name element for villages in the far north.

To ruin a joke by explaining it, the idea is that you're juxtaposing the biggest city in the country with a name element that has associations of being small and remote, and THEN implying that it's defined by sissies. I think part of it is the perception that Stockholm residents are self-consciously urban in a try-hard way and easily insulted by implications of ruralness. 89.233.213.85 (talk) 09:07, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

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Cathedral of Maringá

Catedral Basílica Menor Nossa Senhora da Glória (or simply Catedral de Maringá Cathedral of Maringá) is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in downtown Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, reaching 124 m in height. It was completed in 1972 and is the tallest church building in the Americas and the 18th tallest in the world.

Architect José Augusto Bellucci was inspired by the Soviet Sputnik satellites when he designed the cathedral's modernist, conical shape. The design was idealized by the archbishop Dom Jaime Luiz Coelho.

The foundation stone, a piece of marble from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome blessed by Pope Pius XII, was laid on August 15, 1958. The church was built between July 1959 and May 10, 1972, the 25th anniversary of the city.

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List of Slovenian playwrights

This is a list of Slovenian playwrights.

B

 * Peter Božič (1932–2009)

C

 * Ivan Cankar (1876–1918)

Č

 * Tone Čufar (1905–1942)

F

 * Fran Saleški Finžgar (1871–1962)

J

 * Drago Jančar (born 1948)
 * Jože Javoršek (1920–1990)
 * Dušan Jovanović (born 1939)

K

 * Primož Kozak (1929–1990)
 * Bratko Kreft (1905–1996)
 * France Kunstelj (1914–1945)

L

 * Fran Levstik (1831–1887)
 * Anton Tomaž Linhart (1756–1795)

M

 * Karel Mauser (1918–1977)
 * Vinko Möderndorfer (born 1958)

N

 * Anton Novačan (1887–1951)
 * Boris A. Novak (born 1953)

P

 * Tone Partljič (born 1940)
 * Žarko Petan (born 1929)
 * Ivan Potrč (1913–1993)

R

 * Marjan Rožanc (1930–1990)

S

 * Dominik Smole (1929–1992)
 * Gregor Strniša (1930–1987)

Z

 * Dane Zajc (1929–2005)

Ž

 * Oton Župančič (1878–1949)

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List of drugs: Si

sia-sil

 * siagoside (INN)
 * Sibelium
 * sibenadet (USAN)
 * Siblin
 * Sibnayal
 * sibopirdine (INN)
 * sibrafiban (INN)
 * sibrotuzumab (INN)
 * sibutramine (INN)
 * siccanin (INN)
 * Sidapvia
 * sifalimumab (USAN, INN)
 * sifaprazine (INN)
 * sifilcon A (USAN)
 * siguazodan (INN)
 * Silafed
 * Silain
 * silandrone (INN)
 * Sildaflo
 * Sildec
 * sildenafil (INN)
 * Silexin
 * silibinin (INN)
 * silicristin (INN)
 * silidianin (INN)
 * silmitasertib (INN)
 * silperisone (INN)
 * Silphen
 * siltenzepine (INN)
 * silteplase (INN)
 * Siltussin-CF
 * siltuximab (USAN, INN)
 * Silvadene

sim-sit

 * simaldrate (INN)
 * simenepag (USAN, INN)
 * simendan (INN)
 * simeprevir (INN)
 * simetride (INN)
 * simfibrate (INN)
 * simoctocog alfa (INN)
 * simotaxel (USAN)
 * Simponi
 * simtrazene (INN)
 * Simulect
 * simvastatin (INN)
 * sinapultide (INN)
 * sincalide (INN)
 * Sine-Aid IB
 * sinecatechins (USAN)
 * sinefungin (INN)
 * Sinemet
 * Sinequan
 * Singulair
 * sinitrodil (INN)
 * Sinografin
 * sintropium bromide (INN)
 * sipatrigine (INN)
 * siplizumab (INN)
 * sipoglitazar (USAN)
 * siponimod (INN)
 * sipuleucel-T (USAN)
 * siratiazem (INN)
 * sirolimus (INN)
 * sirukumab (INN)
 * sisomicin (INN)
 * sitafloxacin (INN)
 * sitagliptin (USAN)
 * sitalidone (INN)
 * sitimagene ceradenovec (USAN)
 * sitofibrate (INN)
 * sitogluside (INN)

siv-siz

 * sivelestat (INN)
 * sivifene (USAN, INN)
 * sizofiran (INN)

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1976 in Canadian television

The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 1976. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches.

1950s

 * Country Canada (1954–2007)
 * CBC News Magazine (1952–1981)
 * Circle 8 Ranch (1955–1978)
 * The Friendly Giant (1958–1985)
 * Hockey Night in Canada (1952–present)
 * The National (1954–present)
 * Front Page Challenge (1957–1995)
 * Wayne and Shuster Show (1958–1989)

1960s

 * CTV National News (1961–present)
 * Land and Sea (1964–present)
 * Man Alive (1967–2000)
 * Mr. Dressup (1967–1996)
 * The Nature of Things (1960–present, scientific documentary series)
 * The Pig and Whistle (1967–1977)
 * Question Period (1967–present, news program)
 * Reach for the Top (1961–1985)
 * Take 30 (1962–1983)
 * The Tommy Hunter Show (1965–1992)
 * University of the Air (1966–1983)
 * W-FIVE (1966–present, newsmagazine program)

1970s

 * The Beachcombers (1972–1990)
 * The Bobby Vinton Show (1975–1978)
 * Canada AM (1972–present, news program)
 * City Lights (1973–1989)
 * Celebrity Cooks (1975–1984)
 * Coming Up Rosie (1975–1978)
 * Definition (1974–1989)
 * the fifth estate (1975–present, newsmagazine program)
 * Grand Old Country (1975–1981)
 * Headline Hunters (1972–1983)
 * Howie Meeker's Hockey School (1973–1977)
 * King of Kensington (1975–1980)
 * Marketplace (1972–present, newsmagazine program)
 * Ombudsman (1974–1980)
 * Sidestreet (1975–1978)
 * This Land (1970–1982)
 * V.I.P. (1973–1983)
 * The Watson Report (1975–1981)

TV movies

 * The Insurance Man from Ingersoll
 * Kathy Karuks Is a Grizzly Bear
 * A Nest of Shadows
 * Of the Fields, Lately
 * A Thousand Moons
 * What We Have Here Is a People Problem

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Wow, thanks for all the subway photos. Would you mind if I upload them to Wikimedia Commons so they can be put in categories there? --SPUI (talk) 19:04, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Thanks for fixing the Saul Steinberg link on the Maria Bartiromo page. I have since added a pic; I felt the page and Maria deserved one for obvious reasons. Clinevol98 22:56, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Sure, go ahead
Sure, add them to Wikipedia Commons. I've got a bunch more I took last weekend that i'm working on uploading. Thanks!

Would you be willing to add the new ones directly to commons (just make an account there, and it's all the same as here)? --SPUI (talk) 21:23, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I guess so .. i've only been using this for a week and am still getting the hang of it. :/ having trouble with the NYCS template when creating new station pages. Was able to copy some stuff from other pages, but got stuck on some stuff (see Cortlandt, BMT Broadway). One thing i've noticed thats driving me a little crazy is that stations that represent the intersection of IND/IRT or IRT/BMT etc. are listed with two seperate entries. Except for Times Square, which I think is a great example of how to handle this situation. The problem is that I don't know how to do that sort of thing for other ones that I find (e.g. Columbus Circle). what do you think?

Don't worry, I'll fix them up. For many stations though I think it makes more sense to keep them separate, especially when they started as separate stations and only later had free transfer passageways opened. --SPUI (talk) 22:27, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

OK, I've uploaded the images to Commons and added them to BMT, IND, IRT, New York City, Staten Island Ferry and Metro-North Railroad as appropriate. --SPUI (talk) 02:34, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Graph isomorphism problem

The graph isomorphism problem is the computational problem of determining whether two finite graphs are isomorphic.

The problem is not known to be solvable in polynomial time nor to be NP-complete, and therefore may be in the computational complexity class NP-intermediate. It is known that the graph isomorphism problem is in the low hierarchy of class NP, which implies that it is not NP-complete unless the polynomial time hierarchy collapses to its second level. At the same time, isomorphism for many special classes of graphs can be solved in polynomial time, and in practice graph isomorphism can often be solved efficiently.

This problem is a special case of the subgraph isomorphism problem, which asks whether a given graph G contains a subgraph that is isomorphic to another given graph H; this problem is known to be NP-complete. It is also known to be a special case of the non-abelian hidden subgroup problem over the symmetric group.

In the area of image recognition it is known as the exact graph matching.

State of the art
In November 2015, László Babai announced a quasi-polynomial time algorithm for all graphs, that is, one with running time $$2^{O((\log n)^c)}$$ for some fixed $$c > 0$$. On January 4, 2017, Babai retracted the quasi-polynomial claim and stated a sub-exponential time bound instead after Harald Helfgott discovered a flaw in the proof. On January 9, 2017, Babai announced a correction (published in full on January 19) and restored the quasi-polynomial claim, with Helfgott confirming the fix. Helfgott further claims that one can take $c = 3$, so the running time is $2^{O((log n)^{3})}$.

Prior to this, the best accepted theoretical algorithm was due to, and was based on the earlier work by combined with a subfactorial algorithm of V. N. Zemlyachenko. The algorithm has run time 2O(√n log n) for graphs with n vertices and relies on the classification of finite simple groups. Without this classification theorem, a slightly weaker bound $2^{O(√n log^{2} n)}$ was obtained first for strongly regular graphs by, and then extended to general graphs by. Improvement of the exponent √n for strongly regular graphs was done by. For hypergraphs of bounded rank, a subexponential upper bound matching the case of graphs was obtained by.

There are several competing practical algorithms for graph isomorphism, such as those due to, , , and. While they seem to perform well on random graphs, a major drawback of these algorithms is their exponential time performance in the worst case.

The graph isomorphism problem is computationally equivalent to the problem of computing the automorphism group of a graph, and is weaker than the permutation group isomorphism problem and the permutation group intersection problem. For the latter two problems, obtained complexity bounds similar to that for graph isomorphism.

Solved special cases
A number of important special cases of the graph isomorphism problem have efficient, polynomial-time solutions:
 * Trees
 * Planar graphs (In fact, planar graph isomorphism is in log space, a class contained in P)
 * Interval graphs
 * Permutation graphs
 * Circulant graphs
 * Bounded-parameter graphs
 * Graphs of bounded treewidth
 * Graphs of bounded genus (Planar graphs are graphs of genus 0.)
 * Graphs of bounded degree
 * Graphs with bounded eigenvalue multiplicity
 * k-Contractible graphs (a generalization of bounded degree and bounded genus)
 * Color-preserving isomorphism of colored graphs with bounded color multiplicity (i.e., at most k vertices have the same color for a fixed k) is in class NC, which is a subclass of P

Complexity class GI
Since the graph isomorphism problem is neither known to be NP-complete nor known to be tractable, researchers have sought to gain insight into the problem by defining a new class GI, the set of problems with a polynomial-time Turing reduction to the graph isomorphism problem. If in fact the graph isomorphism problem is solvable in polynomial time, GI would equal P. On the other hand, if the problem is NP-complete, GI would equal NP and all problems in NP would be solvable in quasi-polynomial time.

As is common for complexity classes within the polynomial time hierarchy, a problem is called GI-hard if there is a polynomial-time Turing reduction from any problem in GI to that problem, i.e., a polynomial-time solution to a GI-hard problem would yield a polynomial-time solution to the graph isomorphism problem (and so all problems in GI). A problem $$X$$ is called complete for GI, or GI-complete, if it is both GI-hard and a polynomial-time solution to the GI problem would yield a polynomial-time solution to $$X$$.

The graph isomorphism problem is contained in both NP and co-AM. GI is contained in and low for Parity P, as well as contained in the potentially much smaller class SPP. That it lies in Parity P means that the graph isomorphism problem is no harder than determining whether a polynomial-time nondeterministic Turing machine has an even or odd number of accepting paths. GI is also contained in and low for ZPPNP. This essentially means that an efficient Las Vegas algorithm with access to an NP oracle can solve graph isomorphism so easily that it gains no power from being given the ability to do so in constant time.

Isomorphism of other objects
There are a number of classes of mathematical objects for which the problem of isomorphism is a GI-complete problem. A number of them are graphs endowed with additional properties or restrictions:
 * digraphs
 * labelled graphs, with the proviso that an isomorphism is not required to preserve the labels, but only the equivalence relation consisting of pairs of vertices with the same label
 * "polarized graphs" (made of a complete graph Km and an empty graph Kn plus some edges connecting the two; their isomorphism must preserve the partition)
 * 2-colored graphs
 * explicitly given finite structures
 * multigraphs
 * hypergraphs
 * finite automata
 * Markov Decision Processes
 * commutative class 3 nilpotent (i.e., xyz = 0 for every elements x, y, z) semigroups
 * finite rank associative algebras over a fixed algebraically closed field with zero squared radical and commutative factor over the radical.
 * context-free grammars
 * normal-form games
 * balanced incomplete block designs
 * Recognizing combinatorial isomorphism of convex polytopes represented by vertex-facet incidences.

GI-complete classes of graphs
A class of graphs is called GI-complete if recognition of isomorphism for graphs from this subclass is a GI-complete problem. The following classes are GI-complete: Many classes of digraphs are also GI-complete.
 * connected graphs
 * graphs of diameter 2 and radius 1
 * directed acyclic graphs
 * regular graphs
 * bipartite graphs without non-trivial strongly regular subgraphs
 * bipartite Eulerian graphs
 * bipartite regular graphs
 * line graphs
 * split graphs
 * chordal graphs
 * regular self-complementary graphs
 * polytopal graphs of general, simple, and simplicial convex polytopes in arbitrary dimensions.

Other GI-complete problems
There are other nontrivial GI-complete problems in addition to isomorphism problems.
 * The recognition of self-complementarity of a graph or digraph.
 * A clique problem for a class of so-called M-graphs. It is shown that finding an isomorphism for n-vertex graphs is equivalent to finding an n-clique in an M-graph of size n2. This fact is interesting because the problem of finding a clique of order (1 − ε)n in a M-graph of size n2 is NP-complete for arbitrarily small positive ε.
 * The problem of homeomorphism of 2-complexes.
 * The definability problem for first-order logic. The input of this problem is a relational database instance I and a relation R, and the question to answer is whether there exists a first-order query Q (without constants) such that Q evaluated on I gives R as the answer.

GI-hard problems

 * The problem of counting the number of isomorphisms between two graphs is polynomial-time equivalent to the problem of telling whether even one exists.
 * The problem of deciding whether two convex polytopes given by either the V-description or H-description are projectively or affinely isomorphic. The latter means existence of a projective or affine map between the spaces that contain the two polytopes (not necessarily of the same dimension) which induces a bijection between the polytopes.

Program checking
have shown a probabilistic checker for programs for graph isomorphism. Suppose P is a claimed polynomial-time procedure that checks if two graphs are isomorphic, but it is not trusted. To check if graphs G and H are isomorphic:

 * Ask P whether G and H are isomorphic.
 * If the answer is "yes":
 * Attempt to construct an isomorphism using P as subroutine. Mark a vertex u in G and v in H, and modify the graphs to make them distinctive (with a small local change). Ask P if the modified graphs are isomorphic. If no, change v to a different vertex. Continue searching.
 * Either the isomorphism will be found (and can be verified), or P will contradict itself.
 * If the answer is "no":
 * Perform the following 100 times. Choose randomly G or H, and randomly permute its vertices. Ask P if the graph is isomorphic to G and H. (As in AM protocol for graph nonisomorphism).
 * If any of the tests are failed, judge P as invalid program. Otherwise, answer "no".

This procedure is polynomial-time and gives the correct answer if P is a correct program for graph isomorphism. If P is not a correct program, but answers correctly on G and H, the checker will either give the correct answer, or detect invalid behaviour of P. If P is not a correct program, and answers incorrectly on G and H, the checker will detect invalid behaviour of P with high probability, or answer wrong with probability 2−100.

Notably, P is used only as a blackbox.

Applications
Graphs are commonly used to encode structural information in many fields, including computer vision and pattern recognition, and graph matching, i.e., identification of similarities between graphs, is an important tools in these areas. In these areas graph isomorphism problem is known as the exact graph matching.

In cheminformatics and in mathematical chemistry, graph isomorphism testing is used to identify a chemical compound within a chemical database. Also, in organic mathematical chemistry graph isomorphism testing is useful for generation of molecular graphs and for computer synthesis.

Chemical database search is an example of graphical data mining, where the graph canonization approach is often used. In particular, a number of identifiers for chemical substances, such as SMILES and InChI, designed to provide a standard and human-readable way to encode molecular information and to facilitate the search for such information in databases and on the web, use canonization step in their computation, which is essentially the canonization of the graph which represents the molecule.

In electronic design automation graph isomorphism is the basis of the Layout Versus Schematic (LVS) circuit design step, which is a verification whether the electric circuits represented by a circuit schematic and an integrated circuit layout are the same.

Surveys and monographs

 * . (Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR (Records of Seminars of the Leningrad Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the USSR Academy of Sciences), Vol. 118, pp. 83–158, 1982.)
 * . (A brief survey of open questions related to the isomorphism problem for graphs, rings and groups.)
 * . (From the book cover: The books focuses on the issue of the computational complexity of the problem and presents several recent results that provide a better understanding of the relative position of the problem in the class NP as well as in other complexity classes.)
 * . (This 24th edition of the Column discusses the state of the art for the open problems from the book Computers and Intractability and previous columns, in particular, for Graph Isomorphism.)
 * . (From the book cover: The books focuses on the issue of the computational complexity of the problem and presents several recent results that provide a better understanding of the relative position of the problem in the class NP as well as in other complexity classes.)
 * . (This 24th edition of the Column discusses the state of the art for the open problems from the book Computers and Intractability and previous columns, in particular, for Graph Isomorphism.)

Software

 * Graph Isomorphism, review of implementations, The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository.

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1976 in Australian television

This is a list of Australian television-related events in 1976.

Events

 * 1 January –  Australian children's television series The Lost Islands screens on The 0-10 Network. Co-produced by The 0-10 Network and Paramount Pictures and distributed by CBS Television, the series had a modest following in Australia, but was sold well to oversea markets such as the UK, Canada, the United States, France, New Zealand, Israel, South Africa, West Germany, Italy, Sri Lanka and various parts of Europe, like The Netherlands.
 * 9 February – Australian game show The Celebrity Game returns to The 0-10 Network with a brand new, revamped version. The original host of the series, Bert Newton, is replaced by English actor and singer Mike Preston.
 * 15 April – Two American sitcoms, Welcome Back, Kotter and Barney Miller, both air on Seven Network on the same day.
 * July – ABC, Seven Network and Nine Network have combined forces to provide the coverage of the Olympic Games from Montreal, Quebec. The opening and closing ceremonies are telecast live, with highlights packages screening each evening.
 * 12 July – Australian wildlife series In the Wild presented by Harry Butler debuts on ABC.
 * 2 August – A brand new Australian youth pop program called Flashez hosted by Ray Burgess and Mike Meade premieres on ABC.
 * 2 August – Australian police drama Bluey debuts on Seven Network.
 * 13 August – Australian sitcom Alvin Purple, based on the two sex movies, premieres on ABC.
 * 3 September – Australian prison comedy series The Bluestone Boys makes it premiere on The 0-10 Network. The series only ran for a total of 26 episodes and was cancelled as it was not particularly successful.
 * 5 November – Chopper Squad an Australian drama series premieres on The 0-10 Network.
 * 8 November – A brand new Australia hospital drama from Grundy Organisation The Young Doctors screens on Nine Network. It was later broadcast in various different countries such as the UK, USA, France, Spain and Ireland.
 * 15 November – Crawford Productions's brand new WWII Australian drama television series The Sullivans premieres on Nine Network.
 * 25 November – Final episode of the Australian sitcom Alvin Purple is broadcast on the ABC.
 * 26 November – RTS5A is launched, serving Loxton, Renmark and the Riverland in South Australia.
 * November – Mike Walsh has announced that he will be moving his own daytime show from The 0-10 Network to Nine Network starting from early 1977.
 * 1 December – Final episode of the Australian children's series The Lost Islands airs on The 0-10 Network.
 * The 0-10 Network airs the final episode of its Australian police drama series Matlock Police.

New International Programming

 * 2 January – 🇨🇦 Swiss Family Robinson (1974) (ABC)
 * 22 January – 🇺🇸 S.W.A.T. (Nine Network)
 * 9 February – 🇺🇸 Partridge Family 2200 A.D. (Seven Network)
 * 9 February – 🇺🇸 The Invisible Man (1975) (Nine Network)
 * 9 February – 🇺🇸 Starsky and Hutch (Nine Network)
 * 17 February – 🇺🇸 Switch (The 0-10 Network)
 * 25 March – Wodehouse Playhouse (ABC)
 * 6 April – 🇺🇸 Chico and the Man (The 0-10 Network)
 * 15 April – 🇺🇸 Welcome Back, Kotter (Seven Network)
 * 15 April – 🇺🇸 Barney Miller (Seven Network)
 * 26 April – 🇺🇸 Laverne and Shirley (Nine Network)
 * 17 May – Doctor on the Go (Seven Network)
 * 20 June/4 September – 🇺🇸 Westwind (20 June: The 0-10 Network - Melbourne, 4 September: The 0-10 Network - Sydney)
 * 22 June – 🇺🇸 The Dumplings (The 0-10 Network)
 * 22 June – 🇺🇸 The Bob Crane Show (The 0-10 Network)
 * 15 July – 🇺🇸 Barbary Coast (The 0-10 Network)
 * 24 July – 🇺🇸 Bert D'Angelo/Superstar (Seven Network)
 * 2 August – 🇨🇦 Lorne Greene's Last of the Wild (ABC)
 * 3 August – Microbes and Men (ABC)
 * 8 August – How Green Was My Valley (ABC)
 * 8 September – The Liver Birds (ABC)
 * 1 November – 🇨🇦 The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (The 0-10 Network)
 * 4 November – I Didn't Know You Cared (ABC)
 * 7 November – 🇺🇸 Fay (Nine Network)
 * 7 November – 🇺🇸 Three for the Road (The 0-10 Network)
 * 9 November – Space: 1999 (Seven Network)
 * 9 November – 🇺🇸 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (Seven Network)
 * 9 November – 🇺🇸 On the Rocks (Seven Network)
 * 10 November – Carry on Laughing (Seven Network)
 * 10 November – 🇺🇸 Doc (Seven Network)
 * 10 November – Father Brown (Seven Network)
 * 8 December – The Adventures of Sir Prancelot (ABC)
 * 14 December – Notorious Woman (The 0-10 Network)
 * 20 December – Days of Hope (ABC)
 * 29 December – The Lotus Eaters (ABC)
 * 🇺🇸 The New Scooby-Doo Movies (Nine Network)

1950s

 * Mr. Squiggle and Friends (1959–1999).

1960s

 * Four Corners (1961–present).
 * It's Academic (1968–1978).

1970s

 * Super Flying Fun Show (1970–1979).
 * Hey Hey It's Saturday (1971–1999, 2009–2010).
 * Young Talent Time (1971–1988).
 * Matlock Police (1971–1976).
 * Spyforce (1971–1976).
 * A Current Affair (1971–1978).
 * Countdown (1974–1987).
 * Rush (1974–1976).
 * The Last of the Australians (1975–1976).
 * The Don Lane Show (1975–1983).
 * This Is Your Life (1975–1980).
 * The Lost Islands (1976).
 * Flashez (1976–1977).
 * In the Wild (1976–1981).
 * The Celebrity Game (1976–1977).
 * Alvin Purple (1976).
 * Bluey (1976–1977).

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Edwin Louis Cole

Edwin Louis Cole (1922–2002), also known as Ed Cole, was the founder of the Christian Men's Network, an American religious organization devoted to helping Christian men and fathers. He published many books and preached numerous sermons relating to men and religion.

Early life
After his birth in Dallas, Cole lived with his mother in Texas until the age of four, when he became ill with a severe case of scarlet fever. After being told that he would not survive without sea air and sun, his mother Florence moved to Los Angeles, California, with young Edwin.

Cole was educated at Belmont High School in Downtown Los Angeles.

In Los Angeles, Edwin played an active role in the Angelus Temple of Aimee Semple McPherson, often participating in the Temple's illustrated sermons. He played a trumpet with street corner witnessing teams on Los Angeles's skid row.

He enlisted in the United States Coast Guard during World War II, where he met his wife, fellow Coast Guard member Nancy Corbett. Later Cole began street witnessing again, and within two years accepted the pastorate of a church in northern California.

Religious career
Cole eventually became a full-time district men's minister. He spent the next two decades undertaking a number of religious endeavors, including mission trips, evangelizing, and Christian TV stations. In 1977 Cole founded the Christian Men's Network. At that time he was still actively ministering on two Christian television networks, acting as chancellor of a ministry school, and helping to establish a radio ministry. In April 1984 Cole resigned from these positions to focus exclusively on his men's ministry, which started slowly but grew in the 1980s and 1990s.

"Dr. Cole was ordained in the Assemblies of God and received his doctorate as a correspondence student from the New Covenant International University in New Zealand."

Later life
In 1993 Cole and his wife, Nancy, moved back to Texas to continue ministering. Nancy died of cancer in 2000. In 2002 he was diagnosed with cancer while being treated for a broken back. He collapsed on August 25, 2002, and was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition. He died on August 27, 2002, and was buried at a private ceremony in Newport Beach, California.

Quotes
An exhaustive complete listing of all 940 "Coleisms", their scriptural references, and additional information, is at The Ed Cole Library "Coleism" Section. Citations needed, this link is now dead.

 * "Manhood and Christlikeness are synonymous."
 * "Have faith in God; God has faith in you."
 * "Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice." Ben Kinchelow
 * "Teach to teach to teach." / "Teach to teach, 'til every man is taught."
 * "Christians are not patched-up sinners, they are new creations."
 * "You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."
 * "Do not let others create your world for you, for they will always create it too small."

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1976 in South African television

This is a list of South African television-related events in 1976.

Events

 * 5 January - after a year of experimental broadcasts in the main cities, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) television service officially opened nationwide.

Debuts

 * South Africa's first television soap opera The Dingleys is aired, and is panned by critics and audiences.

1970s

 * Haas Das se Nuuskas (1976–1980)

Ending this year

 * No shows ending this year.

Births

 * 9 February — Colin Moss, actor and television host

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Ross School

Ross School can refer to:
 * Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
 * Ross School (East Hampton, New York), a private K-12 school in East Hampton, New York, United States
 * Ross Global Academy, a defunct charter school in New York City, New York, United States

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Hobcarts being used by David Smith and John Casey in the late 1960s or early 1970s

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Antiope (Amazon)

In Greek mythology, Antiope (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόπη, derived from αντι anti, "against, compared to, like," and οψ ops, "voice" or "confronting" ) was an Amazon, daughter of Ares and sister to Melanippe, Hippolyta, Penthesilea and possibly Orithyia, queens of the Amazons. Two sisters, Orithyia and Antiope, co-ruled the Amazons. Antiope may have been the wife of Theseus and mother to his son Hippolytus of Athens, but differing sources claim this was Hippolyta.

Mythology
There are various accounts of the manner in which Theseus became possessed of Antiope, and of her subsequent fortunes.

In one version, during Heracles' ninth labour, which was to obtain the Girdle of Hippolyta, when he captured the Amazons' capital of Themiscyra, his companion Theseus, king of Athens, abducted Antiope and brought her to his home (or she was captured by Heracles and then given by him to Theseus ). According to Pausanias, Antiope fell in love with Theseus and betrayed the Amazons of her own free will. They were eventually married and she gave birth to a son, Hippolytus, who was named after Antiope's sister. Soon after, the Amazons attacked Athens in an attempt to rescue Antiope and to take back Hippolyta's girdle; however, in a battle near the Areopagus, they were defeated by Athenian forces under Theseus's leadership. During this conflict, known as the Attic War, Antiope was accidentally shot dead by an Amazon named Molpadia, who, in turn, was killed by Theseus. The tombs of both Antiope and Molpadia were shown in Athens, according to Pausanias.

According to some sources, the cause for the Amazons' attack on Athens was the fact that Theseus had abandoned Antiope and planned to marry Phaedra. Antiope was furious about this and decided to attack them on their wedding day. She promised to kill every person in attendance; however, she was slain instead by Theseus himself, fulfilling an oracle's prophecy to that effect. Ovid mentions that Theseus killed Antiope despite the fact that she was pregnant.

An alternative version of the myth relates all the facts concerning Antiope (abduction by Theseus, their marriage, birth of Hippolytus, her being left behind in favour of Phaedra), not of her but of Hippolyte. In various accounts of this version, the subsequent attack on Athens either does not occur at all or is led by Orithyia.

Cultural depictions

 * Evangeline Walton's 1983 historical fiction novel The Sword Is Forged chronicles the story of Antiope and Theseus.
 * Steven Pressfield's 2004 historical fiction novel the Last of the Amazons tells the story of the end of the Amazons where Antiope elopes with Theseus.
 * The DC Comics character Antiope, introduced in 1984, is the aunt of Wonder Woman and sister of Queen Hippolyta of the Amazons. She is portrayed by Robin Wright in the 2017 film Wonder Woman.
 * In Giovanni Boccaccio's Famous Women, a chapter is dedicated to Antiope and Orithyia.

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1976 in British television

This is a list of British television-related events in 1976.

January

 * 2 January – Sheffield Cablevision closes when its funds run out.
 * 5 January – BBC1 begin showing the children's animated series Paddington, based on the books by Michael Bond and narrated by Michael Hordern.
 * 6 January – The children's supernatural comedy series Rentaghost debuts on BBC1.
 * 7 January – Debut of the Michael Palin and Terry Jones comedy anthology series Ripping Yarns on BBC2.
 * 13 January – BBC1 screen the Mike Leigh comedy drama Nuts in May as part of the Play for Today series.
 * 25 January – ITV screen the network premiere of the 1969 comedy caper The Italian Job, starring Michael Caine.

February

 * 4 February – Early morning programming from the Open University begins on BBC1 with Electrons in motion airing at 7:05am. It is shown only on UHF 625-line transmitters.
 * 20 February – The first regular episode of the Ronnie Barker- and David Jason-starring comedy series Open All Hours airs on BBC2, almost three years after the pilot episode was first shown.

March

 * No events.

April

 * 3 April – The 21st Eurovision Song Contest (held in The Hague) is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song "Save Your Kisses for Me".
 * 5 April – Pat Phoenix returns to the role of Elsie Tanner on Coronation Street after an absence of three years.
 * 6 April – Original scheduled airdate of Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle in BBC1's Play for Today series. The film is pulled from transmission due to controversy over its content, including the rape of a woman by the devil. It is eventually shown on the channel in 1987, after having been made into a film starring Sting in 1982.
 * 7 April – Margot Bryant makes her last appearance as Minnie Caldwell on Coronation Street.
 * 23 April – BBC1 debuts the US police action series Starsky & Hutch, starring David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser, with the feature-length pilot episode.

May

 * 2 May – Network television premiere of the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love on ITV, starring Sean Connery.
 * May – London Weekend Television is reorganised, to form a new company "LWT (Holdings) Limited". which allows the company to expand into a number of new ventures, including Hutchinson Publishing.

June

 * 18 June – New Broadcasting House (Manchester) is officially inaugurated as the headquarters of BBC North.

July

 * 1 July – American science-fiction series The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner, launches on ITV and reaches number one in the ratings, an almost unheard-of event for a science-fiction series.
 * 17 July–1 August – The BBC provides extensive live coverage of the 1976 Summer Olympic Games from Montreal. BBC1 broadcasts into the early hours to provide live coverage of the swimming and athletics events with overnight highlights and coverage of other sports shown the following afternoon.
 * 26 July – Channel Television becomes the final ITV region to begin broadcasting in colour although it is not until the following year that all of its local programmes are made in colour.

August

 * A series of the sitcom The Melting Pot, written by and starring in brownface Spike Milligan with Neil Shand, is recorded for BBC2 but never broadcast.

September

 * 4 September – ITV screen the network television premiere of Mike Hodges' 1971 gangster film Get Carter, starring Michael Caine.
 * 5 September – ITV shows the first episode of Jim Henson's family puppet sketch comedy The Muppet Show, hosted by Kermit the Frog, produced at ATV Elstree Studios.
 * 6 September
 * Northern Life replaces Today at Six as Tyne Tees' regional news programme.
 * George and Mildred, a spin-off from the comedy series Man About the House debuts on ITV.
 * 8 September – BBC1 debuts the Leonard Rossiter-starring comedy series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
 * 9 September – Documentary Death in the West, containing an admission from a tobacco company representative that smoking causes health problems, is shown on Thames Television, followed the next day by an injunction preventing it being distributed or shown again.
 * 18 September – Ronnie Barker's comedy sketch "Four Candles" is first broadcast in The Two Ronnies.
 * 20 September – BBC2 begins showing the acclaimed Roman Empire-set series I, Claudius, starring Derek Jacobi as the titular Roman Emperor.
 * Unknown date – The credits of each programme produced by the BBC reveals the copyrighted years in Roman numerals for the first time since Chigley in 1969.

October

 * 2 October – The first edition of Saturday morning children's magazine show Multi-Coloured Swap Shop is broadcast, hosted by Noel Edmonds.
 * 15 October – The American 1950's-set comedy series Happy Days airs on ITV, in the Grampian and Southern region today and ITV London on Saturday 16th. Other areas begin to show the series shortly afterwards.
 * 22 October – Popular 1960s series The Avengers returns as The New Avengers, its first episode in seven years, with Patrick Macnee returning as John Steed alongside Joanna Lumley and Gareth Hunt.
 * 23 October – Elisabeth Sladen leaves Doctor Who. The events following her departure will not be revealed until a return appearance 30 years later in the revived series.
 * 29 October – BBC1 screen the network premiere of Roman Polanski's 1968 occult horror film Rosemary's Baby.

November

 * 3 November – ITV screens the network television premiere of the blockbuster 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, starring Sean Connery.
 * 11 November – The "Gwen Troake's Banquet" episode of reality television series The Big Time is broadcast on BBC1 which leads in two weeks to the termination of Fanny Cradock's contract with the BBC due to her patronising attitude towards an amateur chef.

December

 * 1 December – Punk group The Sex Pistols cause a storm of controversy and outrage in the UK by swearing well before the 9pm watershed on the regional Thames Television news programme Today, hosted by Bill Grundy who has goaded them into doing so and is temporarily sacked. Today is replaced by Thames at Six a year later.
 * 22 December – BBC1 show the Charles Dickens ghost story The Signalman, starring Denholm Elliott.
 * 25 December – Network premiere of the 1968 musical version of Charles Dickens' Oliver! on BBC1, starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed and Mark Lester.
 * 31 December – ITV show the network premiere of the 1964 historical war film Zulu, starring Michael Caine.

Unknown

 * Swindon Viewpoint's experimental phase ends when EMI decides to pull out of funding the service. However, the channel continues after being sold to the public of Swindon for £1.
 * Arthur Billitt succeeds Percy Thrower as principal host of BBC2's Gardeners' World after the BBC does not renew Thrower's contract following his agreement to front a series of commercials on independent television for gardening products from ICI Plant Protection.

BBC1

 * 4 January – The Prince and the Pauper (1976)
 * 5 January – Paddington (1976; 1978–1980)
 * 6 January – Rentaghost (1976–1984)
 * 7 January - Marco, 3000 Leagues in Search for Mother
 * 8 January – When the Boat Comes In (1976–1977; 1981)
 * 13 January – Nuts in May (1976) (originally in Play for Today)
 * 21 January – Kizzy (1976)
 * 9 February – Jumbo Spencer (1976)
 * 29 February – The Flight of the Heron (1976)
 * 3 March – Rocky O'Rourke (1976)
 * 8 March - BBC Evening News (1976-1983, 1984)
 * 14 April – John Macnab (1976)
 * 23 April – Starsky & Hutch (1975–1979)
 * 27 May – Second Verdict (1976)
 * 31 May – Mike Yarwood in Persons (1976–1981)
 * 26 August – Sailor (1976)
 * 4 September – The Duchess of Duke Street (1976–1977)
 * 5 September – Lorna Doone (1976)
 * 8 September – The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–1979)
 * 9 September – Gangsters (1976–1978)
 * 13 September
 * Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk (1976)
 * Potter's Picture Palace  (1976–1978)
 * 2 October – Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1976–1982)
 * 10 October – Katy (1976)
 * 15 October – The Quest (1976)
 * 10 November – The Canal Children (1976)
 * 21 November – Little Lord Fauntleroy (1976)
 * 26 December – The Val Doonican Music Show (1976–1986)
 * 28 December – James and the Giant Peach (1976)
 * 29 December – The Phoenix and the Carpet (1976-1977)

BBC2

 * 7 January – Ripping Yarns (1976–1979)
 * 21 January – The Glittering Prizes (1976)
 * 4 February – The Mike Reid Show (1976–1978)
 * 17 February – One Man and His Dog (1976–present)
 * 20 February – Open All Hours (BBC2 1976, BBC1 1981–1982, 1985, 2013)
 * 1 March – Our Mutual Friend (1976)
 * 19 March – Battle of the Sexes (1976)
 * 16 July –  Orde Wingate (1976)
 * 14 August – Masters of Terror (1976)
 * 20 September – I, Claudius (1976)
 * 21 September – The Water Margin (1973–1974)
 * 22 September – Rogue Male (1976)
 * 24 September – Well Anyway (1976)
 * 29 September – The Mind Beyond (1976) (Anthology)
 * 3 December – Brensham People (1976)
 * 13 December – The Lady of the Camellias (1976)

ITV

 * 1 January – Clayhanger (1976)
 * 2 January – The Georgian House (1976)
 * 4 January – A Place to Hide (1976)
 * 7 January – Life and Death of Penelope (1976)
 * 9 January
 * Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1976)
 * Yus, My Dear (1976)
 * Yes, Honestly (1976–1977)
 * 11 January – Red Letter Day (1976)
 * 19 January – Hello Cheeky (1976)
 * 15 February – Dominic (1976)
 * 24 February – Rock Follies (1976–1977)
 * 17 March – The Molly Wopsies (1976)
 * 26 March – 4 Idle Hands (1976)
 * 31 March – Luke's Kingdom (1976)
 * 1 April – Garnock Way (1976–1979)
 * 6 April – Plays for Britain (1976)
 * 9 April – The Fosters (1976–1977)
 * 28 April
 * The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1976–1978)
 * Westway (1976)
 * 19 May – Dangerous Knowledge (1976)
 * 30 May – Big Boy Now! (1976–1977)
 * 6 June – Murder (1976)
 * 7 June – Bill Brand (1976)
 * 13 June – Operation Patch (1976)
 * 21 June – The Feathered Serpent (1976–1978)
 * 30 June – Killers (1976)
 * 1 July – The Bionic Woman (1976–1978, 2007)
 * 3 July
 * Nobody Does It Like Marti (1976)
 * The XYY Man (1976–1977)
 * 18 July – Forget Me Not (1976)
 * 31 August – Cilla's World of Comedy (1976)
 * 1 September – Star Maidens (1976)
 * 2 September – The Howerd Confessions (1976)
 * 3 September
 * Lucky Feller (1976)
 * The Many Wives of Patrick (1976–1978)
 * Victorian Scandals (1976)
 * 5 September – The Muppet Show (1976–1981)
 * 6 September
 * George and Mildred (1976–1979)
 * Northern Life (1976–1992)
 * 16 September – The Crezz (1976)
 * 20 September – The Cedar Tree (1976–1979)
 * 26 September – Chorlton and the Wheelies (1976–1979)
 * 27 September – Nobody's House (1976)
 * 28 September – Dickens of London (1976)
 * 14 October – N.U.T.S. (1976)
 * 15 October – Happy Days (1974–1984)
 * 16 October – Beasts (1976)
 * 19 October – The New Avengers (1976–1977)
 * 15 November – Pauline's Quirkes (1976)
 * 22 November – Yanks Go Home (1976–1977)
 * 29 December – The Dame of Sark (1976)
 * Unknown – What's on Next? (1976–1978)

Continuing television shows
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1920s

 * BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1945–2019, 2021–present)

1930s

 * Trooping the Colour (1937–1939, 1945–2019, 2023–present)
 * The Boat Race (1938–1939, 1945–2019, 2021–present)
 * BBC Cricket (1939, 1945–1999, 2020–2024)

1940s

 * Come Dancing (1949–1998)

1950s

 * Panorama (1953–present)
 * The Good Old Days (1953–1983)
 * This Is Your Life (1955–2003)
 * Crackerjack (1955–1984, 2020–present)
 * Opportunity Knocks (1956–1978)
 * What the Papers Say (1956–2008)
 * The Sky at Night (1957–present)
 * Blue Peter (1958–present)
 * Grandstand (1958–2007)

1960s

 * Coronation Street (1960–present)
 * Songs of Praise (1961–present)
 * Z-Cars (1962–1978)
 * Doctor Who (1963–1989, 1996, 2005–present)
 * Top of the Pops (1964–2006)
 * Match of the Day (1964–present)
 * Crossroads (1964–1988, 2001–2003)
 * Play School (1964–1988)
 * Call My Bluff (1965–2005)
 * World of Sport (1965–1985)
 * Mr & Mrs. (1965–1999)
 * Jackanory (1965–1996, 2006)
 * Sportsnight (1965–1997)
 * The Money Programme (1966–2010)
 * Reksio (1967–1990)
 * Dad's Army (1968–1977)
 * Magpie (1968–1980)
 * The Benny Hill Show (1969–1989)
 * The Big Match (1968–2002)
 * Nationwide (1969–1983)
 * Screen Test (1969–1984)

1970s

 * Play for Today (1970–1984)
 * The Old Grey Whistle Test (1971–1987)
 * The Two Ronnies (1971–1987, 1991, 1996, 2005)
 * Thunderbirds (1972–1980, 1984–1987)
 * Are You Being Served? (1972–1985)
 * Rainbow (1972–1992, 1994–1997)
 * Emmerdale Farm (1972–present)
 * John Craven's Newsround (1972–present)
 * Last of the Summer Wine (1973–2010)
 * Superstars (1973–1985, 2003–2005)
 * The Tomorrow People (1973–1979, 1992–1995)
 * Tiswas (1974–1982)
 * Wish You Were Here...? (1974–2003)
 * Arena (1975–present)
 * Jim'll Fix It (1975–1994)
 * Survivors (1975–1977)
 * The Good Life (1975–1978)
 * The Bionic Woman (1976–1978, 2007)
 * Pop Quest (1975–1978)
 * Runaround (1975–1981)
 * Space: 1999 (1975–1977)
 * Supersonic (1975–1977)
 * The Sweeney (1975–1978)
 * Celebrity Squares (1975–1979, 1993–1997, 2014–2015)

Ending this year

 * Unknown
 * Rutland Weekend Television (1975–1976)
 * Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk (1976)
 * 22 January – Love Thy Neighbour (1972–1976)
 * 10 February – Shades of Greene (1975–1976)
 * 26 March – Open All Hours (1976, 1981–1982, 1985, 2013)
 * 7 April – Man About the House (1973–1976)
 * 1 May – Dixon of Dock Green (1955–1976)
 * 31 May – Maya the Honey Bee (1975-1976)
 * 21 June – My Brother's Keeper (1975–1976)
 * 1 December — Star Maidens (1976)
 * 31 December – Marco, 3000 Leagues in Search for Mother (1976)

Births

 * 19 January – Marsha Thomason, actress
 * 21 January – Emma Bunton, musician (Spice Girls) and television presenter
 * 28 January – Lee Ingleby, actor
 * 3 February – Caroline Bilton, journalist and newsreader
 * 8 February – Abi Titmuss, television presenter and model
 * 10 February – Keeley Hawes, actress
 * 12 February – Jenni Falconer, television presenter
 * 2 March – Helen Latham, actress
 * 21 March – Celina Hinchcliffe, television sports presenter
 * 24 March – Angellica Bell, television presenter
 * 18 April – Sean Maguire, actor and singer
 * 27 April – Sally Hawkins, English actress
 * 29 April – Ana Boulter, television presenter
 * 14 May – Martine McCutcheon, actress and singer
 * 2 June – Marek Larwood, actor
 * 5 June
 * Rachel Leskovac, actress
 * Ross Noble, comedian
 * 13 June – Kym Marsh, actress and singer
 * 28 June – Lorraine Stanley, actress
 * 1 July – Kellie Bright, actress
 * 7 July – Natasha Collins, actress and model (died 2008)
 * 8 July – Alex Fletcher, actress
 * 12 July – Anna Friel, actress
 * 13 July – Lisa Riley, actress and television presenter
 * 19 July
 * Ellie Crisell, journalist and news presenter
 * Benedict Cumberbatch, actor
 * 8 August – Laura Kuenssberg, political journalist
 * 9 August – Rhona Mitra, actress
 * 6 September – Naomie Harris, actress
 * 23 September – Rob James-Collier, actor and model
 * 21 October – Andrew Scott, actor
 * 23 October – Cat Deeley, television presenter
 * 1 November – Beth Cordingly, actress
 * 8 December – Dominic Monaghan, actor
 * Unknown – Bryan Kirkwood, television producer

Deaths

 * 26 April – Sid James, actor and comedian
 * 19 August – Alastair Sim, actor

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Representation of the People Act 2000

The Representation of the People Act 2000 (c.2) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that changed the British electoral process in four minor amendments to the Representation of the People Act 1983:
 * It removed most restrictions on postal voting and proxy voting.
 * It allows psychiatric hospitals to be used as a registration address.
 * It requires additional assistance for disabled voters, particularly visually impaired voters.
 * It made provision for new regulations governing the access, sale and supply of electoral registers.

Subsequent amendments
Six years after the act, the Department for Constitutional Affairs introduced the Bill that became the Electoral Administration Act 2006 which made alterations to UK electoral processes.

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Jeff Speakman

Jeff Speakman (born November 8, 1958) is an American actor and a martial artist in the art of American Kenpo and Japanese Gōjū-ryū, earning black belts in each. Between 2008 and 2018, he was President of the International Kempo Federation.

Early life
Speakman was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, where he was a springboard diver at John Hersey High School and achieved All-American status. He graduated from Missouri Southern State College.

He has said that the television show Kung Fu got him interested in martial arts, and he began by studying the Okinawan martial art of Gōjū-ryū until achieving black belt rank. His instructor then recommended that if he was really intent in pursuing martial arts as a lifestyle, then he should go looking for Ed Parker, a friend of his master. Speakman sold his car to pay for the moving expenses and met Parker at one of the latter's tournaments. Speakman spent years training in American Kenpo under his principal instructor, Larry Tatum, as well as under the system's founder Parker.

Speakman received his first-degree black belt in American Kenpo in 1984. He was promoted to ninth degree in kenpo karate by Mills Crenshaw and Bob White and ninth in Gōjū-ryū by Lou Angel on July 2, 2013. He was promoted to tenth degree on July 9, 2022. He had started Gōjū-ryū in 1978.

Career
Speakman started acting in 1988 and had his first main role in 1991 with the release of The Perfect Weapon, He followed this up with the feature film Street Knight. In the United Kingdom, this movie was released straight to video in 1993. Other action films followed, including The Expert and Deadly Outbreak.

Speakman holds training camps every year at the Jeff Speakman International Kenpo Camp for American kenpo. In 1993, Speakman was inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame for Instructor of the Year. He was also recognized for excellence in martial arts and was inducted into the Masters Hall of Fame in 2009 where he received the Silver Life Achievement Award.

Speakman is also founder and director of American Kenpo Karate Systems (AKKS), an international kenpo karate organization with more than 50 schools.

In 2013, Speakman was ill with throat cancer, however he has since fully recovered from it. He has continued his martial arts labor, transforming his previous association, AKKS into Kenpo 5.0. Citing some of Ed Parker's last statements about American Kenpo, Speakman decided to make an attempt to integrate ground fighting techniques into Kenpo's self-defense curriculum. Speakman is adamant that in doing this he is preserving the will of Parker, who always intended Kenpo to continue evolving, and that his additions to the system will increase the student's ability to repel any type of attack.

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Xiangqi/archive1

Xiangqi
I'm nominating this article for FAC because this article is a thoroughly-written, comprehensive article. I've been a Xiangqi player for five or six years now, and when I found this browsing through Wikipedia, I was impressed. It gives clear, consise rules, with appropriate pictures and diagrams. In addition, it also gives a good history. Overall, the article is extremely well-done, having gone through a lot of revisions. The article is extremely accurate (considering my xiangqi experience...), and it should be a featured article. Flcelloguy 20:09, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. From the article

It has more players than any other board game of the chaturanga family.

Even more than western chess? Do you have any reference for that? Also I think there needs to be a section about the way Xiangqi is played today, what are the major tournaments, and who are the best players. Deepak 21:21, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks Deepak for your suggestions and for pointing out the flaw in the article!

 * The original article had a sentence claiming that Xiangqi was the most popular form of chaturanga. I could find no concrete evidence for this- not a surprise! I doubt that there is a way to count the entire number of players, because of the millions of casual players out there. Also, what defines a player? The closest I could find to upholding that sentence came here, and it seemed more like a casual, offhand statement than fact. Thus, I've changed the sentence to say that xiangqi is one of the world's most popular forms of chaturanga, especially in Asia. This seems to be agreed upon.
 * I also added sections on xiangqi today in the U.S., xiangqi worldwide, xiangqi leagues and federations, rankings, and the best players. My source is this for best xiangqi players in the world, and here for how xiangqi is played today (clubs, tournaments, etc.) Thanks!
 * Flcelloguy 00:42, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Support Weak object. The lead in should be two or three paragraphs long for an article of this size. Also the inline external links are incorrectly displayed. See Footnote3 style and the India page for an example of its working. = Nichalp ( Talk )= 20:03, May 29, 2005 (UTC)  = Nichalp  ( Talk )= 20:52, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks- I'll be fixing it up the next couple of days. :) Flcelloguy 17:08, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks Wragge for fixing up the footnotes/references! That is now taken care of. Flcelloguy 19:53, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * The intro paragraph is now being examined. Please see the ensuing discussion here, we're all working on it! Thanks. Flcelloguy 00:13, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The ToC are too lopsided; reduce the subheadings. = Nichalp ( Talk )= 13:24, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nichalp, thanks for your suggestions! However, I believe that the ToC, though with some sub-headings, is pretty clear right now. Is there any policy that I'm unaware of that states there should be less sub-headings? What do others think? Let me know, I'm always open to suggestions! Thanks. Flcelloguy 00:01, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * A heading having a single subheading is considered bad style. I've modified the headings which I didn't like so that it remains invisible in the ToC; this addresses my objections.  = Nichalp  ( Talk )= 20:52, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

 * Support A rare article without any serious copyedit issues at all, clear pictures, and subject coverage which is both comprehensive and accurate. I have moved the references and links to Footnote3 style Wragge 18:23, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)

 * Wait. I've brought up a couple of problems in the discussion page that I think need to be sorted out first, namely the mistranslation "Elephant Chess" and the imprecise explanation of the "Movement of the Horse."  --Fazdeconta 18:46, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I have responded to Fazdeconta's concerns on the article's talk page, and other people are having input as well. Feel free to offer suggestions or comments! Flcelloguy 20:12, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks Fazdeconta! Upon a second look at the article, he has commented that the wording is clear. Also, it seems like the majority of people support keeping the literal translation of the phrase xiangqi in the article. Again, as always, I'm open to suggestions. Thanks once again! Flcelloguy 00:19, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Support An interesting article which gives thorough and detailed information about chinese chess and its gameplay. Also, this article is without copyedit issues. -- Crucis
 * Support. Full disclosure: I wrote from half to most of the article. —Lowellian (talk) 13:46, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)


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Pasadena Society of Artists

The Pasadena Society of Artists is a nonprofit arts organization in southern California, United States. It holds annual art exhibitions of its members' art works.

Overview
Pasadena Society of Artists, from its founding, attracted practitioners of a variety of artistic styles, including impressionists, modernists, abstract artists and traditionalists.

During its formative years, the Pasadena Society of Artists was associated with the Pasadena Arts Institute. As a result, its membership had close ties with the Pasadena Museum of Art (which later became the Norton Simon Museum) and the Pacific Asia Museum.

History
In 1925, Pasadena Society of Artists was founded with 15 members.

1920s to 1950s
PSA's formation closely followed the founding of the Pasadena Arts Institute, and many of its first members were involved in the creation of both institutions. Its first president was landscape artist Edward B. Butler, a successful businessman who retired to pursue his career as an oil painter. Early members of the Society included nationally renowned artists, including California impressionists Alson S. Clark and Marion Wachtel, and the noted adherent of the Arts and Crafts movement Ernest A. Batchelder,

From the 1920s into the 1950s, Pasadena Society of Artists was given an office and exhibit space in the Grace Nicholson Galleries, located at 46 North Los Robles Avenue. However, the society eventually lost the space when the Nicholson gallery became the Pacific Asia Museum.

Exhibitions
Pasadena Society of Artists continues to hold frequent juried exhibitions of its members works, and its Annual Exhibitions have taken place without interruption since 1925.

Despite the lack of a permanent exhibition space, the Pasadena Society of Artists holds annual exhibitions of its members art works.

In 2020, it held an Inaugural Digital Exhibition from July 20, 2020, to August 20, 2020.

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Thomas Drayton

Thomas Fenwick Drayton (August 24, 1809 – February 18, 1891) was a planter, politician, railroad president, slave owner and military officer from Charleston, South Carolina. He served in the United States Army and then as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His brother, Percival Drayton, was a Naval Officer and fought on the Union side during the war.

Early life and career
Drayton was a native of South Carolina, most likely born in Charleston. He was the son of William Drayton, a prominent lawyer, soldier, and US Representative. In 1833, William Drayton took all the family but Thomas, who chose to stay in the South, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania following the Nullification Crisis, as he was a unionist. Thomas' grandfather, William Drayton Sr., was a judge for the province of East Florida (1763–1780) and appointed as the first Federal judge of the new United States District Court of South Carolina.

Drayton graduated in 1828 from the United States Military Academy, where he was a classmate of Jefferson Davis, who became his lifelong friend. Drayton was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 6th U.S. Infantry.

Four years later, Drayton resigned from the US Army and became a civil engineer for railroad construction in Charleston, Louisville, and Cincinnati for two years before he returned to plantation life. He was a captain in the state militia for five years.

Drayton was elected to the South Carolina state legislature and was an outspoken supporter of states rights and slavery. He eventually owned 102 slaves at Fish Haul Plantation, which his wife had brought to their marriage. While a member of the South Carolina State Senate, Drayton also was President of the Charleston & Savannah Railroad from 1853 until 1856.

Marriage and family
In 1832 Drayton married Catherine Pope of a wealthy planter family in Edisto, South Carolina. Her family owned Fish Haul Plantation on Hilton Head Island. The Draytons had several children. Two of Drayton's sons also served in the Civil War.

Civil War
Drayton was appointed a Brigadier General in September 1861 and placed in command of the military district at Port Royal, South Carolina. Drayton subsequently used "Fish Haul Plantation", which his wife owned, as headquarters in the defense of Hilton Head Island. Drayton assigned many of his own 102 slaves on the island to construct defenses and do other work to support the Confederates.

At the Battle of Port Royal later that year, troops under his command at Fort Beauregard and Fort Walker came under attack by ships of the Union Navy, including the USS Pocahontas, commanded by his brother, Percival Drayton. Thomas Drayton's son, Lieutenant William Drayton, also fought with the Confederates in defense of the forts. After a lengthy bombardment, both forts fell to the Union attackers, who subsequently occupied much of the region. They gained an important deepwater port in coastal Carolina. For the remainder of the war Union naval operations against First Battle of Charleston Harbor and the Union Blockade were both supported by the port.

In 1862, Drayton was assigned command of an infantry brigade composed of the 15th South Carolina Infantry, the 3d Battalion S.C. Inf. and three Georgia infantry regiments: the 50th and 51st and Phillips' Georgia Legion. The brigade joined the Army of Northern Virginia after the Seven Days Battles and became part of the Right Wing of the Army of Northern Virginia under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet. Drayton led his brigade at Second Bull Run and in the Maryland Campaign.

Robert E. Lee became displeased with Drayton's performance. Drayton had failed to get his brigade into action at Second Bull Run, and it was then driven from the field in panic at both South Mountain and Antietam. Lee complained that Drayton was unable to keep his brigade properly organized, failing to file reports and returns, and that in each battle the brigade had been engaged in most of its colonels were AWOL, leaving the regiments commanded by inexperienced majors and captains. The brigade was broken up and its regiments transferred to other brigades. Drayton himself was transferred to the Western Theater to command a brigade in Sterling Price's army. During the final two years of the war, he mainly performed administrative duties in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, although he did briefly command a division in early 1864.

Postbellum activities
Following the surrender of Confederate forces in the spring of 1865, Drayton moved to Dooly County, Georgia, where he managed a plantation. Destitute and unable to reclaim his confiscated property in South Carolina, in 1871, he moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he sold insurance for a living. Drayton was president of the South Carolina Immigrant Society until shortly before his death in Florence, South Carolina, at the age of 81. He was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Charlotte.

Drayton is commemorated by a historical marker erected in 1985 by the state of South Carolina near Hilton Head in Beaufort County.

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BetacommandBot 07:20, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Need of rewrite
Something about this section doesn't seem right:

He dispatched his ally the Chameleon to capture the Hulk for study.[1] His face was then revealed, and he constructed and sent his android Humanoids to capture the Hulk.[2] He dispatched a horde of Humanoids to capture the Hulk and steal Bruce Banner's Absorbatron weapon.[3] The Leader soon encountered the Hulk face-to-face for the first time.[4] He dispatched a 500-foot Humanoid to subdue the Hulk.[5] However, he then rescued the Hulk from the Army.[6] He operated on the Hulk to save his life. He sent the Hulk to the Homeworld of the Watchers to raid the Watcher's technology.[7] The Leader was ultimately defeated by the device the Hulk brought back.[8]

But I'm not sure what should be done to fix it. Maybe a reduced usage of pronouns would help? 24.18.240.159 (talk) 02:24, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

 * I agree completely. Reads like it was written by a third grader.  I don't know much about the leader, so I don't even want to try to rewrite this.  Would someone with some knowledge on the subject please take a stab? CPitt76 (talk) 03:59, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

 * It seems most of the history part is just an announcement of his deeds, with no narrative tying them together. I'd take a stab at it, but I don't know the order of events. I tried to clean up the first few paragraphs, where the tense was all wonky, FWIW.DaedalusZM (talk) 19:08, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

 * More importantly, the entire thing needs to be massively reduced, it's just plot, and almost zero real-world information. ThuranX (talk) 22:35, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

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Fictional Character Biography is far too long
As of | January, 2022 the Fictional Character Biography section of this article is extraordinarily long for an article of this type. The opening paragraph is extremely good, giving 3-4 sentences on the character's origin and concluding with "Calling himself the Leader, Sterns embarks on various ambitious criminal schemes, with the Hulk as his primary nemesis..." which is a good encyclopedic way to give a brief overview of the character for a first time reader.

And then the rest of the section seems to be multiple editors attempts to recite absolutely everything that has ever happened with this comic book character. As of this writing, the section has 3,913 words after the introductory paragraph. As of this |same week the Fictional Character Biography for Batman is only about 2/3rds as long (2,554 words)...for a character of considerably more importance and influence, and that has existed for decades longer, and in many, many more pages of original comics work.

I see the "section too long" tag has been there for over a year (it's dated Oct. 2020) so this is a known issue. I'm asking the editors who are active on this page to sharply reduce this section to much less than half of it's current size (and honestly, 3-5 paragraphs total would be more appropriate and comparable with other comic villain articles). I'll start reducing it myself if needed, but I suspect my cuts will be much sharper than others would wish.

Honestly, I'm happy with just the introductory paragraph to that section. -Markeer 00:48, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

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Dana Simpson

Dana Claire Simpson, is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comic Phoebe and her Unicorn, as well as the long-running webcomic Ozy and Millie. Other works created by Simpson include the political commentary cartoon I Drew This and the alternate reality drama comic Raine Dog.

Biography
Simpson was born in Pullman, Washington, and then lived in the Seattle area for most of her life. She is a graduate of The Evergreen State College.

Simpson considered herself an artist from an early age, drawing comic strips as young as five years old as part of making her own homemade newspaper. As she grew up, she began drawing inspiration from Peanuts, The Simpsons and Pogo.

In her 20s, she came out as transgender. She currently lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Ozy and Millie
The webcomic Ozy and Millie, Simpson's first published comic strip (published under D.C. Simpson), began running regularly in 1998 while she was attending Washington State University as a graduate student. The strip centered on Ozy (an Arctic fox) and Millie (a red fox) as they and their friends dealt with everyday elementary school issues and more surreal situations. For her work on Ozy and Millie, Simpson was a finalist for the 1998 Scripps-Howard Foundation Charles M. Schulz College Cartoonist Award. The comic went on to win the 1999 College Media Advisers award for Best Strip Cartoon and the 2002 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for Best Anthropomorphic Comic. It also won the Ursa Major Award for both "Best Anthropomorphic Other Work" for 2002 and for "Best Anthropomorphic Comic Strip" for 2006 and 2007. Simpson continued the strip for ten years while attempting to seek syndication for the title, but could not secure any deal. She cancelled the web comic in 2008 and the final strip was published on December 23, 2008.

I Drew This
Simpson's second published comic strip, I Drew This, was concerned mainly about politics, from a liberal perspective. It is semi-autobiographical, in that one of the main characters is the author (the other is Joe, the Liberal Eagle) and its focus is often the author's own musings. I Drew This began life in the Washington State University Daily Evergreen in January 2004, while Simpson was attending graduate school. Like Ozy and Millie, this comic is part of the webcomics portal Keenspot, beginning November 2006. Material from I Drew This was included in Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists. The May 16, 2005 edition, "Teaching Gravity", featured the first reference to the theory of intelligent falling. insert title here and I Drew This (a complete collection of the strips) are both available for purchase on Lulu.

Phoebe and Her Unicorn
Simpson's most popular work commenced in 2012 as a web comic and continues, as of December 2022, as a daily comic strip.

Other work
On January 16, 2009, Simpson posted the first page of Raine Dog, a graphic novel which follows an anthropomorphic dog living among humans with other recently liberated house dogs. The most recent update was in January 2010. Simpson abandoned the project "for the foreseeable future".

Simpson announced that she is writing and illustrating a book about her transition, targeted for middle-school students, titled Only You're Different. She also illustrated a picture book, I'm Not a Girl, written by Maddox Lyons, a 12-year-old transgender boy.

Awards

 * Scripps-Howard Foundation Charles M. Schulz College Cartoonist Award, 1998: named finalist for Ozy and Millie
 * College Media Advisers, 1999: Best Strip Cartoon for Ozy and Millie
 * Washington State Book Award, Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award, 2015: Books for middle readers (ages 9 to 12) for Phoebe and Her Unicorn: A Heavenly Nostrils Chronicle
 * Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award for Unicorn on a Roll

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User:Alangstone

Wikipedia user from Canada who makes occasional contributions or fixes errors.

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List of cities in Río Negro

List of the most important cities, towns and villages in the Río Negro Province in Argentina, with their municipal population.

 * Allen (26,083)
 * Campo Grande (4,571)
 * Colonia Catriel (15,169)
 * Cervantes (5,173)
 * Chichinales (4,060)
 * Chimpay (3,905)
 * Choele Choel (10,642)
 * Cinco Saltos (19,819)
 * Cipolletti (75,078)
 * Comallo (1,306)
 * Contralmirante Cordero (2,782)
 * Coronel Belisle (1,841)
 * Darwin (1,052)
 * Dina Huapi (2,243)
 * El Bolsón, Río Negro (15,537)
 * General Conesa (5,595)
 * General Fernández Oro (6,813)
 * General Roca (78,275)
 * Ingeniero Jacobacci (5,785)
 * Ingeniero Luis A. Huergo (6,483)
 * Lamarque (7,819)
 * Los Menucos (2,689)
 * Luis Beltrán (6,401)
 * Mainqué (2,658)
 * Maquinchao (2,195)
 * Pilcaniyeu (1,467)
 * Pomona (987)
 * Río Colorado (13,675)
 * San Antonio Oeste (16,966)
 * Las Grutas (approx. 2,500)
 * San Carlos de Bariloche (93,101)
 * Sierras Coloradas (1,374)
 * Sierra Grande (6,978)
 * Valcheta (3,596)
 * Viedma (47,437)
 * Balneario El Cóndor (approx. 1,300)
 * Villa Regina (31,209)

title: List of cities in Río Negro


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1976 in American television

This is a list of American television-related events in 1976.

Programs
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Conversions and rebrandings
There are no conversions and rebrandings for Cable and satellite television channels in this year.

Television debuts

 * Rick Moranis – SCTV
 * Kim Cattrall – Dead on Target
 * Jane Pauley – Today
 * Jeffrey Jones – The Adams Chronicles
 * Kim Basinger – Gemini Man
 * Dave Thomas – SCTV
 * Ray Winstone – The Sweeney
 * Deidre Hall – Days of Our Lives
 * Jonathan Banks – Barnaby Jones
 * Harold Ramis – SCTV

title: 1976 in American television


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Oume

Oume may refer to:

 * Oumé Department, a department of Côte d'Ivoire
 * Oumé, a city, as well as a sub-prefecture and seat of the department
 * Oume, a character in Yotsuya Kaidan, a Japanese ghost story
 * Daigoro Oume, a character in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, a Japanese TV show/franchise

title: Oume


text: Category:Songs with lyrics by Lorenz Hart