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Articles I created or made significant contributions to

 * Comintern
 * History of Soviet espionage in the United States
 * Carter Doctrine

 * Founder, WikiProject:Cold War history

Other articles I created or made significant contributions to

 * Venona project
 * Allies of World War II
 * Communist Party USA
 * International relations
 * British Mandate of Mesopotamia
 * United States Rapid Deployment Forces
 * Mutaween
 * Amerasia
 * Norinco
 * Démarche
 * Atlantic Charter
 * International Monetary Fund
 * Exchange Stabilization Fund
 * Special Drawing Rights
 * Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policy
 * United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
 * Reconstruction Finance Corporation
 * Foreign Economic Administration
 * British Security Coordination
 * subversion (political)
 * King-Crane Commission
 * Anglo-French Declaration
 * U.S. Peace Council
 * Signals Intelligence Service
 * Signal Corps (United States Army)
 * Arlington Hall
 * War Division
 * Latin American Section
 * Participants in World War II
 * Loyalty oath
 * Declaration of Conscience
 * McCarthyism
 * Intelligence Identities Protection Act
 * House Un-American Activities Committee
 * Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
 * Agricultural Adjustment Act
 * Anti-Comintern Pact
 * Perlo group
 * Subversive Activities Control Board
 * Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations
 * List of Americans in the Venona papers
 * List of Communist publications
 * Honolulu Record
 * A Study of History
 * List of members of the Comintern
 * Institute of Pacific Relations
 * Moynihan Secrecy Commission
 * Office of Strategic Services
 * War Production Board
 * Board of Economic Warfare
 * Office of War Information
 * Office of Price Administration
 * Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
 * Communist front
 * American League Against War and Fascism
 * American League for Peace and Democracy
 * Young Communist League
 * American Peace Mobilization
 * Political Research Associates
 * American Youth Congress
 * Abraham Lincoln School
 * Congress of Industrial Organizations
 * Harry Magdoff and espionage
 * Red Scare
 * Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
 * LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee
 * Tydings Committee
 * Southern Manifesto
 * Agent handling
 * Incontrovertible evidence

Biographies I created or made significant contributions to

 * Angela Merkel
 * St. John Philby
 * Franz Leopold Neumann
 * Edvard Beneš
 * Whittaker Chambers
 * Alger Hiss
 * Richard A. Clarke
 * Chris Kyle
 * Judith Coplon
 * Harry Hopkins
 * Lauchlin Currie
 * Harry Dexter White
 * Lee Pressman
 * Eugene Dennis
 * John Abt
 * Solomon Adler
 * Elizabeth Bentley
 * Cedric Belfrage
 * Frank Coe
 * Lona Cohen
 * Morris Cohen
 * Bernard Redmont
 * Clark Clifford
 * Richard Nixon
 * George Papandreou
 * Stephen Solarz
 * Joseph McCarthy
 * Alice Rivlin
 * Jack Palladino
 * Eliot Spitzer
 * Bill Richardson
 * Peter Bourne
 * Alexander Feklisov
 * Grigory Kheifets
 * Pavel Fitin
 * Anatoly Gorsky
 * Roy Medvedev
 * Semyon Semyonov
 * Oleg Troyanovsky
 * Lev Vasilevsky
 * Anatoli Yatskov
 * Vasily Zarubin
 * Elizabeth Zarubina
 * Iskhak Akhmerov
 * Gaik Ovakimian
 * Leonid Kvasnikov
 * Vladimir Pravdin
 * Boris Bazarov
 * Boris Bukov
 * Joseph Romualdovich Grigulevich
 * Grigory Rabinovich
 * Jacob Golos
 * J. Peters
 * Trude Lash
 * Josef Berger
 * Joseph Katz
 * Rudy Baker
 * Nathan Einhorn
 * Jane Foster
 * Mark Gayn
 * Harold Glasser
 * V. J. Jerome
 * Bella Joseph
 * Albert E. Kahn
 * Mary Jane Keeney
 * Philip Keeney
 * Hal Ware
 * Marion Bachrach
 * Marion Davis Berdecio
 * Joseph Milton Bernstein
 * Alice Barrows
 * Sylvia Callen
 * Henry Collins
 * John Herrmann
 * Donald Hiss
 * Charles Kramer
 * Victor Perlo
 * Vladimir Pozner
 * Richard Setaro
 * Nathaniel Weyl
 * Nathan Witt
 * Samuel Dickstein (congressman)
 * Rae Elson
 * Frederick V. Field
 * Edward Fitzgerald
 * Charles Flato
 * Bela Gold
 * Sonia Steinman Gold
 * Gerald Graze
 * Stanley Graze
 * Michael Greenberg
 * Maurice Halperin
 * Julius Joseph
 * Helen Grace Scott Keenan
 * Irving Kaplan
 * Duncan Lee
 * Helen Lowry
 * Harry Magdoff
 * Jenny Levy Miller
 * Robert Talbott Miller
 * David Niles
 * Willard Park
 * Mary Price
 * William Remington
 * Ruth Rivkin
 * Allan Rosenberg
 * Helen Silvermaster
 * Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
 * Jessica Smith (editor)
 * Helen Tenney
 * Lud Ullman
 * David Weintraub
 * Donald Wheeler
 * Anatole Volkov
 * Louis Adamic
 * Walter Bernstein
 * Sylvia Caldwell
 * Salmond Franklin
 * Carl Marzani
 * Robert Menaker
 * Leonard Mins
 * Kate Mitchell
 * Boris Morros
 * George Perazich
 * John Scott (writer)
 * George Silverman
 * Jack Soble
 * Myra Soble
 * William Henry Taylor
 * Jane Zlatovski
 * Max Elitcher
 * Harry Gold
 * David Greenglass
 * Ruth Greenglass
 * Alexander Orlov
 * William Perl
 * Morton Sobell
 * Al Sarant
 * Joel Barr
 * Alexander Koral
 * Helen Koral
 * Rudy Lambert
 * Sol Leshinsky
 * Andrew Roth
 * Bill Weisband
 * Martin Kamen
 * Valentin Markin
 * Michael Straight
 * Hede Massing
 * Paul Massing
 * Laurence Duggan
 * Juliet Poyntz
 * Arvid Jacobson
 * William Kruse
 * Leonard Mins
 * Milton Schwartz
 * Joseph Stenbuck
 * Irving Charles Velson
 * Daniel Zaret
 * Alfred Tilton
 * Arthur Adams
 * Clarence Hiskey
 * Bruno Pontecorvo
 * Niels Bohr
 * Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz
 * Theodore Hall
 * Noel Field
 * Charles Kramer
 * Ward Pigman
 * Vincent Reno
 * Harry Rosenthal
 * Viktor Vasilevish Sveshchnikov
 * Julian Wadleigh
 * Jones Orin York
 * Irving Lerner
 * Lydia Stahl
 * Jack Fahy
 * Edna Patterson
 * Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov
 * Jacob Epstein
 * Linn Markley Farish
 * Isaac Folkoff
 * Bolesław Gebert
 * Rebecca Getzoff
 * Harrison George
 * Emma Harriet Joseph
 * Gertrude Kahn
 * David Karr
 * Samuel Krafsur
 * Christina Krotkova
 * Sergey Nikolaevich Kurnakov
 * Michael Leshing
 * William Malisoff
 * Robert Menaker
 * Floyd Miller
 * James Walter Miller
 * Nicola Napoli
 * Nicholas W. Orloff
 * Kenneth Richardson
 * Ruth Rivkin
 * Peter Rhodes
 * Samuel Rodman
 * Marion Schultz
 * Charles Bradford Sheppard
 * Abraham George Silverman
 * Johannes Steele
 * Augustina Stridsberg
 * Anna Louise Strong
 * Mikhail Tkach
 * Margietta Voge
 * Maria Wicher
 * Ruth Wilson
 * Ilya Wolston
 * Flora Wovschin
 * Karl August Wittfogel
 * Richard Welch
 * Arleigh McCree
 * Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb
 * John Bascom
 * Ibn al-Tiqtaqa
 * Rashid-al-Din Hamadani
 * Viktor Suvorov
 * Stephen S. Attwood
 * Stephen Laird
 * Wickham Steed
 * Charles Richard Crane
 * Henry Churchill King
 * Ella Reeve Bloor
 * Earl Browder
 * Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr.
 * Steven V. Roberts
 * Nina Totenberg

Wikisource contributions

 * Anglo-French Declaration (November 7, 1918)
 * NKVD Order № 00794/B for the Katyn massacre (March 1940)
 * Venona 687 KGB New York to Moscow, 13 May 1944, Perlo group (13 May 1944)
 * Fitin to Dimitrov, 29 September 1944 identifying Perlo group members, Moscow archives
 * Venona 79 KGB New York to Moscow, 18 January 1945, KGB in Treasury (18 January 1945)
 * Wikisource:FBI Memo Morgan to Clegg, Janaury 14, 1947
 * Memorandum for the Attorney General, January 27, 1947
 * FBI Memorandum identifying Harry Dexter White as agent Jurist (October 16, 1950)
 * FBI Memo Brent to Hennrich, October 30, 1950
 * Nathaniel Weyl testimony corroborating Alger Hiss as member of CPUSA secret apparatus (February 23, 1953)
 * Letter from William L. Borden to J. Edgar Hoover, November 7, 1953 on security clearance for J. Robert Oppenheimer
 * Explanation and History of Venona Project Information, Belmont to Boardman memo (February 1, 1956)
 * Southern Manifesto (March 12, 1956)
 * Operations of the MGB Residency at New York, 1944-45 (November 26, 1957)
 * Weather Underground Declaration of a State of War (May 20, 1970), Bernardine Dohrn, author

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Speedster

Speedster may refer to:

Aircraft

 * Kadiak KC-2 Speedster, a 1930s American radial engined homebuilt biplane design
 * Rearwin Speedster, a 1930s American airplane design
 * Theiss Speedster, an American biplane design

Automotive

 * Speedster (automobile), a type of car body closely related to the roadster, examples of which are :
 * Auburn Speedster
 * Little Detroit Speedster
 * Opel Speedster
 * Plymouth Prowler
 * Porsche Speedster
 * Studebaker Speedster
 * Confederate Hellcat Speedster, designed by South African Pierre Terblanche

Other uses

 * Speedster (album), a studio album by Japanese boy band Generations from Exile Tribe
 * Speedster (fiction), a character whose powers primarily relate to superhuman speed
 * Speedster, a 1997 PlayStation game by Psygnosis

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Evangelical left

The Evangelical left is a Christian left movement in Evangelical Christianity that affirms conservative evangelical theology and are politically progressive. It is mainly based in the US, but is also found in Latin America.

Doctrine
The movement affirms conservative evangelical theology, such as the doctrines of the incarnation, atonement, and resurrection, traditional view on marriage and see the Bible as the primary authority for the Church. Unlike other evangelicals, however, those on the evangelical left often support and utilize modern biblical exegesis. They often support a more progressive political platform and are concerned about issues of social justice. Many, for example, are opposed to capital punishment and are supportive of gun control, welfare programs and welcoming foreigners. In many cases, they are also pacifists.

History
The origins of the movement are located in the 16th century in the Anabaptist movement which fought against The Establishment and campaigned for democracy and the participation of every human. Other movements were significant, such as Abolitionism in the United Kingdom of the 18th century and Abolitionism in the United States of the 19th century. Some evangelicals have campaigned for women's rights, such as pastoral ordination and right to vote.

Due to the fundamentalist controversy of the early 20th century, the movement and social activism lost momentum. However, in the late 1940s, evangelical theologians from Fuller Theological Seminary founded in Pasadena, California, in 1947, championed the Christian importance of social activism. It experienced a new impetus in the 1960s with the foundation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, led by Baptist pastor Martin Luther King Jr.

During the 1960s and 1970s, the evangelical left stood for antiwar, civil rights, and anti-consumption principles while supporting doctrinal and sexual fidelity. The Sojourners magazine founded in 1971, has been an important voice of the movement. In 1973, 53 evangelical leaders had signed The Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern thus contributing to the foundation of Evangelicals for Social Action. The evangelical left helped the broader evangelical movement by helping to elect the first born-again U.S. president, Jimmy Carter in 1976.

21st century
In 2007, the organization Red-Letter Christians was founded by Tony Campolo and Shane Claiborne with the aim of bringing together evangelicals who believe in the importance of insisting on issues of social justice mentioned by Jesus (in red in some translations of the Bible).

The election of Donald Trump in 2016 led to a resurgence of the evangelical left against some of his policies. Some evangelical Christians see the phrase as political and have since changed how they name themselves.

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Mabel Lucie Attwell

Mabel Lucie Attwell (4 June 1879 – 5 November 1964) was a British illustrator and comics artist. She was known for her cute, nostalgic drawings of children. Her drawings are featured on many postcards, advertisements, posters, books and figurines.

Biography
Attwell was born in Mile End, London, 4 June 1879, the sixth child of butcher Augustus Attwell and his wife Emily Ann. She was educated privately and at the Coopers' Company School and at the Regent Street school. She studied at Heatherley's and Saint Martin's School of Art, but left to develop her own interest in imaginary subjects, disliking the emphasis on still-life drawing and classical subjects.

After she sold work to the Tatler and Bystander, she was taken on by the agents Francis and Mills, leading to a long and consistently successful career. In 1908, she married painter and illustrator Harold Cecil Earnshaw (d. 1937) with whom she had a daughter, Marjorie, and two sons. She died at her home in Fowey, Cornwall, on 5 November 1964, after which her business was carried on by her daughter, Marjorie.

Works
Attwell's initial career was founded on magazine illustration, which she continued throughout her life, but around 1900 she began receiving commissions for book illustration, notably for W & R Chambers and the Raphael House Library of Gift Books. Her early works were somewhat derivative of the style of artists such as her friend Hilda Cowham, Jessie Willcox Smith, John Hassall, and the Heath Robinson brothers. From 1914 onwards, she developed her trademark style of sentimental rotund cuddly infants, which became ubiquitous across a wide range of markets: cards, calendars, nursery equipment and pictures, crockery and dolls. During the 1910s Attwell produced a number of posters for London Transport featuring the children to promote travel to Christmas pantomimes and other causes.

She illustrated children's classics such as Mother Goose (1910), Alice in Wonderland (1911), Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1914), The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley (1915), and an edition of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy abridged and written by May Byron (1921). For the gift books published by Messrs Raphael Tuck (Mother Goose, Alice in Wonderland, and later volumes including Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1913) and Grimms' Fairy Tales (1925)), she provided line drawings as well as "colour work for twelve full-page half-tone plates." Attwell's illustrations caught the attention of Queen Marie of Romania, who wrote children's books and short stories in English. Attwell was invited to spend several weeks at the royal palace in Bucharest in 1922. She also illustrated two long stories of the queen's, which were published by Hodder & Stoughton.

Attwell contributed illustrations to popular periodicals such as Tatler, The Bystander, The Daily Graphic, and The Illustrated London News. She produced advertising illustrations for clients such as Vim, and illustrated greeting cards as well. The Lucie Attwell Annual was published from 1922 to 1974, its continuing publication ten years after her death being made possible by extensive re-use of images.

In 1926 Shelley Potteries commissioned Attwell to produce designs for children's china ware, following the successful sales of china decorated with designs by Hilda Cowham. Attwell’s first six designs portrayed scenes involving children, animals and small green elves in green suits – these were called 'Boo Boos' and used on cups, mugs, bowls etc.

She also produced a tea set, comprising a teapot in the shape of a mushroom house, a sugar bowl in the shape of a mushroom with the top cut off and a milk jug in the shape of a green Boo Boo in a coy saluting pose. The response to these designs was enthusiastic and the Pottery Gazette wrote that they were "a truly irresistible range of nursery ware, altogether in advance of what was usually put before the trade." Her success continued and from 1937 a series of children figures was introduced, followed by a series of small elves in various poses. Attwell continued to produce designs for Shelley ware which was still being manufactured in the 1960s.

Attwell was employed by William Webster, the chairman of Wright's Biscuits in the 1930s to create the Wright's logo, a curly-haired boy called Mischief. There was even a Mischief Club for children, with members getting a collectable badge.

Comics
In 1943 she had her own comic strip, named Wot A Life, published in the magazine Playbox.

Personal life
In 1908, she married painter and illustrator Harold Cecil Earnshaw and became the mother of one daughter and two sons.

Books by Attwell

 * The Boo-Boos Series, Valentine, 1921–22.
 * Lucie Attwell’s Annual, Partridge, 1922–1926.
 * Baby’s Book, Raphael Tuck, 1922.
 * Lucie Attwell’s Children’s Book, Dean, 1927–1932.
 * Lucie Attwell’s Annual, Dean, (1926 or 1927?)–1974.
 * Lucie Attwell’s Painting Books, Dean, 1934.
 * Lucie Attwell’s Great Big Midget Books, Dean, 1934–35.
 * Story Books, Dean, 1943–45.
 * Jolly Book, 1953.
 * Nursery Rhymes Pop-up Book, 1958.
 * Book of Verse, 1960.
 * Lucie Attwell's ABC Pop-Up Book, 1960.
 * Book of Rhymes, Dean, 1962.

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Australian cockroach

The Australian cockroach (Periplaneta australasiae) is a common species of tropical cockroach, with a length of 23 - 35 mm. It is brown overall, with the tegmina having a conspicuous lateral pale stripe or margin, and the pronotum (head shield) with a sharply contrasting pale or yellow margin. It is very similar in appearance to the American cockroach and may be easily mistaken for it. It is, however, slightly smaller than the American cockroach, and has a yellow margin on the thorax and yellow streaks at its sides near the wing base.

Distribution
Despite its name, the Australian cockroach is a cosmopolitan species, and an introduced species in Australia. P. australasiae probably originated in Africa. It is very common in the southern United States and in tropical climates, and can be found in many locations throughout the world due to its travels by shipping and commerce between locations.

Habitat
It prefers warmer climates and is not cold-tolerant, but it may be able to survive indoors in colder climates. It does well in moist conditions, but also can tolerate dry conditions as long as water is available. It often lives around the perimeter of buildings. It appears to prefer eating plants more than its relatives do, but can feed on a wide array of organic (including decaying) matter. Like most cockroaches, it is a scavenger.

It may come indoors to look for food and even to live, but in warm weather, it may move outdoors and enter buildings looking for food. This species can be found in nature in tropical parts of Australia; it has also been found along the east coast of Australia, from Cape York to the Victorian border.

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Talk:Utah Beach

Comments
Someone posted a first hand account of the landing at Utah Beach. It is interesting reading (see, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Utah_Beach&oldid=14530649) but it doesn't really fit in an encyclopedia article. Maybe try wikisource, if the copyright status can be ascertained. Ydorb 14:47, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

A generic "catch all" reference is unacceptable. Mojodaddy 21:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

The D-Day section reads like it was written by a 5th grader and I'm too lazy to fix it. Mojodaddy 21:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I have no horse in this race, but the source cited is authoritative, not "generic". Very detailed and written by US Army historians. It does require other sources, I do agree.--Buckboard 18:33, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Utah Beach Song
Is there anything that makes this song notable? I find no wp:rs sources that establish it as wp:notable.--Work permit (talk) 01:31, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

No citations, I deleted it--Work permit (talk) 07:14, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Airborne Losses
The estimate of 40% losses for the 101st seems high. Are we sure that number isn't referring to the reduction in "effective strength" due to the highly scattered formations? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sjk81 (talk • contribs) 16:17, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

German radar station, Douvres-la-Delivrande
“Some 20 minutes after the first waves, British Royal Marine Commandos from 30 Commando Assault Unit, under the command of Captain G. Pike, landed at the beach. Their mission being the capture of a German radar station at Douvres-la-Delivrande”: this seems very unlikely as Douvres-la-Delivrande was located between the Sword and Juno sectors, at about 80km from Utah Beach.

ScarletteSca (talk) 13:04, 22 May 2013 (UTC)ScarletteSca
 * I removed the sentence. There is a confusion here, for sure. I've never heard any reports about British commandos on Utah, and certainly not with a mission to Douvres-la-Delivrande ! --Kormin (talk) 18:12, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Canadian minesweepers at Utah Beach
This subject came up on the Omaha Beach talk page, but it's not appropriate there so I'll continue the conversation here... The reference http://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1132&context=cmh, e.g., page 3: "The one thing that remained in common was that they [31st Canadian Mine sweeping Flotilla] were all attached to the western Task Force so would be leading the way into the American beaches Utah and Omaha. " has been offered as a source for the statement that the Canadian navy (specifically minesweepers) were part of the naval component at Utah Beach. However, the quote above is I think slightly misleading. The 31st was indeed part of the Western Task Force which was (the Task Force I mean) tasked with supporting the American landings at Omaha and Utah, and the minesweepers would I imagine have led the way on the approaches to Normandy, but as the next section makes clear, the 31st's duties were to "...sweep Approach Channel 3 into Omaha Beach." The rest of the article covers the work the flotilla did at Omaha, and Utah is never again mentioned. http://www.mcdoa.org.uk/Operation_Neptune_Minesweeping.htm gives some more information about the minesweeping operation, and in the planning section we can see a map of the channels, with the third clearly heading to Omaha. Furthermore, all of the sources I have seen place the Canadian flotilla exclusively in Task Force O, assigned to Omaha Beach. FactotEm (talk) 15:39, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Once again..I am no expert. BUT (lol) (a) it may be difficult to separate any of the western task forces minesweeper coverage, (b) it may be that the british 16nth minesweeper flotilla had specific duties on the Utah approaches AND that the some of the six Canadian minesweepers not part of the 31st were allocated to the 16nth. I'll try to find sources that make me think that later. However, it is very difficult (esp. for a layman such as I) to determine where ALL the Canadian minesweepers were that day. But thanks for your diligence on these matters. Juan Riley (talk) 20:02, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * FactotEm: These are not great ref's but as best as I can do on short term and without book access. The site http://www.mcdoa.org.uk/Operation_Neptune_Minesweeping.htm indicates that the 14nth MS flotilla "Swept Ch. 2 ahead of Force U" and this site http://www.nauticapedia.ca/Articles/RCN_Present_D-day.php states that 3 named Canadian minesweepers were part of the 14nth MSF. Checking for better refs without book access might be difficult. Juan Riley (talk) 20:44, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Nice find. Those references are fine. Thanks. FactotEm (talk) 02:39, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Canadian forces at Utah – revisited
At the moment the Canadian flag is included in the infobox list of belligerents, but this is not supported by any statement in the main body of the article. The conversation above provides two sources which strongly suggest that there was in fact a Canadian contribution, to the naval operations, at Utah. However, the first source states only that the "14th MS flotilla Swept Ch. 2 ahead of Force U" (which, it is clear from the source, means Utah Beach), but without specific mention of the Canadians, while the second source lists three Canadian minesweepers that were part of the 14th MS flotilla at the time of the Normandy landings, but without specific mention of Utah Beach. While in my opinion common sense dictates that this verfies a Canadian contribution, I believe that technically it would be a violation of WP:SYNTH to include this in the article. What do others think? Without some sourced statement in the main narrative, there's no justification for the inclusion of Canada in the list of belligerents. FactotEm (talk) 12:49, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I have removed it from both the infobox and the lead. It was not present in the version that passed GA review, and at present it's unsourced. Good catch — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:01, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

The Netherlands as a belligerent?
From a cursory reading of the article (and other related articles) I gather that the Dutch contribution to the landings at Utah consists mostly of the participation of a single gunboat. I'm not familiar with military articles about battles, but to me this does not seem sufficient contribution to be mentioned as a separate belligerent in an article's infobox? DragonFury (talk) 22:12, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

There is something wrong...
Once the four troop transports assigned to Force U reached their assigned position 12 miles (19 km) off the coast, 5,000 soldiers of 4th Division and other units assigned to Utah boarded their landing craft in rough seas for the three-hour journey to their designated landing point '''The was no rough sea. The "source" says:' But the seasick GIs who would soon be forced to travel three hours or more to Utah Beach on the Channel's famously rough waters, packed like cattle into diminutive landing craft, perhaps wished that their commanders would be a little more bold and anchor the transports closer inshore.'' I don't know what that is, but it just seems to be some sort of storytelling to make it more heroic. Apart from the strong current, the sea near Utah was calm, so no tanks sank, which was one of the main differences to Omaha. Even the photos on this page show the conditions very well. Military Review, Number 26,Volume 11 p.45 seems to be the only one that calls the sea also rough, but "moderatly rough". --2003:D1:670B:AB40:C4BF:C7C1:65CC:A6B2 (talk) 11:45, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * The article says that the sea was rough when they were transferring to their landing craft 12 miles from the coast, not when they were disembarking on the shore. — Diannaa (talk) 21:58, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Beach designations map in Landings section
The map currently shown at the head of the Landings section on this page, File:d-day-landing-map-beaches.png is extremely inaccurate. The beaches are in the correct order, but Sword Beach actually ends approximately at the middle of the word "Juno" and there were no D-Day landings east of that. This should either be replaced with one of the other maps on the D-Day pages or a new map should be made along the same lines but with locations corrected. Hammerquill (talk) 09:20, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I have replaced the map. Thanks for the suggestion.— Diannaa (talk) 10:31, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

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Coherence theory of truth

Coherence theories of truth characterize truth as a property of whole systems of propositions that can be ascribed to individual propositions only derivatively according to their coherence with the whole. While modern coherence theorists hold that there are many possible systems to which the determination of truth may be based upon coherence, others, particularly those with strong religious beliefs, hold that the truth only applies to a single absolute system. In general, truth requires a proper fit of elements within the whole system. Very often, though, coherence is taken to imply something more than simple formal coherence. For example, the coherence of the underlying set of concepts is considered to be a critical factor in judging validity for the whole system. In other words, the set of base concepts in a universe of discourse must first be seen to form an intelligible paradigm before many theorists will consider that the coherence theory of truth is applicable.

History
In modern philosophy, the coherence theory of truth was defended by Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Harold Henry Joachim (who is credited with the definitive formulation of the theory). However, Spinoza and Kant have also been interpreted as defenders of the correspondence theory of truth. In contemporary philosophy, several epistemologists have significantly contributed to and defended the theory, primarily Brand Blanshard (who gave the earliest characterization of the theory in contemporary times) and Nicholas Rescher.

Varieties
According to one view, the coherence theory of truth regards truth as coherence within some specified set of sentences, propositions or beliefs. It is the "theory of knowledge which maintains that truth is a property primarily applicable to any extensive body of consistent propositions, and derivatively applicable to any one proposition in such a system by virtue of its part in the system". Ideas like this are a part of the philosophical perspective known as confirmation holism. Coherence theories of truth claim that coherence and consistency are important features of a theoretical system, and that these properties are sufficient to its truth. To state it in the reverse, that "truth" exists only within a system, and doesn't exist outside of a system.

According to another version by H. H. Joachim (the philosopher credited with the definitive formulation of the theory, in his book The Nature of Truth, published in 1906), truth is a systematic coherence that involves more than logical consistency. In this view, a proposition is true to the extent that it is a necessary constituent of a systematically coherent whole. Others of this school of thought, for example, Brand Blanshard, hold that this whole must be so interdependent that every element in it necessitates and even entails every other element. Exponents of this view infer that the most complete truth is a property solely of a unique coherent system, called the absolute, and that humanly knowable propositions and systems have a degree of truth that is proportionate to how fully they approximate this ideal.

Criticism
Perhaps the best-known objection to a coherence theory of truth is Bertrand Russell's. He maintained that since both a belief and its negation will, individually, cohere with at least one set of beliefs, this means that contradictory beliefs can be shown to be true according to coherence theory, and therefore that the theory cannot work. However, what most coherence theorists are concerned with is not all possible beliefs, but the set of beliefs that people actually hold. The main problem for a coherence theory of truth, then, is how to specify just this particular set, given that the truth of which beliefs are actually held can only be determined by means of coherence.

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Ngiwal

Ngiwal  is one of the sixteen states of Palau. It has a population of 282 (census 2015) and an area of 26 km2

On June 21, 2018, Japanese ambassador Toshiyuki Yamada gave Japan's multipurpose center to Ngiwal.

Geography
Ngiwal is situated between Melekeok and Ngaraard on the north central east coast of Babeldaob Island. Ngiwal extends from the coast to the Rael Kedam and includes the drainage of the Ngeredekuu River. The Ngeredekuu has its headwaters on the forested east flanks of the Rael Kedam and flows through a large northwest to southeast trending valley. A coastal ridge lies between the Ngeredekuu Valley and a broad sandy plain along the coast. The modern village of Ngiwal is located on a broad section of coastal plain north of the point known as Bkulatabriual and comprises the traditional villages of Ngermechau (south) and Ngercheluuk. The traditional villages were relocated to the coast in the mid-nineteenth century from their positions on the lower slopes of the coastal ridge.

Presently, most of the use of the land in Ngiwal is confined to gardens surrounding the modern village. Interspersed with these kitchen gardens are stands of agroforest which include coconut, and betelnut, breadfruit, almond trees, and banana plants. In and around many of the uninhabited villages are stands of coconut and betelnut palms, and occasionally patches of irregularly attended taro swamp gardens. Except for occasional forays to hunt pigeon or harvest special plants, there is little active use of most of the interior of Ngiwal.

The state has an area of 26 km2 and is known for its beautiful beaches. To get to Ngiwal by boat it is necessary to do it at high tide, although there is a pier a couple of kilometers south of the village which can be reached at any tide. Its administrative center and main locality is Ngerkeai. The state has at least 2 protected areas the Ngerbekuu Nature Reserve and the Ngemai Conservation Area.

Demography
The population of the state was 282 in the 2015 census and median age was 36.1 years. The official languages of the state are Palauan and English.

Its population was reached 223 inhabitants in 2005.2 increasing to 282 according to data from the 2015 census. Its inhabitants are mostly fishermen or public workers. There are 3 small family shops, a primary school and a library, which contains a large number of children's books, a copy of all Palauan books and some books in Japanese and Spanish.

Uongruious is the title of the traditional high chief from the state.

Political system
The state of Ngiwal, with population of less than 300, has an elected chief executive, governor. The state also has a legislature elected every two years. The state population elects one of the member in the House of Delegates of Palau.

Traditional villages
There are at least four traditional village sites within Ngiwal, and at least two village sites are located in the Ngeredekuu Valley. The site of Old Ngiwal is located on the west facing slopes of the coastal ridge at the end of a mangrove channel on the east side of the Ngeredekuu River near to where it empties into the large, shallow bay which separates Ngiwal and Melekeok.

The traditional villages represent important symbols giving identity to families, clans and regions. Within villages are numerous stone features with historical and traditional importance. Many of the stone platforms, odesongel, serve as clan cemeteries, and other stone features serve as shrines.

The lagoon is an important resource area which was intensively exploited prehistorically. Important resources include the many species of fish. Near the traditional villages are taro swamp gardens, and surrounding most village sites are garden plots and terraced hillsides.

Education
The Ministry of Education operates public schools. Palau High School in Koror is the country's only public high school, so children from this community go there.

The Ngiwal state scholarship offers two scholarships. One for becoming a Palauian citizen, and one for a student at a college, university, or vocational school.

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Parson

A parson is an ordained Christian person responsible for a small area, typically a parish. The term was formerly often used for some Anglican clergy and, more rarely, for ordained ministers in some other churches. It is no longer a formal term denoting a specific position within Anglicanism, but has some continued historical and colloquial use.

In the pre-Reformation church, a parson was the priest of an independent parish church, that is, a church not under the control of a larger ecclesiastical or monastic organization. The term is similar to rector and is in contrast to a vicar, a cleric whose revenue is usually, at least partially, appropriated by a larger organisation. Today the term is normally used for some parish clergy of non-Roman Catholic churches, in particular in the Anglican tradition in which a parson is the incumbent of a parochial benefice: a parish priest or a rector; in this sense a parson can be compared with a vicar. The title parson can be applied to clergy from certain other denominations. A parson is often housed in a church-owned home known as a parsonage.

Anglicanism
William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England says that a parson is a parish priest with the fullest legal rights to the parish properties:

 * A parson, persona ecclesiae, is one that has full possession of all the rights of a parochial church. He is called parson, persona, because by his person the church, which is an invisible body, is represented; and he is in himself a body corporate, in order to protect and defend the rights of the church (which he personates) by a perpetual succession. He is sometimes called the rector, or governor, of the church: but the appellation of parson, (however it may be depreciated by familiar, clownish, and indiscriminate use) is the most legal, most beneficial, and most honorable title that a parish priest can enjoy; because such a one, (Sir Edward Coke observes) and he only, is said vicem seu personam ecclesiae gerere ("to carry out the business of the church in person")
 * — Bl. Comm. I.11.V, p. *372

Legally, parish priests are separately given spiritual and temporal jurisdiction (they are instituted and inducted). The spiritual responsibility is termed the cure of souls, and one holding such a cure is a curate, which was also given to parish assistants, or assistant curates. The title parson, however, refers to the temporal jurisdiction over the churches and glebe. Depending on how the tithes were apportioned, a parson may be a rector or a vicar. A parish priest who received no tithes was legally a perpetual curate (to distinguish him from assistant curates).

However, historically, many perpetual curates, as they were technically parsons (having temporal jurisdiction), preferred to use this latter title. This led to the term parson having three senses. It could refer to any cleric who was in charge of the parish church (rectors, vicars or perpetual curates) without distinction; it could, through actual use, refer simply to perpetual curates, or it could, through popular use, refer to any member of the clergy, even assistant curates. An Act of Parliament in 1868, changed the way that parochial clergy were paid, and permitted perpetual curates to be called vicars. This led to the rapid abandonment of the title parson in favour of vicar, to the extent that now, as previously for parson, the term vicar is often used for any cleric of the Church of England.

Ireland
In Ulster, in the early 17th century, every parish had a vicar and a parson instead of a co-arb and an erenagh. The vicar, like the co-arb, was always in orders. He said the mass (‘serveth the cure’) and received a share of the tithes. The parson, like the erenagh, had a major portion of the tithes, maintained the church and provided hospitality. As he was not usually in clerical orders, his responsibilities were mainly temporal.

However, there were differences in the divisions of the tithes between various dioceses in Tyrone. In the Diocese of Clogher, the vicar and the parson shared the tithes equally between them; in the Diocese of Derry, church income came from both tithes and the rental of church lands (‘temporalities’). The vicar and the parson each received one third of the tithes and paid an annual tribute to the bishop. In places where there was no parson, the erenagh continued to receive two thirds of the income in kind from the church lands, and delivered the balance, after defraying maintenance, to the bishop in cash as a yearly rental. In other places, the parson, the vicar and the erenagh shared the costs of church repairs equally between them. In the Diocese of Armagh the parson received two-thirds of the tithes and the vicar one third. The archbishop and the erenagh impropriated no part thereof because they received the entire income from the termon lands.

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Glitter (Gary Glitter album)

Glitter is the debut studio album by English singer Gary Glitter, produced by Mike Leander, and released by Bell Records. Two tracks, "I Didn't Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock and Roll)" and "Rock and Roll", the latter a song in two parts, achieved success as singles; each spent time amongst the top 40 singles in both the US and UK.

The album featured, in addition to including the two singles, other original songs that generated fan support, including "Rock On!", "Shaky Sue" and "The Famous Instigator", as well as Glitter's versions of "Baby, Please Don't Go" (written and first performed by Big Joe Williams) and "The Wanderer" (first recorded by Dion DiMucci & the Del-Satins). The disc was a best-seller, reaching a high of number eight on the UK Albums Chart.

The album was the first by Glitter to achieve commercial success and presaged his 1973 album Touch Me. The album was also reissued in 1996 as a picture disc that was limited to 5,000 copies, which, along with containing the 12 tracks from the original album, also included four bonus tracks, which were "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)", "It's Not a Lot", "Just Fancy That" and "Thank You Baby for Myself".

2009 re-issue
The album was reissued in 2009 under Airmail Records. This time it contained the 12 tracks from the original album and five bonus tracks: "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)", "Just Fancy That", "I Love You Love Me Love", "Hands Up! It's a Stick-Up", and "Remember Me This Way".

Track listing
Side one
 * 1) "Rock and Roll Part 1" (Gary Glitter, Mike Leander) – 3:04
 * 2) "Baby, Please Don't Go" (Big Joe Williams) – 2:53
 * 3) "The Wanderer" (Ernie Maresca) – 2:44
 * 4) "I Didn't Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock and Roll)" (Glitter, Leander) – 3:22
 * 5) "Ain't That a Shame" (Glitter, Leander, Edward Seago) – 2:39
 * 6) "School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)" (Chuck Berry) – 3:07

Side two
 * 1) "Rock On!" (Glitter, Leander) – 3:32
 * 2) "Donna" (Ritchie Valens) – 4:18
 * 3) "The Famous Instigator" (Glitter, Leander) – 3:24
 * 4) "The Clapping Song" (Lincoln Chase) – 3:13
 * 5) "Shaky Sue" (Glitter, Leander, Seago) – 2:21
 * 6) "Rock and Roll Part 2" (Glitter, Leander) – 3:00

 * Sides one and two were combined as tracks 1–12 on CD reissues.

1996 CD bonus tracks
 * 1) "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)" (Glitter, Leander)
 * 2) "It's Not a Lot (But It's All I Got)" (Glitter, Leander)
 * 3) "Just Fancy That" (Glitter, Leander)
 * 4) "Thank You Baby for Myself" (Glitter, Leander)

2009 CD bonus tracks
 * 1) "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)" (Glitter, Leander)
 * 2) "Just Fancy That" (Glitter, Leander)
 * 3) "I Love You Love Me Love" (Glitter, Leander)
 * 4) "Hands Up! It's a Stick-Up" (Glitter, Leander)
 * 5) "Remember Me This Way" (Glitter, Leander)

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Sexploitation film

A sexploitation film (or sex-exploitation film) is a class of independently produced, low-budget feature film that is generally associated with the 1960s and early 1970s, and that serves largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and gratuitous nudity. The genre is a subgenre of exploitation films. The term "sexploitation" has been used since the 1940s.

In the United States, exploitation films were generally exhibited in urban grindhouse theatres, which were the precursors to the adult movie theaters of the 1970s and 1980s that featured hardcore pornography content. In Latin America (most notably in Argentina), exploitation and sexploitation films had meandering and complex relations with both moviegoers and government institutions: they were sometimes censored by democratic (but socially conservative) administrations and/or authoritarian dictatorships (especially during the 1970s and 80s), and at other times they enjoyed an important success at the box office.

The term soft-core is often used to designate non-explicit sexploitation films after the general legalisation of hardcore content. Nudist films are often considered to be subgenres of the sex-exploitation genre as well. "Nudie" films and "Nudie-cuties" are associated genres.

In the United States
After a series of United States Supreme Court rulings in the late 1950s and 1960s, increasingly explicit sex films were distributed. In 1957, Roth v. United States established that sex and obscenity were not synonymous. The genre first emerged in the U.S. around 1960.

There were initially three broad types: "nudie cuties" such as The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959), films set in nudist camps like Daughter of the Sun (1962) and somewhat more "artistic" foreign pictures, such as The Twilight Girls (1961). Nudie cuties were popular in the early 1960s, and were a progression from the nudist camp films of the 1950s. The Supreme Court had previously ruled that films set in nudist camps were exempt from the general ban on film nudity, as they were deemed to be educational. In the early 1960s, films that purported to be documentaries and were thus "educational" enabled sexploitation producers to evade the censors.

Nudie cuties were soon supplanted by "roughies," which commonly featured male violence against women, including kidnapping, rape and murder. Lorna (1964) by Russ Meyer is widely considered to be the first roughie. Herschell Gordon Lewis and David F. Friedman's Scum of the Earth! (1963) is another film that is cited as among the first in this genre. Other notable roughie directors include Doris Wishman.

In the United States, exploitation films initially played in grindhouse theatres, as well as struggling independent theaters; however, by the end of the decade they were playing in established cinema chains. As the genre developed during the 1960s films began showing scenes of simulated sex. The films were opposed by religious groups and by the MPAA, which was concerned that sexploitation films were cutting into the profits of major film distributors. Customers who attended screenings of sexploitation films were often characterised by the mainstream media as deviant, "dirty old men" and "raincoaters."

In the mid-1960s some newspapers began banning advertisements for the films. By the late 1960s the films were attracting a larger and broader audience, however, including couples rather than the single males who originally made up the vast majority of patrons. The genre rapidly declined in the early 1970s due to advertising bans, the closure of many grindhouses and drive-in theaters and the growth of hardcore pornography in the "Golden Age of Porn." Many theaters which had screened sexploitation films either switched to hardcore pornographic films or closed down.

White coaters
In the late 1960s, American obscenity laws were tested by the Swedish film I Am Curious (Yellow). After the 1969 ruling by the Supreme Court that the film was not obscene because of its educational context,         the late 1960s and early 1970s saw a number of sexploitation films produced following this same format. These were widely referred to as "white coaters," because, in these films, a doctor dressed in a white coat would give an introduction to the graphic content that followed, qualifying the film as "educational." The ruling led to a surge in the production of sex films. Language of Love and other Swedish and American films capitalised on this idea until the laws were relaxed.

In Argentina
In the 1960s Argentine sexploitation films were made within a regular basis. The biggest national stars in that genre were Isabel Sarli and Libertad Leblanc. The genre rapidly declined during the 1980s, particularly with the advent of democracy in Argentina since 1983 onwards, and it disappeared completely in the 1990s, except for some low budget direct-to-video productions.

Although these movies were released in their home country, government censorship at the time (Argentina alternated between democracy and dictatorship for most of the 60s and 70s) was prone to -or had the steady habit of- heavily editing the films before their release, threatening with a full ban if the studio or the director did not comply. Armando Bó, who made several sexploitation and erotic films with his romantic partner and muse Isabel Sarli, is one of the most well-known cases in Argentina of having disputes with the censors who wanted to either put him in jail for making "obscene material" or ban his films, which were released mostly in a truncated form, and with many scenes excised from his movies at the time of their release.

One of the most notorious agents of government censorship during that period was Miguel Paulino Tato, who worked during de jure and de facto administrations as the director of the Argentine Ente de Calificación Cinematográfica (Film Rating Organization). In that capacity, Tato censored—banned or heavily edited—dozens of erotic or sexploitation films (from Argentina and from all over the world) during the 1960s and 1970s; he also banned or cut hundreds of domestic/international films of any kind and genre during the same era, always using the pretext of a righteous and moral fight against either "Marxism", "anti-catholic" or "subversive" movies who were, in his view, trying to "contaminate" the country's values and national identity. Although he exercised a mostly bureaucratic role, Tato was keen on giving interviews to the media describing his far-right authoritarian views and even boasting about being "a nazi" on several occasions. He was also a proud racist, and quite famously said on television, at the time of the Argentinian premiere of Shaft in Africa (1973): "Negros go back to Africa!" ("¡Negros, al Africa!").

Rivalry between Isabel Sarli and Libertad Leblanc
Libertad Leblanc's rivalry with Isabel Sarli -who was, and probably still is, the greatest sex symbol in Argentine cinema- was very conspicuous in the 1960s. They were the two greatest figures of erotic cinema in their home country, competing for the headlines as well as the box office success, and at the same time the contrast between the two, in appearance and in personality (on screen and off as well) couldn't be bigger: Isabel Sarli was a flashy brunette, with generous shapes and natural attributes. Libertad Leblanc was instead rather slim, reportedly had breast implants, dyed her hair platinum blonde, and maintained her distinctive white skin by constantly avoiding exposure to the sun. Sarli had a shy and somewhat innocent personality, and she always exuded a "homely and easy-going" public image; her movies were usually melodramas and comedies with a lot of nudity. In contrast, Leblanc was uninhibited and cunning, and gave a public image of a vamp or a seductress; she was dubbed as "The White Goddess" (La diosa blanca) by the media, and her filmography includes police movies and thrillers.

"La Sarli", as they used to call her, was, as an actress, a product entirely created by Armando Bó, since the Argentine director was not only her longtime lover —Sarli and Bó were never legally married, but lived together as a couple until his death— but also her manager, her film producer and director, and even an authority figure, simultaneously. On the other hand, "La Leblanc", as they also used to call her, had a different background and was already used -from a young age, actually- to make her way on her own, and she was a true self-made woman of her time: she had disputes and argued as equals with producers, directors and distributors; she was her own manager and she co-produced almost all of her films -at a time when no woman did so-, as well as being almost always in charge of the distribution and promotion of her films. In this regard, a Mexican producer, with whom Leblanc made eight films, once told the media that "Libertad Leblanc, when talking about business, has a mustache".

In fact, it was Libertad Leblanc herself who installed the rivalry between her and Sarli in the media, as well as the popular conscience. In order to promote her first film, La Flor de Irupé (1962), Leblanc suggested a promotional poster with a black and white nude and a caption that read: "Libertad Leblanc, rival of Isabel Sarli". Although Isabel Sarli did not say anything at the time, Armando Bó, in a wrathful rapture, accused Leblanc of deviously using Sarli's international fame. Some time later, in a 2004 interview, Leblanc was sincere about the whole affair: “And [Bó] was right; but hey: we didn't spend a dime [on publicity] and everything came out perfectly"; in that same interview, when asked if she really believed there was a true rivalry between Sarli and her, Leblanc replied: "Not in any way. With Armando [Bó] we did have our run-ins because that fame [the publicity controversy] also circulated around the world. But she is divine; very naïve, yes, but she is a gorgeous woman...".

Notable sexploitation directors

 * Andy Sidaris
 * Andy Milligan
 * Armando Bó
 * Carl Monson
 * David F. Friedman
 * Doris Wishman
 * Emilio Vieyra
 * Fred Olen Ray
 * George Harrison Marks
 * Jean Rollin
 * Jesús Franco
 * Jim Wynorski
 * Joseph W. Sarno
 * Joe D'Amato
 * Michael Findlay
 * Radley Metzger
 * Russ Meyer
 * Stanley Long
 * Stephanie Rothman
 * Stephen C. Apostolof
 * Tinto Brass
 * Ted V. Mikels

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Fiona Avery

Fiona Kai Avery (born September 13, 1974) is an American comic book and television writer. Avery was hired as a reference editor for the fifth season of Babylon 5 and later continued in that role for the spin-off Crusade. Avery contributed several scripts for the series, including "The Well of Forever" and "Patterns of the Soul", as well as the unfilmed "Value Judgements" and "Tried and True". Following the cancellation of Crusade, Avery turned to comic book writing, working for Marvel and Top Cow on titles including The Amazing Spider-Man and Tomb Raider. Her more recent work includes three spin-offs of J. Michael Straczynski's Rising Stars (Bright, Voices of the Dead, and Untouchable) as well as Araña, the character created by Avery for Marvel.

Marvel Comics

 * X-Men:
 * Uncanny X-Men Annual '00: "Share" (with Esad Ribić, 2000) collected in X-Men: Eve of Destruction (hc, 808 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-3029-1825-7)
 * Scripted by Avery, plotted by Scott Lobdell.
 * Icons: Rogue #1–4 (with Aaron Lopresti, 2001–2002)
 * Spider-Man:
 * Peter Parker: Spider-Man Annual '01: "It's Good to be King" (with Juan Santacruz, 2001)
 * The Amazing Spider-Man (co-written by Avery and J. Michael Straczynski, art by John Romita, Jr.):
 * The Amazing Spider-Man by J. Michael Straczynski Omnibus Volume 1 (hc, 1,120 pages, 2019, ISBN 1-3029-1706-4) includes:
 * The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2 #55–56 (2003) also collected in Ultimate Collection: The Amazing Spider-Man by J. Michael Straczynski Volume 2 (tpb, 416 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3894-3)
 * The Amazing Spider-Man #503–505 (2004) also collected in Ultimate Collection: The Amazing Spider-Man by J. Michael Straczynski Volume 3 (tpb, 408 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3895-1)
 * Amazing Fantasy vol. 2 #1–6: "Araña" (with Mark Brooks and Roger Cruz (#3–4), 2004–2005) collected as Araña: The Heart of the Spider (digest-sized tpb, 144 pages, 2005, ISBN 0-78511-506-4)
 * Araña: Heart of the Spider (with Roger Cruz, Francis Portela (#7–8, 10), Jonboy Meyers (#11–12), Marvel Next, 2005–2006) collected as:
 * In the Beginning (collects #1–6, digest-sized tpb, 144 pages, 2005, ISBN 0-78511-506-4)
 * Night of the Hunter (collects #7–12, digest-sized tpb, 144 pages, 2006, ISBN 0-78511-506-4)

Top Cow Productions

 * Tomb Raider Archives Volume 4 (hc, 488 pages, Dark Horse, 2018, ISBN 1-5067-0354-2) includes:
 * Tomb Raider: Journeys #1–12 (with Drew Johnson, Gerardo Sandoval (#4), Manny Clarke and Mun Kao Tan (#8 and 12), 2001–2003)
 * Tomb Raider #0 (with Brian Ching, 2001)
 * Tomb Raider: Arabian Nights (with Billy Tan, one-shot, 2004)
 * No Honor #1–4 (with Clayton Crain, 2001) collected as No Honor (tpb, 112 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-582-40321-X)
 * Witchblade: Obakemono (with Billy Tan, graphic novel, 80 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-5824-0259-0)
 * Rising Stars Compendium (hc, 1,008 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-60706-032-9; tpb, 2009, ISBN 1-58240-802-5) includes:
 * Rising Stars: Bright #1–3 (with Dan Jurgens, 2003) also collected in Rising Stars: Voices of the Dead and Bright (tpb, 226 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-58240-613-8)
 * Rising Stars: Voices of the Dead #1–6 (with Staz Johnson and Al Rio (#5–6), 2005) also collected in Rising Stars: Voices of the Dead and Bright (tpb, 226 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-58240-613-8)
 * Rising Stars: Untouchable #1–5 (with Brent Anderson, 2006) also collected in Rising Stars: Visitations and Untouchable (tpb, 208 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-58240-268-X)
 * Cursed #1–4 (co-written by Avery and Tippi Blevins, art by Romano Molenaar, 2003–2004)

Other publishers

 * ThunderCats: Hammerhand's Revenge #1–5 (with Carlos D'Anda, Wildstorm, 2003–2004) collected as ThunderCats: Hammerhand's Revenge (tpb, 128 pages, 2004, ISBN 1-4012-0297-7)
 * Lucky Bamboo Presents: "Hellfire" (with Billy Tan) — "The Way of the Sword" (with Romano Molenaar) — "Sam Falcon" (with Len DiSalvo, self-published one-shot, 2005)
 * The Crown Rose (prose novel — fictionalized account of the life of Saint Isabelle of France, 454 pages, Pyr, 2005, ISBN 1-5910-2312-2)

Filmography

 * Crusade:
 * 1.03 — The Well of Forever, 1999.
 * 1.05 — Patterns of the Soul, 1999.
 * Earth: Final Conflict:
 * 4.08 — Essence, 2000.

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John D. Macomber

John Dewitt Macomber (born January 13, 1928) is an American banker. He is the principal of JDM Investment Group and was the president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States from 1989 to 1992.

Biography
Macomber was a senior partner at McKinsey & Co. until 1973 and chairman and CEO of Celanese Corporation from 1973 until 1986. He exited when the company was acquired by Hoechst AG to become the largest chemical company. Celanese had been ahead of its time in stock buybacks, and Macomber was especially proud that 20% of company stock was "owned by middle managers and ordinary folk who are extraordinarily well off". During the 13 years he led the company, the stock increased in value by 10 times, from $24.50 to $245.

Macomber is also chairman of the Council for Excellence in Government, Rand McNally and Company, and vice chairman of the Atlantic Council. He has retired from serving on the board of directors of Lehman Brothers, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, The Brown Group, Inc., Chase Manhattan Bank, RJR Nabisco, Pilkington Ltd., and Xerox Corporation. In addition, Macomber served on the Lincoln Center board and the International Chamber of Commerce.

Personal life
Macomber was born in Rochester, New York, and served in the US Air Force for two years. He had two older brothers, William Butts Macomber and Robert Macomber. He graduated from Phillips Academy, Yale University in 1950, and Harvard Business School in 1952.

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Accor Arena

Accor Arena (originally known as the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy), also known as Paris-Bercy, is an indoor sports arena and concert hall located in the neighbourhood of Bercy, on the Boulevard de Bercy, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The closest Métro station is Bercy, which also serves the Finance Ministry across the aforementioned boulevard.

Designed by the architectural firm Andrault-Parat, Jean Prouvé and Aydin Guvan, the arena has a pyramidal shape and walls covered with a sloping lawn. It has a seating capacity ranging from 7,000 to 20,300, depending on the event. As part of the 2014–2015 renovations efforts, the arena was renamed Bercy Arena on 1 January 2015. It was again renamed AccorHotels Arena in October 2015, until it received its current name in June 2020. Since 1985, the arena has hosted the annual Festival des Arts Martiaux.

Sports
The Accor Arena is the main venue for the Paris Masters ATP Tour tennis tournament, and hosts the annual LNB All-Star Game basketball event and the Grand Slam Paris judo tournament. It is also used for many other sports events, such as table tennis, handball, basketball, boxing, gymnastics, track cycling and show jumping.

Since 1985, the Accor Arena hosts the annual Festival des Arts Martiaux. The event was founded by Karaté Bushido and showcases martial arts masters from around the world.

POPB (Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy) hosted the European gymnastics championship in 2000, the 1991 and 1996 FIBA EuroLeague Final Fours, and the FIBA EuroBasket championship in 1999, among others. It also hosted the 2009–10 EuroLeague Final Four. It also hosted the Masters Karting Paris Bercy star race, from 1993 to 2001, and again in 2011. It was co-host of the 2017 IIHF World Championship and the FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2021.

The arena hosted the 2017 European League of Legends Championship Series Summer Finals and the 2019 League of Legends World Championship Finals.

On January 24, 2020, it hosted an NBA regular season game between the Milwaukee Bucks and Charlotte Hornets, who would be represented by Frenchman Nicolas Batum. The Chicago Bulls beat the Detroit Pistons 126–108 at the arena on January 19, 2023, during the 2022–23 NBA season. The 2023–24 NBA season will see the Brooklyn Nets play the Cleveland Cavaliers at the arena.

The arena hosted France's first UFC event on 3 September 2022, for UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa. UFC returned to the arena on 2 September 2023 for UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Spivak.

In May 2023, the arena hosted the BLAST.tv Major for the video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, in what would be the final major played on Global Offensive before Counter-Strike 2 was released in September 2023.

The arena is set to be a venue for the 2024 Summer Olympics, hosting the basketball finals and the artistic and trampoline gymnastics events.

Music
The arena is one of the main venues for concerts in Paris. It has hosted numerous French and international performers over the years.

Norwegian band A-ha played 2 concerts at Bercy in 1988. Among those who have performed there the most are French rock singer Johnny Hallyday with 93 solo concerts from 1987 to 2016 and 8 concerts with the group Les vieilles canailles, totalising 101 performances, French singer-songwriter Michel Sardou with 91 concerts from 1989 to 2012, French entertainer Dorothée with 56 concerts from 1990 to 1996 and another in 2010, Canadian singer Celine Dion with 35 concerts from 1995 to 2017, Canadian-born French singer Mylène Farmer with 33 concerts from 1989 to 2013, as well as American singer-songwriter Madonna with 25 concerts from 1990 to 2023. French electronic music duo Daft Punk performed and recorded their performance for Alive 2007 at Bercy. German band Rammstein performed and recorded their performance for Rammstein: Paris at Bercy. American rock band My Chemical Romance also performed at Bercy in June 2022 as part of their Reunion Tour. Five notable Congolese artists have also performed at Bercy: Koffi Olomidé, Papa Wemba, Werrason, JB Mpiana, and Fally Ipupa.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cortez peters

 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 - kept - SimonP 18:25, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Cortez peters
probable hoax Delete carmeld1 14:53, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or speedy as prank/vandalism. What is "keyboarding?"  Is that like water boarding or is it like what Rick Wakeman did or is it typing?  (Yes, I know they mean the latter, but I hate all this verbing going on.) Geogre 15:25, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * delete. although I've seen Rick Wakeman keyboard, if you're going to get arsey about grammar perhaps you should learn that former and latter only apply when there are two alternatives; first, second and last must apply when there are three.  Dunc|☺ 16:40, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * We need to inform the Mormons in a hurry, then, that there are only two days to choose from! (And verbing is still a crime if there is no need for it to happen. Laziness is not need.) Geogre 14:56, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Google to find -, , , , , and about 1,765 other hits. For once, Geogre's Law doesn't work. This isn't a hoax, nor is it a prank or vandalism.  Note that keyboarding is a redirect to typing, which is what is meant by the article. Keep but cleanup. -- Jonel 03:33, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC) (comment modified by Jonel 22:19, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC))
 * Keep; the late Cortez Peters did indeed set a record for typing speed. In fact, I used a book with his name in the title in a keyboarding class I took. HollyAm 04:50, 5 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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Henry Johnson (World War I soldier)

William Henry Johnson (circa July 15, 1892 – July 1, 1929), commonly known as Henry Johnson, was a United States Army soldier who performed heroically in the first African American unit of the United States Army to engage in combat in World War I. On watch in the Argonne Forest on May 14, 1918, he fought off a German raid in hand-to-hand combat, killing multiple German soldiers and rescuing a fellow soldier while suffering 21 wounds, in an action that was brought to the nation's attention by coverage in the New York World and The Saturday Evening Post later that year. On June 2, 2015, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House.

In 1918, the French awarded Johnson with a Croix de guerre with star and bronze palm. He was the first U.S. soldier in World War I to receive that honor.

Johnson died poor and in obscurity in 1929. There was a long struggle to achieve awards for him from the U.S. military. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart in 1996. In 2002, the U.S. military awarded him the Distinguished Service Cross. Previous efforts to secure the Medal of Honor failed, but in 2015 he was posthumously honored with the award. On May 24, 2022, The Naming Commission recommended that Fort Polk in Leesville, Louisiana, be renamed Fort Johnson after Henry Johnson, rather than its previous namesake, Confederate General Leonidas Polk. The post was renamed in Johnson's honor in a ceremony on June 5, 2023.

Early life and education
Johnson stated that he was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on July 15, 1892, when registered for the World War I draft, but he used other dates on other documents and may not have known the exact date of his birth. He moved to Albany, New York when he was in his early teens and worked various jobs, such as a chauffeur, soda mixer, and as a redcap porter at the Albany Union Station on Broadway.

Military career

Henry Johnson enlisted in the United States Armed Forces on June 5, 1917 as a 5-foot-4-inch young man. This was almost two months after the American entry into World War I, joining the all-black New York National Guard 15th Infantry Regiment, which, when mustered into Federal service, was redesignated as the 369th Infantry Regiment, and was then based in Harlem. The 369th Infantry joined the 185th Infantry Brigade upon arrival in France, but was relegated to labor service duties instead of combat training. The 185th Infantry Brigade was in turn assigned on January 5, 1918, to the 93rd Infantry Division.

Although General John J. Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front, wished to keep the American forces autonomous, he "loaned" the 369th to the 161st Division of the French Army. Supposedly, the unreported and unofficial reason he was willing to detach the African-American regiments from U.S. command was that vocal white U.S. soldiers refused to fight alongside black troops. These black regiments suffered considerable harassment by white U.S. soldiers and even denigration by the AEF headquarters, which went so far as to release the notorious pamphlet Secret Information Concerning Black American Troops, which "warned" French civilian authorities of the alleged inferior nature and supposed tendencies of African-American troops to commit sexual assaults. Johnson arrived in France on New Year's Day, 1918.

The French Army needed more men and welcomed the reinforcements. The 369th Infantry regiment, later nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", was among the first to arrive in France, and among the most highly decorated when it returned. The 369th was an all-black unit under the command of mostly white officers, including their commander, Colonel William Hayward. The idea of a black New York National Guard regiment had first been put forward by Charles W. Fillmore, a black New Yorker. Governor Charles Seymour Whitman, inspired by the brave showing of the black 10th Cavalry in Mexico, authorized the project. He appointed Colonel Hayward to carry out the task of organizing the unit, and Hayward gave Fillmore a commission as a captain in the 15th Infantry Regiment, New York National Guard. The 15th New York Infantry Regiment became the 369th United States Infantry Regiment prior to engaging in combat in France.

The 369th got off to a rocky departure from the United States, making three attempts over a period of months to sail for France before finally getting out of sight of land. Even then, their transport, which had stopped and anchored before it could get out of the harbor due to a sudden snowstorm, was struck by another ship due to poor visibility. The captain of the transport, the Pocahontas, wanted to turn back, much to the dismay of his passengers. The by-now angry and impatient members of the 369th, led by Hayward, took a very dim view of any further delay. Since damage to the ship was well above the waterline, the ship's captain admitted that there was no danger of sinking. Hayward then informed the captain that he saw no reason to turn back, aside from cowardice. Hayward's men repaired the damage themselves and the ship sailed on. According to Hayward's notes, they "landed at Brest. Right side up" on December 27, 1917. They acquitted themselves well once they finally got to France. Many months were to pass by, however, before they were to see combat.

The French Army assigned Johnson's regiment to Outpost 20 on the edge of the Argonne Forest in the Champagne region of France, equipping it with French rifles and helmets. While on observation post duty on the night of May 14, 1918, Johnson came under attack by a large German raiding party, which may have numbered up to 36 soldiers. Using grenades, the butt of his rifle, a bolo knife and his bare fists, Johnson repelled the Germans, killing four while wounding others, rescuing Needham Roberts from capture and saving the lives of his fellow soldiers. Johnson suffered 21 wounds during the ordeal. This act of valor earned him the nickname of "Black Death", as a sign of respect for his prowess in combat.

The story of Johnson's exploits first came to national attention in an article by Irvin S. Cobb entitled "Young Black Joe" published in the August 24, 1918 Saturday Evening Post.

Returning home, now-Sergeant Johnson participated (with his regiment) in a victory parade on Fifth Avenue in New York City in February 1919. Johnson was then paid to take part in a series of lecture tours. He appeared one evening in St. Louis, and instead of delivering the expected tale of racial harmony in the trenches, revealed the abuse that black soldiers had suffered, such as white soldiers refusing to share trenches with blacks. Soon afterwards, a warrant was issued for Johnson's arrest for violating the regulations governing wearing his uniform (beyond the prescribed date of his commission). Paid lecturing engagements dried up.

Military awards
The French government awarded Johnson the Croix de guerre with a special citation and a golden palm. He was the first American soldier to receive the award.

In June 1996, Johnson was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart by President Bill Clinton. In February 2003, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Army's second highest award, was awarded to Johnson. John Howe, a Vietnam War veteran who had campaigned tirelessly for recognition for Johnson, and U.S. Army Major General Nathaniel James, President of the 369th Veterans' Association, were present at the ceremony in Albany. The award was received by Herman A. Johnson, one of the Tuskegee Airmen of WWII, on behalf of Henry Johnson, then believed to be his father; the mistake was not clarified until 2015, a decade after the younger Johnson's death, as part of the further research done leading up to the senior Johnson's Medal of Honor.

Medal of Honor
On May 14, 2015, the White House announced that Johnson would receive the Medal of Honor posthumously, presented by President Barack Obama. In the ceremony, held on 2 June 2015, Johnson's medal was received on his behalf by Command Sergeant Major Louis Wilson of the New York National Guard. Obama said, "The least we can do is to say, 'We know who you are. We know what you did for us. We are forever grateful.'"

The official citation reads:

"The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, March 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of Congress the Medal of Honor to

Private Henry Johnson

United States Army

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty:

Private Johnson distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a member of Company C, 369th Infantry Regiment, 93rd Division, American Expeditionary Forces, during combat operations against the enemy on the front lines of the Western Front in France on May 15, 1918. Private Johnson and another soldier were on sentry duty at a forward outpost when they received a surprise attack from a German raiding party consisting of at least 12 soldiers. While under intense enemy fire and despite receiving significant wounds, Private Johnson mounted a brave retaliation, resulting in several enemy casualties. When his fellow soldier was badly wounded, Private Johnson prevented him from being taken prisoner by German forces. Private Johnson exposed himself to grave danger by advancing from his position to engage an enemy soldier in hand-to-hand combat. Wielding only a knife and gravely wounded himself, Private Johnson continued fighting and took his Bolo knife and stabbed it through an enemy soldier's head. Displaying great courage, Private Johnson held back the enemy force until they retreated. Private Johnson's extraordinary heroism and selflessness above and beyond the call of duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit and the United States Army."

Later life and death
Veterans Bureau records show that a "permanent and total disability" rating was granted to Johnson on September 16, 1927, as a result of his tuberculosis infection. Additionally, Johnson suffered approximately 21 different combat injuries, rendering him unable to return to his previous job as a porter. Also, Veterans Bureau records refer to Johnson receiving monthly compensation and regular visits by Veterans Bureau medical personnel until his death.

Johnson died on July 1, 1929, in Washington, D.C., of myocarditis. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on July 6, 1929.

Legacy
In 1919, co-founder of the American Legion Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of former United States President Theodore Roosevelt, referred to Johnson as one of the "five bravest Americans" to have served in World War I.

Interest in obtaining fitting recognition for Johnson grew during the 1970s and 1980s. In November 1991, a monument was erected in Albany, New York's Washington Park in his honor, and a section of Northern Boulevard was renamed Henry Johnson Boulevard.

In December 2004, the Postal facility at 747 Broadway was renamed the "United States Postal Service Henry Johnson Annex".

On September 4, 2007, the Brighter Choice Foundation in Albany, New York, dedicated the Henry Johnson Charter School, with Johnson's granddaughter in attendance.

A 1918 commercial poster honoring Johnson's wartime heroics was the subject of a 2012 episode of the PBS television series History Detectives.

As of December 3, 2014, the national defense bill included a provision, added by Senator Chuck Schumer, to award Johnson the Medal of Honor.

For many years, it was thought that Herman Archibald Johnson was the son of Henry Johnson. In tracking Henry Johnson's genealogy prior to his being awarded the Medal of Honor, however, it was discovered that there was no family connection. The Army was quoted as saying, "While we appreciate the Johnson family fighting for the award and keeping the memory and valorous acts of Henry Johnson alive, we regretfully cannot recognize them as PNOK," or primary next of kin.

In December 2014, the City School District of Albany established a Junior Reserve officers' Training Program (JROTC) at Albany High School named the Henry Johnson Battalion in honor of him. The program currently enrolls over 100 cadets.

In 2017, Albany-area PBS station WMHT aired a documentary about Henry Johnson entitled Henry Johnson: A Tale of Courage.

Johnson's story is recounted in the song Don't Tread on Me (Harlem Hellfighters) by the Ukrainian death metal band 1914 on their album Where Fear and Weapons Meet, released October 22, 2021.

In June 2023, Fort Polk in Louisiana, a U.S. Army base, was renamed for Johnson.

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Joseph L. Gormley

Joseph Leo Gormley (May 22, 1914 – June 6, 2004) was the chief of chemistry and toxicology for the FBI.

Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, he was raised in Somerville, Massachusetts. Gormley received his bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from Boston College. With his wife Frances he fathered and raised nine children.

In 1940, he moved to Washington, D.C., and joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Gormley earned two law degrees from Georgetown University and a master's degree in forensic science from George Washington University.

He spent more than thirty three years with the FBI, investigating some of the agency's most famous cases, including the Great Brinks Robbery in 1950 and the 1964 murders of three young civil rights workers, which became known as the "Mississippi Burning" case. He served as an expert witness in numerous trials, testifying on his knowledge of chemistry, toxicology and arson. For more than 20 years, Gormley supervised a program that developed the use of lie detector tests for investigative purposes.

He retired from the FBI in 1973, and moved temporarily to Maine to direct the Maine State Police Crime Laboratory. After returning to the Washington, D.C., area he worked in the research and training divisions of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. In addition to his work at the IACP, Gormley worked as a consultant for law enforcement matters in his later years. The former president of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Forensic Scientists, Gormley also taught at George Washington University and the University of Maryland College Park. He is remembered as one of the fathers of modern forensic science.

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Talk:Elvis taxon

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This is not a neologism, although I thought it might be. On the other hand, a Google search yields only 4 hits that are not Wikipedia related. Should this page be deleted (or at least merged into the Lazarus taxon article? Blank Verse   ∅  14:59, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I would like to see an etymology of this word. --zandperl 19:42, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Like the editors above me, I find this entry pretty dubious and have nominated it for deletion. There are almost no google hits for this except Wikipedia and its mirror sites. It may be common as some kind of esoteric biologist-slang, but it doesn't seem notable enough for inclusion here. Kafziel 17:25, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

I would like to see this article, or part of it, incorporated into the Lazarus taxon article. Though clearly "Elvis taxon" is not now widely enough used to justify its own entry, it's a very cool term. It expresses its special meaning eloquently, and thus deserves some tiny niche for its preservation, not extinction.

I think it should stay, as it's been already noted it has a very distinc meanig, and if google counts as Kafziel argues, Elvis taxa yields "about 88,100" results ... quite sufficient for me 04:20, 12 March 2006 (UTC)~

I say it has to stay or be merged with Lazarus Taxon as it is a new term (1993) with a very distinct meaning, wich happens to be witty too.

Recent search into it's origin points to: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3790/is_200405/ai_n9377511/pg_10, scroll to paragraph 5).

Does anyone know an example of such taxa? If not, this article seems to be about the useless term and should be deleted (or incorporated with Lazarus taxon).--213.247.213.207 21:40, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Can we wait before user 213.247.213.207 (whoever that is) nominates this article for deletion again? I'm sure lots of examples will turn up in due time. Ramdrake 15:06, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Lobothyris subgregaria seems to be one example.Ramdrake 17:47, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

This article in the Wikipedia store
I've made some merchandise for the Wikipedia store based on this article: [www.cafepress.com/wikipedia/2585365 Elvis Taxon] section. Let me know what you think on the meta page. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 01:04, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Presumed extinction
Prior to my recent edit, the definition was given as a taxon which has been misidentified as having re-emerged in the fossil record after a period of extinction.

No taxon in history has re-emerged after a period of extinction, and no one identifies taxa (wrongly or rightly) as having done this.

I added the word "presumed". Ordinary Person 01:41, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion
Should we mention how Cretaceous plesiosaurs were once thought to be descended from Jurassic plesiosaurs, but, were then discovered to have been descended from Jurassic pliosaurs as another example of an Elvis taxon?--Mr Fink 15:20, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Keep it. You have to look in the right places.
This is a scholarly term, so I tried Google Scholar for "Elvis taxon" in quotes. I have checked these -- -- and there are at least three other articles listed. --Thnidu (talk) 15:28, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Biodiversity dynamics: turnover of populations, taxa, and communities 3 hits
 * Devonian history of diversity of the rugosan Cyathaxonia fauna 4 hits: 1 in the abstract, 3 on p.4, two of them defining the term and its relation to "Lazarus taxon"
 * New floral, sedimentological and isotopic investigation of the Triassic-Jurassic boundary strata in Jameson Land, East Greenland Use and discussion, p. 46
 * End-Cretaceous extinctions P.5, as part of an extensive discussion (pp.3-5) of "Sources of bias in the fossil record"

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Talk:Bliss (virus)

It is not discovered by McAfee, they just read the newsgroups were it was freely avaible (GPL?). There is even an --bliss-uninfect-files-please command line option. Get more info here: http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/bliss/ ~ Thijs @ 01 june 2005

First Linux virus?
I removed "It was the first virus known to infect systems running Linux." since this doesn't seem to be the case. Staog seems to be the first; just do a Google search for first linux virus. Sether 20:32, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * maybe a matter of interpretation, but it may actually have been the first: stoaG had its source release on 20 October 1996 while an early version of Bliss was published already on 29 September 1996, albeit without much negative implications until early 1997.
 * "it is the second known Linux virus" seems to be wrong.--Reseletti (talk) 11:54, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Slight rewrite needed?
"It writes a neat log of all its actions to /tmp/.bliss and even has a --bliss-uninfect-files-please command line option that sometimes might come handy, and actually does what it promises." is a direct duplicate of text in the linked article. Not sure how serious this is. No copyright text in linked page. Other than rewording to say the same thing, dunno what to do about it.

Permissions
"When executed, it attempts to attach itself to Linux executable files, to which regular users do not have access."

I do not know a lot about Bliss, but from what I read, it seemed like the program rather tries to infect all executables that the user has access to, regardless of their location. It can't infect files that the user is not permitted to change, but if the user being infected is running the root account, the virus can infect everything. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.40.128.194 (talk) 17:37, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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"Recently"
"Recently some unexpurgated material has been published."

But actually, it was 20 years ago. 2A02:AA1:1049:26BC:FDEB:295D:8A9D:F951 (talk) 18:02, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

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Candy Darling

Candy Darling (November 24, 1944 – March 21, 1974) was an American transgender actress, best known as a Warhol superstar. She starred in Andy Warhol's films Flesh (1968) and Women in Revolt (1971), and was a muse of the Velvet Underground.

Early life
Candy Darling was born in Forest Hills, Queens, as the child of Theresa Slattery, a bookkeeper at Manhattan's Jockey Club, and James ("Jim") Slattery, who was described as a violent alcoholic.

Darling's early years were spent in Massapequa Park, Long Island, where she and her mother moved after her parents' divorce. She spent much of her childhood watching television and old Hollywood movies, from which she learned to impersonate her favorite actresses such as Joan Bennett and Kim Novak. Darling took a strong interest in the Million Dollar Movie broadcast on television, which she would often watch several times a day. Inspired in part by Novak, Darling began to model her life around "Hollywood glamour-queen prettiness." She had one half-brother, Warren Law II, from her mother's first marriage, to Warren Law. Warren Law II left to serve in the United States military and left Darling as the only child. Law would later deny his connection to Darling.

In 1961, she signed up for a course at the DeVern School of Cosmetology in Baldwin, Long Island. Darling later said that she "learned about the mysteries of sex from a salesman in a local children's shoe store" and finally revealed an inclination towards cross-dressing when her mother confronted her about local rumors, which described Darling as "dressing as a girl" and frequenting a local gay bar called The Hayloft. In response, Darling left the room and returned in feminine clothing. Darling's mother would later say that, "I knew then... that I couldn't stop [her]. Candy was just too beautiful and talented."

After coming out publicly, Darling would take a short cab ride to the Long Island Rail Road station, avoiding the attention of neighbors she would receive by walking to the train. From there, she would take the train to Manhattan, often sitting across from Long Island starlet Joey Heatherton. In Manhattan, she would refer to her family home at 79 First Avenue in Massapequa Park as her "country house", and spent time in Greenwich Village, meeting people through Seymour Levy on Bleecker Street.

Darling met Jeremiah Newton in the summer of 1966, when Newton was on his first trip to Greenwich Village from his home in Flushing, Queens. The two became friends and roommates, living together in Manhattan and Brooklyn until the time of Darling's death in 1974.

Darling first took the name Hope Slattery. According to Bob Colacello, Darling took this name in 1963/1964 after she started going to gay bars in Manhattan and visiting a doctor on Fifth Avenue for hormone injections. Jackie Curtis said that Darling adopted the name from a well-known Off Broadway actress named Hope Stansbury, with whom she lived for a few months in an apartment behind the Caffe Cino. Holly Woodlawn remembers that Darling's name evolved from Hope Dahl to Candy Dahl, then to Candy Cane. Jeremiah Newton said she took the name "Candy" out of a love for sweets. In her autobiography, Woodlawn recalled that Darling had adopted the name because a friend of hers called her "darling" so often that it stuck.

Warhol years
Before they met, in 1967, Darling saw Andy Warhol at The Tenth of Always, an after-hours club. Darling was with Jackie Curtis, who invited Warhol to a play that she had written and directed, called Glamour, Glory and Gold, starring Darling as "Nona Noonan" and a young Robert De Niro, who played six parts in the play.

Warhol cast Darling in a short comedic scene in Flesh (1968) with Jackie Curtis and Joe Dallesandro. After Flesh, Darling was cast in a central role in Women in Revolt (1971).

Women in Revolt was first shown at the first Los Angeles Filmex as Sex. It was later shown as Andy Warhol's Women.

The day after the celebrity preview, a group of women carrying protest signs demonstrated outside the cinema against the film, which they thought was anti-women's liberation. When Darling heard about this, she said, "Who do these dykes think they are anyway? Well, I just hope they all read Vincent Canby's review in today's Times. He said I look like a cross between Kim Novak and Pat Nixon. It's true – I do have Pat Nixon's nose."

Darling worked for a short time as a barmaid at Slugger Ann's, the bar owned by Jackie Curtis's grandmother.

After Warhol
Darling went on to appear in other independent films, including Silent Night, Bloody Night, Wynn Chamberlain's Brand X, and a co-starring role in Some of My Best Friends Are... She appeared in Klute with Jane Fonda and Lady Liberty with Sophia Loren. In 1971, she went to Vienna to make two films with director Werner Schroeter: The Death of Maria Malibran, and another film that was never released. Darling's attempt at breaking into mainstream movies, by campaigning for the leading role in Myra Breckinridge (1970), led to rejection and bitterness.

Her theatre credits include two Jackie Curtis plays, Glamour, Glory and Gold (1967) and Vain Victory: The Vicissitudes of the Damned (1971). Vain Victory was directed by Curtis at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in May/June 1971, and featured many other performers from Warhol's Factory, including Curtis, Ondine, Tally Brown, Mario Montez, Samuel Adams Green, Mary Woronov, Francesco Scavullo, Jay Johnson (twin brother of Jed Johnson), Holly Woodlawn, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Eric Emerson, and Warhol himself.

Darling was in the original 1972 production of Tennessee Williams' play Small Craft Warnings, cast at Williams' request. She starred in the 1973 revival of The White Whore and the Bit Player, a 1964 play by Tom Eyen, at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. The production was bilingual, called The White Whore and the Bit Player/La Estrelle y La Monja, and directed by Manuel Martin Jr. Darling's character, a Hollywood actress known only as "the Whore", was based on Marilyn Monroe. She performed in the English version opposite Hortensia Colorado, and the Spanish version was performed by Magaly Alabau and Graciela Mas. As a review of the play stated, "With her teased platinum hair and practiced pouts, Miss Darling looks like her character and resolutely keeps her acting little-girl-lost. The role-playing aspect works to her advantage. She could, after all, be a male lunatic pretending to be the White Whore."

Illness and death
Darling died of lymphoma on March 21, 1974, aged 29, at the Columbus Hospital division of the Cabrini Health Care Center. In a letter written on her deathbed and intended for her friends at the Factory, including Warhol, Darling wrote, "Unfortunately before my death I had no desire left for life ... I am just so bored by everything. You might say bored to death. Did you know I couldn't last. I always knew it. I wish I could meet you all again."

Her funeral, held at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel, was attended by huge crowds. Julie Newmar read the eulogy. Darling's birth name was never spoken by the minister or any of the eulogizers. Faith Dane played a piano piece, and Gloria Swanson saluted Darling's coffin.

Darling was cremated, and her ashes were interred by Jeremiah Newton in the Cherry Valley Cemetery in Cherry Valley, New York, a village at the foot of the Catskill Mountains.

2010 documentary
A feature-length documentary on Darling, titled Beautiful Darling, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival (or Berlinale) in February 2010. The documentary features archival film and video footage, photographs, personal papers, archival audio interviews with Tennessee Williams, Valerie Solanas, Jackie Curtis and Darling's mother, as well as contemporary interviews with Holly Woodlawn, Ruby Lynn Reyner, Fran Lebowitz, John Waters, Julie Newmar, Peter Beard, and Taylor Mead. Chloë Sevigny narrates the film, voicing Darling's private diary entries and personal letters. The film was directed by James Rasin and produced by Jeremiah Newton and Elisabeth Bentley.

Film

 * Darling was first portrayed on film by Stephen Dorff in I Shot Andy Warhol (1996).
 * Darling is portrayed by Willam Belli in the 2011 HBO film Cinema Verite.

Stage

 * Darling was portrayed by Brian Charles Rooney in Pop!, a musical written by Anna K. Jacobs and Maggie-Kate Coleman and directed by Mark Brokaw at Yale Repertory Theatre in November–December 2009.
 * Darling was portrayed by actor Vince Gatton in the off-Broadway production of David Johnston'sofay Candy and Dorothy, for which Gatton received a Drama Desk award nomination.

Music

 * Darling and her friend Taffy are mentioned in the chorus of the 1967 Rolling Stones song "Citadel".
 * Darling is the subject of the song "Candy Says", the opening track on the Velvet Underground's self-titled album in 1969, written by Lou Reed and sung by Doug Yule.
 * The second verse of Lou Reed's 1972 "Walk on the Wild Side" is devoted to Darling.
 * A still of Darling in the Andy Warhol movie "Women in Revolt" is featured on the cover of The Smiths' single "Sheila Take a Bow".
 * American musician St. Vincent named a song after Darling in her album Daddy's Home, and undertakes a persona inspired by Darling for the album visuals.
 * Darling's name is referenced in the chorus of the Saint Motel song "For Elise."

Visual arts

 * Greer Lankton made a bust of Darling that was displayed at the 1995 Whitney Biennial.
 * Peter Hujar's photo, "Candy Darling on her Deathbed", was used by Antony and the Johnsons for the cover of their 2005 Mercury Music Prize-winning album I Am a Bird Now.

Poetry

 * Kay Gabriel published a book of sonnet-based poetry, Elegy Department Spring, about Darling

Namesakes

 * In 2009, C☆NDY, which calls itself "the first transversal style magazine", debuted. It is named after Darling.
 * Byredo created a candle scent named after Darling.

Biopic
In January 2019, a biopic about Candy was announced. It will be written by Stephanie Kornick and executive produced by Zackary Drucker. The film is being produced by Christian D. Bruun, Katrina Wolfe, and Louis Spiegler. Hari Nef has been cast in the role of Darling.

Biography
In 2024, Cynthia Carr released Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar, a biographical portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar.

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Guns N' Roses
my fascination with GnR is all to well known among the people who know me. i consider [Slash] as my god, and really, almost throughout my guitar playing year, i've improved playing the style he mastered. its amazing! i can't put the whole GnR bio here, so I'll just link you to it!

Check out Guns N' Roses

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