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Hi, I noticed you were doing RC patrol. You keep catching the ones I click on! Well done, and here's a sunflower to brighten your day. -- Saikiri 08:24, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

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I noticed that you updated a map of Chuvashia drawn by me into the png version:
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Please, do not do this with my other maps. I will update them into png version in the next days (I already started to do this, but I do not have time to update all of them immediatelly, I need some time). Ok? PANONIAN  (talk)  18:57, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Name Origin
Please refer to the official, consensus-driven, approved style guide when editting articles. Just because other articles have it doesn't mean it's right. Whenever I see it in articles, I remove it. --Cel e stianpower háblame 13:44, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I wasn't aware there was one. Sorry about that.  --InvaderJim42 23:26, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Jimmy?!?
Holy crap! This is totally weird. Saw an edit of yours in the Brave Little Toaster's history (which sucks), and thought, how many invaderjim42s can there be... and lo and behold. So I'm gonna go be weirded out... and upload a picture for the article. :] --Keitei (talk) 13:20, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

The Userpage Mastery Barnstar
Oh, and by the way... thanks! ~Kylu ( u | t )  23:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

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faith
Have a bit more faith on wikipedia processes, man. About your comment at the ED discussion, notice that Burford Bulldogs was speedily deleted after you brought it to light on the debate. It had probably gone unnoticed until now. If you find more articles like that, you can bring them to AfD or tag the worst ones as a speedy deletion candidate, instead of simply giving up on the whole wikipedia because of them. --Enric Naval (talk) 05:09, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I was a little hasty with a lot of the snap decisions and comments I made. Especially some of my more recent edits cussing out the entire Wikipedia community.  There are some good people here, but that's easy to forget when I see all the idiocy that can occur when people communicate with each other over the internet.  In truth, I still have faith that Wikipedia could become something truly great, I just don't see that happening within the next few years.  Even though ED exposed me to a lot of the stupid and idiotic things some of the admins have done (and those things still irritate me), I still use Wikipedia for recreational reading and as a starting point for when I want to do serious research.  Even though most teachers do not accept Wikipedia as a reliable source (with good reason, I hate to admit), I can still go to the Wiki article on what I need to research, then follow the cited sources or external links on the topic and use those.  I take back every mean thing I said about Wikipedia as a community...  I'll still be making productive page edits (mostly minor spelling fixes), and... fuck I need to stop rambling.  TL;DR: I've not completely given up on Wikipedia. --InvaderJim42  (talk • contributions • contact) 23:03, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

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Kurukshetra

Kurukshetra is a city and administrative headquarters of Kurukshetra district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is also known as Dharmakshetra ("Realm of duty") and as the "Land of the Bhagavad Gita".

Legends
According to the Puranas, Kurukshetra is a region named after King Kuru, the ancestor of Kauravas and Pandavas in the Kuru kingdom, as depicted in epic Mahabharata. The Kurukshetra War of the Mahabharata is believed to have taken place here. Thaneswar whose urban area is merged with Kurukshetra is a pilgrimage site with many locations attributed to Mahabharata.

In the Vedas Kurukshetra is described not as a city but as a region ("kshetra" means "region" in Sanskrit). The boundaries of Kurukshetra correspond roughly to the central and western parts of the state of Haryana and Punjab. According to the Taittiriya Aranyaka 5.1.1., the Kurukshetra region is south of Turghna (Srughna/Sugh in Sirhind, Punjab), north of Khandava (Delhi and Mewat region), east of Maru (desert), and west of Parin.

According to the Vamana Purana, King Kuru chose land at the banks of the Sarasvati River for embedding spirituality with eight virtues: austerity (Tapas), truth (Satya), forgiveness (Kshama), kindness (Daya), purity (Shuddha), charity (Daana), devotion (Yajna), and conduct (Brahmacharya). Lord Vishnu was impressed with the acts of King Kuru and blessed him with two boons—first, that this land forever will be known as a Holy Land after his name as Kurukshetra (the land of Kuru); second that anyone dying on this land will go to heaven.

The land of Kurukshetra was situated between two rivers—the Sarasvati and the Drishadvati.

History
Kuru Kingdom, founded by King Puru—the ancestors of Kauravas and Pandavas Vedic Indo-Aryan tribal union in northern Iron Age (c. 1200 – c. 900 BCE), developed into the first recorded state-level society (janapada) in the Indian subcontinent. This kingdom documented their ritual hymns into collections called the Vedas, and developed new rituals which gained their position in Indian civilization as the Srauta rituals, which contributed to the "classical synthesis" or "Hindu synthesis" (roots of Hinduism). It was the dominant political and cultural center of the middle Vedic Period during the reigns of Parikshit and Janamejaya, but declined in importance during the late Vedic period (c. 900 – c. 500 BCE) and had become "something of a backwater" by the Mahajanapada period in the 5th century BCE. Traditions and legends about the Kurus continued into the post-Vedic period, providing the basis for the Mahabharata epic. The time-frame and geographical extent of the Kuru kingdom (as determined by philological study of the Vedic literature) corresponds with the archaeological Painted Grey Ware culture.

Kurukshetra was conquered by the Mauryan empire in the late 4th century BCE and subsequently became a center of Buddhism and Hinduism. The history of Kurukshetra is little-known in between the collapse of the Mauryans and the rise of the Kushans who conquered the region. After the decline of Kushan power in the region, Kurukshetra became independent only to become conquered by the Gupta empire in the early 4th century CE. Under Gupta rule, Kurukshetra experienced a cultural and religious revival and became a center for Hinduism. After the fall of the Gupta, the Pushyabhuti dynasty ruled over Kurukshetra.

Kurukshetra reached the zenith of its progress during the reign of King Harsha (c. 590–647 CE) during which Chinese scholar Xuanzang visited Thanesar. Civil war broke out when Harsha (of the Pushyabhuti dynasty) died without a successor in 647. A Kashmiri army briefly conquered Kurukshetra in 733 but were unable to establish dominion in the area. In 736, the Tomara dynasty was founded and they took over the region. Around the early 9th century, Kurukshetra lost its independence to Bengal. Mahmud of Ghazni sacked Kurukshetra in 1014 and Muslim raiders sacked it in 1034. Kurukshetra was incorporated into the Delhi Sultanate in 1206. Other than a short moment of independence from the result of a rebellion within the Sultanate in 1240, Kurukshetra was under the control of Delhi until 1388.

Kurukshetra became independent once again after the steep decline of the Delhi Sultanate and the raids of Tamerlane near the region. The Sayyid dynasty incorporated Kurukshetra into their territory though the city likely enjoyed some autonomy. The area was much more firmly controlled under the subsequent Lodi dynasty. Some damages to Kurukshetra and its structures occurred during this period. Kurukshetra became part of the Mughal Empire after Babur quashed a local rebellion in 1526. Under Akbar, Kurukshetra once again became a spiritual center not only for Hindus but also for Sikhs and Muslims.

Between the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Kurukshetra was controlled by the forces of the Maratha Empire until the British took over Delhi in 1803. In 1805, the British took Kurukshetra after defeating the Maratha forces in the Second Anglo-Maratha War, who were controlling the city. Since 1947, Kurukshetra has become a popular spiritual center and has seen much infrastructure, development, and restoration of old structures.

Geography
Kuruksetra is located at around 30° North and 77° East.

Kurukshetra city is surrounded by Patiala, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar to the northwest, Ambala, Chandigarh, Shimla to the north, Yamuna Nagar, Jagadhri, Dehradun to the northeast, Pehowa, Cheeka, Mansa to the west, Ladwa, Saharanpur, Roorkee to the east, Kaithal, Jind, Hisar to the southwest, Karnal, Panipat, Sonipat, New Delhi to the south, and Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut to the southeast.

Climate
The climate of the district varies as the temperature in summer reaches as high as 47 C, and as low 1 C in winter, with rains in July and August.

Demography
In 2017, the government declared Kurukshetra a holy city and the sale, possession, and consumption of meat are banned within the limits of the Municipal Corporation due to its religious significance.

Transport
Kurukshetra Junction railway station is a junction station at the junction of Delhi–Kalka line and Kurukshetra–Jind branch line. It serves Kurukshetra and Thanesar city.

Tourism
Kurukshetra is an important Hindu pilgrimage destination, and there are several pilgrimage sites surrounding the city. The Hindi phrase 48 kos parikrama refers to a roughly 90-km traditional circle (Parikrama) around the holy city (1 kos equals about 3.00 km or 1.91 miles), and a complete parikrama refers to a pilgrimage to all these sites on foot. The International Gita Mahotsav, held every year in Kururukshetra on the Shukla Ekadashi—the 11th day of the waxing moon of the Margashirsha (Agrahayan) month of the Hindu calendar, celebrates the day Bhagavad Gita was revealed to Arjuna by Krishna in the battlefield of Kurukshetra.

Hindu religious sites

 * Brahma Sarovar: Every year lakhs (hundreds of thousands) of people come to take a holy bath at Brahma Sarovar on the occasion of "Somavati Amavasya" (Sacred No-Moon Day that happens on a Monday) and on solar eclipses. They believe that a bath in the holy Sarovar frees all sins and cycle of birth-death. The Sarovar is one of Asia's largest man-made ponds. Hindu genealogy registers are kept here.
 * Sannihit Sarovar: The pond is believed to be the meeting point of seven sacred Saraswatis. The Sarovar, according to popular belief, contains sacred water. Bathing in the waters of the tank on the day of Amavasya (night of complete darkness) or on the day of an eclipse bestows blessings equivalent to performing the Ashvamedh Yajna.
 * Jyotisar: The famous site where Bhagavad Gita was delivered to Arjuna under the tree. The tree of that time is witness to Gita.
 * Sthaneshwar Mahadev Temple

Museums

 * Kurukshetra Panorama and Science Centre: A mural depiction of the Mahabharata war.
 * Dharohar Museum: A museum about the tradition and cultural depiction of Haryana located in Kurukshetra University.

Historical sites

 * Sheikh Chilli's Tomb: This monument is maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India. It was built during the Mughal era in remembrance of Sufi Saint Sheikh Chehli, believed to be the spiritual teacher of Mughal Prince Dara Shikoh. The Prince's main 'Murshid' or 'Sheikh' (Spiritual Guide), however, is historically known to have been Hazrat Sheikh Mian Mir Sahib, of Lahore, although Sheikh Chehli might have been an additional teacher. Another theory is that the site of the so-called maqbara or tomb. Sheikh Chaheli’s Tomb and the madarasa are associated with the Sufi saint Abdu'r-Rahim alias Aabd-ul-Razak, popularly known as Shaikh Chehli (also pronounced Chilli).
 * The Pathar Masjid is built of red sandstone and is known for its fluted minaret.
 * Nabha House, a palatial building was constructed by the royal family of Nabha principality.

Wildlife

 * Crocodile Breeding Centre, Kurukshetra
 * Chhilchhila Wildlife Sanctuary
 * Saraswati Wildlife Sanctuary

Educational institutes

 * Kurukshetra University
 * National Institute of Design
 * National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra
 * Shri Krishna AYUSH University
 * University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kurukshetra University
 * State Institute of Advance Studies in Teacher Education, Kurukshetra
 * Govt. Polytechnic, Umri
 * National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology, Kurukshetra

Politics

 * Nayab Singh Saini is the current Member of Parliament of 17th Lok Sabha for Kurukshetra. Before him Raj Kumar Saini was the Member of Parliament of 16th Lok Sabha.

District administration

 * The Deputy Commissioner, an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service, is in charge of the General Administration in the district. He is assisted by a number of officers belonging to Haryana Civil Service and other Haryana state services.
 * The Superintendent of Police, an officer belonging to the Indian Police Service, is responsible for maintaining Law & Order and related issues in the district. He is assisted by the officers of the Haryana Police Service and other Haryana Police officials.
 * The Deputy Conservator of Forests, an officer belonging to the Indian Forest Service, is responsible for the management of the Forests, Environment, and Wildlife in the district. He is assisted by the officers of the Haryana Forest Service and other Haryana Forest officials and Haryana Wildlife officials.
 * Sectoral development is looked after by the district head/officer of each development department such as PWD, Health, Education, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Statistics, etc. These officers are from various Haryana state services.
 * Shahbad, Ladwa, Pehowa, Babain, Ismailabad, and Jhansa are other towns in the district with significant populations.

In popular art
Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' wrote an epic poem titled Kurukshetra, a narrative poem based on the Santi Parva of the Mahabharata. He wrote the poem when memories of the Second World War were fresh in his mind.

Notable people

 * Nayab Singh Saini, Member of Parliament of Kurukshetra
 * Dr. Pawan Saini, doctor, academician, social activist and former MLA of Ladwa
 * Raj Kumar Saini, former Member of Parliament from Kurukshetra of 16th Lok Sabha
 * Sandeep Singh Saini, former captain of Indian Hockey team, current MLA from Pehowa and Sports Minister of Haryana
 * Kailasho Devi Saini, politician and former Member of Parliament
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Welcome to wikipedia. Can you please stop vandalising the articles related to the Greek language? There's already a plan decided for this group of articles, and your edits are not following it. Regards, Miskin 16:20, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. Sorry for having used the word "vandalising" above. There are various people who edit and vandalise articles for no reason, and as you initially appeared as an anonymous user, I assumed you were one of them. Currently we're discussing on the state of the Greek language related articles and we're not taking big steps until we find a mutually acceptable solution. Of course, you're free to participate in our conversation. I reverted your edits on ancient Greek because apparently you hadn't noticed that Ionic, Doric, Attic and Aeolic were all linked to their respective articles. The section on the ancient macedonian language is also useful but it's already covered on a different article. I'll restore great part of your additions at a later stage. Miskin 21:45, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

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Mountain Brook High School

Mountain Brook High School (MBHS) is a three-year public high school in the city of Mountain Brook, Alabama. It is the only high school in the Mountain Brook School System. The school's colors are green and gold. Its athletic teams are known as the Spartans. MBHS competes in AHSAA Class 6A athletics.

Recognition
MBHS has appeared in several rankings, including:
 * MBHS was ranked 4th among the 12 Alabama schools included in the Washington Post 's 2015 list of "America's Most Challenging High Schools."
 * In 2014, MBHS was included among the "Top 150 high schools in the U.S." by the Daily Beast.
 * In 2015, SchoolDigger ranked MBHS second among 357 high schools in the state of Alabama and first among high schools in the Birmingham-Hoover metropolitan area.
 * In 2015, Niche ranked MBHS 2nd in the state of Alabama and 2nd among high schools in the Birmingham-Hoover metropolitan area.
 * In 2008, The U.S. Department of Education recognized MBHS as a National Blue Ribbon School.

Athletics
The Mountain Brook athletic department fields 13 boys sports and 14 girls sports, which all compete in the (6A) classification of Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA). Boys sports offered are baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, and wrestling. Girls sports offered are basketball, bowling, cheerleading, cross country, flag football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. MBHS holds state titles in seventeen different AHSAA sports (9 boys, 8 girls). Mountain Brook leads the all-time state title count in four sports: boys tennis, girls tennis, girls cross country, and girls indoor track. The Mountain Brook Spartans hold the most state titles in AHSAA history with 196 team championships (71 boys, 125 girls). Football: The Mountain Brook football team competes in Class 6A of AHSAA. Mountain Brook football was first organized in 1966 and has an all-time record of 415-246-1. MBHS football has accomplished 41 winning seasons out of 59. The longest-serving head football coach in school history is Chris Yeager. He has served from 2006-present and has a record of 153-65. The Spartans’ longest-running football rivalry is with Vestavia Hills High School, trailing in the series 28-30. MBHS football currently holds 12 region championships in 1975, 1976, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2011, 2020, and 2021. The team reached its first playoff appearance and win in 1975. Since, the Spartans have had 31 playoff appearances. The Mountain Brook High School football program currently holds two AHSAA state championships in 1975 and 1976. The team also has two runner-up finishes in 1996 and 2022.

Boys Basketball: The Mountain Brook boys basketball team competes in Class 6A of AHSAA. The team is coached by Tyler Davis who holds a 109-24 record. The longest-serving head basketball coach in school history is Bucky McMillan. McMillan served from 2009-2020 and compiled a record of 333-74. MBHS basketball currently holds 18 area championships in 1968, 1991, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. The team reached its first playoff appearance and win in 1968. Since, the Spartans have had 11 state tournament appearances, making it to the Elite 8 in 2003, 2005, and 2022 and the Final Four in 1968 and 2001. The team has four state runner-up finishes in 2015, 2020, 2023, and 2024. Mountain Brook High School boys basketball program currently holds six AHSAA state championships in 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021.

Baseball: The Mountain Brook baseball team competes in Class 6A of AHSAA. The longest-serving head baseball coach in school history is Lee Gann, who has served from 2003-present. MBHS baseball currently holds 14 area championships in 1985, 1986, 1988, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2018, 2022, 2023, and 2024. The team reached its first playoff in 1985. Since, the Spartans have had 28 playoff appearances, making it to the Elite 8 in 1986, 1994, 1996, and 2003 and the Final Four in 1993.

Boys Soccer: The Mountain Brook boys soccer team competes in Class 6A of AHSAA. The longest-serving head boys soccer coach in school history is Joe Webb. Webb has served from 1996-present and holds a 494-193-58 record. Webb has led the Spartans to 17 playoff appearances, the most in school history for head soccer coaches. The team was first organized in 1973. The MBHS boys soccer team currently holds eight section championships in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2018, 2022, 2023, and 2024. The team reached its first playoff in 1996. Since, the Spartans have had 17 playoff appearances, making it to the Elite 8 in 2021 and the Final Four in 2018. The Mountain Brook High School boys soccer program currently holds one AHSAA state championship in 2022. The team also has one runner-up finish in 2009.

Boys Tennis: The Mountain Brook High School boys tennis program currently holds 28 AHSAA state championships in 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2023, and 2024 (All-time record for AHSAA boys sports). The team also has 12 runner-up finishes.

Wrestling: The Mountain Brook High School wrestling program currently holds one AHSAA state championship in 2024. The team also holds two championships in the Dual format in 2023 and 2024.

Boys Cross Country: The Mountain Brook High School boys cross country program currently holds 16 AHSAA state championships in 1974, 1978, 1986, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017, 2022, and 2023.

Boys Golf: The Mountain Brook boys golf program currently holds 10 AHSAA state championships in 1973, 1975, 1997, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022.

Boys Indoor Track: The Mountain Brook High School boys indoor track program currently holds four AHSAA state championships in 1975, 2005, 2006, and 2007.

Boys Swimming & Diving: The Mountain Brook High School boys swimming and diving program currently holds one AHSAA state championship in 1976.

Softball: The Mountain Brook softball team competes in Class 6A of AHSAA. The longest-serving head softball coach in school history is Kaitlin Griffin, who has served from 2014-present. The team holds three area championships in 2008, 2023, and 2024.

Girls Basketball: The Mountain Brook girls basketball team competes in Class 6A of AHSAA. The longest-serving head girls basketball coach in school history is David Knott, who served from 1982-1991. The team currently holds 10 girls basketball area championships in 1987, 1989, 1992, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2024. The team has also made it to the Elite 8 playoff rounds in 1998 and 2008.

Volleyball: The Mountain Brook High School volleyball team competes in Class 6A of AHSAA. The longest-serving head volleyball coach in school history is Lori Higginbotham, who served from 1975-1989. The team holds 13 area championships in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Mountain Brook volleyball has had numerous playoff appearances, making it to the Elite 8 in 1987, 1996, and 1997, and the Final Four in 2013, 2017, 2018, and 2022. The Mountain Brook High School volleyball program currently holds seven AHSAA state championships in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2023.

Girls Tennis: The Mountain Brook High School girls tennis program currently holds 33 AHSAA state championships in 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 (All-time record for all AHSAA sports). The team also holds 11 runner-up finishes.

Girls Soccer: The Mountain Brook girls soccer team competes in Class 6A of AHSAA. The team is coaches by Adam Johnson who holds a 67-44-15 record. The longest-serving head girls soccer coach in school history is Lori Higginbotham. Higginbotham served from 1979-1998 and compiled an overall record of 201-120-11. The team currently holds nine section championships in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2024. Mountain Brook girls soccer reached its first playoff in 1994. Since, the Spartans have had 23 playoff appearances, making it to the Elite 8 rounds in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2022 and the Final Four rounds in 1996 and 2014. The Mountain Brook High School girls soccer program currently holds five AHSAA state championships in 1994, 1995, 2008, 2013, and 2024.

Girls Cross Country: The Mountain Brook girls cross country team competes in Class 6A of AHSAA. The team previously had a 13-year state championship winning streak from 2003-2015. The Mountain Brook High School girls cross country program currently holds 26 AHSAA state championships in 1974, 1975, 1977, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021, 2022, and 2023 (All-time record for AHSAA girls cross country).

Girls Golf: The Mountain Brook girls golf program currently holds 10 AHSAA state championships in 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, and 2013.

Girls Track & Field: The Mountain Brook High School girls track and field program currently holds 14 AHSAA state championships in 1976, 1977, 1984, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Girls Indoor Track: The Mountain Brook High School girls indoor track program currently holds 24 AHSAA state championships in 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2019, and 2023, and 2024 (All-time record for AHSAA girls indoor track).

Girls Swimming & Diving: The Mountain Brook High School girls swimming and diving program currently holds six AHSAA state championships in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2009.

Accomplishments

 * Selected by Redbook magazine as one of 155 schools honored for "overall excellence"
 * Mountain Brook has graduated three Rhodes Scholars.
 * In October 2006, Mountain Brook High School's drama department, under the direction of Pat Yates, combined with Fairfield High Preparatory School to present Christopher Sergel's dramatization of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. The joint production received local and eventually national attention, and was featured on NBC's Today Show and NBC Nightly News.  Harper Lee herself took notice and agreed to meet with the cast.
 * Mountain Brook was named the top athletic program in Alabama for the 2006–2007 season by Sports Illustrated.

Controversy
The school attracted national attention in 2022 for a series of antisemitic incidents. The school responded by making plans to adopt a diversity program by the Anti-Defamation League, but dropped it after complaints that the diversity program focused too heavily on race and gender. A Jewish student was reprimanded by the school for posting a video of a teacher inviting his class to give a Nazi salute during a lesson on how symbols can change over time.

Notable alumni

 * Anna Grace Barlow, actress
 * Nate Bland, former MLB player (Houston Astros)
 * Scott Bondy, an American folk/alternative musician. Formerly lead singer of the band Verbena.
 * Courteney Cox, actress (Friends, Scream, Cougar Town, Dirt)
 * Tommy Dewey, actor (17 Again, The BabyMakers, The Mindy Project)
 * Pat DuPré, semi-finalist at Wimbledon in 1979 and a quarter finalist in the U.S. Open. 1979–1981; he was ranked in the top 20 in the world, reaching as high as 12th.
 * Alan Hunter, MTV Veejay
 * David Jaffe, video game designer (God of War, Twisted Metal)
 * Colby Jones, professional basketball player
 * Graeme McFarland, football player (Indiana University)
 * Bucky McMillan, Samford basketball coach who coached at Mountain Brook from 2008 to 2020.
 * Tribble Reese, quarterback for Clemson, and star in the Reality Series The New Atlanta.
 * Emeel Salem, All-American baseball player at the University of Alabama, former minor league player in the Tampa Bay Rays organization. (6th round draft pick 2007)
 * Sarah Simmons, Top 8 finalist on season 4 of The Voice.
 * William Vlachos, center for the University of Alabama National Championship Team in 2009 and 2011.
 * Trendon Watford, an NBA basketball player with the Brooklyn Nets
 * Natalee Holloway, a presumed American murder victim who disappeared while on vacation in Oranjestad, Aruba.

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NIN WikiProject
I'd like to invite you to join the newly-formed Nine Inch Nails WikiProject. There's alot of NIN-related articles on Wikipedia that could use a little attention, and I hope this project can help organize an effort to improve them. So please, take a look and if you like what you see, help us get this project off the ground and a few more Nine Inch Nails pages into the front ranks of Wikipedia articles. Thanks! Drewcifer (talk) 10:34, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

New York Shock Exchange
Just a friendly comment - I know that the bouts take place in Old Bethpage, not Bethpage, but the reference that is attached to that sentence does say Bethpage. Good correction, but even better would be to find a different reference that correctly identifies the correct location.Echoedmyron (talk) 21:41, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

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Michael G. Turnbull

Michael Gary Turnbull, FAIA (born April 13, 1949) is a Canadian-born American architect who has spent much of his career in the public sector as a custodian of major public buildings, notably the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., as the assistant to the Architect of the Capitol and as the Director of Design and Construction at the Art Institute of Chicago.

In recognition of his achievements in architecture and his dedication in maintaining these national treasures, the American Institute of Architects elected him to its College of Fellows in 2005.

Early life
Michael Gary Turnbull was born in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. His father, Gordon McKinnon Turnbull, was a soldier and World War II veteran of The Royal Canadian Regiment, frequently stationed in Great Britain, including during the Battle of Britain.

Michael's mother, Catherine Agnes Turnbull ( Keable), was an Irish Catholic who had moved to Manchester, England following the Irish War of Independence. She became a war bride during World War II, moving to Canada with her Canadian husband following his discharge.

In 1960, on the same night of the U.S. presidential election, 1960 that saw the election of John F. Kennedy, Michael moved with his parents and brother, Barry Gordon Turnbull, to Chicago, Illinois, and would become a United States citizen seven years later.

Life
Growing up in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, home to renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, young Michael developed an interest in Wright's profession. While in Oak Park, Turnbull attended Oak Park and River Forest High School, graduating as a member of the Class of 1967. He later received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

After several stints at private architectural firms, including Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, he entered the public sphere. In 1984, he became the Staff Architect for the Art Institute of Chicago, responsible for overseeing the expansion of the museum through the Rice Building addition and the museum's renovation of Buckingham Fountain for the Chicago Park District.

By the time he left the museum in 1998, he was the Director of Design and Construction, one of the most senior officers at the art museum. While a resident of the Chicago Metropolitan Area, Turnbull served as a member of the board of governors of the Illinois St. Andrew Society. In 1998, Turnbull became the 5th Assistant Architect of the Capitol, serving under Architect of the Capitol Alan M. Hantman, FAIA.

He is currently the representative of the Architect of the Capitol on the National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission and the Zoning Commission of the District of Columbia. Professionally, he is a member of the Society of college and University Planners, the American Planning Association, and of course the American Institute of Architects.

As Assistant Architect, Turnbull's most prominent projects included the renovation of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, repairs and modernization of the conservatory of the United States Botanic Garden, and the expansion and modernization of the United States Supreme Court building.

The Supreme Court project was the most comprehensive Turnbull was responsible for, working closely with Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, and David Souter. For his service to the Supreme Court of the United States, both Justices O'Connor and Kennedy recommended Turnbull for his Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects.

Family
Turnbull lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Joan; they have two children.

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Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper

Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper is a compilation album by rock singer Alice Cooper, released by Warner Archives/Rhino in 2001 in the United States only. Its worldwide companion release is The Definitive Alice Cooper compilation album, which has a slightly different track listing and different packaging, though both compilations feature the same back cover, tray insert and disc image. The album features material from his solo career and from his tenure with the Alice Cooper band; however, like the 1974 Greatest Hits compilation, material from Pretties for You and Easy Action is not present on Mascara and Monsters.

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I have added a short stub on WWWJDIC to Wikipedia. --DannyWilde 02:52, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Breen in Star Trek
To Jim: It seems to me that I once read somewhere that the Breen in Star Trek were named after you. Can you validate or confirm this? --Sasoriza 19:49, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * nerd —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.216.156.177 (talk) 16:29, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!
Professor Jim, just wanted to thank you for helping me get through high and college! I studied Japanese for about eight years and traveled there twice. I ended up with an East Asian Studies major at the University of Wisconsin (along with Computer Science) and your WWWJDIC was an unbelievably invaluable resource the entire time. Thanks! hansamurai (talk) 04:25, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Source for shinjitai v. kyujitai character mapping
Hi Jim. I would like to make some software which does pattern matching taking into account shinjitai and kyujitai variants. But to do this I need a definitive list of Unicode mappings for the corresponding shinjitai for each kyujitai. I realize that true shinjitai will only be in the Joyo kanji list. I also realize that at least one shinjitai maps to multiple kyujitai. For this reason just kyu->shin is important for me. — Hippietrail (talk) 04:33, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry - I only just saw this. I rarely even look at this page. A good start for shinjitai/kyujitai mappings would be the kanjidic2.xml file, where alternative codepoints are included. For example if you look at this link you'll see two kyuujitai kanji included. HTH.JimBreen (talk) 00:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

An Alternative Romanization
I posted a mail to your account at monash and got a failure message.

I have many things to say about Romanization systems of Japananese but most Wikipedians are very reluctant to discuss the matter per se.

I wrote a brief message to the talk page of User:Ryulong but my English failed me. When I said that "dz" were two letters, I meant two sounds.

So I checked every user in the page, and found you are the man I should consult with.

I am a Japanese old boy. Not a scholar. Worked as an employee of a publishing house of dictionaries. Belongs to the first generation educated under the post-war education system.

If you are interested, please read three documents of EHS (Extended Hepburn System) at the halcat.com.

Combine the two parts of my user name with an underscore, and you get the ID of my email address. No upper-case letter.

The domain is Yahoo.com of Japan.

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"Internal Structure Explained"
The statment "First modern internal structure utilizing extensive data tables for almost all things in the game" means that Crawl was the first game that abandoned the traditional model for its content. Traditionaly, early roguelikes consisted of multiple levels of "if then else" logic to acomplish management and retrieval of game data. This has significant drawbacks in that

a) it hides the probability distribution of different objects in the game (e.g., an over-abundance of gold would quickly unbalance the game), b) it makes it signficantly easier to introduce bugs since each object has its own logic implemented in source code c) it makes it significantly harder to maintain and expand the game (i.e., adding a new object requires many changes)

For background, consider that the original roguelike game 'Rogue' has around 125 things in the game. Crawl, by contrast, has many hundreds of items. This greatly increases the task of making sure those items make for good balanced gameplay.

 * As noted in the Talk section following, but just for the record, this is nonsense. Moreover, I can state with some authority that the above claim is not true on several levels even as Crawl was being reworked for version 4.0.0. During that development cycle, many instances of the noted if-then-else management logic were rewritten, and as a part-time developer then I can attest that points (a), (b), and (c) above were rampant issues even so far along the development curve. If Crawl introduced any programmatic approach, it wasn't the one mentioned here. Linley himself was always quite quick to point out that he had learned to program by writing Crawl, as anyone who has inspected the code at length will surmise. Perhaps things are different with regards to the internals of DCSS. D. Brodale (talk) 07:17, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

"Internal Structure?"
On the page currently, I see: "First modern internal structure utilizing extensive data tables for almost all things in the game"

 * 1) Does that even mean anything, and
 * 2) if it means what I guess it might conceivably mean, how can it possibly be true?

I'm inclined to just delete it as nonsense. Nandesuka 05:13, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Appearance of "typical screen"
For an ASCII game, this screen rendering includes a surprising proportion of Unicode characters, and the results (on my browser) seem nonsensical. Not sure if this section is desirable, but if it is a simpler dump is probably in order. Hv 22:25, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * If anyone has interest, feel free to use this screenshot I made for purposes of sharing with my friends. This is a literal exact copy and paste of the characters used by the game on Linux, with only the colors (understandably) removed.  http://kmods.dyndns.org/~jrodman/orcs.txt  You are free to  use this text under any terms of your choosing, whether they be GFDL, general open content.  I make no restrictions at all about the reuse of it, nor I think am I entitled to for so trivial a document. JoshuaRodman 07:14, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

New crawl?
Does anyone know if a new version of Crawl is being worked on?

 * Current crawl development seems to be mostly centered around a yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crawl-dev/ Discussion there is so slow at the moment, however, that I wonder if they have found an alternate location to work on crawl.  Certainly development was occuring out of sight among a few key folks.  In any event you can download 4.1.2 beta from this group after joining, although one of the key developers, Darshan, said in usenet post Jan 2006, "And as that URL suggests, 4.1 is in alpha right now... 4.1 shows lots of promise, but it's not quite playable yet."  He doesn't mean literally, since I've built and played it a bit, but I guess it is not baked.
 * Also, this appears to be a currentish resource, http://www.thewholeclan.com/will/crawl/index.php/Main_Page although the best resource is rec.games.roguelike.misc JoshuaRodman 07:11, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Crawl is being worked on at http://crawl-ref.sourceforge.net/.

Significance
I think this article would be served by a write-up of the defining and significant features of Crawl. At present, there does not seem to be ample evidence as to why Crawl is a notable game in its genre. It is. Some things off the top of my head, most in terms relative to the roguelikes in existence at the time of its original authoring by Linley:

 * Depth of play/complexity in player characters (choice, choice, choice)
 * Emphasis on skills against "simple" leveling
 * Two-tiered magic system (both mnemonic and skill-based)
 * Reputation as one of the more challenging titles to complete
 * Diversity in role of religion/worship
 * Tiered artifacting (fixed magical artifacts and semirandom ones)
 * Popularity on Usenet, at times overwhelming r.g.r.misc, periodically the source for calls to split into a new group
 * Thorough level persistence (maps, objects, and monsters)
 * UI (I cannot recall (m)any roguelikes that recentered the play area as the player moved when Crawl was introduced)

Of course, some of these may be colored from my perspective as a past developer. D.brodale 21:58, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

DSCrawl
Strangely enough, the page hosting DSCrawl went AWOL in the past two weeks. By chance, can someone please relocate it or remove this link, as its maintainer seems unable to stabilize its hosting. D.brodale 09:57, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

 * http://errabes.free.fr/pogo2/ seems to be a more recent version, though not actively developed either. 78.52.195.245 (talk) 09:05, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Version
Which version ought this article to focus on? I was going to edit it to reflect the addition of Lugonu and Beogh and the deletion of Hill Dwarves and common Elves, but then it occurred to me that all these changes are in Stone Soup only. Ekaterin 15:29, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

 * I'd first ask whether the mentioned differences are notable or "game guide"ish. Seems to me to be the latter. D. Brodale 20:14, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

 * I split Stone Soup into its own section, to reflect that it represents years of development on Henzell's original work. It obviously doesn't need to be its own page, but considering it's essentially *the* version played today, I think it merits its own section.  Thoughts?Roguelikedev (talk) 11:58, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

 * Edited the "26 races"... to reflect this. I believe that there was a version in which "two types of dwarf" was incorrect, after removing hill dwarf and before adding deep dwarf, but it seems too minor to add additional verbosity to the paragraph.Roguelikedev (talk) 11:58, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

New Version of Stone Soup
The blurb about Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup near the bottom was recently updated by myself to reflect the release of the new 0.3.4 version as of January 28th 2008. For some reason this keeps reverting to mention only the old version 0.3.3. Why does this keep happening?

 * Not sure what you're talking about. I see no such reversion having taken place. D. Brodale (talk) 09:01, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Some possible refererences
I've been looking for some more third-partyish information on Crawl. The wiki articles at nethackwiki.com and Roguebasin contain a lot of useful information. I'll link them for now. 78.52.195.245 (talk) 09:08, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The article on nethackwiki.com is a nicely detailed comparison between Nethack and Crawl.
 * Another good article: Game-Set-Watch. 78.52.195.245 (talk) 09:21, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Tournaments
It would be nice to sees some info about the multiplayer tournaments at the online servers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.82.170.208 (talk) 01:42, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Persistent levels
Dungeon maps in Crawl'' persist as the player moves between levels. At the time of its development, this feature was not commonly implemented in other roguelike games.'' I'd say, we delete both sentences. The first is not really notable. Persistent levels are expected by players. The second one is plain wrong if you consider the popular roguelikes. NetHack and Adom had that long before Crawl. Releasing a roguelike in 1997 with persistent levels wasn't anything remarkable anymore. --Bhaak (talk) 11:36, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. Edited to thus reflect this. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 23:49, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

clarification should be present
There should probably be a mention that the DS port mentioned at the end of the article is a homebrew game and not a commercially released game. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.148.177.132 (talk) 04:00, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Stone Soup main article in progress
As the Stone Soup branch pushed the original DC way past it's original dimensions while still staying true to Linley's dedication, I propose to write an independent article about this branch. Being quite a player of this branch, I'm going to write it myself. Here is the place for suggestions about what I should or should not include into this article. I'd be happy for contributions concerned by differencies between the original DC and current DCSS, as well as by features I might have missed, as well as by features I should not forget in that article. ZicherCZ (talk) 18:28, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

 * A big fat no to the split. The differences are not big enough for two separate notable articles, and there is no departure from the game's spirit.  Linley Henzell likes Stone Soup, and with the original being dead, it's not a real fork but rather a continuation. (Disclaimer: I'm a DCSS dev).--KiloByte (talk) 00:54, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

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Hi,

I'm glad that you added the Hebrew spelling to Ionia, but it doesn't seem to be showing up correctly.

--Jpbrenna 05:15, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

I changed the characters to HTML format ( & # ; ). Does it work better now? Also, how do I enter Hebrew in that format? Changing it manually using the table ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet ) takes forever.

Thanks, Ori

nsca
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