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Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw may refer to:

Academia and science

 * Robert Shaw (physicist) (born 1946), American physicist
 * Robert Sidey Shaw (1871–1953), president of the Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1928–1941

Arts and literature

 * Robert Shaw (actor) (1927–1978), English actor
 * Robert Shaw (blues musician) (1908–1985), American blues and boogie-woogie pianist
 * Robert Shaw (conductor) (1916–1999), American conductor
 * Robert Shaw (poet) (born 1933), British poet, jazz musician, and pioneer of poetry-and-jazz fusion
 * Robert J. Shaw (1917–1996), American television writer
 * Robert Gottschall (1915–2005), American actor also known as Bob Shaw and Robert Shaw
 * Bob Shaw (1931–1996), Irish science fiction writer
 * Bob Shaw (production designer), American production designer
 * Rob Shaw (filmmaker), American animator, and director of music videos, commercials, and short films

Business

 * Robert Gould Shaw II (1872–1930), wealthy Massachusetts landowner
 * Robert Gould Shaw III (1898–1970), son of Robert Gould Shaw II
 * Robert Shaw (business writer) (born 1950), business author and consultant on the field of marketing

Civil service

 * Robert Shaw (judge) (1907–1972), United States federal judge
 * Robert Fletcher Shaw (1910–2001), Canadian businessman, academic, and civil servant

Military

 * Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863), Union Army colonel during the American Civil War
 * Robert Shaw (Royal Navy officer) (1900–1995), English Royal Navy officer and cricketer

Politics

 * Robert Shaw (Canadian politician) (1845–1882), politician from Prince Edward Island, Canada
 * Robert Shaw (Illinois politician) (1937–2021), Illinois politician
 * Robert Shaw (Ohio politician) (1904–1985), Ohio state senator, 1967–1972
 * Robert L. Shaw (1865–1930), politician from Alberta, Canada
 * Sir Robert Shaw, 1st Baronet (1774–1849), Member of Parliament

Gridiron football

 * Bob Shaw (end) (1921–2011), American football end and coach in the United States and Canada
 * Bob Shaw (wide receiver) (born 1947), American football wide receiver
 * Bobby Shaw (born 1975), American football wide receiver
 * Robert Shaw (American football) (born 1956), American football offensive lineman

Other sports

 * Bob Shaw (athlete) (born 1932), British Olympic hurdler
 * Bob Shaw (baseball) (1933–2010), American baseball player
 * Bob Shaw (golfer) (born 1944), Australian golfer
 * Bob Shaw (footballer) (1870–?), Scottish footballer
 * Robert Shaw (footballer) (born 1955), Australian rules footballer
 * Robert Wilson Shaw (1913–1979), Scottish rugby union player
 * Robert Shaw (wheelchair tennis) (born 1989), Canadian wheelchair tennis player

Other

 * Robert Shaw (bishop) (died 1527), Scottish monk and prelate
 * Robert Barkley Shaw (1839–1879), British explorer

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Predictive learning

Predictive learning is a machine learning technique where an artificial intelligence model is fed new data to develop an understanding of its environment, capabilities, and limitations. The fields of neuroscience, business, robotics, computer vision, and other fields employ this technique extensively. This concept was developed and expanded by French computer scientist Yann LeCun in 1988 during his career at Bell Labs, where he trained models to detect handwriting so that financial companies could automate check processing.

The mathematical foundation for predictive learning dates back to the 17th century, where the British insurance company Lloyd's used predictive analytics models to make a profit. Starting out as a mathematical concept, this concept expanded the possibilities of artificial intelligence. Predictive learning is an attempt to learn with a minimum of pre-existing mental structure. It was inspired by Piaget's account of children constructing knowledge of the world through interaction. Gary Drescher's book 'Made-up Minds' was crucial to the development of this concept.

The idea that predictions and unconscious inference are used by the brain to construct a model of the world, in which it can identify causes of percepts, goes back even further to Hermann von Helmholtz's iteration of this study. Those ideas were later picked up in the field of predictive coding. Another related predictive learning theory is Jeff Hawkins' memory-prediction framework, which is laid out in his book On Intelligence.

Training process
Similar to machine learning, predictive learning aims to extrapolate the value of an unknown dependent variable y, given independent input data x = (x1, x2, …, xn). A set of attributes can be classified into categorical data (immeasurable factors such as race, sex, or affiliation) and numerical data (measurable values such as temperature, annual income, and average speed). Every set of input values is fed into a neural network to predict a value y. In order to predict the output accurately, the weights of the neural network (representing how much each predictor variable affects the outcome) must be incrementally adjusted using stochastic gradient descent to make estimates closer to the actual data.

Once a machine learning model is given enough adjustments and training to predict values closer to the actual values, it should be able to correctly predict outputs of the new data with little error ε, (usually ε < 0.001) compared to the actual data.

Maximizing accuracy
In order to ensure maximum accuracy for a predictive learning model, the predicted values ŷ = F(x), compared to the actual values y, must not exceed a certain error threshold by the risk formula

$$R(F) = E_{xy}$$$$L(y, F(x))$$,

where L represents the loss function, y is the actual data, and F(x) is the predicted data. This error function is then used to make incremental adjustments to the model's weights to eventually reach a well-trained prediction of

$$F^{*}(x) = arg min E_{xy}$$$$L(y,F(x))$$.

Even if you continuously train a machine learning model, it is impossible to achieve zero error. But if the error is negligible enough, then the model is said to be converged and future predictions will be accurate a vast majority of the time.

Ensemble learning
In some cases, using a singular machine learning approach is not enough to create an accurate estimate for certain data. Ensemble learning is a combination of several machine learning algorithms to create a more accurate estimate. Each machine learning model is represented by the function

F(x) = a0+ $$\sum_{m=1}^{M}$$amfm(x),

where M is the number of methods used, a0 is the bias, am is the weight corresponding to each mth variable, and fm(x) is the activation function corresponding to each variable. An ensemble learning model is represented as a linear combination of the predictions from each constituent approach,

{âm} = arg min $$\sum_{i=1}^{N}$$ L(yi,a0+$$\sum_{m=1}^{M}$$amfm(xi)) + λ$$\sum_{i=1}^{N}$$|am|,

where yi is the actual value, the second parameter is the value predicted by each constituent method, and λ is a coefficient representing each model's variation for a certain predictor variable.

Cognitive development
Sensorimotor signals are neural impulses sent to the brain upon physical touch. Using predictive learning to detect sensorimotor signals plays a key role in early cognitive development, as the human brain represents sensorimotor signals in a predictive manner, (it attempts to minimize prediction error between incoming sensory signals and top–down prediction). In order to update an unadjusted predictor, it must be trained through sensorimotor experiences because it does not inherently have prediction ability. In a recent research paper, Dr. Yukie Nagai suggested a new architecture in predictive learning to predict sensorimotor signals based on a two-module approach: a sensorimotor system which interacts with the environment and a predictor which simulates the sensorimotor system in the brain.

Spatiotemporal memory
Computers use predictive learning in spatiotemporal memory to completely create an image given constituent frames. This implementation uses predictive recurrent neural networks, which are neural networks designed to work with sequential data, such as a time series. Using predictive learning in conjunction with computer vision enables computers to create images of their own, which can be helpful when replicating sequential phenomena such as replicating DNA strands, face recognition, or even creating X-ray images.

Social media consumer behavior
In a recent study, data on consumer behavior was collected from various social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, and Pinterest. The usage of predictive learning analytics led researchers to discover various trends in consumer behavior, such as determining how successful a campaign could be, estimating a fair price for a product to attract consumers, assessing how secure data is, and analyzing the specific audience of the consumers they could target for specific products.

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We'll Meet Again

"We'll Meet Again" is a 1939 song by English singer Vera Lynn with music and lyrics composed and written by English songwriters Ross Parker and Hughie Charles. The song is one of the most famous of the Second World War era and resonated with servicemen going off to fight as well as their families and loved ones.

The song was published by Michael Ross Limited, whose directors included Louis Carris, Ross Parker and Norman Keen. Keen, an English pianist, also collaborated with Parker and Hughie Charles on "We'll Meet Again" and many other songs published by the company, including "There'll Always Be an England" and "I'm In Love For The Last Time". The song's original recording featured Lynn accompanied by Arthur Young on Hammond Novachord (an early electronic keyboard), while a rerecording in 1953 featured a more lavish instrumentation and a chorus of British Armed Forces personnel.

The song gave its name to the 1943 musical film We'll Meet Again, in which Lynn played the lead role (see 1943 in music). Lynn's 1953 recording is featured in the final scene of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove – with a bitter irony, as the song accompanies a nuclear holocaust that wipes out humanity. It was also used in the closing scenes of the 1986 BBC television serial The Singing Detective. British director John Schlesinger used the song in his 1979 World War II film Yanks, which is about British citizens and American soldiers during the military buildup in the UK as the Allies prepare for the Normandy landings.

During the Cold War, Lynn's recording was included in the package of music and programmes held in 20 underground radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS), designed to provide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a nuclear attack. The song reached number 29 on the U.S. charts. Lynn sang the song in London on the 60th anniversary of VE Day in 2005.

In April 2020, a charity duet with Katherine Jenkins, released in 2014, reached number 72 on the UK Singles Chart, with proceeds going to National Health Service charities. In May 2020 following the 75th Anniversary celebrations of VE Day, the solo version by Lynn also reached number 55 in the UK chart.

Cultural impact

 * The song has been credited as one of the first to make use of the Hammond Novachord, the first polyphonic synthesizer.
 * Traditionally, this song is played on 5 May as a closure to the Liberation Day Concert in Amsterdam, to mark the end of World War II in the Netherlands, as the monarch leaves the concert on a canal boat.
 * On 5 April 2020, Queen Elizabeth II referenced the song in a rare and ultimately final televised address that aired to Britain and the Commonwealth, where she expressed her gratitude for the efforts people are taking to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic virus and acknowledged the severe challenges being faced by families across the world. The reference spurred covers by West End theatre stars with Lynn and Katherine Jenkins just some months before Lynn died. Jenkins' version was released on iTunes as a benefit for the NHS Charities Together.
 * The song is one of several played in the waiting queue of the Tower of Terror ride at Walt Disney World.

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Go to Sleep

"Go to Sleep" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released as the second single from their sixth studio album Hail to the Thief (2003) on 18 August 2003. It reached number two on the Canadian Singles Chart, number nine on the Italian Singles Chart, and number 12 on the UK Singles Chart.

Composition
The first part of "Go to Sleep" is composed in alternating bars of 4/4 and 12/8. It features a processed "stuttering" guitar sound created by Jonny Greenwood. Radiohead released a live version, recorded in Osaka, for the War Child charity in 2004.

Music video
A CGI animated music video was released for "Go to Sleep", directed by Alex Rutterford. It depicts the singer, Thom Yorke, sitting in a park while people in business suits walk by rapidly. The classical buildings spontaneously crumble and reassemble themselves in modern in style.

UK versions
CD 1 CDR6613
 * 1) "Go to Sleep"
 * 2) "I Am Citizen Insane"
 * 3) "Fog (Again)" (Live)

CD 2 CDRS6613
 * 1) "Go to Sleep"
 * 2) "Gagging Order"
 * 3) "I Am a Wicked Child"

12" 12R6613
 * 1) "Go to Sleep"
 * 2) "I Am Citizen Insane"
 * 3) "I Am a Wicked Child"

US version
CD 52953 released 3 September 2003 by Capitol Records
 * 1) "Go to Sleep"
 * 2) "Gagging Order"
 * 3) "I Am a Wicked Child"

7" R-19218
 * 1) "Go to Sleep"
 * 2) "I Am Citizen Insane"

Canada version
CD
 * 1) "Go to Sleep"
 * 2) "I Am Citizen Insane"
 * 3) "Fog (Again)" (Live)

Personnel

 * Thom Yorke – vocals, guitar
 * Jonny Greenwood – guitar, laptop, toy piano
 * Ed O'Brien – guitar, backing vocals
 * Colin Greenwood – bass
 * Philip Selway – drums, backing vocals

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List of people from Chennai

The following people were born or based their life in Tamil Nadu, formerly known as Madras State:

Arts and language

 * R.K. Narayan (1906–2001), writer
 * Achuthanand Tanjore Ravi (born 1991), photographer

Business

 * Anil Kumar (born 1958), management consultant who pled guilty to insider trading
 * Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google
 * Indra Nooyi, Chairperson & CEO of PepsiCo
 * Shiv Nadar, founder and chairman of HCL Technologies
 * Venu Srinivasan, chairman and managing director, TVS Motors.
 * C Vijayakumar, CEO of HCL Technologies
 * Mallika Srinivasan, chairman and managing director, Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited
 * N. Srinivasan, chairman and managing director, India Cements Ltd.
 * A. Vellayan, chairman, Murugappa Group of Companies
 * M. A. M. Ramaswamy, Chettinad Cements Group of Companies and ex-Pro Chancellor, Annamalai University, Chidambaram.
 * A. C. Muthiah, former chairman, Southern Petrochemicals of India Corporation (SPIC) group of companies
 * Prathap C. Reddy, chairman, Apollo Hospitals
 * Naveen Selvadurai, co-founder of Foursquare
 * Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chairperson and current chairman of TATA Group
 * Keshav R Murugesh, chief executive officer and director of WNS Global Services
 * Rahul Mammen Mappillai, managing director of MRF Limited
 * Kalanithi Maran, chairman and managing director, Sun Group
 * R. G. Chandramogan, chairman of Hatsun Agro Product
 * Dora Metcalf, entrepreneur, mathematician and engineer

Education

 * Munirathna Anandakrishnan, former chairman, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur & Former vice-chancellor, Anna University
 * Bala V. Balachandran, founder, dean and chairman, Great Lakes Institute of Management
 * Madhu Bhaskaran, engineer and professor at RMIT University
 * V. L. Ethiraj, founder, Ethiraj College for Women
 * Jeppiaar, founder, Jeppiaar Educational Trust and founder chancellor, Sathyabama University
 * Ramayya Krishnan, dean of Heinz College and H. John Heinz III, W. W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management science and Information systems at Carnegie Mellon University
 * V. M. Muralidharan, chairman, Ethiraj College for Women
 * Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy, founder, Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan
 * Vallam Sundar, Indian professor
 * Subra Suresh, president of Carnegie Mellon University, former dean of the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, former director of the National Science Foundation

Environment

 * Arun Krishnamurthy, founder, Environmentalist Foundation of India

Films and entertainment

 * Shivaji Ganesan, actor and the first International Award winner of India
 * Rajini Kanth, actor, producer, Screenwriter
 * Kamal Haasan, thespian, director, producer, Screenwriter
 * Vijay, thespian, actor, playbacksinger, IARA (International achievement recognition award winner)
 * Ajith Kumar, thespian and racer
 * Vikram, thespian
 * Suriya, thespian
 * Dhanush, thespian and playback singer and producer
 * A. R. Rahman (born 1966), music composer, winner of multiple awards including two Academy Awards, two Grammys and a Golden Globe
 * Anirudh Ravichander, music composer
 * Ilaiyaraja, Indian music composer and Symphonic Maestro
 * Yuvan Shankar Raja, First Cypress-International-Award Winning Creative music Composer
 * Santhanam, actor
 * Vijay Yesudas (born 1979), playback singer
 * Pete Best (born 1941), early Beatles drummer
 * Mary Hignett (born 1916), actress
 * Engelbert Humperdinck (born 1936), pop singer
 * Ashok Amritraj, Hollywood producer
 * Padma Lakshmi, cookbook author, actress, model and television host
 * Vyjayanthimala, actress
 * Hema Malini, actress
 * Rekha, actress
 * Sridevi, actress
 * Sripriya, actress
 * Srividya, actress
 * Jayasudha, actress
 * Jayabharathi, actress
 * Lisa Haydon, actress
 * S. Janaki, playback singer
 * M. S. Viswanathan, music composer
 * K. V. Mahadevan, music composer
 * S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, music composer, playback singer
 * Sumalatha, actress
 * Lakshmi Narayan, actress
 * Mahesh Babu, actor
 * Allu Arjun, actor
 * Ram Charan Teja, actor
 * Lakshmi Manchu, actress
 * Sundeep Kishan, actor
 * Priya Anand, actress
 * Shruthi Hassan, actress
 * Samantha Ruth Prabhu, actress
 * Keerthy Suresh, actress
 * Olive Rae, soprano and actress
 * Siddharth Narayan, actor
 * Trisha, actress
 * Arvind Swamy, actor and businessman
 * Vijay Sethupathi, thespian
 * Sivakarthikeyan, thespian
 * Shiva Rajkumar, Kannada actor
 * Puneeth Rajkumar, Kannada actor
 * Vidya Vox, Indian YouTuber and musician
 * Rochelle Rao, Indian actress and Miss India international 2012

Directors

 * K.Balachander, Tamil film director
 * Mani Ratnam, Tamil film director
 * S. Shankar, Tamil film director
 * A. R. Murugadoss, Tamil film director
 * Selvaraghavan, Tamil film director
 * Nalan Kumarasamy, Tamil film director
 * Karthik Subburaj, Tamil film director
 * Vetrimaran, Tamil film director
 * Lokesh Kanagaraj, Tamil film director

Religion

 * Jesu Pudumai Doss (b. 1967), Catholic priest, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Canon Law, Salesian Pontifical University, Rome
 * Sri Sabhapati Swami (b. 1840), 19th-century yogi and author
 * Paruthiyur K. Santhanaraman, author of numerous books on religious topics

Scientists

 * Shyamala Gopalan, breast cancer researcher and mother of Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris
 * A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, physics, president of India
 * C.V. Raman, Nobel Prize, physics
 * Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, physics (co-discoverer of Raman scattering)
 * Subra Suresh (see above)
 * Kannan Soundararajan, mathematician
 * John Henry Constantine Whitehead (1904–1960), British mathematician
 * Alan Garnett Davenport, engineer
 * Srinivasa Ramanujan, mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society
 * Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize, physics
 * M. S. Swaminathan, Agriculture Scientist of India

Social entrepreneurs

 * Kirthi Jayakumar

Sports

 * Buchi Babu Naidu- Father of South Indian Cricket.
 * Cotah Ramaswami- Represented India in both International Cricket & Tennis.
 * Ravichandran Ashwin- Cricketer
 * M.Baliah Naidu- Cricketer
 * Aditya Patel (born 1988), Indian professional racing driver
 * Viswanathan Anand (born 1969), chess grandmaster and the undisputed world chess champion from 2007 until 2013
 * Nasser Hussain (born 1968), former English cricketer
 * Dinesh Karthik (born 1985), Indian cricketer
 * Sharath Kamal (born 1982), India table tennis player
 * Hemang Badani, former Indian cricketer
 * Subramaniam Badrinath, former Indian cricketer
 * Krishnamachari Srikkanth (born 1959), former Indian cricketer
 * Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer
 * Murali Vijay (born 1984), current Indian cricketer
 * Sadagoppan Ramesh, former Indian cricketer
 * Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, former Indian cricketer
 * Thirush Kamini, Indian woman cricketer
 * W. V. Raman, former Indian cricketer
 * Washington Sundar, Indian cricketer
 * Vijay Amritraj (born 1953), tennis player, Sports Commentator and actor
 * Anand Amritraj (born 1952), tennis player, businessman
 * Ramanathan Krishnan, tennis player
 * Ramkumar Ramanathan, tennis player
 * Ramesh Krishnan, tennis player and coach
 * Dipika Pallikal (born 1991), squash player, WISPA titles and first Indian woman to break into the top 10 in the WSA rankings
 * Joshna Chinappa (born 1986), squash player, British Squash Championship
 * Karun Chandhok (born 1984), racing driver, Formula One and sports commentator
 * Rajini Krishnan, Indian Motorcycle racer
 * Mahaveer Raghunathan (born 1998), racing driver
 * Edward Foord (1825–1899), cricketer
 * George Gowan (1818–1890), cricketer
 * Jack Pritchard (1895–1936), cricketer
 * Roopa Unnikrishnan, former Indian sports-rifle shooter; Commonwealth Games gold medalist
 * Dommaraju Gukesh (born 2006), chess grandmaster
 * Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born 2005), chess grandmaster
 * Akbar Ebrahim (born 14 Dec 1963) Indian racing driver, cricketer

Miscellaneous

 * Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah Faizabadi Madrasi or Ahmadullah Shah (1787–1858), Indian freedom fighter
 * General Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, DSO, MBE 6th chief of Indian army (1913–2000)
 * Pramila Jayapal, U.S. Representative
 * Ravivarman Sharmila, carrom champion
 * Nugent Grant, lawyer
 * Praveena Solomon, crematorium manager
 * V. D. Trivadi, humorist
 * Abhinandan Varthaman, wing commander in the Indian Air Force

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Where Is Joe Merchant?

Where is Joe Merchant? is a novel by singer Jimmy Buffett, published in 1992. The book, a New York Times Best Seller, revolves around Frank Bama and his ex-girlfriend, hemorrhoid-ointment heiress Trevor Kane. Frank, a down-on-his-luck seaplane pilot, is about to escape to Alaska when Trevor unexpectedly jumps back into his life asking for his help in tracking down her brother, the notorious rock star Joe Merchant. Other characters joining Frank and Trevor in their search include sleazy tabloid reporter Rudy Breno, rocket scientist Desdemona, many mercenaries, and the jet ski Killer. The cover art was illustrated by Michael Koelsch.

The Arecibo Observatory is featured in the book and the lyrics to the song "Desdemona's Building A Rocket Ship". In both, a talented baker and former backup singer named Desdemona has a tryst with one of the workers "under the giant telescope", and begins receiving telepathic messages from the Pleiades, telling her to build a spaceship and "come home".

Desdemona
Desdemona, a major character in the novel but not its protagonist, is a psychic based on a small island off the coast of Hispaniola. She finds her mission to be the building of a rocket ship to travel to the Pleiades. Lacking both science knowledge and working capital, she bases her rocket ship on the long abandoned rusting hulk of an airplane fuselage that had once belonged to Howard Hughes. While theoretically under construction, her ship the Cosmic Muffin also serves as her houseboat and hosts her bakery business.

Desdemona's psychic abilities involve nearly random reception of messages (usually phrased as riddles, much to her consternation) concerning both life itself and the eponymous search for Joe Merchant. She and Joe Merchant first cross paths in the 1960s in San Francisco. As their paths developed, she became a backup singer in Merchant's band, and was once married to an associate of Merchant's. Following the breakup of both her band and her marriage, and the descent of Merchant into the drug world (Desdemona herself was famed for her pot-brownies while in San Francisco), she worked her way south through the midwestern states, then to Mexico, where her interest in Astronomy and psychic ability was cultivated. Ultimately, she arrived in the small Caribbean island of Little Lorraine.

This characterization of Desdemona also appears in several of Buffett's songs, including "Fruitcakes" and "Desdemona's Building a Rocket Ship" from his album Banana Wind.

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Chhota Shakeel

Chhota Shakeel (born Mohammed Shakeel Babu Miyan Shaikh; 31 December 1955) is an Indian crime boss and a high-ranking leader of the D-Company, a criminal group based in South Asia. He joined the D-Company in 1988 under the kingpin Dawood Ibrahim, and was reportedly responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the criminal group. Shakeel became one of the most-wanted men in India after his alleged participation in the 1993 Bombay bombings. He is also wanted by the U.S. government for international drug trafficking.

He has been sanctioned under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act in the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Early life
Chhota Shakeel was born in Bombay, Maharashtra, India, on 31 December 1955 or 1960. His birth name was Mohammed Shakeel Babu Miyan Shaikh. Prior to joining organized crime, Shakeel ran a dubious travel agency in Dongri, Mumbai. In 1988, he joined the D-Company, a criminal group based in South Asia, while stationed in Dubai. He was one of its earliest members along with Bishal Cheetah, Johnny Akhawat and Liger Bhai or Mushu Bhai. According to his Interpol criminal profile, Shakeel is 1.7m tall, has black hair and eyes, and speaks Hindi, English, and Urdu.

During his early years in the D-Company, Sharad Shetty ran match fixes, betting and hawala deals for D-Company leader Dawood Ibrahim, while Chhota Rajan headed criminal activities in Mumbai. After the 1993 Bombay bombings and a split between Dawood and Rajan's factions, Shakeel was promoted to an executive role within the D-Company by befriending Dawood. As a leader of the D-Company, Shakeel reportedly oversaw the day-to-day operations of the criminal group.

In the D-Company, Shakeel was known as the CEO, and reported directly to Dawood. According to the Maharashtra police, he reportedly received support from the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's intelligence agency, in his criminal operations. After the Bombay attacks, Shakeel sought refuge in Pakistan under the protection of the ISI.

1980s – 2000s
Shakeel is one of the most-wanted men in India. He is wanted for murder, extortion, and terrorism, the last charge stemming from his alleged involvement in the 1993 Bombay bombings. After the attacks, Shakeel worked with Rahim Merchant (alias "Dogla"), a wealthy Pakistani from North Karachi, to create a voice proxy. Shakeel did this to conceal his voice while having conversations abroad, and wrote what he wanted to say to Merchant, who worked as his speaker. This helped keep Shakeel under authorities' radar. Through Merchant, Shakeel brokered deals for the D-Company, conducted extortion activities, and helped run many arms operations on the ISI's behalf. Authorities believe that even if Shakeel was in fact dead, his voice impersonator Merchant would likely continue mimicking his voice to continue running criminal activities.

Authorities suspect that Shakeel was responsible for international drug trafficking operations for D-Company, and worked with Afghan and Colombian suppliers. He was also interested in arms trafficking and real-estate, and bought several mines in Africa to begin his illegal diamond mining business. Shakeel reportedly smuggled diamonds for the Ukrainian mafia group Odessa and bartered them for weapons. In addition to his Indian passport, Shakeel had two more – from Botswana and the other from Malawi – to presumably help him in his diamond business. The diamonds were smuggled by African nationals from countries like Sierra Leone, Guinea and the Republic of Mali. They were collected for further distribution in Botswana, South Africa and Namibia. They were then taken to Kenya, and then shipped to Dubai and Pakistan. Shakeel reportedly had real estate in countries like the United States, India, Pakistan, Morocco, Algeria, Sierra Leone, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Spain and South Africa.

Shakeel was one of the mentors of the former gangster Abu Salem. He entrusted him with overseeing Bollywood's finances and acquiring their film rights abroad. Their partnership eventually ended and Salem branched out of the D-Company. In 1997, Shakeel reportedly claimed responsibility for the murder of social activist SM Khalid, the Bombay Bakers Association President, in Dongri. In September 2000, Shakeel openly agreed to have ordered an attack against Rajan, who was based out of Indonesia. In 2001, he was interviewed by India Today and claimed to have financed several Hindi films.

2010s
On 15 May 2012, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a branch of the United States Department of the Treasury, sanctioned Shakeel and D-Company high-ranking leader Tiger Memon under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act). According to the OFAC, Shakeel and his criminal group were involved in international drug trafficking since the late 1980s. The narcotics smuggled included heroin and hashish, which were brought from Afghanistan and Thailand and imported illegally into the United States, Western Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. As part of this sanction, U.S. citizens were prohibited from engaging in business activities with Shakeel, and his assets under U.S. jurisdiction were also frozen.

In mid-2016, D-company lieutenant and Dawood's brother Anees Ibrahim had a fallout with Shakeel over the D-Company's operations in Dubai. Anees wanted to oust Shakeel of his leadership role. Shakeel organized a faction within the D-Company to counter Anees' efforts. Dawood refused to take sides since he wanted to keep his friendship with Shakeel and ties with his sibling Anees. Other high-ranking leaders of the D-Company were confused with whose orders to follow, and this infighting created tensions within the criminal group.

In 2016, the police were able to gain possession of a photograph of Shakeel after it was taken during a birthday party of another suspect involved in the Bombay attacks. Shakeel was caught on camera for the first time in the 1980s, and the picture remained the only photograph of him for at least three decades. During these years, Shakeel was suspected of living in a mansion near Karachi, Pakistan.

In 2017, Dawood's brother Iqbal Kaskar was arrested for extortion by the Thane police. In that criminal case, Shakeel was accused of helping Iqbal by help him threaten people for money. Investigators stated that Iqbal's arrest worsened the ties between Shakeel and Anees.

Death rumours
In December 2017, Shakeel was reported dead by multiple sources after an audio clip of a man claiming to be Dawood stated that he had died in Karachi, Pakistan on 7 January 2017. Another source, citing an unnamed Indian intelligence officer based in the U.S., stated that Shakeel died of a heart attack in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. In the clip, a man known as Bilal was heard telling a relative of Shakeel that Shakeel had died of a heart attack and that Dawood's brother Anees was taking his earnings. The Royal Thai Police had reportedly sent a letter to the Interpol saying that Shakeel was dead and was no longer subject to the Interpol's Red Notice.

An investigation conducted by India Today TV in 2018 concluded that this scheme was fake. The letter provided by the Royal Thai Police was signed by Piya Uthayo, an officer that was employed in another department. The police discovered that the fax number used to send the letter to the Interpol was based out of Bangkok, Thailand. The probe led to the arrest of a German-national who confessed to the Bangkok police that he was sent to Thailand to send the letter on orders from an Indian-national. Investigators believe that Dawood was responsible for planning this scheme after disagreements with Shakeel. Dawood's brother Anees and Shakeel have tried to take over the D-Company's second-in-command position. India Today TV tried reaching Shakeel for comment but his three mobile numbers were unreachable.

There are several versions explaining how Shakeel reportedly died. One version suggests that he died of a heart attack shortly after a meeting with members of Odessa in Islamabad. He was reportedly transported by air to a hospital in Rawalpindi, but was declared dead upon arrival.

Dawood reportedly got ill after learning about Shakeel's death two days later. He was admitted to the hospital twice, on January and March 2017, and experienced depression. Sources close to the crime boss stated that he was contemplating to return to India. Most of Shakeel's alleged associates, Bilal, Mohammed Rashid, Iqbal Salim, Yusuf Raja, and Parvez Khawaja, reportedly left the D-Company after his death. Other unconfirmed reports stated that Shakeel had broken away from Dawood's partnership prior to his death. Sources close to Dawood's inner circle stated that Anees took over the operations headed by Shakeel on 5 January 2019. D-Company was reportedly not able to find a replacement for Shakeel's void in Tajikistan and took longer than expected to appoint a successor. The infighting between Shakeel and Anees' faction reportedly ended after both parties agreed on certain terms following Shakeel's rumored death.

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Talk:Celebrity Fit Club

Split?
I think it should be spilt into two articles.. Do you aggre? --eddie 20:43, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, and this page is wayyyyy too long as well. It really needs to be condensed heavily. There are much more important shows that don't have a tenth of what this article has. Shame. 68.180.1.141 21:46, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I did a rather quick job of spliting them up. --[eddie] - pure ginger 06:30, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't think the split was necessary; the page was much shorter after removing all of the fancruft. Ckessler 06:52, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Whittydw, stop readding information that was removed during cleanup. You are welcome to edit, but this is the second time I've asked you to stop reverting. I will seek admin intervention if you continue. Ckessler 16:47, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Whittydw here what are you gonna do about it mate im only trying to make it a good site. Itidyed the ste up making teams in the british and amerivan sections ive made countless edits go have a look what it was like before i first edited smart arse. Whittydw

Your "useful edits" were copyvio in addition to just being annoying. You have been warned on your talk page and here. Knock it off. Ckessler 15:31, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Gastric bypass
It's not true that Carnie Wilson (Season 4 U.S. version) will be the first contestant to have had gastric bypass. Ralphie May (Season 1 U.S. version) has had it. Several sentences under "Season 4" need to be edited or taken out to make an accurate statement. 24.99.184.158 04:31, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Using nicknames
I found the use of nicknames and/or first names only difficult to follow. Such as the use of "Ant" in the season three discussion about Jeff Conaway as well as only using the first name to start off the discussion about "Jeffs Exit" and then no qualification as to which jeff is being discussed (Jeff Rudom?) until the section where the individual in question refers to himself as "Jeff Conaway". Who is Ant anyway?I already forgot 11:58, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, people should be referred to by their last name, which seems to be the general style. Will try and correct them. Ckessler 02:17, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

"Ant" is the complete stage name of the host; therefore, the reference to him is accurate. Doc502 16:09, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Speculation and formatting
I noticed that, in the section concerning US Season 4, alternative cast members to what has been officially announced on the VH1 site have been added, in a very confusing method. Also, the source from which this list was lifted has confirmed that one person that it speculated on is actually dead. Perhaps this should be removed completely for the official cast list? Wyldphyre 18:00, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to go ahead and remove it. If someone needs to re-enter it, then they should do it in a table format. Wyldphyre 18:12, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Season 5
I added a "Citation Needed" to the Season 5 section. Is there any official release that states that these will, indeed, be the contestants on the next season? If so, it needs to be added here for cross-referencing purposes. --ClintFord 15:18, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Split discussion (again)?
I'd like to reintroduce the idea of splitting the article into two: one for the British version, a second for the American version. I'll cite a couple of examples of British shows remade in the US that might serve as good reference points:

 * The Office: Because both series - The Office (UK TV series) and The Office (US TV series) - have been successful and are different enough, they both deserve pages of their own. See also: Queer as Folk.
 * Men Behaving Badly: on the other hand, this series was only successful in Britain. The American version was quickly cancelled. Fittingly, there is only a mention of the US version on the page for the UK show; nothing more is needed. See also: Iron Chef (from Japan).

In the case of Celebrity Fit Club, both versions of the series have been successful and - I would argue - deserve their own pages. Doc502 16:22, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

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We'll Meet Again (disambiguation)

"We'll Meet Again" is a 1939 song made famous by Vera Lynn.

We'll Meet Again may also refer to:

Film and television

 * We'll Meet Again (1943 film), a musical starring Lynn
 * We'll Meet Again, a 1999 story by Mary Higgins Clark
 * We'll Meet Again (2002 film), a film based on the story
 * We'll Meet Again (TV series), a 1982 British television series
 * We'll Meet Again with Ann Curry, a 2017–18 PBS television series
 * "We'll Meet Again" (True Blood), an episode of True Blood

Music

 * We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn, a 2009 compilation album
 * We Will Meet Again, an album by Bill Evans
 * "We'll Meet Again", a song by Pantera from Power Metal
 * "We'll Meet Again", a song by TheFatRat

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northwest Territories general election, 1896

 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 Speedied as per CSD G7 Manning 22:21, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

Northwest Territories general election, 1896
Page is obsolete and misleading Cloveious 06:03, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete I created this article originally, as part of the early general elections of the Northwest Territories. There was no actual general election on this year, and it was based on some misleading sources, the election result listed was Federal in nature. The other information has been incorporated into proper articles. --Cloveious 05:17, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, it looks like User:Gcapp1959 created it last month. Since you and he have all of the substantial edits to that page, then if he comes here and votes delete, we should just speedy delete it (WP:CSD provides for that).  For now, I'm just voting delete, but that will change to speedy delete if Gcapp wants it deleted. --Idont Havaname 07:42, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Good point, I forgot it was a stub when I first worked on it, anyways the bottom line is, there was no Territorial election in 1886, except for a couple by elections. Please see List of Northwest Territories general elections I don't really care if its speedy or not, just as long as its cleaned up. --Cloveious 07:55, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete as per Cloveious. Hamster Sandwich 06:17, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Cloveious. Double Blue  (Talk) 09:02, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Cloveious. Mindmatrix 13:01, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Gcapp1959. I created the stubs for 1897, for which I have read a historical remark many years ago, and for 1901. 1896 is unfamiliar to me. I will say that I've noticed repeated shuffling of Wikipedia articles for the years through the 1896-1905 period, and I don't know why. It just doesn't seem likely that there was more than the elections of 1897 and 1901, and since it was non-partisan before 1897, I doubt that federal authorities would have allowed elections at short intervals in such a sparsely-populated area before 1897. GBC 15:08, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Admin - We can now Speedy delete this article per criterion G7, since both of the authors of this page have voted to delete it (GBC is Gcapp1959). --Idont Havaname 16:40, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

 * 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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Elfego Baca

Elfego Baca (February 10, 1865 – August 27, 1945) was a gunfighter, law enforcement officer, lawyer, and politician in New Mexico, who became an American folk hero of the later years of the New Mexico Territory frontier. His goal in life was to be a peace officer, and for "the outlaws to hear [his] steps a block away". He is known for his involvement in an 1884 shootout in Frisco (now Reserve), New Mexico, as well as later fictionalized representations of his life in Westerns released during the mid-20th century.

Early life
Baca was born in 1865 in Socorro, New Mexico, to Francisco and Juana Maria Baca. His family moved to Topeka, Kansas, when he was a young child. Upon his mother's death in 1880, Baca returned with his father to Belen, New Mexico, where his father became a marshal. In 1884, at the age of 19, Baca acquired some guns and became a deputy sheriff (whether through purchasing a badge or by being appointed is unclear) in Socorro County, New Mexico.

Frisco shootout
In October 1884, in the town of Middle San Francisco Plaza (now Reserve, New Mexico), Baca arrested a drunk cowboy named Charlie McCarty, flashing his badge at him and taking his gun. McCarty's fellow cowboys tried to stop Baca, but he fought back, killing the horse of John Slaughter's foreman, which fell on him and killed him, and shooting another cowboy in the knee. Subsequently, Justice of the Peace Ted White granted McCarty's freedom and summoned Bert Hearne, a rancher from Spur Lake Ranch, to bring Baca back to the justice for questioning relating to what he considered murder. After Baca refused to come out of the adobe jail, Hearne broke down the door and ordered Baca to come out with his hands up. Soon after that, shots volleyed from the jail and hit Hearne in the stomach, mortally wounding him.

A standoff with the cowboys ensued. The number of cowboys who gathered has been disputed, with villagers at the scene reporting about 40 present, while Baca himself later claimed there had been at least 80.The cowboys are said to have fired more than 4,000 shots into the house, until the adobe building was full of holes. However, none of the bullets struck Baca; the floor of the home is said to have been slightly lower than ground level, allowing him to escape injury. After about 33 hours and roughly 4,000 rounds fired, the battle ended when Francisquito Naranjo persuaded Baca to surrender. In May 1885, Baca was charged with murder for the death of John Slaughter's foreman and Bert Hearne, and was jailed awaiting trial. In August 1885, Baca was acquitted after the door of Armijo's house was entered as evidence. It had more than 400 bullet holes in it. Purportedly, Baca's defense attorney had false documentation to prove Baca's legal deputization, as Baca's biography suggests he deputized himself just before the arrest of Charlie McCarty.

Law enforcement career
Baca officially became the sheriff of Socorro County and secured indictments for the arrest of the area's lawbreakers. Instead of ordering his deputies to pursue the wanted men, he sent each of the accused a letter. It said, "I have a warrant here for your arrest. Please come in by March 15 and give yourself up. If you don't, I'll know you intend to resist arrest, and I will feel justified in shooting you on sight when I come after you." Most of the offenders turned themselves in voluntarily.

In 1888, Baca became a U.S. marshal. He served for two years and then began studying law. In December 1894, he was admitted to the bar by Judge A.A. Freeman and briefly joined Freeman's Socorro law firm in February 1895. He practiced law on San Antonio Street in El Paso between 1902 and 1904.

Political life
Baca held a succession of public offices, including county clerk, mayor, and school superintendent of Socorro County and district attorney for Socorro and Sierra Counties. In his book The Shooters, historian Leon Metz writes, "most reports say he was the best peace officer Socorro ever had."

From 1913 to 1916, Baca served as the official U.S. representative of Victoriano Huerta's government during the Mexican Revolution. In April 1915, Baca was charged with criminal conspiracy for allegedly masterminding the November 1914 escape of Mexican general José Inés Salazar from the Albuquerque jail. Successfully defended by New Mexican lawyer and politician Octaviano Larrazolo, Baca's reputation grew among Southwestern residents.

When New Mexico became a state in 1912, Baca unsuccessfully ran for Congress as a Republican. Nevertheless, he remained a valued political figure because of his ability to turn out the vote among the Hispanic population. Working at times as a private detective, Baca also took a job as a bouncer in a casino across the border in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

Baca worked closely with New Mexico's longtime Senator Bronson Cutting as a political investigator and wrote a weekly column in Spanish praising Cutting's work on behalf of local Hispanics. Baca considered running for governor despite his declining health, but he failed to secure the Democratic Party's nomination for district attorney in 1944.

Metz, his biographer, wrote: "Elfego was, and is, controversial. He drank too much; talked too much ... he had a weakness for wild women. He was often arrogant, and, of course, he showed no compunction about killing people." On his 75th birthday, Baca told the Albuquerque Tribune that as a lawyer he had defended 30 people charged with murder and that only one went to the penitentiary.

In July 1936, several years before his death, Janet Smith conducted an interview with Baca. Her notes can be found in the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal Writers' Project Collection. Baca told Smith, "I never wanted to kill anybody, but if a man had it in his mind to kill me, I made it my business to get him first."

Legends
Another legend says that Baca stole a pistol from Pancho Villa and the angry Villa put a price of $30,000 on Baca's head. One often-told story says that once when he was practicing law in Albuquerque, Baca received a telegram from a client in El Paso, Texas. "Need you at once," it said. "Have just been charged with murder," to which Baca is supposed to have responded with a telegram saying, "Leaving at once with three eyewitnesses."

Portrayal in popular media
In the late 1950s, Walt Disney turned Baca into the first Hispanic popular culture hero in the United States, representing him in six comic books, a feature film, and related merchandising. Disney deliberately avoided ethnic tension by presenting Baca as a generalized Western hero, portraying "a New Mexican Davy Crockett". They filmed most of the series in New Mexico, particularly Cerrillos, Socorro County, and the Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas combined statistical area.

Starting in October 1958, Walt Disney Studios released a 10-part television serial entitled The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca, starring Robert Loggia in the title role. The serial aired as part of the anthology series Walt Disney Presents at irregular intervals from October 3, 1958, to March 25, 1960.

Disney took significant care to depict the famous siege in as authentic a manner as possible, given the known details. Among those who appeared in the series were Skip Homeier, Raymond Bailey, and I. Stanford Jolley. Episodes of the series were later edited into a 1962 movie titled Elfego Baca: Six Gun Law. The theme song's tag line was, "And the legend was that / Like el gato, "the cat" / Nine lives had Elfego Baca."

In 1966, a compilation of episodes was released as a film, Elfego Baca: Six Gun Law. It was directed by Christian Nyby and starred Robert Loggia's Elfego Baca. The film premiered in theaters in West Germany on May 20, 1966, and was later broadcast on American television with the title Elfego Baca: Attorney at Law.

Other popular culture depictions include Dynamite Entertainment's Lone Ranger and Green Hornet comic, where he cameos alongside other Western heroes including the Lone Ranger, Bat Masterson, Buffalo Bill, Wyatt Earp, Annie Oakley, Texas John Slaughter, and Black Bart.

New Mexican author Rudolfo Anaya (1937-2020) wrote four mystery novels featuring Elfego's grandson Sonny Baca of Albuquerque, New Mexico, who carries Elfego's supposed revolver; the modern stories involve sorcery and magic.

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Talk:Saint Joseph's Oratory

Requested move
In accordance with Wikipedia's Naming Conventions (WP:UE), I recommend this article be moved to Saint Joseph's Oratory, which is the common English name for the building. Have you ever heard anyone call it "Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal" in English? I would say it's not even common in French. I would just move it myself but "Saint Joseph's Oratory" has a history Larineso 05:18, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one sentence explanation, then sign your vote with ~

 * Suppport. If an English name exists it should be used. – AxSkov ( T ) 05:36, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The English name should be used not if it exists, but if it is the most commonly used name among English speakers. However, that is the case in this situation, and therefore, support. - Montréalais 01:53, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Support. The full English name is actually "Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal", but "Saint Joseph's Oratory" alone is far more common. - Farquard 18:22, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Since there seems to be no problem with consensus, I will move this article. - Montréalais 08:05, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Indeed, and to cope with the variable naming (St Joseph's, St Joseph's Oratory, Saint Joseph's Oratory (by far the most common) redirects can be made). --Msanford (talk) 19:06, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

About those miracles
People don't leave their crutches behind (especially in days past when such items were very costly) unless they no longer need them and wish to use them as a testament. I visited the site just three weeks ago and the crutches by the thousands line several walls. While you are free to be a non believer you do not have license to dipute the work and deeds of a Saint of the Catholic Church. These medically unexplained healings are the primary reason for this magnificent church as the money was donated by people who had/have no doubts about their miracle. This part is non negotiable. I'll have to continue to change to make this clear. Otherwise, the article is a fine but brief article. I am currently researching some facts to add to the article on this impressive church.

Spelling error "ever year" also, I think that "supposedly healed" sounds somewhat partisan, perhaps "believed to have healed" or something of the like. Maybe a mention of JD Rockerfeller's financial support would be in order. I won't edit, as I'm just learning the ropes. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.131.194.135 (talk • contribs).

 * I think "Supposedly healed" sounds VERY partisan and as there is documented proof that these people WERE healed and no documented proof that it was mass psychosis, I'll change. If you change it back, I'll change it again. Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.126.11.65 (talk • contribs).

I've been there myself and am not convinced. I want some documented proof, cited here and cited now.

"While you are free to be a non believer you do not have license to dipute the work and deeds of a Saint of the Catholic Church."

Oh yes I do.

Cs302b (talk) 02:13, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

"If you change it back, I'll change it again, thanks!" Yeah, that's exactly how wikipedia is supposed to work. Cs302b (talk) 02:15, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Fr. Andre's heart ?
When i visited the oratory in 1993, there was a glass case which supposedly contained Fr. Andre's preserved heart (i saw this with my own eyes)... An adjoining rumor was that the heart was a replacement, as the real had been stolen as a sick sort of 'prank' back in the '60s. I was wondering if anyone had any first-hand knowledge of such a thing, as i did not see it referred to in the article, and was looking for substantiation. Thoughts?

For information about Fr Andre's heart, suggest referring to the Oratoire's website for information - http://www.saint-joseph.org/en_1098_index.php - I question if the history section referring the heart is accurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.240.157.64 (talk) 03:45, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Construction cost baseline year
The "Construction cost" field in the infobox should clearly state which year is used as the baseline currency. I have a strong suspicion that the cost was 2.3M $ 1967 dollars, and not 2008 dollars, which represents a serious difference. --Msanford (talk) 19:05, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Add picture
I propose the following picture in order to illustrate the Saint Joseph's Oratory:

I find the night pictures make it harder to clearly see the building. What about this second one? PieCam (talk) 01:58, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

File:Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal - Montreal.jpg to appear as POTD
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal - Montreal.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on April 28, 2013. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2013-04-28. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:41, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

"Its dome is the third-largest of its kind in the world"
What criteria are being used for this, and what does "of its kind" refer to? It seems poorly explained and not sourced. Reversinator (talk) 01:40, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

 * "Of its kind" refers to the classical church dome, made of masonry or concrete, and excludes contemporary steel-structured domes like those you would find in this article, such as that of Singapore National Stadium.Jonahrapp (talk) 02:08, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Staircase
One of the obvious features is a huge triple staircase leading from the lower car-park to the entrance. The outer stone stairs are for normal pedestrians. The middle wooden stairs are reserved for pilgrims who ascend on their knees saying a prayer on each step. You can see the top two flights in the photo at the head of the article. I feel that this should be mentioned but I have no information about nor any reference to this staircase. My knowledge comes from visiting the Oratory and being blown away by the sight from the lower car-park. OrewaTel (talk) 23:01, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

 * Hi, OrewaTel. I can add some information about the stairs to the article. Will do it in the next few days. I did mention in the Lead in the past that pilgrims venture to the Oratory each year to climb its steps, but I can add more information about that. Thanks. Jonahrapp (talk) 20:03, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

 * Hi again. I just read over the article and I actually did previously include this information at the end of the Shrine section. See: Saint Joseph's Oratory Jonahrapp (talk) 20:05, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

 * Sorry! I missed the sentence. It's good that it is reported. Thanks OrewaTel (talk) 10:49, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

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Talk:When Johnny Comes Marching Home

Untitled
When we were kids, we used to laugh at the line "And we'll all feel gay" right before "When Johnny comes marching home". It appears that someone has vandalized the page, and removed that line. I'm adding it back. And "Gay" in this sense means "Glad".

The Clash's song "English Civil War" used the melody of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", and incorporated the first line:

"When Johnny comes marching home again, hurrah, ta dah, He's coming by bus or underground, hurrah, ta dah"

Original sheet music (1863) gives credit for words and music to Louis Lambert. -AlvinMGO 23:24, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

 * This was apparently a pseudonym JQ 07:51, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

I grew up in Clarksburg, WV, just south of the Mason-Dixon line. Most of the elders in our area could tell you stories about their families having brothers who fought on either side of this war. My grandfather, (born in 1897), told me how his father described bathing in a river at night and calling out to the other side, "I have a brother in (such and such battalion), can you please tell me anything you know?" I was taught by my church choir director that this song also was used as a war protest song during the Civil War. The words I can remember are: "He has no arms, He has no legs, hurray, hurrah." Then there was a comment about "how can he dance with me...hurray, hurrah." If anyone knows anything about this version, I would love to hear about its history. (Valerie H. Brand-Ranagan--7/18/2013.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.185.116.149 (talk) 03:35, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

I grew up in Clarksburg, WV, just south of the Mason-Dixon line. Most of the elders in our area could tell you stories about their families having brothers who fought on either side of this war. My grandfather, (born in 1897), told me how his father described bathing in a river at night and calling out to the other side, "I have a brother in (such and such battalion), can you please tell me anything you know?" I was taught by my church choir director that this song also was used as a war protest song during the Civil War. The words I can remember are: "He has no arms, He has no legs, hurray, hurrah." Then there was a comment about "how can he dance with me...hurray, hurrah." If anyone knows anything about this version, I would love to hear about its history. (Valerie H. Brand-Ranagan--7/18/2013. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.185.116.149 (talk) 03:29, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

 * Technically, Talk pages are not intended as vehicles for general queries like this but rather as a forum where improvements and edits to the article can be discussed. However - your query can be answered briefly. Your great-grandfather was remembering the Irish version of the song, which has a Wikipedia article on it, Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye. There is an active discussion there and in the real world about which song gave rise to the other - which is the older of the two. The jury is still out on that. regards, Sensei48 (talk) 04:01, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Is Buttermilk Hill/Johnny's Gone for a Soldier related to WJCMH? There are some places that say WJCMH is a "sequel" of sorts to Johnny's Gone. Percy Hall's website has them grouped into a single presentation, called "Johnny's a Soldier". --2ltben 13:58, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

the entry's author didn't remember to mention Morton Gould's "American Salute"... 83.29.63.141 (talk) 16:57, 11 December 2007 (UTC) joanda

Unsourced
However, expert James Fuld, author of the standard text on popular music, The Book of World Famous Music, states on page 640 of that volume that Donal O'Sullivan, the Irish authority, has written the Library of Congress that he does not consider the melody of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" as Irish in origin. As stated, no printed music of Irish origin has been discovered that predates American publication in September of 1863 by Henry Tolman in Boston under the title "When Johnny Comes Marching Home". Library of Congress records do show a title "Johnny Fill Up The Bowl" that was published in July of 1863 by John J. Daly that appears to contain the song's melody.

Since when was "Irish Authority" a respected or bona fide title -- this has all the credibility of some bloke down the pub that reads lots of books on Irish music. If this person is a genuine academic then publish a source. You might then also rewrite the whole article because it's a mess.

100% pure Wikiality.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.42.129.162 (talk) 19:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Additionally, if you look at the Wiki page for "Johnny we Hardly Knew Ye", it claims that it is the melody basis for WJCMH with a quote attributed to Gilmore himself. This needs to be more consistent. 125.238.14.18 (talk) 23:49, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, totally irrespective of the reality of the situation, this section simply reads like some butt-hurt American is trying his best to downplay the fact that the melody of one of America's most famous historical songs isn't even American in origin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.8.131.151 (talk) 12:42, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

The Ants Go Marching
The link for "The Ants Go Marching One By One" says, "By Robert D. Singleton 'The Ants Go Marching' is a children's song that first appeared in Barney's Campfire Sing Along (1990)." But I had it on a record in the 1970s when I was little, and the lyrics were slightly different. Instead of, "And they all start marching down to the ground / To get out of the rain, BOOM BOOM BOOM.", it was, "And they all start marching / To the end / Of the Earth / To get out / Of the rain." I don't remember what the record was and I don't have it anymore. Does anyone else remember this? Sluggoster (talk) 18:22, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

I have to second this motion. I know "The Ants Go Marching One By One" predates Barney's version. We used to sing this song as kids at camp, back in the early to mid 80s. What I was hoping to find (and am still hoping for) is a Wiki entry for "The Ants Go Marching One By One" -- I would love to know the origins/history of that song. Jdevola (talk) 20:03, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

I sang this song at different camps growing up in the early 1960's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:100C:B2BB:514E:B11F:41F5:4C7:F8EC (talk) 01:59, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Similarity to "On Springfield Mountain"
Some performances I've seen of "On Springfield Mountain" are sung to a melody that's fairly similar. For example: http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=6974 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vELGVnPt_Pc

On the other hand, other performances use some very different melodies. Anyone know what the deal is there?

Esn (talk) 03:03, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Relationship to Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
A recent monograph on Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye shows that When Johnny Comes Marching Home clearly was the earlier song. I've added the reference, and I'll try to say something in the article at some point. Since the present article assumes the primacy of Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye, it will be necessary to rewrite pretty much the entire Origins section. John M Baker (talk) 04:43, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Also, the tune of When Johnny Comes Marching Home was taken from Johnny Fill Up the Bowl, of which For Bales, discussed in the article, was a later variant. Lighter suggests that the tune derives ultimately from The Three Ravens. John M Baker (talk) 04:57, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

 * Let's slow down a minute. What is this monograph? Who is the author and what are his/her credentials? Is it a RS? Has it been vetted in the academy? A single source purporting to provide a definitive answer to an historically obscure origin needs to be approached with caution. There are plenty of monographs on plenty of subjects that are so speculative and inferential as to be useless as actual evidence. Lighter's areas of expertise appear to be slang and etymology - not folklore. This needs a closer look.Sensei48 (talk) 07:32, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

 * Well, it looks pretty RS to me. The author is Jonathan Lighter, a professor of English and the editor of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang.  He's an expert on the use of sources in tracing historical origins, which is the part of folklore we care about for present purposes.  Lighter traces the historical origins of both Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye and When Johnny Comes Marching Home in considerable detail, with an examination of original sources that doesn't seem to have occurred before.  John M Baker (talk) 12:23, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the prompt and measured response. I don't have the monograph, though I see that it's available through B&N. I'd like to take a look at it myself just for interest's sake - and to see what the critical response to it has been. I'd also like to re-examine sources asserting the opposite and look for some others.
 * My caution stems from a number of cases here on Wikipedia in other articles, two of which might be worth brief mention. A few years back, one Les Standiford published a book called The Man Who Invented Christmas about A Christmas Carol. Standiford asserts that the holiday was "dying" and/or little-celebrated until the Dickens novella revived it. An editor rewrote the Carol article nearly in its entirety based on Standiford's book, which is speculative and problematic in many ways (and this is an area in which I have some professional expertise and several decades of work). Standiford is an academic - a professor of creative writing, not philology or literary research - and the book itself was not offered as a scholarly treatise but rather as a popular essay. The consequence for the article on Wikipedia has been that it has been necessary continually to keep the article balanced and representative of different perspectives on the issues.

 * Ditto Battle of the Little Bighorn following the publication of Gregory Michno's Lakota Noon, a reconstruction of the battle using previously-ignored Native American accounts. An editor rewrote the article using the often-conflicting native accounts as the base narrative - and there had already been a century of academic scholarship on the battle that advanced a very large number of other and often contradictory theories. Again, the integrity of the article was negatively impacted by reliance on one source as primary.

 * Might I suggest that rather than rewrite the whole Origins section - for the moment at least - that the Lighter material be introduced as a new or contemporary or recent theory? Let's see what the academic and/or critical response to Lighter's monograph might be and perhaps offer more detailed evidence supporting conflicting theories. regards, Sensei48 (talk) 16:04, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

 * A quick look at recent works includes an assertion by Alan Bewell that "Johnny I Hardly Knew ye" dates from the 1760s. Bewell is chair of the English department at the U. of Toronto and his point appears in a book published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Those are heavy-duty academic credentials - which I offer here only in support of a balanced approach to introducing the Lighter material into the article. regards, Sensei48 (talk) 16:32, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

 * I understand your position. I've experienced something of the kind myself with jazz (word).  A writer named Daniel Cassidy wrote a book, How the Irish Invented Slang, in which he posited that "jazz" derives from the Irish (Celtic) word "teas," or heat (which, according to Cassidy, is pronounced "jazz" in some dialects).  Now, How the Irish Invented Slang is pretty much the antithesis of RS.  Cassidy knew nothing of linguistic research, used discredited methods, sought to reach a previously determined conclusion, and considered it a virtue that both his methods and his conclusions were contrary to established linguistics.  Also, he did not speak Irish.  However, one of his followers (strongly suspected to be Cassidy himself) pushed his theory very hard.
 * This is a very different case. Lighter is a prominent legitimate academic with extensive experience in tracing literary origins.  The monograph itself is well-researched and thoroughly documented, with extensive quotations from source materials.  I found it quite convincing.  (Incidentally, I would recommend it to you; I looked at your user page, and it seems likely that you would like it very much.  I read it through twice myself.)
 * And, as far as I can tell, this isn't so much a rival theory as the only theory with genuine research. For example, I looked at the work by Bewell (this, I assume).  There is no support indicated there for "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" being an anonymous Irish street ballad of the 1760s.  Is there in his source, Tillotson, Eighteenth Century English Literature?  The relevant page of Tillotson is unavailable online, but it's hard to see how a war with Ceylon in the early 1800s could have given rise to an Irish street ballad in the 1760s.  Mostly the claims of an early Irish origin seem to be based on loosely read internal evidence, with no actual resort to the sources.
 * I would be happy to stand corrected, and maybe there's more real research on When Johnny Comes Marching Home, which after all is a better-known song. But I'm not seeing it in the sources cited in the article at present.  John M Baker (talk) 00:11, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

 * Right. There are tantalizing allusions to Tillotson, the Hazen anthology, and a supposed 19th century source with a remark from Gilmore himself ascribing the melody to "Hardly Knew Ye," but these are all elusive. The Tillotson book is I believe long out of print and available only in libraries, but I'll poke around and see if I can find anything of value. I'd be happy to see you do the proposed rewrite (as I note you've done already and carefully with the Wiki "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye"), and if I find anything more substantial than the oblique comment from Bewell I'll let you know and maybe sandbox any revision that seems warranted.
 * Your experience with "jazz" is both cautionary and amusing - and all too typical of what gets used as sourcing here on Wikipedia, as if the mere fact that a theory is published automatically renders it reliable. That's one of the problems with working the Standiford material into the Christmas Carol article without letting it dominate - he raises some useful points and his book in its entirety allows for points of view different from his own, but his basic thesis is not widely accepted in the academy.
 * The issue here with "Johnny" reminds me of issues I've had with the article on another Irish tune, "The Whistling Gypsy Rover." The song was indeed copyrighted in 1950 by Irish entertainer Leo Maguuire, and die-hard purist folk music types have derided it as a sentimental rewrite of the more august Child ballad #200,"The Raggle-Taggle Gypsy" with all the variant titles - and that's the story that characterizes the Wiki article. Trouble is, when the tune became popular in the U.S. right after 1960, my Irish-born grandmother (1893) who had lived since she was 7 in the U.S. knew most of the words and the chorus and said that she sang it as a little girl. Courtesy of the internet, online folklore collections, a university library, and some monographs, I've located perhaps 20 variants of the song published decades before Maguire and going back as far as 1888 - variants that resemble this song in tune (closely), chorus (which "Wraggle-Taggle"-"Gypsy Laddie" etc. do not have), and plot. I can't insert this into the article yet, though, because it constitutes synthesis and original research, which we all agree is a no-no here on Wikipedia. I'll have to wait for a monograph like Lighter's - or maybe write one myself. regards, Sensei48 (talk) 04:21, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I've rewritten the article to incorporate Lighter's scholarship. I considered replacing the For Bales lyrics with the original lyrics to Johnny Fill Up the Bowl, but ended up trying to minimize changes to that section.  The Origins section, of course, got a complete rewrite.  With these additional references, I felt comfortable removing the Refimprove flag.
 * It sounds like you need to make your own contribution to scholarship with The Whistling Gypsy Rover. If you ever do, let me know on my talk page - I'd be interested.  John M Baker (talk) 17:55, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Stone wine
Does the stone wine in the song reference Würzburger Stein wines (Steinwein)? Or just the stoneware? Just a question. J. D. Redding 13:01, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

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The Runaway Train, Animals Two By Two
Here in the UK, there are two VERY well-known children's variants on this melody, often sung in a major key but unmistakably owing to this source melody. On Wikipedia, The Runaway Train has only a passing mention on a disambiguation page, and I didn't find The Animals Went In Two By Two. I think it's apt to cite both of these on this very page, and I think the British popular consciousness would so immediately agree (look online for children's song pages/recordings to verify this). However, I'm not confidently Wikipedian, and would not know how to source something as colloquial as a children's culture song. 2.103.211.132 (talk) 18:46, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Film reference
Used in a dance scene in the film Stalag 17 86.9.117.8 (talk) 18:49, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

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Move?
Should this article be moved to "lzop" (well, "Lzop") ? While the compression format is named "LZO", the compression tool is named "lzop" by parallel with "gzip" and "bzip2". It is always referred to in lowercase on the official website, even at the beginnings of sentences.

Small Benchmark
I did a fast comparison "lzop 1.01" vs "gzip -1" on a 173 MB text file:
 * gzip -1 .. -9, resulting file sizes are 53.5 .. 42.5 MB;
 * lzop -1 .. -6, resulting file sizes are 65.5 .. 66.0 MB;
 * (lzop -7 .. -9, resulting file sizes are ~48..47.0 MB)

More interesting, compression+decompression times are (Athlon 2300+):
 * lzop -1..-6: compress time 6.7-7.4 sec (25.9 MB/sec) ; decompression time ~1.3 sec (133.5 MB/sec);
 * gzip -1:     compress time    12.9 sec (13.4 MB/sec) ; decompression time ~3.1 sec ( 56.0 MB/sec)

So, lzop is about 1.9 x faster on compress (vs gzip -1), and 2.38 x faster on decompress (vs gzip -1), for the faster modes (-1 .. -6, all about the same), at the cost of a 23% larger compressed image (vs gzip -1) in this case (53.5 MB (gzip), 66 MB(lzop)).

Note that lzop -7 .. -9 modes are very slow on compressing (even 2-3x slower than gzip -9 !!), but the filesize is still slightly worse than e.g. gzip -5 (average mode); decompressing speed is as good as for other levels (~ 7 sec). [so, if reasonable compress times are important for you, not only decompress times, don't use levels -7 .. -9 (consider gzip); if compression time does not matter, but fast decompression is important: use level -7 .. -9]

Note2: lzop modes -1..-6 and -7..-9 are similar (in resulting size); [-2..-6 are even exactly the same mode!] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.43.95.214 (talk) 08:53, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Notability (or lack thereof)
I fail to see how lzop itself is notable. LZO, the algorithm, yes, but lzop the utility? Not really. 76.119.157.207 (talk) 05:57, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

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Gyeongju University

Gyeongju University (originally Korea Tourism University) is a privately run, 4-year university located in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang province, South Korea.

History
Established in 1988 as Korea Tourism University, Gyeongju University originally consisted of five departments: the Department of Tourism Business Administration, the Department of Tourism and Public Administration, the Department of Tourism Development, the Department of Cultural Assets and The Department of English and Tourism. The university expanded in later years to include several other departments, as well as a graduate school (founded in 1995). In 1993, the university changed its name to its current one.

In September 2013, the university was one of thirty-five private colleges and universities that were cut off from all government aid and prohibited from participating in any federally funded research. The cuts were done at least in part as a response to the fast-approaching sharp decline in college-age students. The schools designated were those constituting the lowest scoring schools based on an eight-factor evaluation.

Academics
Although tourism remains a major focus of the university, Gyeongju University has also made efforts to develop and promote programs in high-tech fields such as information technology and computer science. In addition, the school's continuing education center gives local residents the opportunity to further their education in various fields. Like most universities in Korea, the academic year begins in February–June (1st Semester) and ends in September to December (2nd Term), with a summer and winter vacation between semesters.

Campus life
The campus of Gyeongju University is situated on the slopes of Mt. Sondo in the western outskirts of Gyeongju. Although many of the students commute to and from the school from their homes in surrounding areas, the opening of a student dormitory in 2004 gave students the chance to live on campus. The university holds two festivals yearly for the students and members of the community: a school festival, typically held in the spring, and a sports festival held in the autumn.

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 * School of Tourism Studies
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 * School of Construction & Environment System Engineering
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 * School of Computer & Information Science
 * Department of Cultural Assets
 * Department of Creative Writing
 * Department of Community Sports and Recreation
 * Department of Visual Arts

Graduate colleges

 * Department of Tourism Business Administration
 * Department of Tourism Development
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 * Department of Environmental Landscale Architecture
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Sonya Dorman

Sonya Dorman (June 4, 1924 – February 14, 2005), born Sonya Gloria Hess, was the working name of Sonya Dorman Hess. She was born in New York City in 1924 and died in Taos, New Mexico on February 14, 2005, at the age of 80.

Dorman published around two dozen science fiction short stories between 1961 and 1980, and she was associated with science fiction's "New Wave" of experimental writing. According to Diane Zigo and Michael Moore, Dorman was part of a group of women writers (including writers such as C.J. Cherryh, Carol Emshwiller, Tanith Lee, Judith Merrill, Joanna Russ, and Kate Wilhem) who "emerged as groundbreaking and prolific writers" in the 1960 and 1970s writing feminist science fiction. Dorman appeared in Harlan Ellison's 1967 anthology Dangerous Visions, with the story "Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird," a story set in a post-apocalyptic future where cannibalism is accepted. In 1978, three of Dorman's short stories were gathered together in young adult novel, Planet Patrol.

Dorman's best-known work of science fiction is the story "When I Was Miss Dow", which was published in Galaxy in 1966 and has been reprinted numerous times and received a James Tiptree, Jr. retrospective award nomination. According to Susan Wood and Chris Morgan, Dorman's "When I Was Miss Dow," can be seen as part of a tradition of "woman-as-alien" that "has a long tradition in science fiction." Further, they argue that Dorman uses "this convention... to examine the restraints, damages, and dangers that the patterns of 'female' and 'male' have imposed on human beings."

Dorman also published in non Science Fiction magazines including Redbook and The Saturday Evening Post. In 1966, for example, her short story "Voyage to the Stars" was published in The Saturday Evening Post.

In addition to her Science Fiction writing, Dorman is perhaps best known outside of the world of science fiction as a poet publishing multiple volumes of poetry including her collected Poems published in 1970 as well as Palace of Earth (1984), Constellations of the Inner Eye (1991), and Carrying What You Love (1996). One of her poems, Corruption of Metals, received honors within science fiction circles by winning the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association in 1978. Pamela Sargent, a science fiction editor, drew connections between feminist poetry and science fiction including poems by Dorman in her anthology, Women of Wonder (1975).

Personal life
Dorman was raised by foster parents in West Newbury, Massachusetts. After one year of college she worked in variety of jobs including working as a stable hand, maid, fish canner, riding instructor, and tuna boat cook. She had a brief first marriage (1945–46) before marrying Jack Dorman, an engineer, in 1950. The couple had a daughter in 1959, and they lived in New York and Connecticut in the 1970s. After her divorce in 1986, Dorman moved to Taos, New Mexico, where she began publishing under her maiden name and where she lived until her death.

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Poland

 * Grab, Kalisz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship
 * Grab, Pleszew County, Greater Poland Voivodeship
 * Grab, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland

Serbia

 * Grab, Lučani

Switzerland

 * Grabs, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen

United States

 * Grab, Kentucky

People

 * Grab (surname), a list of people
 * Grab (ispán), Hungarian official in the 11th century
 * Detlev Grabs (born 1960), East German retired swimmer

Technology

 * Grab (company), a multinational technology company, super-app developer
 * Grab (macOS), a screenshot application
 * Grab (tool), a mechanical device
 * Galactic Radiation and Background, or GRAB, a series of electronic signals intelligence satellites operated by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Other uses

 * Grab (ship), a two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar Coast
 * Grabs (skateboarding)

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Talk:Sengoku (1991 video game)

Actually, Sengoku is a series of beat 'em ups by SNK for the Neo-Geo. This article should be about that game, and the BF mod should be moved somewhere else. Stormwatch 05:31, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

I have erased the sequels material. If there's any doubt, Sengoku 2 and Sengoku 3 should have their own seperate articles or they can be placed on the same article further down with their own respective infoboxes and paragraphs, plus the title would have to be renamed "Sengoku Trilogy".

Deltasim (talk) 12:41, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

title: Talk:Sengoku (1991 video game)