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 * Archive 1, Archive 2, Archive 3.

Welcome back
welcome back, hope u had a good break Jaranda wat's sup 03:16, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Nice to see you back. – Chacor 05:06, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Welcome back! Hope you're still here to see this. You don't seem to have made any edits since the 14th - Mike | Talk 20:14, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Me too - good to see the familiar name popup in the block log. --pgk 22:03, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Just saw you reverting something on my watch list--great to see you again! Mackensen (talk) 00:04, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

 * Thank you for the barnstar, still warming back up. :-)  Hall Monitor 20:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Montclair High School temporary ban lift
Hello, I am Balzac Te'baghar, the computer teacher at MoHigh. I want to teach my students how to effectively spread their citing knowledge by giving an assignment of pre-selected wiki pages where they must enhance it by adding at least 3 details and 2 sources. I will NOT tolerate ANY vandalism. I ask that you lift the edit ban of from Thursday, September 6 until Friday, September 14. Thank you - Balzac Te'baghar.

User:38.116.200.10
You were the last to block, not for the first time, obviously. I recall setting the block parameters to only block out IP edits indefinitely, which shouldn't have caused an autoblock of (which caused the removal of my original indefinite block and leads us to your "September 2007" block). Without giving too much away, I know about that specific IP address, and I feel that it should be permanently blocked for an indefinite amount of time. I can almost guarantee that not one week after your block expires, it will be blocked again. I applaud the efforts to get the whole school vandalism issue fixed, but nothing will ever be achieved. If anything, we're doing them a favour keeping their IP blocked for good. In the mean time, September 2007 is more than sufficient. -- Jay  (Reply)  02:37, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Now that I look into it even more, (who is unfortunately on break at this time) made an error in unblocking the IP, given that is a vandal. This is starting to look fishy. -- Jay  (Reply)  02:40, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

A request for assistance
Would you support the concept of moving the Earhart "myths" to a separate page or article? The reason for my suggesting this is that the main article should be an accurate and scholarly work while the speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart are interesting, they belong in a unique section. Most researchers, as you know, discount the many theories and speculation that has arisen in the years following her last flight. Go onto the Earhart discussion page and register your vote/comments...and a Happy New Year to you as well. Bzuk 05:02 3 January 2007 (UTC).

Ip: 216.20.9.22 that you blocked
the IP adress 216.20.9.22 that you blocked is part of the Weston Public School system. this ip is shared by a wide variety of users. if you could please unblock it, id really appreciate it. Gamersedge 16:10, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Please advise, Ronald Ryan
Hi, I was hoping to get your advice.

I added to the Ronald Ryan article. Ryan was the last man hanged in Australia (in 1967). What I added was evidence of his guilt. They were confessions he is described as having made in public. One was recorded by his priest (who was not his confessor). I gave my sources for the additions. The primary sources are trial transcripts and interviews with witnesses. They are listed in a secondary source. I gave both.

That whole section has been removed by a user who either has no account or did not log in (124.191.180.110) who simply removed it all on this basis: “deleted "alleged" confessions made by one author of many books, which cannot be proven. Ryan and Ryan's defense attorneys absolutely dispute this "35-year-later" allegation of guilt”

See here

I could
 * Revert (and possibly start an edit war)
 * Discuss it on the talk page. However, I don't relish the thought of attempting to discuss something with a user who won't open an account and who has made half a dozen edits, all on the same general topic.
 * something else.

What do you advise? Avalon 01:40, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

(I forgot to sign the first time, sorry)

IP Number Block Request
Hi, Hall Monitor, and congratulations on your contributions to Wikipedia. I was wondering if you could do something to stop 207.63.215.24 from making edits on Wikipedia. This unregistered user has not only offended people with his immoral edits, but he has also defaced Wikipedia's reputation as a trustworthy online information portal. I came to you because I know how much you care about making Wikipedia as informative as possible. I am prepared to work in as many ways as possible to keep these creeps off of this "information powerhouse." If you click on the highlighted IP address located earlier in the article, a page will load that lists all of the edits this user has made, most of which are demeaning and derogatory. Thank you in advance, and don't hesitate to leave me a message on my "discussion" page. --HG707 23:25, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Unblock 198.86.93.254
Back in 2005 you blocked 198.86.93.254 at the request of the school the IP belongs to. I got a request from that school to unblock it that appears legit. I can't tell if you are still active, so I am leaving this note, but I will unblock tomorrow if I don't hear from you otherwise. --agr (talk) 21:38, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Martin Lee Anderson mugshot.jpg
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AfD nomination of Michael Storey (cinematographer)
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An article you created maybe deleted soon: Tools which can help you
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Invitation to Meetup/Seattle6, a focus group
Hello. I'm part of a research group at the University of Washington (Seattle campus), and my group is reaching out to Wikipedians in the Puget Sound area. We're hosting a focus group designed to gather information on what Wikipedians would like to know about each other when interacting on Wikipedia. Our end goal is to create an embedded application that helps people quickly know more about others' history and activity on Wikipedia, and we feel our design will be much more useful if it's based on insights of users like you.

I'm hoping that the chance to help out local researchers, to engage in lively face-to-face discussion with other Seattle Wikipedians, and to contribute to Wikipedia in a new way will entice you to join us. The session lasts 2 hours and snacks are provided. Sessions will be held on UW Seattle campus - directions will be sent after registration. Your contribution will be greatly appreciated!

Willing and able to help us out? RSVP here. Want to know more? Visit our user talk page. Please help us contact other local Wikipedians, too! Commprac01 (talk) 03:04, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Julia DeMato
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Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:45, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

NEW CATEGORY PAGE
Hello Washington-user!! What do you think of this category? Either on a scale of 1-10 or with commentary. Let me know through the "Special:EmailUser/" section. #TTiT# 12:03, 14 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by The-Traveller-in-Tacoma (talk • contribs)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Hall Monitor! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 4 of the articles that you created  are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the list:

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 22:08, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
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AfD nomination of Renato M. E. Sabbatini
Please see Articles for deletion/Renato M. E. Sabbatini (2nd nomination). You participated in the first AfD. - Eastmain (talk) 17:51, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Julia DeMato
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Proposed deletion of Daniel Joseph Sheehan

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Electoral division of Nelson (Northern Territory)

Nelson is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was first created in 1990 as a replacement for Koolpinyah, and was named after Harold George Nelson, the first member for the federal Northern Territory electorate. Nelson is a largely rural electorate, covering 1,415 km² and taking in the small towns of Howard Springs, McMinn's Lagoon and part of Humpty Doo, and some areas between Darwin and Palmerston. There were 5,505 people enrolled in the electorate as of August 2020.

Nelson is also a rarity among Northern Territory electorates in that it has traditionally been an independent-held seat, as opposed to being held by either of the major parties. Long-serving independent Noel Padgham-Purich held the seat for the last few years of her career, having previously represented Koolpinyah from 1983 to 1990. She only narrowly failed in installing another independent, Dave Tollner, as her replacement. After four years of Country Liberal Party control under Chris Lugg, another independent candidate, Gerry Wood, was successful in winning the seat. Wood was easily re-elected at the 2005 election, polling more than double the vote of his nearest rival, Lugg. He increased his vote by over 20% for the second election in a row in 2008, winning 72.2% of the primary vote with a two-party preferred margin of 28.7% over the CLP, the safest seat in the Territory. His margin dwindled to 9.2 percent when the CLP regained government in 2012, but ballooned to 23.7 percent during Labor's victory in 2016.

Wood retired at the 2020 election. Gerard Maley won the seat for the CLP on his second attempt after losing to Wood in 2016. Maley actually garnered enough primary votes to win the seat on the first count. However, for most of its existence, Nelson has been a comfortably safe CLP seat in "traditional" two-party matchups against Labor, so Maley's victory was not considered an upset.

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Casluhim

The Casluhim or Casluhites (כסלחים) were an ancient Egyptian people mentioned in the Bible and related literature.

Biblical accounts
According to the Book of Genesis and the Books of Chronicles, the Casluhim were descendants of Mizraim (Egypt) son of Ham, out of whom originated the Philistines.

Archaeology
The Egyptian form of their name is preserved in the inscriptions of the Temple of Kom Ombo as the region name Kasluḥet. In the Aramaic Targums their region is called Pentpolitai understood to be derived from the Greek Pentapolis which locates the area as the north west in what is now the Cyrenaica region of Libya. Another name for their region is Pekosim used in Bereshit Rabbah 37.

Identifications
Josephus mentions the Casluhim in his Jewish Antiquities I, vi, 2 as one of the Egyptian peoples whose cities were destroyed during the Ethiopic War and who thus disappeared from history. Arab historian Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), citing Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli, wrote that the Berbers of North Africa were descended from Casluhim, the son of Mizraïm (قبط بن مصر).

In Saadia Gaon's Judeo-Arabic translation of the Pentateuch, the Sa'idi people (i.e. the people of Upper Egypt) are listed in the position of the Casluhim in, while Albiyim is listed in the position of Pathrusim, however the ordering of Casluhim and Pathrusim sometimes vary in translations and the mainstream understanding is that it is the Pathrusim who are the Sahidic people and the Casluhim the people of eastern Libya.

Matthew Poole suggests that Casluhim and Caphtorim were brother tribes who lived in the same territory, presumably in Crete.

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User talk:165.21.154.17/Archive1

Please do not remove tags without explanation or actually removing the need for the tag. -- Solitude 15:36, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

Please stop vadalizing the Latin Union page.

None of us should wonder what can those ppl who are minding the wikipeian pages for deleting and banning can do to an IP address? Huh just to show the power on the Internet which is uncontrollable, just leave them ppl alone.. should do it well or better than banning i.e. simple common sense!

''' I am enquiring if anyone knows of the current Indonesian President's extended family.

Is there really such as person known and introduced as Johannes who claims to be from the Commodity Community in Indonesia.

This person claims to be a nephew of the President and able to make certain commercial deals (with huge profits ) possible. Will someone who knows more about the President's background please write some useful accurate information and reply to this query. Thank you.'''

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JJ72 (album)

JJ72 is the self-titled debut album by Dublin indie rock trio JJ72. It was released on August 28, 2000.

Track listing

 * 1) "October Swimmer" – 3:21
 * 2) "Undercover Angel" – 3:44
 * 3) "Oxygen" – 3:42
 * 4) "Willow" – 4:23
 * 5) "Surrender" – 4:11
 * 6) "Long Way South" – 2:51
 * 7) "Snow" – 3:20
 * 8) "Broken Down" – 5:09
 * 9) "Improv" – 2:52
 * 10) "Not Like You" – 3:36
 * 11) "Algeria" – 3:21
 * 12) "Bumble Bee" – 8:14

JJ72

 * Mark Greaney - vocals, guitar, songwriting
 * Hilary Woods - bass, vocals
 * Fergal Matthews - drums, percussion

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The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley

The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and featuring Martin Short's fictional character Ed Grimley (with Short reprising his role as Grimley). The show aired on NBC from September 10 to December 3, 1988 for a single season of 13 episodes. The show is the only Saturday morning animated adaptation of both an SCTV character and a Saturday Night Live character, and the first Saturday morning cartoon featuring an SCTV cast member (later joined by Camp Candy, featuring John Candy, and Rick Moranis's Gravedale High).

Guest stars on the show included Christopher Guest and SCTV alumni Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas. The show also featured the voices of René Auberjonois, Kenneth Mars, and Arte Johnson. Though the show was not renewed for a second season, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley was later seen in reruns in 1996 on Cartoon Network's unnamed pre-Adult Swim-era late-night programming block, which consisted of such shows as Space Ghost Coast to Coast and reruns of classic Looney Tunes shorts and Hanna-Barbera programming, before it was rerun again on Boomerang. The live-action Count Floyd segments were also recycled for use in episodes of Cartoon Planet (featuring many of the same characters as SGC2C and produced by the same team). Hanna-Barbera sponsored an Ed Grimley look-alike contest midway through the first season, which was won by 10-year-old Matt Mitchell from Des Moines, Iowa.

Synopsis and characters
Episodes of the show often featured Ed Grimley in several adventures, which start out as mundane, but turn very surreal and cartoonish, interspersed with science lessons from The Amazing Gustav Brothers, Roger and Emil, and a live-action segment with a "scary story" titled The Count Floyd Show presented as a show-within-a-show by Grimley's favorite television host, SCTV's Count Floyd (played by SCTV cast member Joe Flaherty). Grimley's fellow cartoon characters included Grimley's landlord Leo Freebus (voiced by Jonathan Winters), Leo's wife Deidre (voiced by Andrea Martin), his ditzy, amateur actress neighbor Ms. Malone (voiced by Catherine O'Hara; a female character by the name of Ms. Malone did appear on an SNL version of an Ed Grimley sketch on the season ten episode hosted by Alex Karras, but Ms. Malone was played by that episode's musical guest Tina Turner), and her little brother Wendell (voiced by Danny Cooksey). Ed owns a goldfish named Moby and a clever pet rat named Sheldon (voiced by Frank Welker). At the end of each episode, Ed would write in his diary about what happened in his day.

Additional voices

 * Charlie Adler
 * René Auberjonois
 * Michael Bell
 * Susan Blu
 * Hamilton Camp
 * Danny Cooksey
 * Robert Ito
 * Arte Johnson
 * Christina Lange
 * Kenneth Mars
 * Rob Paulsen
 * Dave Thomas
 * B.J. Ward
 * Frank Welker

Home media
On January 29, 2013, Warner Home Video (through the Warner Archive) released The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley: The Complete Series on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store, MoviesUnlimited.com, and Amazon.com. In addition, the episode "Tall, Dark & Hansom" is available on Warners' Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1980s Volume 1 DVD set, released on May 4, 2010.


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Polsloe Bridge railway station

Polsloe Bridge railway station  is a suburban railway station in Exeter, Devon, England. The station serves the Polsloe, Mount Pleasant, Hamlin and Whipton areas of the city.

History
The station was opened in 1907 to serve the eastern suburbs of Exeter. It was situated just a short distance along the branch to Exmouth and was convenient for Exmouth Junction engine shed which was on the opposite side of the main line.

The platforms were rebuilt in 1927 using concrete components cast at the concrete workshop that had been established at Exmouth Junction. On 4 February 1973 the branch was singled and the down platform taken out of use.

Private goods sidings were provided on the west side of the line on both sides of the station. Between the platform and the junction was a siding to a brickworks, while a little to the south was Newcourt, a military depot.

Description and facilities
The station has one platform currently in use – on the right of trains arriving from Exeter – situated on an embankment above Pinhoe Road. The only access to the station is via a number of steps. The former second platform and its stairwell to street level remains opposite the platform in use, albeit very overgrown and derelict.

There is no ticket machine. It has no disabled access or restroom facilities on the platform. There is a small car park which can fit a handful of cars.

Services
About half the trains on the Avocet Line from Exmouth to Exeter St Davids and Paignton call at Polsloe Bridge. Connections are available at Exeter Central for Barnstaple, Okehampton, Honiton and other stations to Waterloo; passengers for other main line stations change at Exeter St Davids.

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User talk:Tyrth

Welcome!

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Honoré de Balzac
Thanks for fixing the page, i reverted some edits, then realized i forgot one, but when i tried to restore the correct version, cluebot once again revered to my incorrect edit. So thanks --  ..::Abb   615::..  01:19, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:Hwoarang

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It's so nice to see the appreciation for bob --Dangerous-Boy 06:55, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey, if he's voiced by a Korean VA in T5, does he speak Korean there? 0_o Please answer, I'm extremely confused at this.

 * Yes--Dangerous-Boy 18:14, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

I think he is shallow and pedantic...

 * Hmm...yes I agree. Shallow and pedantic.

Bob
Im not sure if this has been addressed before, but could we make mention that he has, by and large, adopted the real-world nickname Bob, amongst the tekken community. Although this is not official character information, the fact that a fan community, due to difficulty of spelling and pronunciation, has almost universally re-christned a character, is both note able and encyclopedic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.130.104.135 (talk) 12:21, August 29, 2007 (UTC)
 * Unless you can find a magazine/website article that states this, no. The definition of "notable" is that the information provided can be attributed to a credible source.  The fan community alone does not fit the bill.  King Zeal 12:36, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm a long-time Tekken player, and I've never a) had trouble pronouncing Hwoarang's name (they say it out loud in the game, after all) and b) never heard anyone else call him "Bob." That's... a very strange request.  Agreeing wholeheartedly with King Zeal here - it's not official and not widespread enough to actually be attributed.  Forget it. 70.234.1.188 16:58, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Name Pronounciation
How is his name pronounced in the game? Besides the narrator saying it. When he was speaking to Baek, I didn't hear it. Is it pronounced differently in Korean, and if so how?

 * His name IS Korean, so however it's spoken in Korean is the proper way to speak it. However, the romanized wording of his name is actually a bit of a misnomer.  The actual spelling of his name should be something along the lines of "Hwa Long".  However, he announcer in Tekken 5 pronounces it in a manner similar to saying "Wha-Rung", so that's currently Namco's "official" pronounciation for the name. King Zeal 13:22, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually both are wrong, the best one that namco has come up with was the one in Tekken 3. In Tekken Tag, the R was too strong.  The best estimation of how it would sound that I can describe in writing would be the same vowel as in "hot" for both hwa and rang. Then, not so strong on the h, and for the R something between L and R, but almost like D.Bethereds 14:28, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

The pronunciation "Wha-Rung" is about right. Where he is getting his name is actually from the martial art Hwa Rang Do... not the same as Tae Kwon Do. The Hwarang Corps started as a formalized military in 570 A.D. in Korea with warriors being developed from childhood. Hwa means flowering which was a symbol of enlightenment. Rang means young man or noble. Do means disciples or followers. (They list Tae Kwon Do being Hwoarang's art, but when you play the character, he gets chastised when losing to some masters for NOT practicing Tae Kwon Do. His art seems to be Hwa Rang Do, but maybe there were some licensing issues there.)

 * Actually, his style, as seen in Teken Tag, is basic Tae Kwon Do, almost Americanized, possibly ITF. I studied the art for quite a while and is the whole reason I started playing the game. The moves were identical to what I had learned. The are has many different variations, but it is obvious that it is definitely Tae Kwon Do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.207.153.165 (talk) 07:50, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

His name is pronounced "Who wrong." Ya know, like "Who rung the doorbell?"
 * That's really not funny.Bethereds 14:28, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

It's pronounced "H-wow-rang". Ryu-chan (Talk | Contributions) 17:21, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm also confused by the many different pronunciations of Hwoarang's name in the Tekken games. Which is the more accurate translation? Why do they pronounce it differently? Hok0519 6:28 October 18, 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hok0519 (talk • contribs) 22:29, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Hwa rang correction...
I removed the section where it said someone must be able to perform Hwa Rang to achieve first dan. That is no longer usually required. You must perform Poomsae Goryeo to achieve first dan in WTF, so I tried to fix it. Thanks.--Kim Kusanagi 19:36, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Hwoarang not a normal Korean name
Look, many of you may take it as common sense that Hwoarang isn't a typical Korean name, but there are a lot of people who wouldn't otherwise know that. I think it's important to point it out somewhere. Bethereds 17:59, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

 * The Hwarang should be enough for people to decide whether or not a videogame character has a common name... or maybe we should point out how it might possibly be a "gangster" name he goes by? Why don't we point out how it's not common for a Korean to have red hair? And, I guess we should edit Jin Kazama's page and point how it's not common for Japanese people to be part Devil, too.  Trivia sections shouldn't even exist.  oncamera   (talk page)  18:06, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Oncamera is right. "Common" names are subjective.  If your name is "Bobbie" (with 'ie') instead of "Bobby", does it really matter how common or uncommon the name is?  Especially since commonality differs from region to region?  King Zeal 18:17, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * "Bobby" and "Bobbie" are different spellings of the same name, and are short for either Robert or Roberta. Your analogy doesn't work for Hwoarang, because it's not a variation of a more common name, nor is it a different spelling of a more established name.  It is the name of a historical group of elite soldiers.Bethereds 16:51, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Subjective or not, naming your kid Hwoarang in Korean would be akin to naming your kid United States Marine Corps in English. In any region in Korea nobody in their right mind would name their kid Hwoarang.  I don't really care how we say that his name isn't common (ie, suggesting it is his gangster name, although I thought that was blood talon...)  As for the red hair, that's what happens when Koreans use bleach.  And it is blatantly obvious that it's not common for Japanese people to be part devil, even if you don't know crap about Japan, but for the average person who knows jack about Korea or Koreans, they might assume that Hwoarang is a typical everyday normal Korean name, when in fact there aren't a single person who goes by that.Bethereds 23:02, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Don't any of you find it slightly odd that he's one of the few characters who has no last name? Korean names are usually three sylables.  Surname first, given name second.  Surnames are usually one sylable.  Given names usually two.  Some cases Given names can be one sylable and Surnames can be two, but those are quite rare.  Even if we allow for this exception, and assume that Hwoarang is is real name, then his surname would be hwa or hwoa, and his given name would be rang.  The wiki page for common Korean namesList_of_Korean_family_namesshows the most common by number.  The most common name, Kim, has 18,925,949 Korean census respondents.  In comparison there are 945 Hwas.  So even if we assume that it's not an alias and actually is his given name (which it isn't).  It's definately NOT COMMON!  Then even if we do assume that he's one of the 945 Hwas, that would mean Rang is his first name, and naming your kid Rang would be even stranger than naming him Hwoarang, as Hwoarang actually means something.  It's plain and simple.  His name is either an alias, or it's extremely rare.  Take your pick!Bethereds 16:51, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Do you know what original research means? It means that no facts, data, or other sources of information are allowed on the site unless they have credible sources.  For what it's worth, I believe you.  But, that's not good enough.  King Zeal 16:56, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Added something to trivia stating that it's either an alias or an extremely rare. That's a true statement with evidence.  I've bent my original statement to fit into your criteria and backed it up with statistical information.  If you delete it now, it's simply personal.Bethereds 17:07, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Nothing personal about it. However, statistical information still doesn't prove your point.  Why don't we look up how many people in San Francisco are actually Chinese people named Marshall Law?  Or Japanese people with the first names Jinpachi or Heihachi?  It's not notable, therefore it doesn't belong in the article.  King Zeal 17:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Don't any of you find it slightly odd that he's one of the few characters who has no last name?

I think you're reading way too much into Hwoarang's name, from which I was in the understanding it was just his "gangster" name and not even his real name since he is a "gang leader." You can't use other wikipedia articles as a reference. ' oncamera  (talk page)  17:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not reading too much into it and I agree with you that it's a gangster name. King Zeal seems adamant in wanting to leave open the possibility that Hwoarang could actually be his real full name, and if that's so, it's extremely rare. Again, to you guys who seem to be in the know about Korean names, it's obvious that Hwoarang probably isn't is real name and probably is an alias, but to people unfamiliar with Korea, it's not obvious, therefore it should be at least mentioned.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Bethereds (talk • contribs) 11:32, February 16, 2007
 * There's nothing on the Tekken site saying it is or isn't, so you can't just go pretending this videogame character should be treated like a real person whom needs to have a "real name." It shouldn't be mentioned because that would be original research. oncamera   (talk page)  17:38, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh, right, like other Tekken characters aren't treated like real people with real names. It's just coincedence that the Mishima surname gets passed from Jinpachi to Heihachi, to Kazuya, the Kazama surname gets passed to Jin from Jun, and the Lee Surname gets passed to Forrest from Marshall.  I'll concede the point that it's original research to suggest it's not his real name, though.  I'm also glad that someone removed the part saying his nickname is "Bob".  Is there any actual namco statement saying that his name has anything to do with the Hwarang?  If not, that doesn't belong there either.Bethereds 18:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Considering his name is the same Hangul as the Hwarang, and that the Hwarang have something to do with Taekwondo history, why shouldn't that be there? The Taekwondo pattern Hwa-Rang was named in honor of the Hwarang...  oncamera   (talk page)  18:42, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Having the same hangul means nothing other than that they have the same spelling, as Hangul is an alphabet, unlike hancha which is based on logograms. The Hwarang might have something to do with Taekwondo history, but Hwoarang does not.  Furthermore The Taekwondo pattern Hwa-Rang was named in honor of the Hwarang... doesn't belong on a page about Hwoarang, it belongs on Hwarang.  To suggest that the Hwarang inspired namco's naming of Hwoarang, while PAINFULLY OBVIOUS is conjecture and original research.  Bethereds 18:54, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Before you changed it, it was, ''The word Hwoarang, properly romanized Hwarang, was the name of a group of young male warriors in the ancient Korean kingdom of Silla. In recent times, the Hwarang have become symbolic of the Korean martial spirit.'' It doesn't say Hwoarang's name was inspired by the Hwarang, only stating if his name was properly romanized using one of the two common methods, it should be Hwarang, who are well-known for doing their thing. By the way, I know what are Hangul and Hanja. oncamera  (talk page)  19:04, 16 February 2007 (UTC) Maybe this has already been said (I haven't read the entire discussion) but being able to perform the  form for red belt in ITF Taekwondo - the Hwoarang (I'm not sure about the spelling) is required to advance to the next rank. And I remember that in his video for Tekken 2 (I think) he performs it. Hell, I even used it for practice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.18.43.69 (talk) 00:29, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Voice actor(s)
I added a reference to Jung Goo Lee as Hwoarang's VA for T4. However, IMDb says Lee's roles were "Additional Voices (voice)". Even though Jung Goo Lee appears to be the only Korean person in the cast, this still isn't reasonably watertight evidence. It would be better if someone could find a reputable source that says that Jung Goo Lee provided Hwoarang's voice in T4.

The article also lacks Hwoarang's T4 English VA and his T5 VA. IMDb's Tekken 5 cast list has at least three Koreans on it. --Darren Lee 18:27, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

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Similarities to Hwang from Namco's Soul games
The character Hwang from the Soul series of games shares many similarities with Hwoarang. He is Korean, often dresses the same, has the same self-righteous attitude and even shares many of the same moves. His story-line is remarkably similar to that of the Hwarang of which Hwoarang gets his name. The game has shared some characters and is made by the same company so I doubt that the relationship is coincidental as Namco is known for it's "Easter Eggs" and such. I am not a great researcher, but I am sure that this theory could be proven, and if so, would be interesting information on both the Hwoarang page and the Hwang page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.207.153.165 (talk) 08:06, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

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Loris Tjeknavorian

Loris Haykasi Tjeknavorian (Լորիս Ճգնավորյան; ; born 13 October 1937) is an Iranian Armenian composer and conductor. He has appeared internationally as a conductor, serving as the principal conductor of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra from 1989 to 1998 and later from 1999 to 2000. As a composer Tjeknavorian has written 6 operas, 5 symphonies, choral works, chamber music, ballet music, piano and vocal works, concerti for piano, violin, guitar, cello and pipa, as well as music for documentary and feature films. Among his best known works are the opera Rostam and Sohrab, based on the story of Rostam and Sohrab from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, and the ballet Simorgh.

After study at the Vienna Music Academy, with Carl Orff at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the University of Michigan, he taught at the Tehran Conservatory. While based in the United Kingdom 1975 to 1985, he was a frequent conductor with various London orchestras and appeared internationally with orchestras in Iran, Israel, Japan, the Soviet Union and the United States. His early compositions evoke the work of Aram Khachaturian, while his oeuvre as a whole is heavily influenced by Armenian folk and sacred music.

He has made some 100 recordings with RCA, Philips, EMI, ASV, and others.

Early years (1937–1969)
Born in Borujerd, Iran in 1937 to immigrant Armenian parents, Tjeknavorian's early life was succinctly chronicled in the London magazine Gramophone in 1976:

"His father came from Eastern Armenia and his mother had fled from Western Armenia during the 1915 Armenian genocide… Influenced by three cultures, Armenian, Iranian and Western, he benefited from a cosmopolitan upbringing. His grandfather, a doctor, liked to play the violin and as a boy Loris enjoyed listening to professional string-players (Russian, Armenian or Polish immigrants) in local cafés. Although not themselves musical, his parents wanted all three children (one boy, two girls) to play musical instruments. Eight-year-old Loris was given a violin. Despite the lack of a teacher, the boy began to study in earnest; before long he had composed a number of piano pieces, with no formal instruction whatsoever. At 16 he formed a four-part choir and organized and conducted his own orchestra in Teheran. A year later he was ready to leave for the Vienna Academy of Music as a violin and composition student. While there, he wrote a violin concerto, which received the ultimate endorsement from his teacher, Hans-Joachim Drevo, who was the soloist in the work's première. Tjeknavorian graduated with honours." (Gramophone, November 1976)

Shortly after his graduation, the Austrian music publisher Doblinger published four of his piano compositions as well as his Ballet Fantastique for three pianos, celeste and percussion in Vienna.

Following this fruitful period of education, Tjeknavorian went back to Iran in 1961, where he taught music theory at the Tehran Conservatory of Music. At the same time, he was appointed director of Tehran's Music Archives and put in charge of collecting and researching traditional and modern Iranian folk music and instruments. He mounted the first Archives exhibition to great success, and began work on an opera based on the epic poem of Rostam and Sohrab.

Tjeknavorian returned to Austria in 1963 to further his studies in Salzburg at the Mozarteum. There, he met the renowned composer Carl Orff, who was to become the young musician's mentor and enthusiastic supporter. On hearing Tjeknavorian play sections of his opera Rostam and Sohrab, Orff offered him a full one-year scholarship to stay in Salzburg to complete the first draft of the opera. In addition, Orff commissioned Tjeknavorian to compose piano music based on Armenian music for the Schulwerk, Orff's system for teaching music. Tjeknavorian composed over 130 short pieces for beginning to advanced students. These are collected in two volumes called Kaleidoscope for Piano, portions of which were also published by Schott as Bilder Aus Armenia (Pictures from Armenia).

Tjeknavorian moved to the United States in 1965, where he began to study conducting at the University of Michigan. From 1966 to 1967 he was appointed composer-in-residence at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, and from 1966 to 1970 head of the instrumental and opera departments at Moorhead University in Minnesota.

Back in Iran (1970–1975)
In 1970, the Cultural Ministry of Iran offered Tjeknavorian the positions of composer-in-residence and principal conductor at the Rudaki Opera House in Tehran. While there he conducted a number of major operas, including his own Pardis and Parisa.

Tjeknavorian's extensive study of the technical aspects of traditional Iranian instruments culminated with the composition of the dance-drama Simorgh, the first polyphonic composition scored entirely for Iranian instruments and based on themes from Zoroastrian myth and Persian mystical poetry. Following sold-out performances of the ballet in Tehran, the suite from Simorgh was recorded and released as an LP in London by Unicorn in 1975 to great critical acclaim. Writing about his unique compositional style, Gramophone praised the piece as "strangely beautiful".

In Tehran Tjeknavorian's talents found huge demand, and he soon became the leading composer of film music in Iran, scoring some 30 scores for documentaries and short and popular feature films, many of them classics of pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema. Among them was the award-winning film Bita, starring Iranian singing and acting legend Googoosh, released in 1972. That same year Tjeknavorian received the Homayoun Order and Medal for Persepolis, his score for the spectacular Son et Lumiere show at the ancient Persian capital. The audience consisted of dignitaries and heads of state from around the world that had gathered in Iran for the 2500th anniversary of the Persian Empire. The show was a highlight of the unprecedented event, and was followed by the release of the score by Philipps.

Back in the West (1975–1987)
In 1975 Tjeknavorian relocated to London where he signed an exclusive conducting contract with the RCA recording company. His first release was the hugely acclaimed recording of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 ("Pathetique") with the LSO, hailed in Gramophone as "bold and exciting" and by RCA as "an astounding performance of electrifying passion and nobility".

Tjeknavorian's sudden impact on the international music scene in London created a furor, with RCA running two-page advertisement in Gramophone proclaiming him "the greatest conductor of his generation". Attended by talk-of-the-town performances at venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, Tjeknavorian followed this early success with a series of similarly acclaimed recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, including ground-breaking interpretations of Sibelius, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Dvorak, and Borodin. Tjeknavorian's also quickly established himself as the world's foremost interpreter of the symphonic music of Aram Khachaturian. His recording of the complete score of the ballet Gayaneh, the first and only of its kind, was hailed by the London critics as "first class" and "the most distinguished of the RCA recordings made by Loris Tjeknavorian" (Gramophone, April 1977 and June 1983).

In 1978 Tjeknavorian organized Music Armenia, described in Gramophone as "the first Armenian Festival on foreign soil. During the day there were symposiums, conferences and comparative studies of Armenian music, and in the evening, concerts presenting Armenian artists and composers." Speaking to the London magazine, Tjeknavorian explained: "Being Christian, the first thing the Armenians did…was to translate the Bible as early as the fourth century AD. Then they started writing music in the fifth century. As soon as the alphabet was created, the chants started to be written down in old neumes. By the eighteenth century they could no longer decipher these neumes, so the musicians got together and renotated all the different chants. When I was studying in Vienna I discovered the Armenian Monastery there, and found a wealth of these chants. I became so involved in searching through all the manuscripts, it took me 15 years, and I found seven different traditions amounting to something like 30,000 melodies…It was far removed from my original idea of having the melodies just for my own compositional use, and I realized that it was of immense interest to musicologists" (Gramophone, May 1979). For his long and dedicated work Tjeknavorian was awarded the Order of "Gregory the Illuminator" by the late Catholicos Vazgen I.

Taking some of the medieval chants he had rediscovered, Tjeknavorian composed the vocal work Life of Christ, first performed during the Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Hall by the Ambrosian Singers. Many of Tjeknavorian's most important compositions were written in this fruitful and personally difficult ten-year period culminating with, and immediately following, the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Foremost among his works during this time are his Second Symphony (Credo) and the oratorio The Book of Revelations, the second and third parts respectively of his trilogy on the Armenian genocide begun with his groundbreaking First Symphony (Requiem for the Massacred) scored for trumpet and percussion and released in London by Unicorn in 1976. Another key work towards the end of this period was his ballet Othello, commissioned by the Northern Ballet Company and premiered in London in 1985 with Princess Ann in attendance. The recording of the piece released that year on EMI with the London Symphony Orchestra was praised by Gramophone as "enormously effective" (Gramophone, November 1985).

Armenia (1989–2000)
Soon after settling in New York City in 1986, Tjeknavorian's destiny was diverted by the devastating Armenian earthquake of December 1988. In response, Tjeknavorian organized a benefit concert at Carnegie Hall to raise relief funds for the victims. The concert featured Plácido Domingo, Mstislav Rostropovich, Alexander Toradze and stars of the New York Metropolitan Opera, including Mirella Freni, Frederica von Stade, Samuel Ramey and Elena Obraztsova. Ticket sales for the event raised $500,000 that was sent to Armenia, where Tjeknavorian relocated a few months later, having been appointed Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra (APO) in Yerevan.

For Tjeknavorian, the most important task was rebuilding the cultural life of Gyumri (then Leninakan), Armenia's second largest city, which had been devastated by the earthquake. In 1991 Tjeknavorian announced his intention to go on a pilgrimage walk from Yerevan to Gyumri in order to raise funds for rebuilding efforts. Thousands of people joined him along the way and a huge percentage of the Armenian population donated money for the cause. Fifteen million rubles, worth around 20 million dollars at the time, were collected nationwide. Unfortunately, several months later the Soviet ruble was devalued and Tjeknavorian was compelled to seek additional money from private sources. Tjeknavorian took over the huge communist party headquarters, which had been destroyed, and in seven years transformed it into the first Academy of Music and Arts in Gyumri. During this time, his fundraising led to the founding of a symphony orchestra, wind ensemble, choir and dance ensemble, the renovation of the theater and restarting of the Gyumri TV station, and purchasing musical instruments for the orchestra and band, whose instruments had all been destroyed in the earthquake, as well as ten grand pianos for the Arts and Music Academy.

Tjeknavorian was also instrumental in the 1991 campaign for Armenian independence. Through his tours in various Armenian cities and an all-night televised performance on national television two days before the measure passed on September 21, 1991, Tjeknavorian managed to increase the "Yes" vote for independence from 30 to 96 per cent. Given the heated controversy and popular passions surrounding the question of independence, the peaceful nature of the victory was unique, reached by Tjeknavorian through the power of music and a positive cultural message.

Following independence, Tjeknavorian served on the committee to reinstate the pre-communist Armenian flag and the national coat-of-arms. He was especially influential in the adoption of the national anthem, "Mer Hayrenik" (Our Fatherland), for which he rewrote the words for the first stanza. During the crippling energy blockade between 1992 and 1995 - a result of the Karabakh war - the capital was gripped by shortages of food, water, heat and electricity. Faithful to his vow that "the doors of culture must never be closed", Tjeknavorian maintained weekly concerts at this time, including a regular series of spiritual music concerts every Saturday in anticipation of the 1700th anniversary of Christianity in Armenia.

During his eleven-year collaboration with the APO, his recordings with the orchestra for ORF (the Austrian radio and television station) and ASV (an English recording company) achieved worldwide recognition; they frequently toured Europe, the United States, Canada, Iran and Lebanon. For three successive years, from 1991 to 1993, the APO was the resident orchestra in the ORF benefit program Licht Ins Dunkel in Vienna.

Iran (2000 – present)
In 2000, Tjeknavorian resigned from the APO in order to devote more time to composing. During this period he also conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and performed at the San Francisco Opera House, the Contemporary Music Festival and at the Vienna Music Festival in Hong Kong and Bangkok. He conducted the Austrian premiere of his opera Rostam and Sohrab at the Festspielhaus in St. Pölten.

From 2009 to the present, Tjeknavorian has continued to devote his time to composing, as well as painting and writing short stories. Among his most recent works are the operas Zahak (libretto based on Ferdowsi's Shahnameh) and Mowlana and Shams-e Tabriz (libretto based on the poetry of Rumi), as well as the chamber opera "The Final Hour of Sadegh Hedayat" (libretto based on "The Blind Owl" and other works by the Iranian writer Sadegh Hedayat). Other works include his second concerto for violin and chamber orchestra, a work for solo piano titled "1915", and two major symphonic suites: King Cyrus, about the ancient Persian king, and Takhti, dedicated to the celebrated Iranian wrestler. Tjeknavorian's paintings were exhibited at the Gallery Shirin in Tehran, Gallery Maryam Seyhoun in Los Angeles, and twice at the House of the Artists in Tehran. He has published and presented a sarcastic book under the title of The Land of Asses which is a collection of satiric short stories. Tjeknavarian the man with a humorous disposition has depicted a land that is run by the asses.

On December 20, 2008, Tjeknavorian recorded Hafez Nazeri's The night of Angel (yet to be released) with the London Symphony orchestra.

Tjeknavorian's recent performances include benefit concerts in Tehran and Los Angeles for the organization MAHAK on behalf of children with cancer, a series of concerts with the Armenian Chamber Orchestra at the Talar Vahdat Hall in Tehran, a performance of his Ararat Suite with the Sacramento Symphony, and the world premiere of his King Cyrus symphonic suite with the San Francisco Philharmonic Orchestra in August 2013. In 2011 the Iranian BARBAD recording company issued a 20-CD box set of Tjerknavorian's major works (symphonies, choral works, ballet, chamber music, operas, etc.) plus 2 DVDs of his opera Rostam & Sohrab.

During an interview on the occasion of his 81st birthday, Tjeknavorian said to the journalist of IRNA: "Iran is my homeland. My ancestors have lived in this land. I’ve been born in Iran and will be buried here. I’m emotionally and culturally attached to every inch of this country and feel at home in nowhere except for Iran."

Armenian Philharmonic
In 1989, Tjeknavorian was appointed Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra (APO). During his eleven years collaboration with the APO, his recordings for ORF (the Austrian radio and television station) and ASV (an English recording company) achieved worldwide recognition, they frequently toured Europe, the United States, Canada, Iran and Lebanon. In three successive years, from 1991 to 1993, the APO was the resident orchestra in the ORF benefit program "Licht ins Dunkel" ("Light into the Darkness") in Vienna. However, in 2000, Tjeknavorian resigned from this position in order to be able to devote more time to composing and conducting other orchestras.

Awards

 * Top Art Medal (June 20, 2002)
 * In a ceremony in Vahdat Hall, awarded Iran's highest performing arts medal by Minister of Culture A. Masjedjamei
 * Two "Golden Harp Awards" for Highest Artistic Achievement in the 15th and 16th "FAJR" Music Festival in Teheran
 * Honorary Professor, Komitas Conservatory, Yerevan
 * For services to church music, first recipient of the Cultural Order of "St. Mesrop Mashtotz", conferred by Vazken I, Supreme Catholicos of all Armenians
 * Government Order for services supporting earthquake recovery, from Prime Minister Oskanian of the Armenian SSR
 * "Khorenatsi" Medal for cultural services to Armenia
 * Golden Cross of the Rumanian Church
 * BBC Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide
 * Gold Medal from University of Armenia
 * Macedonian Silver Orb, conferred by Bishop Bartolomeus I of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Churches
 * EMG Art of Record Buying Recommendation
 * EMG Golden Art of Record Buying Recommendation
 * Gramophone Classical Good CD Guide
 * Gramophone Critics' Choice
 * Gramophone Editor's Choice
 * Gramophone Recommended Recording
 * Hi-Fi World Record of the Month
 * High Fidelity Critics' Choice
 * Penguin Guide to Compact Discs *** Outstanding performance and recording
 * Records & Recording Pick of the Month, Pick of the Year
 * Homayoon Order and Medal for composition of Son et Lumiere Persepolis 2500
 * Golden Conducting Baton for Artistic Achievement from the Armenian Philharmonic Choir
 * Golden Cultural Medal from the Armenian Ministry of Culture

Filmography

 * 1983: Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra & conductor Loris Tjeknavorian - (Tours in Austria, Germany, Greece) ARM TV 108min. Director cameraman Levon Mkrtchyan The script of film Hrachuhi Taturyan
 * 1991: Pilgrimage To Gyumri
 * 1998: Armenian Philharmonic in Baalbek - conductor Loris Tjeknavorian, director Levon Mkrtchyan
 * 2000: Rostam and Sohrab - Opera statement in Iran, Tehran, director cameraman Levon Mkrtchyan

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Elishah or Eliseus ( ’Ĕlīšā) was the son of Javan according to the Book of Genesis (10:4) in the Masoretic Text. The Greek Septuagint of Genesis 10 lists Elisa not only as the son of Javan, but also a grandson of Japheth. His name is spelled differently in Hebrew to the prophet Elisha, ending in a hei instead of an ayin.

Scholars have often identified Elishah with Cypriots, as in ancient times the island of Cyprus or part of it was known as Alashiya. According to the Jewish encyclopedia Elishah is to be identified with Magna Graecia and Sicels. Judean historian Flavius Josephus related the descendants of Elishah with the Aeolians, one of the ancestral branches of the Greeks. Other proposed scholarly identifications are with Hellas and Carthage ("Elissa").

Elishah is also mentioned in the mediaeval, rabbinic Book of Jasher (Hebrew transliteration: Sefer haYashar); he is said in Jasher to have been the ancestor of the "Almanim", possibly a reference to Germanic tribes (Alemanni). An older and more common tradition refers to him as a settler of Greece, particularly Elis in the Peloponnese.

Portuguese traditions
Portuguese folklore traditionally makes Elishah (under the name Lysias/Lísias) an ancestor and predecessor of Lusus (Elisha being older, having arrived accompanying his uncle Tubal founding Portalegre in 1900 BC under Iberian king Brigo). Lysias' own supposed tomb (in Portalegre) claims that he was the first "cultivator" of Lusitania. Lusus' reign is traditionally placed in the 16th - 15th centuries BC, e.g., in the Livro Primeiro da Monarchia Lusitana. All this is debated; Lusus has also been described as coming before Lysias, who would thus be too late to be Elishah or vaguely at the same time, or even the same individual under different names. Lusus is sometimes called a son of Baccus and of the lineage of Lysias, or the other way around, or even a mere companion.

The Portuguese orator and mythographer Father António Vieira (1608-1697) refers to Elishah (under his actual biblical name) as founder and eponym of Lisbon and Lusitania (when he came to Iberia with his uncle Tubal), as well as the origin of the name of the mythological Elysium. Vieira also identified Elisha's biblical brother Tarshish as the founder of Tartesos in Andalucia, implying both would have come to Iberia with Tubal (though this isn't the only theory on the identity of Tarshish). Elishah in this Portuguese portrayal is identified with Bacchus' captain Lysias/Lísias, sometimes also with Lusus and Phoroneus, and is referred to as the founder of Portalegre and being buried at the Ermida de São Cristovão (Chapel of Saint Christopher) inside the town.

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Amoskeag Falls

The Amoskeag Falls are a set of waterfalls on the Merrimack River in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States.

History
"Amoskeag" derives from the Pennacook Native American word "Namoskeag", which roughly translates as "good fishing place". Here, the Merrimack River drops 50 ft over the course of 0.25 mi. Local tribes in the region fished Amoskeag Falls for its plentiful migrating sturgeon, alewife, and salmon, which were easily caught in the rapids. Natives typically used a combination of large nets strung across the river. Significant native settlements were sited near the falls, particularly on the high bluffs overlooking the east side of the river.

In 1807, Samuel Blodgett started a canal and lock system at the river to help vessels navigate around the falls, opening the area to development. This soon led to the use of the falls for a power canal to provide water power for Manchester's 19th century industrial development, most notable for the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company.

Use of the name
Due to the significance of the falls in Manchester history, a number of local companies have adopted their name. Examples include the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company (which operated a majority of Manchester's textile mills using power from the falls until they closed in the midst of labor strikes in 1935), its division called the Amoskeag Locomotive Works (an early manufacturer of fire trucks and train cars), and the Amoskeag Fishways (an environmental education center located at the Amoskeag Falls).

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Charles Hope, Lord Granton

Charles Hope, The Rt Hon. the Lord Granton FRSE (29 June 1763 – 30 October 1851) was a Scottish politician and judge.

Life
Hope was born on 29 June 1763, the eldest son of Mary Breton, the only daughter of Eliab Breton of Forty Hill, Enfield (a granddaughter of Sir William Wolstenholme) and John Hope, Member of Parliament (MP) for Linlithgowshire, and a grandson of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun. He was educated at Enfield Grammar School, and later at the Edinburgh High School, where in 1777 he was the Latin dux. After studying law at the University of Edinburgh he was admitted as an advocate on 11 December 1784, and on 25 March 1786 was appointed a Deputy Advocate.

In 1788 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank, James Gregory, and the mathematician John Playfair.

Though not conspicuous as a lawyer he was an accomplished public speaker, and in this capacity made himself useful at the Tory political meetings. On 5 June 1792 he became Sheriff of Orkney, and in June 1801 was appointed Lord Advocate in the Addington administration in the room of Robert Dundas of Arniston. Shortly afterwards he was presented with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh, together with a piece of plate, for his assistance to the magistrates in obtaining a poor's bill for the city.

At the general election in July 1802, he was returned to the House of Commons for Dumfries district, but resigned his seat when Henry Dundas's elevation to the upper house, and was returned unopposed for the city of Edinburgh (January 1803). During his service as Lord Advocate, Hope conducted through the House of Commons the Scotch Parochial Schoolmasters' Act (43 Geo. 3. c. 54), by means of which authorities building schools were also obliged to erect houses with at least two rooms for the schoolmasters.

The only speech of his reported in the 'Parliamentary Debates' was one delivered in his own defence in the debate on Whitbread's motion for the production of papers relating to Hope's censure of a Banffshire farmer named Morison, who had discharged his servant for attending drills of a volunteer regiment. Hope made an ingenious defence, and gave a lively description of the multitudinous duties of his office but though the case against him was strong, the motion, after a great party debate in which both Pitt and Fox took part, was defeated by 159 to 82.

On 20 November 1804, Hope was appointed an ordinary Lord of Session and Lord Justice Clerk in the place of Sir David Rae, Lord Eskgrove, and assuming the title of Lord Granton took his seat on the bench on 6 December 1804. On 12 November 1811, he succeeded Robert Blair, Lord Avontoun as Lord President of the Court of Session, being succeeded as Lord Justice Clerk by David Boyle, Lord Boyle. In 1820, he presided at the special commission for the trial of high treason at Glasgow, and on 17 August 1822 was admitted to the Privy Council at Holyrood House. On 29 July 1823, Hope was appointed, together with his eldest son John, on the Commission of Inquiry into the forms of process and the course of appeals in Scotland. On the death of James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, in December 1836, Hope became Lord Justice General, by virtue of the Court of Session Act 1830, by which it was enacted that 'after the termination of the present existing interest' that office should 'devolve upon and remain united with the office of lord president of the court of session.' Hope retired from the bench in the autumn of 1841, and was succeeded as Lord President by David Boyle.

He died at his home on 12 Moray Place, Edinburgh on 30 October 1851, aged 89. He was buried in the mausoleum at Hopetoun House on 4 November 1851.

Assessment
Hope was a man of imposing presence, with a magnificent voice, which, according to Lord Cockburn, 'was surpassed by that of the great Mrs. Siddons alone', and a wonderful gift of declamation.

Though a violent political partisan, and greatly wanting in tact and judgment, 'his integrity, candour, kindness, and gentlemanlike manners and feelings gained him almost unanimous esteem'. His charges to juries were singularly persuasive and impressive. Lockhart gives a graphic account of Hope's majestic bearing on the bench in 'Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk' (1819, ii. 102–8), while recording what he describes 'as without exception the finest piece of judicial eloquence, delivered in the finest possible way by the Lord-president Hope.'

When the volunteer movement began, owing to the French war, Hope enlisted as a private in the first regiment of Royal Edinburgh Volunteers.

He was afterwards appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Corps, and performed the duties of that office with enthusiasm for several years, until the regiment was disbanded for the second time in 1814.

In December 1819, when the 'old blues' were once more summoned together, he made them 'one of the most eloquent addresses that ever was heard', and daily inspected the volunteers on duty at Edinburgh Castle while the regular troops were despatched to the western counties.

Hope's famous regimental orders of 18 October 1803, containing most curious and minute details, are given at length in Cockburn's 'Memorials'.

Family
On 8 August 1793 Hope married his cousin Lady Charlotte Hope, second daughter of John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, by his third wife, Lady Elizabeth Leslie, second daughter of Alexander, fifth earl of Leven and Melville, by whom he had four sons- of whom the eldest, John (1794–1858), was Solicitor General for Scotland from 1822 to 1830- and eight daughters. His daughter Ann Wilhelmina was married to Hercules Robertson, Lord Benholme and his eighth and last daughter, Louisa Octavia Augusta Hope, was a promoter of domestic education.

His wife died at Edinburgh on 22 January 1834, aged 62.

David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, Lord President of the Court of Session from 1989 to 1996, descends from Lord Granton's third son.

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Barendregt

Barendregt is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Jaap Barendregt (1905–1952), Dutch footballer
 * Johan Barendregt (1924–1982), Dutch chess player
 * Henk Barendregt (born 1947), Dutch logician

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Radziwiłł Chronicle

The Radziwiłł Chronicle, also known as the Königsberg Chronicle, is a collection of illuminated manuscripts from the 15th-century; it is believed to be a copy of a 13th-century original. Its name is derived from the Radziwiłł family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (later, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth), who kept it in their Nesvizh Castle in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Radziwiłł manuscript was taken out of Königsberg in 1761 and acquired by the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, where it is currently preserved with registration number "34.5.30".

The work tells the history of Kievan Rus' and its neighbors from the fifth to the early 13th centuries in pictorial form, representing events described in the manuscript with more than 600 colour illustrations. Among East Slavic chronicles, the Radziwiłł is distinguished for the richness and quantity of its illustrations, which may derive from the 13th-century original. The chronicle includes the Tale of Bygone Years and extends it with yearly entries until 1206.

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