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Hyeonjong of Goryeo

Hyeonjong of Goryeo (1 August 992 – 17 June 1031), personal name Wang Sun, was the 8th ruler of the Goryeo dynasty of Korea. He was a grandson of the dynastic founder King Taejo. He was appointed by the military leader Kang Cho, whom the previous King Mokjong had called upon to destroy a plot by Kim Ch'i-yang. During his reign, the Goryeo dynasty fought two wars against the Khitan Liao dynasty.

Biography
On 1 August 992, Wang Sun was born from an affair between Prince Wang Uk (later posthumously given the temple name Anjong) and his widowed niece, Queen Heonjeong. As a result of the affair, his father, Wang Uk, was exiled and his mother died in childbirth.

Wang Sun was the heir to the childless King Mokjong, however the queen dowager, Queen Dowager Cheonchu, sought to have her child with her lover, Kim Ch'i-yang, as the next king. He was forced to become a monk. Queen Dowager Cheonchu would attempt to send assassins to kill Wang Sun, however, the abbot of his temple managed to foil the attempts.

In 1009, the military inspector of Seobukmyeon, Kang Cho, overthrew King Mokjong and installed Wang Sun as the next king of Goryeo. In 1010, the Khitan attacked Goryeo, using the deposition of King Mokjong as a casus belli. Hyeonjong was forced to flee the capital temporarily and with the help of General Kang Kam-ch'an directed the court to move far south to the port city of Naju. Kang Cho attempted to stop the foreign invaders but was defeated in battle and captured. While escaping from the Khitan invasion, Hyeonjong met Kim Un-bu in Gongju, and married his daughter, Queen Wonseong. In the end, Goryeo repulsed the Khitan and forced them to withdraw from the Korean land.

In 1019, when Goryeo continued to refuse to submit or return the northern territories, the Khitan attacked once more. Goryeo generals, including Kang Kam-ch'an, were able to inflict heavy losses on the Khitan army in the Battle of Kwiju. The Khitan withdrew without achieving their demands and never again invaded Goryeo. Both the Liao Dynasty and Goryeo enjoyed a time of peace, and their cultures were at their height.

Meantime, Hyeonjong ordered the compilation of the Tripitaka Koreana, which was 6,000 volumes. It is the act of carving the woodblocks that was considered to be a way of bringing about a change in fortune by invoking the Buddha's help.

Family

 * Father: Anjong of Goryeo
 * Grandfather: Taejo of Goryeo
 * Grandmother: Queen Sinseong
 * Mother: Queen Dowager Hyosuk
 * Grandfather: Daejong of Goryeo
 * Grandmother: Queen Seonui
 * Consorts and their Respective issue(s):
 * 1) Queen Wonjeong of the Seonsan Kim clan (994–1018); half first cousin once removed – No issue.
 * 2) Queen Wonhwa of the Gyeongju Choi clan (996–?); half first cousin once removed.
 * 3) Princess Hyojeong (1011–1030)
 * 4) Princess Cheonsu (천수전주; 1016–?)
 * 5) Wang Su (왕수)
 * 6) Queen Wonseong of the Ansan Kim clan (995–1028)
 * 7) Crown Prince Wang Heum (1016–1034)
 * 8) Wang Hyeong, Prince Pyeongnyang (1018–1046)
 * 9) Queen Inpyeong (1023–?)
 * 10) Princess Gyeongsuk (1025–?)
 * 11) Queen Wonhye of the Ansan Kim clan (1000–1022)
 * 12) Wang Hwi, Prince Nakrang (1019–1083)
 * 13) Wang Gi, Duke Pyeongnyang (1021–1069)
 * 14) Queen Hyosa (1022–?)
 * 15) Queen Wonyong of the Chŏngju Yu clan (998–?); half first cousin once removed – No issue.
 * 16) Queen Wonmok of the Icheon Seo clan (998–1057) – No issue.
 * 17) Queen Wonpyeong of the Ansan Kim clan ( d. 1028)
 * 18) Princess Hyogyeong (1026–?)
 * 19) Pure Consort Wonsun of the Gyeongju Kim clan (995–?)
 * 20) Queen Gyeongseong (1015–1086)
 * 21) Noble Consort Wonjil of the Kaeseong Wang clan (1011–?) – No issue.
 * 22) Noble Consort, of the Yu clan (1000–?) – No issue.
 * 23) Palace Lady Hwon-yeong of the Yangju Han clan (1000–?)
 * 24) Wang Chung (1025–?)
 * 25) Palace Lady Yi (1005–?)
 * 26) Palace Lady Bak (1005–?)
 * 27) Lady Aji (1025–?)

In popular culture

 * Portrayed by Kim Ji-hoon in the 2009 KBS2 TV series Empress Cheonchu.
 * Portrayed by Kim Dong-jun in the 2023 KBS2 TV series Korea–Khitan War.

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Pselaphinae

Pselaphinae are a subfamily of beetles in the family Staphylinidae, the rove beetles. The group was originally regarded as a separate family named Pselaphidae. Newton and Thayer (1995) placed them in the Omaliine group of the family Staphylinidae based on shared morphological characters.

This is a species-rich subfamily with 9,000 to 10,000 described species. They are especially diverse in the tropics. They are commonly found in decaying leaf litter on forest floors, in grass tussocks, flood refuse, moss, and other highly structured and particulate microhabitats. Little is known about their biology. They are believed to be predatory on small invertebrates, in particular springtails (order Collembola) and oribatid mites (order Oribatida).

Pselaphines have attracted the interest of entomologists due to their exquisite and variable morphology, which is rewarding to observe with a microscope. In addition, the myrmecophilous ("ant-loving") behavior of some pselaphine groups (notably certain batrisites, pselaphites, and clavigerites) has inspired behavioral studies. Spectacular morphology and myrmecophilia are both taken to extremes by the Clavigeritae. These are obligate inquilines which have undergone radical changes in body form, including segmental fusions within the abdomen and antennae to form strong, rigid, plate- and club-like structures, respectively. Clavigerites also possess trichomes, which secrete a solution on which ant larvae feed.

Anatomy
Pselaphines are small, compact beetles. The elytra are short, not covering the first abdominal segment. The head and pronotum are narrower than the elytra. Most have clubbed antennae.

Most species have 11 antennomeres, and some have 10, 9, or 3. Most have a tarsal segmentation formula of 3-3-3, and some have 2-2-2.

Systematics
The 100 genera in North America contain 710 species.

The Pselaphinae consist of six "supertribes":
 * Faronitae
 * Euplectitae
 * Goniaceritae
 * Pselaphitae
 * Clavigeritae
 * Batrisitae

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Josip

Josip is a male given name largely found among Croats and Slovenes, a cognate of Joseph.

In Croatia, the name Josip was the second most common masculine given name in the decades up to 1959, and has stayed among the top ten most common ones throughout 2011.

Notable people named Josip include:

 * Ruđer Josip Bošković, Ragusan physicist
 * Josip Bozanić, Croatian cardinal
 * Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav president
 * Josip Frank, Croatian politician
 * Josip Globevnik, Slovenian mathematician
 * Josip Golubar, Croatian footballer
 * Josip Hatze, Croatian composer
 * Josip Jelačić, Croatian ban
 * Josip Katalinski, Bosnian footballer
 * Josip Kozarac, Croatian writer
 * Josip Manolić, Croatian politician
 * Josip Marohnić, Croatian emigrant activist
 * Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician
 * Josip Projić, Serbian footballer
 * Josip Račić, Croatian painter
 * Josip Skoblar, Croatian former player and football manager
 * Josip Skoko, Australian soccer player
 * Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Croatian bishop and politician
 * Josip Šimunić, Croatian footballer
 * Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer
 * Josip Vranković, Croatian basketball coach

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Lawrence Guterman

Lawrence Guterman (born July 18, 1966) is a Canadian film director known for his work with companies like DreamWorks, Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, Universal, Paramount, Nickelodeon, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, STX Films, Annapurna Pictures and Lionsgate. He directed the feature films Cats & Dogs (2001) and Son of the Mask (2005), as well as several episodes of Out of Jimmy's Head (between 2007 and 2008).

Personal life
Guterman went back to school after working in animation and received a Master's degree in Film from the University of Southern California.

Career
Guterman was raised in Montreal and Toronto, where he made his first short films in grade eight. After high school, Guterman went to the United States to attend MIT and then Harvard University, where he received a physics degree. Guterman would return to Canada every summer to study animation at Sheridan College of Art. He created illustrations for the Harvard Lampoon. His interest in film-making was renewed after completing a 15-minute documentary for one of his courses at Harvard.

After university, he moved to Los Angeles and worked on computer graphics and as a script reader for Columbia Pictures. While in Los Angeles, Guterman attended USC School of Cinematic Arts to expand his film knowledge. While there, he sold two feature-length scripts to major film studios and co-wrote a script for the Tales from the Crypt series. The latter caught the attention of Robert Zemeckis and HBO.

He directed and co-wrote the short, Headless!, which earned positive reviews at USC's First Look Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize at Worldfest in Huston. Guterman took his first role as director when he worked on a video game based on the Goosebumps series for DreamWorks Interactive after Steven Spielberg saw his short "Headless!". He was then offered to direct several sequences for the animated film Antz (1998) for DreamWorks Animation.

In the early 2000s Guterman made his feature film directorial debut with Warner Bros.' Cats & Dogs (2001), which earned $201 million in worldwide box office revenue, followed by Son of the Mask (2005). He is an executive producer of Remember (2015), starring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau and directed by Atom Egoyan.

In 2018, Larry Guterman was named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People.

Filmography
Short film
 * Headless! (1990)

Feature film
 * Cats & Dogs (2001)
 * Son of the Mask (2005)

Video game
 * Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland (1996)

Television

Other credits

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Naivety

Naivety (also spelled naïvety), naiveness, or naïveté is the state of being naive. It refers to an apparent or actual lack of experience and sophistication, often describing a neglect of pragmatism in favor of moral idealism. A naïve may be called a naïf.

Etymology
In its early use, the word naïve meant "natural or innocent", and did not connote ineptitude. As a French adjective, it is spelled naïve, for feminine nouns, and naïf, for masculine nouns. As a French noun, it is spelled naïveté.

It is sometimes spelled "naïve" with a diaeresis, but as an unitalicized English word, "naive" is now the more usual spelling. "naïf" often represents the French masculine, but has a secondary meaning as an artistic style. “Naïve” is pronounced as two syllables, in the French manner, and with the stress on the second one.

Culture
The naïf appears as a cultural type in two main forms. On the one hand, there is 'the satirical naïf, such as Candide'. Northrop Frye suggested we might call it "the ingénu form, after Voltaire's dialogue of that name. "Here an outsider ... grants none of the premises which make the absurdities of society look logical to those accustomed to them", and serves essentially as a prism to carry the satirical message. Baudrillard indeed, drawing on his Situationist roots, sought to position himself as ingénu in everyday life: "I play the role of the Danube peasant: someone who knows nothing but suspects something is wrong ... I like being in the position of the primitive ... playing naïve".

On the other hand, there is the artistic "naïf - all responsiveness and seeming availability". Here 'the naïf offers himself as being in process of formation, in search of values and models...always about to adopt some traditional "mature" temperament' - in a perpetual adolescent moratorium. Such instances of "the naïf as a cultural image... offered themselves as essentially responsive to others and open to every invitation... established their identity in indeterminacy".

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Astley Jones

Astley Jones is a newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4. After beginning his career as a PE teacher, he took up work as a BBC Sports correspondent. He has followed a freelance career since 1975, working on Radios 2, 3, 4 and World Service as well as a stint in television. He has also worked for the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS). He also had a bit part in the Blake's 7 Season 1 episode - "Seek Locate Destroy" as a scientist working on a Federation Base.

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Tokai, Cape Town

Tokai, a large residential suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, is situated on the foothills of the Constantiaberg, (a large whaleback shaped mountain in the Table Mountain range) and is bordered by Steenberg and Kirstenhof to the south, Bergvliet to the east, Constantia to the north and the SAFCOL pine tree plantations against the mountain to the west.

History
In 1791 or 1792, governor Johan Isaac Rhenius bestowed the area of Tokai to Johannes Rauk, a colonist born in Narva, Estonia, who became one of the first farmers in the Dutch Cape Colony.

Tokai, named after Tokaj, a range of hills in Hungary, was originally an open area with various wine farms and smallholdings. Today, though most of the wine farms are no longer there, there are still a few old Cape Dutch houses like those found in Constantia. The suburb was built in the late 1940s, and was built quickly because of the urgent need for housing for predominantly white, English-speaking South African soldiers returning from World War II.

Scenery and surroundings
Nearby is Pollsmoor Prison, where Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners were incarcerated by the Apartheid regime. Mandela was there for four years (1984 to 1988) after his transfer from Robben Island, before moving on to Victor Verster Prison until his release on 11 February 1990.

Some of Tokai's roads are paved with red brick. Streams run through Tokai and the pine plantations, forming green belts where various bird, frog, and insect species make their home. These green belts also provide areas for recreation including walking, cycling and dog walking. The once extensive pine plantations were, until recently, regarded as a prime spot to observe predatory birds, including hawks, buzzards, owls and certain eagle species.

Some of the last tiny remnants of Cape Flats Sand Fynbos can be found around here (although even these remnants have been partially covered with pine plantations). This is the only spot in the entire world where this endangered vegetation type survives in a sustainably large area, and work is under way to provide it with long-term protection.

In 2018, the Norval Art Foundation was opened close to Steenberg Wine Estate. The Foundation houses unique art works from the collection of the Norval family.

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Vladimir Krainev

Vladimir Krainev (Влади́мир Все́володович Кра́йнев; 1 April 1944 – 29 April 2011) was a Russian pianist and professor of piano, People's Artist of the USSR.

Biography
Krainev was born in Krasnoyarsk, the son of musician Vsevolod Krainev and pediatrician Rachil Gerschoig.

He studied at the Central School of the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Anaida Sumbatyan, and also studied at the Conservatory in the classes of Heinrich Neuhaus, and his son, Stanislav Neuhaus.

After winning second prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition and first prize at the Vianna da Motta International Music Competition (ex-aequo with Nelson Freire), and especially after his victory at the fourth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (first prize ex-aequo with John Lill), his career as a pianist began.

He performed with some of the world's leading orchestras and conductors, and collaborated with renowned artists throughout the world. Alfred Schnittke dedicated one of his piano concertos to him. International music festivals known as "The Invitation of Vladimir Krainev" were held each year in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, and concerts called "Vladimir Krainev: his Friends and Pupils" were given annually at the Moscow Conservatory. Krainev was a jury member of many international piano competitions, for instance: Leeds, Lisbon, and Tokyo, as well as the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Vladimir Krainev was a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany, where 29 young pianists from the People's Republic of China, France, Germany, Korea, Russia, Ukraine, and other countries studied with him. Among his students were Katia Skanavi, Vladimir Sverdlov, Igor Tchetuev, Aglika Genova and Liuben Dimitrov, Pascal Godart, Alexandre Moutouzkine, Irma Issakadze, Denys Proshayev, Hisako Kawamura, Dong-Min Lim, Ilya Rashkovsky, Mariya Kim, Ingmar Lazar, Gintaras Januševičius, Paul Kern, Lin Ye, Chun-Chieh Yen, and Sun Ho Lee. In 1992, Krainev organized the first international competition of young pianists in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

He lived in Hannover, Germany, and was married to Tatiana Tarasova, a renowned figure skating coach, who trained the winners of nine Olympic gold medals.

On 29 April 2011 Krainev died in his house in Hannover, aged 67.

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Neil Sleat

Neil Sleat is a newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4.

Career
After joining the BBC in 1989 as a trainee engineer, working as a studio manager and then an announcer/newsreader on the BBC World Service, he joined Radio 4 as an announcer/newsreader in 1998. He has also produced many BBC Radio 4 trails. He returned to BBC Radio 4 in May 2006 after several months away producing trails full-time. He left the BBC staff in 2021 but now does voice work on a freelance basis, including presenting on Radio 4 Extra.

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Kim Soo-nyung

Kim Soo-nyung (born April 5, 1971, in Chungcheongbuk-do) is a former member of the South Korean Olympic archery team in 1988, 1992, and 2000.

She has earned a total of four gold medals at the Olympics, one for the individual event in 1988 and three for the team event in 1988, 1992 and 2000. She won a further silver medal in 1992 and a bronze in 2000, both for the individual events. She retired after the 1992 Olympics to marry and raise two children, resuming her training in 1999, in the lead up to the 2000 Summer Olympics.

She competed at the 1990 Asian Games winning a gold medal in the team event and a bronze in the individual. She also won two consecutive individual and team world championships in 1989 and 1991.

In 2011, Kim was declared the Female Archer of the 20th Century by the International Archery Federation (FITA).

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Mano

Mano may refer to:

People

 * Mano people, an ethnic group in Liberia
 * Mano (name), a list of people with either the given name or surname
 * Mano (Mozambican footballer), Celso Halilo de Abdul (born 1984)
 * Mano (Portuguese footballer), Luís Miguel Lopes Mendes (born 1987)
 * Mano (singer), stage name of Indian playback singer Nagoor Babu (born 1965)

Places

 * Mano, Landes, a commune in France
 * Mano, Niigata, a town in Japan
 * Mano, Sierra Leone, a town
 * Mano River, a river in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
 * Mandø, a Danish island formerly often spelled Manø

Other uses

 * Mano language, spoken by the Mano people
 * Movement of Organized Nationalist Action (Movimiento de Acción Nacionalista Organizado), a former Guatemalan paramilitary group
 * Mano (comics), a comic book supervillain
 * Mano (film) a 2007 film about Hector Lavoe
 * Mano (stone), a type of hand stone used to grind grain
 * Mano (gesture), a Filipino gesture of respect
 * Mano (mythology), a female deity in Sámi mythology
 * Mano Maritime, an Israeli cruise line
 * Mano machine, a theoretical computer described by M. Morris Mano

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The Great Crossover Potential

The Great Crossover Potential is a greatest hits album by the Sugarcubes, released on July 14, 1998. It contains tracks from the group's three studio albums, with no new tracks or remixes.

Track listing
Notes
 * Tracks 1–5 are from the Sugarcubes' debut album, Life's Too Good.
 * Tracks 6–9 are from their second album, Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!
 * Tracks 10–14 are from their final album, Stick Around for Joy

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User talk:Clay b

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How about we fix the article on Sexy Losers?
so, i'll need you to upload that pic of tomoe into commons as and the other pics. you can keep them in an album like this:

User:Clay b/Photo album (I've taken the liberty to set it up for you)

If you need any help inserting the pics, let me know on my talk page

fap*fap*fap*fap*, yours

George Marselis 14:27, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

I think one of the problems with me directly helping out is that it would go against the policy of webcomic listings on Wikipedia (the artist cannot author his own web comic listing). I'd be happy to help out, but not directly, as per the rules. clay 23:00, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Nope, we definitely encourage people to release content under free licenses so that it can be used on Wikipedia. Besides, it's not like there's anyone else who can do it; you're the only copyright holder, so no one else can do it. There's a big difference between writing the article and contributing free content that can be used in the article. So, please upload some things from the strip under the GFDL so we can use more images on the article — thanks! -- Cyde Weys 03:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

 * You're right in that there's a difference, however, the writers of the article would want to use art that is relevant to the point they are making. The purpose of the article is the main thing and illustrations that accompany the article would have to share the purpose. I cannot say what the purpose is as I am not the author.  If there are certain images that require GFDL, I'll be happy to see what I can do.  However, I haven't got a clue as to what "some things" would be in order to make a good article on this subject. clay 07:28, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't know if you check this any more,
but I just wanted to say "thanks". I'm sorry to see THL/SL go, but I'm glad you made it anyway. It brought many a smile. I'll keep an eye on the quality of its article to prevent vandalism. Take care, Kasreyn 20:27, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but I'm afriad you'll need both eyes with the amount of vandalism it's been exposed to recently.clay 13:10, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

CLAY I LOVE YOU
CLAY COME BACK

DO WHATEVER IT TAKES, BRING THE ICON OF THE INTERNET "SEXY LOSERS" BACK SO IT LIVES FOREVER IN THE ANAL BUM COVER OF THE INTERNET —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.11.74.112 (talk) 16:26, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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Air Yugoslavia

Air Yugoslavia was an airline based in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). It was established in 1969 and operated numerous international charter passenger services, using aircraft from parent airline JAT Yugoslav Airlines. Its main base was Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport.

Air Yugoslavia officially existed as a subsidiary of JAT. The division called "Air Yugoslavia" has been replaced with the Charter and Tourism Department within Jat Airways in 2005.

In 1973, it operated four Boeing 707 and three Sud Aviation Caravelle. In 1975, the company operated two Boeing 707-320C and three Sud Aviation Caravelle.

In summer 1989, Air Yugoslavia operated flights from Belgrade to Niš, Priština, Skopje, Ohrid, Titograd, Tivat, Dubrovnik, Sarajevo, Split, Zadar, Pula, Rijeka, Zagreb and Maribor, and from Zagreb to Belgrade, Tivat, Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar, Pula, Ljubljana, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and Hamburg.

Code data

 * ICAO Code: YRG
 * Callsign: Yugair

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Netoholic's view
So, let me get this straight. Nightscream wants to add more information to our encyclopedia, and there are other editors that don't want that information. Since noone seems to be disputing the factual basis for the information, that doesn't seem to be a problem. Some have contested the NPOV status of the additions, but I don't really see a problem and even if I did that can be fixed with editing, not blanket removal.

I suggest the initiators of this RFC re-evaluate whether they have been accommodating during this. There are plenty of solutions than simple reversion. One could edit the Nightscream's section down a bit. One could even reduce it to a summary and split it off into its own article. I for one find information about the super powers far more interesting than boring storyline information.

So, ALL of you stop edit warring, and find some balanced way of presenting this information. -- Netoholic @ 14:15, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I am compelled to respond to this. No. That is not it at all. No he is not trying to add good objective information to the encyclopedia. He is trying to add bad information (NPOV, biased, opinion, conjecture, etc). He is trying to add the most nebulous kind of fan cruft. And people have been disputing his facts. If you look on the discussion page you can see where I specifically took apart his edit and did exactly that. Believe what you will but you are wrong. We tried to find something valid in his edit and were not able to find anything. There was a very good reason that he was blocked. His accusation that it was unfair and that he had no idea the discussion was even taking place or where it was taking place shows you just how honest and reasonable Nightscream is. Look a little closer at the dialogue. ScifiterX 22:16, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I also do not appreciate your contention that a group of people advocating thier side of an argument in a discussion is the same as edit warring. We did not knowingly break the 3 revert rule. Nighscream did. We did not ignore the discussion that was going on or pretend we didn't know about it. Nightscream did. He is the one who has been breaking the rules and sticking his nose up at both the democratic process inherent in this site and those who abide by it such as yourself. ScifiterX 22:24, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

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 * 1) Hiding talk 08:49, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2)     ( ! | ? | * ) I really don't see why this user's behaviour is a problem. Adding detailed information about something notable that is both neutral, and uncontested as to its accuracy, is exactly what Wikipedia is about.      ( ! | ? | * ) 18:46, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment (not an endorsement) I've contested the accuracy all along, on the basis that Nightscream attempts a level of precision beyond what the source material can support. - SoM 19:39, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete. Joyous (talk) 18:13, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

Amoako
Non-notable vanity page the wub  "?/!"  14:29, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, non-notable activist. Dcarrano 18:54, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn vanity. --Etacar11 00:56, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable vanity. JamesBurns 08:44, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

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165 Squadron, Republic of Singapore Air Force

The 165 Squadron is an Air Defence Group squadron of the Air Defence and Operations Command, Republic of Singapore Air Force. It operates the Rapier missile purchased from British Aerospace since 1983, providing air defence cover against low-flying aircraft.

With its motto, "Pride in Protection", the squadron conducted its first live-firing exercise at the Royal Artillery Range in Hebrides, the United Kingdom in July 1984, and participated in its first overseas deployment exercise in 1985 in Exercise Air Thai-Sing (now known as Exercise Cope Tiger) at Chandy Range in Thailand.

History
The 165 Squadron, then known as 165 SADA, was officially formed on 1 August 1983 with the acquisition of the Rapier missile after an air defence study in 1978. Formed at Changi Camp, it was established on 1 September 1985, before becoming fully operationally ready a year later.

In 1987, the battalion shifted to Lim Chu Kang Camp II, where it is currently located. Full-time National Servicemen were added to its ranks in 1988. In July 2006, ADSD became ADOC (Air Defence Operations Command) and ADB became ADG (Air Defence Group).

It current operates the Surface-to-Air PYthon and DERby - Short Range (SPYDER-SR) ground-based air defence system.


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Article
Nice article, Cape Breton link goes to a disambiguation page, I don't know about this so I havn't fixed it. Alf 14:31, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Cause of Death
This article seems to leave out the cause of death. Based on various sources, MacAskill apparently was at the Halifax pier and was demonstrating his anchor lifting abilities when his grip slipped and he was injured by the almost 3000lbs anchor - some sources say pinned beneath. In any event, he died from his injuries not long afterward. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.107.50.100 (talk • contribs) 08:58, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Lifting the anchor never killed Angus Giant Macaskill. He died many years after lifting the anchor at his parents home in Englishtown. The doctor said cause of death was brain fever and he died in his sleep.Cashisclay 17:06, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

He did injure himself with the anchor, but Cashisclay isright about the real cause. As a direct decendant of Angus, I'm sure this is correct.

brain fever is pretty vague. probably more like acromegaly — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.50.25.34 (talk) 19:59, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Angus Macaskill "The Cape Breton Giant"
The 1981 Guinness Book of World Records lists Angus as the tallest natural giant who ever lived, the strongest man who ever lived, and the man having the largest chest measurements of any non-obese man.Cape Breton's Big Boy jogged down the street with a 300-pound barrel of pork under each arm to the admiring whistles of bystanders. To win a bet with some French sailors he lifted an anchor weighing 2700 pounds to his shoulder and walked down the wharf with it. When Big Angus was about fourteen he went on a fishing boat to North Sydney, and the crew took him along to a dance. The Big Boy had gone ashore without shoes and in old clothes and was sitting near the door watching because dancing was frowned upon by the strict Presbyterian elders of St. Ann's. One of the dancers was a young man from town who danced over with his pretty lassie and stepped on Angus' bare toe. The big, red-faced boy quickly pulled his feet out of the way but bystanders laughed. Angus became absorbed in the dancing and unconsciously put his feet out again. The dandy stepped on the boy's toe again. For a moment it looked as if there would be a fight for the fishermen who had brought Angus along would have joined in. Angus turned red and clenched his fists but remained seated while the bully laughed. The third time his heel came down, the Big Boy jumped up and his fist swept up to his tormentor's jaw. That gentleman landed in the middle of the floor- and was unconscious for so long they thought he was dead. When the captain returned to his schooner he found Angus on his knees praying that he had not killed the man. The fishermen of St. Ann's envied Big Angus' strength. While they laboriously bailed their boats, Gille Mor set his weight under his half ton boat, tipped it on its beam ends and out spilled the bilge water! Singlehanded, he set a forty-foot mast into a schooner as easily as a farmer set a fence post in a hole.

John A. Morrison of South Gut of St. Ann's, told James Gillis that one evening at twilight when he was returning from his nets Angus called to the fishermen on the shore to help him pull his heavy boat up the steep slipway. The men thought they would play a trick on the Giant and carry it right up over the hill into a pool. At high water mark Angus said: " That will do, thank you, " but the crowd pretended not to hear and kept on. Big Angus grabbed the boat - which was pulled to pieces.

A visitor to the neighbourhood, a captain who had come on one of the American fishing vessels which came to St. Ann's to buy bait, challenged Angus to a wrestling match. St. Ann's Big Boy refused. When the three hundred pound visitor taunted him, the Cape Bretoner lost his temper and grabbed the American and threw him over a woodpile ten feet high and twelve feet wide! Another time he shook hands with a tormentor until the man's fingers started to bleed.

There are contradictory accounts of the anchor incident which may have taken place in New York or New Orleans, which is natural as many anecdotes about McAskill were collected by James Gillis more than forty years after the Giant's death. French sailors taunted the Giant to lift an anchor lying on the wharf {the weight of which was estimated at 2200 to 2700 pounds). He did so, but one of the flukes caught in his shoulder, crippling him. Almon, who talked with the Giant's younger brother John, said that Angus admitted lifting "That Anchor" but would not talk about it and that when Angus came home he was "as straight as an arrow". Mr. Almon believed that the Giant must have lifted "That Anchor" in a "Press Lift" being braced between a solid and a moveable object-but wonders how the fluke caught in his shoulder. However this did not kill him nor was it the cause of his death he died years later.

Big Angus McAskill was planning to go to Halifax to sell the produce he had collected and to buy the stock he needed for the winter season from the wholesalers in the capital city. Suddenly he became seriously ill, and his family moved him back to his parents' home, where his old bed was hastily lengthened and put up in the living room. The doctor's diagnosis was brain fever. After a week's illness, the Cape Breton Giant died peacefully in his sleep on August 8, 1863, the Rev. Abraham McIntosh, the Presbyterian minister, being in attendance and many neighbours in the house. The Halifax Acadian Recorder of August 15, 1863 reported that "the well-known giant ... was by far the tallest man in Nova Scotia, perhaps in British America" and that "his mild and gentle manner endeared him to all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance". The whole county mourned.http://www.macaskill.com/GeneralTallTales/Angus/angus.htmlCashisclay 04:13, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

 * That anchor did not weigh nearly as much as is stated here. No one, regardless of size and strength, is going to shoulder an anchor of such an enormous weight and walk with it. As David Willoughby stated at the bottom of page 39 of his authoritative book on strength athletes, "It is generally agreed the anchor weighed 600 pounds". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tpryan (talk • contribs) 06:19, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

I very much beg to disagree. Furthermore I deplore your un-sourced cynicism. Have you actually been to the Angus MacAskill Museum at Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye? The famous anchor is by all contemporary sources said to have weighed at least 2700lbs, some sources say heavier. You patently obviously have no concept whatsoever of the sheer physical size of Angus MacAskill. We are not talking about someone who is just hugely tall. Angus MacAskill was physically massive, a true non-pathological giant and the only one ever recorded. A perfect greatly scaled-up human being, and an immensely strong one at that. His feats of strength far exceed that of even the greatest Olympic heavy-weight lifting champions. It was French whalers who bet he couldn't lift their ships anchor. When the fluke of the anchor pierced his back after he stumbled after carrying the anchor some distance it did not kill him but robbed him of his formidable former strength, and he did die not long afterwards. Angus MacAskill was a Gaelic speaker, and a native Gael and as such that really needs a mention. Please respect encyclopedic convention and quote PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL not subsequent hearsay and guesswork. If you seek information on Angus MacAskill then visit the Angus MacAkill Museum at Dunvegan, Isle of Skye, not only are they extremely helpful and enthusiastic they will provide you, free of charge, with copies of the life story of the great Angus MacAskill. I know that sounds like advertising but any scholarly information disseminated free of charge is surely exempt from the accusation of commercial advertising/exploitation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.37.80 (talk) 01:18, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Clean Up
This article is very interesting and whatnot, but it doesn't read like an encyclopedia article. Rather than giving brief descriptions of stories about Big Angus, it gives rather detailed ones. If the stories are cited there really isn't a need for so much detail, people can go to the links provided to learn more. But like I said, I find this article very entertaining, it's just not an encyclopedia article and it needs far more work than I am willing to put into it. --DavidFuzznut 14:23, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

The bulk of the stories are taken word-for-word from macaskill.com. They should be summarized or restated; if direct quotations are used, that should be made clear. This article is outright plagiarism.Callumny (talk) 19:24, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

OK- Anything that is a verbatim quote should simply be removed as a copy violation. I am v. busy right now - and may not get to this for a little while so I encourage you to be bold. If you need help please post something at Wikipedia talk:Copyright violations. Ben  Mac  Dui  19:29, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Angus in the Antipodes
The statement that he went by fishing boat to North Sydney is very odd. It implies that North Sydney was the ultimate destination of a very long trip to the other side of the world. North Sydney is a suburb of Sydney, and previous to the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, not as populous as it is now. If included, the anecdote (not "antidote" as some silly has written) should be modified to say that he had gone to Sydney on a fishing boat and that in North Sydney etc etc. --Amandajm 13:46, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

The article is reffering to North Sydney, Nova Scotia and Sydney Nova Scotia not Australia. Sydney is located in Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.13.80.150 (talk) 01:26, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Photograph is not of McCaskill
The giant depicted in the photograph that appears on this page is not Angus McCaskill. Rather it is Monsieur E. Bihin, known as the French or Belgian Giant, who appeared at Phineas Barnum's American Museum in New York City from the 1840s to the 1860s. General Tom Thumb was also displayed at Barnum's American Museum and it was commonplace for Barnum to show the midgets walking around and under the legs of the various giants in the museum there, as this photograph suggests. Visual corroboration that the giant is indeed Bihin is available on page 175 of the book "P.T. Barnum, America's Greatest Showman" by the Kunhardts, published by Knopf in 1995. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.121.72.176 (talk) 01:35, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

I had a look at thetallestman.com and there is certainly some doubt. I will remove the photo and post a note at the image's talk page. Ben  Mac  Dui  09:49, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * It's MacAskill, BTW. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.192.63.39 (talk) 20:40, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Source? — Llywelyn II

 * I'm just noting here that recently (24 December 2013) an IP removed the image with the following edit summary: There are doubts whether or not this is Angus, the back of the photo stated "General Sullivan A. Meredith, tallest General in the Civil War 6'7".--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 00:00, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Worthless without photos
Obviously we can't use unsourced ones and shots of completely unrelated people are no good either, but we do need to get a photo into the article. Anyone have something handy? — Llywelyn II   03:12, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

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Infobox image
Still in June 2020 the photo is still up. Something that would not happen in a real encyclopedia. I merely removed the photo as it is not Angus MacAskill, i was threatened to be blocked by solarflare. So much for anyone can edit. This site is for everyone. Unless someone can explain why MacAskill is wearing civil war clothing in the photo, i don't see why it should be kept.
 * Actually, in a real encyclopedia, verification is necessary. What evidence can you provide to prove what you're saying? A google search of Angus MacAskill brings this exact photo up several times from a variety of different sites. You may be completely correct but you'll need to prove what you're saying. Edit warring is the wrong way to go about this. SolarFlashDiscussion 22:08, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * In one of your edit summaries you made the claim that the photo is actually "a photo of general Merideth, a 6 foot 7 confederate general". Solomon Meredith certainly appears to be someone else entirely, based on the photographic evidence. SolarFlashDiscussion 22:46, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, our anonymous IP editor seems to have lost interest in the discussion, but I've researched this and I can conclusively say now that this photo is indeed Angus MacAskill. The claim that this photo is actually a civil war general is preposterous and has been proven false. This exact photo of MacAskill is prominently featured on the website for the official Angus MacAskill Museum, which is owned and managed by the MacAskill family (simply scroll down a little bit to see it ), as well as on the sign in front of this same museum . The coup de grace, this exact photo is seen on Angus MacAskill's actual gravesite in Englishtown, NS. It seems pretty unlikely that MacAskill's family would place a photo of another man on his gravesite, so I'm going to go ahead and say that this dubious claim has been busted for once and for all. Should our anonymous friend try stirring it up again, please point him/her to this discussion and issue the necessary warnings if the edit warring persists. SolarFlashDiscussion  20:06, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The dubious claim is that being made by yourself and the MacAskill family website. They have no idea if it is him or not and have a commercial vested interest in presenting a photo. What in his life makes you think he ever went around dressed in military uniform he had no entitlement to like an exhibit in a circus?  Your reasoning is specious.  Many sources dispute that this is MacAskill and stating categorically that it is is indeed unencyclopaedic. Aredbeardeddwarf (talk) 09:22, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Place of Death
Article gives me the impression that he died in St. Anns, yet at the top of article it says he died in Halifax. 173.206.139.1 (talk) 16:42, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

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Belonger status

Belonger status is a legal classification normally associated with British Overseas Territories. It refers to people who have close ties to a specific territory, normally by birth or ancestry. The requirements for belonger status, and the rights that it confers, vary from territory to territory.

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The British Overseas Territories Act 2002 also conferred British citizenship upon BOTCs (other than those solely connected with the Sovereign Base Areas of Cyprus), which provides for a right of abode in the United Kingdom. The conferral is in addition to their BOTC and was not reciprocal in nature, and British citizens did not receive any rights to reside in the Overseas Territories without permission. The act also changed the reference of British Dependent Territories to British Overseas Territories. It was enacted five years after the United Kingdom relinquished sovereignty over its most populous dependent territory, Hong Kong, to the People's Republic of China.

Hong Kong
Belonger status of the former British colony of Hong Kong was changed to 'Hong Kong permanent resident status' on 1 January 1987. The name remains unchanged after the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997. Only permanent residents and residents who have been resident in Hong Kong for seven years, regardless of citizenship or nationality, have the right to vote, to contest in elections, to hold public offices, to freely accept employment without work permit requirement, to reside without immigration restrictions, and to the right of abode within the territory.

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Anguilla
The Constitution of Anguilla defines Anguillian status in section 80. This section was introduced in 1990 and originally referred to "Belonger status". This was changed to "Anguillian status" in 2019, with the Anguillian Belonger Commission similarly being renamed the Anguillian Status Commission. Section 80 now reads as follows: "(1) There shall be an Anguillan Status Commission (hereinafter referred to as "the Commission"), the composition and functions of which shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be prescribed by law.

(2) For the purposes of this Constitution a person shall be regarded as an Anguillian if that person—(a) is a person born or adopted in or outside Anguilla and who has at least one parent or grandparent who was born or adopted in Anguilla, where such parent or grandparent is regarded as being an Anguillian by virtue of this Constitution or is regarded as belonging to Anguilla by virtue of any previous Constitution;

(b) is regarded as belonging to Anguilla by virtue of this Constitution (as in force before the commencement of the Anguilla Constitution (Amendment) Order 2019) or of any previous Constitution;

(c) is a British overseas territories citizen having been born or adopted in Anguilla or having become such a citizen by virtue of registration or naturalisation while resident in Anguilla;

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(e) has been granted Anguillian status by the Commission on the basis that that person—(i) is a great-grandchild of a person born in Anguilla and who is regarded as being an Anguillian by virtue of this Constitution or is regarded as belonging to Anguilla by virtue of any previous Constitution, where the great-grandchild has resided in Anguilla for a continuous period of at least five years; or

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The term "belonger" appears only in the Bermuda Constitution Order of 1968, "A person shall be deemed to belong to Bermuda..."

Belongers include those possessing Bermudian status; naturalised British Overseas Territories citizens; the wives of Bermudians or naturalised British Overseas Territories citizens; and the children under the age of eighteen of Bermudians, naturalised British Overseas Territories citizens, and their wives. Other laws typically only use the term Bermudian status, neglecting to deal with other Belongers. A couple of recent court decisions in 2016–2017 have held that references to Bermudians should also be read as including other Belongers in the context of immigration law, company ownership and land ownership.

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Under the current law, those born in Bermuda to at least one Bermudian parent, and those who live on the island while a spouse of a Bermudian for 10 years, are eligible for Bermudian status. Potentially extending Bermudian status to others is perennially one of the most politically contentious issues on the island.

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The definition of qualifications for Belonger status in the British Virgin Islands is contained in section 2(2) of the Constitution:

"A person belongs to the Virgin Islands if that person(a) is born in the Virgin Islands and at the time of the birth his or her father or mother is or was(i) a British overseas territories citizen (or a British Dependent Territories citizen) by virtue of birth, registration or naturalisation in the Virgin Islands or by virtue of descent from a father or mother who was born in the Virgin Islands; or

(ii) settled in the Virgin Islands; and for this purpose “settled” means ordinarily resident in the Virgin Islands without being subject under the law in force in the Virgin Islands to any restriction on the period for which he or she may remain, but does not include persons on contract with the Government of the Virgin Islands or any statutory body or Crown corporation;

(b) is born in the Virgin Islands of a father or mother who belongs to the Virgin Islands by birth or descent or who, if deceased, would, if alive, so belong to the Virgin Islands;

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(g) is the spouse of a person who belongs to the Virgin Islands and has been granted a certificate under section 16 of the Act; or

(h) was immediately before the commencement of this Constitution deemed to belong to the Virgin Islands by virtue of the Virgin Islands (Constitution) Order 1976(3)."

The British Virgin Islands is extremely restrictive about conferring Belongership status on immigrants to the Territory. Under the leadership of Orlando Smith the Government formally committed itself to naturalising no more than 25 persons a year. This was maintained when Smith's NDP party was no longer in office.

Cayman Islands
The Caymanian Status and Permanent Residency Board may, upon application, grant the right to be Caymanian to persons in the categories below. Persons who may apply to the Chief Immigration Officer for the right to be Caymanian
 * A child or grandchild of a Caymanian born in the Cayman Islands;
 * A person who is a British Overseas Territories Citizen by reason of a certificate of naturalization or registration issued under the British Nationality Act 1981 by virtue of his connection with the Islands. Possession of a British Overseas Territory Citizen/Cayman Islands (BOTC/CI) Passport is not conclusive proof that the holder is Caymanian;
 * A person who is married to a Caymanian;
 * A person who is the surviving spouse of a Caymanian;
 * A person who
 * has attained the age of seventeen;
 * has Caymanian Status which
 * will expire when they reach the age of eighteen; or
 * has expired as they have reached the age of eighteen; and
 * who has been legally and ordinarily resident in the Cayman Islands for at least five out of the seven years immediately preceding the date of their application for the continuation of the right to be Caymanian.

A person who may apply no later than 21 December 2007 to the Chief Immigration Officer for the right to be Caymanian. The Chief Immigration Officer is required by law, save in exceptional circumstances, to grant such an application.
 * was born in the Cayman Islands between 27 March 1977 and 1 January 1983;
 * is a British Overseas Territories Citizen by virtue of being born in the Cayman Islands; and
 * has resided in the Islands since birth save for absences abroad for purposes of education or medical treatment.

Falkland Islands
Belonger status in the Falkland Islands is officially referred to as "Falkland Islands status".

Gibraltar
As with Bermuda, the term itself has been supplanted by "Gibraltarian status".

To apply for Gibraltarian status under Section 5 of the Gibraltarian Status Act you must qualify under the following:

"1. (1) There shall be entitled to be registered at any time any British national who:(a) was born in Gibraltar on or before the 30th day of June 1925; or

(b) is the child of a person entitled to be registered under paragraph (a) of this subsection; or

(c) is the descendant of a person entitled to be registered under paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection and whose parent or grandparent was born in Gibraltar; or

(d) is the spouse, widow or widower or surviving civil partner of a person entitled to be registered under paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this subsection; or

(e) is the child of a person who has been registered by virtue of an order of the Minister under Part II; or

(f) is the descendant of a person who has been registered by virtue of an order made by the Minister under Part II and whose parent or grandparent was born in Gibraltar; or

(g) is the spouse, or civil partner, widow or widower of a person or surviving civil partner who has been registered by virtue of an order made by the Minister under Part II or who is entitled to be registered under paragraph (e) or (f) of this subsection; or

(h) is born in Gibraltar and is the child of a person who is registered in the register; or

(i) is the spouse, or civil partner, widow or widower or surviving civil partner of a person entitled to be registered under paragraph (h) of this subsection."

Section 8 of the Gibraltarian Status Act

To apply for Gibraltarian under Section 8(1) of the Gibraltarian Status Act a person must qualify under the following:

"1. (1) The Minister may, in his absolute discretion, order the registrar to register any person who satisfies the Minister that:(a) he is a British national, and

(b) he has been legally adopted by(i) a married couple, one of whom is a Gibraltarian; or

(ii) an unmarried person who is not in a civil partnership; or

(iii) a couple in a civil partnership, one of whom is a Gibraltarian."

Section 9 of the Gibraltarian Status Act

To apply for Gibraltarian under Section 9 of the Gibraltarian Status Act a person must qualify under the following:

"1. The Minister may, in his absolute discretion, order the registrar to register any person who satisfies the Minister that:(a) he is a British Overseas Territories citizen by virtue of his connection with Gibraltar, or Gibraltar or Great Britain is his country of origin;

(b) he is a British national;

(c) he is of good character;

(d) he has sufficient knowledge of the English language;

(e) he has his permanent home in Gibraltar;

(f) he has been resident in Gibraltar for a continuous period of ten years immediately preceding the date of application; and

(g) he intends to make his permanent home in Gibraltar."

Montserrat
Constitution of Montserrat, section 107(2): "For the purposes of this Constitution, a person shall be regarded as a Montserratian if that person—(a) is a British overseas territories citizen who was born in Montserrat; or

(b) is a British overseas territories citizen who was born outside Montserrat and(i) who was lawfully adopted by a person who is regarded (or, if deceased, would if alive be regarded) as a Montserratian by virtue of this subsection; or

(ii) whose father or mother or any grandparent was born in Montserrat; or

(iii) whose father or mother or any grandparent became a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, a British Dependent Territories citizen or a British overseas territories citizen by virtue of having been lawfully adopted by a person who is regarded (or, if deceased, would if alive be regarded) as a Montserratian by virtue of this subsection; or

(iv) who is ordinarily resident in Montserrat and whose father or mother or any grandparent by virtue of registration or naturalisation while resident in Montserrat became a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, a British Dependent Territories citizen or a British overseas territories citizen; or

(v) who by virtue of registration or naturalisation while resident in Montserrat became a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, a British Dependent Territories citizen or a British overseas territories citizen; or

(c) was born in or outside Montserrat of a father or mother who was born in Montserrat and is regarded (or, if deceased, would if alive be regarded) as a Montserratian by virtue of this subsection; or

(d) has been granted Montserratian status in accordance with any law; or

(e) was immediately before the commencement of this Constitution deemed to belong to Montserrat by virtue of any law."

Pitcairn Islands
The equivalent to belonger status in the Pitcairn Islands is the 'right of abode', which is a status that is specifically protected by Article 22 of the Pitcairn Constitution, namely that a holder "cannot be arbitrarily deprived of this right". Persons with the 'right of abode' in Pitcairn can apply to the Governor for a 'certificate of entitlement' as evidence of this right. As with other BOTs, this can be obtained through birth, descent or through a form of naturalisation that is linked to permanent residence.

As of right (through birth or descent)
The Right of Abode Ordinance 2010 provides a number of ways through which a person acquires 'right of abode' status as of right.

If a child obtains British nationality at the time of birth, they also acquire 'right of abode' status as of right if:
 * They are born in Pitcairn and their father or mother was permanently resident in Pitcairn at the time of birth. (s.2(1))
 * They are born outside of Pitcairn and their father or mother was permanently resident in Pitcairn at the time of birth. (s.2(2))
 * They are born to a father or mother who was born in Pitcairn and had the right of abode in Pitcairn at the time of birth. (s.2(3))

A child, stepchild or a legally adopted child of a person who has a 'right of abode in Pitcairn' will also have a 'right of abode' whilst they remain under the age of eighteen years (s.2(6)).

By grant
If the right of abode has not been obtained as of right, it can only be obtained under the Right of Abode Ordinance 2010 if that person has first has acquired a right of permanent residence (s.2(4)-(5)) under the Immigration Ordinance 2014.

Under the Immigration Ordinance, an application for permanent residence will be considered by the Governor after consultation with the Island Council (s.12(2)) when applications are received from:
 * the spouse (whether legally married or not) or dependant child of a person lawfully residing on Pitcairn or admitted for settlement.
 * persons wishing to join other members of their families (e.g. the children, parents or siblings of a person lawfully residing on Pitcairn or admitted for settlement).
 * any other person who does not have family ties but "who wish to move to Pitcairn to live and who have relevant skills which would contribute to the welfare of the Pitcairn community".

A child that is born outside of Pitcairn to a person who is permanently resident in Pitcairn at the time of birth will also gain permanent residence if they move to Pitcairn before the age 5. (s.13).

If the right of permanent residence has thus been acquired, that person can then acquire 'right of abode' status under the Right of Abode Ordinance 2010 if:
 * They become formally naturalised or registered as a British national through an application to the Governor's office (s.2(4)).
 * They become eligible for naturalisation as a British overseas territories citizen in respect of Pitcairn (s.2(5)).

In both cases, British law indicates that this is normally becomes possible (with conditions) after five years' residence, or after three years' residence for the spouse of an existing British overseas territories citizen.

Turks and Caicos Islands
There are two main ways through which a person acquires Turks and Caicos Islander Status.

As of right (through birth or descent)
There are three ways through which a person acquires TCI Status as of right.
 * By virtue of being born inside the islands, at the time of birth the person's mother or father has Turks and Caicos Islander status.
 * By virtue of being born outside the islands, at the time of birth the person's mother or father has Turks and Caicos Islander status and—
 * (a) at least one of the person's parent or grandparent was born in the islands, or
 * (b) at least one of the person's parent was settled in the islands.
 * By virtue of being adopted in the islands, at the time of the person's adoption the adopted mother or father has Turks and Caicos Islander status and the person was less than eighteen years old at the time of adoption (if adopted after 2015).

By grant
In order to obtain Turks and Caicos Islander status by grant, it is necessary to complete the prescribed application form and submit it to the appropriate authority.

There are several routes through which a person may apply for Turks and Caicos Islander status.
 * If a person is a British overseas territories citizen by virtue of a connection with the Islands or a British Citizen who either
 * (a) has held a permanent residence certificate for a period of at least five years; or
 * (b) has been legally resident in the Islands for a period of at least ten years; and
 * (c) is neither serving a sentence imposed by a court for an offence against the law in force in any country, nor has been adjudged or otherwise declared bankrupt under any law in force in any country and has not been discharged.
 * This subsection applies to a person if—
 * (a) the person's spouse has Islander status otherwise than by virtue of marriage and
 * (b) the Governor is satisfied that the person—
 * (i) has lived together with the spouse for a period of ten years ending with the date of the application and
 * (ii) has been resident in the Islands for a period of two years ending with that date.
 * This subsection applies to a person if he is a dependant child of a person who is accorded Islander status by virtue of the last subsection;
 * This subsection applies to a person who—
 * (a) is born in the Islands to parents who at the time of his birth were legally resident in the Islands,
 * (b) has acquired British Overseas Territories Citizenship by virtue of section 15 (4) of the British Nationality Act 1981;
 * (c) has been legally resident in the Islands for a period of at least ten years;and
 * (d) has attained the age of eighteen years.
 * This subsection applies if—
 * (a) the person is married to a person who has been granted Islander status by virtue of residency, and that person was endorsed on the Residence Permit as the spouse;
 * (b) the person is under the age of eighteen years, and, was  endorsed on a Permanent Residence Certificate; or
 * (c) the person is the child of a person who is the spouse of an Islander, who has not been adopted by the spouse who is an Islander or who is not the biological child of the Islander, who was endorsed in that person's Residence Permit.

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Marshall Moore

Marshall Moore (born June 29, 1970), in Havelock, North Carolina, is an American author and academic living in Cornwall, England. He attended the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) and went on to obtain a BA in psychology from East Carolina University, an MA in applied linguistics from the University of New England, and a PhD in creative writing from Aberystwyth University in Wales. He has also studied at Gallaudet University. He has lived in New Bern, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Oakland, Portland, Seattle, the suburbs of Seoul, and Hong Kong. Fluent in American Sign Language, he worked for many years as an interpreter before moving abroad.

Novels

 * The Concrete Sky, Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2003
 * An Ideal for Living, Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2010
 * Bitter Orange, Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2013
 * Inhospitable, Manchester: Camphor Press, 2018

Nonfiction

 * I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing: A Memoir, New Orleans: Rebel Satori Press, 2022
 * Blood and Black T-Shirts: Dispatches from Hong Kong's Descent into Hell 2019-2020, Manchester: Plum Rain Press, 2024
 * Sunset House: Essays, New Orleans: Rebel Satori Press, 2024

Short story collections

 * Black Shapes in a Darkened Room, San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts Press, 2004
 * The Infernal Republic, Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2012
 * A Garden Fed by Lightning, Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2016
 * Love Is a Poisonous Color, New Orleans: Rebel Satori Press, 2023

In translation

 * Sagome nere, Turin: 96, Rue de-la-Fontaine Edizioni, 2017 (Translator: Rossella Cirigliano)

Edited anthologies (short fiction)

 * The Queen of Statue Square: New Short Fiction from Hong Kong (Co-editor: Xu Xi), Nottingham: Critical, Cultural & Communications Press, 2014

Edited academic nonfiction

 * The Place and the Writer: International Intersections of Teacher Lore and Creative Writing Pedagogy (Co-editor: Sam Meekings) London: Bloomsbury - Continuum, 2021
 * Creative Writing Scholars on the Publishing Trade: Practice, Praxis, Print (Co-editor: Sam Meekings) London: Routledge, 2022
 * The Scholarship of Creative Writing Practice: Beyond Craft, Pedagogy, and the Academy (Co-editor: Sam Meekings) London: Bloomsbury - Continuum, 2024
 * Creative Writing Workshopping in the 21st Century: New Strategies for a Modern Era (Co-editors: Adrian Markle and Sam Meekings) London: Bloomsbury - Continuum, 2025

Chapbooks

 * Il look del diavolo, Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2011
 * Never Turn Away, Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2013

In addition to these books, Moore has published dozens of short stories, book reviews, and essays.

His work has been translated into Greek, Polish, and Italian.

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WCCT-TV

WCCT-TV (channel 20), branded on-air as CW 20, is a television station licensed to Waterbury, Connecticut, United States, serving the Hartford–New Haven market as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Hartford-licensed Fox affiliate WTIC-TV (channel 61). The two stations share studios on Broad Street in downtown Hartford; WCCT-TV's transmitter is located on Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington, Connecticut.

Established in 1953 as WATR-TV, a television station for the Waterbury area, the station changed to a regional independent in 1982, becoming Connecticut's UPN affiliate in 1995 and switching to The WB in 2001. It has been managed by WTIC-TV since 1998.

WATR (1953–1966)
The station commenced operations on September 10, 1953, as WATR-TV on channel 53, the second UHF station in Connecticut. It was owned by the Thomas and Gilmore families, along with WATR radio (1320 AM). The station's studios and transmitter were located on West Peak in Meriden. At the time, the station's signal only covered Waterbury, New Haven and the southern portion of the state.

WATR-TV was originally a dual secondary affiliate of both DuMont and ABC, sharing them with New Haven-based WNHC-TV (channel 8, now WTNH). DuMont ceased operations in 1956, and shortly afterward, WNHC-TV became an exclusive ABC affiliate, as did WATR-TV. Both stations carried ABC programming through Connecticut.

In 1962, the station relocated to UHF channel 20 and moved to a new studio and transmitter site in Prospect, south of Waterbury. Channel 53 was later occupied by WEDN, Connecticut Public Television's outlet in Norwich.

NBC affiliate (1966–1982)
In August 1966, WATR-TV joined NBC. At the time, the network's primary affiliate in Connecticut, WHNB-TV (channel 30) in New Britain, was hampered by a weak signal in New Haven and the southwestern portions of the state. In the 1970s, the station offered limited local news and instead aired older syndicated programs and religious shows such as The PTL Club when NBC programs were not offered. A notable local production was Journeys to the Mind, a half-hour talk show with host Joel Dobbin, which approached topics of the occult with a serious and sober tone. Journeys ran from 1976 to 1981.

The original Viacom bought WHNB-TV in 1978 and changed its call letters to WVIT. Two years later, after WVIT more than doubled its transmission power to cover New Haven, it became clear that WATR-TV's NBC affiliation was now in jeopardy. In 1981, the Thomas/Gilmore interests opted to sell channel 20 to a joint venture of Odyssey Television Partners (later to become Renaissance Broadcasting) and Oppenheimer and Company. The sale was announced in May 1981 and gained FCC approval that December.

WTXX: independent (1982–1995)
The new owners of channel 20 ultimately opted to drop NBC and convert the station into an independent outlet (though NBC was considering ending its affiliation in any event). NBC programming aired on channel 20 for the last time on April 10, 1982. On the next day (Easter Sunday), the station stayed off the air, preparing to relaunch as an independent. On April 12—two days after the NBC affiliation ended—channel 20 returned to the air as WTXX (for "Television XX", with "XX" referring to 20 in Roman numerals), and subsequently became Connecticut's first full-service independent station since Hartford's WHCT-TV (channel 18, now Univision affiliate WUVN) served as an independent from 1957 to 1975. Soon after taking over, Odyssey replaced channel 20's tiny 250 ft tower with a more powerful transmitter that more than doubled its signal and gave it a coverage area comparable with the major network stations in the state. It was a typical general entertainment independent, carrying off-network series, movies, and cartoons presented by the local children's show Kidstime with T.X. Critter, a puppet created by and puppeteered by Paul Fusco who later created ALF. WTXX also carried some sports, most notably New York Mets telecasts from WOR-TV in New York City (now WWOR-TV in Secaucus, New Jersey) and Boston Celtics telecasts from WLVI-TV in Boston. WTXX prospered in its new status, and continued to do so even after WTIC-TV signed on in 1984. WTXX bid for the Fox affiliation two years later, but lost out to WTIC-TV. Channel 20's transmitter was located further south than the other major Connecticut stations, resulting in a significant overlap with Fox flagship WNYW. Fox opted to affiliate with WTIC-TV, which did not have as large an overlap.

In October 1992, Renaissance Broadcasting sold WTXX to Counterpoint Communications, a non-profit media firm with close ties to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford. Renaissance had recently acquired several stations, including WTIC-TV, from Chase Broadcasting, and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations of the time did not allow common ownership of two stations in the same market. However, Renaissance retained the rights to all the programming it bought for WTXX. WTIC-TV wanted to establish a full-time local marketing agreement (LMA) with WTXX, which basically amounted to channel 20 being programmed by its main competitor. Counterpoint balked, wanting only a part-time agreement. Renaissance then moved some of WTXX's stronger shows to WTIC-TV, leaving the station with a considerably weakened schedule.

Duopolies and new networks (1995–2006)
Renaissance's sale of WTXX to Counterpoint, and Renaissance's subsequent acquisition of WTIC-TV, became official in March 1993. Under the terms of the sale to Counterpoint, WTXX retained few syndicated programs and some movies, and began airing programming from the Home Shopping Network (HSN) for 15 hours a day (including daytime and prime time). In addition, channel 20 would air a daily Catholic Mass, along with other Catholic religious programs, for one hour per day. While trying to negotiate an LMA, WTXX continued to run some Renaissance-owned programming daily from 3 to 7 p.m. free of charge. These shows were the Disney Afternoon cartoon block, double runs of The Cosby Show and Growing Pains on weekdays, and some hour-long first-run syndicated dramas on weekends. Renaissance sold the ad time for the slot and WTXX paid nothing to run the programming during these hours. That July, after negotiations with WTIC collapsed, WTXX entered into a lease agreement with Viacom-owned WVIT, which would provide 27 hours a week of its programs. Its schedule now included cartoons and children's programs during the morning and afternoon hours, and syndicated shows whose local rights were owned by WVIT during the early evenings. Most of the cartoons were shows WTXX previously had on a barter basis that WTIC couldn't fit on its schedule. The Disney Afternoon and other syndicated shows previously on WTXX moved to WTIC or stopped airing in the market. HSN programming remained during middays, prime time, and the overnight hours.

WTXX became Connecticut's UPN affiliate on April 3, 1995; for the 2½ months prior to that, Hartford viewers who wanted to watch UPN programming had to view it on cable, by way of WSBK-TV from Boston; viewers in Fairfield County were able to watch UPN programming over-the-air and on cable via WWOR-TV. This was due in part that Viacom, who operated the station through a LMA with WVIT, owned a minority interest in UPN. Initially, it continued to run Home Shopping Network in prime time on nights without UPN programming. By spring 1996, the station expanded its LMA with WVIT to cover the entire day, except for overnights and the hours when the Catholic Mass aired. By this point, WTXX upgraded its syndicated programming, and HSN was relegated to overnights before being dropped completely.

In 1998, WVIT was sold to NBC, and WTIC (now owned by Tribune Broadcasting) replaced WVIT as WTXX's LMA partner. As part of the deal, some of the shows previously owned by WVIT were kept by WTXX and WTIC. The LMA change caused no impact on WTXX's daily broadcasts of the Catholic Mass, which continues to the present day. Around this time, the station changed its on-air name from "UPN 20" to "Connecticut's 20". It also picked up Boston Red Sox baseball games; the station's feed (with the "Connecticut's 20" bug) was carried during Red Sox highlights airing on ESPN for much of the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1999, WTXX and WTIC consolidated their operations in a new facility at One Corporate Center on Church Street in Downtown Hartford.

On January 1, 2001, WTXX and WBNE (channel 59, now WCTX) swapped affiliations, with WTXX joining The WB and rebranding as "Connecticut's WB". This was due to in fact that the Tribune Company had a minority interest in The WB. Later that year, Tribune purchased WTXX outright, creating a duopoly with WTIC. Tribune, having already received a temporary waiver from FCC rules barring common ownership of a newspaper and a television station in the same area when it purchased the Hartford Courant a year earlier, received an additional waiver for its purchase of WTXX. Tribune had been seeking a waiver in anticipation of the FCC relaxing its rules to allow such media combinations to exist with the agency's blessing, which would include television duopolies. In March 2005, the FCC requested that Tribune sell WTXX to a new owner, but did not raise any additional pressure outside the request to force a sale or threaten a license forfeiture. In late 2007, the FCC loosened its restrictions on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership perhaps creating an opening for Tribune (which was purchased by investor Sam Zell in December 2007) to retain WTXX without a waiver.

CW affiliate (2006–present)
On January 24, 2006, Time Warner announced that the company would merge the operations of The WB with CBS Corporation's UPN (which CBS acquired one month earlier in December 2005 following its split from Viacom), to form a 50/50 joint venture called The CW Television Network. The network signed a ten-year affiliation agreement with Tribune Broadcasting for 16 of the 19 WB affiliates that the company owned at the time, including WTXX.

In August 2008, the station changed its branding from "CW 20" to "txx" in a corporate effort by Tribune to strengthen its CW affiliates' local identities and reduce the dependence on the use of network branding. In June 2009, after 56 years of transmitting from various locations in New Haven County, WTXX shut down its analog transmitter in Prospect, solely using WTIC-TV's tower in Farmington for its full launch into the digital age.

In July 2010, the station changed its branding again to "The CT" with "The CT is the place 2B" slogan; to go along with this branding, the station changed its call letters to WCCT-TV on June 18. In March 2012, the station changed its logo and began to use its calls, WCCT-TV, as its branding, though the station remains a CW affiliate. In August 2018, WCCT-TV returned to the "CW 20" branding.

Tribune announced plans on July 10, 2013, to spin off its publishing division into a separate company, with the split finalized in 2014. WTIC-TV and WCCT-TV remained with the Tribune Company (which also retained all non-publishing assets, including the broadcasting, digital media and Media Services units), while its newspapers (including the Hartford Courant) became part of the similarly named Tribune Publishing Company.

Sinclair Broadcast Group announced it had agreed to purchase Tribune Media on May 8, 2017, for $3.9 billion. Tribune Media terminated the Sinclair deal on August 9, 2018, and filed a breach of contract lawsuit, nullifying the transaction; this followed a vote by the FCC to put the transactions up for a formal hearing and a public rejection of the merger by commission chairman Ajit Pai.

Tegna ownership
After the collapse of the Sinclair deal, Tribune agreed to sell itself to Nexstar Media Group for $6.4 billion. Nexstar already owned two stations in Connecticut—New Haven-based ABC affiliate WTNH and WCTX—requiring that it divest either the New Haven stations or WCCT-TV and WTIC-TV. Tegna Inc. agreed to purchase WCCT-TV and WTIC-TV from Nexstar on March 20, 2019, upon consummation of the merger, marking Tegna's entry into the state and southern New England. The sale of WCCT-TV and WTIC-TV was part of a larger series of deals involving nineteen Nexstar- and Tribune-operated stations to Tegna and the E. W. Scripps Company worth a combined $1.32 billion. The sale was completed on September 19, 2019.

Newscasts
In July 1993, WTXX debuted a nightly 10 p.m. newscast produced by NBC station WVIT, called Connecticut News Live at 10. The news team consisted of WVIT's evening news team (anchors Gerry Brooks and Joanne Nesti, weather from Brad Field, Beasley Reece with sports), along with reporters from WVIT. In 1998, when WTIC replaced WVIT as WTXX's LMA partner, the WVIT-produced broadcasts were replaced with a simulcast of the first half-hour of WTIC's nightly 10 p.m. newscast; on April 24, 2006, the station began simulcasting the entire newscast; if Fox sports programming kept the newscast from starting on time on channel 61, it was aired on WTXX under the title News at Ten.

On December 12, 2009, WTIC, WCCT (then WTXX), and the Hartford Courant moved into new combined newsroom facilities in downtown Hartford, and WTIC rebranded from Fox 61 to Fox CT (a transition completed in July 2010); in addition, WTIC became the second station in the market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. The news simulcasts on WCCT were included in the transition.

In June 2010, the station ended the simulcast of WTIC's 10 p.m. newscast. It now airs a rebroadcast of WTIC's 11 p.m. newscast at 1 am, while the 10 p.m. newscast is re-aired on weekends; these rebroadcasts include a sports highlight program called Xfinity Sports Desk at 1:45 a.m. on early Sunday and Monday mornings. Originally, this was not simulcast on WTXX but has since been added (the 10 p.m. newscast continues to be shown live on WCCT, if it is preempted on WTIC due to sports programming overruns). The station also carries the 8 a.m. hour of WTIC's morning newscast (a previous simulcast of Fox 61 Morning News had aired at one point, but was later dropped). WTIC also produces a weekly public affairs show called The Real Story, which airs Sunday mornings at 8:30 a.m. with a repeat on WCCT at 11 a.m.

Other than simulcasts and default carriage of WTIC's newscasts in the event of Fox Sports programming delays, WCCT does not carry traditional local newscasts produced specifically for the station.

Sports programming
WCCT holds the local broadcast television rights to the WNBA's Connecticut Sun. Prior to airing Sun games, the station held the over-the-air broadcast rights to the NHL's Hartford Whalers.

Subchannels
WCCT-TV provides four subchannels, which are carried on the multiplexed signals of other Hartford–New Haven television stations:

ATSC 3.0 lighthouse service
In 2021, WCCT-TV began serving as the ATSC 3.0 (Next Gen TV) lighthouse for Connecticut broadcasters with all subchannels on UHF 33.

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Analog-to-digital conversion
WCCT-TV (as WTXX) shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 20, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition VHF channel 12 to UHF channel 20 for post-transition operations. The digital signal's change in channel location was necessary to avoid interference with PBS member WHYY-TV in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Joss

Joss may refer to:

 * Joss (name), including a list of people with the name
 * JOSS, a time-sharing programming language
 * Joss (Chinese statue), a religious object
 * Joss JP1, an Australian-built supercar
 * Joss paper, a type of burnt offering
 * Joss Pass, a mountain pass in British Columbia, Canada
 * Joss stick, a form of incense
 * Abbreviation for the Journal of Open Source Software
 * Joss., taxonomic author abbreviation of Marcel Josserand (1900–1992), a French mycologist

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