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Joseph Cinqué

Sengbe Pieh (c. 1814 – c. 1879), also known as Joseph Cinqué or Cinquez and sometimes referred to mononymously as Cinqué, was a West African man of the Mende people who led a revolt of many Africans on the Spanish slave ship La Amistad in July 1839. After the ship was taken into custody by the US Revenue-Marine, Cinqué and his fellow Africans were eventually tried for mutiny and killing officers on the ship, in a case known as United States v. The Amistad. This reached the U.S. Supreme Court, where Cinqué and his fellow Africans were found to have rightfully defended themselves from being enslaved through the illegal Atlantic slave trade and were released. The US government did not provide any aid to the acquitted Mende People. The United Missionary Society, a black group founded by James W.C. Pennington, helped raise money for the return of thirty-five of the survivors to Sierra Leone in 1842.

Biography
Cinqué was born around 1814 in what is now Sierra Leone. His exact date of birth remains unknown. He was a rice farmer, and married with three children, when he was sold into slavery to redeem a debt. He was bought by the Vai king Siaka and in 1839 sold to Pedro Blanco, a Spanish slave trader. He was imprisoned on the Portuguese slave ship Tecora, in violation of treaties prohibiting the international slave trade. Cinqué was taken to Havana, Cuba, where he was sold with 110 others to Spaniards José Ruiz and Pedro Montez.

The Spaniards arranged to transport the captives on the coastal schooner La Amistad, with the intention of selling them as slaves at ports along the coast of Cuba for work on sugar plantations. On June 30, Cinqué led a revolt, killing the captain and the cook of the ship; two slaves also died, and two sailors escaped. The Africans took Ruiz and Montez, the merchants who had purchased them, as prisoners and demanded that they direct the ship back to Sierra Leone. Instead, at night, the pair directed the navigator in the opposite direction, toward the Americas, in the hope of attracting the attention of one of their fellow Spaniards who would save their ship and regain control. The ship had an uneven course between the coasts of the United States and Africa. After about two months, La Amistad reached United States waters near Long Island, New York. Members of the USS Washington boarded the vessel. When they discovered what had happened (as told by the Spaniards), they charged the Africans with mutiny and murder. The ship and the Mende were taken to New Haven, Connecticut, to await trial.

The two Spaniards claimed that the Africans had been born in Cuba and were already slaves at the time of their purchase, and were therefore legal property. Interpreters from Mende to English were found, who enabled the Africans to tell their story to attorneys and the court. Cinqué served as the group's informal representative.

The district and circuit courts found in favor of the Africans; the Spanish parties and their government appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. In March 1841, the Supreme Court ruled that the Africans mutinied to regain their freedom after being kidnapped and sold illegally. The advocacy of former U.S. President John Quincy Adams, together with Roger Sherman Baldwin, was critical to the Africans' defense. The court ordered the Africans freed and returned to Africa, if they wished. This decision was against the protests of President Martin Van Buren, who worried about relations with Spain and implications for domestic slavery.

Cinqué and the other Mende reached their homeland in 1842. In Sierra Leone, Cinqué encountered civil war. He and his group maintained contact with the local mission for a while, but Cinqué left to trade along the coast. Little is known of his later life, and rumors circulated. Some maintained that he had moved to Jamaica. Others held that he had become a merchant or a chief, perhaps trading in slaves himself.

The latter charge derived from oral accounts from Africa cited by the twentieth-century author William A. Owens, who claimed that he had seen letters from AMA missionaries suggesting Cinqué was a slave trader. More recently historians such as Howard Jones in 2000 and Joseph Yannielli in 2009 have argued that, although some of the Africans associated with the Amistad probably did engage in the slave trade upon their return, given the nature of the regional economy at the time, the allegations of Cinqué's involvement seem implausible in view of the lack of evidence, and the unlikelihood of a conspiracy of silence leaving no traces.

Samuel Pieh, a great-great-grandson of Sengbe Pieh and language coach for the 1997 Amistad film, stated that Cinqué became a key figure in Sierra Leone and helped to Christianize the country.

In popular culture

 * In Amistad, the 1997 film depicting the events of the mutiny and trial, Cinqué was portrayed by the Beninese-American actor Djimon Hounsou in what would prove to be his breakout role.
 * A sculpture of Cinqué, depicted at various points throughout the Amistad affair, stands outside City Hall in New Haven, on the former site of the prison in which he and the other Amistad captives were held.

 * A golden sculpture of Cinqué is located outside the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut, where the first part of the Amistad series of trial and appeals was held.
 * Robert Hayden's poem Middle Passage incorporates accounts of the revolt on La Amistad and the subsequent trial.
 * The likeness of Sengbe Pieh appears on Sierra Leone's 5000 leone banknote.
 * American composer Anthony Davis wrote an opera, Amistad (1997), based on these events. It premiered at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
 * J. Ivy references Cinqué in his feature on the Kanye West song "Never Let Me Down".

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Talk:Hydrophobia

Hydrophobia afflicted persons, please respond for symptom comparison;

hydrophobia = aquaphobia
interchangeably with aquaphobia. i have always been under the imp#Confusion_between_aquaphobia_and_hydrophobression that the word 'hydrophobia' is reserved for the condition observed in rabies sufferers, or for the chemistry term. please correct me if i'm wrong! riana 06:00, 4 June 2006 (UT

i was just wondering whether it is strictly corC). rect to state that hydrophobia can be used I rather think this is an issue with common vernacular, much as 'irregardless' is a word in use though it doesn't actually mean anything. At this point, 'aquaphobia' has been removed from the article, though I think it should still be in there. JSacharuk 23:14, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

It contradicts what is said in Aquaphobiaia. Maybe it could be left there together with a note about it being a common mistake, or a link to the aforementioned section in aquaphobia. --AZnonymous 14:34, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

If you have a hydrophobia you will get mad...and you start to harp other creatures or other peoeple.....

hydrophobic paint
Saw it on Daily Show moment of zen and found some articles...
 * http://inhabitat.com/hydrophobic-paint-takes-the-piss-out-of-public-urination-in-st-pauli/
 * http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/03/13/hamburgs-world-changing-invention-when-peeing-in-public-watch-out-for-walls-that-pee-back/
 * http://www.inquisitr.com/1901786/its-peeback-time-walls-that-bounce-back-liquid-helped-a-german-town-dissuaded-public-urination-video/

If this is real it would be cool to have an article. 64.228.88.197 (talk) 10:25, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

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The Astronaut's Wife

The Astronaut's Wife is a 1999 American science fiction thriller film directed and written by Rand Ravich, in his feature directorial debut. It stars Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron.

The film was released on August 27, 1999. It received negative reviews from critics.

Plot
Spencer Armacost is an astronaut working for NASA, and his wife Jillian is a second-grade teacher. While he and Alex Streck are walking in space on a mission, an explosion knocks out their communication with the command center.

They land safely, but when their spouses arrive to see them they are in the hospital; both are asleep until they recover. Armacost eventually wakes up without problems, but Streck has a medical emergency requiring him to have an electrical cardioversion. Neither speak about the in-flight emergency. Armacost accepts a position with a New York-based company, McLaren. At a farewell party, Streck's aggressive behavior catches Jillian's attention before he suddenly dies from what NASA attributes to a stroke. Streck's wife, Natalie, electrocutes herself in the bath with a radio.

In New York at a party, Jillian asks Spencer to tell her about the space walk incident. He answers vaguely, and then has aggressive sex with her. Soon afterward, she finds out she is pregnant with twins. She tells the doctor that earlier in her life, after her parents died, she sought psychiatric care because she started to see her loved ones dead, including herself.

Sherman Reese has been terminated from NASA because he continued to insist that something was wrong with Spencer, though all tests came back normal. Reese confronts Jillian to warn her, and she leaves in fear, wanting to believe he is crazy but knowing he is right about Spencer being different. Jillian calls Reese and he tells her that Natalie was pregnant with twins at the time of her suicide. Jillian asks what the autopsy showed about the twins and Reese tells Jillian that he needs to meet her in person to show her. Spencer intercepts him, and he goes missing. As a backup plan, he has sent her a key to a self storage locker that has a VHS video cassette that explains that there was a signal in space near Spencer and Streck when they lost contact with NASA. He believes the signal was an alien that wanted to get to Earth and traveled as a radio wave through space, taking over Spencer's body. He believes it will use her twins to pilot the McLaren plane that it is designing that disables warfare machinery. Jillian attempts a medical abortion but is thwarted by Spencer who slaps her. She throws herself down a flight of stairs and wakes up in the hospital. Spencer tells her that the twins survived the fall and intimidates her to keep silent about what had happened.

In a dream, Jillian sees her sister, Nan, killed by Spencer when she questions why he has Reese's briefcase. Jillian leaves the hospital on her own but Spencer follows her because of his connection with the twins inside her. At home, Jillian barricades the door and goes into the room where she dreamed her sister was killed. She sees her body on the floor, but then it is gone, presumably a vision. When Spencer breaks his way into the apartment, she has flooded the kitchen floor with water, with a radio in the sink and an extension cord plugged into the wall. She holds the ends of the cords in each hand and tells Spencer to stay away from her. She notices bloody nail marks on Spencer's hand and she knows that her sister really is dead, as she dreamed. She tells Spencer she does not know who he is, that he killed her sister and her husband. He tells her he did, and that he lives inside of her now. Water begins pouring down from the ceiling, as Jillian turned on all of the water in the bathroom upstairs. Spencer is engulfed in the water, Jillian lifts her feet off the wet floor, connects the cords and electrocutes the alien. The alien leaves Spencer's body and transmits into Jillian.

Jillian has remarried and her twin sons are off on their first day of school. Her sons look back before boarding the bus with a look on their face before they smile and are on their way. Jillian assures the stepfather that he is now their father.

Production
In May 1997, it was reported that New Line Cinema had acquired Rand Ravich's screenplay The Astronaut's Wife with Ravich slated to make his directorial debut on the film, which was described as a psychological horror in the vein of Rosemary's Baby. New Line President Michael De Luca acquired the screenplay following interest from several competing studios including Columbia Pictures. In August of that year, it was announced Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp were in negotiations to play the film's leads.

Box office
The film grossed $4 million in its opening weekend, and finished with $10.7 million; it made an additional $8.9 million in foreign markets, bringing its total box office gross to $19.6 million.

Critical response
Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 15% based on 59 reviews, with an average rating is 4.26/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Despite the best efforts of its talented leads, The Astronaut's Wife moves at a snail's pace and fails to generate enough intrigue to keep viewers engaged." Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 37 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "D" on an A+ to F scale.

Joe Leydon of Variety wrote, "Rosemary's Baby gets an extraterrestrial twist in The Astronaut's Wife, an aggressively stylish but dramatically flaccid drama that plays like an upscale reprise of a '50s sci-fi potboiler," while Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly rated it C+ and wrote, "The movie is far from incompetent; it simply has too few surprises to justify its indulgent atmosphere of malignant revelation." Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the direction was better than she expected but the writing was "ridiculously derivative," while Mick LaSalle of The San Francisco Chronicle stated, "The movie might not be perfect, but it deserved better than to be dumped into theaters. I rather enjoyed it." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times described it as "a moderately diverting thriller that builds suspense and entertains effectively".

Awards
The Astronaut's Wife was nominated for Best Film at the Sitges - Catalan International Film Festival in 1999.

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Merge into Critique of Pure Reason, obviously. Charles Matthews 19:17, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

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Time Is the Key

Time is the Key is the fourth album by Pierre Moerlen's Gong. It was released in late 1979 by Arista Records.

Featuring an all-instrumental jazz-driven sound, notable for the prominent use of vibraphone, it has little to do with the psychedelic space rock of Daevid Allen's Gong, even though the two bands share a common history.

It features the English jazz keyboard player Peter Lemer on most tracks, their only album to do so, and Allmusic notes that there is also a progressive rock influence on the album, especially on the first two track.

Personnel

 * Pierre Moerlen's Gong
 * Pierre Moerlen – drums, vibraphone, gong, electravibe, marimba, glockenspiel, tympani, darbuka, synthesizers (7, 8)
 * Hansford Rowe – bass (3 - 11), acoustic guitar (5) , bass synthesizer (11)
 * Bon Lozaga – guitar (3 - 11)
 * Former Pierre Moerlen's Gong
 * Allan Holdsworth – lead guitar (9 - 11)
 * Additional personnel
 * Darryl Way – violin (1)
 * Joe Kirby – double bass (1, 2)
 * Peter Lemer – keyboards (3 - 11), Polymoog (6 - 10)
 * Nico Ramsden – lead and rhythm guitar (8)

Produced by Pierre Moerlen

Production credits

 * Engineering – John Rollo
 * Mastering – Ray Staff at Trident
 * Photography – Jay Myrdal and Sheila Rock
 * Sleeve layout and design – Steve Ridgeway and Julie Harris
 * Additional engineer – Brian Risner
 * Studio co-ordination – Brian Risner

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Bill Tilman

Major Harold William Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC and Bar, (14 February 1898 – November 1977) was an English mountaineer and explorer, renowned for his Himalayan climbs and sailing voyages.

Early years and Africa
Bill Tilman was born on 14 February 1898 in Wallasey, Cheshire, the son of a wealthy sugar merchant John Hinkes Tilman and his wife Adeline Schwabe (née Rees). He was educated at Berkhamsted Boys school. During the First World War he entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and, on 28 July 1915, he graduated from Woolwich where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Royal Field Artillery of the British Army. Tilman fought at the Battle of the Somme, and was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery. His climbing career, however, began with his acquaintance with Eric Shipton in Kenya, East Africa, where they were both coffee growers. Beginning with their joint traverse of Mount Kenya in 1929 and their ascents of Kilimanjaro and the fabled "Mountains of the Moon" Ruwenzori, Shipton and Tilman formed one of the most famed partnerships in mountaineering history. When it came time to leave Africa, Tilman was not content with merely flying home but rode a bicycle across the continent to the West Coast where he embarked for England.

World War II
He volunteered for service in the Second World War; he first saw action during the Battle of France helping to cover the retreat in Flanders before getting to the beaches at Dunkirk. Tilman then served in North Africa, Iraq and Iran before being called on for special duty in 1943. He then was dropped by parachute into Albania behind enemy lines to fight with Albanian and Italian partisans. For his actions there he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his efforts, and was given the keys to the city of Belluno which he helped save from occupation and destruction.

Mount Everest & Nanda Devi
Tilman was involved in two of the 1930s Mount Everest expeditions - participating in the 1935 Reconnaissance Expedition, and reaching 27,200 feet without oxygen as the expedition leader in 1938. He penetrated the Nanda Devi sanctuary with Eric Shipton in 1934, and in 1936 he went on to lead an Anglo-American expedition to Nanda Devi. With the support of a team which included Peter Lloyd and H. Adams Carter, Tilman and Noel Odell succeeded in making the first ascent of the 7816 m mountain, which remained the highest summit climbed by man until 1950. Tilman later described their arrival on the summit:
 * Odell had brought a thermometer, and no doubt sighed for the hypsometer. From it we found that the air temperature was 20 F but in the absence of the wind we could bask gratefully in the friendly rays of our late enemy the sun. It was difficult to realise that we were actually standing on top of the same peak which we had viewed two months ago from Ranikhet, and which had then appeared incredibly remote and inaccessible, and it gave us a curious feeling of exaltation to know that we were above every peak within a hundred miles on either hand. Dhaulagiri, 1,000ft higher, and 200 miles away in Nepal, was our nearest rival. I believe we so far forgot ourselves as to shake hands on it.

In 1939, Tilman was the first man to attempt climbing in the remote and unexplored Assam Himalaya, exploring the Southern approaches of Gori Chen, 6538 metres, before his team succumbed to malaria. In 1947 he attempted Rakaposhi, then made his way to Kashgar to join up with Eric Shipton in a lightweight attempt on Muztagh Ata, 7546 metres, which nearly succeeded. On his way back to India, he detoured through Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor to see the source of the river Oxus. In doing so, he traversed the Wakhjir Pass now marking the Afghanistan–China border, and is thought to be the last Westerner to have done so. During his extensive exploration of the areas of Langtang, Ganesh and Manang in Nepal in 1949, Tilman was the first to ascend Paldor, 5896 metres, and found the pass named after him beyond Gangchempo.

He was awarded in 1952 the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal for his achievements.

Sailing / mountain exploration
Following his military career behind enemy lines in the Second World War, Tilman took up deep sea sailing. Sailing in deep seas on the Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Mischief, which he purchased in 1954, and subsequently on his other pilot cutters Sea Breeze and Baroque, Tilman voyaged to Arctic and Antarctic waters in search of new and uncharted mountains to climb. On his last voyage in 1977, in his eightieth year, Tilman was invited to ship as crew in En Avant with mountaineers sailing to the South Atlantic to climb Smith Island. The expedition was led, and the boat skippered, by the youthful Simon Richardson. He and his crew aboard the old, converted steel tug made it successfully and without incident to Rio de Janeiro. Thereafter, en route to the Falkland Islands, they disappeared without trace - it was presumed the ship had foundered with all hands.

Chronological summary of expeditions

 * 1929: Tilman is introduced to rock climbing in the Lake District of England.
 * 1930: He ascends Mawenzi and almost ascends Kibo on Kilimanjaro, with Eric Shipton.
 * 1930: He makes first ascent of West Ridge of Batian, and traverses to Nelion, with Shipton.
 * 1932: Tilman ascends Mounts Speke, Baker, and Stanley in the Ruwenzori Range, with Shipton.
 * 1932: In April, he is involved in an accident in the Lake District which leads to the death of J. S. Brogdon.
 * 1932: Later that year, he makes various climbs in the Alps.
 * 1933: Tilman ascends Kilimanjaro (to summit) alone.
 * 1934: Tilman and Shipton, with three others, make the first recorded entrance into the Nanda Devi Sanctuary. They also explore the nearby Badrinath Range.
 * 1935: Tilman unable to acclimatise on the Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition led by Eric Shipton, but climbs various 20,000 ft. peaks in the Everest region.
 * 1936: Tilman attempts various peaks and passes, including the Zemu Gap, in Sikkim, near Kangchenjunga. Later, he leads the first ascent of Nanda Devi.
 * 1937: Shipton and Tilman make a major reconnaissance and surveying expedition in the Karakoram.
 * 1938: Tilman leads another Mount Everest expedition; he and three others reach above 27,300 ft (8,320 m) but fail to reach the summit.
 * 1938: He traverses the Zemu Gap.
 * 1939: He leads an expedition in the remote Assam Himalaya, which ends in disaster. They attempt Gori Chen, but reach only the lower slopes. The party was ravaged by Malaria, causing the death of one member.
 * 1941: Tilman climbs various peaks in Kurdistan.
 * 1942: He makes a night ascent of Zaghouan, in Tunisia.
 * 1947: Tilman leads an attempt on Rakaposhi which explores five different routes, none of which get near the summit. The expedition then explored the Kukuay Glacier on the southwest side of the Batura Muztagh.
 * 1947: He attempts Muztagh Ata, with Shipton and Gyalgen Sherpa.
 * 1948: Tilman attempts Bogda Feng, in northern Xinjiang, with Shipton and two others, but they only reach outlying summits.
 * 1948: He attempts Chakragil, in western Xinjiang.
 * 1948: He travels in the Chitral area of the Hindu Kush.
 * 1949: Tilman leads a four-month exploratory and scientific expedition to the Langtang, Ganesh, and Jugal Himals in Nepal, in the early stages of that country's re-opening to outsiders. He climbs Paldor in the Ganesh Himal.
 * 1950: He leads the British Annapurna Expedition, which gets close to the summit of Annapurna IV, and attempts other nearby peaks.
 * 1950: Tilman and Charles Houston view Mount Everest from the lower slopes of Pumori, on the recently opened Nepalese side of the peak.
 * 1955 – 12 months, 20,000 miles: First voyage in Mischief. Together with Jorge Quinteros he performs the first longitudinal crossing of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field.
 * 1957 – 12 months, 21,000 miles, circumnavigation of the African continent
 * 1959 – 12 months, 20,000 miles, South Atlantic, Iles Crozet
 * 1961 – 4 months, 7,500 miles, West Greenland - Upernavik region
 * 1962 – 4 months, 6,500	miles, West Greenland and Baffin Island
 * 1963 – 4 months, 7,000	miles, Bylot Island, Baffin Bay
 * 1964 – 4 months, 3,700 miles, East Greenland
 * 1964 – 5 months, 10,000 miles, skippering the schooner Patanela to Heard Island in the Southern Ocean
 * 1965 – 4 months, 4,000 miles, East Greenland - Return visit
 * 1966 – 12 months, 20,400 miles, Islands of the Southern Ocean
 * 1968 – 3 months, 2,500 miles, East Greenland, Jan Mayen, Loss of Mischief
 * 1969 – 4 months, 3,400 miles, first voyage in Sea Breeze - East Greenland
 * 1970 – 4 months, 5,000 miles, South West Greenland - Faeringehavn, Julianhaab, Nanortalik, Torsukatak
 * 1971 – 4 months, 5,000 miles, Faroe Islands, Iceland, East Greenland - Angmassalik
 * 1972 – 3 months, 3,000 miles,	East Greenland, Loss of Sea Breeze
 * 1973 – 4 months, 5,000 miles, First voyage in Baroque, to West Greenland.
 * 1974 – 4 months, 7,000 miles, circumnavigation of Spitzbergen
 * 1975 – 4 months, 5,000 miles, West Greenland
 * 1976 – 4 months, East Greenland - Angmagssalik - Reykjavik
 * 1977 - 1 month, Reykjavik-Lymington
 * 1977 – 4 months (?), Carried as crew/navigator on Simon Richardson's En Avant from Southampton to Las Palmas then Rio de Janeiro. Vessel presumed lost at sea en route to the Falkland Islands with loss of all hands.

Sources:

H.W.Tilman, the seven Mountain Travel Books

H.W.Tilman, the eight Sailing / Mountain exploration Books

Books

 * H. W. Tilman: The Collected Edition (Vertebrate Publishing and Lodestar Books, 2016–17), comprising:
 * Snow on the Equator (1937) ISBN 9781909461147
 * The Ascent of Nanda Devi (1937) ISBN 9781909461185
 * When Men and Mountains Meet (1946) ISBN 9781909461222
 * Mount Everest 1938 (1948) ISBN 9781909461260
 * Two Mountains and a River (1949) ISBN 9781909461307
 * China to Chitral (1951) ISBN 9781909461345
 * Nepal Himalaya (1952) ISBN 9781909461383
 * Mischief in Patagonia (1957) ISBN 9781909461161
 * Mischief among the Penguins (1961) ISBN 9781909461208
 * Mischief in Greenland (1964) ISBN 9781909461246
 * Mostly Mischief (1966) ISBN 9781909461284
 * Mischief Goes South (1968) ISBN 9781909461321
 * In Mischief's Wake (1971) ISBN 9781909461369
 * Ice With Everything (1974) ISBN 9781909461406
 * Triumph and Tribulation (1977) ISBN 9781909461420
 * Eric Shipton, The Six Mountain-Travel Books (Mountaineers Books, 1997), ISBN 0-89886-539-5.
 * H. W. Tilman, Mount Everest 1938 (Pilgrims Publishing) ISBN 81-7769-175-9 (contains the Appendix B on the Yeti)
 * H. W. Tilman, Nepal Himalaya (Pilgrims Publishing) ISBN 81-7303-107-X
 * H. W. Tilman, The Seven Mountain-Travel Books (Mountaineers' Books) ISBN 0-89886-960-9, comprising:
 * Snow on the Equator (1937)
 * The Ascent of Nanda Devi (1937)
 * When Men and Mountains Meet (1946)
 * Everest 1938 (1948)
 * Two Mountains and a River (1949)
 * China to Chitral (1951)
 * Nepal Himalaya (1952)
 * H. W. Tilman, Eight Sailing/Mountain-Exploration Books (Diadem Books) ISBN 0-89886-143-8, comprising:
 * Mischief in Patagonia (1957)
 * Mischief among the Penguins (1961)
 * Mischief in Greenland (1964)
 * Mostly Mischief (1966)
 * Mischief Goes South (1968)
 * In Mischief's Wake (1971)
 * Ice With Everything (1974)
 * Triumph and Tribulation (1977)

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Fort Worth Flyover

Fort Worth Flyover is the name of a short IMAX film created for the Omni Theater at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, the first one commissioned by a specific museum. Designed to simulate flying over Fort Worth, Texas in a helicopter, the movie (and later, a 1992 update) is traditionally shown before each Omni Theater feature, in part to acclimatize new viewers to the IMAX format.

History
The original Fort Worth Flyover debuted in 1983 as part of The Legend of the Sleeping Panther, a multimedia presentation on the city's history that accompanied the Omni Theater's first IMAX feature, Hail Columbia! Sleeping Panther was retired at the end of Omni's Hail Columbia! engagement, but the helicopter ride feature was returned due to popular demand.

In 1992, the museum produced an updated version, Fort Worth Flyover II, directed by Ben Shedd; this version continues to be shown before Omni features. This version was shot with the assistance of the CareFlite air ambulance service, using Bell helicopters.

Content
Both Fort Worth Flyovers are shot by helicopter and feature aerial views of the city, primarily the downtown area. The original film ends with a shot of downtown from a vantage point near the museum, including Will Rogers Memorial Center across the street.

Fort Worth Flyover II begins with a leisurely daytime view of the city, as well as a CareFlite air ambulance helicopter flying below. The audience is then zoomed around Fort Worth at night, followed by a similarly speedy daytime view, before hovering over the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History itself. There, a crowd waves and cheers from the roof near the Noble Planetarium's dome (decorated as a volcano for the Omni's 1992 engagement of Ring of Fire).

The building seen in Flyover II was demolished in late 2007 for the new museum campus, but this version continues to be shown before Omni features.

Landmarks
In addition to the museum, Fort Worth buildings that can be recognized in Flyover II include:
 * Tandy Center (now City Place), lit with "TANDY" on one tower and "CENTER" on the other
 * Bank One Tower, a downtown skyscraper, now renovated and reopened as The Tower after extensive damage from the March 28, 2000 tornado
 * Cook Children's Medical Center, the blue roof of which is lit up in the nighttime sequence

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London Town (Wings album)

London Town is the sixth studio album by the British–American rock group Wings. It was released in March 1978, two years after its predecessor, Wings at the Speed of Sound. The album had a long and tumultuous gestation during which the band's tour plans for 1977 were cancelled, due to Linda McCartney becoming pregnant with her and Paul McCartney's fourth child and two members of Wings having departed, leaving the band as a trio comprising Paul, Linda and Denny Laine. Recording sessions were held intermittently over a period of a year, mainly at Abbey Road Studios in London and aboard a luxury yacht in the Virgin Islands.

London Town charted in the top five positions in the UK and the US. It failed to repeat the success of Wings' three previous albums, however, and received mostly unfavourable reviews from music critics. The lead single, "With a Little Luck", was a number 1 hit in the US, but the album's subsequent singles achieved only minor chart success. Also recorded during the sessions was the 1977 non-album single "Mull of Kintyre", which, until 1984, was the best-selling single in UK chart history and remains the UK's best-selling non-charity single to this day.

Background
After the commercial success of 1976, with Wings at the Speed of Sound and the well received Wings Over the World tour, Wings' leader Paul McCartney planned on making 1977 a similar year. In February, Wings began recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios, which continued until the end of March. Wings recorded five songs there: "Girls' School", "Name and Address", "London Town", "Children, Children" and Linda McCartney's "B-Side to Seaside". The last was issued as the flip-side of the single "Seaside Woman" (issued under the name "Suzy and the Red Stripes"). The initial plan that Wings would tour in the US once more was thwarted by Linda's discovery that she was pregnant with her and Paul's fourth child. With the knowledge that they were not going to tour and had time at their disposal – and once again looking for different locales to record in – Wings found themselves moored on a yacht called Fair Carol in the Virgin Islands during the month of May where several new songs were recorded. Reflecting the nautical locale, the album's working title was Water Wings. As Linda's pregnancy progressed, the band halted the sessions for the album, except for the recording of a new track called "Mull of Kintyre" that August and the completion of the already begun "Girls' School". The two songs were released as a single in late 1977 – Wings' only new release that year.

Before the single's release came two defections from Wings: drummer Joe English had become homesick for America and returned home, and lead guitarist Jimmy McCulloch left Wings to join the Small Faces that September. For the first time since 1973's Band on the Run, Wings were down to the core three of Paul, Linda and Denny Laine, as reflected on the picture sleeve of the single.

In November, two months after the birth of the McCartneys' son James, and shortly after sessions for London Town resumed, the Scottish tribute "Mull of Kintyre" was released to enormous commercial success. The song became the UK's biggest-selling single, outstripping the Beatles' largest seller "She Loves You". Although it would be topped in 1984 by Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", "Mull of Kintyre" still ranks as the UK's fourth biggest-selling single and the largest selling non-charity single.

Recording for London Town was completed with some final overdubbing in January 1978.

Release
The single "With a Little Luck" was released as a lead single from the album on 31 March and became a number 1 hit in the US.

The song "Girlfriend" from the album was subsequently covered by American pop star Michael Jackson on his 1979 album Off the Wall.

In 1993, London Town was remastered and reissued on CD as part of the Paul McCartney Collection series. "Mull of Kintyre" and "Girls' School" were added as bonus tracks.

Denny Laine included versions of "Children Children" and "Deliver Your Children" on his 1996 album Wings at the Sound of Denny Laine.

Reception
London Town received generally unfavourable reviews from music critics. The Globe and Mail noted that "Wings remains one of the most consistently ineffective rock bands around... The records are nice when McCartney strums his guitar and sings songs to his kids but when Wings takes on heavy sounds it just doesn't work". The New York Times wrote that "the music is prime McCartney ... his ear for tunes and for classically simple yet clever arrangements remains acute, and the result here is often delightful".

In the charts, it peaked at number 4 in the UK and number 2 in the US, where it sold over one million copies and went platinum. The album was certified platinum in Australia on the day of its release.

After a strong start initially, however, London Town lacked the staying power of Wings' previous releases. The album's follow-up singles, "I've Had Enough" and the title track, became relatively minor hits. The album marked the end of Wings' commercial peak and the beginning of a minor commercial slump for McCartney.

Aftermath
Paul McCartney was reportedly displeased with Capitol Records in the US, where "Mull of Kintyre" was ignored by radio programmers; its B-side, "Girls School", reached only number 33 on the US charts. He was further dismayed at what he viewed as Capitol's lacklustre promotion for London Town. With his contract at an end, he signed up with Columbia Records for North America (remaining with EMI elsewhere in the world) and would stay there until 1984, before returning to Capitol in the US.

Track listing
All songs written by Paul McCartney, except where noted.

Side one
 * 1) "London Town" (Paul McCartney, Denny Laine) – 4:10
 * 2) "Cafe on the Left Bank" – 3:25
 * 3) "I'm Carrying" – 2:44
 * 4) "Backwards Traveller" – 1:07
 * 5) "Cuff Link" – 2:03
 * 6) "Children Children" (McCartney, Laine) – 2:20
 * 7) "Girlfriend" – 4:31
 * 8) "I've Had Enough" – 3:02

Side two
 * 1) "With a Little Luck" – 5:45
 * 2) "Famous Groupies" – 3:34
 * 3) "Deliver Your Children" (McCartney, Laine) – 4:17
 * 4) "Name and Address" – 3:07
 * 5) "Don't Let It Bring You Down" (McCartney, Laine) – 4:34
 * 6) "Morse Moose and the Grey Goose" (McCartney, Laine) – 6:27

Additional tracks on 1993 CD reissue
 * 1) "Girls' School" – 4:38
 * 2) "Mull of Kintyre" (McCartney, Laine) – 4:42

Personnel

 * Paul McCartney – lead vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, drums (4, 5, 7, 9), percussion, violin (6, 14), flageolet (13), recorder (6), Gizmotron
 * Denny Laine – vocal (lead vocals on "Children Children" and "Deliver Your Children"), guitars, bass, flageolet (13), recorder (6), percussion
 * Linda McCartney – vocals, keyboards (1, 2, 4-9, 12, 14), percussion
 * Jimmy McCulloch – electric guitar (1, 2, 8, 10, 12, 14), bass, percussion
 * Joe English – drums (1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10-14), percussion (2, 13), harmonica (6)

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Paradox (John Kay and Steppenwolf album)

Paradox is the eleventh studio album by the band Steppenwolf now known as John Kay and Steppenwolf. It was released in 1984 (see 1984 in music) on the Black Leather Music label. It was originally released only in Canada and Australia. Bassist Gary Link replaced Welton Gite on this album. It also marked a return to recording at American Recording Studios, last used to record For Ladies Only in 1971.

Track listing

 * Side one
 * 1) "Watch Your Innocence" (Jackie DeShannon, Duane Hitchings) – 3:15
 * 2) "Nothin' Is Forever" (John Kay, Steven Palmer, Michael Wilk) – 3:37
 * 3) "You're the Only One" (Kay) – 5:11
 * 4) "The Fixer" (Kay, Palmer) – 2:53
 * 5) "Give Me News I Can Use" (Kay) – 3:46
 * Side two
 * 1) "Only the Strong Survive" (Jerry Lynn Williams) – 3:36
 * 2) "Ain't Nothin' Like It Used to Be" (Kay) – 3:52
 * 3) "Slender Thread of Hope" (Kay) – 4:47
 * 4) "Tell Me It's All Right" (Kay, Palmer) – 3:43
 * 5) "Circles of Confusion" (Kay, Palmer) – 3:26

Jon Kay and Steppenwolf

 * John Kay – vocals, guitar
 * Michael Palmer – lead guitar, backing vocals
 * Gary Link – bass, backing vocals
 * Steven Palmer – drums, percussion, vocals
 * Michael Wilk – keyboards, programming

Additional musicians

 * Jackie DeShannon – backing vocals
 * Phil Seymour – backing vocals
 * Brett Tuggle – backing vocals
 * Duane Hitchings – instrumental contributions

Technical

 * Richard Podolor – producer
 * Bill Cooper – engineer


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Bluemont

Bluemont may be:

 * Bluemont, Virginia
 * Bluemont, Arlington, Virginia
 * Bluemont Junction Trail
 * Blue Mont Central College
 * Bluemont Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
 * Bluemont Historic District
 * Bluemont Junction

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Talk:Brave (Marillion album)

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"relatively weak predeccessor" - surely this is a matter of subjective opinion (one I actually happen to share), but I believe Holidays in Eden got a higher UK chart position than Brave.

It seems obvious to me that the girl in the Brave album has a borderline personality structure. She has 100% of the characteristics. Does anybody beside me has ever made that observation? 209.104.75.198 (talk) 13:06, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

There seems to be no real foundation (citing sources etc) for the statement that Radiohead "copied" the concept, the way of recording or taking musical cues from this record. These are pretty big statements and seem more inspired from a fan-based point-of-view than actual fact. To validate such statements one should at least include some remarks made by the artists (Radiohead) involved or some other source close to that band. --88.74.46.8 23:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Bill Tilman

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 * Some resources for the article: http://www.comlay.net/tilman

POV: last two paragraphs
I like this article until the last two paragraphs. They go pretty far away from NPOV. At best, statements like these need to be explicitly sourced. Most of it should probably just go. Comments? -- Spireguy 04:20, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It sounds like an obituary, and is not encylopaedic, is it? It may, however, be true. His biographies do point out these characteristics, so perhaps it could be reworded to describe his personality as seen by his fellow travellers? docboat 09:30, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * If his biographies do include material like this, then it could be reworded as you suggest, if it is explicitly sourced. Right now it is not, so I'm going to move it to this talk page: -- Spireguy 16:20, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Assessment
He has been described by some as a self-indulgent risk-taker impervious to the sensitivities of others; one who had little time for those who didn’t live up to his high standards and expectations; and he was even accused of disliking women. In reality, these labels were grossly inaccurate, for he was in fact a very shy, private man who was self-effacing and hated publicity. He was a deep thinker, an avid reader of the classics, and although he never married, he adored his sister and two nieces with whom he lived when not on some distant shore.

Tilman had a great sense of humour, perhaps too subtle for many of his listeners. It was one of his greatest joys to laugh at himself, and see the funny side of life's little foibles. An example is his 'discovery' of Tilman's Disease, characterized as "the inability to put one foot before the other". He wrote seven books about his mountain travels, and eight books on his years sailing to extreme climates. One of the last 'gentleman adventurers', Bill Tilman's stoic and courageous exploits have earned him a place of honour as one of the greatest in the pantheon of explorers.

Misleading box?
What seemed to be misleading about the box? It gave a nice summary - any factual issues? Other problems? docboat 05:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * no comment to message above, so reverting docboat 08:07, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Recent links?
Any comments from others on the links recently added by User:Daveglen? There are self-promotion and conflict of interest issues, but I didn't want to just revert. Anyone? -- Spireguy (talk) 03:11, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, self-promotion indeed. But I wonder if they stand as a reference on their own rights? I would not delete yet, but I will make a comment on this guy's page. docboat (talk) 04:21, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I have cleaned out the references to Dave Glen's 'biography', which has been 'sold' under several different titles since 2003 but has not yet been delivered. The same applies to the 'DVD' from the same source. I've also added the chronological list of voyages which had not previously appeared in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Comlay (talk • contribs) 23:05, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Bibliography Mess
Both Glenn's and Shipton's books should not appear within the subject's Bibliography. This is reserved for books he wrote himself. Eric Shipton's books most surely figure as a reference to Tillman's life and should appear there. Glenn's is the third biography written, and does not appear in print: it is an ebook, and should be clearly indicated as such. I note that he has since surrendered his Wikipedia identity. I thank him for the photographic contribution prior to his demise. The collected works are just that: collections. From a historical and biographical viewpoint the books he wrote deserve to be listed chronologically, then mention should be made of the subsequent issue of the collected works' publications. I shall make these changes shortly if I hear nothing to contradict me. Pip Pip! Pafcwoody (talk) 02:25, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

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Mount Osceola

Mount Osceola is a 4340 ft peak within the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Located in the White Mountain National Forest, the mountain is named for Osceola, the early-19th century Seminole leader. It is the highest peak in the Waterville Valley region.

Osceola can be ascended from the Greeley Pond Trail to the northeast of the mountain, which requires crossing the East Peak of Osceola first, or from the Tripoli Road to the south. There was a fire lookout tower at the top of the mountain, which significantly expanded the view from the peak, but it was taken down in the late 1970s. Views from the summit cover a large portion of the White Mountains, extending from Mount Washington in the northeast to the town of Waterville Valley in the south.

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Republic of Morac-Songhrati-Meads

The Republic of Morac-Songhrati-Meads is the fictional micronation in the Spratly Islands established by British naval captain James George Meads in 1877, according to the quixotic claims of a confidence man, Morton F. Meads.

Morton F. Meads
Morton Meads was a U.S. Army Soldier, discharged in Manila in 1946, for illegally engaging in various personal business ventures, mainly in the re-sale of army surplus.

Meads' tale tales of his so-called birthright "Kingdom of Humanity" were captured in the local Philippine newspapers, which then caught the attention of the local Philippine military authorities. Meads was later arrested on criminal and civil charges for his business ventures, although these charges were later dropped. Regardless, Meads' fanciful storytelling sparked the motivation of powerful Filipino businessmen, such as Tomas Coloma, to race towards claiming the South China Sea Islands for the Philippines, such as the Spratlys.

History
The republic's history begins with Morton Meads' supposed British forebear, Captain James George Meads, who laid claim to the Spratly Islands in 1877. Captain Meads was exploring the South China Sea on the Modeste and laid claim to the islands and took the name King James I. Descendants of Meads have continued to posit legitimacy over the islands, and ownership of the islands' resources.

Kingdom of Humanity
A rival entity called the "Kingdom of Humanity" formed in 1914 under the leadership of Franklin M. Meads, the son of James George. The two rival factions continued their claim on the islands during World War II, when they were occupied by Japanese troops. Franklin died in 1945, and his son Josiah took over leadership ; Josiah himself died soon after. His son, Morton F. Meads, was to succeed but was deemed too young.

Legal attempts at legitimacy
The Kingdom faded into obscurity over the next decade until 1972, when the then-ruling Morton Meads unsuccessfully petitioned the United Nations, Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China, and the Philippines to recognise the Kingdom and its claims. Later that year, the remainder of the Kingdom's governing body drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Philippines during Typhoon Ora, except for Meads.

The Kingdom reappeared in 1985 when Meads sued the United States and others for $25 billion, claiming "unfair competition, harassment, [and] sabotage." The case was not heard.

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Nevada State Route 165

State Route 165 (SR 165) is a state highway near the southern end of the U.S. state of Nevada. The road connects the town of Nelson to U.S. Route 95. The road originated in the 1940s and was one section of former State Route 60 until the 1970s.

Route description
SR 165 begins at a junction with US 95 approximately 10 mi south of Boulder City. From there, the state highway follows Nelson Road in a southeasterly direction through Eldorado Valley 11 mi to its end just outside the town of Nelson. The town of Nelson was established in 1905 following several mining claims being discovered in the valley. Although the small community is still inhabited, the remains of many mining operations and abandoned structures can still be seen in the vicinity.

History
The route first appears on state highway maps in 1941 as part of State Route 60, a three-pronged route with each spoke connecting to the town of Nelson. The 16 mi northwest leg connected to US 95 about 4 mi south of Boulder City while the 10 mi southwest leg reached US 95 further south via the Nelson Cutoff Road. The third leg of SR 60 ran east from Nelson 7 mi to the Colorado River. Both the northwest and eastern legs of the route were completely paved by 1951.

State Route 60 remained largely unchanged until the Nevada began renumbering of its state highway system on July 1, 1976. The northwest leg of old SR 60 was renumbered to State Route 165 in this process, and by this time was realigned to be only 12 mi long. The remaining legs of SR 60 have since gone unnumbered.

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User talk:Dementedd

I rule. Dementedd 19:32, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. JeremyA 19:41, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Shop me one instance of PATENT NONSENSE that I have created. Dementedd 19:43, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. LizardWizard 21:37, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

VfD
Hey there. First off, since no one else has been good enough to say it: Welcome to Wikipedia!

I'm sure you mean well, and I'm actively trying to defend some of your pages, but you MUST let the VfD process continue in its normal course. Removing VfD tags from your pages will result in speedy deletions, and that's the LAST thing you want. A Vote for Deletion is not meant as an attack, and does not mean that your submission will be deleted. It's just that someone wants it brought up for a vote. Feel free to vote in good faith. -Harmil 22:34, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, no. The ruling is that you must have 100 edits from the start of your vote. I also notice that you have been performing vandalism, so this makes it even less likely your vote will not be discounted. However, you have every right to add a comment. HTH. HAND. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:23, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

 * You are now blocked till the end of the VfD. - Ta bu shi da yu 08:35, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. -- Rhobite 05:03, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

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Charles Henry Harrod

Charles Henry Harrod (16 April 1799, Lexden, Colchester – 31 March 1885, Chiswick Urban District) was an English business tycoon, involved in the retail trade. He is known best as the founder of the world renowned Harrods Department Store in London, which is known especially for its food halls, sales of luxury foreign foods and its fashion and beauty departments. Harrods also retails its own exclusive brand.

Early life
At a young age, Harrod worked as a miller in Clacton, but in 1834 he relocated to London where he began selling groceries in Stepney.

Harrods
During the 1840s he rented a small shop on Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, which became known as "Harrods". The shop sold groceries and only had a turnover of about £20 per week, during the 1850s when Knightsbridge became one of the most fashionable parts of London.

In 1860 Charles sold the business to his son, Charles Digby Harrod. The trade of Harrods continued to increase and by 1868 the shop had sixteen staff and the turnover had increased to £1,000 per week. Harrod concentrated on encouraging wealthy people to visit his store and provided a personalised service for important customers. He also managed to increase trade by introducing his own brand of groceries packaged in the colours of the Union Flag.

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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Thorpe

Thorpe
removed with (1/8/1) on 13 July 2005; original end 19:25 17 July 2005 (UTC) I have been with Wikipedia since the beginning of this year and have never gone away from the project. I make minor edits but do occasionally make new articles; (EA Canada) is one of my latest articles here at Wikipedia. I also help out at the Simple English Wikipedia but not as much as this one. I come on to the site nearly everyday so I will be very active on some days. • Thorpe • 19:25, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Support
 * 1) Support. This should be no big deal. JuntungWu 05:16, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) Oppose. Not really enough evidence of good interaction with others. The replies given on his talk page are so brief and brusque as to be on the thin edge of politeness, and one of them was only answered today despite being posted in April. One example says just "never mind" as a clear dismissal and others don't indicate a tendency to engage in a friendly manner. There's an alarming lack of use (and lack of proper use) of the edit summary, too and some odd choices over what constitutes major (e.g. inserting an image) and minor (e.g. removing a link), both of which could be controversial actions. Whilst I don't think golden prose maketh an admin, the selected pages on his user page are all stubs or slightly-more-than-stubs and I'd like to see some sort of deeper contribution. Finally, there is a very small amount of work in the Wikipedia: and talk: spaces and thus, I think, insufficient interaction in the more spiky parts of the 'pedia at the moment (esp. when coupled with the sparse, brusque talk page). This all sounds like I hate him despite not having 'met' him. I don't mean it like that at all; being the first 'oppose', I figured I should just be thorough. In short: come back in a while, having patched the gaps I mentioned, and with a higher, more balanced edit count, and I'll be supportive. -Splash 22:08, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I had forgotten to sign the one from April - that is why. • Thorpe • 09:13, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Oppose. Like Splash I see a sparse use of edit summaries, and Thorpe's interactions with other users seem a bit on the gruff side (example).  He also fails to display a particular commitment to janitorial tasks, which I feel is very important for an admin. --Canderson7 22:36, July 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose for now. Concur with Splash's comments.  Still seems a bit too "green". -- M P er el ( talk 01:14, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose. I agree that this user has yet to reach the level of experience that adminship demands, as per the comments above. Regarding edit summaries: while at times justification of an action is given, more often than not, the user fails to summarize what edits have actually been made, and although there can be seen an improvement in marking edits as minor, or major, some instances are still questionable. Perhaps it would be good to peruse: Minor_edit, Edit_summary, and Edit_summary_legend may be useful as well. The answers to the candidate questions suggest that the user, while may have good intentions, only has a vague knowlegde of Wikipedia procedures. Potentially suitable for sysopship, but not at the current time. Seeaxid 04:00, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Oppose. I agree with much of what has been said.  -- JamesTeterenko 04:12, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Oppose. Three months short of my support threshold for potential admins.  Denelson83  09:42, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Oppose because of the talk page and lack of edit summaries. (I don't have a "time since joining" restriction; those are way too rigid.) --Idont Havaname 00:54, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Oppose, admins need much better user interaction capacities. --Sn0wflake 02:36, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Neutral "I saw on the Usertalk for Thorpe you saw his username vandalize several pages. He responded with "my username was hacked". He nominated himself for adminstratorship and I voted in support but I was wondering if you could clear up whether he was responsible or this was a case of mistaken identity. thanks. freestylefrappe 21:58, July 10, 2005 (UTC)"
 * 1) I queried User:DanielCollins:
 * I wrote that message because I saw some clear vandalism from a known user, Thorpe. I dug just a little to find a number of pages had been vanadalised in a very short window of time, so I sent the message. I presumed it wasn't the real Thorpe (I wondered if Thorpe remained logged on while some other person did some mischievous edits), as Thorpe's history indicated reliable contributions. But there's no way for me to know, and I haven't investigated since. Cheers, Daniel Collins 15:06, 11 July 2005 (UTC).

Until this is explained I'm neutral. freestylefrappe 20:56, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Comments
 * 1023 article edits, 1679 in all. freestylefrappe 21:53, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. Vandalism will always be a problem and we must not let it destroy this free project. I frequently revert pages and then check through the vandal's IP address (user contributions) to see if he/she has made any further changes which could be more vandalism. I would help there a lot I think.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. I am indeed pleased with many articles thanks to help of other users and myself. I have created new articles for Wikipedia and have spent hours for each one. I also help out in article that I know a lot of and once my edit is complete I feel I have definitely done a good job for the people using Wikipedia.
 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
 * A. I believe someone kept reverting back to a vandalised page so I made a revert but the person went and reverted it to the vandalised page - so, I just left it to avoid any arguments and to not get myself temporarily banned (three revert rule). Users are friendly here and they always respond to my comments so I do think Wikipedia is like my home on the internet.

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The Southlanders

The Southlanders was a Jamaican and British vocal group formed in 1950 by Edric Connor and Vernon Nesbeth.

Nesbeth had received singing lessons from Connor, and when the latter decided to record an album of Jamaican songs, he asked Nesbeth to assemble a vocal backing group. Besides Nesbeth, other members of the group were Frank Mannah, and brothers Harold (Harry) and Allan Wilmot. Songs from Jamaica (Argo RG33) was released in 1954 with the group credited as "The Caribbeans". Connor persuaded the group to appear with him in cabaret in London's Celebrity Restaurant to promote the album.

During the following year, the group was briefly known as "The South Londoners" and "The Southerners", but when they made their second recording providing harmony vocals to Connor on Songs from Trinidad (1955, Argo RG57), the group had settled on the name The Southlanders. They later recorded a third album with Connor.

The group's biggest commercial hit, and its only appearance in the UK Singles Chart, was their 1957 cover version of "Alone", which sold more than one million copies. "Alone", released by Decca Records, entered the Chart on 22 November 1957 and spent 10 weeks in the chart, peaking at number 17 on 28 November.

The group's final single, "Imitation of Love", was released in 1961.

The song the group is most identified with is "I am a Mole and I Live in a Hole" (also known as "Mole", "The Mole" and "The Mole in a Hole"). The title line from the song was spoken by the group's bass voice Harry Wilmot, father of Gary Wilmot. Harry Wilmot died in 1961, when his son was six years old. The song failed to make the UK Singles Chart in 1958, but has been performed at every Southlanders' event since its release. Group founder Vernon Nesbeth said that the group tried to take the song out of their set but that club managers and audiences insisted upon hearing it. "It's become protected. Untouchable. We've even sung it in Japanese," said Nesbeth.

When its profile began to wane, the group performed in cabaret on cruise ships and in hotels until it disbanded. Nesbeth semi-retired in January 2004 to reside in Spain; he died on 6 March 2017 in Torrevieja. Allan Wilmot retired and resided in South London. He died on 20 October 2021, at the age of 96.

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User talk:Tdslappy

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Emma Watson
Thank you for cleaning up this article, and welcome to Wikipedia. Cheers. «» Who ? ¿ ? meta 16:16, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Regarding The Confederates
Thanks for contributing the article about The Confederates! I have made some minor changes to bring it inline with some of the other barbershop articles I've worked on. Let me know if you have any questions! — HorsePunchKid →龜 2005-12-15 07:21:26Z

Your question at Village pump (technical)
I think I've answered it. Just leaving you a note, as you asked it 4 days ago. Conscious 12:31, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Mujib FAC
Hi Tdslappy - please revisit your opinion. In the article Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, every fact is verifiable and most are cited. There is no need to add citations to every 1-2 sentence, and cumulatively there are more than 50 citations in the article. This Fire Burns.....Always  17:08, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi - I've just added a bunch of refs from an online book source for the "Criticism" section. Please take a look. This Fire Burns.....Always   18:46, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Also, the "order" of citations is correct - the "a,b,c" notation system is used for multiple citations from one source. This Fire Burns.....Always   18:52, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

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