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Enoch Soames

"Enoch Soames" is the title of a short story by the British writer Max Beerbohm. Enoch Soames is also the name of the main character.

The piece was originally published in the May 1916 edition of The Century Magazine, and was later included in Beerbohm's anthology, Seven Men (1919). It is a comic tragedy, involving elements of both fantasy and science fiction, well known for its clever and humorous use of the concepts of time travel and pacts with the Devil.

The author uses a complex combination of fact and fiction to create a sense of realism. Although Enoch Soames is a fictional character, Beerbohm includes himself in the story, which he also narrates; and writes it as the reminiscences of a series of actual events that he witnessed and participated in as a younger man. The work also contains a written portrait of the real-life artist William Rothenstein, as well as countless references to contemporary-to-1897 events and places. In addition, Rothenstein actually drew the "portrait" of Soames that is mentioned in the text; although the work was probably created closer to the date of publication, than to the 1895-date given in the story. Beerbohm himself also drew a cartoon-sketch of Soames, and the two pictures are recognisably of the same "person".

Plot summary
Writing as a narrator describing events from his own past, Beerbohm presents himself as a moderately successful young English essayist during the 1890s. He then relates the tragic history of an older colleague named Enoch Soames. The son of a bookseller from Preston, living off an inherited annuity, he is an utterly obscure, forgettable aspiring poet in the Decadent manner. Over the course of the story, he authors three unsuccessful books, of which Beerbohm provides parodies of his book of poems, "Fungoids". Soames’ appearance is described as “dim” and leaves little impression, except for his persistent habit of always wearing a particular grey waterproof cape and soft black hat.

On the afternoon of 3 June 1897, Soames and Beerbohm are having lunch in the Soho-based "Restaurant du Vingtieme Siecle". The self-obsessed Soames is deeply depressed, consumed with the belief that he is an unrecognised great author and, despite his complete failure so far, keenly curious about his "certain" posthumous fame. He therefore agrees to a contract offered by the Devil, who introduces himself from a neighbouring table. In exchange for the possession of his soul, Soames will be transported exactly 100 years forward in time to spend the rest of the afternoon in the British Museum Reading Room and discover what judgement posterity will make on himself and his works. After the allotted time has expired, Soames will be returned to their present date and location, but at the same time of evening as his departure from the future, and the Devil will then collect his payment.

Soames then vanishes and reappears in the café at the designated hour, where Beerbohm has returned to meet him. Soames’ description of the world of the future is vague and nondescript; while there he had focused primarily on his own concerns. He tells Beerbohm that the only mention he could find of himself was in a single scholarly article, of which Soames produces a facsimile-copy. It is printed in English, but in a phonetic spelling and with modified pronunciation, both of which had apparently evolved during the intervening century. The article discusses a "labud sattire" written by one Max Beerbohm "in wich e pautraid an immajnari karrakter kauld Enoch Soames — a thurd-rait poit hoo beleevz imself a grate jeneus an maix a bargin with th Devvl in auder ter no wot posterriti thinx ov im!" (in which he portrayed an imaginary character called Enoch Soames—a third-rate poet who believes himself a great genius and makes a bargain with the Devil to know what posterity thinks of him).

Beerbohm is shocked and denies that he would ever write such a thing. Before being taken to Hell, on the Devil's return, Soames scornfully requests that Beerbohm at least try to make people believe that he, Soames, actually existed. Beerbohm's narrative is that justification. He notes in particular that Soames mentioned that his presence in the reading room had caused a great stir, but "I assure you that in no period could Soames be anything but dim. The fact that people are going to stare at him, and follow him around, and seem afraid of him, can be explained only on the hypothesis that they will somehow have been prepared for his ghostly visitation. They will have been awfully waiting to see whether he really would come. And when he does come, the effect will of course be – awful."

Follow-up
The Reading Room of the British Museum was in fact still in operation in June 1997, although it was closed later that year and its functions were transferred to the new British Library. This move had been intended to occur long before that time, but construction and completion of the new British national library building were repeatedly delayed. The "old" Reading Room was subsequently renovated; its original interior decoration was restored and it reopened in 2000, but the space is now used for different purposes and it no longer serves its former purpose as a research library.

An article written by Teller, "A Memory of the Nineteen-Nineties" ("Being a faithful account of the events of the designated day, when the man who had disappeared was expected briefly to return"), was published in the November 1997 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. The piece claims to describe actual events, witnessed by Teller and a small group of other people; fans of Beerbohm's story, who had come to the Reading Room on the date specified, in time for Soames' afternoon "visit". According to this account, at 2:10 PM, on 3 June 1997, a person meeting Soames' description mysteriously appeared, and began searching through the catalogues and various biographical dictionaries. A few minutes later, he slipped out of sight of the watching crowd, and disappeared among the stacks.

In an October 2012 Esquire article, writer Chris Jones implied that Teller himself had staged this event, although the magician "didn't confess his role. He never has."

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Swinburne baronets

The Swinburne Baronetcy, of Capheaton in the County of Northumberland, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 26 September 1660 for John Swinburne in honour of the loyalty to Charles I of Swinburne's father and grandfather prior to and during the English Civil War. He demolished Capheaton Castle in 1668 and built a new house on the site. The sixth baronet was member of parliament for Launceston in 1788-9 and High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1799. His grandson, the seventh baronet, was High Sheriff in 1866 and member of parliament for Lichfield 1885–1892. His son, the eighth baronet was High Sheriff in 1920. The title became extinct on the death of the tenth baronet in 1967.

The baronets were descended from the ancient Northumbrian family of Swinburne Castle which passed to the Heron family on the death of Sir Adam Swinburne. The junior line of Collerton came to Capheaton in 1264 and later in 1514 to Edlingham. Charles Henry Swinburne, younger son of the sixth baronet, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy. His eldest son was the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.

The family seat is at Capheaton Hall, Northumberland.

Swinburne baronets, of Capheaton (1660)

 * Sir John Swinburne, 1st Baronet (died 1706)
 * Sir William Swinburne, 2nd Baronet (c. 1670–1716)
 * Sir John Swinburne, 3rd Baronet (1698–1745)
 * Sir John Swinburne, 4th Baronet (1724–1763)
 * Sir Edward Swinburne, 5th Baronet (1733–1786)
 * Sir John Edward Swinburne, 6th Baronet (1762–1860)
 * Sir John Swinburne, 7th Baronet (1831–1914)
 * Sir Hubert Swinburne, 8th Baronet (1867–1934)
 * Sir James Swinburne, 9th Baronet (1858–1958)
 * Sir Spearman Charles Swinburne, 10th Baronet (1893–1967)

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Wanamaker Organ

The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the largest fully functioning pipe organ in the world, based on the number of playing pipes, the number of ranks and its weight. The Wanamaker Organ is located within a spacious 7-story Grand Court at Macy's Center City (formerly Wanamaker's department store) and is played twice a day Monday through Saturday. The organ is featured at several special concerts held throughout the year, including events featuring the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ Festival Chorus and Brass Ensemble.

Notable characteristics
The Wanamaker Organ is a concert organ of the American Symphonic school of design, which combines traditional organ tone with the sonic colors of the symphony orchestra. In its present configuration, the instrument has 28,750 pipes in 464 ranks.

The organ console consists of six manuals with an array of stops and controls that command the organ. The organ's String Division fills the largest single organ chamber in the world. The division features eighty-eight ranks of string pipes built to Wanamaker specifications by the W.W. Kimball Company of Chicago.

The organ is famed for its orchestra-like sound, coming from pipes that are voiced softer than usual, allowing an unusually rich build-up because of the massing of pipe-tone families. The organ was also built and enlarged as an "art organ", using exceptional craftsmanship and lavish application of materials to create a luxury product.

There is a minimum of borrowing and unification in its disciplined design, except in the Pedal and Orchestral divisions, where it adds genuine value, and duplexing is reserved for when valuable solo voices can be separated from their divisions without tying up the remaining tonal resources of said division. Choruses (16', 8', 4') are true choruses of three ranks, each with their own personality, rather than a single rank electrically "tapped" at three pitches, with the resulting weakening of the octaves and sameness of tone between the voices as found in unification.

The Wanamaker Store maintained its own organ factory to ensure an ultra-high-grade result. The artistic obligation entailed by the creation of this instrument has always been honored, with two curators employed in its constant and scrupulous care (which leads to its status as one of the best maintained organ in the world). This dedication was enhanced when corporate parentage shifted from the Wanamaker family to Carter Hawley Hale Stores followed by Woodward & Lothrop, The May Department Stores Company, and Lord & Taylor. When the space was occupied by Macy's and with the founding of the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ with its input of outside capital, an aggressive restoration schedule developed and is still maintained. Current restoration efforts are a combination of Macy's expenditures and significant contributions by Friends of the Wanamaker Organ, a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to the instrument.

History

The Wanamaker Organ was originally built by the Los Angeles Art Organ Company, successors to the Murray M. Harris Organ Co., for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. It was designed to be the largest organ in the world, an imitation of a full-size orchestra with particularly complete resources of full organ tone including mixtures. In addition to its console, the organ was originally equipped with an automatic player that used punched rolls of paper, according to the Los Angeles Times of 1904. It was built to a specification by renowned organ theorist and architect George Ashdown Audsley. Wild cost overruns plagued the project, with the result that Harris was ousted from his own company. With capital from stockholder Eben Smith, it was reorganized as the Los Angeles Art Organ Company, and finished at a cost of $105,000 (equal to $0 today), $40,000 over budget, equal to $0 today. The Fair began (in late April 1904) before the organ was fully installed in its temporary home, Festival Hall. Although the organ's debut was scheduled for May 1, official fair organist and St. Louis local Charles Henry Galloway did not give his opening recital until June 9. The organ was still not entirely finished in September of that year, when Alexandre Guilmant, one of the most famous organists of the day, presented 40 very well-attended recitals on the organ.

Following the Fair, the organ was intended for permanent installation by the Kansas City Convention Center. Indeed, the original console had a prominent "K C" on its music rack. This venture failed, bankrupting the L. A. Art Organ company after the Fair closed. There was a plan to exhibit the organ at Coney Island in New York City, but nothing came of this.

The organ languished in storage at the Handlan warehouse in St. Louis until 1909, when it was bought by John Wanamaker for his new department store at 13th and Market Streets in Center City, Philadelphia. It took thirteen freight cars to move it to its new home, and two years for installation. It was first played on June 22, 1911, at the exact moment when British King George V was crowned. It was also featured later that year when U.S. President William Howard Taft dedicated the store.

Despite its then-unprecedented size (more than 10,000 pipes), it was judged inadequate to fill the seven-story Grand Court in which it was located, so Wanamaker's opened a private organ factory in the store attic, which was charged with enlarging the organ. The first project to enlarge the organ was the addition of 8,000 pipes between 1911 and 1917.

Wanamaker's sponsored many historic after-business-hours concerts on the Wanamaker Organ. The first, in 1919, featured Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra with organist Charles M. Courboin. Every sales counter and fixture was removed for the free after-hours event, which attracted an audience of 15,000 from across the United States. Subsequently, more of these "Musicians' Assemblies" were held, as were private recitals. For these events Wanamaker's opened a Concert Bureau under Alexander Russell and brought to America master organists Marcel Dupré and Louis Vierne, Nadia Boulanger, Marco Enrico Bossi, Alfred Hollins, and several others. (This agency, which worked in partnership with Canadian Bernard R. LaBerge, evolved into the Karen McFarlane Concert Agency of the present day.) During his first recital on the organ, Dupré was so impressed with the instrument that he was inspired to improvise a musical depiction of the life of Jesus Christ. This was later published as his Symphonie-Passion.

From April 24, 1922, to 1928 the store had its own radio station, WOO, and music from the organ was a major feature of the broadcasts.

In 1924, a new project to enlarge the organ began. Marcel Dupré and Charles M. Courboin were among those asked by Rodman Wanamaker, John Wanamaker's son, to "Work together to draw up a plan for the instrument. Use everything you have ever dreamed about." They were told there was no limit to the budget. This project resulted in, among other things, the celebrated String Division, which occupies the largest organ chamber ever constructed, 67 feet long, 26 feet deep, and 16 feet high (22 by 9 by 5 m). During this project, the organ's current console was constructed in Wanamaker's private in-house pipe-organ factory, with six manuals and several hundred controls. By 1930, when work on expanding the organ finally stopped, the organ had 28,482 pipes, and, if Rodman Wanamaker had not died in 1928, the organ would probably be even bigger.

Plans were made for, among others, a Stentor division, a section of high-pressure diapasons and reeds. It was to be installed on the fifth floor, above the String Division, and would be playable from the sixth manual. However, it was never funded, and the sixth manual is now used to couple other divisions or play various solo voices from other divisions that are duplexed to this keyboard.

Rodman Wanamaker was not interested in mere size, however, but in artistic organ-building with finely crafted pipes and chests using the best materials and careful artistic consideration. The Wanamaker Organ console, built in the store organ shop by William Boone Fleming, is a work of art in its own right with heavy, durable construction, an ingenious layout of its pneumatic stop action and many unique features and conveniences. Wanamaker also had a collection of 60 rare stringed instruments, the Wanamaker Cappella, that were used in conjunction with the store organs in Philadelphia and New York, and went on tour. They were dispersed after his death.

Following the sale of the store to The May Department Stores Company, in 1995, the Wanamaker's name was removed from the store (first as Wanamaker-Hecht's) in favor of Hecht's, but the organ and its concerts were retained. During the local renaming of the Hecht's stores to Strawbridge's, the historic Wanamaker Store briefly took the name of its longtime rival Strawbridge's. The May Company began a complete restoration of the organ in 1997, as part of the store's final May Co. conversion into a Lord & Taylor. At that time the store area was reduced to three floors and additional panes of glass were put around the Grand Court on floors four and five, greatly enhancing the reverberation of the room.

The Philadelphia Orchestra returned to the Grand Court on September 27, 2008, for the premiere performance of Joseph Jongen's Symphonie Concertante (1926) on the organ for which it was written. The ticketed event, featuring soloist Peter Richard Conte, also included the Bach/Stokowski arrangement of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Marcel Dupré's Cortege and Litany for Organ and Orchestra, and the world premiere of a Fanfare by Howard Shore, composer for The Lord of the Rings films. Shore visited the store in May 2008 to meet with Peter Richard Conte and hear the Wanamaker Organ. The Philadelphia Orchestra Concert was co-sponsored by the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ and was a benefit for that organization.

In 2019 the Wanamaker Organ facade, designed by Daniel Hudson Burnham, was restored and re-gilded in 22-karat gold to a color scheme close in sympathy to its original appearance but which fits in with its new surroundings. Evergreene Architectural Arts did the work. Grant money from Macy's and several Philadelphia area charities funded this project, which was overseen by the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ.

Organists
Although numerous famous organists have played special concerts on the organ, it has had only four chief organists in its history:

 * Dr. Irvin J. Morgan (1911–1917)
 * Mary E. Vogt (1917–1966)
 * Dr. Keith Chapman (1966–1989)
 * Peter Richard Conte (1989–present)

For about a decade beginning in 1919, Dr. Charles M. Courboin was the organist for a series of special evening concerts, including several collaborations with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Courboin also headed the Wanamaker Organ Shop in the late 1920s.

Noteworthy assistant organists

 * Dr. Richard L. Elliott (Chapman)
 * Ken Cowan (Conte)
 * Nathan Laube (Conte)

Present curator

 * Matthew Taft

Original compositions

 * Premiére Symphonie "Passion" en ré mineur pour Grand-Orgue, op. 23 by Marcel Dupré. Originally improvised.
 * Concerto Gregorian by Pietro Yon
 * Concerto Romano by Alfredo Casella
 * Dedicace by Louis Vierne, dedicated to Rodman Wanamaker
 * Symphonie Concertante for organ and orchestra by Joseph Jongen
 * Fanfare and Procession by Keith Chapman
 * "A Highland Ayre" from "Scottish Folk Tone Poems" by Richard Purvis (written for the Wanamaker Organ at the request of Keith Chapman)
 * Cathedral of Commerce by Robert Hebble

Arrangements of existing music

 * "Come Sweet Death" by J. S. Bach, arranged after Stokowski by Virgil Fox
 * Leopold Stokowski's organ-orchestra transcription of Bach's Passacaglia in C Minor
 * Transcription of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition by Keith Chapman
 * Transcription of Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain by Peter Richard Conte
 * Transcription of Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Peter Richard Conte
 * Transcription of Nicolai's Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor by Peter Richard Conte
 * Transcription of Elgar's Cockaigne Overture by Peter Richard Conte
 * Transcription of Bernstein's "Overture to Candide" by Peter Richard Conte
 * Transcription of the Elgar Enigma Variations by Peter Richard Conte
 * Transcription of "Der Rosenkavalier Suite" by Peter Richard Conte
 * Transcription of Arthur Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard Overture by Peter Richard Conte
 * Improvisation on a Stokowski-theme by Xaver Varnus

Architectural layout
The pipes are laid out across the space occupied by five floors of the building, with the sections situated as follows:
 * 2nd floor south – Main Pedal 32 ft, Lower Swell, Great, Percussions
 * 3rd floor south – Main Pedal, Chorus, Upper Swell, Choir/Enclosed Great, Solo, Vox Humana Chorus
 * 4th floor south – String
 * 4th floor west – Orchestral (adjacent to String)
 * 7th floor south – Major Chimes, Ethereal, Chinese Gong
 * 7th floor north – Echo

The 32 ft Wood Open, 32 ft Diaphone, and 32 ft Metal Diapason pipes run the length of a little more than 2 stories, beginning on the second floor.

Recordings

 * The Grand Court Organ (1973) by Keith Chapman. It included a number of works demonstrating the full organ
 * Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. 1975, the recording is of Keith Chapman's own transcription of the piano suite
 * Airs & Arabesques (1976) explored the softer colors of the instrument to marvelous effect
 * Virgil Fox Plays the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ (1964, 2004).
 * Keith Chapman – The Lost Radio Broadcasts - Vantage V2CD-698-002
 * Xaver Varnus' concert
 * Magic! (2001) By Peter Richard Conte
 * Wanamaker Legacy (2004) by Peter Richard Conte
 * A Grand Celebration: Peter Richard Conte with The Philadelphia Orchestra, recorded 2008
 * Wanamaker Organ Centennial Concert: Peter Richard Conte with the Symphony in C, Rossen Milanov, conductor. Recorded 2011. Also available on DVD.
 * Midnight in the Grand Court (2004) by Peter Richard Conte
 * Christmas in the Grand Tradition by Peter Richard Conte with the Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
 * My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice by Peter Richard Conte with Andrew Ennis, Flugelhorn
 * Around the Wanamaker Organ in 80 Minutes, Wanamaker DVD (A DVD tour of the organ)
 * A Wanamaker Organ Curators Tour through the entire instrument on DVD with curator Curt Mangel and MPR host Michael Barone (Pipedreams).
 * A Wanamaker Organ Sonic Odyssey tonal exploration of the entire instrument on DVD with Peter Richard Conte and Yale Organist Thomas Murray.

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File:Dickies - The Incredible Shrinking Dickies album cover.jpg

Summary
The Dickies - The Incredible Shrinking Dickies. Original UK LP album cover

Licensing
Original UK release album cover - album covers are fair use. Picture scanned by me Ian Dunster from original UK LP album.


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Estadio Víctor Manuel Reyna

The Estadio Víctor Manuel Reyna is a football stadium located in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, México. This facility has a capacity of 29,001 seats and was built in 2003. This sport facility is used mostly for football matches and is currently the home stadium for Cafetaleros de Chiapas. It also hosted shows as the final of La Academia Última Generación.

History
The capital city stadium was built in 1982 to accommodate 6000 spectators, however after 20 years officially became the venue for matches in the first division tournaments FMF. Later, the stadium was remodeled and expanded to have a capacity of 27,500 fans. The stadium was inaugurated in 1984 with the official match between Club America and the extinct Student team Chiapas. The current name stadium stood to honor Victor Manuel Reyna (1910-1973), professor of physical education in Tuxtla Gutierrez, where he created the first state leagues and municipal, that in the 50s. It is distinguished not only by investing much of their salary to equip street children to practice the sport, but also to convey to young broader social values. He is considered the father of football in Chiapas. Throughout its history, the stadium has hosted Zoque liguillas five First Division and tournaments at all levels of Mexican soccer. It has also presented friendly matches Mexico national football team against Ecuador over the selections and Canada. In 2011, the Zoque witnessed official games for ranking and tournament Copa Libertadores.

Courts
It has a system of computerized irrigation and drainage system that prevents puddles made even under heavy rainfall, characteristic of the city in the summer and fall. The grass varies by climate, therefore has three common varieties like grass, Sahara and 328, which are tolerant to heat and rain.

Gym
To improve conditions in professional players Jaguares de Chiapas, the gym is equipped with modern appliances like goo bike, glidex 600, adductor, abdominal crunch, vertical traction, extension arm, calf rotary, pulley, lat machine, glute, leg press, lower back, leg curl, leg extension and technogim Ce

Media Room
For presentations, lectures and interviews, the stadium has a room with 40 seats, tables, local sound, projectors, screens, phones, and other devices to the media.

Parking
The stadium has three parking to accommodate 1,240 vehicles. Preferential parking has 150 drawers located between Causeway Boulevard and the Ethnic Fidel Velazquez. The South has 190 parking located between Causeway drawers Ethnic and Sport Unit. And the North has 900 parking drawers located in the Northern Bypass in circulation from west to east. In addition, the stadium has an exclusive parking inside for players and officials. The entrance is on the north parking lot 4 and access.

Tribune
Currently the stadium has the capacity to accommodate 24,000 fans that can be placed in different areas. The zones are North Head (6.702 points), South Head (6.734 points), Preferred (7.733 points), Allocated Preferred (538 numbered seats) VIP Platea (1724 numbered seats), VIP Area (40 numbered seats) and Super Palco ( 37 numbered seats).

Health Care Center
It is an area of 42 square meters, located under Plateas VIP area. Inside is a clinic, a rehabilitation ward physiotherapy, hydrotherapy baths and a full team of specialists who care for the health of the team's players representative.

Dressing
It has all the requirements needed for the comfort of the players as custom lockers, hot tub, TVs and a pool area. It also has one dresses himself to the coaching staff, visiting team, referees, assistants and equipment basic forces.

Infrastructure
The sports complex is linked to the areas of ISSTECH (Institute social security for workers in the state of Chiapas) and features: basketball courts, tennis courts, racquetball, Olympic swimming pool, baseball stadium, the stadium also has track and one of the country's best irrigation systems.

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Chipstable

Chipstable is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated beside Heydon Hill 10 mi west of Taunton. The parish has a population of 309.

The parish includes Raddington and Waterrow.

History
The name Chipstable means "Cippa's post".

The manor was held by Muchelney Abbey from the Norman Conquest until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and then passing to the Bluets of Greenham in Stawley. The parishes of Chipstable and Raddington were part of the Williton and Freemanners Hundred.

The village of Waterrow developed from hamlets called east and west Skirdle.

Governance
The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

For local government purposes, since 1 April 2023, the village comes under the unitary authority of Somerset Council. Prior to this, it was part of the non-metropolitan district of Somerset West and Taunton (formed on 1 April 2019) and, before this, the district of Taunton Deane (established under the Local Government Act 1972). From 1894-1974, for local government purposes, Chipstable was part of Wellington Rural District.

It is also part of the Taunton Deane county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election, and was part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament prior to Britain leaving the European Union in January 2020, which elected seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.

Geography
The parish lies between the Brendon Hills and the River Tone.

Hurstone Farm Woodlands in Waterrow is a woodland on the banks of the River Tone, which has been designated as a local nature reserve. The woodland, hedgerows and open grassland provide a habitat for dormice, otter and several bat species. Bryophyte species include black spleenwort.

Religious sites
The Church of England parish Church of St Michael in Raddington dates from the 13th and 14th centuries and has been designated as a grade I listed building.

The Church of All Saints in Chipstable village is more recent having been built in the 15th century. The tower and part of the nave remain from a previous building of about 1239. England cricketer Jos Buttler got married here in October 2017.

Bethel Chapel, was built as a Congregational church in 1890.

Waterrow Church Hall was also built in Waterrow in 1908 for the people of Waterrow to save the journey uphill to Chipstable for services. Waterrow Church Hall now provides local church services for the inhabitants of Waterrow and beyond.

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Talk:Caldecott Tunnel fire

Another account
Another accounting of events has a bus-tanker-stopped-car collision occurring when the bus tries to pass the tanker, which, being in the right lane, wasn't on a colllision course with the car, on its left, unaware of the stopped car around the curve. Also, the stopped car apparently struck the sides of the tunnel several times before halting: The driver was probably inspecting the damage to her car. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.204.134.6 (talk)

 * That may well be a more correct account of the incident. My main sources for the article are Egilsrud and Larson et al, both of which are secondhand.  If you can find a reference for your account, we should add this alternative account to the description of events. -- Ecb 20:50, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

 * I lived around there for decades. Perhaps it's a local urban legend, but I thought this accident led to a law (Caldecott-specific, or maybe statewide) governing such cargo and when they could travel through the tunnel. Perhaps it's worth mentioning as one of the lasting impacts of the accident. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.220.244.167 (talk)

Language issues
Tubes? Bores is the correct term in English, tubes are hollow cylinders. Is the use of tubes in this article Americanish or lack of construction knowledge? There are many other grammatical errors throughout this article, it really needs some attention! Yevad (talk) 14:43, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

 * The nearby Transbay Tube and Posey and Webster Street tubes may be a source of confusion to the casual Bay Area driver unfamiliar with construction techniques. Those underwater tunnels were indeed built by immersed tube construction, while the Caldecott, being a mountain tunnel, was not. Msramming (talk) 20:54, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I got rid of it. The casual Bay Area driver does not call them "tubes" either so there's no reason whatsoever for us to.--Jasper Deng (talk) 21:01, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

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Talk:Homeworld

Homeworld Remastered
At the end of the section, the comment 'and from "HW1 Remastered" several game mechanic aspects of the original engine, for instance the ballistic simulation[32]'

The specified source is just an user review of the game on the gearbox forums, thus I don't believe it to be a proper indications of the how the game mechanics actually works (only the developers know that). I think this sentence should be removed. 114.134.172.66 (talk) 03:49, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Blackbird Interactive
All the extant coverage associates the dev with the series. Everything said here can be said within the series section of the parent article: Homeworld czar  20:44, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
 * hmm, I have mixed feelings here. On one hand the Homeworld article is already too long and on the other hand I think Blackbird Interactive is as concept noteable enough for having a own article. Way around, I would propose extending the too short Blackbird article and shift some of the Homeworld content to the Blackbird article. Shaddim (talk) 12:05, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * This discussion didn't gop anywhere, so I'm removing the tags, but wouldn't it make more sense, if you were going to merge, to merge the developer with the only game they have made- Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, not a game that some of them worked on for a different company 17 years prior? -- Pres N  15:08, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Content removal without consent
On edits and  both edits don't follow the recommended good article structure of having a history chapter with sub-sections: "History: discuss development, release, impact, critical response, etc. This can easily be several different sections." Even worse sourced content was removed and independent external reception was removed (e.g. on game mechanics problems) and exchanged against the companies marketing position. Therefore I concur the following edits, and the even worse unfounded reverts of corrections and balancings. cheers Shaddim (talk) 20:30, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines is a guideline, not a flat rule. It states at the top that it is subject to common sense exceptions. A large number of good articles, even ones with remasters/post-release content, have that post-release content in a section at the end instead of merging it with development into a "history" section.
 * That said, an argument could be made for merging the "remaster" section into development (combined as "history" if you must), and moving it's reception into the main reception section. I thought about it, but didn't do it, as I felt it was much more readable to keep all of the information about the remaster together rather than split apart across multiple sections.
 * Subsections with a single paragraph are just plain bad formatting. There is no reason why a 6-paragraph section would need 4 subsections. I don't have an issue with subsections, or think that a flat hierarchy is better; I do think that you don't need a subsection header for every paragraph.
 * Subsection titles like "Homeworld's awards and commercial success" and "Gearbox' Remastered Homeworld" are awkward, wordy, and have bad grammar
 * Single-sentence paragraphs are even worse writing than single-paragraph sections, and you have a ton of them
 * I don't really see the point of splitting out half of the legacy section into a short subsection of reception; how the game sold and what awards it won the following year are part of its legacy
 * It's hard to tell from your edit what details you added that got reverted; it looks like it's just the GOG release, another source on the changes between the original and remaster, and a bit about why Cataclysm wasn't included? The GOG bit is just another storefront; we talk about platforms, not individual stores. The other two parts are good additions, and should be added in, though some of the sources don't appear to be RSs.
 * Yes, I rewrote the entire article in one go, and nominated it for GAN. It sat unchanged for 3 weeks and got promoted, a tacit and explicit agreement that the new version was better (which does not mean that there is not room for improvement, nor that everything about the old version was worse or bad). My problem with your edit is not that it's in one big chunk; it's that you coupled a large-scale structure revamp which I think is worse than the present one with a lot of poor writing/formatting.
 * I don't appreciate passive-aggressive comments like "I expect an in detail discussion about every aspect or I will consider revert". If we disagree about something, then we discuss it- WP:BRD. If we can't agree, then we ask other people into the discussion. Would you like me to start a thread at WT:VG? -- Pres N  21:09, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't appreciate overly aggressive and fast reverts where a discussion & acceptance of feedback from others would be appropriate response. I did not revert your massive push, but should have, it seems. Also, your arguing about ignoring the guidelines is quite unconvincing, I hope you rethink this position. In general, your "nomination" focus impress me not in the slightest, way around I urge you to: accept chamges from other others & write with them together as it is our mission. Your version is not the final & best possible form of this article, I can assure you. Shaddim (talk) 18:13, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
 * details: "we talk about platforms, not individual stores" first, give policies for such statements, second the topic of the used storefront in context with the poclies like DRM and previous announcments was indeed a heavily discussed topic and can therefore be added as otable history parts. Shaddim (talk) 18:13, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
 * General critic on your version: no reception chapter, no clear history, no clear separation between classical and remaster (a proper history would fix that), so quite confusing for an reader not into the topic. This was my main motivation for restructruing, I point which still stands. (+ some content removal which was debatable/unnecessary) Shaddim (talk) 18:20, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

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Image placement
What? If the image is on the left, then the text is squished between the two boxes at lower resolution- as in, the first line is "In 2004, Relic Entertainment was", the second is "bought by THQ, which confirmed in", etc. That's why you're not supposed to put images/templates on both sides of a bit of text, but leave some room if you're going to alternate. I'm not "harass[ing you] with stating the obvious", I'm just saying that there's a problem with moving the image to the left. I don't know what problem you saw with leaving it on the right, but to put it on the left you'd have to move it down to at least the "Released digitally" paragraph (paragraph 2). -- Pres N  13:29, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Now, you are talking! Couldn't you just include the reason with the revert?
 * I saw what you call "squished text". I love it.
 * Stacked image plus table collides with the References section. But I guess we can add Clear if the squishing problem is too serious for your taste.
 * Alright. I made an extra revert, so to be fair, it is your call now. Do which you want.  Fleet  Command ( Speak your mind! ) 08:34, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

PC Gamer sources
Not sure if these contain any new information, but I thought I'd drop them here regardless, just in case. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 21:52, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
 * - 1, 2
 * - 1, 2
 * They did, actually; thank you very much! -- Pres N  02:32, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Great to hear! JimmyBlackwing (talk) 10:12, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

PC Player sales analysis

 * https://archive.org/stream/PC-Player-German-Magazine-2000-04/PC_Player_2000_04#page/n27
 * I'm assuming that those chart positions are on German sales charts, right, not global? Do you know? -- Pres N  03:21, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey! Yeah, that's Germany—there were no global sales charts in existence back then. There are some German sales figures listed in the article as well, mixed into the text body. I was actually just dropping the link here to remind myself that it exists, since I have reliable methods for translating German magazine PDFs and can harvest the valuable data from the piece myself and insert it into this article. If you'd like to add some of this stuff first, I'd caution that Leser Charts refers to player opinion-polling at PC Player, while Chart-Erfolge refers to Germany's sales charts. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 03:30, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Cool, that's what I thought. I manually translated the chart portions, so I got that it was reader charts and sales charts; I have an online image->text OCR site I used the other day for a Polish magazine that worked pretty well when combined with google translate (which is a far cry from a few years back when I tried to translate a Japanese book scan and I had to download a demo version and it took hours to manually correct) but it hiccups sometimes with columns so I didn't run it through yet. -- Pres N  05:03, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Plot mistakes
Hey there. I've a spotted a couple of plot mistakes that I am going to fix. I'm just leaving a record here.

"forgotten 4,000-year-old treaty between the interstellar Taiidan Empire and the Kushan" "Forgotten" is problematic here; clearly, the Taiidan hadn't forgotten it.

"The nascent Kushan fleet sets out for Hiigara, intent on reclaiming their ancient homeworld, but not before decimating the fleet responsible for Kharak genocide." Actually, they destroy two fleets: One from the Turanic Raiders and the other from Taiidan.

Okay, here is the big one: "Along the way, they encounter several independent, mercenary, and pirate enemies in addition to Taiidan outposts." That's what I'd call exaggeration getting out of hand. They encounter no independent or mercenary enemies, and only one pirate faction in the Kadesh nebula region. In fact, there is only one other enemy faction throughout the game: The Turanic Raiders, whose involvement in the game ends prior to this problematic statement.

- I wouldn't call the kadesh a pirates or mercenaries, but I do agree that there could have been a wider range/distribution of other races encountered on the originial journey. Alas, that is history & I suspect a dose of reality & fixed time scales was applied to the original devepers dreams.

"During the final battle, the emperor manages to knock S'jet into a coma" "S'jet" is a clan name; a large number Kushans bear the S'jet family name. The individual that goes into coma is "Karan".

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Comments:
I love the fact that I can still play the original game after 20 years on Win 10. But I think the most important lesson to all games makers is: Keep the UI focused and simple and your fanbase will live on. (IMO Homeworld2 & the first remake were not as good as the original) This is a classic that should be remembered with the same reverence as the original Elite — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.125.132.230 (talk) 00:55, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Source

 * Games Weekly interview (could be useless but I didn't see it in the article)
 * GameSpot France Interview part 1
 * GameSpot France Interview part 2
 * GameSpot France Interview part 3
 * Oooh, very nice; I was expecting the same questions/answers but in French, but Garden had a few anecdotes I hadn't read anywhere else. Thanks! -- Pres N  02:11, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Glad these ended up being helpful! JimmyBlackwing (talk) 02:13, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Next Generation review
If anyone wants to try to figure out the best way to use the review for this game, a scan of the magazine can be found here: https://archive.org/details/NextGen60Dec1999 BOZ (talk) 03:47, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Design Inspiration
Just revisited this page for the first time in admittedly quite a few years and noticed there is no longer any reference to Peter Elson, Chris Foss et al who were the artists whose works were a major influence on the game's design. The wiki page for Peter Elson refers to this specifically and there is also reference to it elsewhere on the web (https://www.gog.com/news/interview_homeworlds_rob_cunningham is an interview with the original game's art director, for one). Just wondering why mention of this was removed; Adagio for Strings and Homeworld (The Ladder) are mentioned prominently, why not the visual design work as well? 2A02:C7D:7E21:8E00:1CF0:1FDA:FB94:4BC2 (talk) 22:26, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Honestly, it's because the old statement (and most of the article around it) wasn't referenced, and it never came up in the sources I found. That's a great interview, though, I've added a bit about the design influences and why the mothership is so tall. Thanks! -- Pres N  03:53, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Reviews
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Lawrence Hogan

Lawrence Joseph Hogan Sr. (September 30, 1928 – April 20, 2017) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. representative for the 5th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1969, to January 3, 1975. In 1974, he was the only Republican Representative to vote to recommend all three House articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon. He was the father of the 62nd governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan.

Hogan did not run for re-election in 1974 and was unsuccessful that year in his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor. He became county executive for Prince George's County, Maryland, in 1978 and served until 1982.

To date, he is the last Republican to have served as representative from Maryland's 5th congressional district.

Early life and education
Born in Boston, on September 30, 1928, Hogan was raised in Washington, D.C., and attended Gonzaga College High School. He received his bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in 1949, J.D. from Georgetown in 1954, and was admitted to the Bar in the same year. While a college student, he worked for the Washington Times-Herald. He joined the FBI in 1948 and became a full-time agent while attending law school. He later was enrolled in graduate studies at San Francisco State College, 1956–1957, received a master's degree from American University in 1965, and continued studies at the University of Maryland, 1966–1967.

Career
Hogan's private career included practicing law and public relations. His Larry Hogan Associates business was making $1 million a year before he sold it to enter politics.

In 1968, Hogan won against incumbent Hervey Machen to represent Maryland's 5th congressional district, and was re-elected in 1970 and 1972. Hogan was the only Republican on the House Judiciary Committee to vote for all three articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon when they were adopted in committee during the impeachment process against Nixon. Hogan pointedly said during the televised committee hearings:

"The thing that's so appalling to me is that the President, when this whole idea was suggested to him, didn't, in righteous indignation, rise up and say, 'Get out of here, you're in the office of the President of the United States. How can you talk about blackmail and bribery and keeping witnesses silent? This is the Presidency of the United States.' But my President didn't do that. He sat there and he worked and worked to try to cover this thing up so it wouldn't come to light."

Hogan entered Maryland's 1974 gubernatorial race when polls showed him a strong challenger to incumbent Governor Marvin Mandel. Hogan's abandonment of Nixon, however, contributed to his loss in the Republican primary to Louise Gore, who in turn lost to Mandel. Political observers also attributed Hogan's loss to Gore's "genteel, low-key nature". Gladys Spellman was elected to take Hogan's former seat in Congress.

After his 1974 defeat, Hogan and his wife Ilona opened the law firm Hogan and Hogan, with offices in Forestville, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. In 1976, Hogan was elected a Maryland National Republican Committeeman, and in January 1977 he began working as executive vice-president of the Associated Builders and Contractors trade association. When he left the position to re-enter politics, he was being paid between $70,000 and $100,000 a year,.

In 1978, Hogan challenged incumbent Prince George's County Executive Win Kelly amid a 'tax revolt' and won the office with 60% of the vote. County voters passed a tax reform measure known as "TRIM" that same year.

Hogan challenged first-term Democratic Senator Paul Sarbanes (who was his House Judiciary Committee colleague during the Nixon impeachment) in 1982 and lost heavily. Parris Glendening was elected as county executive in his place, and Hogan's political career was over. He returned to practicing law, taught, and wrote books. His Legal Aspects of the Fire Service is used at training academies across the U.S. as of 2014.

Personal life and death
Hogan married Ilona Maria Modly in 1974 after his first marriage to Nora Maguire ended with divorce in 1972 after 27 years. Ilona was elected to the Board of County Commissioners in Frederick County after they moved there, serving from 1994 to 2001. Two of Hogan's six children are also politically involved in the state of Maryland. Patrick N. Hogan was formerly a Republican Delegate representing Maryland's District 3A. Hogan's eldest son, Larry Hogan, was the Governor of Maryland from January 2015 to January 2023 after winning the 2014 and 2018 elections.

On April 15, 2017, Hogan had a severe stroke and died five days later, on April 20, at a hospital in Annapolis, Maryland, aged 88.

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Talk:Kim Hill (singer)

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I think this version of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" was a single (years ago!) on a compilation called Our Christmas. Phil Keaggy was playing the guitar on it. If it's a re-recording of it, it's very similar, and besides, anything including Phil Keaggy is worthy of a mention. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.96.26.206 (talk) 14:01, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Is this the same Kim Hill? Not the most uncommon name... gren 16:29, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It's not the same Kim Hill as the one with the Black Eyed Peas.

Kim Hill's webpage is at http://www.kimmykim.com

I moved the other Kim Hill's info to her father Fred Hill's article.--BillFlis 20:08, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

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Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar

Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar or The Saga of Thorstein, Viking's Son is a legendary saga which takes place in the 7th century. It is about the father of Frithjof the Bold. It begins in Norway and Sweden (with locations such as Ulleråker), but continues into exotic places such as India. It is not one of the more famous sagas, but it is still considered to be an entertaining story. It is a prequel to Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna, The Saga of Fridthjof the Bold.

It has been compared to the runestone Sö 54 in Bjudby, Södermanland, Sweden, as it also mentions a prominent family, and besides the father Víkingr it names three sons with the same names as in the saga, and there are also close correspondences with the other names.

Plot
In Sweden, Viking sires nine sons by a second wife. Thorsten (Thorstein, or Thor's Stone) is the oldest son of Viking. Viking befriends his worthy foe Njorfe, King of Upplands, in Norway, who also has nine sons. The two groups of sons are highly competitive against each other. In a brutal ball game, they beat and maim each other, breaking each other's arms. A son of Viking, near death, slays a son of Njorfe.

Viking scolds this son and sends him to an island in Lake Vänern. Two more sons go with him, including Thorsten. Viking tells Thorsten to wait quietly on the island until the danger is over. Njorfe's sons want revenge. They use magic to conjure a frost that freezes the lake and travel across it to attack the three sons of Viking. Two of Viking's sons survive: Thorsten and Thorer. Two of Njorfe's sons survive, including his eldest son, Jokul, a sorcerer. Njorfe's sons use magic to discover that Thorsten and Thorer are alive.

Viking sends his two sons to the court of Halfdan for safety. Jokul invades Sogn, kills the king, banishes the heir Beli, and places a curse on the king's daughter Ingeborg, causing her to take the shape of a hideous troll. Jokul stirs a tempest which shipwrecks Thorsten twice. Ingeborg (as a troll, under the name Skellinefja) rescues Thorsten and asks him to promise to marry her. With her help, Thorsten returns Beli to the throne of Sogn, and the curse leaves Ingeborg. Thorsten unites with Ingeborg. Fridthiof is their son.

Thorsten, Beli, and Angantyr retrieve Viking's stolen magic ship Ellida. Thorsten fights Sote, a ghost pirate in a barrow mound, to get the magic ring (forged by Voland). Thorsten, Beli, and Angantyr conquer the Orkney Islands.

Thorsten and his son Frithiof inherit the magic sword Angurvadel and the magic ship Ellida from Viking. Descendants of Thorstein appear in Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna, and in the Starkad section of Gautreks saga.

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User:Jfolley

About Me
Casual user. I make minor improvements where I can.

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Cross, County Mayo

Cross is a village in the south of County Mayo, Ireland.

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Estadio Hidalgo

The Estadio Hidalgo is a football stadium named after Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla. It is located in Pachuca in the Mexican state of Hidalgo.

This sport facility is one of Mexico's mid-sized football stadiums, with a capacity of 30,000. It opened in January 1993, but recently was refurbished and modernized. It is located in the city of Pachuca, formerly a large mining site. This building is used mostly for football games and is the home of C.F. Pachuca.

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Talk:Politics of Brunei

Improvement Drive
The article on Brunei is currently listed to be improved on This week's improvement drive. You can support the nomination with your vote there. --Fenice 06:35, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Politics of Brunei template
The reason i removed the template and had the other articles redirect here i thought was pretty obvious.. i.e. there are no political parties, and no elections, so why have pages devoted to saying that? it seems rather pointless.. so i'm just going to remove the template again unless someone gives a reason why i shouldn't. Mlm42 16:39, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

there should be pages because they are facts and most people who would like to know wouldn't be able to know if u remove it. Besides a country having no elections in pretty amazing, so it shoulh have its own section

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This article is misnamed
It describes the government of Brunei not the politics of Brunei.RichardBond (talk) 02:23, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

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Daniel Gillies

Daniel Joshua Gillies (born March 14, 1976) is a Canadian-New Zealand actor, film producer, director and screenwriter. He played the role of Elijah Mikaelson on the television series The Vampire Diaries and its spin-off The Originals, as well as Dr. Joel Goran on the Canadian series Saving Hope, a medical-themed show with a mystical, paranormal twist. He wrote and directed the 2012 film, Broken Kingdom.

Early life
Gillies was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to parents from New Zealand. When he was five, his parents decided to return to their native New Zealand, and moved to Invercargill and then to Hamilton. Though born into a family of strong medical background (his father is a pediatrician, his mother a nurse, and he is descended from the renowned ENT/plastic surgery pioneer Sir Harold Gillies), he became interested in acting because he said it was "the only thing I was ever any good at".

Frustrated with the lack of opportunities in New Zealand, he moved to Sydney, Australia for six weeks in 2001 before going to Canada for two months, where he worked as a waiter and dishwasher until deciding to move to Los Angeles.

Career
Gillies began his career starring in several Auckland Theatre Company productions, before landing a two-season lead role in the television drama Street Legal. After deciding that his acting options in his native New Zealand were limited, Gillies explored his options in Sydney and Canada. Gillies then moved to Los Angeles and was soon cast in the movies Bride and Prejudice and Spider-Man 2.

Since 2002, Gillies has worked in North American film and television productions. Before landing lead roles in television series, Gillies landed guests spots on television shows such as Masters of Horror, NCIS, and True Blood. In 2010, he was cast on the hit The CW drama The Vampire Diaries as Elijah Mikaelson. In 2013, CW created a successful spin-off of The Originals. chronicling the lives of the first (aka "the Original") vampires. Gillies's recurring part as Elijah from The Vampire Diaries became a lead part in The Originals. A potential nightmare existed for CW since Gillies was already under contract to play Dr. Joel Goran in the supernatural series, Saving Hope.  Saving Hope initially aired in the US on NBC, but the series was not renewed although it continued to run in Canada. He continued both shows. In 2012, Gillies wrote, directed and starred with then wife Rachael Leigh Cook in Broken Kingdom.

From 2019 to 2022, Gillies portrayed the role of Mark Monroe in the Netflix's 2019 romantic drama television series, Virgin River. He was in the show for four seasons. He was also cast as Charlie Tate in the second season of ABC series The Newsreader in 2022.

Personal life
Gillies married American actress Rachael Leigh Cook on 8 August 2004. Together they have a daughter, born in September 2013, and a son, born in April 2015. In an interview in 2017, he revealed he pursued a vasectomy to prevent a third child from being brought into the family citing concerns about his age and energy levels, saying, "I want to be able to give these two my love and my attention and my care. I would like to stop now."

On 13 June 2019, both Cook and Gillies announced on Instagram that they mutually decided to separate and they also said that they wanted it to be as discreet as possible for the sake of their kids. On 10 July 2020 Gillies filed for divorce from Cook. Their divorce was finalized on 10 March 2021.

Since 2021, Gillies has been in a relationship with cellist Julia Misaki.

As a director

 * The Originals (2017–2018), 2 episodes: "Phantomesque", "There in the Disappearing Light".

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Estadio Tamaulipas

The Estadio Tamaulipas is a football stadium in the southern portion of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, serving as the home of C.D.S. Tampico Madero It sits across two municipalities, Tampico and Ciudad Madero, and has a capacity of 19,667. The center line of the stadium sits on the municipal boundary.

History
Construction of the Estadio Tamaulipas began on January 3, 1965, with a groundbreaking ceremony led by Governor Praxedis Balboa. The stadium was designed by Manuel Ortega Barroueta, who was responsible for a number of other stadiums around the country in the late 1960s, including the Estadio León and the original Estadio Corona in Torreón. The first match in the stadium was held on April 3, 1966, between AS Monaco FC and a combined team of players from Tampico and Madero, which at the time had separate squads; Monaco won 2-1, with Francis Blanc scoring the first goal in the Estadio Tamaulipas.

In 1978, two additional levels of suites were constructed to bring the stadium to four levels of suites. In 2008, the Estadio Tamaulipas received the largest renovation in its history, Among the additions was a seating area for disabled fans, though its small size has been criticized as insufficient for playoff matches. In 2016, for safety and security purposes, capacity was reduced to 19,415 as part of a renovation that improved locker rooms and suites.

The pitch was flooded by storms in November 2016.

A potential replacement venue has been floated by Alejandro Irarragorri, president of Orlegi Deportes, one of the owners of Tampico Madero, who argued that the team's 85% average attendance rate, which leads the Ascenso MX, justified a new stadium.

The Mexico national football team played the Estadio Tamaulipas four times, though only twice against other national teams, meeting the Soviet Union national football team for a friendly on February 2, 1979 and the CIS national football team on March 11, 1992.

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Til

Til or TIL may refer to:

With the given name

 * Til Brugman (1888–1958) Dutch author, poet, and linguist
 * Til Schweiger (born 1963), German actor and filmmaker
 * Til Wykes (born 1953), English psychologist and author

With the surname

 * Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987), Dutch-American Christian philosopher
 * Guus Til (born 1997), Zambian-born Dutch professional football player
 * Sonny Til (1928–1981), American singer, lead singer of The Orioles

Places

 * Til, Ardabil, a village in Iran
 * Til, East Azerbaijan, a village in Iran
 * Tilbury Town railway station, Essex, England (National Rail station code TIL)

Science and technology

 * Til (plant), a tree
 * Til, an Urdu word for sesame
 * Transparent Intensional Logic, a logical system
 * Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, white blood cells that have migrated towards a tumor
 * Threaded interpretive language, a threaded code computing execution model
 * Theoretical Inquiries in Law, a law journal published by Tel Aviv University

Other uses

 * Til (novel), by José de Alencar
 * r/todayilearned, a discussion category on Reddit in which the headline of each topic starts with "TIL"
 * Tromsø IL, a Norwegian football team

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