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Johanna Nichols

Johanna Nichols (born 1945, Iowa City, Iowa) is an American linguist and professor emerita in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley.

Career
She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1973 with a dissertation titled, "The Balto-Slavic predicate instrumental: a problem in diachronic syntax."

Her research interests include the Slavic languages, the linguistic prehistory of northern Eurasia, language typology, ancient linguistic prehistory, and languages of the Caucasus, chiefly Chechen and Ingush. She has made fundamental contributions to these fields.

Honors
A festschrift in her honor, Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, was published in 2013.

Nichols's best known work, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time, won the Linguistic Society of America's Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for 1994.

In 2013 Nichols was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. In 2023 she was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.

Books

 * Predicate Nominals: A Partial Surface Syntax of Russian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. ISBN 0-520-09626-6.
 * Grammar Inside and Outside the Clause: Some Approaches to Theory from the Field. Edited by Johanna Nichols and Anthony C. Woodbury. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. ISBN 0-521-26617-3.
 * Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology. Edited by Wallace Chafe and Johanna Nichols. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Pub. Corp., 1986. ISBN 0-89391-203-4
 * Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN 0-226-58056-3.
 * Sound Symbolism. Edited by Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala. Cambridge [England]; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-521-45219-8.
 * Chechen–English and English–Chechen Dictionary / Noxchiin–ingals, ingals–noxchiin deshnizhaina. London; New York: Routledge Curzon, 2004. ISBN 978-0-203-56517-9. Johanna Nichols, Ronald L. Sprouse, and Arbi Vagapov.
 * Ingush Grammar. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. ISBN 0-520-09877-3.

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Grindelia

Grindelia (gumweed) is a genus of plants native to the Americas belonging to the family Asteraceae. The genus was named for Latvian botanist David Hieronymus Grindel, 1776–1836.

They are herbaceous plants or subshrubs with annual, biennial, or perennial life cycles. The flowerheads are composed of numerous yellow disc florets (usually between 100–200) and from zero to sixty or more yellow or orange ray florets. Grindelia squarrosa, a plant with bright yellow flowers indigenous to much of the United States, is commonly called curlycup gumweed. Grindelia robusta, found in the western states, is a coastal scrub bush that is reputed to have several medicinal uses. Hairy gumweed, Grindelia cuneifolia, occurs in brackish coastal marshes of western North America, such as in some portions of the San Francisco Bay perimeter. The genus is native to South America, Mexico, and western North America, though some species have been introduced and naturalized in eastern North America and the Old World.

Grindelia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Schinia mortua.

Species
There are many species, including: • Grindelia adenodonta - Texas

• Grindelia aegialitis - Buenos Aires

• Grindelia aggregata - British Columbia

• Grindelia andina - Chile

• Grindelia anethifolia - Chile, Argentina

• Grindelia arizonica - USA (Arizona New Mexico Utah Colorado), Coahuila, Chihuahua, western Texas

• Grindelia boliviana - Bolivia, Peru, Argentina

• Grindelia brachystephana - Peru, Argentina

• Grindelia buphthalmoides - Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul, Buenos Aires

• Grindelia cabrerae - northern Argentina

• Grindelia chacoensis - northern Argentina, Paraguay

• Grindelia chiloensis - Chile, Argentina

• Grindelia ciliata - western + central USA

• Grindelia confusa - Chihuahua

• Grindelia coronensis - southern Argentina

• Grindelia covasii - northern Argentina

• Grindelia decumbens - Colorado, New Mexico

• Grindelia eligulata - Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua

• Grindelia fraxinipratensis - California, Nevada

• Grindelia globularifolia - northern Argentina

• Grindelia glutinosa - Tarapacá, Peru

• Grindelia grandiflora - Coahuila, Texas

• Grindelia greenmanii - Nuevo León, Coahuila, San Luis Potosí

• Grindelia havardii - Texas, New Mexico

• Grindelia hintoniorum - Nuevo León

• Grindelia hirsutula - California

• Grindelia howellii - Idaho

• Grindelia integrifolia - Oregon Washington British Columbia

• Grindelia inuloides - from Coahuila to Oaxaca

• Grindelia lanceolata - USA (mostly southern Plains), Nuevo León

• Grindelia linearifolia - Uruguay

• Grindelia macvaughii - Jalisco

• Grindelia mendocina - northern Argentina

• Grindelia microcephala - Texas

• Grindelia nelsonii - Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán

• Grindelia nuda - Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma

• Grindelia oaxacana - Oaxaca

• Grindelia obovatifolia - Nuevo León

• Grindelia oolepis - Texas

• Grindelia orientalis - Uruguay

• Grindelia oxylepis - New Mexico, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Colima

• Grindelia palmeri - San Luis Potosí

• Grindelia patagonica - Argentina

• Grindelia prostrata - northern Argentina

• Grindelia prunelloides - Chile, southern Argentina

• Grindelia puberula - Rio Grande do Sul, Argentina, Paraguay

• Grindelia pusilla - Texas, Coahuila

• Grindelia pygmaea - southern Argentina

• Grindelia ragonesei - northern Argentina

• Grindelia robinsonii - San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo

• Grindelia robusta - California, Baja California, Baja California Sur

• Grindelia rupestris - Rio Grande do Sul, Uruguay

• Grindelia scabra - Texas, New Mexico, Coahuila

• Grindelia scorzonerifolia - Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay

• Grindelia squarrosa - much of USA + Canada

• Grindelia stricta - west coast of North America (California to Alaska)

• Grindelia subalpina - Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming

• Grindelia subdecurrens - San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes

• Grindelia sublanuginosa - Jalisco

• Grindelia tarapacana - Tarapacá, Peru

• Grindelia tehuelches - Argentina

• Grindelia tenella - Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas

• Grindelia turneri - Nuevo León

• Grindelia ventanensis Buenos Aires

• Grindelia vetimontis - Nuevo León

• Grindelia villarrealii - Nuevo León

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Al-Tughra'i

Mu'ayyad al-Din Abu Isma'il al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Samad al-Du'ali al-Kināni al-Tughra'i (العميد فخر الكتاب مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي بن محمد بن عبد الصمد الدؤلي الكناني الطغرائي) (1061 – c. 1121) was a poet and alchemist.

Biography
Mu'ayyad al-Din al-Tughra'i was born in Isfahan, Persia, and composed poems in the Arabic language. He was an administrative secretary (therefore the name Tughra'i'). He ultimately became the second-most-senior official (after the vizier) in the civil administration of the Seljuq Empire.

Al-Tughra'i had been appointed vizir to Emir Ghiyat-ul-Din Mas'ud, and upon the death of the emir a power struggle ensued between Mas'ud's sons. Al-Tughra'i sided with the emir's elder son, but the younger prevailed. In retribution, the younger son accused al-Tughra'i of heresy and had him beheaded.

Writings
Al-Tughra'i was a well-known and prolific writer on astrology and alchemy, and many of his poems (diwan) are preserved today as well. In the field of alchemy, al-Tughra'i is best known for his large compendium titled Mafatih al-rahmah wa-masabih al-hikmah, which incorporated extensive extracts from earlier Arabic alchemical writings, as well as Arabic translations from Zosimos of Panopolis's old alchemy treatises written in Greek, which were until 1995 erroneously attributed to unknown alchemists by mistakes and inconsistencies in the transliteration and transcription of his name into Arabic.

In 1112 CE, al-Tughra'i also composed Kitab Haqa'iq al-istishhad, a rebuttal of a refutation of the occult in alchemy written by Ibn Sina.

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Naming taboo

A naming taboo is a cultural taboo against speaking or writing the given names of exalted persons, notably in China and within the Chinese cultural sphere. It was enforced by several laws throughout Imperial China, but its cultural and possibly religious origins predate the Qin dynasty. Not respecting the appropriate naming taboos was considered a sign of lacking education and respect, and brought shame both to the offender and the offended person.

Types

 * The naming taboo of the state (國諱 guóhuì) discouraged the use of the emperor's given name and those of his ancestors. For example, during the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang's given name 政 Zhèng (< B-S: *teŋ-s) was avoided, and the first month of the year, the upright month (正月; Zhèngyuè) had its pronunciation modified to Zhēngyuè (OC B-S: *teŋ, like 征 "to go on a long journey, to go on a military campaign") and then further renamed as the proper/upright month (端月; Duānyuè < OC, B-S *tˤor]). The strength of this taboo was reinforced by law; transgressors could expect serious punishment for writing an emperor's name without modifications. In 1777, Wang Xihou, in his dictionary, criticized the Kangxi dictionary and wrote the Qianlong Emperor's name without leaving out any stroke as required. This disrespect resulted in his and his family's executions and confiscation of their property (though all Wang Xihou's relatives were pardoned and spared execution). This type of naming taboo is no longer observed in modern China.
 * The naming taboo of the clan (家諱) discouraged the use of the names of one's own ancestors. Generally, ancestor names going back to seven generations were avoided. In diplomatic documents and letters between clans, each clan's naming taboos were observed.
 * The naming taboo of the holinesses (聖人諱) discouraged the use of the names of respected people. For example, writing the name of Confucius was taboo during the Jin Dynasty.

Methods to avoid offense
There were three ways to avoid using a taboo character:
 * Changing the character to another, usually a synonym or one which sounded similar to the character being avoided. For example, the Black Warrior Gate (玄武門; Xuanwu Gate) of the Forbidden City was renamed the Gate of Divine Might (神武門; Shenwu Gate) in order to avoid using a character from the Kangxi Emperor's name, Xuanye (玄燁).
 * Leaving the character as a blank.
 * Omitting a stroke in the character, usually the final stroke.

In history
Throughout Chinese history, there were emperors whose names contained common characters who would try to alleviate the burden of the populace in practicing name avoidance. For example, Emperor Xuan of Han, whose given name Bingyi (病已) contained two very common characters, changed his name to Xun (詢), a far less common character, with the stated purpose of making it easier for his people to avoid using his name. Similarly, Emperor Taizong of Tang, whose given name Shimin (世民) also contained two very common characters, ordered that name avoidance only required the avoidance of the characters Shi and Min in direct succession and that it did not require the avoidance of those characters in isolation.

However, Emperor Taizong's son Emperor Gaozong of Tang effectively made this edict ineffective after his death, by requiring the complete avoidance of the characters Shi and Min, necessitating the chancellor Li Shiji to change his name to Li Ji. In later dynasties, princes were frequently given names that contained uncommon characters to make it easier for the public to avoid them, should they become emperor later in life.

During the rule of the Ming Emperor of Han (Liu Zhuang), whose personal name was Zhuang, most people with surname Zhuang (莊) were ordered to change their names to its synonym Yan (嚴).

The custom of naming taboo had a built-in contradiction: without knowing what the emperors' names were, one could hardly be expected to avoid them, thus somehow the emperors' names had to be informally transmitted to the populace to allow them to take cognizance of and thus avoid using said characters. In one famous incident in 435, during the Northern Wei Dynasty, Goguryeo ambassadors made a formal request that the imperial government issue them a document containing the emperors' names so that they could avoid offending the emperor while submitting their king's petition. Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei agreed and issued them such a document. However, the mechanism of how the regular populace would be able to learn the emperors' names remained generally unclear throughout Chinese history.

This taboo is important to keep in mind when studying ancient historical texts from the cultural sphere, as historical characters and/or locations may be renamed if they happen to share a name with the emperor in power (or previous emperors of the same dynasty) when the text was written. Thus, the study of naming taboos can also help date an ancient text.

In other countries
Japan was also influenced by the naming taboo. In modern Japan, it concerns only the successive emperors. For example, whether oral or written, people only refer to the reigning emperor as Tennō Heika (天皇陛下; his Majesty the Emperor) or Kinjō Heika (今上陛下; his current Majesty). See also Posthumous name.

Historically, it was considered very rude among upper class to call someone else's real name, even if it was the lord calling his vassals. Calling someone else's real name was equivalent to picking a fight. Titles or pseudonyms were often used when calling others in place of their real names. In Vietnam, the family name Hoàng (黃) was changed to Huỳnh in the South due to the naming taboo of Lord Nguyễn Hoàng's name. Similarly, the family name "Vũ" (武) is known as "Võ" in the South. There is also the name Phúc (福) being changed to Phước in the South to avoid the naming taboo of Nguyễn Phúc.

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Tunakabuni

Muḥammad Mu’min ibn Mīr Muḥammad Zamān Tunakābunī was a 17th-century Persian physician from Mazandaran. Tunakabuni was an author on various medical and religious topics. He based his large Persian compendium of simple and compound remedies, which according to the text was composed in 1679, on Arabic authorities and on Indian sources. His treatise was dedicated to Shah Sulayman, who ruled from 1666 to 1694. Grandfathers of him emigrated from Tonekabon to Isfahan and were special healers of the kings of the Safavid dynasty. Tunakabuni was also the special doctor of King Soleiman and had skill in medicine and language. He wrote his famous book, Tohfat AL-mo'menin, for king Soleiman.

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Talk:Notes on the Synthesis of Form

=Form and Pattern= I got my first copy of "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" in the early 70s, and immediately understood the potential of the Alexander's approach as a general purpose design strategy, suitable of being applied to any field. Since then, I have been using some of his core ideas in different non-form and non-physical related problems (software engineering, resources allocation, organization, project management, etc.), where the key management device is always the minimum flow intra-components principle. Over the time, I have developed some tools to implement part of the mathematical apparatus described in the book; mainly, those pieces to deal with the splitting process. However, there is a major aspect related to the constructiveness of the approach, (constructiveness is in fact the cornerstone of the Alexander’s method). To my understanding, after realizing the intrinsic difficulty involved in the mathematical and computational apparatus of his amazing approach, Alexander just reduced the constructiveness problem to his methodology of patterns. Patterns seem to me nothing but visual approximations to something much more powerful, which not necessarily can (or need to) be translated into graphical forms.

In fact, constructiveness seems to be an extremely powerful device, which, for example, has already been implemented on software engineering through formal grammars. Formal grammars, for instance, are a paradigmatic example of constructiveness and constructive tools; they are at the same time, both, the solution to the problem of describing a given language and the solution to the implementation of the correlated translator, interpreter or compiler. So, once you have described the problem you have also got the solution; provided you have a meta-compiler available. This can be also applied to any system of software, whatever its structure could be. Thereafter, any cybernetic system described, for example, by, Petri Nets would be, at the same time the expression of the problem and its correlated solution. And so on. Another very good example of this is the metaphor about the magnetic field in the book, which I mentioned in the article; there, the equations describing the magnetic field might be properly called an abstract pattern. Other examples of abstract patterns can be found in problems related to social sciences, physics, and other fields. An abstract pattern like f´(x) = (sign)* k* f(x) describes the rate of change of the function f(x) as being k-proportional to the value of the function, and it represents, among many others, the following non physical processes, which, for the most, cannot be easily translated into graphical patterns: A problem involving the issues above would be represented by the union of some slight variations of that core abstract pattern f´(x) = (sign)* k* f(x), and that union would provide a well founded description of the problem embodied by the related subset of requirements along with their inter-dependences, while giving a workable description of the solution. Therefore the quest for such an abstract pattern with f´(x) = (sign)* k* f(x) as the kernel should be the reference in the search for constructiveness. June 14, 2005
 * Growth of resistance against change within a group,
 * Growth of a certain population,
 * Degradation of IT service throughout time,
 * Degradation of data quality throughout time,
 * Tension among members of a group working under stress.

I would appreciate any valuable thoughts on this. (80.58.3.239 08:22, 14 June 2005)

 * I am puzzled why you assume that the word "form" refers solely to physical form. Whereas the word "solution" appears to refers specifically to the result of a single act of design, or a coherent series of design acts, in response to a specific "problem", the word "form" can refer to any structure, whether physical or otherwise, that emerges from a complex evolutionary process. The computer scientists who seized upon Alexander's early work certainly didn't suppose that "form" had to be physical. --RichardVeryard (talk) 17:46, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Question
Might I ask what does "The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia." mean.

(SkyFrontLine (talk) 12:43, 11 July 2008 (UTC))

 * It reads a bit like a personal essay, rather than an impersonal encyclopedia entry. The article should be based purely on published accounts of the book and its significance, rather than your own thoughts and interpretation. You might want to look at Writing better articles. --RichardVeryard (talk) 17:46, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Alexander's later work
Much of this article is about Alexander's later work. This article needs to concentrate on the book in question. However, it is probably important to note that Alexander has repudiated some of the ideas in this book. Or it would be if I could find the reference. --RichardVeryard (talk) 17:55, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

when?
I don't see any explicit mention of the book's date. —Tamfang (talk) 21:11, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

 * 1964 RichardVeryard (talk) 17:20, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

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Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Vatvat

Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Vatvat was a 13th-century Persian physician. The National Library of Medicine possesses an untitled Persian treatise on general preparation of food and drink which gives the author as Amin al-Din Rashid Vatvat and specifies that it was composed for Arghun Khan who ruled from 1284 to 1291CE. A much shorter treatise on the same topic, also written by the order of Arghun Khan, is preserved in another untitled manuscript where the author is given as Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Otaji. A Persian tabular treatise on the same topic written by Amin al-Din Otaji and dedicated to Mahmud Ghazan Khan (who ruled from 1295 to 1304CE) is preserved in two copies.

For both these treatises see C.A. Storey, Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey, volume II, part 2: E. Medicine (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1971), p. 217 no. 373.

The treatise now at the National Library of Medicine, with author given as Amin al-Din Rashid Vatvat, is presumably by the same author whose name appears as Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Otaji in other manuscripts.

This Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Vatvat cannot be the same person as Rashid al-Din Muhammad al-Umari Vatvat who lived in the 12th century and wrote in the name of the governor of Khvarazm (a northern province of Persia) to two prominent physicians in Baghdad, Abu al-Barakat al-Baghdad (d. 1165CE) and Ibn al-Tilmidh asking them to recommend a physician from amongst their students who could take over al-Jurjani's position as court physician following his death around 1136CE. For this earlier Rashid al-Din al-Vatvat, see Lutz Richter-Bernburg, Persian Medical Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles: A Descriptive Catalogue, Humana Civilitas, vol. 4 (Malibu: Udena Publications, 1978), p. 3.

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Shirley DeLibero

Shirley DeLibero served as chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas from 1999 until 2004.

DeLibero was previously the deputy executive of Dallas Area Rapid Transit, and executive director of New Jersey Transit.

Her tenure at Texas was marked by the introduction of the METRORail light rail transit system and for scandals; In 2000, she was suspended for 30 days after failing to report a collision involving her company car. It was also revealed that DeLibero had falsified two claimed college degrees on her resume.

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User talk:Bloghate

"I hate weblogs and bloggers" —User:Bloghate
 * I've voted keep on all your VfD nominations... I hope this doesn't change anything between us; what we have is so special, I would just hate to ruin our relationship over this.  You need a hug.  —RaD Man (talk) 08:27, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

So you hate bloggers.....
If you hated a certain president, would you rip pages out of Brittanica?

Y'know, I myself hate abstract Expressionish painting. On a list of random names, I couldn't tell you which ones were significant abstract painters and which were non-notable or even non-existent. You seem to have the same problem with blogs and bloggers. So far, you have nominated for deletion some of the most significant bloggers, including people for whom blogging is only one part of what makes them notable: David Allen, Joi Ito, and Hossein Derakshan, to name a few. How about turning your energies, which are clearly impressive, to writing and editing topics you care about? betsythedevine 12:17, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Little Irrational
Blogging is an important part of the current landscape and deserves a place on wikipedia. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they shouldn't be listed.

Agenda?
Might I suggest that you change your approach to editing Wikipedia? Your present effort seems to be aimed at getting every article related to blogging deleted. That is not going to work; the concept of blogging is a notable meme. What you instead should do, is examine Category:Bloggers and filter out those people that have no claim to fame other than by being a blogger. (See WP:BIO and WP:VAIN). Those articles would indeed be deletable - but several bloggers are notable for being, say, the vice president of a major company.

I've recently been doing something similar for 9/11 victims... people are not notable simply because they died in 9/11. That does not mean that those who died in 9/11 cannot be notable for other reasons.

Also might I suggest that you change your username? Judging from people's reactions, your present name is hard to take seriously. Just a thought. Yours, Radiant_ >|< 14:38, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

WIL WHEATON dot NET
You marked this article for vfd, but you left the link to the old vfd debate. I have removed the tag, as you did not follow the Deletion process, and had not created the new debate page within 12 hours of adding the vfd tag. You are welcome to re-add the vfd tag as long as you create a proper vfd page for the debate. Cheers. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 16:26, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Welcome
Since no one seems to have given you an official Wikipedia welcome yet:

Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!
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 * How to edit a page
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P.S.: You might also wish to check out Neutral point of view and Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. Hope this helps, -- Infrogmation 02:16, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Good job
I hate blogs too.Yuber(talk) 04:49, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Disruptive activity
Please allow me to echo the sentiments of those who have commented here before me. It would be greatly appreciated if you would stop nominating bloggers for deletion. I find your account name to be offensive in light of your actions and am formally reiterating the request of others to stop being disruptive. Hall Monitor 16:58, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Please stop removing Category:Bloggers from articles about those who use blogs and the links to their blog sites. Hall Monitor 21:50, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

warning
Please stop removing information from articles without specifying why (and hating blogs isn't a valid reason). --W(t) 03:18, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)

Anti-blog agenda
Your whole anti-blog thing is silly. You sound a lot like the people who love to announce to everybody that they don't own a TV set because the "boob tube" is stupid, and hence they're culturally superior for not ever watching it. The Onion did an article making fun of those people once. Now the new target of some cultural elitists is blogging. Certainly, a lot of blogs are silly just like a lot of TV shows are silly. However, there's also some good stuff both on blogs and TV. If there's non-notable stuff on Wikipedia, it may be worthy of deletion, but it's ridiculous to delete everything that has to do with blogs, just like it would be ridiculous to delete everything that has to do with TV. *Dan* 03:36, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

 * I think you're missing the point Dan, Most of the other people on WP:AN/I are pretty sure that Bloghate is someone whose vanity article on their own blog was deleted, and now has come back in a Role account to prove a WP:POINT. It's tiresome, but it happens all the time.  --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 14:30, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

Blocking indefinitely
Having reviewed all of this editor's contributions, it's clear to me that it was created with the sole intent of disrupting Wikipedia by removal of mentions of the phenomenon of blogging. I am blocking it indefinitely. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:03, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:McCallie School

Could someone find a date for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution quote? It won't be "recently" forever. --ElfWord 08:28, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Suggestions for expansion:
 * Campus photos
 * sports teams
 * student publications
 * awards and accredidations
 * mascot
 * traditions, culture, kitsch

I'm so amused by this entire thing. I wonder how many GPS/McCallie alums we have in the Wikipedia community... 05Pride! Zephyrprince 00:57, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Merge
As some may have noticed, there is an article under the title of "McCallie School" as well as one under the title of "The McCallie School". The two each contain different information, so I suggest they ought to be merged. However, I'm not sure of Wikipedia protocol for requesting that two articles be joined, though I know it's possible. Any thoughts? -AgreedZephyrprince 19:50, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, why wouldn't you merge them? The article under "The McCallie School" seems to be more comprehensive. "McCallie School" should be merged into the longer article. User:Dbart, 8 April 2006

Yea, they should definitely be merged. Both have different, yet important information. Merge them.

merge them, its the same school. --JQ 14:13, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

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California Limited

The California Limited was one of the named passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It carried train Nos. 3 & 4 and ran between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.

The line was conceived by company president Allen Manvel as a means to "signify completion of the basic Santa Fe system." Manvel felt he could attract business and enhance the prestige of the railroad with daily first-class service from Chicago to the West Coast. The California Limited, billed as the "Finest Train West of Chicago," made its first run on November 27, 1892.

The California Limited was the first Santa Fe train with Fred Harvey Company meal service. The later trains also offered air conditioning, a barber, beautician, steam-operated clothing press, even a shower-bath. The Limited was the first Santa Fe train with illuminated drumhead on its observation cars, with the train's name over the company logo.

The California Limited was withdrawn on June 15, 1954, giving it the longest tenure of any train on the Chicago-Los Angeles run of the Santa Fe.

History
The Santa Fe introduced the California Limited on November 27, 1892. The journey took 83 hours and 50 minutes and required fifteen locomotive changes. During the summer, multiple sections were necessary to accommodate demand; reportedly 23 sections once operated from Chicago on one day. The train carried just Pullman sleeping cars (no coaches) until 1938.

The Santa Fe re-equipped the California Limited in 1910 with a club-lounge, a twin-unit dining car, and new 7-2 (7 compartments, 2 drawing rooms) sleeping cars from Pullman. The weekly extra-fare Santa Fe de Luxe in 1911 overshadowed the California Limited, but it remained a popular train. The introduction of the Chief in 1926 eclipsed the California Limited, although the train ran for another three decades.

In October 1953, it was scheduled to leave Los Angeles at 1815 with coaches and sleepers—no diner and no lounge. A breakfast stop was scheduled at Seligman, a lunch stop at Winslow, and a dinner stop at Albuquerque. Next morning, at La Junta, it would add a diner for the rest of the run to Chicago (scheduled arrival 0830). It ran via Pasadena, Great Bend and Topeka.

Timeline

 * October 1892: The Pullman Company delivers five six-car trainsets for the California Limited.
 * November 27, 1892: Regular service begins.
 * 1893: The train receives four new dining cars designed by Barney & Smith.
 * May 4, 1896: Service suspended.
 * November 1896: Regular service resumes.
 * November 1898: Westward schedule drops to 67 hr 50 min, about as good as it ever did until it dropped to 63 hours in June 1929.
 * 1899: The Limited is reduced to four trains per week.
 * 1902: The train resumes daily service on a 68-hour schedule.
 * July 1923: Walt Disney leaves Kansas City for Los Angeles aboard the California Limited, arriving at La Grande Station. His brother, Roy O. Disney, was then living at a veteran's hospital in Sawtell, Calif., west of Los Angeles.
 * April 1, 1938: The Limited is suspended.
 * May 22, 1938: Regular service resumes.
 * September 4, 1945: The second section of Train No. 4 enters a siding near milepost 126 in the City of Santa Anita, California at excessive speed and derails.  Some 200 people are injured, five fatally.  One cleanup worker dies the following day in a freak accident.
 * January 10, 1954: The California Limited is rerouted from the northern mainline (via La Junta) to the southern mainline via Amarillo.
 * June 15, 1954: The California Limited is discontinued and replaced by the San Francisco Chief. Unnamed trains 3/4 continued to operate between Kansas City and Belen, connecting with the Kansas City Chief at Kansas City
 * September 26, 1954: Trains 3/4 rerouted in New Mexico, becoming Kansas City–Carlsbad trains
 * April 24, 1955: Trains 3/4 rerouted again, becoming Kansas City–Los Angeles trains The trains were cut back to Gallup–Kansas City in 1957 or 1958
 * October 19, 1967: Trains 3/4, by then primarily mail trains carrying a single coach, are discontinued. The Interstate Commerce Commission later withdrew permission to discontinue the trains because the Santa Fe did not wait the required 30 days; however, the trains were not reinstated.

Equipment
A variety of steam and diesel locomotives pulled the California Limited.

In 1892, the California Limited consisted of heavyweight cars built by Pullman-Standard. Each train contained:

 * a compartment and drawing-room Sleeping car
 * a Dining car that served "the best Fred Harvey meals on rails"
 * a Club car / Parlor car
 * a full-compartment Sleeping car
 * a compartment drawing-room Sleeping car
 * a combination 10-compartment Sleeping car / open-end Observation car

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Qurayshi al-Shirazi

Nur al-Din Muhammad Abd-Allah ibn Hakim ‘Ayn al-Mulk Qurayshi Shirazi was a mid 17th century Persian physician in Mughal India.

As indicated by his nisba, he was from Shiraz, Iran. He is best known for his large synopsis of "Yunani" or Unani medicine (Greco-Roman medicine as inherited by Islam) and Hindu medicine (Ayurveda) that was entitled Zakhira-i Dara-Shukuhi and dedicated to the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's son Dara Shikuh, who ruled as emperor from 1657-9CE.

He also composed in 1628 CE a Persian pharmacological dictionary titled Alfaz al-adwiyah which he had dedicated to Shah Jahan himself, of which the National Library of Medicine has a copy.

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TFI Friday

TFI Friday (Thank Fu*k it's Friday) is an entertainment show that was broadcast on Channel 4 television in the United Kingdom. It was produced by Ginger Productions, written by Danny Baker, and hosted by Chris Evans, for the first five series. The sixth series was hosted by several guest presenters. The show was broadcast on Fridays at 6pm from 9 February 1996 to 22 December 2000, with a repeat later that night. Its theme tune was Ron Grainer's theme from Man in a Suitcase, in keeping with Evans' frequent use of 1960s television themes in his work.

A one-off revival episode of the show was broadcast on Channel 4 on 12 June 2015. The episode was well-received; on 23 June 2015, Channel 4 announced that it had commissioned a full revived series, which began airing on 16 October 2015.

In 2016, Channel 4 announced that there were no plans for any further series.

Format
The show regularly featured live music, mostly of the then-popular Britpop school. A snippet of "The Riverboat Song" by Ocean Colour Scene, a band particularly championed by Evans (and the very first band to play on the show, with the same song), was used as an introduction to guests, as they walked the length of a walkway up into the "bar" to be interviewed by the host.

Viewers repeatedly asked if they could have the TFI Friday mug (or one like it) that graced Evans' table every week, so the production company created a limited run of 1,000 mugs. These were offered for sale at a prohibitive price and for a limited period, after which, the remaining stock was destroyed live on air when a washing machine was dropped on to them from the height of the television studio.

Inspiration from/for other shows
During November and December 1999, the show included a segment titled "Someone's Going to Be a Millionaire!", inspired by the ITV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (which would not have its first million-pound winner until November 2000). TFI Friday paid out the promised £1 million jackpot on 24 December 1999, becoming the first British TV show to do so.

Guest presenters
In the summer of 2000, Channel 4 announced that the sixth series of TFI Friday was to be the last. Chris Evans left the show leaving the final series to be presented by several guest presenters.

 * 10 November 2000 – Spice Girls
 * 17 November 2000 – Big Brother 1 contestants ("Nasty" Nick Bateman, Anna Nolan, Craig Phillips, Melanie Hill)
 * 24 November 2000 – Davina McCall and Dermot O'Leary
 * 1 December 2000 – Sara Cox
 * 8 December 2000 – Donna Air and Huey Morgan
 * 15 December 2000 – Davina McCall and Dermot O'Leary
 * 22 December 2000 – Elton John

Swearing
The show attracted controversy when Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder appeared on the second episode of the first series, and slipped out the word "fuck" during his interview on the show. A week later, Ewan McGregor also slipped out the word "fuck" on the show, when ranting about the Conservative government of the time. A month later, Shaun Ryder was invited back on the show to do a Stars in Their Eyes skit. Ryder performed (as Johnny Rotten) the Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant". The section was transmitted live, as it was not an interview. Ryder shouted "fuck" several times. Subsequently, the show was forced to be pre-recorded in later editions and Ryder has been barred from appearing live on any Channel 4 programme – he is the only person listed by name in the Channel 4 transmission guidebook. Despite this, he reappeared for the live 20th Anniversary Special in June 2015.

In episode 2 of the 2015 series, actor Nicholas Hoult was heard saying "oh fuck it" after Chris Evans asked him to play the trombone. Evans immediately apologized afterwards.

Car competition
The show gained more notoriety when as part of a competition, two children were forced to go head-to-head in a stare-out contest to win their parents a car. After the competition was won, the boy who had lost then started to cry, which led the tabloid press to attack the show. The next edition showed the boy with the consolation prize of an assortment of toys, an apparent attempt to mitigate controversy, but which was followed by another staring contest (this time for a speedboat), again ending with the losing child crying. The ITC gave Channel 4 a formal warning following these two incidents, and the competition feature never appeared again on the programme. On the 2015 revival show both losing children, now adults, were invited back and given a free holiday to Barbados with their families. Evans apologised for what had been done to them, saying that it should never have happened.

Selected list of performers

 * Aerosmith
 * All Saints
 * Alanis Morissette
 * Ash
 * At the Drive-In
 * Barenaked Ladies
 * The Beautiful South
 * Beck
 * Björk
 * The Black Crowes
 * Black Grape
 * Bloodhound Gang
 * The Bluetones
 * Blur
 * Bon Jovi
 * David Bowie
 * Ian Brown
 * Bush
 * Cast
 * Catatonia
 * The Charlatans
 * Cozy Powell
 * Neneh Cherry
 * Edwyn Collins
 * The Corrs
 * Elvis Costello & The Attractions
 * The Cranberries
 * Sheryl Crow
 * The Cure
 * The Dandy Warhols
 * Dannii Minogue
 * Dark Star
 * Def Leppard
 * Del Amitri
 * Depeche Mode
 * The Divine Comedy
 * Dodgy
 * Echo & the Bunnymen
 * Echobelly
 * Eels
 * Elastica
 * Electrasy
 * Electronic
 * Embrace
 * Faith No More
 * Feeder
 * Foo Fighters
 * Roddy Frame
 * Fun Lovin' Criminals
 * Garbage
 * Gene
 * Green Day
 * Terry Hall
 * Happy Mondays
 * PJ Harvey
 * Headswim
 * Hurricane No. 1
 * INXS
 * James
 * Jamiroquai
 * Julian Lennon
 * Kula Shaker
 * Kylie Minogue
 * Lenny Kravitz
 * Liam Gallagher
 * The Lightning Seeds
 * Longpigs
 * Madness
 * Manic Street Preachers
 * Mansun
 * Menswear
 * Mercury Rev
 * Metallica
 * The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
 * Moby
 * Morcheeba
 * Morrissey
 * Muse
 * Napalm Death
 * New Order
 * New Radicals
 * No Doubt
 * Ocean Colour Scene
 * Page and Plant
 * Pet Shop Boys
 * Placebo
 * Iggy Pop
 * The Presidents of the United States of America
 * Primal Scream
 * Prince
 * Pulp
 * R.E.M.
 * Red Hot Chili Peppers
 * Reef
 * Republica
 * Rialto
 * Rocket from the Crypt
 * Roger Daltrey
 * Saint Etienne
 * The Seahorses
 * Shakespears Sister
 * Shed Seven
 * Brian Setzer
 * Simply Red
 * Skunk Anansie
 * Sleeper
 * Slipknot
 * Space
 * Spacehog
 * Spice Girls
 * Spiritualized
 * Stereophonics
 * Sting
 * Suede
 * Sugababes
 * The Sundays
 * Super Furry Animals
 * Supergrass
 * Symposium
 * Roger Taylor
 * Terrorvision
 * Texas
 * Tina Turner
 * Toploader
 * Utah Saints
 * Paul Weller

Revival
In September 2005, Evans announced that he would be returning the TFI Friday format to TV, with OFI Sunday airing on ITV. The first edition was broadcast on 20 November 2005 but was not as successful and quickly axed. On 30 July 2014, Evans announced during his BBC Radio 2 breakfast show that TFI Friday could be returning to Channel 4, after being asked to host a 20th anniversary special (despite the gap having been only been 19 years), as well as a new series, in 2015. During his radio breakfast show on 24 February 2015, Evans revealed that the show would return on Channel 4 on 12 June. It aired from the Cochrane Theatre in Holborn, TFI Friday's earlier home at Riverside Studios having been demolished.

On 23 June 2015, it was confirmed that Channel 4 had commissioned a new series, which started airing on 16 October 2015, with U2 opening and closing the show. On 7 July 2016, Channel 4 confirmed it had "no plans" to commission more episodes of TFI Friday.

Episodes

 * The Open Mic Night special only featured the Open Mic performances in the repeat. Due to time restraints, none of the performances could be broadcast during the first broadcast and were later edited into the repeat (making the repeat 85 mins long instead of the usual 60). ELO's performance of "Livin' Thing" was also only broadcast during the repeat.

Regular features
Features on the show included:
 * Freak or Unique – Every week, there would be five people waiting outside the studio, of whom three would be selected to show off a special if freakish talent (such as juicing an orange with their shoulders, or The Girl Who Cried Milk). A running gag throughout the run was the 'Incredibly Tall Old Lady' who would always be waiting outside the studio. She was never nominated (mainly because it was obviously an old woman standing on a box)
 * Baby Left Baby Right: A small child was placed on a cushion and the guest was asked which way it might fall
 * Fat lookalikes – People who looked like fat versions of celebrities which was then followed in later series by Asian lookalikes
 * What Does the Fat Bloke Do? – An overweight man was invited on set and asked about his occupation, before dancing and leaving
 * Comment from the Cafe – Evans would rope in Cedric (the proprietor of a local eatery) to perform various embarrassing skits. Cedric became famous for his catchphrase "Hellooooooooo!" and wooden acting
 * Ugly Blokes – Unattractive gentlemen would have the opportunity to turn down the amorous advances of a 'gorgeous girl' (Catalina Guirado). A photo of footballer Peter Beardsley was shown during the 'Ugly Bloke' theme tune
 * It's Your Letters – A wide assortment of viewers' letters (this was introduced by a burst of Reef's "Place Your Hands", re-recorded for the show with the words "It's Your Letters" replacing the original chorus of "Put your hands on").
 * Fishbowl Challenge: A goldfish in a bowl would have two toy bridges for company. Which would it swim under first?
 * Another running gag was directed at the show's producer, Will Macdonald (aka Wicked Will of MTV's Most Wanted fame), where everyone in the bar would point their fingers, begin to swivel them and chant 'Wiiillll' very creepily
 * Will: Pub Genius – Will Macdonald would demonstrate a trick that could be performed using tools commonly found in a pub
 * Wooden Bird with Purple Hair – Chris Evans would amuse the audience with a small nodding wooden woodpecker (with purple hair), that slid down a pole whilst an accompanying song was played.
 * The Lord of Love – The veteran actor Ronald Fraser dressed in a quilted smoking jacket would recite love poems to girls in the audience.
 * Wurthers – The shows cue card man. He became a frequent star of the show alongside Chris, during the last series of the show in which he was the host. At the start of every show, they would both engage in telling a joke working alongside each other, with Wurthers finishing the joke with "I'm only joking of course!", with Chris then replying "He's only joking of course!". This became a frequent running gag before eventually fading out, with this being replaced with Chris sending Wurthers out on a task. The first and most memorable of these was sending him outside to look for a mini driver, while it was raining. Near the end of the show, he found one and told her to say hello to the actor Minnie Driver, by waving at the camera who was at the same time being interviewed on the show with David Duchovny. The segment was originally a one-off, before being made a regular feature on the show.
 * Show Us Your Face Then – someone in a football mascot outfit is introduced to the audience and invited to show them their real face.
 * Sink or Swim – The studio audience (and viewers) were invited to speculate as to whether a chosen animal (e.g. a mouse or a snake) would sink or swim in a fish tank. To gasps of concern from the audience, the mouse turned out to be a good swimmer.

2015 series

 * Too good not to be on TV - Unheard of acts appear on the show performing their talents.
 * Slip and slide - Guests see who can go down the slip and slide the fastest.
 * Cute contest purely for ratings - A celebrity will judge which thing or person is the cutest out of a possible three.
 * Noah's killer question - Evans' son Noah asks a question in order to try and put them under pressure.
 * It's Your Letters – Viewers' letters read out. Introduced by Coldplay, who took over from Reef in episode 4.

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Masʽud ibn Muhammad Sijzi

Masud ibn Muhammad Sijzi was a Persian physician who lived before 1334CE in eastern Iran. Little is known of the life of Masud ibn Muhammad al-Sijzi, only that he must have been working sometime before 1334CE. His only treatise, an Arabic medical compendium with emphasis on terminology titled The Truths of the Secrets of Medicine (Haqa'iq asrar al-tibb), was dedicated to a minor vizier in Baghdad by the name of Sadr al-Dawlah Abu al-Mufakar Qasim ibn Iraq ibn Jafar.

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Geir Moen

Geir Moen (born 26 June 1969 in Oslo) is a former sprinter from Moss, Norway who specialized in the 200 metres. He represented Moss IL.

His international senior debut came at the 1989 European Indoor Championships. At the 1994 European Championships he made his breakthrough as he won the gold medal in the 200 metres and the silver medal in the 100 metres. These were Norway's first European sprint medals since Haakon W. Tranberg in 1946. The same year he finished third in 200 m at the 1994 IAAF World Cup. The next year he won the 200 m at the 1995 World Indoor Championships and finished sixth at the 1995 World Championships. He reached an international final for the last time as he finished fourth at the 1998 European Championships. His last international championship was the 2002 European Championships, where he reached the semi-final. He also competed at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics without reaching the final.

He became Norwegian champion in 100 metres in the years 1989, 1993–1999 and 2002 and in the 200 metres in the years 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995–1999 and 2002.

Personal bests

 * 100 metres - 10.08 s (1996)
 * 200 metres - 20.17 s (1996)
 * 4 x 100 metres relay - 38.96 s (1997) - Norwegian record.

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Crème de violette

Crème de violette and liqueur de violette are generic terms for a liqueur with natural and/or artificial violet flower flavoring and coloring with either a brandy base, a neutral spirit base, or a combination of the two. The taste profile and aroma are distinctly floral and sweet, and reminiscent of the violet candies popular in the early to mid 20th century. Its known production dates back to the early 19th century when it was served with dry vermouth or alone as a cordial.

After crème de violette had been all but unavailable in the United States for decades, in mid-2007 Haus Alpenz began importing the Rothman & Winter Crème de Violette, which is made from Queen Charlotte and March violet flowers from the Alps. Since then, other brands of crème de violette have arrived on the US market, e.g., The Bitter Truth from Europe.

Crème de violette is the forerunner to the liqueurs Parfait d'Amour and the American variation, Creme Yvette, both of which are decidedly different with pronounced vanilla and/or citrus flavors. When crème de violette is not available it is possible to use the Parfait Amour or creme Yvette to replicate the violet color in a drink, though the taste profile is quite different.

It is considered a core ingredient in the Aviation cocktail.

The rarity of crème de violette appeared as a plot element in an episode of The Avengers in 1965 entitled "Two's A Crowd".

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Louisiana State Arboretum

The Louisiana State Arboretum 600 acre, is an arboretum located on Louisiana Highway 3042, approximately 13 km (eight miles) north of Ville Platte, Louisiana inside of Chicot State Park, United States, and bordering a branch of Lake Chicot. Established in 1961, it is the oldest state-supported arboretum in the United States.

History
Initial efforts to establish a Louisiana Arboretum in the 1950s were led by Caroline Dormon, A. G. Lawton, and J. D. Lafleur Sr. The majority of these efforts were near Ville Platte and included Magnolia Garden Club, the Rotary Club, and the Chamber of Commerce. In spring of 1961, the State Parks and Recreation Commission ordered the creation of the Louisiana State Arboretum.

Description
The Arboretum contains over 150 species of plant life native to Louisiana, on a varied topography suitable for nearly all Louisiana vegetation except those of the prairies and coastal marshes. The Arboretum is a mature Beech-Magnolia forest containing centuries-old giant beech, magnolia, oak, and ash trees, as well as ferns, hickories, maples, sycamores, and crane fly orchids. Wildlife includes white-tail deer, fox, opossum, raccoon, skunk, squirrel, wild turkey, and numerous other bird species.

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 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 keep. — Xezbeth 12:17, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Sint Jansbrug
Students' union advertizing (in Dutch) the facilities in its building in a university Anthony Appleyard 08:46, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Er, not entirely. Dutch speaker here :) It is a student society started in 1947, counting 650 members, and owner of two buildings in the center of Delft that are both considered monuments. The rest of the article, at present, is a promo for the society in question, but I'd say this establishes notability for its sheer size as student societies go. Keep. Radiant_ >|< 11:50, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Radiant and remove promotional stuff. Mgm|(talk) 18:13, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * keep please agree with what is already said Yuckfoo 21:17, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep seems to be notable student association. Capitalistroadster 00:20, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Was not deemed worthy of translation on PnT, where it stayed the whole 14 days without being touched. The English version is much better than the Dutch. No vote. Physchim62 20:22, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * No, the English version is much longer than the Dutch, but contained such cruft as "Om uit te vinden hoe de sfeer op Sint Jansbrug is, moet je gewoonweg langskomen tijdens de Owee en het allemaal zelf meemaken!" (which means roughly, "to find out what the atmosphere is at Sint Jansbrug, you should simply drop by during the Owee and experience it yourself"). Radiant_ >|< 10:10, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

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William Coldstream

Sir William Menzies Coldstream, CBE (28 February 1908 – 18 February 1987) was an English realist painter and a long-standing art teacher.

Biography
Coldstream was born at Belford, Northumberland, in northern England, the second son of country doctor George Probyn Coldstream and his wife Susan Jane Lilian, daughter of Maj. Robert Mercer-Tod, of the 43rd Regiment.

His mother's family were Scottish landed gentry. He grew up in London, where he was privately educated, then studied at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1926 and 1929. In 1931 he joined the London Artists' Association and then, two years later, the London Group.

In 1934, Coldstream joined the GPO Film Unit to make documentary films with John Grierson. During his time with the GPO, Coldstream worked alongside W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten and Barnett Freedman but also continued to paint. In 1937, with some financial support from Kenneth Clark, Coldstream returned to painting on a full-time basis. Later that year, he co-founded the Euston Road School with Graham Bell, Victor Pasmore and Claude Rogers, having previously been involved in the short-lived objective abstraction movement.

Notable among his paintings of this period is the portrait of Inez Pearn (at that time married to Stephen Spender), which has been called ‘a masterpiece of analytical realism’ and which was said to have needed some forty sittings. Coldstream's earlier years were characterized by a dedicated engagement with socialist ideals, and by the pursuit of a non-elitist form of art. To this end, he supported the Mass Observation social survey of Britain and participated in their 1938 painting trip to Bolton.

At the start of World War II Coldstream enlisted in the Royal Artillery before transferring to the Royal Engineers. At first he served as a gunner with a training regiment near Dover and then, from 1940 until 1943 was a camouflage officer with Camouflage Command in Farnham and later in Bristol.

In 1943, the War Artists Advisory Committee, WWAC, offered Coldstream a full-time commission which he accepted, having previously declined to work for the Committee. He was stationed in Cairo with an Indian transport unit and painted four portraits of individuals there. From Cairo he travelled to Italy, painting buildings in Capua, Rimini and Florence. Due to his slow means of working, Coldstream only produced nine pictures during his WAAC commission. He also painted Helen Darbishire in her role as principal of Somerville College, Oxford.

In November 1945, he became a visiting teacher at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, and later its Professor. In 1949 he returned to lead the Slade School as Principal, and Professor of Fine Art. Under his direction the Slade achieved an international reputation.

In 1952, he became a CBE In the Queen's Birthday Honours 1956 Coldstream was appointed as a Knight Bachelor. Between 1958 and 1971 he was Chairman of the National Advisory Council on Art Education, which published its first report in 1960—called the "Coldstream Report"—outlining the requirements for a new Diploma in Art and Design (Dip.A.D.). Coldstream's proposals eventually led to more art school courses being given degree status.

Other administrative posts he held were as Vice Chairman of the Arts Council, and as a director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and as a trustee of the National Gallery. He was also Chairman of the British Film Institute from 1964 to 1971. In 1978 he was awarded the Sir Misha Black award and was added to the College of Medallists.

Coldstream retired from the Slade School in 1975, and continued to paint until 1984, when his health was in marked decline. He died in the Royal Homeopathic Hospital in London on 18 February 1987.

Personal life
As a student at the Slade in 1931, Coldstream met and married Nancy Sharp. The marriage lasted until 1942, and produced two daughters. In 1960 he married his model, Monica Hoyer, and together they had three children, a boy and two girls. Coldstream's cousin, Nicolas Coldstream, was a leading archaeologist and academic.

Method and works
Coldstream was committed to painting directly from life; he once remarked, "I lose interest unless I let myself be ruled by what I see". His type of realism had its basis in careful measurement, carried out by the following method: standing before the subject to be painted, a brush is held upright at arm's length. With one eye closed, the artist can, by sliding a thumb up or down the brush handle, take the measure of an object or interval. This finding is compared against other objects or intervals, with the brush still kept at arm's length. Informed by such measurements, the artist can paint what the eye sees without the use of conventional perspective. The surfaces of Coldstream's paintings carry many small horizontal and vertical markings, where he recorded these coordinates so that they could be verified against reality. As a result of his painstaking methods, Coldstream worked slowly, often taking scores of sittings over several months to complete a work. His subjects include still-life, landscapes (usually centered on architecture), portraits, and the female nude.

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I cleaned up the article, and added a better picture. Revolución 18:47, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Achrafieh a suburb?!
It is erroneous to say that Achrafieh is a suburb of Beirut, when we all know that A- It's part of Beirut and constitutes half of it, and B-According to the history of the city, Beirut started in the region that is now Achrafieh and then grew to include the Ras-Beirut area.....So please do change that part right away. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peerless (talk • contribs)

Where did you get the info about platinum and gold certifications?? I thought they don't have that in the Middle East —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ps lebbo (talk • contribs)

 * Who are all these ANONYMOUS people making up all this stuff? Lcnj 08:58, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Just now reverted out some text from a non-fan -- yes, she's controversial, but let's keep POV material on the Talk page!

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Promotional Picture Needed
I think the picture of a magazine cover is not quite appropriate, of course the purpose is just to show who is the artist, but a better promotional fair use picture can be used. I will try to upload a proper promo photo Omernos

Hi, I was just wondering, what is your source for Nancy's album/singles sales and performance? Article

The Greatest Hits (Nancy Ajram)
There is an article called The Greatest Hits (Nancy Ajram) that asserts that she will be releasing a greatest hits album in 2007. It also lists a possible track list for the album. Does anyone know anything about this or is this a hoax? Metros232 14:51, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

 * It's absolutely a hoax, no official statements have been done either by Nancy or Jiji Lamara. So I think it's inappropriate to just put it up assuming it's real. Omernos 16:35, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Okay, I've nominated the article for deletion. Thanks. 18:25, 4 June 2006 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Metros232 (talk • contribs)

ya tabtab... w dallah
i noticed that next to all of her song titles that there are translations of what the titles mean in arabic, but ya tabtab... w dallah does not have a translation. just do it ne? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.21.228 (talk • contribs)

 * It's rather hard to translate the song's title, because translating it word by word won't make a sense. But it basically means "I Either Pat & Spoil" - I hope it makes sense, I'd edit it then. -- Omernos 03:16, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Coca Cola NOT Pepsi!!!
There is a simple mistake in the article which I bolded:

"After a significant period of starring in Pepsi commercials Ajram went back to record her next album Ya Tabtab which was released in early 2006 aided by the title track as the lead single." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rabrab (talk • contribs)

It was Coca Cola —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.213.189.104 (talk • contribs)

Plastic Surgery
It seems to me like Nancy Agram (Egyptian pronunciation:) looks different every time I see her, and that her nose and her cheeks just...aren't right. To the best of anyone's knowledge, has she had any plastic surgery done? People out here sure seem to think so, and it seems like that might be worth mentioning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thrugbhat (talk • contribs)

 * I think she did undergo plastic sugery, at least once. The article is a mess, no references, needs wikifying and cleanup. I might work on it someday. An oh, people, sign your comments ( ~ ). ↔ A NAS ''' - Talk   12:36, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah She had Platic Surgery and its secret video is in market,one of my friend shown it to me.

Khalidkhoso 06:19, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

What IS her religion???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.28.66.148 (talk • contribs)

And would people stop going about her religion who cares if she Christian or Muslim its the music that counts I want it deleted if everyone want to now that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.213.189.104 (talk • contribs) She has apparently admitted to having a nose-job done, which can be easily verified by looking at a picture of her from before she was famous. Funkynusayri 19:43, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, lots of sites claim she did have cosmetic surgery, including this one where she supposedly admits it:

It Took Me Four Plastic Surgeries to Look This Good (I don't know how reliable the source is) 144.178.0.140 (talk) 17:09, 18 July 2019 (UTC) Darwin

Christian
Since when is Ajram a Christian. All we have been hearing is that she's a MUSLIM and not a Christian despite her name so stop it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.203.126.238 (talk • contribs)

 * What is your "SOURCE" that Nancy is a Muslim, Enter the chicken? and who exactly are you? Lcnj 08:58, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Do you have the right to ask such a question Enter the chicken

Nancy is Chirstian every buddy knows this Khalidkhoso 06:15, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't know the Lebanese conditions so well, but it MUST be possible to find out whether a person is Christian or Muslim. Somebody who attended school with her must know it or neighbours, somebody somewhere. EVERYBODY'S CONTRADICTING EACH OTHER ABOUT THIS QUESTION. THAT'S UNBELIEVABLE. (btw, this is an important question, maybe not even because it matters really, but because so many people are doubting and disputing about it)

- Lebanese_Lover writes: This is ridiculous: she is Christian and that's the fact. Do you think a Muslim of Lebanese origin would go around with a name like Nancy??! people who think otherwise including the ones who logged here to make ridiculous claims are simply wasting time and should grow up. Plus did you check her mother's name: typical orthodox Christian. I'll tell you what kind of people wish to hide or twist her religion: it is the kind of people who want censuses blocked in Lebanon and it is these kind of people who do not want the aspirations of the majority of Lebanese to be fulfilled (that's why they don't want a census in Lebanon becasue they want the French-dictated "Constitution" from decades ago to continue - hardly democratic on their part to give a minority (or dare I say maronite!) community de facto privileges; but oh well, c'est la vie). Anyway, to the person who says they've been "hearing" that she is Muslim, wake up and stop clouding issues unnecessarily.

 * One thing's for sure; We need a source for it. Funkynusayri 07:00, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Her religion is much doubted about. All I can say is that I BELIEVE she's Christian and that the German wikipedia article about her says so too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.52.173.195 (talk) 12:52, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Maybe she is both: christian and muslim? Thats help sell her music. But if she singing during ramadan, i think she must be christian. --85.253.60.160 (talk) 23:56, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 * If her mother's last name is Aoun and she comes from Ashrafieh, then she's Christian beyond much doubt. But anyhow, we need relibable sources stating it if anything like that is to be included. FunkMonk (talk) 00:04, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Origins and religion
Both seem to be of great interest to some fans. However, in adding either birthplace or faith, please remember that it will require citation to a reliable source. This does not include fansites, sites that mirror WP content (and have picked up their information from past versions of the articles), or even other-language versions of WP, unless they are fully cited/referenced. No reason that either shouldn't be in the article, but they should be verifiable to a source. The whole faith thing, though, would likely need some clarification or context; she is not a "Christian singer" in the sense that is generally used in the West. Robertissimo 05:16, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

 * DISPUTING this rationale - A well informed Lebanese, not someone from Adis Ababa or Oman, would know that Nancy Ajram was born in Achrafieh, a Christian Section of East Beirut. . Just as much as much as a well informed American, or more correctly, a Canadian, would know that the great singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen is a Jew.... Some people in Wikipedia should understand that Lebanon is a small country with limited internet sources and resources let alone biographical websites a la "Biography.com". Even though Nancy is well known in the Middle East, no one other than the Lebanese would know her roots... Just as much as we ALL know that the origins of the Gemayel family is Christian from Bickfayya... Lcnj 08:51, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

I've added a well-sourced citation to Ajram's birthplace. "we ALL know" doesn't meet WP:FS; Gulf News does. Robertissimo 09:45, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

 * GOOD!... It's about time!... and I am Mystified.... what exactly does WP:FS "Wikipedia:WikiProject Figure Skating" have to do with Nancy Ajram?... Lcnj 09:49, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Yikes! Many apologies for the typo -- I of course meant WP:RS -- an excellent guide for us all, especially in tandem with WP's policy on verifiability. Robertissimo 10:09, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

 * GOOD!... Apologies accepted... but PLEASE... Give artciles about third countries, in particularly Lebanon, the assumption of good faith even without sources. I know that many Lebanese Editors will come to Wikipedia in GOOD FAITH... and will be very discouraged by such unnecessary and time consuming disputes of facts that are well known to them... Would YOU dispute that the Gemayel family is a Christian family from Bickfaya??? Well... No informed Lebanese ever would dispute that fact!... Anyway, with whom, in Wikipedia, is this very delicate and hard to fathom exception to Wikipedia's Policy be best addressed with for speedy consideration and inclusion in the Policy? Lcnj 10:36, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Serious Sex Discrimination issue - Reference to sex kitten
I would like to see the "She has been described as "that most effervescent of Arab sex kittens."[1]" REMOVED... Not only is it superfluous, it is flagrantly a male "prejudiced" statement. 09:46, 23 November 2006 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lcnj (talk • contribs)

 * I don't feel that strongly about it one way or the other. I thought it useful to have a well-sourced, brief description of Ajram's public persona at the end of the intro, and thought that the LATimes phrase was apt. FWIW, the article is written by a female journalist. Robertissimo 19:22, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

 * 1. I disagree with the Editor who removed the sex kitten comment without your authoriazation. 2. I disagree with your leaving this disputed phrases while it is in dispute. The right thing to do is to REMOVE it until we reach consensus on its inclusion. 3. Whether it is written by a female or not, it is still a male chauvinistic statement and it tarnishes ALL the value, voice capability, showmanship, beauty, quality and class that Nancy brings to the Lebanese song...and reduces her to a sex object. Would you like your own mother or daughter to be reduced to a sex kitten when she has so much talent?. Lcnj 01:46, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey i have some translated version of her songs, I want to add those if any one have objection please lemme know,beacuse after 2 days of this post i will add it. and i have list of her full songs that she sung. I want to add that too ? any one have objection lemme know, or help me what to DO.

Khalidkhoso 06:23, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

hello? she's a half/half. muslim and christian it's like a well known fact DUH! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.107.77.169 (talk • contribs)

NancyAjramClub & Forums
Hi, I'm Unknown Love of the Nancy Ajram Club. I want to thank you for your obvious efforts you spend to provide a variety of information to the public about almost everything in life. Our club, which was created by a man named Khaled Jamal, provides everything about Nancy Ajram (biography, discography, photos, news....) for her fans as an unofficial fan site. Plus the forums we have which provides all kinds of additional information about her and an open discussion for her fans to discuss various matters concerns her. Our Nancy Ajram Club & forums has been the biggest resource for two years now and is getting bigger and bigger with each passing day.

I request a link to our Club in the external links. You may take a look at our club and forum to see if we deserve a link in your beloved encyclopedia.

Best regards, Unknown Love NancyAjramClub & Forum Team

Our contacts: Fan site URL: NancyAjramClub Forum URL: NancyAjramForums Unknown Love:unknownlove-at-nancyajramclub.com - Unknown Love  16:40, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Hi Unknown Love, welcome to the 'pedia. Although I find your website to be quite comprehensive, I'd have to turn down your request. According to our policy of external links, it is not favorable to link to websites like Nancy Ajram Club. First of all, your website contains a lot of copyrighted material used in violation, which according to Copyright makes it forbidden to be linked to. It also doesn't provide any more services (legitimate material) to our readers more than Nancy's official website. It would be considered spamming to link Nancy's article to your website. I'm sorry, and I hope you understand. Thank you. - An as Talk? 17:24, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Hi Anas, I posted this request long time ago when your policy of external links was not applied yet, or at least not on this topic. There were some external links that were not very much useful, if I may say.
 * With all due respect, I think that YouTube contains a lot of copyrighted material used in violation too, which according to "Copyright" makes it also forbidden to be linked to. - Unknown Love  19:15, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

 * A policy is adopted automatically in every article and we don't need to "apply" it in each article by itself. As for linking to YouTube, you got that right, it is forbidden to link to a YouTube video if the video linked is a copyvio (copyright violation). Thank you and happy editing. :-) - An as Talk? 13:26, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Contradictions??
The article acknowledges that her first two albums (Mihtagalak and Sheil 'Ayounak...) tanked and then it says under her credentials that "Currently, Nancy Ajram is the only Arabic female artist in history to have her first three albums debut at number one", Im guessing referring to her last three. So...are those stats false, or do Mihtagalak and Sheil Ayounak Anni not count as her debut albums??? Someone plz explain 67.169.206.46 22:46, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Albums
Where are the pages for the other albums??!! There are only pages about two albums. It'd be good to know about the other albums in more details. - Unknown Love  12:42, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you can help create them, eh? Wikipedia is not as complete as you think. :-) - An as talk? 12:55, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

 * OK. Maybe I'll give it a shot sometime. :-) - Unknown Love  15:46, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Only two albums need pages as far as I see, her two first ones. Funkynusayri 17:09, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

When was she born?
I think that she was born in 1984 not 1983. Could anyone check this please? --Meno25 09:08, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Correct as is. — An as  talk? 10:03, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Fake official website of Nancy Ajram created by a hacker
A nasty person (may be a hacker) has maid a fake official site of Nancy at: http://www.nancyajram.com while as mentioned in this article her true official website is: http://www.nancyajramonline.com/ The fake website can distinguish IP addresses of users in Iran and redirects them to : http://www.nancyajram.com/ban/blocked.htm where some swear words are said to Iranians. Iranians are receiving many emails in which the fake website has been given as the official website of Nancy Ajram and asks people to forward the emails to all people that they know! The other nasty thing: In the fake site there is a Guess book with many offensive word to Iranians and Arabs, but when you try to post any message to inform people that this site is fake, you got an error (this means that the swear words has been written by the hacker itself not any real user). Nancy Ajram has many fans in Iran, It seems the hacker tries to make Arabs and Iraninans against each other. Goleyax 10:29, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
 * So that's why some anons were vandalizing the article. If this was to be verified somehow, we can insert this piece of information to the article. — An as  talk? 11:07, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
 * A response to the hacked page is on her actual official website with the following message:

Nancys only official website is: "www.nancyajramonline.com".

So please do not beleive what they say to the fans using the name of Nancy. They are lying and sending bad messages using Nancys name.

We have nothing to do with this website. We are very sorry about what happened, and we apologize from all the iranian fans that we truly respect.

Nancy is very sad because of what happened. She said that she respects and she loves all the fans from the whole world. She said that she has a lot of iranian fans, and that she loves and respect them as well.

We will do our best stop this website and to prevent this from happening again.

We recommend all the fans to stop visiting this website who offended the image of Nancy, and we advise them all to visit this website: "www.nancyajramonline.com" for any information regarding Nancy Ajram.

Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconveniance.

Nancy Ajram Management "

 * This is from http://www.nancyajramonline.com/, under the News section, but I have no idea how to link to the News section in specific. WHOIS and other evidence suggests that it is indeed the true official homepage of Nancy Ajram.

 * Perhaps we can just mention the News section in the reference and add this information to the article. It would help to stop the angry people from showing up as well as work against the hackers.  I can do it if you all think it is a good idea.  The Behnam 20:21, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Yes, I think that's a good idea, The Behnam. — An as  talk? 20:33, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, I'm thinking of one-three sentences explaining the situation in a section after "Achievements," but I'm not sure what is the best way to put this. Perhaps "Official website controversy?" Or is that too controversial?  The Behnam 23:03, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * The biography is missing a lot of information, so I think a "Controversy" title would be best, in order to leave room for other additions. Don't forget to source your additions! Thanks,  An as  talk? 11:01, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. Feel free to tweak as you see fit and add more good sources as you come across them - it is hard to find non-blog/forum information about this kind of incident.  Hopefully putting this information in the article will help prevent further angry vandalism.  The Behnam 23:24, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Edit warring over religion
The page has been protected to stop edit warring over her religion. I have not been able to find a reliable source indicating her religion (or that of her parents). Unless someone can find such a source, the article will omit references to her religion. OhNo itsJamie Talk 21:49, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

 * She is a Lebanese crypt Jew. --93.97.181.187 (talk) 03:51, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

2007 "live album"
I guess this is a HOAX? No trace of that "album" anywhere, and we're in 2008 now! If you do not give evidence that this album actually does exist, I will remove the entry from the discography! -andy 85.179.207.248 (talk) 03:41, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

IMPORTANT: What is her official web site? nancyajram[-]online.com?
Yes, it is the hyphen which makes the difference! http://www.nancyajramonline.com AND http://www.nancyajram-online.com - both exist! The former is Flash-only, and the latter is also possible to view without Flash! The latter has lyrics of her songs, while the former has not! What a confusion!! -andy 85.179.207.248 (talk) 16:45, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Infobox photo
No matter how many times it is replaced, unfree images will get deleted from the infobox. So again, we do have a free image, on the right here, insert it when the unfree images are delted, or better yet, don't upload unfree images. FunkMonk (talk) 16:04, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Heritage / Descent
Although Nancy Ajram was born in Lebanon, it is believed that Nancy has Iran-Armenian family or at least heritage. Armenians occupy a lot of Lebanon, making it the second largest Armenian populated country (After Armenia, of course). Some sources claim that her family are also one of those from that have migrated from Armenia and Modern Day Iran. Nancy also sings a small section of an Armenian song (Garun E) on television. And her grandmother is also said to be Armenian. Please place embed this fact into her Wikipedia Page. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.194.231.189 (talk) 22:20, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Not if you don't have reliable sources stating it. FunkMonk (talk) 00:02, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

nancy a easten orthodox?
iv herd that nancy is not a easten catholic but a an easten orthodox. can someone find if this is true. iv seen 3 sourses stating this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.9.99.241 (talk) 21:02, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 27 March 2020: Titles and awards
I want to add to tiles and awards section the following: 2019: Badna nwalle" jaw, best lebanese song of 2018, mbcfm https://www.instagram.com/p/BtUJGc7Axz-/?igshid=1ft9ou4mipj3q 2020: Nancy Ajram best arabic singer of 2019, Oscar Sayidati.net, https://www.instagram.com/tv/B66K0IFHR9w/?igshid=1dcey269pnc65 EliasRizk89 (talk) 09:54, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Instagram is not generally considered a reliable source.  Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:56, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

In what way is she a businesswoman?
The article mentions her as a businesswoman but doesn't talk about the business side of her at all. If this was put in by mistake, please remove it or add a section talking about her activity in business. Emperor Ibrahim I (talk) 03:50, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

بحبك 218.255.154.214 (talk) 06:44, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

amore
Ti amo Nancy sei il mio amore 37.159.77.30 (talk) 04:57, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

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