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Fritz Koenig

Fritz Koenig (20 June 1924 – 22 February 2017) was a German sculptor, considered one of the most important international German sculptors of the 20th century.

Koenig's main work and most famous work is The Sphere. The world's largest bronze sculpture of modern times once stood on the plaza beneath the two World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan until the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001. The artifact, weighing more than 20 tons, was the only remaining work of art to be recovered largely intact from the ruins of the collapsed twin towers after the attacks. With its damage deliberately left unrepaired, the sculpture now stands in Manhattan's Liberty Park as a memorial to the victims of the September 11 attacks.

Koenig's oeuvre includes other works, including other memorials. Numerous works by Koenig and his renowned collections with artifacts from antiquity to the 20th century are located in the Koenigmuseum in Landshut, which he designed and established by the Fritz and Maria Koenig Foundation.

Biography
Koenig was born in Würzburg on 20 June 1924. His family moved to Landshut in 1930, when he was six years old. He entered the Oberrealschule (today the Hans-Leinberger-Gymnasium) in 1942, and in the same year, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and sent to the Eastern Front, where he was taken as a prisoner of war.

In the years after World War II, he studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich starting in 1946 and graduating in 1952. In 1951 he studied in Paris on a scholarship. In 1957, Koenig was selected to receive a scholarship from the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 1958, Koenig presented at the XXIX. Biennale in Venice and designed the German pavilion at the world exhibition Expo 58 in Brussels with his art. In 1959, Koenig was able to exhibit at the II. documenta in Kassel. In addition, the Günther Franke gallery in Munich presented Koenig's first solo exhibition. Also in the same year, 1959, Koenig married his wife Maria, who was born in Landshut (1921-2010). In 1960, Koenig and his wife bought an agricultural property in the Altdorf district of Ganslberg near Landshut. In 1961, a house, studio and stables were built according to his ideas. Rural life made it possible for the passionate rider and horse lover to set up his own thoroughbred Arabian breed, which achieved worldwide fame and was also of great importance for his artistic work.

Koenig achieved his final international breakthrough in 1961 with a solo exhibition at the Staempfli Gallery in New York. Exhibitions at documenta III and XXXII. Bienniale followed in 1964. In the same year he was appointed professor for sculptural design at the Technical University of Munich, where he participated in the training of architects until 1992. From 1967 to 1971, Koenig created his main work that led him to world fame: At the behest of the World Trade Center architect Minoru Yamasaki and on behalf of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Koenig created a fountain system with the bronze sculpture Große Kugelkaryatide N.Y. (later known as The Sphere) for the World Trade Center in New York City, which was still under construction.

Over the decades, Fritz Koenig created a diverse work that he was able to keep in representative casts in his spacious country estate in Ganslberg. In addition, the sculptor owned many works of art from a wide variety of cultures and periods from antiquity to the 20th century, the quality and diversity of which testify to the lifelong passion for collecting. Koenig's collection focused on a world-renowned collection of African works of art.

Koenig was a board member of the German Association of Artists from 1961 to 1972. Fritz Koenig was also the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Koenig died on 22 February 2017, at the age of 92 on his country estate in Ganslberg.

Work
In his work, Koenig was primarily concerned with the elementary "existence" of humans and animals in the area of tension between religiosity and mythology. The human being in the fragility of his existence, in the field of tension between love, death and impermanence, was another major leitmotif of Fritz Koenig's work. The combination of geometric forms like cuboids, spheres and bodies and limbs of cylinders to create new, organic-looking objects cast in metal made Koenig known in the early 1950s.

Major works
Koenig's major works include The Sphere, now displayed in Liberty Park in New York City, a memorial at Mauthausen concentration camp (1983) and a memorial to victims of the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics. Many works are installed in public space, such as at the seat of the President of Germany, Schloss Bellevue, at German embassies in Washington, D.C., London, Madrid and Dakar, and the Würzburg Cathedral.

Works in KOENIGmuseum
Many works by Koenig are held by the Skulpturenmuseum im Hofberg that the artist and his wife founded in Landshut in 1993.

Reception
Koenig is regarded internationally as one of the most important German sculptors of the 20th century. Ludwig Spaenle, minister of culture of Bavaria, wrote that he was a truly great artist, who will be remebered by his works in the world, be it Berlin, Madrid or New York City. The Corriere della Sera compared Koenig to Michelangelo, and a reviewer from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung saw a connection to Donatello.

Documentary
Several documentaries coveres Koenig and his work, including:
 * Dagmar Damek: Fritz Koenig und seine Welt. BR, 1974
 * Percy Adlon: Fritz Koenig. BR, 1979–2002
 * Percy Adlon: Fritz Koenigs Kugel – Der deutsche Bildhauer Fritz Koenig im Trümmerfeld von Ground Zero. BR, 2002
 * Astrid Bscher: Koenigs New Yorker Kugel – Eine Skulptur wird zum Symbol. BR, 2021

Exhibitions in 2024
Several exhibitions have been held in 2024, the centenary of his birth:
 * Fritz Koenig – Lebensstationen, KOENIGmuseum, Landshut
 * Fritz Koenig in New York at the Goethe-Institut, New York
 * Fritz Koenig in Venedig – A Century in Motion by Art Biennale in Venice
 * Fritz Koenig und die Antike, Glyptothek, Munich

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Direct Lending, Inc.
Non-notable company/advertising Gblaz 19:14, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * It's certainly advertising. Delete. --Several Times 19:27, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 'Delete as per Several Times. Pavel Vozenilek 20:34, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gniezno

The Archdiocese of Gniezno (Archidioecesis Gnesnensis, Archidiecezja Gnieźnieńska) is the oldest Latin Catholic archdiocese in Poland, located in the city of Gniezno. The ecclesiastical province comprises the suffragan dioceses of Bydgoszcz and Włocławek.

History
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Gniezno was established in 1000 AD on the initiative of the Polish duke Bolesław I the Brave. He had the relics of the missionary and martyr Adalbert of Prague (Wojciech) transferred to Gniezno Cathedral, which soon became a major pilgrimage site. Here Bolesław met with Emperor Otto III in the Congress of Gniezno, where the duke obtained investiture rights and created the Gniezno archbishopric, superseding the older Diocese of Poznań. Led by Adalbert's half-brother Radim Gaudentius, the ecclesiastical province then comprised the suffragan dioceses in Kraków, Wrocław, and Kołobrzeg (extinct in 1015), and from about 1075 also Poznań.

The position of the archbishops and their suffragans was confirmed in the 1136 Bull of Gniezno issued by Pope Innocent II. The Gniezno metropolitans held the right to crown the Kings of Poland and in 1412 obtained the status of a Primate of Poland. From 1572, they acted as interrex regents of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

When on 16 July 1821 the Diocese of Wrocław was put under direct authority of the Holy See by Pope Pius VII, Gniezno was affiliated in personal union (aeque principaliter) with the Archdiocese of Poznań. The union of Poznań and Gniezno was again dissolved with effect from 12 November 1948, when a personal union (in persona episcopi) between the Archdiocese of Warsaw and Gniezno was established. By Apostolic constitution of 25 March 1992, Pope John Paul II again divided the union between the archdioceses of Gniezno and Warsaw.

Special churches

 * Minor Basilicas:
 * Bazylika św. Apostołów Piotra i Pawła, Kruszwica
 * Bazylika Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Marii Panny, Trzemeszno

Leadership

 * List of archbishops of Gniezno and primates of Poland

Suffragan dioceses

 * Bydgoszcz, established in 2004
 * Włocławek, established about 1015 (split off Kołobrzeg as Diocese of Kujawy–Pomorze), interrupted 1818–1925 (then suffragan of Warsaw as Diocese of Kujawy–Kalisz)

Former suffragans

 * Diocese of Krakow, 1000–1807, became suffragan of Lwów (Lviv), suffragan of Warsaw in 1818, raised to archbishopric in 1925
 * Diocese of Wrocław, 1000–1821 (exempt), raised to archbishopric in 1930
 * Diocese of Kołobrzeg, 1000–1007 (Bishop Reinbern), re-established as suffragan diocese of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg in 1972, became suffragan of Szczecin-Kamień in 1992
 * Diocese of Poznań, 1075–1821, raised to archbishopric, in personal union with Gniezno until 1946
 * Diocese of Płock, 1075–1818, suffragan of Warsaw
 * Diocese of Lubusz (Lebus), established about 1125, suffragan of Magdeburg from 1424, secularised in 1598
 * Diocese of Vilnius, 1388–1798, raised to archbishopric in 1926
 * Diocese of Samogitia, established in 1427, dissolved in 1798, re-established in 1849, raised to archbishopric (Archdiocese of Kaunas) in 1926
 * Diocese of Warsaw, 1798-1813, raised to archbishopric, in personal union with Gniezno 1946-1992
 * Diocese of Chełmno, 1821–1992, de facto already joining Gniezno councils since 1566, replaced by the Diocese of Pelplin, suffragan of Gdańsk (see below)
 * Diocese of Łuck (Lutsk), 16th century, united with Diocese of Kyiv–Černihiv in 1798
 * Diocese of Inflanty (Wenden), 1621–1798
 * Diocese of Smolensk, 1636–1783, merged into Archdiocese of Mohilev in 1818
 * Diocese of Gdańsk, established in 1925 (exempt), suffragan of Gniezno from 1972, raised to archbishopric in 1992
 * Diocese of Szczecin-Kamień, established in 1972, raised to archbishopric in 1992

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User talk:Uthar Wynn 01/archive 1

PETA
Please don't add to the intro that PETA is a quasi-terrorist group unless you can attribute it to an authoritative, non-partisan source. SlimVirgin (talk) 07:13, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Three revert rule
You are in danger of violating the three revert rule. Please cease further reverts or you may be blocked from further editing. --Viriditas | Talk 21:11, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

I came here to warn you about the three revert rule too.. I see Viriditas has done that already. Please remember the policy on no original research - neologisms are specifically excluded from Wikipedia. One or two passing comments on a blog are not evidence that a term is widely-used, either. For a similar dispute, see the discussion about the use of the term "santorum" in the Rick Santorum and Dan Savage articles. Rhobite 21:50, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Hello, Uthar. You seem to be fairly new, so you may not be aware that a partial revert counts as a revert under the 3RR policy. It may not be immediately obvious, but if you spend a little time browsing here, and perhaps peep at some of the archives, you'll see that there are many cases where people are blocked for bringing part of a page (even though not the whole page) back to a previous state. Otherwise, anyone could get round the rule by adding an extra comma to a different paragraph. I'm not going to report you on this occasion, as it seems from one of your edit summaries that you didn't know a partial revert didn't count, but if you keep it up, you're almost certain to be get blocked. Not really worth it, is it? Regards. Ann Heneghan 22:02, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism
I have just seen your vandalism of Viriditas's user page. This is a warning that further such actions are likely to lead to your being blocked. Ann Heneghan 22:31, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

User-page vandalism
You have been temporarily blocked from editing for vandalism of Wikipedia. If you wish to make useful contributions, you may come back after the block expires. SlimVirgin (talk) 22:46, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Why not my own user page?
Only place I can post is User talk:Uthar Wynn 01. Why can't I edit User:Uthar Wynn 01 too? Makes little sense to me... --Uthar Wynn 01 22:52, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

About the whole "schaivo" thing
(meant to be posted on the schaivo talk page, but then I went and got myself blocked)

Ok, I give up. Just so you know, I didn't invent the first 2 uses of "schaivo" as a term, someone I know did, but I admit that the word isn't exactly widespread (even though it is legitimate slang among a limited group). I've had my fun with the veggie lady article, now I'll leave it alone unless I find something genuinely useful to add.

To Veriditas, sorry for defacing your user page to potray you as a pedophile homosexual jew-nazi. Just got frustrated with your persistence and your insistence that I cite my sources. Next to none of the slang entries on Wikipedia "cite their sources", and yet no one complains about those. Hoevever, I do admit that my contribution on the usage of "schaivo" as a term was not exactly necessary and was mainly there for humorous and sarcastic effect, and you were right to remove it. I still disagree with your reasoning, however. "Cite your sources" has become an applicable complaint to such a wide swath of Wikipedia that its usage as a reason to remove an article is little better than "I don't like it".

To GordonWattsDotCom, my name, Uthar Wynn is the name of the master of the Sith Academy on Korriban in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. I'm going to get around to creating a genuine user page at some point with links to my sites (heres one right now:http://utharwynn.deviantart.com/) and other info. Glad someone enjoyed my schaivo contribution.

Got myself a 24-hour block for this stuff. --Uthar Wynn 01 19:07, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Oh joy. Seems I was confused about how the block system works.  Apparently, the IP block resets its timer back to the full 24 hours every time you attempt to edit a page.  That means even though my "user block" expired already by my reckoning, my "IP block" now has 23-something hours to go since I accidentally tried to edit my own user page a few minutes ago.  "Oh no, we'd better punish him for trying to do something theres no chance in heck he will be able to do (the IP adress is already blocked!)"  Made even more absurd by the fact that I "attempted to edit" my own user page.  I have some really "colorful" words I could use to describe this policy, but I think I'll just drop it.  --Uthar Wynn 01 19:37, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Don't get the impression that I support you or that I think you shouldn't have been blocked, but if your attempted edit of your user page really was due to a misunderstanding, why not go to SlimVirgin's page, click the "E-mail this user" link on the left, apologize for your vandalism, and ask to be unblocked? Of course, SlimVirgin would be under no obligation to unblock you, but he/she might choose to do so if the violation of the 24-hour period really was a mistake, especially since, I think, the vandalism was a first offence.  Ann Heneghan 19:48, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I've already done that, just waiting for a reply at this point. I didn't realize attempting to edit would result in a block renewal, that really seems like a ridiculous policy.  --Uthar Wynn 01 20:41, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Your edits to Terri Schiavo
Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. I note that you have already been blocked for vandalism. This is your last warning.-gadfium 03:38, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * (you replied on my talk page) Please refrain from indiscriminate reversions and discuss why you think my contributions are not appropriate on the talk page. I do not believe my edits contained any factual inaccuracies and I would appreciate it if you would not classify my edits as vandalism so readily, you really should make justification before allegations of this nature.
 * I think it's pretty clear to any reasonable person that what you are adding is nonsense.-gadfium 03:45, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

I have blocked you for 48 hours for persistently adding nonsense to Terri Schiavo. I also note that you have tried to avoid the block by editing anonymously. Please take the time out to consider whether you can make useful contributions to Wikipedia.-gadfium 03:51, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

 * It's pretty obvious you blocked me as a result of a personal vendetta. In my final edit on the schaivo article I made a revert that removed every single one of my edits and with a description including the phrase "please don't ban me".  Explain the delay between this final Schaivo edit and you blocking me, it really seems like the reason you blocked me is because I got on your nerves. --Uthar Wynn 01 03:55, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

 * ...It's pretty obvious you blocked me as a result of a personal vendetta. I think you need to consult a good dictionary, so you can find out the real meanings of "obvious", "personal", and "vendetta". Also, you look up "vandalism" while you're at it. --Calton | Talk 04:06, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

You were told not to add nonsense to the article. You then did so, apparently believing yourself to be logged out. If you wanted to avoid the block, perhaps you could have found a more appropriate course of action, such as making sensible edits. As for the personal vendetta: when have I ever encountered you before, apart from your adding of slang to this same article (which I didn't revert)?-gadfium 04:07, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Fine. I just wish you could have made it 24 hours instead of 48. It seems kind of excessive to me, given that I have a history of useful edits. --Uthar Wynn 01 04:17, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

If you agree that your edits which led to the block were inappropriate, and promise to behave in future, I'll reduce the block to 24 hours.-gadfium 04:49, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, I do admit that my edits were a form of vandalism. I'm going to stay away from the Schaivo article from now on, that's the only article I've ever vandalized and I assure you it will be the last.--Uthar Wynn 01 06:13, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Your block has been changed to expire 21 hours from now.-gadfium 06:36, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

RFC on SlimVirgin
I have filed a request for comment on SlimVirgin. You can visit the page by going here. FuelWagon 22:15, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

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1822 in archaeology

The year 1822 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Finds

 * Turin King List is discovered by Bernardino Drovetti.
 * First discoveries of Golasecca culture.
 * Smythe's Megalith in England is identified but dismantled.

Publications

 * Descriptions of the Ruins of an Ancient City, discovered near Palenque published in London. The first book on the Maya site of Palenque, based on the accounts of Antonio Bernasconi and Antonio del Rio, and illustrated with engravings based on the drawings of Bernasconi and Luciano Castañeda.

Miscellaneous

 * September 27 - Jean-François Champollion announces his success in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs using the Rosetta Stone in a letter to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris (based on the work of Thomas Young).

Births

 * January 6 - Heinrich Schliemann, excavator of Troy (d. 1890)
 * February 23 - Giovanni Battista de Rossi, developed Christian archeology (d. 1894)

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Talk:Hans von Storch

validation of climate model
It is stated that Storch et al is a validation of the climate model. I don't see it that way. He just used a climate model to generate date which he used to test the method of Mann. I propose to correct this piece of text.--MichaelSirks 19:15, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Makes no sense to me. I removed the para. William M. Connolley 22:11:38, 2005-09-04 (UTC).
 * It was JH's. Sorry Josh William M. Connolley 22:14:05, 2005-09-04 (UTC).

Not that it matters (but just to prove I didn't make it up), the "10 editors" thing came from here (7th para). Rd232 23:28, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks. Thats an interesting article. I think I'd browsed it some time ago, but had obviously forgotten. William M. Connolley 09:02:36, 2005-09-05 (UTC).

Surprise, surprise
Don't forget to weigh in on Climate alarmism, doc. I already put your Storch quote there. --Uncle Ed 21:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Error
The comments about "Science noting an error" is unsat. Science published a comment on the paper. And included a reply. And it did not "note" errors. The comment alleged them and made comments on interpretation. This is the normal process of science. And the citation to Real Climate (a blog, which Mann, who's been criticized by VS, runs) rather than to the Science comment itself is biased. I'm going to fix this bias. I won't bother with the edit war, though. I just hate that aspect of Wikipedia too much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.246.146.144 (talk) 23:56, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

 * I've restored it, with slight changes. Adding a link is useful. Perhaps you could find the Sci thing directly? William M. Connolley 08:44, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Inadequacy...
I've hunted down two papers referenced in the article with the following words:
 * The inadequacy of the MBH98 methodology for climate reconstructions was later independently confirmed in other publications [...]

While the papers uncover certain weaknesses, I think that's a bit too strong. It's also something not about von Storch, but about MBH. Maybe we should rewrite this as:
 * Other authors reported similar results to von Storch. [...]

Any comments? --Stephan Schulz (talk) 00:56, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

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Needs work
Parts of this article have been added by the notorious source faker, Polentarion/Polentario/Serten/Bakulan. It probably contains stuff which seems to be sourced to reliable sources but is really not, since the sources do not say what the article says. The German article has the same problem. I already removed in irrelevant paragraph where Storch is lauded by a denialist. --Hob Gadling (talk) 17:40, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

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Islami Oikya Jote

The Islami Oikya Jote (ইসলামী ঐক্য জোট, Islami Oikko Joţ, "Islamic Unity Front") is a political party in Bangladesh and allied with the former Four Party Alliance.

History
During the legislative elections of 1 October 2001, the party won 2 out of 300 elected members in an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It was led by Mufti Fazlul Huq Amini and Azizul Haq.

In 2013, the party called upon its community to «severe ties» with atheists and the enemies of Islam, and to take it out in the streets to «foil conspiracies against Islam», and specifically asked the media not to associate this announcement with any other Islamic party whatsoever.

A 2015 article in the journal Prothom Alo stated that the party had been inactive «in recent years». The spokesperson of the party said most of the party's activity happens over the phone.

In January 2016 Islami Oikya Jote Chairman Abdul Latif Nezami announced to quit BNP-led 20-party alliance at a press conference. The OIJ chieh also stated that it is for their organization's interest. But after a few hours of the announcement of Islami Oikya Jote's quitting the BNP-led 20-party alliance, a faction of the Islamist party declared that it would remain with the coalition. In April 2016, the Islami Oikya Jote congratulated the prime minister's decision to lash out the «atheist bloggers» behind the Ganajagaran Mancha's movement for highest punishment for 1971 war criminals. In July 2016, a faction of the party accused the Jamaat-e-Islami to be behind the recent terrorist attacks in Bangladesh.

In March 2017, the Islami Oikya Jote expressed its desire to see all Islamic parties run independently for the 2019 elections in Bangladesh. In 2017, the party repeatedly warned that all non-Islamic idols must be banned from public places, including the Lady Justice statue in front of the Supreme Court. In July 2017, Islami Oika Jote formed a new alliance of Islamic parties to weigh against the Jamaat-e-Islami.

Student wing
The student wing of Islami Oikya Jote is the Islami Chhatra Khelafat. They took part in the 2013 Shapla Square protests in support of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh.

Leaders
Mufti Fazlul Huq Amini and Azizul Haq were the two most influential leaders of the party.

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Talk:Macy Gray

picture
The picture is too scandalous.

 * I never understood why people called Macy Gray ugly. I think she's HOT! PennyGWoods 18:43, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Macy is awesome, her music is awesome. Music suffers if you write it to top charts, but it peaks when you write exactly what you want and people enjoy it. I didn't enjoy it, I LOVED IT JayKeaton 03:34, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Hot 100 Chart Positions
I cannot find where most of these songs even charted on the Billboard Hot 100. The only two songs by Macy I can find debuting are "I Try" and "Request Line." Can somebody supply a reliable source for the chartings listed, or shall I alter them? GassyGuy 02:31, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I usually go by billboard.com, which yielded this page for Macy Gray Singles. It only shows three charting singles ("Sexual Revolution", "I Try", and "Do Something" -- NOT "Request Line") and none of them match the article's table.  I use this site for UK singles (couldn't direct link - just search on "Macy Gray") which also doesn't match.  I say let's compare notes and be bold! Hoof Hearted 13:00, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Aha! Many of the remaining singles are charted on billboard.com under the accompanying artists.  Note that the album links in the table go to another group, not one of Gray's albums.  Still, the peak positions do not match.  It appears that an anon recently made some dubious changes.  I propose breaking the singles table into two tables - one for Gray's own singles, and a second for singles which featured her.  And I would go by the data on billboard.com and everyhit.com.  Agreed? Hoof Hearted 13:20, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't have this page on my watchlist as I thought I did. Your changes are a big improvement. Thanks for that. I find billboard.com's chart summaries are not actually the best but they're certainly more accurate than the previous numbers. GassyGuy 13:05, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

i want to fuck her

Birthyear
There is new dispute over Macy's birthyear. Was she born in 1970 (the most common year used across the internet, including IMDB), or 1967 (a date that I recently changed back to 1970 because no proof was offered)? Hotwine8 03:21, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

http://www.cleveland.com/homegrown/index.ssf?/homegrown/more/macy/grayarea.html. This site claims drivers license records for Ohio gives her date of birth as 6 September 1967, however this site http://www.veromi.net/Summary.asp?fn=Natalie&mn=R&ln=McIntyre&dobmm=&dobdd=&doby=&city=Canton&state=OH&age=&vw=&Search=&Input=&x=64&y=10 gives her age as 40, which would make her born in 1969 and on ancestry.com US Public Records gives her birth year as 1968. I´ve changed the birth year to 1969 since I find that most trustable. Karbuncle (talk) 19:00, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Macy Gray has the ugliest voice I've ever heard in my life.

Her voice is part of her appeal. Anyway, we need to find some information about what she actually DID between Big and her last studio album four years before that one. Was she taking a break? Did she spend all that time writing the album? Honing her skills perhaps? Family problems? It is a gap that needs to be filled if we can find out what she did JayKeaton 23:49, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Someone has vandalized the bio section.

Macy Gray is awesome by kenyalover2003
I am a hard rock fan and always have been. However, when I first heard macy Gray's music I was immediately mesmerized by her vocals. I hope she continues in music and is around for a very long time.

Neopets
There was a Macy Gray neopet but it was removed on 2001 or 2002 for legal reasons (maybe 'cause the macy gray neopet was holding a ray gun :O). --frogger3140 (talk) 23:40, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Years active
How come years active starts in 1998 but she is pictured singing in 1995? Does that mean she was signed in 1998? or she had her first hit in 98? Seems a bit unfair to only describe some as active when they have commercial success. Maybe "Years commercially active" would be better Domminico (talk)

Academy/Punk'd
''Gray opened up a music academy called The Macy Gray Music Academy in 2005 and it was the scene for an episode of MTV's Punk'd because of "black mold in the building". ''

This looks to be 2 different sentences strung together, and what does the black mold refer to? Also since it's a quote, it should probably be cited to help understand what it means. 12.162.122.5 (talk) 15:44, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Two incomplete thoughts in one sentence?
"Gray suffers from bipolar disorder and is an active supporter." -rudyard (talk) 19:21, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Date of birth
Note that I have removed the date of birth entirely until a reliable source is provided for verification. As at least three separate dates have been provided, all of which are poorly sourced, it has been removed altogether to meet WP:BLPSOURCES requirements. --Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 21:10, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * It still seems to be unclear though the reference says 1969...although the article says 1967?Theroadislong (talk) 20:59, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Mother's name, Macy's name
The article states that her mother was called McIntyre, and then she later married someone called McIntyre. She can't have been called McIntyre before she married him, unless she just happened to marry someone with the same surname. Also, what was Macy's name at birth? Jones? VenomousConcept (talk) 13:09, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Comments by HAPPYCASSIUS moved to here from elsewhere.
This is Macy Gray. I was notified that my edits were not constructive and were reverted and to respond here. Wiki has the WRONG birth date. and even more crazy - The WRONG image. (the lady in that picture is NOT me and was inserted by someone I've never heard of.   Some very false history, particularly that i was a mute until I was 7 which is so wrong and random. wtf.  some information that has very little to do with me or my career and was ALSO incorrect.  Every time i attempt to correct it, wiki reverts it.  The false information is damaging to me and grossly misrepresents me on several levels.  please get back to me on making these changes asap.  if not i'll have my lawyer call you in publishing false and stupid  and insulting information and releasing pictures of people that aren't the people.  if you're going to call yourself an "encyclopedia" then get your facts straight before you let people print and say and edit and add whatever they want. the whole "edited, redistributed - by ANYONE - maybe should be re-thunk. HAPPYCASSIUS (talk) 10:49, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Accent
Natalie Renée McIntyre in the lead, but no acccent in infobox. Which is correct? Melonkelon (talk) 05:37, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

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I do not believe the article is anywhere near prepared enough for a GA review. There are several parts that lack citation, and either require further expansion and revision. I would suggest withdrawing the nomination to do further work on the article, as this would be an automatic/quick fail in my book. Also, according to this edit history, you are not one of the primary editors of the article. It is usually recommended to consult one of the primary editors before putting an article for nomination. Either way, just wanted to let you know. Aoba47 (talk) 19:40, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I didn’t notice those citation needed templates but I’m sure they could be easily addressed from what I see. It didn’t take me being a primary editor on it to recommend it for GA status (I try to remain neutral on those fronts) but I believe if fixed, and then nominated it could be ready for proper review. Thanks. Trillfendi (talk) 19:49, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the response. However, I do not believe that these fixes will be as easy as you are making them out. There are several issues with the prose. Just look at the "Other work" subsection, and you can see that it will need to be written to be more cohesive. There are also several spots throughout the article that have single sentence paragraphs, which are discouraged. Several items from the "Filmography" table are unreferenced and not mentioned in the body of the article. The same applies to the "Awards and nominations" table. Even the lead has its own set of issues. This sentence (She is known for her distinctive raspy voice and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday) is not supported by anything in the article. This article will require a substantial amount of work to be ready for a GA review (in my opinion, a lot of rewriting and revision from top to bottom), but I wish you the best of luck with it. Aoba47 (talk) 20:27, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Op-ed article
I don't believe that the section talking about Macy Gray's op-ed is accurate or NPOV: "On June 17, 2021, she wrote an article hostile to the American flag, stating that the flag should be replaced with something more anti-American." Nowhere in her article does she say that the flag should be "replaced with something more anti-American"—quoting from the article, she says this: "America is great. It is beautiful. Pure, it ain’t. It is broken and in pieces." This doesn't sound like she's advocating for an anti-American flag. confermusearename (talk, contribs) Have a nice day! 14:52, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Updating the page
The info about Gray stops dead in 2016. No mention of her 2018 album, further films, or future projects, e.g. she was revealed to be the artist representing Ohio in the upcoming American Song Contest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8309:2184:4900:F9D4:95B3:A4CD:45E0 (talk) 07:48, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

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The R176 road is a regional road in Ireland, running its full length on the Cooley Peninsula in County Louth. It runs between its junction with R173 at Ghan Road, Carlingford and its junction with R175 at Saint James' Well via Carlingford Relief Road and Mullatee.

Its total length is 3 km.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Masonic High Council for England and Wales

 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 deleted. – ABCD✉ 18:49, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Masonic High Council for England and Wales
This smacks of being a breakaway group, not part of mainstream masonry. -- RHaworth 19:18, 2005 July 20 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry I didn't understand the reason for this being sent to vfd. Is it becuase they claim to be mainstream while they're not? I don't think that's grounds for deletion, instead, that should be explictly mentioned in the text. Abstain drini ☎ 19:20, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I sent it to VfD to help advertise it to the ugly (UGLE) masons. But I think they know about - see edit wars in Regular Masonic jurisdictions. Let us sit back and watch them fight it out - but keep clear of Queen Street. -- RHaworth 19:59, 2005 July 20 (UTC)
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Play the Percentages

Play the Percentages is an American game show hosted by Geoff Edwards which aired in syndication from January 7 to September 12, 1980. Jay Stewart announced for the first six weeks, after which Bob Hilton became the permanent announcer.

The game changed format several times over its short run, but all forms involved some variation on asking questions with percentage answers or statistics.

Couples format
Two married couples competed. One contestant from each couple was asked to estimate what percentage of 300 people answered a specific question correctly. Whoever was closest to the actual percentage, high or low, scored the actual percentage points. If both contestants guessed the same percentage, either contestant was given the option to change their estimate.

The contestant who scored the points could then either answer the question (without conferring with his or her spouse) or challenge his or her opponent to answer. A right answer or a successful challenge added the remaining percentage points to the couple's score. For example, if 53% answered the question correctly, a team earned 53 points for the closer guess and could earn an additional 47 points from a correct answer to the question or a successful challenge.

If the contestant with the initial control missed the question, the opponent could steal the points. Originally, a successful challenge also allowed the contestant to answer the question for the same number of points. The first couple to reach 300 points won the game and $300.

Originally, if a team guessed the percentage exactly right, they won the game automatically. A week later, in addition to winning the game, the team won a cash jackpot that started originally at $25,000 and then $10,000 and increased by $1,000 for every game in which it went unclaimed. Any couple who won five consecutive games received a new car.

Solo contestant format
On March 3, 1980, the format was overhauled. Two individual contestants, one a returning champion, competed in a straight quiz. Three categories were in play in each game. Two of the categories were selected by the players before the game, with each player selecting one that they felt they knew the most about. The third category consisted of random general knowledge questions and was called Potluck.

A round started with a category being determined by a randomizer, and two questions were asked in that category. The challenger chose a value from ten to ninety points in ten point increments for the first question with the points based on the percentage of the people surveyed who answered the question incorrectly, rounded to the nearest ten. Answering correctly earned the challenger the points, but the champion could steal them if the challenger did not answer correctly. The second question was played the same way, but with the champion determining the value.

If one of the two preselected categories was chosen, both questions would be asked in turn. If Potluck was chosen, both questions were toss-ups and could be answered by either player by buzzing in. Later, every question became a toss-up.

The first contestant to reach 250 points won the game and $500 and advanced to the bonus round. If there was no winner after five rounds, a final toss-up question decided the winner (the player who is in the lead getting to choose the category), who then advanced to the bonus round. Any contestant who won five consecutive games won a new car.

Bonus round
The couple gave a target percentage that was larger than zero. The host read a question and three possible answers. One answer (usually the correct one) was the most popular and awarded the most points. Another choice was a less popular answer, and the third answer received no response and scored zero points. The couple chose an answer and scored points based on the percentage of the poll that also gave that response.
 * First format

If the couple chose an answer which scored 0%, the bonus round ended immediately. The couple could also choose to end the bonus round at any time and take $10 per point earned. However, if a couple accumulated 100 points or more, the couple won $2,500. Also, if a couple chose an answer with a percentage that matched exactly the percentage stated at the start of the bonus round, the couple won a cash jackpot that started at $25,000 and increased by $1,000 each day.

Starting the week of January 14, the format was changed to remove the jackpot. Also, the couple was required to choose both scoring answers before moving to the next question.

Starting on the show’s fifth week, a single question was presented with a list of six possible answers. Five of the answers were given by the survey respondents, and one answer was not given. Contestants chose answers one-at-a-time, winning $10 per point or $2,500 for guessing all five actual responses and avoiding the answer with 0%. As before, selecting the answer with 0% ended the game and forfeited all bonus winnings up to that point. The $2,500 cash prize was later replaced with a prize package worth between $3,000 and $4,000 (which included $1,000 in cash).
 * Second format

When the format changed from couples to individual contestants, the champion was permitted to bring a spouse, other relative or friend onstage, but only for moral support—the champion was the only person who selected answers. (The supporter was permitted to suggest answers, but it was the champion's decision.)

To ensure that the percentage points in this format always added up to 100%, the points awarded were based on the percentage of the people who responded with that answer in relation to the five most popular answers of that survey, not the actual number of people who gave that answer.

From February 18 until the program's cancellation, the same prize package was at stake for the entire show until won.

Episode status
USA Network reran the series from April 27, 1987, to June 23, 1989. Game Show Network has aired episodes sporadically over the years.

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Gaturro

Gaturro is an Argentine comic strip created by cartoonist Cristian Dzwonik ("Nik"). The comic has been published in more than 50 books, magazines and comic volumes. An animated film of the same name was released theatrically in Argentina on September 9, 2010.

Synopsis
Gaturro is a brown cat with yellow cheeks. The series is about the life of a cat, named like the strip, who is in love with another cat called Ágatha. However, she is not interested in him. Gaturro does not speak; he just thinks. In some cases, he can communicate with humans like this. However, when he communicates with his animal friends, he does speak. Among his most frequent activities, he usually walks on the roofs and goes to school.

Characters
Principal characters
 * Gaturro: He is an Abyssinian cat and the protagonist of the comic. He lives with his owners who have raised him since he was young. While his house is a charming place, he also enjoys roaming the rooftops of his neighborhood. Among the rooftops, Gaturro can interact with other characters from neighboring houses. Gaturro's owners send him to school every now and then, not for the education, but to get him out of the house. In school, Gaturro is a bit of a troublemaker and makes life difficult for his teacher, Ms. Ruda Vinagreti. Gaturro has also appeared dressed in formal clothes at his owner's office in some strips to issue a punchline in the form of a thought bubble, but what he does there has not really been explained.
 * Ágatha: She is Gaturro's neighbor. They have known each other for a long time and the relationship has always been the same: Gaturro is totally in love with Ágatha, but she never pays him attention. She is very jealous, selfish and she wants to be the only one rejecting him.

Adoptive family

 * Daniel (the father): He is Gaturro’s owner. He represents the stereotype of a father of the middle classes who, even exhausted because of work, tries to fulfill his family responsibilities. He treats Gaturro as another son. He eats a lot and tends to spend most of his time watching television on his sofa. He is noticeably overweight.
 * Valeria (the mother): She is very understanding and affectionate, but also determined. She is completely dedicated to the house and the family, and she copes with stress by doing exercise or practising Feng Shui enthusiastically.
 * Luz: She is the oldest daughter of the family. Her incipient adolescence turned her so capricious and stubborn that she is constantly in trouble with the family, Gaturro included.
 * Agustín: He is the youngest son of the family. He seems to be the only one who treats Gaturro as a pet. He is very curious and passionate about video games.
 * The twins: They are the newborn babies of Gaturro’s family, a boy and a girl.
 * The mother-in-law: She is Luz and Agustín’s grandmother and Daniel’s mother-in-law. She does not live in the city but she visits the family once in a while. She speaks a lot.
 * Uncle Jorge: He is Daniel’s brother; that is to say, Luz and Agustín’s uncle. Even if he has a physical resemblance with his brother, he has a least serious and thinner look. Besides, he is not stressed at all.
 * The cousins: They are Luz and Agustín’s cousins. The only thing that is known about them is that they are naughty.

Biological family:

 * Mamurra: She is Gaturro’s biological mother. She is overprotective with Gaturro. She always asks him to eat well, to wear sweaters, to study and to be careful.
 * Gatulongo: He is one of Gaturro’s cousins. He has a very long neck. He is friendly and quiet and he is never in a hurry. It takes hours for him to answer. He does not speak a lot.
 * Papurro: He is Gaturro’s father. He occasionally appears on the strip. Dynamism is not his cup of tea. He is lazy about everything.
 * Abuelurra: She is Gaturro’s grandmother. Just as Mamurra, she is very overprotective with Gaturro. She is always knitting sweaters for Gaturro because she is worried about keeping him warm all the time.
 * Tiurras: They are Gaturro’s aunts. They appeared in the strip on February 25, 2007 for the first time.
 * Bisabuelurra: She is just like Mamurra and Abuelurra, but to a higher degree. She is the great-grandmother of Gaturro.
 * Hermanurro: He appears when Gaturro introduces him to Ágatha. He is furrier and taller than Gaturro.
 * Gaturrín: He is the baby of Gaturro's household, and Gaturro adopts him as a nephew. Gaturro tries to instruct Gaturrín but often ends up learning from the baby cat. He is a very good observer of reality, and the weakness of Ágatha. He is often seen sucking on his pacifier, except when he is too busy sucking on his baby bottle instead.

Cat friends

 * Gateen: She is the adolescent cat of the roofs. Gateen is an authentic "teen", with all adolescent skills that can be imagined. For instance, she is a money changer and a rebel (still does not know very well why, but wants to be rebellious). She is in the age of the great changes, and it shows. Deep down, she feels that nobody understands her.
 * Gaturranta: One of Gaturro’s friends that visits him once in a while. She is the opposite to Ágatha, she is nice and a good friend. She helped Gaturro to make Ágatha jealous more than once.
 * Katy Kit: Gaturro showed interest in her. She says to be famous and to appear on television and in magazines. She is quite frivolous and seems to only worry about her aspect.
 * Misha: She is the last cat to move into the neighborhood. She lives near Gaturro’s house. She has two little braids, she is very nice and active. She is constantly looking for new friends.
 * Elizabeth: She is the wealthy cat of the neighborhood. She lives in a mansion with her own and the butler. She studied in the London Miau Institute, travelled around the world and speaks several languages. Her butler is Jaime, who she is always asking for champagne. She is very delicate, elegant and distinguished. She likes to be flattered and taken care of.
 * Gaturrina: She is Gaturrín’s girlfriend. She is as little as Gaturrín.
 * Gatunislao: Her name is Gatunislao García Aristizabal. He is the posh cat of the neighborhood. He has a double surname and an important lineage. He lives on appearances. He says he has several houses, cars, fields, and yachts… but he actually has none of those things.
 * Gatovica: Ágatha introduced him once as her boyfriend. He is well-built and muscular, although once Ágatha touched him with her sharp nails and poked his muscles. He does not speak a lot. It is only known that he likes lifting weights.
 * Malurro: He is Ágatha’s ex-boyfriend. He is really mean and does not want her at all. However, that is what Ágatha likes most of him.
 * Tommy Cool: He is the coolest cat in the neighborhood. He dated Ágatha, but they broke up because he was individualistic and would only care about the new trends.
 * Grasurro: He is Ágatha’s ex-boyfriend. He is a singer of romantic music.
 * Gatalina Yolí: Inspired by Angelina Jolie, he is the new cat that comes to Gaturro’s neighbourhood and makes all the cats fall in love with her. She was going to marry Gaturro, but Ágatha interrupted the wedding. Gatalina wears a lot of heavy makeup.
 * Gaturrón: He is very big and robust. He is Gaturro’s cousin.
 * Alelí: She is one of Ágatha’s sisters. She is always saying “yes” to everything, but when Gaturro asked her out, she said no.

Animal friends

 * Arañita: He is a little spider. He is one of Gaturro’s friends who usually goes down hanging in his thread to visit him. They have a physical resemblance, since both have the same cheeks.
 * Ramiro: He is a mouse that lives in Gaturro’s house. Gaturro does not chase him nor haunts him. They are close friends.
 * Canturro: He is the dog of the comic strip (the "can" prefix being derived from Latin canis, "dog"). Having taken the phrase "man's best friend" too much to heart, he is convinced that he is the protagonist of the strip. Believing that he looks too much like Gaturro, he undergoes cosmetic surgery to become more "doglike". With this new face, he thinks that he can appear more frightening.
 * Emilio: He is the fish of the family and a friend of Gaturro and Gaturrín, who always look for a way to amuse him, although often that "fun" transforms into great "dangers" for the poor Emilio. He lives in a round fishbowl, in the living room of the house, near the armchair for the TV.
 * Canario: He is a bird and a friend of Gaturro. It is owned by a neighbor of Gaturro.

Controversy
For several years, there has been evidence of plagiarism in the strip, largely from Argentine artists. These cartoonists include Quino, Leo Arias, Paz y Rudy, Roberto Fontanarrosa, Caloi (Carlos Loiseau), Juan Carlos Argüelles, Lola, and in the international field, Bill Watterson and Jim Davis. Gaturro does share many similar features to Davis' Garfield, leading some to refer to the series as a bootleg.

A "black book" of NIK has been created which lists many examples of alleged plagiarism. The announcements have led the author's rejection from participating in some publications and shows.

Between July and August 2022, a statue of the character located on the Paseo de la Historieta in Buenos Aires was vandalized and later retired. Some time later, Nik announced on his Twitter account that they were preparing a new statue with "anti-vandal technology". On July 14, 2023, another statue was put in the Paseo de la Historieta; it only lasted for two days before being retired, again, due to vandalism.

On July 20, 2023 in Córdoba, a statue of Gaturro located in the Plaza de la Intendencia was inaugurated, which in less than 24 hours was vandalized, was later removed and a statue of Sonic was put in its place.

List of books

 * Gaturro 1 to Gaturro 38
 * Gaturro a lo grande 1 to 6 (Gaturro Big Size)
 * Te quiero mamá (I Love You Mom)
 * Sos mi Gaturrín (You Are My Gaturrín)
 * Te amo cada día más (I Love You More Each Day)
 * Gaturriendo (Gatulaughing)
 * Brutish English
 * Te Amo (I Love You)
 * Feliz Cumpleaños (Happy Birthday)
 * Esta es mi oficina (This is My Office)
 * Así se hace Gaturro (This is how Gaturro is Made)
 * Mini Gaturro 1 to 5

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1828 in archaeology

1828 in archaeology

Events

 * The 'Metternich Stela' is presented by Muhammad Ali of Egypt to Prince Metternich.

Finds

 * The Crondall Hoard, a hoard of one hundred and one old French and Anglo-Saxon coins, is found in the village of Crondall in the English county of Hampshire.

Publications

 * Prussian Academy of Sciences begins publication of the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecum under the editorship of August Böckh.

Births

 * May 2 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and explorer (d. 1915)
 * August 18 - Jakob Messikommer, Swiss archaeologist (d. 1917)
 * Frank Calvert, British archaeologist (d. 1908)

Deaths

 * March 31 - Charles "Hindoo" Stuart, Anglo-Irish British East India Company officer and collector of Hindu antiquities (b. c.1758)

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MoSoSo

MoSoSo (mobile social software) is a class of mobile applications which scope is to support social interaction among interconnected mobile users. The basic idea of a MoSoSo is to overlay a location and time element to the idea of digital networking. It enables users to find one another, in a particular vicinity and time, for social or business networking.

Social software and groupware: CSCL and CSCW
The term itself has its roots in social software and Groupware, computer applications designed for the desktop environment and aiming at facilitating various forms of social interaction, with the former being oriented to Internet-based informal exchanges, daily tasks and entertainment and the latter focusing on collaborative work (CSCW) or learning (CSCL) within a well defined group. Two typical groups that would benefit from these applications are work colleagues or school classmates. While the term social software, introduced by Clay Shirky in recent years, has gained much popularity, Groupware is not anymore a trendy word, even if it has a strong tradition that goes back to the Eighties. Scientific research on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) provides results which are still valid in the mobile environment. However, three important differences between desktop and mobile environments should be taken into account when conducting research on MoSoSo: firstly, the physical context of use moves from static desktop setting, where the user is typically sitting in front of his computer, to the more dynamic mobile context, which presents higher constraints to human attention, but also provides an opportunity for information or communication at any time and anywhere. Secondly, the social context becomes wider, shifting from the group to the network concept. Rather than relying on static and known membership criteria, where group members usually know each other, social network ties change often and are not as dense as in traditional groups. Therefore, network boundaries cannot be easily identified. A mobile social network is the social space determined by a MoSoSo application. Finally, an important distinction concerns the ultimate goal of MoSoSo applications, designed for usage in everyday life situations, including not only tools for communication, but also for coordination and knowledge sharing. From this perspective, MoSoSo is more similar to social software than Groupware applications, which aimed at increasing productivity and teamwork at work or at school.

Technical perspective
From a technical point of view, MoSoSo applications are very connected to the concept of Mobile Internet and the emphasis is more on data sharing than mere communication. Thus, only mobile phones with computational power, or Smartphones, can host this kind of applications. However, as there is not a universal definition of MoSoSo yet, many people consider as MoSoSo also phone calls and text messages, as they support social interaction on the move. In any case, the former perspective encounters wider consensus than the latter. The development of MoSoSo applications is rapid and already evolved from mobile extensions of Internet social networking sites to powerful software, providing novel opportunities for social interaction, especially when used for proximity interactions based on Bluetooth scanning and connectivity. The availability of GPS systems and the integration of maps in mobile devices offer great opportunities not only in the context of individual activities, such as "search", but especially in the social context. MoSoSo exploiting these possibilities is known as LBS-MoSoSo.

As empowering social platform
In one of the few critical studies on MoSoSo, Thom-Santelli (2007) argued that the real potential of MoSoSo was constrained by its limited conceptualization, and consequently implementation, as an urban entertainment gadget. Building on her argument, Lugano (2010) re-conceptualized MoSoSo as a general-purpose social platform for grassroots social change and proposed a holistic design model for empowering self-organizing digital communities to co-create, share and use community-generated services (CGS). By complementing public and commercial services, digital communities through CGS contribute to build resilience in people's lives and global information societies.

Issues
Being highly personalized and contextualized, privacy issues represent one of bigger obstacles to the wide adoption of MoSoSo.

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Talk:Goodyear 400

Merge with Carolina Dodge Dealers 400
These pages have been merged as its a continuation of the same event on a different date. The support race,Diamond Hill Plywood 200 retains its history despite the date change and other races like AMP Energy 500, Auto Club 500 and Crown Royal Presents The Jim Stewart 400 have retained their history despite a major date change. NASCAR also considers this a continuation of the same event in their annual Official Preview and Press Giude. -- Cmjc80 (talk) 02:12, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

As of 2009 the track took up history of another event held at the track from 1950-2004. This page should not go past the 2008 raceand everything from 2009 - Present should be added to Southern 500 (1950-2004). 66.153.239.134 (talk) 00:23, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Should we put in "Southern 500" for 2009?
the owners of the track, next year, it will have the "Southern 500" name, should i go ahead and rename the article and cite the proper references? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Racerboy (talk • contribs) 18:42, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Reverted Edit
I reverted an edit by IP user 72.193.243.170 in which race winners from 1950 through 1959 were removed. I have reviewed the information and feel that although the edit may be valid, the unreviewed deletion of the data by an IP user makes me uncomfortable. I will try to contact a registered user with knowledge of NASCAR to try and establish the validity of the edit. TreacherousWays (talk) 16:31, 10 September 2010 (UTC) Nearly seven months, you haven't followed up? If you aren't going to follow up, you shouldn't remove data. for future NASCAR referencing, try http://racing-reference.info it's 100% accurate. For whatever reason, the chart on the Showtime Southern 500 wiki is horribly inaccurate. At least 2 Southern 500 events are missing, the 1966 event and the 1993 event, and I'm sure plenty in between those dates.

Southern 500 returned in 2009
Im pretty sure this page should stop in the year 2008. The Southern 500 returned in 2009 as the "Southen 500 presented by GoDaddy.com". That year they brought back the Southern 500 trophy and all of its history so I'm pretty sure that everything from this page from 2009 to 2013 needs to be added/merged with the page "Southern 500 (1950-2004)" and make that the default page for the Bojangles' Southern 500. 66.153.239.134 (talk) 19:00, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

I agree. NASCAR and Darlington Raceway add 2009+ to the 1950-2004 history. It should be like that here too. 166.205.68.27 (talk) 20:15, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

However, from a lineage standpoint, the 2009 race is a continuation of the Rebel (Carolina Dodge Dealers 400). All races at Darlington have a lineage that goes to the Rebel 300 of 1957, NOT the Southern 500 that was given to Texas in court. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.121.204.246 (talk) 11:58, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: Moot. Moved to a disambiguated title. Note however that the race is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, not the car, and Dodge Challenger 500 redirects to...Bojangles' Southern 500. Also the redirects are a mess. I'm off to shake the mop at it. The Bushranger One ping only 22:42, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

– The Bojangles' Southern 500 has been moved from the spring to Labor Day weekend and the information about all the races called the Southern 500, including the current Bojangles' Southern 500, is covered in the Southern 500 (1950–2004) article. Meanwhile, this article serves to cover the spring Darlington race before it was renamed to the Southern 500, and should adopt the last race name before the Southern 500 as the title.  Dough 48  72  03:47, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Bojangles' Southern 500 → Dodge Challenger 500
 * Southern 500 (1950–2004) → Bojangles' Southern 500
 * Oppose "Dodge Challenger 500" should redirect to Dodge Challenger, where the 500 model is documented. The race should be called NASCAR Dodge Challenger 500 -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 04:59, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
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What this includes vs Southern 500
I very much agree with this structure for the pages, however I have a slight fix that I think is necessary. The spring race was lengthened in 2005 to keep a 500 mile race at the track after the fall race. When they renamed in "Southern 500" in 2009, it was the exact same race as 2005-08 but with a different name, while likewise the 2005-08 races bear much more resemblance to the 2009-14 races. Thus I think the 2005-08 races that were 500 miles should be included in the Southern 500 article because the 2005-2014 500 mile races were all the same but the last six were just called "Southern 500". The Rebel 400 race that ran until 2004 was fundamentally different from the 2005-08 Dodge 500s, which were the de facto bridge in the Southern 500. This will greatly reduce confusion and greatly help continuity. AMLNet49-Talk-Cont 15:27, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 * "I think" does not make it accurate fact. Initially, the series had the idea for the May Darlington 500-mile race in 2005 to be considered a "brand new event," without any actual or implied continuous statistical lineage to the spring race formerly known as the Rebel/TranSouth/Carolina Dodge Dealers 500/400...nor any actual or implied connection to the original Labor Day Southern 500. Research can and likely will find articles to verify and support that. In fact, several articles of the time flatly describe the Southern 500 as gone and formally discontinued.

 * After a couple years, they quietly revised their thinking, and decided that the May 500-miler would be a statistical continuation of the TranSouth/Rebel/CDDealers 500. When the name of the May race changed to "Southern 500", some people assumed that from now on it was going to be a de facto continuation of the original Labor Day race.

 * A more accurate lineage of the Darlington races would be described as follows:
 * The spring race has been from 1957.←
 * The Southern 500 ran from 1950-2004, then again from 2008-2014, and moves back to Labor Day in 2015. Including the May race from 2005-2008 in the Southern 500 article is revisionist history, and not supported by official statistical publications. Doctorindy↔Talk 21:17, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

 * The correct lineage of Darlington's current race has always been dating to the 1957 Rebel 300. Revisionism has been rampant since the 2009 naming controversy.  The Southern 500 ended in 2004.  The Rebel 300 has been raced since 1957, and in 2005 the Rebel kept its sponsor and reverted to its Confederate Memorial Day date.

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Double duty
This page says Lee Roy drove a Merc. This page says Ford. Unless he changed teams mid-season, one of them has to be wrong... TREKphiler  any time you're ready, Uhura  23:53, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

asterisks
why do some races have asterisks? I thought it was due to the notes but 2011 doesn't have an asterisk 74.108.173.238 (talk) 22:35, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

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World 600
Why is this article called Coke 600 when for the majority of the history of the event it was called the World 600? Should an encyclopedia change history every time a sponsor is changes. Is there a policy to cover this sort of thing? -- 109.76.217.1 (talk) 23:55, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

 * Even when this question was posted the Coca-Cola name had been attached to this for over three decades, longer than the 25 years before it came into use. So it was not the majority of the race's history at all, let alone now.
 * And yes, sponsors names are used when they meet WP:COMMONNAME, which this certainly does. The Coca-Cola 600 name has been in use for so long that the World 600 name is obscure trivia, not the common name at all. oknazevad (talk) 16:18, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

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May 27 2020 Date
The Coke 600 is running May 24, 2020 and not May 27, 2020. The May 27th date is to make up the race that would have been at Sonoma. Why is the May 27th date included in this page? It has no relevance or linkage to the Coke 600. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.248.236.27 (talk) 20:58, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

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1915 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1915.

Explorations

 * Hiram Bingham III finishes his explorations of Machu Picchu, begun in 1911.

Excavations

 * R. E. Merwin leads Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology project at Lubaantun.
 * Alfred V. Kidder (director of the Southwestern Expedition for Phillips Andover Academy) excavates Pecos Pueblo, New Mexico (ending 1927).
 * Earl Halstead Morris excavates Twin Angels Pueblo.
 * Nijmegen Helmet is found in the Netherlands.

Publications

 * Sylvanus Morley - An Introduction to the Study of Maya Hieroglyphs.

Events

 * 21 September - Cecil Chubb acquires Stonehenge at auction for £6600.
 * The first of the 'Etruscan terracotta warriors', forged by sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti with the Riccardi family, is purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Births

 * August 8 - María Rostworowski, Peruvian historian (died 2016).
 * December 8 - Bernard Fagg, English archaeologist working in Nigeria (died 1987).
 * December 28 - Martyn Jope, British archaeologist and biochemist (died 1996).
 * Michael J. O'Kelly, Irish archaeologist (died 1982).

Deaths

 * February 23 - Theodore M. Davis, American Egyptological excavation sponsor (born 1837).
 * May 10 - Gaston Cros, French army officer and archaeologist, killed in action (born 1861).
 * October 24 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist of Central America (born 1828).
 * Sir Alfred Biliotti, Italian Levantine British consular officer and archaeologist (born 1833)

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WOGL

WOGL (98.1 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc. and broadcasts a classic hits radio format. The broadcast tower used by the station is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia, at (40.04167°N, -75.23611°W). The station's studios and offices are co-located within Audacy's corporate headquarters in Center City Philadelphia. The station features mostly hits from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s with some 2000s hits.

WOGL uses HD Radio, and broadcasts a classic dance format on its HD2 subchannel. The talk radio programming of sister station WPHT is simulcast on its HD3 subchannel, while the programming on its HD4 subchannel was all related to Philadelphia Phillies baseball. The HD4 subchannel has since been turned off.

Prior to 2018, the station played Christmas music during the holiday season; this practice was discontinued after WBEB, which also broadcasts Christmas music during the season, was acquired by Entercom (forerunner of Audacy).

Early years
On January 13, 1942, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted the William Penn Broadcasting Company a construction permit for a new FM station on 47.3 MHz on the original 42-50 MHz FM broadcast band, with the call sign W73PH. Beginning the next month the station was issued a series of special authorizations to operate commercially with a temporary antenna, followed by its first full license on March 2, 1943.

William Penn Broadcasting also operated AM station WPEN (now WKDN) in Philadelphia, and on November 1, 1943, W73PH was assigned the WPEN-FM call sign. After the FCC created the current FM broadcast band on June 27, 1945, William Penn Broadcasting applied to the FCC for a construction permit on January 21, 1946, to install a new transmitter and antenna for operation on 99.5 MHz, and the FCC approved this application on October 24, 1946.

The station's license and construction permit were voluntarily assigned to the Philadelphia Record Company, owners of AM station WCAU (now WPHT) in Philadelphia, on November 28, 1947. This was effective December 18, 1947, and the station's call sign was changed to WCAU-FM the same day. On December 23, 1947, the FCC reassigned the station to 98.1 MHz, modifying the construction permit. The FCC granted a licensee name change from Philadelphia Record Company to WCAU, Inc. on March 3, 1948. The commission granted WCAU, Inc. a new license for the station for operation on 98.1 MHz on September 27, 1949.

On December 4, 1953, the FCC granted WCAU, Inc. a construction permit to relocate the station's transmitter and antenna to the Roxborough section of Philadelphia. The station's license was renewed by the FCC with the new facilities on October 19, 1954. The FCC granted a voluntary assignment of the station's license to Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. on July 23, 1958.

Until 1966, WCAU-FM simulcast the middle of the road music heard on AM 1210 WCAU. Along with other CBS FM stations, WCAU-FM began airing "The Young Sound," a prerecorded format of instrumental easy listening songs based on contemporary hits.

Switch to oldies, then disco
In the fall of 1970, WCAU-FM replaced "The Young Sound" with an automated oldies format. For prerecorded announcements, the station used the voice of Jim Nettleton, a disc jockey on top-rated WABC in New York City. Prior to working for WABC, Jim Nettleton was a very popular DJ on WFIL from 1966 to 1969 before he was heard on WABC in late 1969. Live air personalities were eventually heard, with Nettleton moving from New York to host middays. The station played the hits from 1955 up to and including some current product.

At the end of 1975, the oldies format was replaced by disco music, a hot trend at the time. As disco cooled, the station called its format "Fascinatin' Rhythm". When the 1970s came to a close, the music became more diversified with the addition of jazz, pop and R&B. The station experimented briefly with a format called "Mellow Rhythm" at this time, hosted primarily by Dr. Perri Johnson (now a music therapist in Los Angeles).

Hot hits "98 Now"
Program consultant Mike Joseph was brought into WCAU-FM in April 1981 to develop a new format to replace the struggling "Mellow Rhythm". Joseph recommended that the station go Top 40. On September 22, 1981, at Midnight, the new format at WCAU-FM debuted: an all-current-hits, high-energy, jingle-intensive Top 40 sound dubbed "Hot Hits". Joseph first put Hot Hits on the air in 1977 at WTIC-FM in Hartford, Connecticut, with a significant increase in ratings. Joseph called the station "98 Now". WCAU-FM's ratings showed an immediate improvement, and subsequently, FM stations in major radio markets such as WBBM-FM in Chicago, WHYT in Detroit, WMAR-FM in Baltimore, CKOM in Saskatoon, WFEC in Harrisburg, WNVZ in Norfolk, and KITS in San Francisco picked up the "Hot Hits" format.

WCAU-FM found a great deal of success with this programming for much of the mid-1980s, although the original "Fusion" jingles from TM were dropped in the summer of 1982 and replaced with a package from JAM to increase appeal to older listeners. Some notable DJs on the station in this period included Paul Barsky, Rich Hawkins, Billy Burke, Terry Young and Christy Springfield.

Return to oldies, evolution to classic hits
In 1987, WCAU-FM found itself with stiff competition in the CHR/Top 40 format from WEGX, "Eagle 106". CBS decided that WCAU-FM could be more profitable appealing to an older, more desirable demographic of 25-to 54-year-olds. On November 9, 1987, at 7 p.m., after playing "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen, WCAU-FM returned to the oldies format as WOGL (which stood for "Old Gold"). The first song on WOGL was "Good Golly, Miss Molly" by Little Richard. Eleven hours later, however, 102.1 WIOQ shifted to oldies as well. WOGL had a deep playlist, playing a larger number of songs than most oldies stations. For the next year, WOGL and WIOQ competed for Philadelphia's FM oldies audience, until WIOQ dropped the format early in 1989. Scott Walker, who programmed Hot Hits WCAU-FM, remained as Program Director.

Originally, WOGL was known as "Oldies 98". By 1992, WOGL incorporated more soul oldies. The station still played artists such as Elvis, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, but in addition, it focused on soul, including Philadelphia-only hits. The mix was about 2/3 R&B and 1/3 rock and pop, with the rock and pop songs that were played being the big hits typically heard on oldies stations. WOGL played about 15% 1950s, 15% early 1960s, 55% mid-to-late 1960s, 13% 1970s, and 2% 1980s.

WOGL aired specialty shows such as the "Hot Lunch Special" request show, "The Weeknight Hall Of Fame," "Top 20 Oldies Countdown," "Elvis & Friends," "The Saturday Night Dance Party," "Brunch With The Beatles," and "Street Corner Sunday" (a Doo Wop music program). In 2001, all specialty shows were dropped. The playlist was moved away from soul and Philadelphia-only hits (though a few remained), and moved towards a more traditional playlist as found on other oldies stations. The music was about 70% 1960s, 10% 1950s, 15% 1970s, and 5% 1980s. Scott Walker left the station in 2001.

By 2002, some of the specialty shows were brought back, including a modified version of "Street Corner Sunday". While it was strictly doo wop in its previous incarnation, it was updated to play all types of pre-1964 oldies. In addition, more 1970s music was added and even some 1980s tracks were heard. In 2003, the name "Oldies 98" was downplayed and the station became known as "Motown Soul Rock & Roll: 98.1 WOGL". At that point, the station cut to one 1950s song per hour and one pre-'64 song per hour. It also played a couple of 1980s songs per hour. The rest of the music was roughly 50% mid and late 1960s and 50% 1970s music. In 2004, the playlist was tightened to about half 1960s and half 1970s. Their slogan also changed to "Greatest Hits of the '60s and '70s." In late 2007 and early 2008, more 1980s music was added to the rotation, and effective July 6, 2008, WOGL's slogan was changed to "The Greatest Hits of the 60s, 70s and 80s," which is also used on sister station WCBS-FM when it returned to an Oldies/Classic Hits format in July 2007.

In late 2016, morning co-host Valerie Knight was let go after 14 years with the station. In 2017, Frank Lewis and Bill Zimpfer, co-hosts of WOGL's morning show "The Breakfast Club", were also let go.

As of 2018, WOGL no longer plays 1960s and early 1970s music, with its playlist shifting towards focusing on hits from the 1970s through the early 1990s, with a heavy focus on the 1980s.

On January 21, 2018, "Street Corner Sunday" was discontinued after 29 years in favor of regular programming.

As of April 2022, WOGL has increased the frequency of 1980s and 1990s hits per day and is also adding music from the 2000s.

Big 98.1
On April 28, 2022, at 8:30 a.m., after playing "Got My Mind Set on You" by George Harrison and going into a commercial stopset, the station began a half-hour stunt with songs that featured the word "big" in the title or artist name, such as "To Be with You" by Mr. Big, "Big Pimpin'" by Jay Z featuring UGK, "Mr. Big Stuff" by Jean Knight, "Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie and "Big Me" by Foo Fighters. At 9:00, WOGL relaunched as "Big 98.1", readjusting their classic hits format to focus primarily on songs from the 1970s to the 1990s, with the first song being "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey. With the move, the station temporarily suspended most of their airstaff with the exception of morning host Sean 'Coop' Tabler; Audacy Philadelphia market manager David Yadgaroff disclosed to the Philadelphia Business Journal that the mostly-jockless launch is expected to last, by his estimation, "a short period of time — a couple of weeks to a month or so. [...] And then as we move through the spring and into the summer, we will add some additional hosts for mid-day afternoon and evening." The change also resulted in the unannounced departure of the station's longtime weekend program "Bob Pantano’s Dance Party", which had been heard on the station on Saturday nights and would move to the station's HD2 subchannel after being on the main frequency as far back as WOGL's launch in 1987.

Jingles
From the late 1980s through the early 1990s, WOGL used jingles from Frank Gari Productions, Otis Connor, and TM Studios. From the mid-1990s through the early 2000s, the station used the Do It Again jingle package by JAM Creative Productions and the Super Hits package by Tony Griffin, both of which were also used by sister station WCBS-FM. From 2003 to 2017, the station used jingles from a variety of different JAM packages, most of which were resings of 1970s-80s top 40 station jingles. Since late 2017, the station has been using jingles from Reelworld Productions.

Entercom/Audacy ownership
On February 2, 2017, CBS agreed to merge CBS Radio with Entercom (now Audacy). The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17. Though CBS shareholders own 72 percent of Entercom, the latter is still its own public company, effectively separating WOGL and its sister stations from KYW-TV and WPSG-TV.

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Albion House, Liverpool

Albion House (also known as "30 James Street" or the White Star Building) is a Grade II* listed building located in Liverpool, England. It was constructed between 1896 and 1898 and is positioned on the corner of James Street and The Strand across from the Pier Head.

History
Designed by architects Richard Norman Shaw and J. Francis Doyle, it was built for the Ismay, Imrie and Company shipping company, which later became the White Star Line. After White Star merged with Royal Mail Line, the headquarters remained at Albion House until 1934, at which time the British Government forced the merger of Cunard Line and White Star Line. The building is situated on the corner of The Strand and James Street. The facade is constructed from white Portland stone and red brick. In 1912, when news of the disaster of the Titanic reached the offices, the officials were too afraid to leave the building, and instead read the names of the deceased from the balcony. During the Second World War, the gable was damaged and was later rebuilt in the late 1940s. After many years being vacant, in 2014 the building was converted into a Titanic-themed hotel known as 30 James Street.

Architecture
The design closely follows the architect's earlier work of 1887, the former New Scotland Yard building in London. In the 1980s, the Offices in Albion House were noted for their exquisite Office desks of fine wood. The entrance to the building at James Street has a fine mosaic of South America set into the floor, also near the James Street entrance inside Albion House was a wooden war memorial listing the members of staff who "Gave their lives for their country" in the 1914-18 War.

Albion House is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

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