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 * Due to the amount of spam being added to the article, it has now been protected against editing by unregistered (IP) users. This should alleviate the problem that has been seen over the past couple of days. --Cheesy Mike 10:05, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Copyright violation
A significant amount of material from the external site was added recently. The addition has been reverted; please do not re-add the copyrighted text. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 13:47, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

World Championships
The article states 14 World Championships. The List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions shows only 8 world championships. Can anyone account for the other six? It could be that they were championships on other forms of racing such as hill climbing.Orsoni 09:00, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I just noticed that Moto Guzzi also won 6 Constructor's titles. I'm assuming that's where the other 6 titles come from. If so, it's a bit misleading. I'll edit it to be more specific.Orsoni 03:54, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Durability of the small engines?
"durability of the mechanical parts"??? To the best of my knowledge, at least the larger versions of the small engine have a serious reliability issue, also warping cylinder heads (planar design), drive shaft failures, it goes on and on. I do like Guzzi but words like "durability" seem to have their boot on quite another foot. The Honda VFR does exist you know.--Cancun771 17:24, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Yes and no. Particular runs of the small blocks suffer from bad valves, with the valve stems elongating and the valve head eventually tearing off (I lost a V50 head that way). There is a parts update however that fixes that, using the valves of the V50NATO, which are made of better quality steel. So, the V50III and the early four-valve V65 and V75 do have reliability issues. However, later runs of the small block are about as reliable as the big blocks. The heron head construction itself is not a source of problems.
 * What does make a difference is that the small blocks are much more sensitive to keeping the correct service intervals. The low oil capacity means that if you don't religiously check the oil level, it will run dry pretty fast. Keep to the service intervals, do regular oil checks, and they will run without problems to the 100.000 mark. After that, you're in a bit of a bind, as the bikes don't keep much value, and a complete rebuild is not worth the money unless you're an enthusiast.
 * Granted, all this means that similar displacement Japanese bikes are less of a hassle. Mvdwege (talk) 21:24, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

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 * I replaced this image with my own. Motorrad-67 01:43, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

List of models
I propose moving the list of models (current section Models) out into its own article. See List of Honda motorcycles, List of Kawasaki motorcycles, etc. for examples. Brianhe 15:56, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Good idea. --Cheesy Mike 16:02, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, done. Created List of Moto Guzzi motorcycles. Brianhe 06:41, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * What about keeping at least the current models on this page? It seems odd that the motorcycles themselves aren't on the Moto Guzzi page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Packa (talk • contribs) 10:21, 8 November 2007
 * Good idea, I added a brief mention of each of the current models. Brianhe 15:57, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Boy. It still seems awkard and strange that at least the current models -- perhaps the very reason for having the article --are not on the Moto Guzzi page. Agreed the length of the "models" section was getting very long. Can we consider moving the current models back -- in their entirity? Or at least a list with links?842U 19:35, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

MGS-01 Corsa Engine pedigree
I removed the sentence 'A 4-valve version of the Carcano engine was created in the early 1990s and is currently used in the 1250 cc MGS-01 Corsa.'

The Carcano design is an Overhead Valve design, using pushrods to actuate the valves. The MGS-01 Corsa uses the SOHC configuration introduced in the Daytona. As such, it is more correct to refer to its engine as the evolution of the John Wittner engine that was introduced in the Daytona. About the only thing John Wittner's design shares with the Carcano engine is the crankcase.

Also, the Carcano design is most definitely 2-valve only. All 4-valve big-block Guzzi's currently on the market are based off the Wittner engine. The small-block twins with 4 valves are based on yet another design, evolved from Lino Tonti's original V50, and these too are OHV designs.

If I could remember how to insert links, I would post the links to the technical specs on the Guzzi home page. Mvdwege (talk) 21:01, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

GA/FA
Good work guys - might I suggest you think about putting this article forward for WP:GA and ultimately WP:FA? In the meantime, an article can never have too many references from WP:RS.... FlagSteward (talk) 15:39, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

(Too?) sweet sounding sentence
"Three themes connect the chapters in Moto Guzzi's history: the importance of racing, the importance of innovation and the ongoing struggle to leverage the company's heritage – the seminal passion for motorcycles that gave rise to the company in 1921."
 * Doesn't this sound like something from a glossy folder? - Soulkeeper (talk) 13:58, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I wrote that originally... I'm more versed now in NPOV and encylopedic tone. I'll change it to this:

 * Moto Guzzi's history has been shaped by the importance of racing, innovation — and a constant adaptation to the changes in the motorcycle industry since its inception 1921. 842U (talk) 14:21, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Moto Guzzi join in Piaggio
Moto Guzzi now is only a brand of Piaggio. Moto Guzzi join in Piaggio at september 12 2008. Source: .--Kaspo (talk) 16:25, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

What do you mean by "only" a brand of Piaggio? Yes, it's clear that Piaggio owns Moto Guzzi, but Moto Guzzi is STILL a company that manufactures motorcycles... it just happens to be a company that is owned by Piaggio. 842U (talk) 16:36, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Moto Guzzi already was owned by Piaggio since 2004. Now Piaggio and Moto Guzzi merge together.--Kaspo (talk) 17:06, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Business Failure link-in
Im not a motorcycle guy but to the best of what I can find Moto Guzzi hasn't failed? Is there any information on this subject? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_business_failures links here.Woods01 (talk) 01:51, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * According to the Moto Guzzi article, they went into receivershp in 1967 and were acquired by SEIMM. That's a business failure. -- Brianhe (talk) 03:49, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Wind Tunnel
"It is unknown to what extent the wind tunnel is used currently."

In Long Way Down they visit the Moto-Guzzi factory and say that the factory was banned from using the wind tunnel because it made the lights in the town dim. That was in 2007. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.74.204.18 (talk) 11:54, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

History Section Issue
If you look at the first line of the 'History' section you will find this line, "Moto Guzzi's are stupid and if people they were smart they would ride horses instead. :-)." I have tried to edit it several times in order to deleat this pointless sentance but for some reason when I go to edit it does not show up. Can anyone help get rid of this line? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.93.151.98 (talk) 13:18, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

 * It was vandalized on 00:09 GMT 25 April 2012 and reverted instantly by a bot. You probably need to bypass your cache.--Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:30, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Wheel size and gyroscopic stability
An uncited claim is made that larger scooter wheels provide stability via gyroscopic forces. This doesn't square with Bicycle and motorcycle dynamics; interactions between wheel size, mass and rate of rotation are complex. The statement needs a citation or it's pure original research. — Brianhe (talk) 21:38, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

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Mišo Kovač

Mate "Mišo" Kovač (born 16 July 1941) is a Croatian recording artist. He is the best selling artist from Croatia and former Yugoslavia, with well over 20 million records, cassettes and compact discs sold to date, and is often regarded as one of the most popular musical performers from Southeastern Europe.

Early life
Kovač was born in Šibenik during the Italian occupation of Dalmatia in the World War II as the second child of Zrinka and Jakov Kovač. His mother was originally from the island of Vrgada, and his father was from the Škopinac district of Šibenik. Mišo grew up in a family with his brother Ratko and sister Blanka. As a child, he grew up in a street in Šibenik's Varoš, where musicians Vice Vukov and Arsen Dedić lived at the same time. As a young man, he practiced football as a goalkeeper and started playing for the junior team of HNK Šibenik, dreaming of a professional football career in Hajduk Split, which he was also a fan of, often traveling by boat from Šibenik to Split for matches. He was receiving defeats of his team very emotionally.

Hearing the performances of the Šibenik-based singer Ljubo Lučev, 16-year-old Kovač is slowly giving up football and dedicating himself to music. He listened to popular Italian performers such as Luciano Tajoli, Tony Dellag and Adriano Celentano and the American Johnnie Ray. He finished industrial high school, learning the trade of upholsterer. In 1961, at the Prvi glas Šibenika (First Voice of Šibenik) competition, he shared the title of the best with Mirko Vukšić, the future guitarist of the group Mi, and chose the single by Elvis Presley for the award. He served his military service in the Yugoslav People's Army in Belgrade, where he sang on Saturday nights, entertaining conscripts and friends. After completing his military service, he arrived in Zagreb, where he sang to students and lived in the student center and cafes.

Beginnings
At one talent competition in Karlovac, with the song "I Can't Stop Loving You" by Ray Charles, he experienced great success and was soon noticed by music producers. He had his first impromptu performance with the Alfons Vučer ensemble in Zagreb's city cafe in the autumn of 1964, and after the consent of editor-in-chief Pero Gotovac, he received a contract to record his first record with Jugoton, a translation of "I Can't Stop Loving You" by his idol Ray Charles. The record was a success and in the summer of 1965 Mišo performed at the Melodije Jadrana (Melodies of the Adriatic) in Split with three performances. Despite the disappointing performance, new records followed with silver circulations of fifty thousand copies – renditions of "Ja odlazim" (I'm Leaving), "Vrijeme plakanja" (Crying Time), "San Francisco" (original by Scott McKenzie), "Da je duži moj dan" (If My Day Was Longer), and others.

The hit with which he established himself as a renowned performer was the song "Više se nećeš vratiti" (You Won't Return Again), the winning song from the popular Sarajevo festival Vaš šlager sezone (Your Schlager of the Season) (1969), the work of the then young composer and lyricist Đorđe Novković. The single sold 183,987 copies, the second best-selling record by Jugoton that year. In 1969, he sold a total of five records in 252,905 copies, making him Jugoton's best-selling singer. The collaboration with Novković marked almost the entire Kovač's oeuvre and continued until Novković's sudden death in 2007. In 1971, he won the Split Festival with the song "Proplakat će zora" (The Dawn Will Start Weeping) by Stjepan Mihaljinec and Drago Britvić, which sold more than 300,000 copies, which definitely established him on the throne of the most popular singer in Yugoslavia. In two days he won five awards, and in the middle of the Croatian Spring, he paid the proceeds from the sale of the plaque for the construction of the Zagreb-Split highway. In 1971, he almost died in a car accident near Zadar. His car was completely smashed, and as he left a scar above his upper lip, during his recovery, Mišo decided to let go of his mustache, which will later become his trademark.

The peak of popularity
In 1972, he attended an Elvis Presley concert at New York's Madison Square Garden, and Elvis' performance of Frank Sinatra's "My Way" standard made a great impression on him. In 1974, he recorded an album of klapa and folk songs "Oj ti dušo duše moje" (Hey You, the Soul of My Soul) with Klapa Šibenik. The song "Drugi joj raspliće kosu, a ja je volim" (The Other Man Unravels Her Hair, and I Love Her) also became popular. In 1975, with the song "Ostala si uvijek ista" (You've Always Stayed the Same), after his recognition as the best in his career, he performed at the Jugoslovenski hit parade (Yugoslav Parade Hit) competition in Belgrade. Although he won overwhelmingly, the audience did not immediately accept it, and the song gained popularity only 10 years later, when it was released on the album of the same name sold 200,000 copies. In 1977, he won the Split Festival with "Noćas ćemo zemlji ko materi reći" (Tonight We Will Tell the Land Like a Mother) with the Klapa Maslina. After 1980 and winning the festival in Split with the song "Dobra ti večer, mati moja" (Good Evening to You, My Mother), he decided not to perform at festivals. In 1982, he returned to Dalmatian, local themes with the golden album Dalmacija u mom oku (Dalmatia in My Eye), arranged by Krste Juras and Dušan Šarac, from which the hits became the single of the same name and "Šibenske kale" (Šibenik's Streets). In 1983, he experienced a convincing failure with the song "Posadi cvijet" (Plant a Flower) in the national selection for the representative of Yugoslavia at the Eurovision Song Contest, which he attributed to the setting. He also collaborated with Idoli and Vlada Divljan on the recording of his 1968 song "Da je duži moj dan" for the soundtrack of the film Six Days of June in 1985. The most fruitful period followed: between 1985 and 1988 he recorded his greatest hits, such as "Ako me ostaviš" (If You Leave Me), "Jedan dan života" (One Day of Life, a cover of the Mexican song "Las mañanitas " that was popularized in Yugoslavia by Mexican movie "Un dia di vida"), "Sutra mi sude" (I'm Being Tried Tomorrow), "Ti si pjesma moje duše" (You're My Soul's Song, adaptation of the song "Seven Spanish Angels" by Willie Nelson and Ray Charles), "Svi pjevaju, ja ne čujem" (Everyone's Singing, I Can't Hear Them) and many others. His music career continued to flourish; he was named Singer of the Year five times, and was named Person of the Year in the former Yugoslavia in 1989.

Personal tragedies and withdrawal from the scene
In September 1991, he joined the Croatian Band Aid on the recording of the song "Moja domovina" (My Homeland), in which he sang the line "Ima oči boje mora" (She has sea-colored eyes). In 1992, his 16-year-old son Edi, a member of the Croatian Army's special unit Scorpions, died in Zagreb under suspicious circumstances. Mišo never completely got over that tragic event. He also released a single "Pjesma za Edija" (Song for Edi). After Edi's death and the big concert Noć svijeća (Night of Candles) in front of 50,000 people at Stadion Poljud in Split in 1993, Kovač publicly announced that he would not perform again and took his first name again; however, he held a whole series of farewell concerts and did not end his career. He also recorded other patriotic songs during the Yugoslav Wars, such as "Grobovi im nikad oprostiti neće" (Graves Will Never Forgive Them) and "To je zemlja gdje žive Hrvati (Herceg-Bosna)" (That's a Land Where Croats Live (Herzeg-Bosnia)). In 1996 he held a concert Svojoj vjernoj publici (To My Faithful Audience).

In addition to his son Edi, he lost his mother and younger brother Ratko in the 1990s, while his daughter Ivana struggled with addiction. After years of depression and alcoholism, on 14 January 1999, in a Zagreb apartment at Maksimirska 69, Kovač shot himself in the chest with an unregistered Beretta pistol, but he managed to survive and fully recovered, and his mental state improved considerably.

Back to scene
After recovering from a suicide attempt, he held a big concert at Dom Sportova in Zagreb. However, that was not the end of Kovač's career. New albums followed; in 1999, Mišo recorded the album Budi čovjek dobre volje (Be a Man of Good Will), as he says, thanks to his daughter Ivana. The following year, he briefly returned to music festivals and immediately won the Split Festival with the song "Vraćam ti se Dalmacijo mati" (I'm Returning to You, Mother Dalmatia). In the same year he recorded the big hit "Dalmatino", a kind of anthem of Dalmatia. In September 2001, he held two concerts in New York for Croatian emigrants and donated half of the proceeds to the families of firefighters killed on 11 September. For the new studio album Mir u srce (Peace in the Heart), released in 2004, in 2006 he received a silver award, and for the compilations Pjevaj, legendo (Sing, Legend; 1999) and Najdraže pjesme Miše Kovača (Favorite Songs by Mišo Kovač; 2003) two platinum awards. From the album Mir u srce, the single "Rođo moj" (My Cousin) achieved the greatest success. In August 2004, with Klapa Teuta as guests, he held a concert on the Republic of Croatia Square between the Cathedral of St. James and the city hall in Šibenik. The concert was published on the DVD Mišo u Šibeniku (Mišo in Šibenik).

Late career
After a break, in 2006, he recorded the album Ja sam kovač svoje sreće (I Am the Blacksmith of My Happiness) on which his daughter Ivana joined him as a guest: the biggest success from that album is their duet "Nema mi do tebe nikoga" (I Have No One Else Like You). In 2007, for the 28th time in his career, Mišo performed in the full Arena Gripe in Split, while the following year he held concerts in front of a large audience in the Pula Arena and Krešimir Ćosić Hall in Zadar with more than 8,000 fans. In 2008, Croatia Records announced reissues of 13 of his most famous albums from the 1970s and 1980s with digitally remastered sound.

In 2009, Mišo Kovač, as the first Croatian singer, held a concert in the newly built Arena Zagreb in front of 20,000 fans of all generations, thus once again proving the status of a legend of the Croatian music scene. The following year, he released his, as he said, last album Ne tražim istinu (I'm Not Looking for the Truth), and announced the end of his career. The album Ne tražim istinu achieved moderate success, experiencing a golden circulation. Almost all the songs are covers of old songs, released on earlier albums and re-recorded in new arrangements. The third single from the album and the only new song, a duet with his daughter Ivana, the ballad "Tvoja mala" (Your Baby Girl), was a bit more successful on the charts, reaching the top of domestic pop music on some radio stations. However, despite the announcement of the end of his career, he continued with performances and concerts, and with the Klapa Rišpet of Ivo Amulić he recorded the song and video "Sunce mi od tebe dolazi" (My Sunlight is Coming from You), which in March 2012 took first place on the Radio Dalmatia top chart Hrvatski Top 33.

In March 2012, in recognition of the profession, Mišo received the Porin for lifetime achievement. Porin was also awarded to conductor, arranger, composer and pianist Stjepan Mihaljinec, who also wrote some of Mišo's greatest hits. Mišo performed some of his greatest hits with Mihaljinec on the piano at the award ceremony, to the applause of the audience and the musicians present, as well as other Porin winners. The five-time sound carrier 100 originalnih hitova – Mišo Kovač (100 Original Hits – Mišo Kovač) was also released, which achieved a diamond circulation, for which he was awarded in February 2014 at two sold-out concerts held at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb. At the same time, Ivana Kovač and Klapa Bunari released a song dedicated to Mišo–"Dalmacijo, srce oca moga" (Dalmatia, My Father's Heart)–which was well received by the audience.

Appearances in film and television
He also tried himself at acting, so in 1972 he starred with Rade Šerbedžija in the film One Pheasant in the Afternoon. He rarely performed on television, and today he avoids appearances on TV "because when you constantly sing on TV, you also come to the homes of people who don't like you. When I work, I do a concert and people who love me watch me, I don't bother people who don't love me." His guest appearance in the jubilee 400th episode of the talk show Nedjeljom u dva on Croatian Radiotelevision on 16 July 2006 is one of the most watched in the show's history.

He briefly stopped his practice in June 2012, performing in the humanitarian edition of the show Misija zajedno (Mission Together) on Croatian Radiotelevision, where he performed eight songs live in an hour and collected 200,000 HRK in aid for children.

Political engagement
According to his own confession, he repeatedly refused to sing for Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, and in 1972 he donated the proceeds from the sale of the record "Proplakat će zora" and a concert with Boris Dvornik for the construction of the Zagreb-Split highway. Before performing for Croatian emigrants in Calgary in 1986, he asked for the painting of Croatian fascist dictator Ante Pavelić to be removed from the wall of the emigrant home.

Before the first multi-party elections in Croatia, in a large interview in Nedjeljna Dalmacija entitled Dalmacija u mom oku (Dalmatia In My Eye), he stated: "If these come to power, there is no place for me here anymore," referring to the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). Later, his desire to shed light on the circumstances of the death of his son Edi brought him into contact with the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP). He began to show public support for the party, appearing at party rallies in the black uniform of the Croatian Defence Forces (HOS). He later befriended Croatian president Franjo Tuđman, to whom he paid tribute even after his death. After 1991, he categorically rejected any possibility of performing in Serbia or Montenegro.

In 2002, he marked the 40th anniversary of his musical activities with a sold-out concert Centimetar moga puta (Centimetre of My Path) in the Arena Gripe in Split, from which he donated part of the proceeds again for the construction of the Zagreb-Split highway.

On 30 June 2007, he attended the eighth HDZ general assembly, and in 2009 he joined the local election campaign and openly supported the independent candidate Željko Kerum, who won the elections in Split and became the new mayor. In July of the same year, Mišo collaborated with many other entertainers on the song "Pjesmo naša" (Our Song) by Dražen Žanko, which was to become the new anthem of the HDZ. Mišo premiered his part on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the HDZ. In April 2013, he testified at the trial of the former HDZ president and former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, because the prosecution claimed that he had received illegal money from the party for his appearances in the HDZ election campaign, according to Sanader's idea. Mladen Barišić paid the fund in cash. On that occasion, he stated that he supported the HDZ "because of his son Edi, because he has been a member of the HDZ since 1990."

Personal life
Kovač divorced his first wife Ljubica Komadina after four years of marriage, and in 1973 he married Anita Baturina, Miss Yugoslavia, from Split, with whom he has a son Edi born in 1975, and a daughter Ivana born two years later. Both children were born in Split. His wife and their two children appear with him in the music videos for the songs "Malo mi je jedan život s tobom" (One Life With You Isn't Enough for Me) and "Ako me ostaviš" (If You Leave Me).

After the death of his son Edi, his marriage to Anita broke up and he briefly tried to have a love affair with the 30-year-younger astrologer Silvija Conte Calvi Marković. After recovering and returning to the stage, Kovač's new life companion became Lidija Pintarić, whom he met in 1998 and married in 2002. Kovač has repeatedly emphasized his commitment and gratitude to Lidija and the importance of their relationship and marriage for his recovery and return to the stage.

In popular culture
Mišo Kovač is generally accepted as a charismatic and icon of Dalmatia, especially the football club Hajduk Split and the Torcida fan group, although at his concerts he often appeals to the "all-Croatian unity" of Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk fans. In Hajduk's jersey number 9, he performed at Stadion Poljud before the derby between Hajduk and Dinamo in 2001, performing his songs related to Dalmatia. His songs about Dalmatia like "Noćas ćemo zemlji ko materi reći", but also love songs like "Samo nas nebo rastavit može" (Only the Heaven Can Do Us Apart), as well as paraphrases of his verses became part of Torcida's choreography and fan slogans. According to the covers of his albums, numerous graffiti were created in Dalmatia, and one of his most recognizable images, taken from a photograph by M. Čolić from Studio, with sunglasses, a sailor's T-shirt and a gold chain, was chosen for the cover of the five-way sound carrier, 100 originalnih hitova – Mišo Kovač, released in May 2012. This cover is also found on numerous T-shirts and souvenirs on the Adriatic coast. Ivana Kovač wore a T-shirt with the same character in the video for her song "Dalmacijo, srce oca moga". Another image closely related to Mišo Kovač is his recognizable pose during concerts, in which he lets the audience sing his songs with open arms.

Julije Jelaska also published a comic about Mišo Kovač, with the lyrics of the song "Dalmacija u mom oku" and "Ostala si uvijek ista".

His song "Poljubi zemlju" (Kiss the Land) became the unofficial anthem of the Croatia men's national water polo team, which sang it after winning the 2012 Olympic tournament in London and during the reception ceremony in Zagreb, together with the audience.

In the first edition of the questionnaire on knowledge of Croatian culture and social order, a condition for exercising Croatian citizenship, the question of what Mišo Kovač does was also noted.

Proplakat Će Zora is featured prominently in the first season of The Walking Dead: Dead City, often played when Željko Ivanek’s character, “The Croat”, is in the scene.

Awards
He has won numerous gold, diamond and silver records, as well as discographic and festival awards. He is, of course, also the owner of the "Golden Bird" which Jugoton / Croatia Records distributed to performers for a million copies sold. In 2005, Croatian Music Institute handed him a special recognition "for the largest number of records sold in the history of Croatian discography".

Discography

 * Mišo Kovač (1971, reissue 2008)
 * Portret (1973)
 * Mi smo se voljeli (1974)
 * Oj ti dušo duše moje (1974)
 * Ovo je naša noć (1977, reissue 2008)
 * Uvijek ima nešto dalje (1979, reissue 2008)
 * Čovjek bez adrese (1980, reissue 2008)
 * Jači od vjetra (1981, reissue 2008)
 * Dalmacija u mom oku (1982, reissue 2008)
 * Osjećam te (1983, reissue 2008)
 * Zajedno smo (1984, reissue 2008)
 * Potraži me u pjesmi (1984, reissue 2008)
 * Ostala si uvijek ista (1985, reissue 2008)
 * Ti si pjesma moje duše (1986, reissue 2008)
 * Malo mi je jedan život s tobom (1987, reissue 2008)
 * Samo nas nebo rastavit može (1989, reissue 2008)
 * Suza nebeska (1989)
 * Za kim zvono plače (1990)
 * Pjesma za Edija (1993)
 * Mate Mišo Kovač (1994)
 * Istina o Blajburgu (1994)
 * Mojoj vjernoj publici (1995)
 * Al' je ljubav bolest teška (1996)
 * Osjećam se jači (1998)
 * Budi čovjek dobre volje (1999)
 * Dalmatino (2001)
 * Mir u srce (2004)
 * Ja sam kovač svoje sreće (2006)
 * Ne tražim istinu (2010)

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Tahmoh Penikett

Tahmoh Penikett (born May 20, 1975) is a Canadian actor. He is known for playing Karl "Helo" Agathon on SyFy's 2004 television series Battlestar Galactica. He has appeared in TV series Supernatural, Dollhouse, the Showcase time travel show Continuum, and as the antagonist Darius in the 2006 racing video game Need for Speed: Carbon.

Early life
Penikett was born in Whitehorse, Yukon. He is the son of former Yukon premier Tony Penikett, who moved to Victoria, British Columbia from England at age 12, and Lulla Sierra Johns, of the White River First Nation in the Yukon. He has two siblings, twin sisters Sarah and Stephanie. He graduated from the Victoria Motion Picture School and studied at the Lyric School of Acting in Vancouver.

Career
In 2002, he had a brief appearance as one of the first Human-Form Replicators in the season 6 episode of Stargate SG-1, "Unnatural Selection". From 2004-2005, Penikett portrayed Ray Chase, who appeared in eleven episodes of the Canadian police drama, Cold Squad. He played a leading role as Noah Hamilton in the 2005 made-for-TV film Hush alongside actress Tori Spelling. He had a role in the video game Need for Speed: Carbon, as a street racer named Darius. He also appeared in four episodes of the television series Whistler as Elias Noth. Penikett also provided voice talent for antagonist Troy Hammerschmidt on the Adult Swim show Titan Maximum. In 2010, Penikett played the lead role of Matt Ellman on Syfy's miniseries Riverworld, an adaption of the science fiction books written by Philip José Farmer of the same name. He starred in the first two episodes of Warner Brothers' Mortal Kombat: Legacy as Kurtis Stryker, which debuted in April on YouTube; he was replaced by Eric Jacobus for season 2.

Among his early acting work were stints on assorted Canadian TV series such as Cold Squad. He also appeared on the TV show Smallville, in the episode "Resurrection" in Season 3 as Vince Davis, and in the Season 6 episodes "Nemesis" and "Prototype" as Sgt. Wes Keenan. He portrayed a police officer for a predominantly gay neighbourhood in the 2004 The L Word episode "Losing It", which starred Battlestar Galactica co-star Nicki Clyne in a related storyline.

In 2003, the 1978 science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica was "reimagined" as a three-hour miniseries on the SciFi Channel. The miniseries was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and Penikett, a local actor, auditioned and was cast in the part of Karl "Helo" Agathon, an officer in the Colonial Fleet. The miniseries proved highly successful, and a Battlestar Galactica series was commissioned. The role was not based on a character in the original series, and was meant to be confined only to the miniseries; in the miniseries Helo is shown giving up a spot on a spaceship fleeing the doomed planet of Caprica, with the implication that he was left to die. However, both the producers and test audiences were sufficiently impressed with the character, and Penikett's performance, that the decision was made to make Helo a recurring character on the show. A plot that took place over much of the show's first season was that the Cylons on Caprica kept Helo alive in order to have him fall in love with, and impregnate, a Cylon (Helo was chosen because his crew partner, Sharon Valerii, was in fact a Cylon, and another copy of the same model was sent to pretend to be her). By the second season, his character had returned to the Galactica; as the father of the only successful human-Cylon hybrid; this character and his family became central to the show's mythology.

In 2009, Penikett was cast as Paul Ballard in Joss Whedon's science fiction drama television series Dollhouse, which aired on Fox network Friday nights at 9:00.

Dollhouse was canceled at the end of its second season, and the series finale aired on Friday, January 29, 2010. In 2012, he guest-starred as a politician named Jim Martin in the first season of Showcase's Continuum. He returned as a recurring character in the second season of the show. In 2013, Penikett was cast on the CW TV series Supernatural as a fallen angel who claimed to be Ezekiel, appearing in the show's ninth season premiere. The character's real name was revealed as Gadreel in episode nine and Penikett reprised the role in episode ten. He has since reprised the roles in episodes eighteen, twenty-one and twenty-two. He also landed another recurring role on the mid-season drama Star-Crossed, which premiered in February 2014.

In 2014, Penikett guest-starred in the 200th episode of Criminal Minds as Michael Hastings, an ex-CIA agent and leader of the terrorist group, The Regime Squad. Since 2014, he has also starred in the award-winning web series Riftworld Chronicles.

In 2024, Penikett portrayed Ed Finley in the Lifetime film The Killer Inside: The Ruth Finley Story.

Personal life
Penikett lives in Vancouver with his family.

In his youth, Penikett studied Judo before switching to Muay Thai

In April 2008, in support of the Babz Chula Lifeline for Artists Society, which raised money for their (late) friend and fellow Canadian actor Chula's cancer treatment, Penikett and his Battlestar Galactica colleague Kandyse McClure auctioned off dinner with the two of them in Vancouver.

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Hugh Walker (academic)

Hugh Walker (1855–1939) was a British university educator.

Life
He was born in Kilbirnie, Scotland, on 7 January 1855. He attended Glasgow High School and then Glasgow University. At university he was awarded their medal in logic and moral philosophy, and achieved his MA. Walker then went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford, as Snell Exhibitioner, graduating with first class honours in Literary Humanities in 1883. He would go on to receive an Honorary LLD from Glasgow and an Honorary DLitt from the University of Wales.

In 1884, Walker was appointed Lecturer in English and Philosophy at St David's College, Lampeter (now the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David). In 1890, he was made Professor in these same subjects. Whilst at Lampeter, he regularly contributed to the college magazine. He loved the town and college dearly. He was mayor from 1900 to 1902, and the Vice-Principal's house on campus became affectionately known as 'Walker's House'. A Hall of Residence is also named after Walker.

Walker published widely. His works include various books on English literature, along with frequent contributions to journals such as the Yale Review, Hibbert Journal and Chambers' Journal. He contributed to Cambridge Modern History and Cambridge History of English Literature .

Walker was married to Janie (nee Roxburgh). The couple had three daughters.

Walker was given the opportunity to retire in 1930, but refused this. He died on 28 June 1939, still a member of staff at Lampeter.

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Ductus venosus

In the fetus, the ductus venosus (Arantius' duct after Julius Caesar Aranzi ) shunts a portion of umbilical vein blood flow directly to the inferior vena cava. Thus, it allows oxygenated blood from the placenta to bypass the liver. Compared to the 50% shunting of umbilical blood through the ductus venosus found in animal experiments, the degree of shunting in the human fetus under physiological conditions is considerably less, 30% at 20 weeks, which decreases to 18% at 32 weeks, suggesting a higher priority of the fetal liver than previously realized. In conjunction with the other fetal shunts, the foramen ovale and ductus arteriosus, it plays a critical role in preferentially shunting oxygenated blood to the fetal brain. It is a part of fetal circulation.

Anatomic course
The pathway of fetal umbilical venous flow is umbilical vein to left portal vein to ductus venosus to inferior vena cava and eventually the right atrium. This anatomic course is important in the assessment of neonatal umbilical venous catheterization, as failure to cannulate through the ductus venosus results in malpositioned hepatic catheterization via the left or right portal veins. Complications of such positioning can include hepatic hematoma or abscess.

Postnatal closure
The ductus venosus is open at the time of birth and that is the reason why umbilical vein catheterization works. The ductus venosus naturally closes during the first week of life in most full-term neonates; however, it may take much longer to close in pre-term neonates. Functional closure occurs within minutes of birth. Structural closure in term babies occurs within 3 to 7 days.

After it closes, the remnant is known as ligamentum venosum.

If the ductus venosus fails to occlude after birth, it remains patent (open), and the individual is said to have a patent ductus venosus and thus an intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (PSS). This condition is hereditary in some dog breeds (e.g. Irish Wolfhound). The ductus venosus shows a delayed closure in preterm infants, with no significant correlation to the closure of the ductus arteriosus or the condition of the infant. Possibly, increased levels of dilating prostaglandins leads to a delayed occlusion of the vessel.

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Beth Porter

Beth Jane Porter (May 23, 1942 – August 1, 2023) was an American stage, film and television actress and writer, who worked in Britain for most of her career. She became a British citizen in 2014.

Early life
Beth Porter made her first professional appearance at age 12 in a Westchester County touring company. She studied acting on scholarship at the Stratford Connecticut Shakespeare Festival and with Helen Menken at the American Theatre Wing before completing dramatic studies at Bard College, New York University, and Hunter College at The City University of New York (CUNY).

Career
After appearing in the American premiere of Jules Romains's Donogoo in 1961 at the Greenwich Mews Theatre, Isaac Babel's Sunset at the Chelsea Theater Center in 1966, and later that year as the star of David Starkweather's Ascent at The Playwrights Workshop, Porter was chosen as a member of original Obie Award-winning New York LaMaMa Troupe under director Tom O'Horgan (Hair), where she starred in the play and later film of Futz!, and featured in Paul Foster's Tom Paine and Melodrama Play by Sam Shepard. A critic declared of her co-starring role in Futz!: "Beth Porter makes the Whore of Babylon look like the Singing Nun."

Ellen Stewart and Tom O'Horgan invited Porter and her Scots husband Peter Reid to co-found the first foreign branch of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, based in the UK. Known as The Wherehouse La MaMa with Porter as its administrative director, it operated as a touring company throughout Europe and guest appearing at La MaMa New York. Porter featured in their plays, including Groupjuice, Little Mother by Ross Alexander, The Hilton Keen Show, Hump, a dramatization of the novel by David Benedictus.

U.S. television guest spots included Baretta and Kojak.

U.K. television roles include Thames Television's Armchair Theatre play, Verité (1973) with Richard Morant and Tim Curry, co-starring in Rock Follies of '77 (1977) and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which she reprised her role as The Marketing Girl from the original radio series. Her television films include Blue Money, again with Tim Curry, and Pleasure (1994), part of the Alan Bleasdale Presents series. She guest starred with Bill Nighy in The Men's Room (1991).

Feature film roles include Reds (1981), Mrs. McKee in The Great Gatsby (1974), sister-in-law Anna to Woody Allen’s Boris in Love and Death (1975), and Yentl (1983), in which she worked as Barbra Streisand's understudy and played Sophie, Amy Irving's maid in an uncredited role. She appeared in several saucy UK comedies in the 1970s including Eskimo Nell (1975), an early feature film by Martin Campbell.

Voice acting
Porter featured on Roger Waters' album The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking as The Wife. Her voice has been heard on re-voices and dubbings of many films. She was the White Witch in the animated version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. She and John Ratzenberger did all the post-synch voices in John Schlesinger's Honky Tonk Freeway (1981).

Later career
Porter later trained as a television script editor and producer. For BBC Television, she produced The Husband, The Wife and The Stranger, starring Adam Faith and Derrick O'Connor, and for Channel 4 Television, Unusual Ground Floor Conversion, a short film directed by Mark Herman, Little Voice. She later joined BBC Television Drama as a development executive for new drama series.

A number of her radio plays and short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

Porter first became a journalist at age 12 when she was hired as a weekly columnist for The Patent Trader, a Westchester County newspaper chain. Years later, she served as a relief theatre critic for The Times, and contributed media-related articles to The Listener, The Guardian, and The Independent. In 1988 she became a film critic, joining The Critics' Circle and served for 10 years as London Editor for Film Journal International, with supplementary pieces for The Morning Star. Until May 2020, she continued to provide online columns for The London Progressive Journal under the byline outRageous!

Porter subsequently became a senior Web Producer for leading web-house Online Magic, part of the Omnicom Group, and she was asked to contribute to various web-related magazines including .net for Future Publishing. This led to the publication of her book, The Net Effect, for which David Puttnam contributed the foreword. 2018 was her 21st year as a nominating judge for the International Webby Awards and she has served as a contributor to policy advisers on eDemocracy issues. She was an elected Lifetime voting member of BAFTA.

In 2013 she published Resident Aliens, a collection of her short fiction for Kindle. This was followed in 2014 by a collection of her original scripts and screenplays under the umbrella title Drama Queen and in April 2016 of her autobiography entitled Walking on my Hands: how I learned to take responsibility for my life with the help of Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Greta Garbo, Harvey Milk, Idi Amin, Guy The Gorilla, and Frank Sinatra, among others. Its foreword is by noted author and screenplay writer Shane Connaughton (My Left Foot).

Also in 2016 Porter published both Kindle and paperback versions of Settling Beyond the Pale, a novella and six short stories about freedom and flight.

In 2018 Porter released both Kindle and paperback versions of a horror/fantasy novella titled Feeding the Twins as well as her first novel ScreenSaver!

Porter's second novel, Becca’s Providing, was published in both Kindle and paperback during the spring of 2019; it explores themes of identity and family. Porter's 3rd collection of short fiction was published in December 2019, under the title Painted Ladies.

In March 2021, Porter published Locks: a quartet of short fiction in paperback and Kindle. Her Amazon profile further stated that she was working on a collection of short and flash fiction featuring female protagonists for publication in early 2022, and was also preparing a new book promo website.

Death
Porter became a British citizen in 2014. She died on August 1, 2023, at the age of 81.

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José Jiménez Lozano

José Jiménez Lozano (13 May 1930 – 9 March 2020 ) was a Spanish writer. In 2002 he was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize.

Biography
Jiménez Lozano was born in Langa, a village in the province of Ávila. After finishing his studies in 1962, he became a journalist and writer, winning the Cervantes Prize in 2002. Not well known to the general public, he emphasized religious and social themes in both his journalism and his novels.

Works

 * Historia de un otoño (novel) (1971)
 * El sambenito (novel) (1972)
 * La salamandra (novel) (1973)
 * El santo de mayo (novel) (1976)
 * Guía espiritual de Castilla (essays) (1984)
 * Avila (essays) (1988)
 * El grano de maíz rojo (novel) (1988)
 * El empleo (novel) (1989)
 * El mudejarillo (novel) (1992)
 * Tantas devastaciones (poems) (1992)
 * La boda de Ángela (novel) (1993)
 * Teorema de Pitágoras (novel) (1995)
 * Un fulgor tan breve (poems) (1995)
 * Las sandalias de plata (novel) (1996)
 * El tiempo de Eurídice (poems) (1996)
 * Los compañeros (novel) (1997)

Adaptations

 * Tom Ojos Azules is the basis of a children's opera (2016) of the same name by American composer John Craton, with libretto by José Jiménez Lozano.

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User talk:Stevertigo/War on Terror timeline

A personal opinion: One backline in your timeline should be connected to the US support of the Mujahadeen in Afganistan, including suport of Osama bin Laden. Another should go to US support of Saddam Hussein and Iraq in their war against Iran. I see numerous other skeins to the timeline, but those two are the largest ones. Blank Verse  ∅  13:53, 26 July 2005 (UTC)


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Splendour in the Grass

Splendour in the Grass (commonly referred to as Splendour) is an annual Australian music festival held at the North Byron Parklands in Yelgun, New South Wales. Since its inauguration, the festival has also been held in various locations near Byron Bay, New South Wales, and Woodford, Queensland.

History
Splendour in the Grass was jointly created and promoted by the Village Sounds Agency and Secret Service music companies, and began in 2001 as a one-day gathering to cater for Australia's winter season (a period that had traditionally been associated with very few events of this nature).

A 1804 poem, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality", by English poet William Wordsworth, was the inspiration for the events naming. The festival evolved into a two-day event in 2002 and a three-day event in 2009. It is now considered Australia's largest music festival.

Splendour in the Grass showcases popular and established musical artists as well as emerging Australian artists. The music festival has attracted notable artists such as Coldplay, Powderfinger, Arctic Monkeys, Kanye West, Tame Impala and Lorde.

The 2020 festival was to be headlined by Flume, The Strokes, and Tyler, the Creator, but was postponed and then cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 edition was to be held in July with The Strokes, Tyler, the Creator, back as headliners, and Gorillaz before being postponed to November. It was also cancelled due to the pandemic. Instead, on 24 and 25 July 2021, Splendour held a virtual festival called Splendour XR with AUD$1.5 Million funded by the federal government RISE program. It was hosted on the US-owned platform Sansar and featured performances from Khalid, The Killers, Charli XCX, CHVRCHES, Denzel Curry, Vance Joy, Tash Sultana and Masked Wolf.

The 2022 edition was held in July, with Gorillaz, The Strokes, and Tyler, the Creator returning as headliners.

The 2023 edition was also held in July, featuring Lizzo, Flume, and Mumford & Sons.

The 2024 edition was supposed to feature Kylie Minogue, Future, and Arcade Fire as headliners, but was abruptly cancelled nearly a week after tickets went on sale with organisers blaming "unexpected events" as the reason behind the cancellation. However, many media outlets and punters believe the real reasons for the cancellation were a combination of many Australians experiencing a cost-of-living crisis, poor ticket sales, a weak Australian dollar, and a perceived lacklustre lineup which included (aside from the headlining acts mentioned above) G Flip, Turnstile, Yeat, Girl in Red, Hayden James, and Baby Gravy (Yung Gravy x bbno$); the festival's cancellation joins a list of other Australian festivals that were cancelled in 2024 for similar reasons.

Ownership
The festival has several owners, including 51% majority holder NYSE-listed Live Nation Entertainment, the parent company of Ticketmaster.

In April 2020 (approximately 30 days after the global initial lockdown phase of COVID-19), 5.7% of Live Nation was purchased by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.

Other owners of the festival include Village Sounds and Secret Sounds (also co-owned by Live Nation).

National Live Music Awards
The National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) are a broad recognition of Australia's diverse live industry, celebrating the success of the Australian live scene. The awards commenced in 2016.

 * National Live Music Awards of 2016
 * Splendour in the Grass
 * Best Live Music Festival or Event
 * Nominated
 * National Live Music Awards of 2017
 * Splendour in the Grass
 * Best Live Music Festival or Event
 * Nominated
 * National Live Music Awards of 2018
 * Splendour in the Grass
 * NSW Live Event of the Year
 * Won
 * Splendour in the Grass
 * NSW Live Event of the Year
 * Won

Ticketing Issues
Tickets for the 2005 festival were sold out within 11 hours and, soon after, festival tickets that initially cost A$125 were offered on eBay at inflated prices of up to A$3000. The festival organisers responded by sending "cease and desist" letters to eBay, as well as around 150 ticket resellers, citing a breach of the conditions of sale. However, eBay refused to block the ticket auctions, claiming it was the seller's responsibility to ensure that they have the ability and right to sell products. The Triple J radio station encouraged its listeners to sabotage the bidding process and fake bids of up to A$10,000 were consequently listed on eBay by protesters opposed to ticket scalping. Following media coverage, the NSW Department of Fair Trading became involved and met with eBay representatives. The then-Fair Trading Minister John Hatzistergos instructed the Office of Fair Trading to investigate the reselling of tickets and determine whether resellers were in breach of the Fair Trading Act. Festival promoters hoped that the investigation would eventually lead to the introduction of anti-ticket scalping legislation.

In response to the events of 2005, the organisers altered the ticketing system for the 2006 festival. In an unprecedented action, ticket buyers were required to register their name and date of birth at the time of purchase. These details were then printed on the event tickets and valid identification was required to gain admission into the festival. Tickets to the 2006 festival went on sale at 9am on Monday 15 May 2006—all camping tickets sold out within three hours, and all general admission tickets sold out after 48 hours.

Festival organisers encountered difficulties with the ticketing system provided by the Qjump company in 2008, as consumers were unable to purchase tickets following lengthy delays. Qjump later issued an apology on the festival's Internet forum.

In July 2022, hours before performers were set to go on stage and while artists were conducting soundchecks, festival organisers controversially made the decision to cancel all performances scheduled for the first day on the main stage due to poor weather and flooding. Ticketholders took to social media angry after the festival organisers had stated that the "show will go on rain, hail or shine" earlier in the day, prior to the cancellation.

Venue issues
For a once-only trial, the organisers obtained permission to stage the 2009 Splendour in the Grass at a site in Yelgun. However, the consent provided to the organisers was the subject of a challenge by a group of residents, environmentalists and the Environmental Defenders Office of NSW, who presented their case in the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales. The Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court, Justice Brian Preston, ruled that Byron Shire Council had exceeded its powers by granting the development consent where the land included parts zoned for conservation purposes. The development consent was ruled invalid, prohibiting the festival from being held at the Yelgun site. As a consequence of the decision, the festival remained at the Belongil site in 2009, before returning one more time in 2012.

In 2016 attendees made accusations they were forced to walk from the venue or sleep in the mud due to a lack of transport.

Cancellations
In 2024, Splendour in the Grass was cancelled due to unexpected events. The announcement was made just seven days after the tickets were released.

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Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory

Ainslie is a suburb of Canberra, Australia in the North Canberra district.

The suburb is bounded by Limestone Avenue and Majura Avenue to the west and north, Phillip Avenue to the north-east, Mount Ainslie to the east and Quick Street to the south.

Ainslie is within walking distance of the City, the nature trails of Mount Ainslie, the Australian War Memorial and the many restaurants of Dickson. It has many attractions: a central location, with equally easy access to the CBD and the bush trails of Mount Ainslie; the abundance of charming early twentieth-century, heritage-listed houses; mature deciduous street trees and general leafiness; and a vibrant local shopping centre.

Suburb amenities
The local shops are located in the middle of Ainslie, and there is an IGA store, a cafe, restaurant, liquor store, pharmacy, laundrette, Pilates studio and newsagent. The suburb has a playschool, The Inner North Playschool, a preschool (Baker Gardens Preschool), the Ainslie Football Club, and the Ainslie Fire Station, which serves the North Canberra area. The North Ainslie Primary School is located in the suburb, but Ainslie School, one of Canberra's oldest, is located in Braddon on the western side of Limestone Ave (Braddon was originally called 'Ainslie' with the current Ainslie and another early neighbouring suburb, Reid, were originally called 'North Ainslie' and 'South Ainslie' respectively). Ainslie Village which is actually in Campbell, provides accommodation for homeless adults, or those at risk of homelessness.

Ainslie residents can access Mount Ainslie simply by walking uphill. There is an easy paved walk to the top, and also a "goat track" straight up the side of the hill. Kangaroos come down from the mountain at night and eat grass from the nature strips in front of local houses.

The Anglican All Saints Church, built in the 1860s of stone, is located on Cowper Street in Ainslie. It was relocated from Sydney in 1957 and originally served as the railway terminus at Rookwood Cemetery. It is listed by the ACT Heritage Council.

Design
The suburb is characterized by leafy streets, and mainly by detached single dwelling houses. Many see a "village" atmosphere around the many small parks. Ainslie has experienced 'in-fill' development in recent years, both in the form of dual occupancy dwellings (where two dwellings are constructed on a block which previously contained one house) and medium-density development, especially at the Limestone Avenue ends of Cowper Street and Angus Street and, more recently, on the site of the former service station at the Ainslie shops.

History
The suburb was named after James Ainslie, a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, the "first overseer of 'Duntroon Station' in Canberra who was employed by Robert Campbell in 1825 to drive a mob of sheep south from Bathurst 'until he found suitable land'; Ainslie chose the Limestone Plains (the Canberra district) and was overseer for ten years before returning to Scotland."

James Ainslie was reputed to have camped in 1825 under gum trees at what is now Corroboree Park. Iris Carnell, born in 1900 and one of the original inhabitants of Paterson Street in the 1920s, recounted in 'Voices of Old Ainslie' that her mother, Celia Tong, born at Lanyon in 1871, remembered as a little girl what is now Corroboree Park as a scene of aboriginal corroborees. She said the aborigines used to sit around the tree now near the barbecues which has four trees growing from its centre.

Ainslie has three housing precincts planned on Garden City principles that were gazetted onto the ACT Government's Heritage Register in 2004. The first stage of the Corroboree Park precinct was constructed between 1925 and 1927 to accommodate tradesmen for the construction of the city. The Alt Crescent precinct was designed for the members of the Federal Capital Commission and built in 1926. The houses were originally occupied by the founding staff of the FCC. The curved street design appears to derive from Walter Burley Griffin's original plan for Canberra which shows a small crescent off Limestone Avenue at the end of Ainslie Avenue. The first stage of the Wakefield Gardens precinct was constructed between 1925 and 1929 to accommodate lower income public servants and workmen for the opening of the new Parliament House in Canberra in 1927.

The division (or suburb) name Ainslie was gazetted by the Government in 1928. The streets of Ainslie are named after pioneers and legislators.

Iris Carnell also records that when the then-Duke and Duchess of York came to Canberra to open Parliament House in 1927, the Duchess, later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, expressed an interest in visiting a typical local family. She was invited to tea with the Truesdale family at 20 Corroboree Park (on the northern corner of Higgins Crescent).

Originally a predominantly blue-collar suburb with a high proportion of public housing, Ainslie has gradually gentrified, with properties regularly fetching more than $1 million. Perhaps paradoxically, among the most sought-after properties in the suburb are the heritage-listed cottages built during the conservative governments of Stanley Bruce and Joseph Lyons, which are set mainly among European trees.

Open space
Ainslie has many parks and open spaces.
 * Corroboree Park is shaped like a semicircle, and is associated with the Aboriginal use of the area prior to European settlement in Canberra. The park was created around 1925 around what is known as the 'Corroboree Tree' located in the park. Ainslie Community Hall, which is located in Corroboree Park, is socially significant as one of the early meeting places in Canberra. The wooden hall was erected in 1927 and the adjoining 1920s school building was relocated to its current location from Russell. The hall is often used for social gatherings, meetings and classes such as yoga and dance.  The three courts for the Ainslie Tennis Club (established in 1927) were built using voluntary labour. The tennis club planted many of the trees in the park.
 * It contains several sports ovals, one of which is part of the Ainslie Football Club.
 * It contains North Ainslie Primary School which has a generous oval.

Demographics
In the, the population of Ainslie was 5,376, including 99 (1.8%) Indigenous persons and 4,029 (74.9%) Australian-born persons. 72.5% of dwellings were separate houses (compared to the Australian average of 72.3%), while 16.8% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses (Australian average: 12.6%) and 10.1% were flats, units or apartments (Australian average: 14.2%). 39.1% of the population were professionals, compared to the Australian average of 22.2%. Notably 24.6% worked in central government administration, compared to the Australian average of 1.2%, although the ACT-wide average is a similar 17.1%. 56.5% of the population had no religion, compared to the Australian average of 38.4%.

Politics
Ainslie is located within the federal electorate of Canberra and it is represented by Alicia Payne for the Labor Party. In the ACT Legislative Assembly, Ainslie is part of the electorate of Kurrajong, which elects five members on the basis of proportional representation, two Labor, two Greens and one Liberal. Polling place statistics are shown to the right for the Ainslie North polling place at Ainslie North Primary School in the 2022 federal and 2020 ACT elections.

Geology

Calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation from the Silurian period is overlain by Quaternary alluvium. This rock is the limestone of the original title of Canberra "Limestone Plains". Mount Ainslie itself is composed of the Ainslie Volcanics.

Notable residents

 * Frank McMahon
 * Arthur Moore
 * Lajos Kazár

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Todd Dezago

Todd Dezago (born 1961) is an American comic book writer best known for his collaborations with artist Mike Wieringo on The Sensational Spider-Man and their creator-owned fantasy series Tellos.

Early life
Todd Dezago was raised in Rhinebeck, New York and studied to be an actor.

Career
Dezago began his comics writing career on X-Factor for Marvel Comics in 1994. He first worked with penciller Mike Wieringo on The Sensational Spider-Man #8 (Sept. 1996). They then worked together on the creator-owned fantasy series Tellos in 1999. The series, a coming-of-age adventure set in a magical, piratical world, ran 10 issues (May 1999–Nov. 2000). The last three issues were released by Gorilla Comics, a short-lived Image Comics imprint co-founded by Dezago and several other creators in 2000. Following the demise of the series, Dezago wrote the Tellos: Maiden Voyage #1 (March 2001) one-shot.

At DC Comics, Dezago co-created Young Justice with artist Todd Nauck in the 1998 one-shot Young Justice: The Secret. His other Young Justice work includes the 1998 miniseries JLA: World Without Grown-ups. From 1999 to 2002, he wrote Impulse #50–89. In 2005 he co-created The Perhapanauts with artist Craig Rousseau.

Ardden Entertainment

 * Casper and the Spectrals #1–3 (2009–2010)

CD Comics

 * Occupational Hazards (among others) (2000)

Dark Horse Comics

 * The Perhapanauts #1–4 (2005–2006)
 * The Perhapanauts: Second Chances #1–4 (2006–2007)

DC Comics

 * Batman: Gotham Knights #24 ("Batman Black and White" backup story) (2002)
 * The Flash 80-Page Giant #1 (1998)
 * Impulse #50–54, 56–59, 62–89 (1999–2002)
 * JLA 80-Page Giant #1 (1998)
 * JLA: World Without Grown-Ups #1–2 (1998)
 * Legends of the DC Universe #40–41 (2001)
 * Sins of Youth: The Secret/Deadboy #1 (2000)
 * Tangent Comics/The Flash #1 (1997)
 * Tangent Comics/The Trials of the Flash #1 (1998)
 * Teen Titans vol. 2 #50 (2007)
 * Young Justice #22 (2000)
 * Young Justice: The Secret #1 (1998)

Dynamite Entertainment

 * DF Premiere: Tellos Prologue #1 (1999)
 * Dynamic Forces: Tellos Preview Book #1 (1999)

Image Comics

 * Monster Pile-Up #1 (2008)
 * The Perhapanauts vol. 2 #1–6 (2008–2009)
 * The Perhapanauts Annual #1 (2008)
 * The Perhapanauts: Danger Down Under #1–5 (2012–2013)
 * Popgun #4 (2010)
 * Section Zero #1 (Tellos backup story) (2000)
 * Skullkickers #24 (2013)
 * Tales of Tellos #1–3 (2004)
 * Tellos #1–10 (1999–2000)
 * Tellos Prelude #1 (1999)
 * Tellos: The Joining #1 (1999)
 * Tellos: The Last Heist #1 (2001)
 * Tellos: Maiden Voyage #1 (2001)
 * Tellos: Sons & Moons #1 (2002)

Marvel Comics

 * The Amazing Spider-Man #404–405, 663 (1995, 2011)
 * Bug #1 (1997)
 * Cable vol. 2 #40–43 (1997)
 * Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #83 (1995)
 * Free Comic Book Day 2010: Iron Man/Nova (backup story) (2010)
 * Generation X  #11–12, 15–16 (with Scott Lobdell) (1996)
 * Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #45–48 (2009)
 * Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #10 (2009)
 * Marvel Age: Spider-Man #7–11, 15, 17–18 (2004–2005)
 * Marvel Age Spider-Man Team-Up #1–5 (2004–2005)
 * Marvel Super Hero Squad Online Game: Hero Up #1 (2011)
 * The Sensational Spider-Man #7–33, -1 (1996–1998)
 * The Spectacular Scarlet Spider #1–2 (1995)
 * The Spectacular Spider-Man #230–240 (1996)
 * Spider-Man Family #7 (2008)
 * Spider-Man Team-Up Special #1 (2005)
 * Spider-Man: Maximum Clonage Alpha #1 (1995)
 * Spider-Man: The Clone Journal #1 (1995)
 * Spider-Man: The Jackal Files #1 (1995)
 * Strong Guy Reborn #1 (1997)
 * The Thing/She-Hulk: The Long Night #1 (2002)
 * Web of Scarlet Spider #1–2 (1995)
 * Web of Spider-Man #121–122, 126–129 (1995)
 * What If...? #90 (1996)
 * Wolverine #129–131 (1998)
 * Wolverine: Killing Made Simple #1 (2008)
 * X-Factor #103–111 (1994–1995)
 * X-Force and Cable '95 #1 (1995)
 * X-Men #½ (1998)
 * X-Men Unlimited #21 (1998)

Self-published

 * The Mike Wieringo Tellos Tribute Vol.1–2 (2017)
 * The Perhapanauts: Into Hollow Earth OGN (2016)

Sitcomics

 * Startup Binge Book #3 (with Darin Henry) (2020)

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Gulf Research Center

The Gulf Research Center (GRC) is a privately funded, non-partisan think tank, education provider and consultancy specializing in the Arabian Gulf region. The GRC produces research from a Gulf perspective which redresses a current area studies imbalance wherein regional opinions and interests are underrepresented. Based in Jeddah, and the foundation, now based in Geneva, the GRC was founded in July 2000 by Abdulaziz Sager, the current chairman.

GRC activities
The Gulf Research Center focus is on four interdisciplinary areas: social science research, education, news media and consultancy. These include social science in the context of the Persian Gulf region, international relations and politics of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, E-Education, Executive Learning Programs, the GRC E-Library and the "Gulf in the Media" news portal.

Specialized GRC publications include Araa Magazine, an independent magazine about social, defense and security issues in the Gulf; Yemen Studies, a peer reviewed bilingual academic series about Yemen and Yemen-GCC relations; and the GRC Newsletter.

The GRC maintains cooperation agreements with major partners such as Emirates Bank, Shell, Glaxo Smith Kline, the University of Queensland, the Saudi Arabian Marketing and Agencies Company (SAMACO) group, the National Defence College, the Saudi Binladin Group, and the FRIDE Foundation.

2006
Beginning with its 3rd Annual Conference in January 2006, the GRC took part in or organised over two dozen conferences, workshops and seminars which included:

 * Master of Arts Program in International Relations in cooperation with the Free University of Berlin
 * GCC-Korea Relations Workshop, the Green Gulf workshop in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Program
 * The release of the Arabic version of the International Energy Outlook 2006
 * Global Leadership and Young Arab Leaders conventions
 * 8th Asia Security Conference
 * Global Policy Council, organized by the Bertelsmann Stiftung
 * Middle East 2006 conference, organized by the [www.gcsp.ch Geneva Center for Security Policy]
 * The Doha Debates
 * 7th Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Florence, Italy
 * Windsor Energy Forum, London, England
 * 7th International Security Forum, Zürich

GRC publications in 2006 included the Gulf Yearbook and the Green Gulf Report, ten research papers including "Impact of the Disbandment of the Iraqi army on the Security Situation in Iraq," ten Gulf papers including "The Arab Gulf States: Further steps towards political participation," ten Gulf Translations, and three Gulf Theses including one about GCC-EU relations.

2007
GRC held its 4th Annual Conference, “The consequences of US Policies in the Gulf Region,” on January 13 and 14, 2007.

 * Gulf News cites GRC analyst: "New Arabic channel to hit airwaves tomorrow" March 31, 2007.
 * Edmonton Journal cites GRC research: "Attacks in Iraq deadlier: study" April 3, 2007.
 * ArabianBusiness.com newsletter cites GRC senior consultant: "Opec idea to loom over gas producers meeting" April 5, 2007.
 * Gulf Daily News cites GRC senior consultant: "Middle East 'must satisfy its own gas demand first'" April 6, 2007.
 * Financial Times cites GRC security analyst: "Arab street warms to showman Ahmadi-Nejad" April 6, 2007.
 * Gulf News cites GRC environment researcher: "Green technology is 'the way forward'" April 14, 2007.
 * Gulf News cites GRC economics programme manager: "Dollar hits 26-year low against pound" April 19, 2007.
 * Dubai City Guide names GRC among forum partners: "Arab and Asian Leaders Seek Common Values at Young Arab Leaders Global Action Forum" April 26, 2007

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User:Markus Schmaus/Riemann

(I) Grössenbegriffe sind nur da möglich, wo sich ein allgemeiner Begriff vorfindet, der verschiedene Bestimmungsweisen zulässt. Je nachdem unter diesen Bestimmungsweisen von einer zu einer andern ein stetiger Uebergang statt- findet oder nicht, bilden sie eine stetige oder discrete Mannigfaltigkeit; die einzelnen Bestimmungsweisen heissen im erstern Falle Punkte, im letztern Elemente dieser Mannigfaltigkeit.

Translation: Concepts of quantity are only possible, where a common concept is found, which allows diffrent ways of determination. Depending on whether under those ways of determination from one to another a continuous transition occurs or not, they form a continous or discrete manifold; the particular ways of determination are called in the first case points, in the last case elements of this manifold.

(II) [...], oder mit andern Worten, man nehme innerhalb der gegebenen Mannigfaltigkeit eine stetige Function des Orts an, un zwar eine solche Function, welche nicht längs eines Theils dieser Mannigfaltigkeit constant ist. Jedes system von Punkten, wo die Function einen constanten Werth hat, bildet dann eine stetige Mannigfaltigkeit von weniger Dimensionen, als die gegebene. Diese Mannigfaltigkeiten gehen bei Aenderung der Function stetig in einander über; man wird daher annehmen können, dass aus einer von ihnen die übrigen hervorgehen, und es wird dies, allgemein zu reden, so geschehen können, dass jeder Punkt in einen bestimmten Punkt der andern übergeht; die Ausnahmsfälle, deren Untersuchung wichtig ist, können hier unberücksichtigt bleiben.

Translation: [...], or in other words, assume a continuous function of location, more precisely a function, which is not constant lengthwise of a part of this manifold. Each system of points, where the function has a constant value, then forms a continuous manifold of fewer dimensions, than the given one. These manifolds continuously transform into each other when the function changes its values; one can therefore assume, that from one of them the others emerge, and this will be, speaking generally, able to happen in such a way, that each point transforms to a certain point in the other; the exceptional cases, which are important to study, can here be left unconsidered.

Above are some excerpts of On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bases of Geometry and my translations, if you think I mistranslated something or you would like to translate some more, feel free to change it wikistyle, but please mention, that it no longer my original version. The English sounds a little strange, but believe me so does the German and I tried to preseve most of its oddities. Some terms are allmost untranslateable, in those cases I will use the German term in the further discussion.

What can be learnt from the above about Riemann's notion of "Mannigfaltigkeit"?

In (I) Riemann defines a "Mannigfaltigkeit" as consisting of the "Bestimmungsweisen" (ways of determination) of a "Größenbegriff" (concept of quantity), with "Bestimmungsweisen" being the points of a "stetige Mannigfaltigkeit" (continuous manifold). The "stetige Mannigfaltigkeit" is not described as being composed from smaller pieces, nor does he mention local flattness. In another, not translated, part he mentions colors and the locations of "Sinngegenstände" (objects of perception) as the only simple concepts giving rise to "stetige Mannigfaltigkeiten". At another point he calls the possible shapes of a spacial figure a "Mannigfaltigkeit".

While the not translated beginning of (II) contains some references to locallity, the translated second part does not. In this part the "Mannigfaltigkeit" is dissected into pieces, also called "Mannigfaltigkeiten". But those pieces do not overlap, but are longitudinal sections. Such a section is a "system of points" with "constant value" for "a function, which is not constant lengthwise" and resembles a level curve. Such level curves are not necessarily manifolds in the modern sense. Riemann seems to be aware of this as he mentions "exceptional cases" which do not transform one-to-one, which "are important to studied", but "can here be left unconsidered".

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Run-in period

Run-in period is a period between the recruitment and randomization phases of a clinical trial, when all participants receive the same treatment, which may be active treatment, a placebo or no treatment at all. The clinical data from this stage of a trial are only occasionally of value but can serve a valuable role in screening out ineligible or non-compliant participants, in ensuring that participants are in a stable condition, and in providing baseline observations. A run-in period is sometimes called a washout period if treatments that participants were using before entering the clinical trial are discontinued.

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User:ShiningRay~enwiki

I'm a college student with major in software engineering.
 * Nationality: China
 * Job: Student
 * School: Southeast University
 * Department: College of Software Engineering
 * Major: Software Engineering
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 * My Blogs: http://shiningray.cn

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Perks

Perks may refer to:

People

 * Perks (surname)

Other uses

 * Perks baronets, an extinct title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
 * Perks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community
 * Perks Matriculation Higher Secondary School, India
 * Polly Perks, a character in the Discworld fantasy universe

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Big City Secrets

Big City Secrets is the first studio album by American singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur, released by Real World Records on March 11, 1997.

Musicians

 * Joseph Arthur – guitar (1–5, 7–9, 11, 12), vocals, harmonica (2), highly-strung bass (5), paintings, drawings
 * Roger Beaujolais – vibes (1), Venetian xylophone (2)
 * Martyn Barker – treated tubular kit (1), drums (2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11), caxixi (4), bondage snare (8), live drums (9), scaffolphoneum (9), berimbau (11), cow gong (11), percussion (12)
 * Simon Edwards – bass (1–5, 10, 11), piano (4), bass performance & arrangement (6), coal bass (7), additional guitar (7), string fossil bass (8), maze bass (9), sas (9), berimbau (11), mellotron (11), Persian fretless (11), filter bass (12), harmonic missiles (12)
 * Markus Dravs – keyboard (1), desert storm & gravel percussion (1), corn horn (2), drum programming (4, 7, 9), lesley accordion (7), low drum & sheet percussion (8), production, mixing
 * Brian Eno – backing vocals (2)
 * Peter Gabriel – backing vocals (2)
 * Nigel Eaton – hurdy gurdy (3)
 * Ashley Slater – trombone (6, 7)
 * Ron Aslan – drum loop (7)
 * Nick Plytas – mellotron (7)

Technical personnel

 * Ben Findlay – engineering, editing, mixing
 * Ruadhri Cushnan – additional engineering
 * Ray Martin – additional engineering
 * Goetz Botzenhardt – additional engineering
 * Ibi Tjani – additional engineering
 * Jacquie Turner – additional engineering
 * Nick Kirkland – additional engineering
 * Justin Griffith – assistant engineering
 * Lee Phillips – assistant engineering
 * Lee Fitzgerald – assistant engineering
 * Mark Aubury – assistant engineering
 * Crispin Murray – additional editing
 * Paul Morris – additional editing
 * Tristan Manco – graphic design
 * Derek Edwards – 2012 Real World Gold reissue repackaged album design
 * Michele Turriani – front cover and right hand inside panel background photography
 * Anna Gabriel – CD face and inside left hand panel background photography

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Bill Kaysing

Bill Kaysing (July 31, 1922 – April 21, 2005) was an American author and conspiracy theorist who claimed that the Apollo Moon landings between 1969 and 1972 were hoaxes.

Early life
Kaysing served as an officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II, having attended Navy Officers Training School.

Charges of an Apollo Hoax
Kaysing would come to assert in a new vein of writing that came to fruition in the mid-1970s, that during his much earlier tenure at Rocketdyne he was privy to documents pertaining to the Mercury, Gemini, Atlas, and Apollo programs, and argued that one did not need an engineering or science degree to determine that a hoax was being perpetrated. According to his account of this intellectual development, the Rocketdyne scientists with whom he worked expressed to him that there was enough technology at the time to perhaps send a crewed rocket to the Moon, but not enough technology developed to return safely to Earth. They also spoke of the very real problem of traveling through atmospheric radiation without harm to the astronauts as a problem that yet needed to be solved. Even before July 1969, he had "a hunch, an intuition, ... a true conviction" and decided that he did not believe that anyone was going to the Moon. Kaysing thus wrote a book titled We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle, which was self-published in 1976, and republished by Health Research Books in 2002.

In his book, Kaysing introduced arguments which he said proved the Moon landings were faked. Claims in the book including that:
 * NASA lacked the technical expertise to put a man on the Moon.
 * the absence of stars in lunar surface photographs was indicative of a hoax.
 * there were unexplained optical anomalies in the photographs taken on the Moon.
 * there was an absence of blast craters beneath the Lunar Modules, and that the rocket engines of the Lunar Modules should have generated an enormous dust cloud near their landing sites during the final seconds of descent.
 * the death of Thomas Baron, a quality control and safety inspector for North American Aviation, was mysterious and indicative of a hoax.

He also noted that Dutch newspapers questioned the "authenticity" of the Moon landings.

Charges of other conspiracies
Kaysing also claimed that NASA staged both the Apollo 1 fire and the Space Shuttle Challenger accident, deliberately murdering the astronauts on board, suggesting that NASA might have learned that these astronauts were about to expose the conspiracy and needed to guarantee their silence. He also believed that the disappearance of Thomas Baron's 500-page report on the Apollo 1 fire and Baron's death in a rail-traffic accident a week after he testified before the United States Congress were not accidents.

A vocal advocate of other conspiracy theories, Kaysing believed there to be a high-level conspiracy involving the Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Reserve, Internal Revenue Service and other government agencies to brainwash the American public, poison their food supply, and control the media.

Media participations
Kaysing appeared on the Oprah show.

Kaysing was a participant in the Fox documentary, Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?, which aired on February 15, 2001.

Kaysing had an appearance on the Documentary, "Moon Landing - The World's Greatest Hoax?" which was uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2021.

Lovell defamation lawsuit
On August 29, 1996, Kaysing filed a defamation lawsuit in Santa Cruz County Superior Court against astronaut Jim Lovell for calling his claims "wacky" in an article by Rafer Guzmán for Metro Silicon Valley. Lovell is quoted:

The guy is wacky. His position makes me feel angry. We spent a lot of time getting ready to go to the Moon. We spent a lot of money, we took great risks, and it's something everybody in this country should be proud of.

The case was dismissed in 1997.

Original theory from We Never Went to the Moon (1976)
Kaysing describes preparation for the launch as normal, but since Rocketdyne F-1 engines in the first stage of the Saturn V rocket were "totally unreliable," a cluster of "five booster engines of the more dependable B-1 type as used in the C-1 cluster for the Atlas missile" were secretly installed, one inside each of the Saturn V's five F-1s.

Revised theory from Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? (2001)
Kaysing states that:

The astronauts were launched with the Saturn V. Then, in order to account for their disappearance, they simply orbited the Earth for eight days and in the interim they showed these fake pictures of the astronauts on the Moon. But on the eighth day the command console separated from the vehicle and descended to Earth as, of course, was shown in the films.

Legacy
Kaysing encouraged Ralph René to write NASA Mooned America!, after René decided that he also had research to prove the landings were faked.

Kaysing's daughter, Wendy L. Kaysing, has stated that she hopes to one day write a book about her father with Kaysing's nephew, Dietrich von Schmausen, not to reiterate Kaysing's hoax claims, rather to talk about her father as a person.

Fake Tribute website and Flat Earth misappropriation
In the years following Kaysing’s death, Italian conspiracist writer Albino Galuppini created the Bill Kaysing Tribute Website. This website was described as being “designed to pay tribute to a distinguished writer who lived his ideals and spoke his mind honestly and openly” and contained many personal photos provided by Kaysing’s relatives and tributes written by his followers. Including Bart Sibrel, David Percy and Jarrah White.

But from 2013 onward, Galuppini started publishing blog articles propagating false claims about the Earth being flat and all space travel being faked. Many of these articles misappropriated Kaysing’s moon hoax views to promote Galuppini’s Flat Earth claims. Despite Kaysing specifically theorizing that the astronauts orbited the Earth instead of going to the Moon, Galuppini falsely claimed that Kaysing denied any rocket could travel fast enough to get into orbit. This led to Kaysing’s relatives and followers publicly withdrawing their endorsement from the Bill Kaysing Tribute Website, severing their ties with Galuppini, and no longer allowing him permission to use their content.

Wendy Kaysing stated "I cannot imagine my father ever saying that we could not do space travel. That’s ludicrous! That’s ridiculous! […] Anybody who says that about my father is just trying to discredit my father’s ability to even think" and requested that Galuppini cease and desist the “sale of books, articles, or publication of websites, blogs or public messages” that use her father’s work. But Galuppini ignored her demands and continued the public façade of being a trusted friend of Kaysing’s family and supporters. Jarrah White, a former contributor to the website, stated that Kaysing's legacy had essentially been "hijacked" and spoke harshly of Galuppini's Flat Earth nonsense and misappropriation in Popular Mechanics: "If you think the Earth is flat, then I don't consider you a serious researcher. I think you are a kindergarten dropout. Serious hoax researchers, they base their evidence on scientific and photographic anomalies and go where the evidence takes them. Flat-Earthers preemptively deny space travel in general because any photos of the Earth from space contradict their religion."

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Rocket vessel

A rocket vessel was a ship equipped with rockets as a weapon. The most famous ship of this type was HMS Erebus, which at the Battle of Baltimore in 1814 provided the "rockets' red glare" that was memorialized by Francis Scott Key in The Star-Spangled Banner.

Rocket vessels were also used by the Royal Navy in the attack on the French fleet at Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1806 and at the second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807. At the Battle of the Basque Roads in 1809, there were no less than three vessels participating that had been fitted to throw rockets: two hired armed cutters King George and Nimrod, and the schooner Whiting.

The Congreve rockets of this period were highly inaccurate and unreliable, and were primarily used as a psychological weapon of terror in conjunction with other, more effective, weapons, such as mortar shells thrown by bomb vessels.

The Erebus was equipped with a 32-pound rocket battery installed below the main deck, which fired through portholes or scuttles pierced in the ship's side. Some of the other rocket vessels used by the Royal Navy were small boats, rather than ships. These carried a rocket launcher frame supported by a mast and raised and lowered by means of halyards.

Modern warships carry a variety of rocket-powered missile weapons. Dedicated rocket ships were also occasionally used in the 20th century, such as the Landing Craft Tank (Rocket) used to support amphibious assaults in WWII.

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