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Ted Ammon

Robert Theodore Ammon (August 30, 1949 – October 20, 2001) was an American financier and investment banker. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was murdered in his home in 2001 by electrician Daniel Pelosi, who was convicted in 2004. Ammon and his wife Generosa Ammon were in the midst of a divorce at the time of his death, and Pelosi was later romantically linked to Ammon's soon-to-be ex-wife. Ammon and his wife had married on February 2, 1986, and had two children, the twins Greg Ammon and Alexa Ammon, who they adopted from the village of Medvedivtsi in the Mukachevo Region of Ukraine in October 1992.

At the time of the murder, the couple were near finalization of their divorce. The custody agreement had been signed on October 18, 2001, and the divorce settlement was expected to be consented to the following week. Four months after Ted's death, Generosa married Daniel Pelosi on January 15, 2002; she died of breast cancer on August 22, 2003.

Early life
Ted Ammon was born to Robert E. Ammon, a pension coordinator from Shenango Furnace Co., Neville Island, and Betty Lee Morris, a homemaker, on August 30, 1949, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ted graduated from Bucknell University. He entered the Bank of America's executive-training program following his graduation from Bucknell. His first wife, Randee Day, was also a member of the program. They married in 1973 and moved to England. Ted passed the New York bar the first time, without taking a law-school class.

Career
After the Ammons moved back to the United States, he secured a position with Lord, Day and Lord. He went to work at the law firm of Mayer, Brown and Platt. One of this firm's clients was the then small investment firm of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. (KKR). In 1983, following his legal work on a KKR deal (and his divorce from his first wife), Ammon was recruited by the private equity firm, which specialized in leveraged buyouts. Ammon served as an associate at Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. from 1984 to 1989 and as a general partner from 1990 to 1992. He worked on many deals, notably the famous $31 billion RJ Reynolds/Nabisco takeover. He joined his colleagues in becoming a multimillionaire and was quoted numerous times in the book Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco. Russ Baker in the May 2002 issue of Gotham said "He was along for the wild ride as KKR grew into one of Wall Street's most aggressive and storied leveraged buyout outfits."

In 1992, Ammon left KKR in order to establish his company Big Flower Press. The firm became a leader in the printing of advertising inserts for newspapers. Ammon's goal was to create relationships with newspapers nationwide and then to provide them with other needed commodities. Big Flower was later renamed Vertis Holdings, Inc. Through more than 30 acquisitions, the firm diversified geographically and became a leading international supplier of integrated marketing services, including high-value printing, advertising, and imaging technology.

Vertis went public in 1995; in 1999, it was acquired by a group of investors, including Ammon, in a private leveraged recapitalization. Ammon served as chief executive officer from the company's inception until April 1997 and as chairman of the board from the company's formation through December 2000. With Vertis facing dramatically changing market conditions (e.g., a high debt multiple and a slowing pace of acquisitions), a mutually advantageous separation/payout agreement was worked out between Vertis and Ammon. During his time at Vertis, Ammon had put together a "deal team" and venture capital program, managing an in-house venture business. He also had set up several holding companies, which held the vast share of his ownership interests.

These ventures directly invested in both public and non-public companies and in such general areas as technology, media, marketing and management services, and the internet. The specific fields of these companies included print and digital technology, diagnostic radiology, long-distance telephone service, and biopharmaceutical innovation.

After leaving Vertis, Ammon oversaw his team's venture capital investments through the entities that he had established. Much of the money that Vertis had paid to Ammon provided seed money for his investments. Two of the most profitable investments were in Moore Corporation Limited, a Vertis competitor, and National Imaging Associates, Inc., a provider of health care services.

Marriage, divorce, and death
While working as a real estate agent, Generosa met Ted Ammon when she called him after he failed to keep an appointment for an apartment she was to show him. They married in 1986 and adopted a twin boy and girl from Ukraine, who they named Greg and Alexa.

Ammon's marriage turned hostile after Generosa found a receipt for a divorce lawyer in his desk. They were days from finalizing their divorce when, on October 22, 2001, he was found stunned then bludgeoned to death in his weekend home in East Hampton. Because their divorce was not finalized and Ammon's will had not been changed, Generosa inherited 50 percent of his estate, in accordance with the will, with the balance going to the Ammon Foundation. On January 15, 2002, Generosa married Daniel Pelosi, then sold the properties she had owned jointly with Ammon.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. was appointed along with Generosa as co-executors of the estate. Ultimately, Generosa's estate inherited Ammon's estate. The estate did not pass until after her death. Pelosi was convicted of Ammon's murder in December 2004, and he was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison; he continues to maintain his innocence.

Charity
With a total net worth of some $100 million, Ammon created the largest scholarship fund at Bucknell University. Subsequently, he complemented this endowed program with a challenge/matching grant, resulting in added incentives for others to contribute to his alma mater. He served on the boards of the Municipal Art Society and the YMCA. He attained the title of chairman at Jazz at Lincoln Center, where he worked closely with Wynton Marsalis.

On October 22, 2012, Greg and Alexa Ammon donated a $1 million gift from the Ammon Foundation to Jazz at Lincoln Center to name the R. Theodore Ammon Archives and Music Library. "Ted considered the archive and music library essential to the integrity of this institution. The Ammon Archives and Music Library will be accessible to students and lovers of jazz the world over", said Wynton Marsalis, managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. "My father's deep commitment to Jazz at Lincoln Center inspired my sister Alexa and I to continue his legacy with this naming gift for the preservation and perpetuation of the music he loved so much. Wynton's vision for The Ammon Archive and Music Library aligns with my father's commitment to enrich people's lives around the world with jazz," said Greg Ammon.

On November 15, 2012, Jazz at Lincoln Center hosted a private ribbon cutting for The Ammon Archives and Music Library followed by the New York City film premiere of Greg Ammon's documentary 59 Middle Lane later that evening. Proceeds from the premiere event benefited Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute.

Funeral
Thousands of people attended a Manhattan memorial service for Ammon in Alice Tully Hall, the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Among the Wall Street people in attendance were Henry Kravis, head of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co, Apollo Capital chief Leon Black, and Roger Altman, Deputy Treasury Secretary under U.S. President Bill Clinton. Ammon's two children sat with the family but without their mother since, at the request of Ammon's sister Sandra, Generosa did not attend.

At the service, Wynton Marsalis honored Ammon with a New-Orleans-style jazz send-off. Before playing the funeral march, Marsalis spoke to the congregation. "We want to know the particulars of death — it repulses us, it calls us, it fascinates us...but only the dead know the facts of death, and they never tell."

Generosa died of breast cancer in August 2003. She left the majority of her estate to the twins, and legal guardianship of them to their nanny Kaye Mayne. Full custody of the twins was awarded to Ammon's sister; they spent the remainder of their childhood with her in Huntsville, Alabama.

David Sutcliffe played Ammon in the TV movie Murder in the Hamptons (also known as Million Dollar Murder).

Inheritance
As Ted had failed to change his will, Generosa inherited the bulk of his estate after he was found murdered. According to an inventory filed with the New York State Surrogates Court, Ammon's estate was valued at $97 million shortly after his death. The document, compiled by his executors J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) detailed Ammon's assets to the last penny. J.P. Morgan took the unusual step of challenging Generosa as co-executor of his estate.

Generosa Ammon
Generosa Ammon (March 22, 1956, Laguna Beach, California – August 22, 2003, New York City) was Ted Ammon's wife. Generosa and her lover Daniel Pelosi were both suspects in Ammon's bludgeoning death, but Generosa died before charges could be brought against her.

Born Generosa Rand LeGaye, she was raised by a single mother, Marie Theresa LeGaye. When Generosa was 10 years old, her mother died. After her mother's death she was raised by various relatives. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1981, and moved to New York to be an artist.

Just four months after Ted's murder, on January 15, 2002, she married her boyfriend Daniel Pelosi, an unlicensed electrician whom she met when he showed up at the doorstep of her Manhattan townhouse because he was told she was hiring workers for a remodeling job. Pelosi married Generosa on January 15, 2002, one day after his divorce from his wife became final.

While dying of breast cancer, she was offered immunity from prosecution to testify against Pelosi before a grand jury, but refused. Before she died, Generosa cut Pelosi out of her will. He later challenged the will and a postnuptial agreement which entitled him to $2 million for legal fees. He was arrested for Ammon's murder on March 24, 2004.

Generosa died on August 22, 2003. She left her estate to her two children, Alexa and Greg; however, their inheritance was only $1 million each "after taxes, attorneys’ fees and funds lost to Pelosi's squandering." Generosa appointed Kathryn Mayne, the children's nanny, as her children's legal guardian. She also bequeathed a life interest in the house where Ammon was murdered to Mayne to raise the twins. In 2005, however, full custody of the twins was awarded to Ted's sister, Sandra Williams.

Daniel Pelosi
Daniel Pelosi (born August 2, 1963) is an American man who is the convicted murderer of Ted Ammon, and he is the widower of Generosa Ammon. Pelosi was born in Center Moriches, New York.

Pelosi met Generosa while seeking work as an electrician. Generosa hired him to supervise the renovation of her townhouse, and they soon began an affair. Pelosi, who was also married, with three children, stayed at Ammon's East Hampton home with Generosa and her two adopted children, and drove Ammon's Porsche Carrera. While police investigated Ammon's murder, Pelosi was arrested for punching a crew member of a tour boat when the crewman refused to serve Pelosi more alcohol. He was then charged with stealing $43,000 of electricity from the Long Island Power Authority.

Prosecutors theorized that Pelosi killed Ammon to ensure his new-found lifestyle. His former girlfriend testified that he enjoyed killing Ammon. His father testified that Daniel had asked him how to get rid of incriminating evidence. Convicted in December 2004, Pelosi maintains his innocence.

He pleaded guilty to witness tampering in his murder trial in exchange for dropping criminal charges against his first wife Tami and his new fiancée, Jennifer. Tami was accused in a separate case of helping Pelosi steal $43,000 in electricity, while his fiancée, bank teller Jennifer Zolnowski, was accused of being his accomplice in the murder. With no charges pending against Zolnowski, she was able to marry Pelosi, and they wed before he began his prison sentence. She gave birth to their son on August 31, 2004.

As of August 2022, Pelosi is incarcerated under Department Identification Number (DIN) 05A2706 at the Auburn Correctional Facility and will be eligible for parole on October 14, 2031, at the age of 67.

Popular culture
In 2005, the Lifetime Movie Network released the movie Murder in the Hamptons. The movie is based on Ted Ammon's death. Pelosi was featured on Dateline NBC in the episode titled "Mystery of the Murdered Millionaire" in 2008. Generosa Ammon was portrayed by Poppy Montgomery.

In 2012, he was featured on a 20/20 episode titled "Revenge for Real: Murder in the Hamptons". In May 2012, the Dr. Phil show, episode titled "High Society Whodunit: Murder in the Hamptons", interviews Pelosi behind bars.

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Zelig (disambiguation)

Zelig is a 1983 Woody Allen film.

Zelig may also refer to:
 * Zelig (name)
 * Zelig Records

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matt Mutino

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was BJAODNed. It's at a sub-page there now. Hedley 01:30, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Matt_Mutino
Nonsense. Very funny though. TomTheHand 04:51, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It is funny.  But nonsense.  (also, the author's tragic misspelling of "choad" has tainted the Matrix.) Nandesuka 04:52, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and ditto.--DNicholls 04:58, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete good for the Uncyclopedia. Hamster Sandwich 06:24, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. One of the funniest things I've ever read. Nonsense. Add to BJAODN. DarthVader 11:38, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Does the Icelandic_Phallological_Museum exist? The article mentions 'Professor Matt Mutino'. DarthVader 11:42, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * This article doesn't mention him, and seems to make it sound like a one-man show. But yeah, it's real...--DNicholls 11:49, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, the person who inserted the Muttino part in the ICPM entry is the same that started the Muttino entry: 69.18.208.67.--DNicholls 11:53, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Phallophobia is real (real=real word), but Matt Muttino doesn't come up under any Google search. And, come on, "head Phallologist" has got to be a joke. --DNicholls 11:56, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah right...well the thing is that the article you have given the link of was written in March 2001, and the Mutino article claims that he joined in November 2001, so that article certainly doesn't discredit the wikipedia article. I would like a source for an article about Mutino before changing my vote to a keep. DarthVader 12:00, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Google has zero hits for "Bencolius erectus", the "quasi-humanoid species" which gone extint due to "its overly large and burdensome penis" (also: pls. compare with homo erectus which got its name because it stood up). Among other things this makes me think that this article is a hoax. But at least it's funny. :) Csobankai Aladar 16:45, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * BJAODN. Most definately. --Blu Aardvark | (talk) 11:40, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Yep BJAODN --malathion talk 23:22, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * BJAODN. But it should be placed in the "best picks" section
 * BJAODN. JamesBurns 06:54, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * BJAODN. Definitely "best picks" section. (unsigned by 68.199.20.156)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Curculioninae

The beetle subfamily Curculioninae is part of the weevil family Curculionidae. It contains over 23,500 described species in 2,200 genera, and is therefore the largest weevil subfamily. Given that the beetle order (Coleoptera) contains about one-quarter of all known organisms, the Curculioninae represent one of the – if not the – most successful radiations of terrestrial Metazoa.

Many weevils of this group are commonly known as flower weevils or acorn and nut weevils, after a food commonly eaten by Curculioninae larvae and imagines — the reproductive organs of plants.

Systematics
This large subfamily is divided into around 30 tribes. Delimitation of the Curculioninae is fairly robust considering its enormous size; there is some dispute, however, in their exact boundary with the Molytinae. The Phrynixini and Trypetidini are also included in the Curculioninae by some authors, but more often they are considered Molytinae; conversely, the Itini are usually placed in the Curculioninae but sometimes in the Molytinae, which are also expanded by certain authors to include, among others, the whole Cryptorhynchinae. These, as well as the Ceutorhynchinae, are sometimes included in the Curculioninae as additional tribes Cryptorhynchini and Ceutorhynchini. And some genera while almost certainly Curculioninae, are too unusual and/or ancient to be easily assigned to a specific tribe.

Features used to distinguish some of the tribes are:

List of tribes
The subfamily Curculioninae consists of the following tribes: Some notable genera are also listed.

 * Acalyptini Thomson, 1859
 * Acalyptus
 * Anchylorhynchus
 * Acentrini Seidlitz, 1890
 * Acentrusini Alonso-Zarazaga, 2005
 * Ancylocnemidini Voss, 1962
 * Anoplini Bedel, 1884
 * Anthonomini Thomson, 1859
 * Anthonomus
 * Brachonyx
 * Camarotini Schönherr, 1833
 * Ceratopodini Lacordaire, 1863
 * Cionini Schönherr, 1825
 * Cionus
 * Cranopoeini Kuschel, 2009
 * Cryptoplini Lacordaire, 1863
 * Curculionini Latreille, 1802
 * Curculio
 * Derelomini Lacordaire, 1865
 * Diabathrariini Lacordaire, 1863
 * Ellescini Thomson, 1859
 * Dorytomus
 * Ellescus
 * Erodiscini Lacordaire, 1863
 * Eugnomini Lacordaire, 1863
 * Meriphus

 * Pactolotypus

 * Geochini Zimmerman, 1994
 * Gonipterini Lacordaire, 1863
 * Gonipterus
 * Itini Reitter, 1913
 * Mecinini Gistel, 1848
 * Mecinus
 * Rhinusa
 * Neosharpiini Hoffmann, 1956
 * Nerthopini Lacordaire, 1865
 * Otidocephalini Lacordaire, 1863
 * Piazorhinini Lacordaire, 1863
 * Prionobrachiini Hustache, 1938
 * Pyropini Lacordaire, 1865
 * Rhamphini Rafinesque, 1815
 * Rhynchaenus
 * Smicronychini Seidlitz, 1891
 * Sphaeriopoeini Kuschel, 2003
 * Storeini Lacordaire, 1863
 * Glaucopela

 * Peristoreus
 * Styphlini Jekel, 1861
 * Pseudostyphlus
 * Tychiini Gistel, 1848
 * Lignyodes
 * Tychius
 * Ulomascini Lacordaire, 1865
 * Misophrice

 * Viticiini Morimoto, 1983

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Howard Carter (Australian preacher)

Howard Julian Carter (10 September 1936 – 28 July 1992) was a Pentecostal Christian religious leader, known for his creation of Logos Foundation in 1969, which in turn established the Covenant Evangelical Church in the mid-1980s.

Biography
Carter was born to Claude and Enid Carter in Auckland, New Zealand. He earned a Diploma of Teaching at the Auckland Teachers College in 1956. After gaining his teaching qualification he worked as a teacher at District High School, Reporoa, New Zealand, in 1960 and 1961. In 1962, he gained a Licentiate of Theology (LTh) from Whitley College, Melbourne, and, in 1965, a Diploma of Ministry from the Baptist Theological College, Auckland. He was a minister at the Manurewa Baptist Church in New Zealand from 1962 to 1968. He awarded himself a Master of Arts degree (Pacific College Theological) in 1987.

1968–1979
In the late 1960s and 1970s, Carter was influential in the charismatic movement's growth in mainstream churches in Australia and New Zealand, regularly organising 'Holy Spirit Teaching Seminars' in Sydney. His teaching was centred on themes of Christ's authority, victorious living and charismatic gifts. The majority of his teachings were distributed through Logos Foundation's "Restore" magazine and short books. Carter was a charismatic leader who became involved with a number of fundamentalist authoritarian Protestant religious groups and churches in Australia and the South Pacific.

Carter moved his family from New Zealand to Australia in 1969. In the mid-1970s he was instrumental in introducing to Oceania the Shepherding Movement and associated discipleship from the now infamous "Fort Lauderdale Five" from Christian Growth Ministries (CGM) in the U.S.A. The movement promoted a pyramid-like authoritarian hierarchy, in which each disciple was accountable to a personal pastor (usually the leader of the 'Household' – the name used for cell groups) for whole-of-life direction and personal decisions, and written covenants were encouraged. All these aspects theologically distanced the Logos movement from the majority of mainstream Protestant Christians.

Doctrines of submission to God's delegated authorities in order to provide promised 'covering' and complete spiritual protection were regularly promoted and were narrowly applied to wives obeying husbands, children obeying parents and disciples obeying leaders. The concept gained momentum over time and was eventually exercised in an almost cult-like manner. Leaders in the movement were required to be addressed by titles 'brother' and 'sister', which had a side effect of distancing them socially even further from the ordinary members in the movement. 'Brother Howard' announced with certainty that he was in "a submitted relationship" to the CGM apostolic group (the Fort Lauderdale Five) of Bob Mumford, Ern Baxter, Charles Simpson, Derek Prince and Don Basham. While these teachings appeared to be biblical and aimed to promote disciplined living, the result for non-leaders was a disempowering of their abilities and a neglect of their individual gifts and insights.

1980–1992
In 1980, the Logos-related churches became the Australian Fellowship of Covenant Communities and in the mid-1980s were renamed the Covenant Evangelical Church. In the early 1980s, Carter led the Logos movement through a shift in eschatology from pre-millenarianism (described as a theology of defeat) to post-millenarianism (described as a theology of victory) of the specific stream of Dominionist, Reconstructionist Theology. Carter's interpretations and teaching became more extreme, and his style more cultish and authoritarian, causing some of his leadership team, including Pastor David Jackson of Christian Faith Centre, Sydney, to leave the movement.

A key member at that time, Colin Shaw, believed that Carter was an anointed man of God and Shaw later became Carter's key agent for outreach and missionary works in Quezon City, Philippines. Logos used a Filipino church, the Christian Renewal Center (a moderate Pentecostal/Charismatic church), as their base to advance and promote their brand of teachings emanating from the Shepherding Movement. With local assistance in the Philippines, Shaw coordinated and sponsored conferences featuring Carter as the lead speaker, under the Christian Renewal Center's name. Filipino Christians with little means and who lived in poverty were encouraged to give from their limited funds into the Logos movement. However, soon after the revelation of Carter's secret lifestyle was revealed, the Filipino wing of Logos dissolved and dispersed back into established local churches.

During this period, Carter lived an extravagant lifestyle which frequently involved first-class air travel to North American and other international locations, staying at five-star hotels, and indulging in many other luxuries that were beyond the means of his loyal supporters. He drove a Mercedes Benz and lived in a large mansion with magnificent views from the Toowoomba escarpment. The Logos Foundation even owned and operated a motel in Canada with Australian staff. The financial affairs of Logos Foundation were shrouded in secrecy from most followers with little or no accountability regarding the vast sums of money that had been accumulated.

In the 1989 Queensland State election, Carter advanced the position that adherence to fundamentalist Christian doctrine was a more important consideration than opposition to the widespread corruption in the conservative Queensland government that had been exposed by the Fitzgerald Inquiry. Carter's campaign was vehemently anti-homosexual and, at times, the death penalty for homosexuals was advocated in accordance with Old Testament Law. An article in The Sydney Morning Herald noted: "Homosexuality and censorship should determine your vote, the electorate was told; corruption was not the major concern". The same article quoted from a letter Carter had written to supporters at the time: "The greenies, the gays and the greedy are marching. Now the Christians, the conservatives and the concerned must march also". An earlier article published in the Herald quoted a Logos spokesman, in reference to the call for the death penalty for homosexuals in order to rid Queensland of them, who stated "the fact a law is on the statutes is the best safeguard for society".

At the peak of his power towards the end of that period, Carter used alleged 'personal revelations from God' to exert enormous influence over the lives of his followers and the direction of the organization. His "revelations" were put on a par with scripture by his followers, and at times were in practice treated as being over and above scripture. That development effectively marked a shift for Logos from being purely a fundamentalist religion, into the overt traits of a cult. The Sydney Morning Herald article in October 1990 quoted disillusioned followers as saying: "...we felt we had lost control over our lives. It was all dictated to us from above and that was very oppressive.  Everything centered around Howard Carter; he had all the power".

By the late 1980s, what remained of the Shepherding Movement worldwide had descended into manipulative relationships, abuse of power and dubious financial arrangements. Carter played these factors skilfully to entrench his own position and ensure the continuation of Logos Foundation. In his 2010 thesis, Hey (2010) identified, "Suggested reasons for Carter's failure have included insecurity, an inability to open up to others, arrogance and over confidence in his own ability".

1990–1991
In 1990, Carter lost control of Logos Foundation as a result of an adultery scandal. Carter's alleged submission and accountability to the Fort Lauderdale Five, who were purported to provide a fail-safe discipleship that would in part protect him from personal failures, was a farce. When Carter was exposed, it became known that he had engaged in "sexual affairs that dated back many years"

Death and legacy
Carter died from eye cancer in 1992 in Toowoomba, Queensland.

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Wadaiko Yamato

Wadaiko Yamato 和太鼓倭　is a Japanese musical group of taiko drummers founded in 1993 by Masa Ogawa. In Japanese, the word 和太鼓 "wadaiko" translates as "Japanese drum" and "Yamato" was the former name of the city of Nara, the group's birthplace.

Since its creation, the group has made over two thousand, six hundred (2600) live performances to over one million people in more than 50 countries in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The group's international debut occurred in 1998 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where the group was awarded the "Spirit of the Fringe" award. The following year, the group embarked on three international tours, covering South America, six countries in Europe, and Israel. On September 28 and 29, 2007 the Wadaiko Yamato musical group performed at the 2007 Universal Forum of Cultures in Monterrey, Mexico.

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I'm not sure what 'Goronya' means, but it's surely no coincidence that the Gorons of Zelda are rock-men that roll around. Also, "Graveler" is Goroon (a long O, thus the same thing as Goron), so there's definitely a word I'm not realizing that refers to a rolling rock guy.

=Absolutely Ridiculous Incorrect Fact= So here is the geodude page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodude

Read this in specific

Geodude most frequently are found in fields and on mountains. It is precisely this that makes people step or trip on them from time to time, thinking they were rocks. Its arms are so strong that it can use them to climb mountains. Many people in winter enjoy Geodude fights, in which they hurl snow-covered Geodudes at each other. Strangely, the Geodudes have no objection towards this.

Totally plausable, right?

Now look at the Golem page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_%28Pokémon%29

Golems are also popular for "Golem fights" during winter, in which people hurl snow-covered Golems at one another.

Weight	661.0 lb (300 kg)

I'm not going to change it though because I'm not an expert on Pokemon 'folklore'.

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Seeliger

Seeliger is a name meaning "blessed man" in German and Yiddish. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Hugo von Seeliger (1849–1924), German astronomer
 * Rudolf Seeliger (1886–1965), German physicist
 * Thomas Seeliger (born 1966), German footballer and coach
 * Wolfgang Seeliger (born 1946), German choral conductor

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I'm also attempting to separate First Tennessee Bank from First Horizon National Corporation. We need to try to eliminate redundancy between the two articles. --Zpb52 01:37, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

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Selig

Selig may refer to:

 * Selig (name)
 * Selig (band), a Hamburg-based German grunge band
 * Selig, Ohio, a community in the United States
 * Selig Polyscope Company, an American motion picture company founded by William Selig
 * Selig's Wild Animal Farm (~1912–1914) in Santa Monica and its successor, Selig Zoo (1915-~1935), in Los Angeles, California

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Nocturnes (Debussy)

Nocturnes, L 98 (also known as Trois Nocturnes or Three Nocturnes) is an Impressionist orchestral composition in three movements by the French composer Claude Debussy, who wrote it between 1892 and 1899. It is based on poems from Poèmes anciens et romanesques (Henri de Régnier, 1890).

"Three Scenes at Twilight"
Based on comments in various Debussy letters and in Léon Vallas's biography, it has generally been assumed that composition of the Nocturnes began in 1892 under the title Trois Scènes au Crépuscule ("Three Scenes at Twilight"), an orchestral triptych. However, the lack of actual manuscripts makes it impossible to determine whether such works were truly related to the Nocturnes.

Trois Scènes au Crépuscule was inspired by ten poems by Henri de Régnier entitled Poèmes anciens et romanesques (published in 1890). Régnier was a symbolist poet, and his poems contain vivid imagery and dreamlike associations of ideas. In a letter to Jacques Durand on 3 September 1907, Debussy writes "I am more and more convinced that music, by its very nature, is something that cannot be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms"; he found suitable material in the imagery of these poems.

Debussy may have begun creating the work for an intended performance in New York City, promoted and sponsored by Prince André Poniatowski, a banker and writer, and a confidant to whom Debussy frequently expressed himself in long letters. The New York performance was to consist of the premiere of Debussy's Fantaisie for piano and orchestra completed two years earlier, a rather traditional work in classical form but a tradition which Debussy in the next two years would reject and musically move away from (resulting in the Fantaisie never being performed or published in his lifetime); his experimental oratorio La Damoiselle élue, from four years prior, also still unperformed as yet; and the Twilight Scenes, which Debussy told the prince were "pretty much finished" even though he hadn't put anything on paper yet. The American concert deal fell through.

Debussy was already working with difficulty on his opera Rodrigue et Chimène, a biography of El Cid; it has been said that he eventually destroyed its complete score because he felt he could no longer write "that kind of music" to "that kind of literature", but his biographer says he merely concealed them and they remained in private collections.

He was also working on another orchestral triptych after a cycle of three poems by another symbolist poet, Stéphane Mallarmé, called L'après-midi d'un faune, that was more in keeping with the new style of music and inspiration Debussy was seeking. He had in fact asked Henri de Régnier, a close associate of Mallarmé, to inform the latter of his interest in setting the poems to a new kind of musical impression. Mallarmé was vehemently opposed to juxtaposing poetry and music and was strongly against Debussy's compositional idea. After Mallarmé heard the completed Prélude based on his first poem, however, Debussy had evidently caused him to completely reverse his belief, as he expressed his astonishment in lavishing praise and admiration in a personal letter to the composer.

Three Nocturnes for solo violin and partitioned orchestra
Meanwhile, Debussy's Scènes au Crépuscule, after Régnier's poetry, were completed in piano score in 1893, but before Debussy had a chance to orchestrate them he attended the premiere performance of his String Quartet in G minor in December, given by the Ysaÿe Quartet led by Belgian violin virtuoso Eugène Ysaÿe. Debussy was impressed and flattered by Ysaÿe's interest in his music and decided to rewrite his Twilight Scenes into a piece for solo violin and orchestra. In 1894, after completing the first movement of his Mallarmé triptych entitled Prélude (to "The Afternoon of a Faun"), he began the recomposition of the Twilight Scenes in a new inspired style, retitling the new version Nocturnes after a series of paintings of the same name by James McNeill Whistler, who was living in Paris at the time.

In September he described the music to Ysaÿe as "an experiment in the different combinations that can be achieved with one colour—what a study in grey would be in painting". Whistler's most famous painting was a portrait of his mother called Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1. Debussy scored the orchestral part of the first of the three pieces for strings alone; the second for three flutes, four horns, three trumpets, and two harps; and the third for the two groupings together. The first version of the Nocturnes seems to be the one described; he later abandoned the idea of the solo violin arrangement when he was unable to get Ysaÿe to undertake the performance.

Following the abandonment of Rodrigue et Chimène in 1893, Debussy had immediately begun work on an opera more to his liking, Pelléas et Mélisande, which occupied him with no small measure of trouble over the next nine years, until it premiered on 30 April 1902. Thus it wasn't until 1896 that he informed Ysaÿe that the music for the Nocturnes had pretty much been completed and he still wanted Ysaÿe to perform the solo violin part.

By 1897, Debussy had decided to dispense with a solo violin part and the orchestral groupings, and simply write all three movements for a full orchestra. He worked for the next two years on the Nocturnes, and once confessed to his friend and benefactor, the publisher Georges Hartmann, that he was finding it more difficult to compose these three orchestral nocturnes than a five-act opera. Wanting to equal the sensation caused by the success of "The Afternoon of a Faun" piece, he drove himself toward an over-perfectionism with the Nocturnes. Having worked on the composition for as long as seven years, constantly revising it and changing its very structure several times, he expected it to live up to his own grand, avant-garde views: "I myself love music passionately; and because I love it, I try to set it free from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art, gushing forth, an [open-]air art, an art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea! It must never be shut in and become an academic art."

- Debussy, in an interview in Comœdia, 1910

Completion and further revision
A full score of the manuscript of the Nocturnes was signed with the completion date of 15 December 1899. The manuscript bears a dedication to Georges Hartmann, who helped to support Debussy financially beginning in 1894. It was published under contract to Hartmann's publisher, under the Eugène Fromont imprint in 1900. This printed score contained dozens of errors.

The first two movements, Nuages and Fêtes, received their premiere on 9 December 1900 in Paris by the Lamoureux Orchestra conducted by Camille Chevillard. The third movement Sirènes could not be staged because the female choir needed for it was unavailable. The complete work was premiered by the same orchestra and conductor on 27 October 1901. Though these initial performances received a cool response from the public, they were more positively hailed by fellow musicians. A review by Pierre de Bréville in the Mercure de France has been translated as saying: "It is pure music, conceived beyond the limits of reality, in the world of dreams, among the ever-moving architecture that God builds with mists, the marvelous creations of the impalpable realms."

For several years after its publication, almost until the day he died, Debussy continued to tinker with the composition, at first making corrections to dozens of errors in his copy of the published score, then moving on to adjusting small passages and fundamentally revising the orchestration. Debussy made many subtle changes to Sirènes to integrate the wordless singing of the women's chorus with the orchestra. Two of these scores exist with Debussy's changes in different colors of pencils and inks, and often these changes are contradictory or simply alternate versions. As Debussy told conductor Ernest Ansermet when the latter asked which were the right ones: "I'm not really sure; they are all possibilities. Take this score with you and use whatever you like from it."

Debussy continued to modify the composition just as he had for the seven years prior to its publication, sometimes just not satisfied or sometimes thinking of a new experiment in sound, a new color combination of instrumental timbres he hadn't heard yet. Many of these changes were finally incorporated into a "definitive version" published in 1930 by Jobert. This version continues to be performed today.

A comprehensive version addressing many more of Debussy's "possibilities" was published in 1999 by Durand, edited and annotated by Denis Herlin. One reviewer states "in this new critical edition for the Debussy oeuvres complètes, all of the most important questions concerning the establishment of a text of the Nocturnes for practical performance have been confidently answered." Herlin has carefully traced and analyzed four printings of the Nocturnes by Fromont, ending in 1922; multiple scores by Jean Jobert between 1922 and 1930; multiple versions of a heavily revised Jobert score appearing between 1930 and 1964; a 1977 edition by Peters of Leipzig; and a study score from Durand.

The Nocturnes were performed as a ballet in May 1913, with Loie Fuller dancing. The Nocturnes are considered one of Debussy's most accessible and popular works, admired for their beauty and for holding new possibilities and wonder upon repeated hearings.

Instrumentation
The piece has the following instrumentation.

 * Woodwinds
 * 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo)
 * 2 oboes
 * 1 cor anglais
 * 2 clarinets
 * 3 bassoons

 * Brass
 * 4 horns in F
 * 3 trumpets in F
 * 3 trombones
 * 1 tuba

 * Percussion
 * timpani

 * cymbals
 * snare drum

 * Voices
 * women's chorus (3rd movement only)

 * Strings
 * 2 harps

 * 1st violins
 * 2nd violins
 * violas
 * cellos
 * double basses

Music
There are three movements, each with a descriptive title.

1. Nuages ("Clouds")

2. Fêtes ("Festivals")

3. Sirènes ("Sirens")

The entire work lasts approximately 25 minutes.

Debussy wrote an "introductory note" to the Nocturnes and each of the individual movements, printed in the programme for the first complete performance in 1901: "The title 'Nocturnes' is to be interpreted here in a general and, more particularly, in a decorative sense. Therefore, it is not meant to designate the usual form of the Nocturne, but rather all the various impressions and the special effects of light that the word suggests."

I. Nuages
The tempo markings are "Modéré – Un peu animé – Tempo I – Plus lent – Encore plus lent."

According to Debussy, "'Nuages' renders the immutable aspect of the sky and the slow, solemn motion of the clouds, fading away in grey tones lightly tinged with white." Biographer Léon Vallas recorded Debussy's comments on the genesis of this piece:"One day, in stormy weather, as Debussy was crossing the Pont de la Concorde in Paris with his friend Paul Poujaud, he told him that on a similar kind of day the idea of the symphonic work "Clouds" had occurred to him: he had visualized those very thunderclouds swept along by a stormy wind; a boat passing, with its horn sounding. These two impressions are recalled in the languorous succession of chords and by the short chromatic theme on the English horn."

II. Fêtes
The tempo markings are "Animé et très rythmé – Un peu plus animé – Modéré mais toujours très rythmé – Tempo I – De plus en plus sonore et en serrant le mouvement – Même Mouvement."

According to Debussy: ""Fêtes" gives the vibrating, dancing rhythm of the atmosphere with sudden flashes of light. There is also the episode of the procession (a dazzling fantastic vision), which passes through the festive scene and becomes merged in it. But the background remains resistantly the same: the festival with its blending of music and luminous dust participating in the cosmic rhythm."

Léon Vallas, in his biography, continues:

"Debussy went on to explain to Poujaud that "Festivals" had been inspired by a recollection of merry-making in the Bois de Boulogne, with noisy crowds watching the drum and bugle corps of the Garde Nationale pass in parade."

III. Sirènes
The tempo markings are "Modérément animé – Un peu plus lent – En animant surtout dans l'expression – Revenir progressivement au Tempo I – En augmentant peu à peu – Tempo I – Plus lent et en retenant jusqu'à la fin."

According to Debussy, "'Sirènes' depicts the sea and its countless rhythms and presently, amongst the waves silvered by the moonlight, is heard the mysterious song of the Sirens as they laugh and pass on.

Whistler and Debussy
The title, Nocturnes, refers not to the musical tradition of the same name but to the "nocturne" paintings of Whistler, who in turn had borrowed the term from music. Debussy's description of the Sirens movement reminded his biographer Léon Vallas of Whistler's "Harmonies in blue and silver". Vallas noted that Whistler "was a favourite with Debussy, and their art has often been compared." The two were mutual influences, with Whistler borrowing from musical vocabulary to name his pictures, while Debussy did something similar in reverse.

Arrangements
The complete work was transcribed in 1910 for two pianos by Maurice Ravel and Raoul Bardac (Debussy's pupil and stepson), and was first performed in 1911. Fêtes was arranged for solo piano by the English pianist Leonard Borwick, and the arrangement has been recorded by Emil Gilels, among others. Fêtes has also been transcribed for large symphonic wind ensemble by Merlin Patterson and William Schaefer.

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Hickory Hideout

Hickory Hideout was a television program for children which was filmed in Cleveland, Ohio on WKYC-TV and aired nationally on NBC O&Os from 1981 to 1991.

The show was hosted by Cassie Wolfe and Wayne Turney and featured puppet squirrel characters ("Nutso" played by Nancy Sander and "Shirley" played by Linda A. Wells), and other characters, including Buzz Buzzsaw and Cecelia C. Seesaw.

Despite its lighthearted setting, it addressed psychological issues that children face and was a change from the usual lineup of Saturday-morning cartoons.

Wayne S. Turney won an Emmy Award for his work on Hickory Hideout.

Kathryn Hahn, a Cleveland native, had her first TV appearance on the show. The show also featured a young Matthew James Murphy, who went on to perform in the Broadway musical Rent.

At the time of the program's production, WKYC-TV was an NBC owned-and-operated station. From 1986 until the program's conclusion in 1991 Hickory Hideout was also broadcast on other NBC-owned stations, including WNBC-TV in New York City; WRC-TV in Washington, D.C.; WMAQ-TV in Chicago; KCNC-TV in Denver; and KNBC in Los Angeles.

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1800 in archaeology

The year 1800 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

 * Bretby Castle, Derbyshire, England, a 16th-century fortified manor, is partially excavated.

Births

 * August 13 - Ippolito Rosellini, Tuscan Egyptologist (d. 1843)
 * October 8 - Jules Desnoyers, French geologist and archaeologist (d. 1887)
 * December 24 - Ferdinand Keller, Swiss archaeologist (d. 1881)
 * Charles Masson, born James Lewis, British explorer of Buddhist sites (d. 1853)

Deaths

 * June 28 - Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne, French antiquary (b. 1743)

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Talk:Ichigo Kurosaki

Picture Revamp
I suggest either getting a picture of Ichigo's new Hollow form or waiting until his new mask comes out in the anime and replacing the image from the fight with Grimmjow. It's an outdated image of his Hollow mask, so we should replace it. I also think we should replace the picture of Ichigo at the top of the page: it's pixilated and of low quality. There's better pictures out there, so let's get some!75.157.115.154 (talk) 07:19, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

 * The current picture also helps to show his bankai, so it's not outdated. It would be better to show the images before uploading as it has to have a small resolution.Tintor2 (talk) 12:54, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

 * In the manga, when Ichigo uses his new mask he is also in bankai. Heck, the only time he wears his Hollow mask is when he is in bankai, so when the new mask is revealed in the anime we should switch the picture to keep it current. 75.157.120.15 (talk) 19:00, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

 * The first time his outfit is destroyed, and in the following ones are black and white pages.Tintor2 (talk) 22:22, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * True... I guess we wait until the "Everyone vs Aizen arc" for an updated Mask + Bankai pic. 75.157.120.15 (talk) 17:36, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

So should we replace the Hollow mask and bankai picture now? Theres more updated ones available. 207.216.197.154 (talk) 06:48, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Only if it is a small resolution, but I hardly see the point just because the mask design changed for the fourth time, and it's barely different.Tintor2 (talk) 11:15, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Barely different? Going from ten black/dark red stripes to two vertical black bars is a pretty big change to me.  Or do you mean in terms of what it does?  In that case, I coincide that you are correct. 207.216.197.154 (talk) 06:34, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
 * The second. Moreover, it's still just a white skull mask with details in each case and replacing it just because of a small change is unneeded.Tintor2 (talk) 13:47, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

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