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the name of to 13 year olds and meany amasing women and grils the name should mean if i am correct the gift. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.109.121 (talk) 18:29, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Things that don't belong here
As per disambiguation disambiguation articles are for disambiguating amongst articles that would otherwise share the same title. To quote:
 * In most cases, do not list names of which Title is a part, unless the persons are very frequently referred to simply by their first or last name (e.g. Shakespeare, Galileo).

A whole swathe of entries for people that simply include the first name Alice as part of the title have been removed because they do not belong here. The encyclopaedia articles on these subjects would not have the title Alice (but would have the titles that they actually do have). Uncle G 19:01, 2005 Jun 5 (UTC)

 * This situation is similar to that of a redirect. From Redirect:
 * Someone finds them useful. Hint: If someone says they find a redirect useful, they probably do. You might not find it useful — this is not because the other person is a liar, but because you browse Wikipedia in different ways.
 * You might not find the stuff in this article useful, but you do not know others' browsing habits. Now, Alice could redirect straight to an article, but there are multiple famous people/things named Alice. That is why it has to be a disambiguation page, and that is why this stuff in the article has to be kept. —Lowellian (talk) 01:35, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Uncle G is correct about Wikipedia policy. If you don't agree with the policy, work to change it, don't just disobey it. Who cares whether it's "similar" to a redirect. This is a disambiguation page, and the WP policy on disambiguation pages is as Uncle G stated above. —Wahoofive (talk) 05:28, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Very well, I have. See Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation. —Lowellian (talk) 17:30, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Unknown entry
Moved anon contribution ( 15 October 2005 - 82.30.237.80 ) to talk page for research and discussion. Does this person exist? WBardwin 08:26, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * ==People named Alice==
 * Alice Louella Purcell, Twenty First Century Pirate, currently attempting to circumnavigate the globe in a converted tug boat

Merge with A.L.I.C.E.
I'm merging the dab A.L.I.C.E. with this dab (I'll be finished in about ten minutes). If anyone objects to these changes, please say so here. I'm doing this without first putting up a {{merge}} tag due to A.L.I.C.E. already having been split today, and this seemed to be the next natural course of action (and so I doubt anyone'll object, but I figured I should probably offer a place to do so). Hope there's no troubles, but this is easily revertable if necessary, and I don't imagine any problems. --Blackcap | talk 05:58, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * To be honest, I don't like the tendency on Wikipedia of merging acronyms with natural names and words. -Acjelen 06:11, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * O.K., I'll stop merging. Why don't you like that? It's much easier to navigate and find what you're looking for if you have just one page for one word. I don't really see a difference between natural words and acronyms in terms of dabs. A dab exists to help a person find what they need, and to split up that information unnecessarily makes it harder to do that. I don't find any information on acronyms/natural words in Disambiguation or Manual of Style (disambiguation pages), so there isn't (AFAICS) a precedent to go by either way; but it seems to me that merging would make navigation easier without any significant detriment. (Note: I'm going to put up {{merge}} tags directing to this talk now). Blackcap | talk 06:42, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I am always confused and surprised when looking for an acronym to find myself on a non-acronym (and usually messy) article or some page with lots of "And X is also" sections. It is equally maddening to search for a regular word and end up with an acronym.  It seems to me that it would be better to name acronym articles in all capitals and non with the usual capitalization.  Sadly, this runs into the tendency in non-American English to capitalize only the first letter of acronyms. -Acjelen 06:58, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

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Actually, now that I think about it, it makes much more sense to merge this with Alice. Since the dab has already been done, I'm going to be bold and do it now, and it's easily changeable/revertable if there's disagreement. It seems that, though a split was a good idea, this finishes the job better and we won't then have two dabs with the same or similar information. Blackcap | talk 05:50, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I believe standard procedure with when both all-caps and lower case mean different things, is to have two different disambiguation pages and have them link to each other. I would think having ALICE and Alice would make the most sense here. -- SCZenz 06:20, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

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 * Do you know where that information is? I couldn't find any precedents, or any relevant info in WP:D or Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). If that's true, then there's no reason to talk about this further (here, anyways), but I didn't see that anywhere I looked. --Blackcap | talk 06:52, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, I think ATLAS and Atlas (disambiguation) are rather nice to have separated, and well-done. But I don't know of any guideline.  The point is that all-caps denotes an acronym, which is rather different from different uses of a word—and we do have templates specifically for acronym pages, e.g. Template:5LA. -- SCZenz 08:34, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

 * support combined page True, I can understand the argument that  people like to see ATLAS and Atlas separated, and  I would normally take such an anally retentive line on this one myself.  However I would expect that 95% of the droves would not distinguish when searching.  The Principle of least astonishment should apply here, and I think that most people would be more astonished to find that searching for "Alice" does not match up with "ALICE" than if it did.  I think that wikipedia should be organised in the way that makes it easiest for people to find what they are looking for.  This is after all why we contribute to wikipedia, to share knowledge.  As a result, I agree with Blackcap that there should be one page for the sequence of characters a-l-i-c-e and that this should be case-insensitive, providing a dab to all possible meanings of the 'word.' Guinness 13:01, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

 * The two pages should link to each other. So if somebody types in "ALICE" because his caps lock is on, and doesn't see what he's looking for, ther'll be a link at the bottom saying "Alice" also means many things, and they can try there.  So the problem you describe doesn't exist—and I think it's silly to crowd more onto one disambiguation page than necessary, which may also confuse people. -- SCZenz 16:11, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Well spotted, you win the prize for spotting the deliberate flaw in my argument. Guinness 16:17, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Are you joking? A.L.I.C.E is hardly the usual thing people mean by "Alice". Maybe amongst certain computer geeks, but not most people... --Chaosfeary 11:30, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

 * either way, in future if you are having discussions like this could you put a {mergedisputed}} (no spaces) tag on rather than {merge}}, because then i would have known not to merge it without checking. thank you Jdcooper 14:35, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Sure, I didn't know that the {{mergedisputed}} tag existed. Either way, though, I'd recommend checking; it's probably not ever completely safe to merge without looking over the talk pages first. Blackcap | talk 15:33, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Honestly, there's a discuss link on the regular merge tag. If it were a no-brainer, somebody would have just done it already! {merge}} is not a work-request tag, it's a call for discussion. Or am I misreading what it says? -- SCZenz 16:28, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * To me, the fact that it is separate from the {mergedisputed}} tag implies that it is used for merges that aren't disputed, but i guess thats just a different way of looking at it. there are hundreds of articles that are no-brainers that no-one has done, i mistook this for another one. apologies, but its all sorted now i guess. Jdcooper 16:48, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

dab style
The first line currently reads:

 * Alice is a female given name.

I changed it to take out the wikilinks and they were edited back in. My reading of the Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) guideline is that they should not be there. Opinions? Tedernst 21:43, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Female definitely shouldn't be, because it's irrelevant. You're right that "given name" shouldn't be linked either, according to the manual of style, but if there's no article on just the name Alice itself than it couldn't hurt to leave it wikilinked. -- SCZenz 21:57, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
 * No, xe's not. The manual of style (which contains some poor recommendations anyway) says nothing at all about hyperlinks in the first line. Nor should there be articles on "just the name itself".  Articles about the etymologies of names are why name disambiguations link to Wiktionary. Uncle G 23:36, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Merge reverted
The consensus of the discussion above,, seemed to me to be not to merge. I have therefore reverted the merge done just now without discussion. We can discuss it more, of course; it wasn't a terribly strong consensus. -- SCZenz 01:57, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Can we take down the merge tags now? It seems like there isn't any more discussion on the subject, and that the merge isn't going to happen. Blackcap | talk 00:58, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd concur with that. -- SCZenz 10:04, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
 * O.K. then, I'll take them down. If anyone disagrees, and still has something to say about the merge, please feel free to put them back up. --Blackcap | talk 11:57, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Name meaning
The name derives from the Greek Alike, i.e. crimson, in the feminine.

I've never heard of this before. Every name keyring/etc I've owned, or seen, and every baby book (cite for plausible example) states the name Alice (through 'Adelaide') is derived from Old German, and meaning 'Nobility'. Either the name has two eytomologies or one is wrong. Lady BlahDeBlah 20:28, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

 * That statement was introduced back on 23 March 2006 (see diff) by an anonymous user (62.1.67.52) who has made only one other contribution to Wikipedia. Since I find its authenticity to be highly dubious, I am removing it for the time being. Ayla 02:49, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Older content
I know that this is an issue that was 'closed' several months ago, but, with reference to the "Things that don't belong here" section above, I was wondering whether it would make sense to re-introduce the older content present in the page before Uncle G's trim-down on 5 June 2005. I was not present when the original debate took place, but my opinion is that the article was much better defined and structured back then. The current version of the Manual of Style for disambiguation pages explicitly allows for such lists to be added below the main disambiguation list. If the consensus is that this will result in the page becoming too cluttered, a new Alice (given name) page could be created as recommended in the Manual of Style.

My rationale for this suggestion is the fact that deciding whether a person is sufficiently popular by first name alone to warrant inclusion in this page is often subjective and POV. For example, I myself would find the list inapplicable to even some of its most notable entries, such as Alice Cooper whom I have never encountered being mentioned by first name alone. Same goes for pretty much the rest of the persons in the list save for royalty, which are apparently being given a disproportionate advantage. Ayla 02:32, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I am going ahead with the re-inclusion. If anyone disagrees with this move, please discuss it here before reverting. Ayla 13:24, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I tagged this dab page for cleanup without looking at this Talk page, but, by request of user Ayla, here are my contention points, all based on WP:MOSDAB and on countless discussions scattered throughout WP which give additional insights (and, if I have to assert it, I have performed over 150 dab-cleanups so far):
 * People NOT known as just Alice do not belong in a dab page. Period. I've now read the discussion that took place above, but the decision to keep the names is not the prevalent one. Try this: spin the names off to an article called List of people named Alice. Then, watch that article being deleted for its irrelevancy, as has been happening with similar articles, because a link to lookfrom is just as effective, on a See also (outside dab) section.
 * There is enough content on onomastics and there are enough people REALLY known as just Alice to create a new Alice (name), helping keep this a pure dab.
 * A couple of minor points, like trimming some long descriptors or removing For Elise - WP is not a dictionary for similar words.
 * That's it. I usually do on-the-spot cleanups but this one caught me in the middle of some other job, hence the tag. But I will return to clean the page if no one beats me to it.--maf (talk-cont) 02:12, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Alice (given name)
In the light of recent discussions, I would propose splitting off the list into a new Alice (given name) article. This is already being done for other articles (see, for example, Jessica and Jessica (given name)), and would help to reduce the page clutter. I will take up the task myself if no-one finds any objections. Ayla 10:14, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Alice, Eastern Cape????
What about the large town of Alice, Eastern Cape in South Africa?? --Bezuidenhout (talk) 15:01, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Test
hello — Preceding unsigned comment added by CassandraAlicia (talk • contribs) 01:12, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Alice vs CLS
I feel like Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l should be in the Computers section as well. Is it allowed to list an article in multiple places in a disambiguation page? —Galaktos (talk) 19:48, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

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Zarumilla

Zarumilla is a city in the Tumbes Region, in northwestern Peru. It has a population of 54,625 as of 2019, and is the capital of the Zarumilla Province. It is also the main settlement in the Zarumilla District. It is located only a few kilometers away from the border town of Aguas Verdes, which is connected to Ecuador by a bridge.

The city's surroundings were the location of the eponymous battle that took place from July 23 to 31 during the 1941 Ecuadorian–Peruvian War. Its economy is focused on farming and the city serves today as a route of international trade with Ecuador.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Consequences of the Rwandan Genocide

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was MERGE; Someone else do it. :P Golbez 08:49, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Consequences of the Rwandan Genocide
 Delete (see below). Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Even ignoring the poor quality of the writing, and with all due respect and empathy to the subject, this is just not an encyclopedia article because it doesn't contain any information. -- RoySmith 19:02, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Wait, what? How is this a soapbox at all? As you pointed out, its empty. I wonder what this VfD hopes to accompish. Its clearly an important topic, it's part of the Rwandan Genocide series, and clearly a work in progress. So rather than delete it, why don't we encourage its expansion. --Dmcdevit 19:31, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Why is Template:Rwandan Genocide a series instead of a single article? Many of the sections don't seem to be encyclopedia articles on their own. (e.g. Bibliography_of_the_Rwandan_Genocide, Glossary_and_supplements_for_the_Rwandan_Genocide).  --Tabor 20:02, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Indeed, this is being done bass-ackwards. Write everything in one article first; when it gets too long, then split it out. That said, VFD isn't the right forum to fix this. No vote.—Wahoofive (talk) 05:08, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Rwandan genocide - Skysmith 10:12, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep for now, and check back in a year to see if the series mess is straightened out. — RJH 20:18, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Rwandan genocide ··gracefool |☺ 07:59, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Rwandan genocide. Jayjg (talk) 22:08, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * After reading the above, I'm changing my vote. When I proposed this VfD, I didn't realize it was part of a series.  Merge this and the rest of the series into Rwandan genocide and stick a cleanup tag on it too; hopefully somebody will be willing to undertake a massive rewrite. --RoySmith 13:22, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge this and most of the series don't merge Role of the international community in the Rwandan Genocide as its probably developed enough to have its own article. Falphin 13:50, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .


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Auguste-Réal Angers

Sir Auguste-Réal Angers (4 October 1837 – 14 April 1919) was a Canadian judge and parliamentarian, holding seats both as a member of the House of Commons of Canada, and as a Senator. He was born in 1837 probably in Quebec City and died in Westmount, Quebec, in 1919.

He served in the cabinets of Sir John Sparrow David Thompson and Sir Mackenzie Bowell as Minister of Agriculture and as President of the Privy Council under Sir Charles Tupper. He also served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec after being elected in Montmorency in 1874 as a Conservative.

He was knighted in the 1913 New Year Honours.

After his death in 1919, he was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.

Early life
There is an element of mystery around Auguste's birth. Historians generally agree he was born on 4 October 1837 but no substantial birth certificate has ever been found. The 1901 census lists his birth as 4 October.

Angers studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet between 1849 and 1856. He eventually went on to study law at the Université de Laval. He then went on to join a prospering law firm in Quebec City. After building a strong background for politics, he went on to easily won a provincial by-election in Montmorency for the Conservatives.

Delve into Politics
After being re-elected to his seat in Montmorency, in 1875 he was appointed as Government leader in the Legislative Assembly and Attorney General in 1876. Since the Premier of Quebec at the time Charles Boucher de Boucherville was sitting in the Legislative Council, the appointed Upper Chamber of the Province, Angers acted as the voice to the government in the Legislative Assembly helping pass key legislation. He continued to act in this role for multiple years.

In 1879, Angers lost his seat by 14 votes in a general election. Afterwards, he ran for Federal Parliament in a by-election winning the Montmorency seat. Shortly afterwards he was appointed as puisne judge of the Superior Court for Montmagny district.

He settled down in a town on the St. Lawrence River.

In 1887 Angers accepted an appointment making him Lieutenant Governor of the province of Quebec.

In December 1892 he accepted an appointment as a Senator and was given an agriculture portfolio in John Sparrow David Thompson's Ministry. He continued in this capacity until 1895 where he resigned and briefly took up the post of President of the Privy Council before retiring from politics.

Later life
Angers moved to Montreal where he returned to practicing law and in 1911 he was appointed as legal counsel to the Montreal Harbour Commission.

Archives
There are Auguste-Réal Angers fonds at Library and Archives Canada and Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.

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User:Nik Anderson

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The Grove at Farmers Market

The Grove is a retail and entertainment complex in Los Angeles, located on parts of the historic Farmers Market. The mall features Nordstrom and Barnes & Noble.

History
The complex fills space previously occupied by an orchard and nursery, which were the last remains of a dairy farm owned by A. F. Gilmore in the latter part of the 19th century. The developers began demolition of an antiques alley and other older buildings on Third Street behind CBS Television City, and broke ground for the new mall in 1999. There was some controversy over potentially increasing traffic in a busy Los Angeles neighborhood that already offered several other shopping venues, including the Beverly Center. The Grove opened in 2002.

The Warner Bros. tabloid television news program Extra was taped in the complex from 2010-2013, usually on the mall's lawn area.

From November 2015 to November 2017, it served as a venue for the fall finales of Dancing with the Stars.

The history behind the development of the A. F. Gilmore property that eventually became The Grove was not without controversy. In 1984, A. F. Gilmore and neighboring CBS Television City hired Olympia & York California Equities Corp. to look into the possibility of creating a major business and entertainment complex that would have been twice as large as Universal City but would have required the demolition of all existing structures at both Farmers Market and CBS in the process. That plan was not well received by the City of Los Angeles or by its neighbors and the plan was later shelved. Two years later A. F. Gilmore and CBS hired Urban Investment & Development Co. of Chicago to create another development plan.

In 1989, A. F. Gilmore announced that it was going to build a US$300 million mall adjacent to the existing Farmers Market and that the new project would be managed by JMB/Urban Development of Chicago. The proposed mall was going to be anchored by May Company California, Nordstrom, and J. W. Robinson's along with over 100 other stores. Later, the project was scaled down to 2 anchors.

During the next decade, A. F. Gilmore announced in 1998 a further scaled down plan with Caruso Affiliated as the new development partner for a new proposal that eventually became The Grove at Farmers Market, a $100-million project on 25 acre. Nordstrom signed on in 2001 to build a 122000 sqft store. By early 2001, toy retailer FAO Schwarz also sign on for 25000 sqft along with Banana Republic, Gap, Barnes & Noble, J. Crew, Maggiano's Italian restaurant and a 14-screen movie complex to be the initial stores in the new project. After many delays, the retail center finally opened in March 2002.

FAO Schwarz was one of the first retail casualties at the Grove after FAO Schwarz's parent company had to declare bankruptcy in 2004. The Grove was able to replace the store with American Girl Place, which opened in April 2006. Abercrombie & Fitch closed their flagship store in February 2015, and was replaced seven months later with a Nike flagship store that opened in September 2015. Also in 2013, Banana Republic moved into a new space at the mall, and the old space was occupied by a Topshop/Topman store.

In the original plan, the 14-screen movie complex was going to be built by Pacific Theatres to be its first Arc Light multiplex. At the last minute, Pacific Theatres pulled out of the project and opted to build the multiplex in Hollywood, ArcLight Hollywood, instead. Caruso decided to fund the construction of the multiplex out of the company's own pockets. After 10 months of successful operations, Caruso decided to sell the multiplex outright. Pacific gave the highest bid at US$30 million.

In May 2020, The Grove was damaged during protests over the murder of George Floyd. Caruso responded with an open letter that made a point of supporting the cause of the demonstrators, but criticized unspecified Los Angeles officials who failed to prevent violence that damaged many small businesses along the nearby streets that may never reopen.

Pacific Theatres permanently ceased operations in 2021 due to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. AMC Theatres acquired the lease to the Pacific Theatres locations at The Grove and Americana at Brand in July 2021.

Design
The 575000 sqft outdoor marketplace is located in Los Angeles' Fairfax District. Initial architectural design was performed in-house by David Williams of Caruso Affiliated Holdings and by KMD Architects of San Francisco. Caruso Affiliated claims to have modeled its architectural designs on indigenous Los Angeles buildings, influenced by classic historic districts, with shopping alleys, broad plazas, and intimate courtyards. The design features a series of Art Deco-style false fronts, with boxy interiors similar to those found in other contemporary stores.

Other critics opined the inward facing design does not incorporate the surrounding neighborhood and fails to connect to the Pan Pacific Park, the adjacent apartment complexes and Fairfax and Third St. facing businesses. The development design was to focus on patrons arriving by car to the 3500 parking structure.

Attractions
The Grove features a large central park with an animated fountain designed by WET. Its music-fountain show plays every hour, though the feature has a non-musical program in between shows. The water's choreography is reminiscent of the Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas—also designed by WET—but on a much smaller scale.

The property also has a statue, The Spirit of Los Angeles. Live shows are often performed there—on the grassy area by the fountains. An internal transit system uses electric-powered trolley cars to link The Grove and the adjacent Farmers Market.

Christmas tree
In mid-November, the Grove Christmas Tree is displayed, and lit every evening, beginning with the annual tree lighting ceremony. The tree remains lit every evening for the remainder of the Christmas season. Usually up to 100 ft or more, it is one of the tallest Christmas trees in the Los Angeles area. In more recent years, The Grove also transforms "into a winter wonderland" where artificial snow falls every evening at 7 & 8 pm, through Christmas Eve.

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Robert A. Brown

Robert A. Brown (born July 22, 1951) is a chemical engineer and university administrator. He was the 10th president of Boston University and a former provost of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1991, Brown was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for the application of computing techniques to fundamental and practical problems in fluid mechanics, rheology, and crystal growth.

Biography
Brown is a chemical engineer by training. A native of San Antonio, Texas, he received his B.S. and M.A. in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and his Ph.D., also in chemical engineering, from the University of Minnesota in 1979.

In 1979, Brown joined the faculty of MIT as an assistant professor, where he worked for 25 years before moving across the Charles River to become the president of Boston University. During his tenure at MIT, he served as the Warren K. Lewis Professor of Chemical Engineering, co-director of the MIT Supercomputer Facility, head of the department of chemical engineering, and dean of engineering. In 1998, he became the provost of MIT.

Brown was selected as the 10th president of Boston University in May 2005. He was inaugurated in September 2005, succeeding Aram V. Chobanian, who served from October 2003 until June 2005.

In January 2006, Brown became an honorary citizen of Singapore for his key role in bringing world-class graduate research and educational programs to Singapore through the creation of collaborations between the National University of Singapore, the Nanyang Technological University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In February 2006, President George W. Bush appointed Brown to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a panel established to maintain a steady stream of expert advice from the private sector and the academic community on a wide range of scientific and technical matters. Brown is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.

Brown served as a member of the board of the Aalto University from 2008-2010. He was honored with the National Academy of Engineering Simon Ramo Founders Award in 2014 for his contributions to engineering and society.

Presidency of Boston University
Under Brown's presidency, Boston University created the Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Honors College, a residential honors college for Boston University undergraduates, which was dedicated in 2011, and the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, established in 2014, which combines traditional international relations with faculty in the humanities and social sciences interested in global students, as well as the traditional area studies centers.

In 2013, the university created the Initiative on Cities, with the former Mayor of Boston Thomas Menino as a founding co-director. The IOC focuses on engaging urban leaders, academics, and policy makers to help plan for the development of essential services and sustainable infrastructure necessary for cities to flourish. Following Mayor Menino's death in fall 2014, his legacy was continued through the Annual Menino Survey of Mayors.

The progress of Boston University has been acknowledged in many ways, including improved academic rankings and by bond rating improvements. Most notably, in 2012, Boston University was admitted to the Association of American Universities (AAU), the group of premier public and private research universities in the United States and Canada.

New facilities built during Brown's presidency include:
 * Yawkey Center for Student Services, which combines undergraduate student services with a modern dining hall
 * New Balance Field, the second athletic field for the university, built above a parking structure
 * 33 Agganis Way, a two-building 960-bed undergraduate residence
 * Medical Student Residence on the Medical Campus
 * Sumner Redstone Building for the School of Law (accompanied by complete renovation of the Law Tower, completed in 2015)
 * The Engineering Product Innovation Center, a 15,000-square-foot space for engineering product development and collaboration used by students in the College of Engineering
 * The Alan and Sherry Leventhal Center, the visitor center for the Charles River Campus, which houses the undergraduate admissions reception center
 * The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL), the somewhat controversial laboratory supported by the NIH, which houses a Biosafety Containment 4 (BSL-4) laboratory, the highest containment level for performing research on the most lethal infectious diseases.
 * The Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, a 180,000-square-foot research facility

Many of these initiatives have been driven by the university's first-ever comprehensive fundraising campaign, which was launched in 2012 with the goal of raising $1 billion by the end of 2017. The goal of the campaign was raised to $1.5 billion in September 2015.

Brown retired as President of Boston University on July 31, 2023.

Personal
Brown lives in Brookline with his wife, Beverly Brown, who works at Boston University as director of development, industry at the School of Public Health at Boston University. They have two grown sons.

Awards and honors

 * 4x Outstanding Faculty Award, department of chemical engineering, M.I.T. (1980, 1983, 1985, 1988)
 * The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award (1983)
 * Young Author Award, American Association of Crystal Growth (1984)
 * Allan P. Colburn Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1986)
 * Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (1991)
 * Professional Progress Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1996)
 * Professional Progress Lecture, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1997)
 * Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2001)
 * Named Honorary Citizen of the Republic of Singapore (2006)
 * Named one of the 100 Most Influential Chemical Engineers of the Modern Era by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2008)
 * Simon Ramo Founders Award, National Academy of Engineering (2014)
 * Chief Executive Leadership Award, District One of Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) (2015)

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Talk:Battle of Britain (film)

Change of ending quote
I've moved the bit about changing the quote at the end of the film down a bit - it's not really plot related but more about the release itself.

However, I'm pretty sure the copy I have is the 2004 DVD release, and it ends with the Few. Does the altered quote only appear in that specific version, Region 2?

Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:57, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

 * I just watched the Region 1 DVD and the quote at the end is the "end of the beginning" one. --Jtle515 (talk) 03:00, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Historical accuracy
It's noted that the film makes no mention that Dowding and Park were replaced after the campaign - but the film's about the Battle of Britain, not its aftermath. Anyone think it'd be reasonable to delete the reference to the non-mention of the replacement? Notreallydavid (talk) 09:12, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

 * There's a 1969 documentary on the making of the 'Battle of Britain' film, narrated by Michael Caine, here on YouTube:  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.31.130.17 (talk) 18:09, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

More comprehensive index required ?
Does anyone know how to improve the index to include the sub sections of the Production section (i.e. Production, Aircraft Models, Historical Accuracy, Locations and Releases) as sub headings with direct links to them ? I compared them to the index for other pages with sub sections on the index (e.g. the page for the Battle of Britain) and the sub sections appear to be the same Level 3 headlines yet the ones on the BofB film page have no sub section heading in the index. Why is that ?--JustinSmith (talk) 09:43, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

I`ve worked out how to get the sub headings back. I do wonder why anyone would suppress a full index in an encyclopedia ! ? !--JustinSmith (talk) 08:39, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Back to the future
See the credits of the film. How did an Israeli pilot fight in the Battle of Britain? Israel was created in 1947. Please explain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.129.111.236 (talk) 01:31, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

1.129.111.64 (talk) Some afterthoughts: Was the pilot described as an Israeli because he was Jewish? He should have been listed as a citizen of Palestine or another country of which he was a citizen.

The pilot in question was PO George Goodman, No.1 Squadron, 8 victories, shot down/wounded during the Battle on 6th September. He was in fact a British citizen, and of course Israel did not exist in 1940.Aforandi (talk) 21:45, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Were any of the German pilots/crew Jewish? 150,000 of the German military were Jewish, including high ranking Luftwaffe members.

The film does not mention that Hitler personally allowed the British military to escape after they were encircled by Panzers at Dunkirk. He wanted peace with Britain and wanted the British military to prevent Stalin overrunning Europe (and Britain). Churchill eventually came to his senses after WW2 and said the same things Hitler had been saying about the Soviets for decades. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.129.111.64 (talk) 01:59, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

 * Hitler did not 'let the British escape' at Dunkirk, the evacuation that became Operation Dynamo had never been tried on such a scale before and many of the people involved in executing it did not think it would be successful. Hitler never even imagined such an 'escape' was possible, as far as he and his High Command were concerned, the BEF was trapped and going nowhere, that's why he allowed the so-called 'Halt order' to be sent as there was in his mind no need for haste and so he could afford to let the Luftwaffe pound them into submission.

 * A reminder that the talk page is for discussion regarding the improvement of the article, not a forum for discussing the film itself, still less for discussing the historical facts that the film depicts. Cheers! Captainllama (talk) 11:29, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Natural enemies
The film correctly mentions that Hitler never regarded Britain as a natural enemy of Germany. When informed that British newspapers regularly stated that Hitler regarded Britain as an enemy, Hitler wrote a letter to Lord Rothermere stating that in none of his 4-5,000 speeches had he said or written anything against Britain or Britain's interests. In 1938 Hitler offered to resign if that would lead to peace with Britain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.129.111.236 (talk) 02:04, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

El Copero
The documentary Hollywood rueda en España, 1955-1980 says that the airfield of El Copero (es:El Copero) near Seville was used for the film. The Tablada aerodrome is referenced though. Could it be that both Seville airfields were used? --Error (talk) 18:39, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

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Aleksandra Szwed

Aleksandra Szwed (born 8 August 1990) is a Polish television, film, and voice actress, television presenter, singer, model, fashion designer, and master of ceremonies.

Early life
Aleksandra Szwed was born on 8 August 1990, in Warsaw, Poland. Her mother is of Polish descent, and her father, of Nigerian. When she was one-year-old, her father left her family. She grew up with her mother and step-father in Warsaw.

In 2014, she graduated from the SWPS University, with the master's degree in the cultural studies.

Career
As a child, she was a member of the performing group with singer Majka Jeżowska. In 1995 and 1996 she appeared in the TVP1 children's show Ziarno, and from 1997 to 1998, in children's and youth show 5-10-15.

From 1999 to 2009, she has portrayed Eliza, one of main characters in the Polsat television series Rodzina zastępcza. She also had minor roles in television series such as Niania (2008), Off the Stretcher (2008), Teraz albo nigdy! (2009), The Ranch (2012), Na krawędzi (2013), Family.pl (2016), and Father Matthew (2018). She also had several major recurring roles in television series such as Barwy szczęścia (2013–2017), Leśniczówka (2018–2021), Na Wspólnej (2021–2023), and First Love (2022–2023).

In 2008, together with a figure dancer Sławomir Borowiecki, she won in the TVP2 talent show Gwiazdy tańczą na lodzie. She also participated in the talent show Jak oni śpiewają, and the game show Fort Boyard. In 2009, she participated in the Polish preselections to the Eurovision Song Contest, in which she sung "All My Life" in a duet with Marco Bocchino. In 2010, she participated in the talent show Dancing with the Stars. Taniec z gwiazdami

In 2016, she won in the talent show Twoja twarz brzmi znajomo In 2019, she was one of the jurors in the talent show Śpiewajmy razem. All Together Now, and a host of the game show Ninja Warrior Polska. In 2020, she participated in the talent show Star Voice. Gwiazdy mają głos.

She also works as a model and a fashion designer.

Private life
She has two children together with basketball player Krzysztof Białkowski, a son born in 2015 and a daughter born in 2021.

She was brought up as in the Roman Catholic faith, and she declares herself as a Christian, without affiliation to a particular denomination.

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List of Major League Baseball career wins leaders

This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers with 200 or more career wins. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead. A starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win; if this does not happen, the official scorer awards the win based on guidelines set forth in the official rules. Cy Young  holds the MLB win record with 511; Walter Johnson is second with 417. Young and Johnson are the only players to earn 400 or more wins. Among pitchers whose entire careers were in the post-1920 live-ball era, Warren Spahn has the most wins with 363. Only 24 pitchers have accumulated 300 or more wins in their careers. Roger Clemens is the only pitcher with 300 wins or more not elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. MLB officially only keeps statistics from the National League and the American League. This table includes statistics from other major leagues as well which are defunct now, including the American Association (AA), the National Association of Base Ball Players, and the National Association of Professional Baseball Players.

List

 * Stats updated as of June 23, 2024.


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Talk:The Beano

Political Correctness
Alas, the Beano, like everything else, has fallen victim to political correctness. Where is Sangita the soldier and surely Dennis the Menace should be transformed into Rajiv the Rascal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.59.159 (talk) 17:05, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Article quality
Is it me or is this article fairly poorly arranged? It seems to be more a list of random facts than a proper resource people would be able to use to research the comic. There needs to be more about it's lengthy history, how and where it's written, it's stylistic trademark etc. Also that Beano superstars section needs an explanation or deletion, there's no explanation of what it means. Given that the Beano is so iconic for so many Brits of all ages, it should have a much better article. Abigsmurf 09:51, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

This is shit
This just might be the most poorly written article I’ve ever stumbled across.

Smudge
Disambiguation required. the 'Smudge' link goes to a band called Smudge. The Beano character needs a stub page. Sorry, but I don't know how to sort out disambiguation so any help would be appreciated.

 * Oops. When I added the link last year, no page called 'Smudge' existed. I've now changed the link to Smudge (comics). BillyH 03:19, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Editor
The present editor is Euan Kerr, who has been in this role since 1984.

Is this true? Can anyone else detect something amiss in this name?!?

--Smallbone10 19:06, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Despite the unfortunate pronounciation, it's true. That's his name. BillyH 19:31, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Strip list
I believe that the list of current and past strips needs some modification (with consensus and research). For example, Billy the Cat and Katie should probably not be listed as a past strip, rather as an occasional current strip (it runs in series?) Whilst as of 2006 Les Pretend only seems to appear in annuals. Gordon Bennett has also been absent for a while (but not really long enough to be a past strip IMO) --RK 16:56, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

How about Ill Will? I'm not too sure as I haven't seen a Beano in years.--213.7.2.8 14:42, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Editor of the Spectator
Matthew d'Ancona has been appointed to replace Boris Johnson as editor of The Spectator magazine.

This was reported by the BBC News Website on 13 February 2006 - although Boris Johnson resigend as editor in December 2005 when he was appointed to David Cameron's shadow front bench as Higher Education Minister.

Bash Street Kids came before Dennis the Menace
It first appeared under the name "When the bell rings" and later became "The Bash Street Kids". It underwent this name change before Dennis the Menace first appeared, so I think the change is justified.
 * Well, yeah...but name changes don't really count. Dennis, despite minus Gnasher, still first appeared three years before The Bash Street Kids, so it's still technically the longest running strip. The addition of 'and Gnasher' to the title was simply a renaming based on his new sidekick, not a completely different strip entirely. BillyH 07:34, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Changed back for the reasons I've described. BillyH 16:08, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Rewrite
The strip seems to have been picked at recently without really being improved. I have tried to correct the errors (doubtless introducing some new ones of my own), and rewritten to follow Wikipedia standards, including some references (not enough), a lead section which is only a brief summary of what is repeated later, and a new paragraph on the iconic nature of some of the characters. Comments? Remove the rewrite tag? Notinasnaid 11:37, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Tags removed, if there any other ways you can improve this article then please say so on it's peer review page. Thanks. Retiono Virginian 16:08, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Moved lists
The list sections were gargantuan. I've moved them to their own page, and put the link in the "see also" section. Nswinton 20:50, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Good call, I think. I've integrated the link by moving it into the "Strips" section using the "further information" tag. Notinasnaid 20:55, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Beanologo.png
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Repeated Stories
I have noticed that The Beano coming out each week has got old strips in it. I know this because I have actually read the stories when they first came out and I still have some. The most obivious repeat is that Wayne the new bash street kid is not in the bash street kids stories anymore. There also are repeats of minnie the minx and bily whizz.--Darkside2000 (talk) 13:16, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Wrong. Wayne appears to have been dropped after a year. Minnie is new stories, Ken Harrison was assigned her after losing his Desperate Dan duties. The current reprints are Billy Whizz, Ivy the Terrible, Fred's Bed (from merged Beezer and Topper) and Riot Squad (occasionally, from Hoot). Digifiend (talk) 12:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Minnie's main artists were, in order, Leo Baxendale (1950s-60s), Jim Petrie (1970s-90s), Tom Paterson (2000s), Ken Harrison (2008). I think you must have got Ivy and Minnie mixed up. Digifiend (talk) 12:20, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Well Bash Street Kids may be a reprint of old stories because I have read the one about the computer bugs before and I still have comic or annual to prove it.Darkside2000 (talk) 11:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Actually, some stories recently seem to be remade, not reprint - one story sounded familiar, until Bea the Mini-Menace appeared. Don't remember that originally, and that story was just a couple of weeks ago. Also consider the fact the artwork style has altered over the years. There was a Nigel Parkinson strip a few weeks ago though, I suspect that was a reprint, and the same for anything in BeanoMAX. Digifiend (talk) 11:59, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Looked through my Golden Years books, seems Roger the Dodger used carbon paper to copy homework on at least two occassions in the 1960s. Storylines have always been reused, not always reprinted. Digifiend (talk) 12:04, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

August 2nd is coming...
The last two issues have run adverts saying "beware softies, something big is happening, August 2nd is coming..." Possible birthday issue reference - I reckon it'll be 64 pages instead of 32, as the 60th birthday issue was 48 pages, double the then current 24 pages. Digifiend (talk) 09:05, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Reference to bumper birthday issue in this week's edition. Also there's a Gnashional Menace Day on August 2nd - that was what "beware softies" referred to. Both worth mentioning? Digifiend (talk) 07:59, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Nobody's argued, so I'm going to add this info. Digifiend (talk) 09:21, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, done. I found a secondary online source too, the Beano's sister publication, the Sunday Post newspaper. Digifiend (talk) 09:32, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Somebody's added to the section I just created - good work Mr unregistered user - you should set up an account, I didn't know about that exhibition. Also I see the same person added the last of the missing editors' names. That info came from the anniversary book I mentioned. Good spot. Digifiend (talk) 13:23, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks Emperor for updating that section, as I didn't know how to footnote the links. Digifiend (talk) 13:21, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The Sunday Post reference was obsolete apparently only a week after I added it! Now removed. Digifiend (talk) 13:47, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Chessington?
Should we mention Beanoland at Chessington World of Adventures?-- Editor510  drop us a line, mate  07:55, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Go ahead, it is part of the comic's history after all. Digifiend (talk) 12:02, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You never did mention it, so I've added it myself. But check out the Chessington article, seems Beanoland's gonna close down, because the contract is up! Digifiend (talk) 09:21, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

What a Waster
The Libertines' song "What A Waster" refers to the Beano. If that's the case, could somebody cite a source i.e. song lyrics? Digifiend (talk) 09:16, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Exact launch date
I've added the exact launch date of issue 1. The date on the cover, 30 July 1938, would be a Saturday, so the Tuesday must be 26 July, I know Tuesday is the right day because of early covers like this one: Image:BeanoJan6-1940.jpg Contrary to what the Hull Daily Mail thinks, where did they get 29th July from, it was The Dandy which came out on Friday's before the war! Digifiend (talk) 12:10, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * By the way, that would mean the Hull Daily Mail cannot be used as a reliable source. I have however found a source with the correct date. Digifiend (talk) 09:29, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

oh bugger... price increase one week only and I didn't log in when I added that fact!
I just added something about the Beano this week costing £1.50 instead of 99p - but I forgot to log in first! Silly me... just identifying myself. Digifiend (talk) 11:59, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

''That's very strange, I bought a Beano today at Morissons costing £1.35. Are you sure your Beano cost £1.50? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.34.173.149 (talk) 19:46, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced info
The following is unsourced information:

While this is interesting, we can't use it unless you provide a source. Also, none of this is really trivia, as trivia by its definition is "unimportant information" - it therefore shouldn't be in a trivia section but instead the information should be incorporated into the main article. - Tbsdy lives (talk) 10:43, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Private Eye refers to The Spectator as "The Hasbeano", with the Spectator's former editor Boris Johnson becoming "Boris the Menace" (occasionally "Beano Boris").
 * The Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton album from the John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers band, is called "The Beano Album" by Eric Clapton fans, because on the album cover photo he is reading a Beano comic. That comic, No 1242 is extremely sought after by both collectors of the Beano Comic and Eric Clapton memorabilia.
 * Reece Shearsmith, known for being in The League of Gentlemen, once wrote in to The Beano, saying that he had lost his current copy. It ended up as the star prize.
 * Big Eggo was replaced by Biffo the Bear as the cover star in 1948 as research showed that children identified more with characters that, like them, had 2 arms and 2 legs.
 * British adult humour comic Viz has landed in trouble a number of times for parodies of Beano (and Dandy) characters including Desperately Unfunny Dan, and DC Thompson.
 * The band Help She Can't Swim released an EP under the name of Bunty Vs Beano
 * In the revival of the British television show Dr. Finlay the character of Dr. David Neil reads the Beano comics.
 * In a Spitting Image special "Bumbledown: The Lives and Times of Ronald Reagan", when the puppet of former Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe appears, he was seen eating crisps and reading a copy of "The Beano".
 * In Episode 13 of the CBBC series Young Dracula, Vlad can be seen reading a Beano (specifically, the Ball Boy strip) hidden inside a revision book for a "blood test" examination, a sort of vampire GCSE.
 * The Libertines' song "What A Waster" refers to the Beano.
 * The Beano is so popular that it has its own theme park, Beanoland, at Chessington World of Adventures. This opened in 2000, but is under threat of closure as the contract has expired.
 * Beanoland does exist, see further up on this page, the article Chessington World of Adventures, and this. Took me 5 seconds... ☺    Spiby    ☻  12:45, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Cheers. - Tbsdy lives (talk) 10:28, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

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Beano is eighty years old on 30 July 2018
This article could mention there were going to be celebrations to mark the eightieth birthday of the Beano on 30 July 2018. Vorbee (talk) 07:33, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Pranking/bullying
"For decades strips have appeared to glorify immoral behaviour, e.g. pranking/bullying (Dennis the Menace)..." - I always thought there was a distinction between "menacing" (performing pranks for one's amusement) and "bullying" (belittling others to hide one's own inadequacy), with only menacing being acceptable. Actual bullies tended to be short-lived characters and soon overthrown, iirc. I remember a TV interview (late 80s?) in which one of the Beano staff made the same point. Any thoughts on how to improve this sentence? Pastychomper (talk) 15:31, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Continuity
This is an issue across many of the comic strips' pages so I'll put it here. There should an acknowledgement that character names have changed overtime (e.g. BSK's Sydney Pye was once named Katie, and Minnie the Minx had another name because the original grew up and had the new Dennis the Menace with the 1980s' Dennis). —MonkeyStolen234 (talk) 12:34, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

revert?
With, Editor MonkeyStolen234 reverted my edit with the edit summary: Important for new edit draft I've spent the past week working on. This page is a bit of a mess.

That claim doesn't make any sense to me. The target citation is:

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Beano Video
Beano Video may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. So I suggest to merge to The Beano.--67.218.18.234 (talk) 20:55, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Moving of episodes
The episodes that have moved to Deko Boko Friends were:
 * Dennis the Menace and Gnasher: In on the Act
 * The Bash Street Kids: Face the Music
 * Gnasher and Gnipper: Hotdog
 * The Three Bears: Porridge
 * Minnie the Minx: Minnie Chairs
 * Dennis the Menace: Soap Box Cart
 * The Bash Street Kids: Lake Beautiful
 * The Three Bears: Scorcher
 * Dennis the Menace and Gnasher: Sausages
 * Minnie the Minx: Minnie Apples
 * The Bash Street Kids: Space Case
 * Dennis the Menace and Gnasher: Pink Glove
 * The Three Bears: Greedy Bears' Picnic
 * Minnie the Minx: Minnie Flying
 * Dennis the Menace and Gnasher: Big Surprise
 * The Three Bears: Hare Soup
 * The Bash Street Kids: Molar Mirth
 * Gnipper: Gnipper Pecker
 * Minnie the Minx: Minnie Clones
 * Dennis the Menace and Gnasher: The Snowman Army
 * Minnie the Minx: Jelly Babies
 * The Bash Street Kids: The New School
 * Minnie the Minx: It's a Dad's Life
 * The Three Bears: Bag Those Pipes
 * Ivy the Terrible: On Safari
 * Gnipper: Flutterby
 * Dennis the Menace and Gnasher: Dennis Meets His Match

The episodes that have moved to the 1971 Dr. Seuss TV special The Cat in the Hat were:
 * Adventures in Dennis Sitting
 * Haunted House
 * Oil Strike
 * Mauled
 * The Trial
 * Journey to the Centre of the Bed
 * Snowbound
 * Monster Menace

All these episodes don't have rights to The Beano. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.218.18.234 (talk) 13:59, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

 * I dont understand what you are talking about? Eopsid (talk) 19:23, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

"Bea and Ivy" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Talk:Oregon Electric Railroad

I believe this page refers to the Oregon Electric Railway -- photo-documented at http://pdxhistory.com.tripod.com/gobystreetcar/orelectric/orelectric.html So I moved it to a page of that name.

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Cabrales

Cabrales is a municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias, Spain. It is situated between the Sierra de Cuera and the Picos de Europa, and is a region famous for its Cabrales cheese. It is divided into nine parishes; Las Arenas is the largest, with a population 767 as of 2023. The population for the municipality as a whole sat at 1,918 as of 2023.

Geography
Cabrales lies on the border between Asturias and its neighbouring autonomous community Castile and León. It is a highly mountainous region; it contains within it parts of the Sierra de Cuera and Picos de Europa. It is located on the Central Massif of the Cantabrian Mountains. Two notable peaks in Cabrales are Torre Cerredo and Naranjo de Bulnes, which both sit at an altitude of over 2,500 m; the former is the highest peak in the Cantabrian mountain range. It has a very temperate climate, with an average yearly temperature of 12 °C.

The municipality is divided into nine parishes:

 * Berodia
 * Bulnes
 * Carreña
 * Las Arenas
 * Poo
 * Prado
 * Puertas
 * Sotres
 * Tielve

History
There have been many artifacts from prehistory found in Cabrales. Upper Paleolithic tools made from stone and bone were found in the region, alongside cave paintings and a burial site in Las Canes cave. Bronze Age-era axes found in the municipality were given the name "Cabrales axes." There is almost nothing recorded regarding Cabrales during the Roman conquest of Spain.

Cabrales' first mention in the Middle Ages was when it was noted that the Moors fled the area following their defeat at Covadonga in 722. Cabrales was mentioned as a territorial entity in the 12th century, but generally lacked political importance at the time. In the 14th century, Cabrales was officially referred to as a municipality when they were recorded as supporting Pedro I of Castile. Later, in the 16th century, the region was ruled by several powerful families, including the Barcena and the González de Buerdo dynasties.

The region was a site of the Battle of El Mazucu during the Spanish Civil War in September 1937. Francoist forces overwhelmed the Republican army, defeating them; this eventually led to the Republic's retreat from Asturias. Throughout its history, the economy of Cabrales had always been centered around dairy; Cabrales cheese famously comes from the region. However, in the 1980s, the municipality began a shift towards the tourism and hotel industries, causing the dairy industry in the region to take a backseat to the tertiary sector in terms of employment.

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Richard Calder

Richard Calder (1943 – 3 Nov 2014) was a senior official at the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Calder held a Bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Connecticut and a master's degree in information systems from George Washington University. He was a United States Navy radio operator. From 1966, he was as communications officer in the CIA Directorate of Administration (DA) Office of Communications (OC). It was in this role that he found himself trapped for several days inside the CIA's base in Benghazi, Libya, during riots in the wake of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. His chief at the time was Thomas Twetten, who rose to become deputy director for operations (DDO).

Calder served in numerous roles within the CIA, including Directorate of Operations (DO) case officer, deputy chief of the DO Near East Division (NE) for Arab operations, and chief of DO Operations and Resource Management Staff.

In late 1995, then-CIA Director John M. Deutch made Calder an offer to run the DA, of whose inefficiencies he had been sharply critical, with a free hand. Against nearly universal resistance among his own directorate's leadership, Calder instituted activity-based costing and a working-capital fund, returning the majority of his directorate's budget back to the operational units and requiring his directorate to offer its services on a reimbursable basis. The net result was a freeing up of significant resources for use in the Agency's main operational and analytic missions.

He retired from the CIA in 2001. That year he was named president of Abraxas Corporation by company founder and former CIA director Richard Helms and served until his retirement in 2008.

Calder was married with two children and lived in Vienna, Virginia. He died from a heart attack.

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Backwashing (water treatment)

In terms of water treatment, including water purification and sewage treatment, backwashing refers to pumping water backwards through the filters media, sometimes including intermittent use of compressed air during the process. Backwashing is a form of preventive maintenance so that the filter media can be reused. In water treatment plants, backwashing can be an automated process that is run by local programmable logic controllers (PLCs). The backwash cycle is triggered after a set time interval, when the filter effluent turbidity is greater than a treatment guideline or when the differential pressure (head loss) across the filter exceeds a set value.

Water treatment filters that can be backwashed include rapid sand filters, water softening systems, pressure filters and granular activated carbon (GAC) filters. Diatomaceous earth filters are backwashed according to the proprietary arrangement of pumps, valves and filters associated with the filtration system. Slow sand filters and self-cleaning screen filters employ mechanisms other than backwashing to remove trapped particles. To keep water treatment filters functional, they have to be cleaned periodically to remove particulates. Ineffective backwashing is one of the main reasons that water treatment filters fail.

Procedure

Backwashing of granular media filters involves several steps. First, the filter is taken offline and the water is drained to a level that is above the surface of the filter bed. Next, compressed air is pushed up through the filter material causing the filter bed to expand breaking up the compacted filter bed and forcing the accumulated particles into suspension. After the air scour cycle, clean backwash water is forced upwards through the filter bed continuing the filter bed expansion, and carrying the particles in suspension into backwash troughs suspended above the filter surface. In some applications, air and water streams are simultaneously pushed upwards through the granular media followed by a rinse water wash. Backwashing continues for a fixed time, or until the turbidity of the backwash water is below an established value. At the end of the backwash cycle, the upward flow of water is terminated and the filter bed settles by gravity into its initial configuration. Water to be filtered is then applied to the filter surface until the filter clogs and the backwash cycle needs to be repeated.

Some water treatment filters use surface wash systems that break up the heavily clogged, granular media surface layer. Surface wash systems are buried in the top of the filter media or are suspended above the filter media surface. John R. Baylis developed a fixed grid system which consisted of pipes with nozzles that injected jets of water into the filter material during expansion. Rotating arms use jets of water to break up the clogged filter surface and to rotate a movable arm through the filter material. A surface wash step in a backwash cycle usually takes place at the beginning of the filter bed cleaning process.

Treatment
Spent backwash water is either discharged without treatment to a sanitary sewer system or is treated and recycled within the plant. Historically, backwash water was discharged directly to surface water supplies; however, direct discharge is now highly regulated through NPDES discharge permits and is often discouraged. Used backwash water contains high concentrations of particulate material. Typical treatment processes include coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation. High molecular weight synthetic organic polymers are sometimes added to facilitate the formation of settleable floc. Failure of a backwash treatment process and reintroduction of the resulting poor quality water into the main water purification plant flow stream can cause overall process upsets, and result in the production of poor quality treated drinking water.

Recycling
As a water conservation measure, many water purification plants recycle filter backwash water and other product streams from sludge treatment processes back to the beginning of the plant. On June 8, 2001, the USEPA released a final regulation governing acceptable practices for recycling backwash water. The purpose of the regulation was to improve the control of microbial contaminants such as Cryptosporidium, by reducing the potential for recycled product streams to upset the removal efficiency of the main treatment processes. The regulation requires that spent filter backwash water be recycled to the front of the treatment plant so that all available particle removal treatment processes can be employed to remove the microbial and particulate material from the backwash water.

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FannyPack

FannyPack was a New York City-based electronic/hip hop group that was formed in 2002 by music producers Matt Goias and "Fancy". The band featured vocals by Jessibel Suthiwong, Belinda Lovell, and Cat Hartwell.

The group's 2003 debut album, So Stylistic, was released in the United States by Tommy Boy Records and featured the hit single "Cameltoe". "Cameltoe" peaked at number 38 in Australia. In 2005, Fannypack released their follow-up LP, See You Next Tuesday, which featured guest vocals by Brooke Lugo and dancehall superstar Mr. Vegas.

After FannyPack, Cat Hartwell joined the band Holy Hail. Belinda Lovell joined the group Retro Glam and worked on a solo album.

Discography

 * So Stylistic (Label: Tommy Boy Entertainment) (2003)
 * See You Next Tuesday (Label: Tommy Boy Entertainment) (2005)
 * Ghetto Bootleg (Label: Tommy Boy Entertainment) (2008)

Post-FannyPack
 * Lil' Too Late (single) (with Skee-Lo, Belinda Lovell, REDStar & D.J. Cazz) (Premier Ent. Group) (2011)

Belinda Lovell as a member of "Retro Glam"
 * Just for One Night (single) (with D.J. Cazz) (Premier Ent. Group) (2012)

Appearances

 * "Cameltoe" (featured on Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and Jackass 3.5)
 * "You Gotta Know" (featured on the Kitsuné release Kitsuné X)
 * "Pop Dat Thing" (featured on the Moveltraxx release Da Movelt Posse)
 * "Hey Mami" (featured on Dance Central, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in Han's nightclub and Still Waiting...)
 * "Seven One Eight" (featured on I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23 episode "Paris...")
 * "Nu Nu" (Double J & Hayze Extended mix) (featured in Stick It, The L Word, and on Fired Up)
 * "Fire Fire" (with Mr. Vegas) (featured in Stick It)

Belinda Lovell as part of Retro Glam has also appeared in:
 * "Just for One Night" (featured in Super Swag)
 * "Lil Too Late" (featured in Bunnies On Deck)
 * "Live Without Him" (featured in Bunnies On Deck)

Tours
Opened for Madonna on her 2006 Confessions Tour in the United States.

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Other People's Money

Other People's Money is a 1991 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Norman Jewison, starring Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck and Penelope Ann Miller. It was adapted by screenwriter Alvin Sargent from the 1989 play of the same name by Jerry Sterner.

This film is notable as Gregory Peck's last major screen performance.

Plot
Lawrence "Larry the Liquidator" Garfield (Danny DeVito) is a successful corporate raider who has become rich buying up companies and selling off their assets. With the help of a computerized stock analyzing program called "Carmen", Garfield has identified New England Wire & Cable Company as his next target. The struggling company is run by the benevolent and folksy Andrew "Jorgy" Jorgenson (Gregory Peck) and is the primary employer in its small Rhode Island town in New England.

Garfield decides to take over the company. After Jorgy learns that he has filed a Schedule 13D report, and after stubbornly insisting that no outsider can seize control of a business his father began, Jorgy is finally persuaded to hire his stepdaughter Kate (Penelope Ann Miller), a big-city lawyer, to defend against a hostile takeover. Garfield is instantly smitten with the beautiful Kate, although he is on to her tactics and does not waver from his goal of becoming the majority stockholder of New England Wire & Cable. Garfield tactlessly and unsuccessfully tries to seduce her. Despite their antagonism, Kate finds herself attracted to Garfield's bold nature.

The takeover attempt begins to fracture the New England Wire & Cable Company family. Kate's mother Bea (Piper Laurie) secretly travels to Garfield's offices to offer one million dollars in greenmail to Garfield if he'll go away, but he refuses, stating, "I don't take money from widows or orphans". Trusted company president Bill Coles (Dean Jones), fearful that the takeover will leave him with nothing, offers to let Garfield vote his shares in the company in exchange for a million-dollar payout. Garfield agrees, but specifies that Coles will get only half as much if his shares fail to make up the margin of victory.

Garfield concedes to Jorgy's offer to let the matter be settled at the annual shareholder's meeting. Relying on the support of longtime friends and investors, Jorgy makes an impassioned plea to save the company, appealing to the traditions of manufacturing as opposed to the new breed of capitalism which Larry the Liquidator represents, in which buyers of companies create no products or jobs and are interested only in money. The shareholders seem swayed by Jorgy's speech and boo Garfield when he gets up to give a rebuttal.

In his rebuttal, Garfield compares New England Wire & Cable to the last buggy whip manufacturer, arguing that even though the company's product may be high quality, changing technology has rendered it obsolete. Rather than running a failing business into the ground, he contends that the shareholders should follow his lead and get what value they can from the stock before the company's inevitable demise. At least when this company is liquidated, he says, they'll end up with a few dollars in their pocket.

When the vote is taken, the shareholders agree to give Garfield controlling interest in the company. The margin of victory is greater than Coles' shares and thus he does not receive the full amount he betrayed Jorgy to get.

Back at home in Manhattan, Garfield finds himself uncharacteristically despondent after his victory, having realized he has lost his chance for a romance with Kate. Just then, Kate calls. She's been having discussions with a Japanese automaker that wants to hire New England Wire & Cable to manufacture stainless steel wire cloth for making automobile airbags, something which will make the company profitable again on a new expanding industrial product. An excited Garfield invites her to dinner to discuss it. Kate tells him lunch, “strictly business, you know where”. Garfield blushes and smiles at this.

Cast

 * Danny DeVito as Lawrence ("Larry the Liquidator") Garfield
 * Gregory Peck as Andrew ("Jorgy") Jorgenson
 * Penelope Ann Miller as Kate Sullivan
 * Piper Laurie as Bea Sullivan
 * Dean Jones as Bill Coles
 * R. D. Call as Arthur
 * Mo Gaffney as Harriet
 * Tom Aldredge as Ozzie

Production
The film was mainly shot in New York City. During the opening credits, the original 7 World Trade Center lobby can be seen. Some of the scenes that take place inside the factory were shot in the now defunct "Seymour Specialty and Wire" in Seymour, Connecticut. Other scenes were shot in the (also defunct) Gilbert and Bennett mill in Georgetown, Connecticut.

Reception
The film received mixed to negative reviews, with a 31% rating on review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes based on 16 reviews. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars, but said "I didn't like the very last scene of 'Other People's Money'. It felt tacked on, manufactured, concocted out of a Hollywood studio's knee-jerk need to provide a smileyface ending that was not in the spirit of the film". Janet Maslin of The New York Times said of Sargent's adaptation, "culminates in a speechy but effective debate about the merits of old-fashioned business versus the corporate takeover," but still felt that the film was "too genial to be hard-hitting."

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2005 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 2005.

Events

 * April 30 – Billboard magazine renames the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart "Hot Country Songs." The chart's renaming is part of a major redesign of the 110-year-old magazine.
 * May 25 – Oklahoma-born Carrie Underwood becomes the fourth-season winner of "American Idol." Although her first single, "Inside Your Heaven," tops the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the 22-year-old Underwood's influences and music are predominantly country. Late in the year, she entered the top 10 of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the first time with "Jesus, Take the Wheel". Her debut album, Some Hearts, rockets to No. 1 on the album charts.
 * May 25 – Garth Brooks proposes to longtime girlfriend and fellow country music star Trisha Yearwood in Bakersfield, California, ending long-standing speculation about their relationship
 * May 27 - Gretchen Wilson guest Miranda Lambert at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio.
 * September – Country music acts participate in benefit concerts to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. On September 9, Dixie Chicks, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are among the artists participating in "Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast," which airs live on cable and broadcast television stations in the United States and worldwide.
 * "ReAct Now: Music & Relief" is held September 10. Country performers at the 4½-hour concert — which airs live on CMT – include Alan Jackson and Gretchen Wilson.

 * October – Koch Records Nashville folds when its parent company goes out of business.
 * November 9 – After 27 years as host of "American Country Countdown," radio personality Bob Kingsley steps down, after his production company and ABC Radio Networks (which distributes the show) fail to come to terms in renegotiating a distribution agreement. Kix Brooks, one half of the superstar duo Brooks & Dunn, is named the new host and was slated to take over January 21, 2006. Kingsley's last shows with "ACC" are the December 24 countdown program and "Christmas in America".
 * November 18 – The Johnny Cash biopic, Walk the Line, opens nationwide. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as "The Man in Black" and Reese Witherspoon as his girlfriend (and wife-to-be) June Carter. The movie is widely praised by critics and a major box office hit, culminating in Reese winning the Best Actress Oscar the following year.
 * November 25 – Garth Brooks releases The Limited Series, his second box set to be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores. The set contains his previous two studio albums, Sevens and Scarecrow; plus his Double Live album; The Lost Sessions, a new album of previously unreleased material; and an All Access DVD containing behind-the-scenes footage of his concerts. The Limited Series is Brooks' first box set to be released under his label, Pearl Records; he had left his longtime label, Capitol Records, earlier in the year.
 * December 10 – Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood marry at their home in Oklahoma. It is Brooks' second marriage, Yearwood's third.
 * December 31 – Bob Kingsley's new countdown program, "Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40", premieres with the annual year-end countdown. The new four-hour show, which aired on many of the same stations that aired "ACC," is distributed by the Jones Radio Network.

No dates

 * Mindy McCready endures a rough year, with stories about her personal and legal problems making headlines. They include violent run-ins with her ex-boyfriend, Billy McKnight; various crimes she had been charged with (including fraud, prescription drug crimes, driving under the influence and probation violation) and at least two suicide attempts. Late in the year, Mindy spoke about her problems on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Larry King Live.
 * Toby Keith, the flagship artist for DreamWorks Nashville, departs to form his own label, Show Dog Nashville. DreamWorks – which had never really lived up to its expectations – is shut down shortly thereafter by its parent company, Universal Music Group.
 * The Country Music Association announces a new TV deal to move the CMA Awards to ABC, after years of being broadcast on CBS.
 * Tammy Genovese becomes the head of the Country Music Association, succeeding Ed Benson.
 * Country music icon George Jones marks his 50th year in country music.

Top hits of the year
The following songs placed within the Top 20 on the Hot Country Songs or Canada Country charts in 2005:

Top new album releases
The following albums placed within the Top 50 on the Top Country Albums charts in 2005:

Deaths

 * February 6 – Merle Kilgore, 70, prolific songwriter ("Wolverton Mountain," "Ring of Fire") and manager of Hank Williams Jr. (cancer)
 * February 12 – Sammi Smith, 61, best known for "Help Me Make it Through the Night."
 * February 25- Goldie Hill, 72, best known for "I Let the Stars Get in My Eyes" and wife of Carl Smith.
 * March 2 – Joe Carter, 78, son of A.P. and Sara Carter.
 * March 9 – Chris LeDoux, 56, world champion bareback rider who sang about the rodeo circuit and cowboy life.
 * May 14 – Jimmy Martin, 77, the "King of Bluegrass."
 * June 27 – Robert Byrne, 50, songwriter (unknown causes)
 * August 16 – Vassar Clements, 77, legendary fiddle player. (cancer)

Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame inductees

 * Red Allen
 * Benny Martin

Country Music Hall of Fame inductees

 * Alabama (Randy Owen (born 1949); Teddy Gentry (born 1952); Jeff Cook (1949-2022); and Mark Herndon (born 1955)).
 * DeFord Bailey (1899–1982)
 * Glen Campbell (1936–2017)

Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductees

 * Gary Fjellgaard
 * R. Harlan Smith
 * Paul Kennedy

Grammy Awards
(presented February 8, 2006 in Los Angeles)
 * Best Female Country Vocal Performance – "The Connection", Emmylou Harris
 * Best Male Country Vocal Performance – "You'll Think of Me", Keith Urban
 * Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal – "Restless", Alison Krauss & Union Station
 * Best Country Collaboration with Vocals – "Like We Never Loved At All", Faith Hill and Tim McGraw
 * Best Country Instrumental Performance – "Unionhouse Branch", Alison Krauss & Union Station
 * Best Country Song – "Bless the Broken Road", Bobby Boyd, Jeff Hanna & Marcus Hummon
 * Best Country Album – Lonely Runs Both Ways, Alison Krauss & Union Station
 * Best Bluegrass Album – The Company We Keep, Del McCoury Band

Juno Awards
(presented April 2, 2006 in Halifax)
 * Country Recording of the Year – The Road Hammers, The Road Hammers

CMT Music Awards
(presented April 11 in Nashville)
 * Video of the Year – "Days Go By", Keith Urban
 * Male Video of the Year – "I Go Back", Kenny Chesney
 * Female Video of the Year – "When I Think About Cheatin'" Gretchen Wilson
 * Group/Duo Video of the Year – "Feels Like Today", Rascal Flatts
 * Breakthrough Video of the Year – "Redneck Woman", Gretchen Wilson
 * Collaborative Video of the Year – "Whiskey Lullaby", Brad Paisley Featuring Alison Krauss
 * Hottest Video of the Year – "Whiskey Girl", Toby Keith
 * Most Inspiring Video of the Year – "Live Like You Were Dying", Tim McGraw
 * Video Director of the Year – "Whiskey Lullaby", Brad Paisley Featuring Alison Krauss (Director: Rick Schroder)
 * Johnny Cash Visionary Award – Loretta Lynn

Americana Music Honors & Awards

 * Album of the Year – Universal United House of Prayer (Buddy Miller)
 * Artist of the Year – John Prine
 * Song of the Year – "Worry Too Much" (Mark Heard)
 * Emerging Artist of the Year – Mary Gauthier
 * Instrumentalist of the Year – Sonny Landreth
 * Spirit of Americana/Free Speech Award – Judy Collins
 * Lifetime Achievement: Songwriting – Guy Clark
 * Lifetime Achievement: Performance – Marty Stuart
 * Lifetime Achievement: Executive – The Rounder Founders (Ken Irwin, Marian Leighton, Bill Nowlin)

Academy of Country Music
(presented May 23, 2006 in Las Vegas)
 * Entertainer of the Year – Kenny Chesney
 * Song of the Year – "Believe", Ronnie Dunn and Craig Wiseman
 * Single of the Year – "Jesus, Take the Wheel", Carrie Underwood
 * Album of the Year – Time Well Wasted, Brad Paisley
 * Top Male Vocalist – Keith Urban
 * Top Female Vocalist – Sara Evans
 * Top Vocal Duo – Brooks & Dunn
 * Top Vocal Group – Rascal Flatts
 * Top New Male Vocalist – Jason Aldean
 * Top New Female Vocalist – Carrie Underwood
 * Top New Duo or Group – Sugarland
 * Video of the Year – "When I Get Where I'm Going", Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton (Director: Jim Shea)
 * Vocal Event of the Year – "When I Get Where I'm Going", Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton
 * ACM/Home Depot Humanitarian of the Year – Vince Gill
 * Pioneer Awards – Little Jimmy Dickens, Kris Kristofferson, Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs

ARIA Awards
(presented in Sydney on October 23, 2005)
 * Best Country Album – Be Here (Keith Urban)
 * ARIA Hall of Fame – Smoky Dawson

Canadian Country Music Association
(presented September 12 in Calgary)
 * Kraft Cheez Whiz Fans' Choice Award – George Canyon
 * Male Artist of the Year – George Canyon
 * Female Artist of the Year – Terri Clark
 * Group or Duo of the Year – The Road Hammers
 * SOCAN Song of the Year – "My Name", George Canyon, Gordie Sampson
 * Single of the Year – "My Name", George Canyon
 * Album of the Year – This Time Around, Paul Brandt
 * Top Selling Album – Greatest Hits, Shania Twain
 * CMT Video of the Year – "Convoy," Paul Brandt
 * Chevy Trucks Rising Star Award – Amanda Wilkinson
 * Roots Artist or Group of the Year – Corb Lund

Country Music Association
(presented November 15 in New York City)
 * Entertainer of the Year – Keith Urban
 * Song of the Year – "Whiskey Lullaby", Bill Anderson and Jon Randall
 * Single of the Year – "I May Hate Myself in the Morning", Lee Ann Womack
 * Album of the Year – There's More Where That Came From, Lee Ann Womack
 * Male Vocalist of the Year – Keith Urban
 * Female Vocalist of the Year – Gretchen Wilson
 * Vocal Duo of the Year – Brooks & Dunn
 * Vocal Group of the Year – Rascal Flatts
 * Horizon Award – Dierks Bentley
 * Video of the Year – "As Good As I Once Was", Toby Keith (Director: Michael Salomon)
 * Vocal Event of the Year – "Good News, Bad News", George Strait and Lee Ann Womack
 * Musician of the Year – Jerry Douglas

Other links

 * Country Music Association
 * Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame
 * 2005 in Swiss music

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List of Aerolíneas Argentinas destinations

Aerolíneas Argentinas was formed by the Argentine's Ministry of Transport as a state corporation in May 1949, when it took over the routes and assets of four struggling airlines. A year and a half later, in late December 1950, the company introduced the Buenos Aires–Rio de Janeiro–Natal–Dakar–Lisbon–Paris–Frankfurt route, using 48-seater DC-6 equipment, linking Argentina with Germany for the first time since 1933. By May 1952, the carrier's route network was 35500 mi long. Upon taking delivery of the first three Comet 4s, which also became the first jetliners in the airline's fleet, these brand new aircraft were deployed on the Buenos Aires–London, Buenos Aires–New York City, and Buenos Aires–Santiago de Chile routes.

, the airline's top five international routes in terms of available seat kilometre (ASK) were Buenos Aires-Ezeiza–Madrid-Barajas, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza–Miami, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza–Barcelona, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza–Rome-Fiumicino and Buenos Aires-Ezeiza–Sydney; European routes account for about 41% of total ASK. In January 2013, the airline was granted permission to operate services to Atlanta, Detroit, Guangzhou, Las Vegas and Tel Aviv, yet it was announced it would not fly to these destinations with its own aircraft in the near future. In November 2013, the carrier announced the discontinuance of services to Sydney starting in April 2014. Aerolíneas had previously served Sydney via Auckland until the city was removed from the airline international network in July 2012. After leaving the Buenos Aires–New York JFK market unserved since 2008, Aerolíneas Argentinas resumed these flights in December 2013. , the airline top five domestic airports by available seats are Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, Ingeniero Aeronáutico Ambrosio L.V. Taravella International Airport, Ministro Pistarini International Airport, San Carlos de Bariloche Airport and Comandante Armando Tola International Airport.

List
Following is a list of destinations the airline flies to,. Destinations in the list below are presented by country, and for each of them the cities served are provided, along with the airport served. The list also includes airports that serve either as a hub or as a focus city for the airline, as well as destinations served on a seasonal basis. Terminated destinations are also listed, yet for Aerolíneas Argentinas only.


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Old Gringo

Old Gringo is a 1989 American romantic adventure film starring Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, and Jimmy Smits. It was directed by Luis Puenzo and co-written with Aída Bortnik, based on the 1985 novel The Old Gringo by Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes.

The film was screened out of competition at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot
American schoolteacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to work as a governess for the Miranda family, and becomes caught up in the Mexican Revolution. Mexicans transporting her from Chihuahua, secretly soldiers of Pancho Villa's army, use her luggage to smuggle weapons to the servants at the Miranda hacienda. The servants in turn aid the attacking revolutionary army of General Tomas Arroyo. During the attack, a sardonic "Old Gringo", American author Ambrose Bierce, joins the fighting on the side of the revolutionaries; he operates a railway switch that sends a railroad flatcar laden with explosives to its target.

After the Miranda hacienda is taken, Winslow becomes romantically attracted alternately to Bierce and then Arroyo. Bierce has come to Mexico to die in anonymity; he feels that his fifty years as a writer have won him praise only for his style, not for the truth that he's tried to tell. Arroyo, by contrast, has returned to the hacienda where he was born. His father was a Miranda who had raped his peasant mother. Later in his youth, Arroyo murdered his father.

While his army enjoys previously unknown luxuries on the war-damaged palatial estate, Arroyo becomes obsessed with his past. Transfixed by childhood memories of his family buried there, he fails to move his army when ordered by Villa. To bring Arroyo to his senses and avert a mutiny of his officers, Bierce burns papers that the illiterate Arroyo considers sacred—papers that supposedly entitle the peasants to the hacienda land. Arroyo responds by shooting Bierce in the back, killing him. Bierce dies in Winslow's arms.

Winslow goes to the U.S. embassy in Mexico to claim Bierce's body and bring it back to the United States. She claims that he was her long-lost father. This puts Villa in a predicament because a U.S. citizen was murdered by one of his generals. Wishing to avoid American meddling in the revolution, he has Winslow sign a statement that her father had joined the revolution and was executed for disobeying orders, as was General Arroyo who had shot him, and that she witnessed both executions. She signs the statement, is provided with the coffin bearing Bierce's body, and witnesses the execution of Arroyo.

Production
Ennio Morricone was hired to compose the music for the film but left shortly after accepting, because he agreed to work on Cinema Paradiso instead after reading the script proposed by producer Franco Cristaldi.

Reception
Before its release in theatres, the film was booed at the Cannes film festival.

Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times said: "There is a potentially wonderful story at the heart of Old Gringo, but the movie never finds it--the screenplay blasts away in every direction except the bulls-eye. ... It's heavy on disconnected episodes, light on drama and storytelling." Janet Maslin in the New York Times said: "... the film's version of romance is no less aimless than its battle scenes. ... The sly, cantankerous character of Ambrose Bierce, an aged cynic surprised and delighted to find himself vibrantly alive and at last in control of his own destiny, reveals in Mr. Peck something vigorous and new." On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 46% based on reviews from 13 critics. Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B on scale of A to F.

The film was a box-office failure.

Jane Fonda received a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress for her performance in the film, where she ended up losing to Heather Locklear for The Return of Swamp Thing.

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Mass appeal

Mass appeal as a phenomenon of mass psychology may refer to:
 * Argumentum ad populum, or "appeal to the masses"
 * having a generally appealing or popular quality, see
 * Mass culture
 * Crowd manipulation
 * Influencer
 * Mass media
 * Influence of mass media
 * Fast food, etc.

As a proper name

 * Mass Appeal (play), 1980 play by Bill C. Davis
 * Mass Appeal (film), 1984 screen adaptation of the play
 * Mass Appeal (media), Manhattan-based magazine and media company
 * "Mass Appeal" (song), hip-hop song by Gang Starr from the album Hard to Earn
 * Mass Appeal: Best of Gang Starr, Gang Starr compilation album
 * Massappeal, Australian hardcore punk band formed in 1985

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