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Talk:The Hand (comics)

The Mandarin?
Confused -- is the Hand the same Hand as the one The Mandarin was in in Iron Man? -- grant 03:02, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Yes. But the Hand has many sects. --Loremaster (talk) 15:11, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Copyright issue?
The copyedit tag is on this article, but the feel of the text is like it might be taken directly from a comic or something--it's not particularly badly written, just has a storytelling tone. Can someone who has read the relevant books comment on this? --The Famous Movie Director 08:42, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

 * These issues seem to be have been resolved since the copyedit tag was removed. --Loremaster (talk) 15:14, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Golden Age Hand?
Hi, There's also a Golden Age Hand. He's in The Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days under February 25. Dawn22 22:59, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Feel free to create a Wikipedia article for this character. --Loremaster (talk) 15:14, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

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The Beast
Why does "The Beast (comics)" redirect here? It's far more commonly used to refer to the X-Man under Beast (comics)... J'onn J'onzz (talk) 16:19, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Obviously because Beast and The Beast are two different names associated to two different comicbook characters. --Loremaster (talk) 17:43, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Here is some information on Beast of the Hand (Elektra foe) --Loremaster (talk) 23:04, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * This may very well have been the stupidest redirect in the history of Wikipedia. It has been fixed. oknazevad (talk) 05:01, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

The Wolverine 2013 film
Doesn't this appear in the film as the retainers of the Yashida samurai family/keiretsu? With Harada as the most prominent member? (Black Hand?) -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:52, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

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Terem Quartet

The Terem Quartet (Терем Квартет) is a musical ensemble from Saint Petersburg, Russia. The ensemble, which plays in the Crossover genre, was created in 1986. Having represented St Petersburg in cultural events across the world, the quartet has come to be regarded as a symbol of their native city.

The current line-up is: Andrey Konstantinov (soprano domra), Andrey Smirnov (bayan), Vladimir Kudryavtcev (double bass) and Alexey Barshchev (alto domra)

1980s
The ensemble was created in 1986 as a project of four St. Petersburg Conservatory students: Andrey Konstantinov (soprano domra), Andrey Smirnov (bayan), Mikhail Dzudze (double bass balalaika) and Igor Ponomarenko (alto domra). At one time the students were called up for military service. After the first year of this service they were transferred to the local army ensemble, which consisted of orchestra, choir and ballet. Some time later, an idea to create a new ensemble was born and this one was called "Russian Souvenir".

"At this time we promised each other that just the ensemble will be the main thing for all of us. We have already understood that we are interesting only when we are together. Our 'Terem' is not just a beautiful building. There are no chiefs for us, everyone does his bit and it forms what we are building. In our music we unite different genres under one roof. Terem is open for guests, we are always glad to see them (Andrey Konstantinov)"

The group's first concert took place on 26 November 1986 on the stage of music teachers training college. According to Andrey Konstantinov, at the end of the performance the audience stood up to applaud and the musicians knew they had made the right choice. In 1989 Melodiya released the first LP record of the ensemble - "Terem Quartet".

1990s
In 1991, the quartet was invited to take part in the Womad festival in the UK, where they performed along with the likes of Peter Gabriel, Sinéad O'Connor, Suzanne Vega and Led Zeppelin. At Gabriel's instance, Real World Records recorded the quartet's first CD – "The Terem" – which was released in 1992. Allmusic Guide gives it 4.5 stars, saying: "The Quartet's eccentric approach transforms everything it touches into shades of humor and delight ". In the following years, Terem Quartet repeatedly performed at Womad.

In 1994. Pope John Paul II invited Terem Quartet to the Vatican. Here, on the "Family Day" holiday, they gave a concert to an audience of 120,000, among whom was Mother Teresa, who blessed the musicians and presented them with medallions. This year two CDs were released: "Classical" and "1000 concert" (1000-й концерт). The first was released by "Real World Records" and took its name from the inclusion of pieces by Mozart, Schubert, Glinka and Chopin. The second is a recording of the 1000 concert in Saint Petersburg Philharmonia and was released on the Terem Quartet label.

In 1998, the quartet performed at the Edinburgh festival in the UK, and the ensemble's concerts received the highest marks from the "Scotsman" newspaper.

In 1999, as part of the 300th anniversary celebrations for Alexander Pushkin, Terem Quartet played Alexander Chaikovsky's opera in St. James's Palace in London. Among the audience was Prince Charles (now King Charles III). That year, two further CDs were released. The first was «No, Russia cannot be perceived by wit» ("Intuition" Label), produced by Giovanni Amighetti and awarded four stars by Allmusic: "These classically-trained musicians exhibit masterful technique at their tools. The sounds they make seem to arise from an ensemble much greater than a quartet. Subtle, inventive, and gifted with a sense of humor, their gypsy turns thrill and enthrall". The second, "Flea Waltz" (Sobachy Vals), was released by Bomba-Piter.

2000–2010
In 2000, the line-up underwent a change as Igor Ponomarenko was replaced by Alexey Barshchev. In 2002, Bomba-Piter released a three-CD compilation: Anthology I, "Anthology II" and "Anthology III". In addition, the album Russian Sufferings was released.

In 2003, the Terem Quartet organized their own world music festival in St. Petersburg. In 2004, three more CDs were released: Terem Quartet and Friends (featuring the Remake ensemble, comprising Vladimir Chernov, Joji Hirota, Svetlana Kruchkova, Dora Shwarzberg, Igor Sharapov, Arkady Shilkloper and Igor Dmitriev), "2000th concert" (recording of the concert in Saint Petersburg Philharmonia on 25 March 2004) and "Neapolitan Songs" (joint project with Vladimir Chernov).

In 2009, the quartet opened the Eurovision second semi-final in Moscow. For this event, the musicians prepared a six-minute potpourri of songs by winners of this competition, including ("Waterloo" by ABBA, "Volare", "Diva" by Dana International, "Believe" by Dima Bilan and Ding-A-Dong by Teach-In). Also this year, the quartet released a DVD. "Terem Quartet or Imperceptibles" (Terem-Quartet Y Snova Neulovimiye).

Style
In 1991 Peter Gabriel called the ensemble style "Teremism" by analogy with "communism". In European terminology Terem-Quartet's style is known as "World music".

In the "Creative Infantry" (Tvorchesky Desant) programme the musicians themselves spoke about their style. The name of the ensemble resembles this attitude: "Terem" is a big house which unites musical currents all over the world.

Terem is not only a house. It is a place where everything is fine. When creating the ensemble if we had set our goal to make money we wouldn't have become Terem. We always have had a sublime goal - to create contemporary music on the basis of national one so that it was clear and public. So that it excited us and the audience (Andrey Konstantinov).

Critics
The Quartet's immaculate musicianship shines like an illuminated manuscript...(Independent)

"Mozart, Chopin and Bizet as you've never heard them before - classical music become theatre. (The Scotsman)"

"Love, hatred, irony, more philosophical feelings, all of these are mixed in Russian music, it's very spiritual. (Independent)"

Nikita Mikhalkov said that it was important for him to find a wonderful combination of professionalism, musicality, mischief and root structure in the ensemble.

Following a joint performance with the ensemble, Yuri Shevchuk said that his band DDT and Terem Quartet will be friends. For their 20th anniversary, he presented the quartet with notes of his songs in the hope that they would perform one of them. The Terem Quartet subsequently recorded three songs from DDT's "Beautiful Love" (Prekrasnaya Lubov) album.

Members
The current line-up comprises:
 * Andrey Konstantinov (Soprano domra)
 * Andrei Smirnov (Bayan accordion)
 * Vladimir Kudryavtcev (Double bass)
 * Alexey Barshev (Alto domra)

Other activity
Since 2003 Terem-Quartet organizes world music festivals in Saint Petersburg.

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Talk:Ed O'Neill

Ed playing at YSU
What was Ed's number when he played at YSU? 2600:1700:DEF0:9260:58B0:CBD0:C07D:DE89 (talk) 02:37, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

He was in blue chips
Ed oneil was in blue chipd 2601:647:682:4B10:614C:FC07:635C:43A6 (talk) 03:16, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

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Scipione Breislak

Scipione Breislak (1748 – 15 February 1826), Italian geologist of Swedish parentage, was born in Rome in 1748. He distinguished himself as a professor of mathematical and mechanical philosophy in the college of Ragusa; but after residing there for several years he returned to his native city, where he became a professor in the Collegio Nazareno, and began to form the fine mineralogical collection in that institution.

His leisure was dedicated to geological researches in the papal states. His account of the aluminous district of Tolfa and adjacent hills, published in 1786, gained for him the notice of the king of Naples, who invited him to inspect the, mines and similar works in that kingdom, and appointed him professor of mineralogy to the royal artillery.

The vast works for the refining of sulfur in the volcanic district of Solfatara were erected under his direction. He afterwards made many journeys through the ancient Campania to illustrate its geology, and published in 1798 his Topografia fisica della Campania, which contains the results of much accurate observation. Breislak was a pioneer in the collection and analysis of volcanic gas. Breislak also published an essay on the physical condition of the seven hills of Rome, which he regarded as the remains of a local volcano, an opinion shown to be erroneous by the later researches of G. B. Brocchi.

The political convulsions of Italy in 1799 brought Breislak to Paris, where he remained until 1802, when, being appointed inspector of the saltpetre and powder manufactories near Milan, he removed to that city. The mineral Breislakite was named after him. He died on 15 February 1826. His other publications include: Introduzione alla geologia (1811, French edition 1812 ); ''Trait sur la structure extrieure du globe, 3 vols. and atlas (Milan, 1818, 1822); Descrizione geologica della provincia di Milano'' (1822).

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Stanford Research Systems

Stanford Research Systems is a maker of general test and measurement instruments. The company was founded in 1980, is privately held, and is not affiliated with Stanford University.

Stanford Research Systems (SRS) manufactures all of their products at their Sunnyvale, California facility. SRS produces scientific and engineering instruments for a number of different fields. Many of the products fall under the general category of "signal recovery". These products are primarily sold to industry, university, and government labs, or sold as OEM components to other manufacturers.

Electronic Products

 * Analog PID controllers
 * Audio analyzers
 * Programmable temperature controllers
 * Lock-in amplifiers
 * Laser-diode controllers
 * Low-noise preamplifiers
 * High-voltage power supplies
 * Gated integrators and boxcar averagers
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 * Digital delay and pulse generators
 * Frequency counters
 * FFT spectrum analyzers
 * LCR meters
 * Thermocouple monitors
 * Programmable filters
 * Compact rubidium (atomic) frequency standards

Other Products

 * Quartz crystal microbalances
 * Melting-point apparatus
 * Nitrogen laser
 * Optical chopper
 * Low-vibration optical shutters
 * Vacuum gauges and controllers
 * Residual gas analyzers (quadrupole mass spectrometers) and controllers
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Category:Phoenician colonies

Colonies in antiquity founded by Phoenicians.

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Police Cantonment Complex

The Police Cantonment Complex (PCC) is a high-rise government complex located on 391 New Bridge Road, Singapore 088762, next to Outram Park MRT station. It was officially opened in July 2001.

Amenities and architecture
The design of the building integrates the varied operational requirements of the major offices to create a modern, efficient and user-friendly environment. Each department block has its own distinct identity and yet when viewed together, project a uniform identity.

The semi-circular structure at the corner depicts a soaring bird's wing.

The energy-efficient aluminium and glass curtain-wall, intelligent building management system, document conveying system and central vacuum system are some of the unique features of the main complex.

The complex consists of four blocks of building and consists of a 25-storey tower with 6 to 9-storey podium blocks and a 4-storey basement for parking, services and operational areas. Block A houses the Central Police Division, together with the Bukit Merah East Neighbourhood Police Centre. Block B houses the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB), while the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is located in Block C and the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) in Block D. Located on the second floor of Block D are the Certificate of No Criminal Conviction (CNCC) Office, Record Office, Police Welfare Division and Licensing Division.

The complex is guarded with armed Aetos Auxiliary police officers and vehicle access roads have tank barriers to protect the building.

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Segreganset River

The Segreganset River is a small river in Bristol County, Massachusetts that flows 9.6 mi in a southeasterly direction through Taunton and Dighton into the Taunton River. Named tributaries include the Maple Swamp, Poppasquash Swamp, Sunken Brook and Cedar Swamp.

The USGS maintains a gaging station on the Segreganset River near Center Street in Dighton.

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The Vale of Lost Women

"The Vale of Lost Women" is a fantasy short story by American author Robert E. Howard. It is one of his original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian that was not published during his lifetime. The Magazine of Horror first published the story in its Spring, 1967 issue. It was republished in the collection Conan of Cimmeria (Lancer Books, 1967). It has also been republished in the collections The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle (Gollancz, 2000) and Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-1933) (Del Rey, 2003). Set in the fictional Hyborian Age, "The Vale of Lost Women" details Conan's rescue of a female Ophirean captive from the Bakalah tribe, on the (apparent) condition that he will receive sexual favors in return for his generosity.

Plot summary
"The Vale of Lost Women" is another short story which, although included in the official lore of Conan the Cimmerian, was not published until long after the death of Robert E. Howard.

The story begins with Livia, a soft and civilized woman, being held captive by the Bakalah tribe. They capture Livia and her younger brother, Theteles, when the two were traveling across a remote jungle. Eventually, Theteles is killed by the natives following an act of excruciating torture. Conan appears as the leader of the Bamulas, a rival tribe. He negotiates a possible truce with the Bakalah and plans for a joint attack on Jihiji. After realizing Conan is white and may feel some kinship towards her, Livia asks him for his help. When Conan rejects her proposal, Livia offers herself to him as a reward for rescuing her.

Keeping his end of the bargain, Conan and his warriors attack the Bakalahs in the middle of their celebratory feast. He beheads their chief. The resulting carnage pushes the Livia to her breaking point. When she sees Conan drenched in blood walking toward her hut, carrying the chief's head, she believes he is coming to claim his reward. Frightened, she breaks their agreement by fleeing on horseback into the nearby jungle.

After escaping from the village, her horse stumbles, and Livia is thrown onto the ground. Unharmed, she descends into a valley filled with orchids. The valley is also inhabited by a tribe of brown-skinned lesbians. Believing she has found shelter from the blood-soaked "male brutality" of her Cimmerian savior, Livia feels safe amid the eerie beauty of her surroundings. Mesmerized by the hallucinogenic scent of a native flower, Livia barely notices she's being led to an altar-like section of the glade, where she is to be sacrificed to a bat-like entity, a "devil from the Outer Dark".

Conan, having pursued Livia and heard her cries for help, rushes to her aid. Conan drives away the bat-like creature. Conan tells Livia that he regrets the "foul bargain" he made with her and has no intention of forcing her to have sex, which in his view would have been as damnable an action as raping her. Since he believes Livia is not brave enough to survive within the Black Kingdoms, Conan tells her he will guide her to the Stygian borders where they will send her home to Ophir. Embarrassed by her grateful reaction, he tells Livia she is too soft to be "the proper woman for the war chief of the Bamulas".

Style
Like "The Frost-Giant's Daughter," the plot is minimal and overshadowed by Howard's prose; nevertheless, the story is considered memorable. The entire story is told from Livia's point of view, and there is again a dream-like quality to much of it. Also, the creature from the stars which attacks Livia in the strange valley was intended to be from the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft, an intellectual correspondent of Howard.

Reception
James Van Hise, reviewing "The Vale of Lost Women", stated ""The Vale of Lost Women" is a minor effort", and added "it has more the air of a Conan pastiche than it does of Howard's more polished and well thought out tales."

Adaptation
Marvel Comics' 1970s Conan the Barbarian comic spent a long time detailing and adding to Conan's adventures on the Black Coast. Conan joins the Bamulas in #101, with the "Vale of Lost Women" finally adapted in #104.

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Talk:Funeral in Berlin

Avoid weasel terms
This article could be improved by stating who, exactly, rates this as being "probably the best" of the four novels, and properly attributing that point of view to someone. Uncle G 15:59, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

I think the whole article needs to be re-written. Having almost finished the book I am consulting this article because I find the book a very difficult read and I need clarification on things I have missed to do with the plot. 15:59, 10 April 2007

Agreed that a citation as to whose opinion that was would be an improvement.

It probably does need a major rewrite, however,  one certainly wouldn't want to attempt to catalog the twists and turns of the plot or even attempt to boil it down to a summary. Is the Semitsa plot a McGuffin or, are the the Broum papers or,  both? Toddrk (talk) 21:25, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Dated?
Am not sure if the film and novel are now dated, I feel that since the Cold War has been over for more than 15 years and we are well passed the height of it in the 1960s and 1970s it is more "historical" than "dated". Benson85 00:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I read this whole series of books as they were published back in the 60/70's, and I have to say, this one was my favourite. This was a time when spy fiction and thrillers were everywhere, but most by far were 'Bond style' efforts. Not at all like the work of LeCarre and Deighton. Espionage is a very grey mediocre business, I know this from personal experience. Deighton's books were like a breath of fresh air in the forest of Aston Martins and gold banded cigarettes.

The cold war is over ? .... maybe. Don't bet on it though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.125.100.207 (talk) 20:05, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

No, the novel is not actually "dated." Though, describing the subject as being about the defection of a Soviet scientist seems a bit daft as well. Toddrk (talk) 20:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Fireworks dispute
The section about fireworks seems to have been written by someone who feels that in this "more safety-conscious age" anyone would agree with the strongly stated POV of the character quoted at length in the section. It may be true (sadly, in my POV) that this view has become more popular today, but it certainly isn't universal and the section needs a rewrite that doesn't assume it is. Note that the passage "censored" could reasonably be viewed as defamatory (which presumably explains how Brock's were able to "force" changes); I think it inappropriate to quote it in full.

In addition, the section begins with an imperative, which is not proper encyclopedic tone. 207.176.159.90 00:23, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

While I can see that the POV might require adjustment, and I can understand how Brock's might get their name removed from the work,  I fail to understand how they were able to put through the subsequent alterations of the text.

Perhaps in a future rewrite of the article, the section might be retitled "Differences Between the American and British Editions" with a brief explanation of what the actual judgment was. (The American editions included all of the deleted text including Brock's name.) Toddrk (talk) 21:13, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

The statement that "all printed copies of the Penguin 1966 paperback edition had the word Brock's (the name of a firework manufacturing company) crudely obscured using black felt-tip pen" is not correct. I have a copy of the 1966 Penguin UK paperback which does not have 'Brocks' name crossed out. Pontac (talk) 15:58, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Same here! My 1966 Penguin has all the supposedly excised dialog intact. TheOneOnTheLeft (talk) 15:31, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Whereas my 1987 "Silver Jubilee" edition (published by Grafton), is edited as per the urrent text of the article. Mr Larrington (talk) 02:23, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

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Addressing above concerns
I too found the passages mentioned here objectionable. i have a 66 copy of the book, confirmed no blacking occurred. all the facts still need references, though. removed the language and comments that are unencyclopedic. plot summary needs expansion, and of course, would have to include spoilers, otherwise its not accurate. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 00:21, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Legal dispute, again
I’ve deleted most of the Legal Dispute section per WP:LIBEL ("Delete libellous material when it is identified": "Ensure material posted on WP is not defamatory"). As a court ruling that someone has been libelled seems pretty conclusive evidence that a passage is defamatory, I’m kind of amazed that .a) that it was put her in the first place, and .b) that it has sat here for so long. I've added some detail from the text to explain the issue, as the paragraph seemed a bit sparse otherwise: I trust everyone is OK with that. Swanny18 (talk) 22:23, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

 * I learnt about the issue in White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector (2021 – ISBN 978 1 78463 213 7, Salt Publishing) by Nicholas Royle (p.84-85). The author had discussed it on Twitter and this thread has a series of images of redacted Penguins.
 * The facts seem to be that (some) copies of the 1966 edition had 'Brock's' redacted by blocking out in black ink and the text was altered in later UK editions to remove mention of Brock's. Searching online produces very little information; the Daily Express, 24 August 1966 mentions W. H. Smith pausing sales "pending possible legal action for alleged libel". (Smith's had a reputation for lacking a spine (of any colour) in the face of threats.) Can any one find more definite sources? Nedrutland (talk) 11:06, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

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Category:Greek colonies

Colonies in antiquity founded by Ancient Greeks.

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Talk:Colonel Phillip Green

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It seem's that only Philip Pine was worthy playing the role of Col Green. As the poor representative of Green on Enterprise was seen as an embarrasment to the Star Trek saga in a recent www.trekweb.com opinion poll.

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To be honest, this is why wikipedia will eventually fail. Lets be honest - this is going to get edited out. - if you need to get this litigious about using a single character image then your screwed. Wikipedia is a great place for interesting reading, but its handicapped by a lot of people who moderate it like its an actual encyclopedia. Its a wikipedia, not an encyclopedia. Just hope whoever deletes this actually reads it. Have a nice day and a merry Christmas eh! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.251.92.42 (talk) 09:13, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fiji Island Mermaid Press

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:16, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Fiji Island Mermaid Press
Not notable. I had not realized we have an article on this publisher until now. I spoke with Marc Snyder, the proprieter of this establishment, some time back while verifying some facts regarding the now-deleted Daniel C. Boyer article. Marc told me at that time that they typically produce 10-25 copies of the materials that they publish, and that distribution is primarily to a list of subscriber/sponsors. Insofar as none of the chapbooks they have published are particularly notable, I believe that this falls well short of the notability we would expect for a publisher. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 15:59, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wrong side of the line, promotional article created by a dedicated promotionalist. Wile E. Heresiarch 04:01, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete based on UCs research. Vegaswikian 06:14, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete notability not established. JamesBurns 07:52, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
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The Pool of the Black One

"The Pool of the Black One" is one of the original short stories starring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard. It's set in the fictional Hyborian Age, and concerns Conan becoming the captain of a pirate vessel while encountering a remote island with a mysterious pool which has the power of transmutation.

First published in Weird Tales in October 1933, the story was republished in the collections The Sword of Conan (Gnome Press, 1952) and Conan the Adventurer (Lancer Books, 1966). It has more recently been published in the collections The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle (2000) and Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-1933) (Del Rey, 2003).

Plot summary
"The Pool of the Black One", which appeared in Weird Tales magazine a month after "The Slithering Shadow", is a pirate-themed adventure story and occurs in the Western Sea of the Hyborian Age. The story begins with Conan adrift at sea, after escaping from rival pirates in the Barachan Isles. He climbs aboard the Wastrel, a ship belonging to a different pirate order who are bitter rivals of the Barachan ones. After a tense conversation with the captain and his brawl with a Zingaran bully, Conan is begrudgingly accepted as a lowly member of the crew and is allowed to remain on board.

The vessel sails towards an uncharted island, where the captain hopes to find a legendary treasure and, perhaps, much more. All hands go ashore, including the tyrannical captain and his mistress Sancha. The island seems deceptively inviting, as the crewmembers gorge themselves on sweet fruit - which causes them to fall asleep. While on the island, Conan confronts his captain alone in the jungle and slays him in a vicious duel. However, the mysterious kidnapping of a crew member convinces Conan to travel deeper into the jungle. The island is revealed to be inhabited by a tribe of tall black humanoids (not black as in kushite or zembabweian, but rather jet black with strange golden-glowing eyes and clawed hands) who capture the crew, force one of the pirates into performing an ancient ritual (which involves having him dance and cavort wildly to the tune of a bizarre flute-like instrument with the power to "lay bare the most secret lusts and passions of one's soul"), and proceed to dunk some of Conan's crewmembers in the eponymous pool, which transformed his men into shrunken figures. Thousands of such figures placed across shelves at the side of the pool indicate that the humanoids have been doing this for countless years, and this accounts for many ships which sailed into the west and never returned.

Conan rescues the remaining captives, including Sancha, and rallies them to fight against the black humanoids. After a brutal fight, Conan slays the leader of the black humanoids who, before falling dead, utters an ancient formula (the only words ever spoken by the taciturn beings) which triggers a self-destruct device inside the pool. Its sickly and verdant fluids erupt upwards like a geyser and, seemingly broke free of some mystical yoke, proceeds to chase after the surviving pirates, who all scamper wildly towards the Wastrel. Fortunately, the crew manages to raise anchor and set sail literally seconds before the snake-like mass of fluid could touch their ship's hull.

Conan warns his crew about the powers of the greenish fluid, leading the way during their rush for the ship and jumping at the helm as soon as the Wastrel departs. Bloodied by their battle against the Black Ones and shocked by these supernatural events, the surviving crew readily accept Conan as their new leader. Soon, Conan asserts his authority as captain and claims Sancha as his prize. The story concludes with the Cimmerian dreaming of raiding seaports and of the future plunder he will acquire.

Reception
Clark Ashton Smith, in a letter to H. P. Lovecraft dated October 1933, praised the story. Smith wrote "Howard has some fine romantic fantasy in "The Pool of the Black Ones" [sic]".

Adaptation
The story was adapted by Roy Thomas, John Buscema and Sonny Trinidad in Savage Sword of Conan #22 & 23 (Sept-Oct. 1977).

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Så ska det låta

Så ska det låta was a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006. In 2014, Kalle Moraeus became the third host of the show. In 2018, Sarah Dawn Finer became the fourth host of the program and the first female host of the show.

The program was originally broadcast on Friday evenings, but from 2012 until the closure in 2020, the program was instead broadcast on Sunday evenings.

In February 2020, SVT announced that it had decided to close the program indefinitely after season 25, in the spring of 2020. Since then, no new episodes of the program have been produced or broadcast. On May 22, 2022, the series Så ska det låta celebrates 25 years to celebrate 25 years since the program premiered. The four presenters Peter Harryson, Peter Settman, Kalle Moraeus and Sarah Dawn Finer each chose two programs that they remember particularly well.

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Multi-licensing

Multi-licensing is the practice of distributing software under two or more different sets of terms and conditions. This may mean multiple different software licenses or sets of licenses. Prefixes may be used to indicate the number of licenses used, e.g. dual-licensed for software licensed under two different licenses.

When software is multi-licensed, recipients can typically choose the terms under which they want to use or distribute the software, but the simple presence of multiple licenses in a software package or library does not necessarily indicate that the recipient can freely choose one or the other. In some cases, especially when the software has multiple origins, all the accompanied licenses apply at the same time. The applicability of the different licenses has to be individually checked. The distributor may or may not apply a fee to either option. The two usual motivations for multi-licensing are license compatibility and market segregation based business models.

Business models
Multi-licensing is commonly done to support free software business models in a commercial environment. In this scenario, one option is a proprietary software license, which allows the possibility of creating proprietary applications derived from it, while the other license is a copyleft free software/open-source license, thus requiring any derived work to be released under the same license. The copyright holder of the software then typically provides the free version of the software at little or no cost, and profits by selling proprietary licenses to commercial operations looking to incorporate the software into their own business. This model can be compared to shareware.

Since in most cases, only the copyright holder can change the licensing terms of a software, multi licensing is mostly used by companies that wholly own the software which they are licensing. Confusion may arise when a person outside the company creates additional source code, using the less restrictive license. Because the company with the official code is not the copyright holder of the additional code, they may not legally include this new work in their more restrictively licensed version. Companies may require outside developers agree to a contributor license agreement before accepting their work in the official code-base and source code repositories.

Multi licensing is used by the copyright holders of some free software packages advertising their willingness to distribute using both a copyleft free software license and a non-free software license. The latter license typically offers users the software as proprietary software or offers third parties the source code without copyleft provisions. Copyright holders are exercising the monopoly they're provided under copyright in this scenario, but also use multi licensing to distinguish the rights and freedoms different recipients receive.

Such licensing allows the holder to offer customizations and early releases, generate other derivative works or grant rights to third parties to redistribute proprietary versions all while offering everyone a free version of the software. Sharing the package as copyleft free software can benefit the copyright holder by receiving contributions from users and hackers of the free software community. These contributions can be the support of a dedicated user community, word of mouth marketing or modifications that are made available as stipulated by a copyleft license. However, a copyright holder's commitment to elude copyleft provisions and advertise proprietary redistributions risks losing confidence and support from free software users.

Examples of multi-licensed software include Oracle's NetBeans IDE, MySQL AB's database, Asterisk, Oracle Corporation's Berkeley DB, Modelio, ZeroC's Ice, Magnolia CMS, JUCE, wolfSSL, and Qt Software's Qt development toolkit.

Description on one specific example to illustrate multi-licensing: Oracle MySQL comes in various editions: MySQL Enterprise Edition is a commercial edition, hence to be purchased. The license is only offered as a subscription, named MySQL Enterprise Edition Subscription. The same applies for MySQL Standard Edition (MySQL Standard Edition Subscription) and MySQL Cluster CGE (MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition Subscription). The other editions, such as the MySQL Classic Edition or MySQL Community Edition, are free to use with some restrictions. For instance, the MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version, available under the GPL license and is supported by a community of open source developers.

Single-vendor commercial open source business model
The term single-vendor commercial open source was coined by Dirk Riehle in 2010, and has later been further popularized by other scholars, such as Simon R. B. Berdal.

According to Riehle: "Single-vendor commercial open source firms build their business around an open source software project that they fully control, typically by having developed the software and never having shared control with third parties. This is done by owning the full copyright to the code and related intellectual property such as patents and trademarks... Typically, the free open source form is provided under a reciprocal license like the GPL to drive adoption but stall possible competitors. Paid-for versions of the software are then provided under a commercial license like traditional software vendors do. This is also known as the dual-license strategy of commercial open source."

In contrast to traditional open source projects, a single-vendor commercial open source project is controlled by exactly one stakeholder with the purpose of commercially exploiting it. In this context, the open source community is less engaged in the development of core functionality, as they typically are in conventional (pure) open source projects. As the then CEO Mårten Mikos of MySQL said in an interview:

"The depth of the contributions varies by product and situation. The deeper you go into the core of the database engine, the more difficult it is for somebody to contribute because it takes five years to learn. If you build something on the outskirts of the kernel - some tool or function that you add on top of it - then that is much easier because there's less risk that you will mess up the whole product. But something great can emerge out of many tiny-looking contributions. It's analogous to how, in economic development, microloans can have such a huge impact - each entry is minimal, but when you multiply it by the number of people who are involved, it grows massive. It starts getting a momentum of its own.."

Hence, the community of multi-license software as a rule includes employees of the code-owning firm, as well as strategic partners that have vested interest in the software. As Riehle notes, In single-vendor open source, almost all of the core product development work is carried out by the commercial firm, with occasional contributions from the community.

As Berdal notes, the governance of the open source community becomes a key business management process in this context: ''As such, it needs to be aligned with other business activities. Governance models of dual-licensed OSS editions may therefore display a tendency towards commercial bias. To prevent the community from being provoked or alienated it may therefore seem imperative to balance commercial inclinations against “open” interests.'' This is by no means an easy task. As Berdal demonstrated through a case study of SugarCRM, this commercial open source software (COSS) business model can trigger substantial friction points, which can eventually lead to pure open source forks (table adapted from Berdal, Table 3, page 75 ):

Only a few months after these friction points were observed, a new fork of the SugarCRM Community Edition was announced.

License compatibility
A second use of multi-licensing with free software is for license compatibility, allowing code from differently licensed free software projects to be combined, or to provide users the preference to pick a license.

Examples include the source code of Mozilla Application Suite and previously Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Firefox, that have used tri-licensing under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) 1.1, GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 or GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1 before the latter upgraded to GPL-compatible MPL 2.0, making the tri-licensing unnecessary. Other examples are Perl, which is dual-licensed under the GPL or Artistic License, and Ruby, whose license contains explicit GPL dual licensing.

Market segregation in proprietary software
Multi-licensing is also used by distributors of non-free software. Sometimes this is done to proprietary software to segregate a market. By splitting customers into multiple categories such as home users, professional users, and academic users, copyright holders can set different prices for each group. However, among proprietary software companies, it is more common to release a "home edition" and a "professional edition" of a given product, which differ by the software and software features included, not just the license.

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The Frost-Giant's Daughter

"The Frost-Giant's Daughter" is one of the original fantasy short stories about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard.

The story is set in the fictional history of the Hyborian Age and details Conan pursuing a spectral nymph across the frozen tundra of Nordheim. Rejected as a Conan story by Weird Tales magazine editor Farnsworth Wright, Howard changed the main character's name to "Amra of Akbitana" and retitled the piece as "The Gods of the North", as which it was published in the March 1934 issue of The Fantasy Fan. It was not published in its original form in Howard's lifetime.

Plot summary
"The Frost-Giant's Daughter" is the earliest chronological story by Robert E. Howard in terms of Conan's life. The brief tale is set in frozen Nordheim, geographically situated north of Conan's homeland, Cimmeria. Conan is a young warrior traveling in a war party of the Aesir, a barbarian people inspired on the main gods of Norse mythology. Shortly before the story begins, a melee has occurred on an icy plain. Eighty men have perished, and Conan alone survives the battlefield where Wulfhere's Aesir "reavers" faced the "wolves" of Bragi, a chieftain of the Vanir, another barbarian group based on Norse gods.

In the desolate, snowy fields of Nordheim, along the border of Asgard and Vanaheim, Conan and Heimdul, the last surviving warriors of their respective bands, face each other on a battlefield strewn with the bodies of their fallen comrades. After a fierce exchange, Conan emerges victorious but collapses from exhaustion. As he lies there, he is immediately overwhelmed by a supernatural enchantment, "A rushing wave of blindness engulfed him." His vision is altered, and he awakens to a changed, eerie world, "The glare of the sun on the snow cut his eyes like a knife and the sky seemed shrunken and strangely apart."

Suddenly, he hears a woman's silvery laugh cutting through his dizziness. He sees Atali, a mythical predatory siren with ivory skin, taunting him and urging him to rise and follow her. Under her wicked spell, Conan struggles to his feet, compelled by her dark magic.

The malevolent witch glides across the snow, mocking him cruelly. Her effortless movement, leaving no footprints, and his increasing agitation show he is driven by her spell. Atali’s malicious mockery and sadistic intentions compel Conan forward, overriding his exhaustion and pain.

After hours of pursuit, the nymph leads Conan into a trap. Her two frost giant brothers rise from the snow, and Atali gleefully commands them to take Conan’s heart. However, Conan's wild-born, primordial barbarian ferocity prevails, and he swiftly cuts down the giants. Atali, horrified, flees desperately. Conan catches up to her, but she breaks free, leaving her gossamer garment in his grasp.

Desperate, the sadistic witch raises her arms and calls on her father, the god Ymir, to save her. She is enveloped in a blue flame and vanishes. An exhausted and disoriented Conan collapses into unconsciousness.

When he awakens, he is with his Æsir comrades, who reveal they have been following his tracks. Conan wonders how they could not have seen the predatory witch's tracks. While many Æsir believe he was delirious, an older warrior named Gorm insists Conan encountered Atali, the daughter of Ymir, a legendary figure who lures men to their doom. Gorm's belief adds validation to Conan’s experience, emphasizing the mythical elements of the story. The other Æsir are skeptical until they see the gossamer veil Conan clutches, tangible proof of the encounter.

Inspiration
While Robert E. Howard had already written many fantasy stories featuring northern Viking-like characters, the names and plot structure for "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" were derived in their entirety from Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology (1913). Howard combined the legend of Atalanta with another reworked Bulfinch legend, that of Daphne and Apollo, but he reversed the roles. Whereas Apollo was a god and Daphne a mortal, Howard made Atali a goddess and Conan a mortal. In the original, Cupid had struck Apollo with an arrow to excite love for Daphne but struck her with an arrow to cause her to find love repellent. Howard kept the idea of the love-maddened Apollo (here a lust-maddened Conan) pursuing the girl until she invokes aid from her divine father.

Publication history
The earlier version of the story was published in the collections The Coming of Conan (Gnome Press, 1953) and Conan of Cimmeria (Lancer Books, 1969). The last version, as left by Howard before his death, was first published in 1976 by Donald M. Grant in an edition of the Conan story Rogues in the House. This version has most recently been republished in the collections The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle (Gollancz, 2000) and The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Del Rey, 2004).

Adaptations
The story has been adapted into comics:

 * Savage Tales #1 (Marvel Comics, May 1971, scripted by Roy Thomas and drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith)
 * Conan the Barbarian #16 (Marvel Comics, July 1972), a censored reprint of the Savage Tales story with a new opening page.
 * Savage Sword of Conan #1 (Marvel Comics, Aug 1974), a reprint of the Savage Tales story with the opening page from Conan the Barbarian.
 * Conan #2 (Dark Horse Comics, Mar 2004) and reprinted as Robert E Howard's The Frost-Giant's Daughter.
 * The Cimmerian: The Frost-Giant's Daughter by Ablaze Comics, 2020. A three-issue miniseries focusing on Atali and featuring a reprint of Howard's story in the back pages.

The story was also adapted into the prologue to the unproduced sequel King Conan: Crown of Iron written by screenwriter/director John Milius. In the screenplay, Conan encounters the Frost-Giant's Daughter and defeats her brothers, as in the original. But in Milius' adaptation, he is not interrupted by Ymir and impregnates Atali, who then disappears in apparent fear of "The Ice Worm". She bears him a son named Kon, whose parentage is important to the story.

The 2018 video game Conan Exiles features a boss NPC named Ladagara, Daughter of Ymir, a larger than normal NPC which may spawn in the Nordheimer settlement of New Asagarth who is the daughter of the frost giant god, Ymir. Upon slaying Ladagara, Daughter of Ymir, the player receives a Horn of the North drop that summons a frost giant pet to their side when used. The Warmaker's Sanctuary dungeon in Conan Exiles also features a nod to The Frost Giant's Daughter, with the Archivist's Assistant miniboss dropping a manuscript entitled The Daughter of Ymir that grants a player a temporary +4 buff in agility for 60 minutes after use.

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Alexander of Tralles

Alexander of Tralles (ca. 525– ca. 605) was one of the most eminent physicians in the Byzantine Empire. His birth date may safely be put in the 6th century AD, for he mentions Aëtius Amidenus, who probably did not write until the end of the 5th or the beginning of the 6th century, and he is himself quoted by Paul of Aegina, who is supposed to have lived in the 7th century; besides which, he is mentioned as a contemporary of Agathias, who set about writing his History in the beginning of the reign of Justin II, about 565.

Life
Alexander was born a Greek in Tralles in Asia Minor, and he had the advantage of being brought up under his father Stephanus, who was himself a physician, and also under another person, whose name he does not mention, but to whose son Cosmas he dedicates his chief work, which he wrote out of gratitude at his request. He was a man of an extensive practice, of a very long experience, and of great reputation, not only at Rome, but wherever he traveled in Spain, Gaul, and Italy, whence he was called by way of eminence "Alexander the Physician". Agathias speaks also with great praise of his four brothers, Anthemius, Dioscorus, Metrodorus, and Olympius, who were all eminent in their several professions. Alexander is not a mere compiler, like Aëtius Amidenus, Oribasius, and others, but is an author of quite a different stamp, and has more the air of an original writer. He wrote his great work in an extreme old age, from the results of his own experience, when he could no longer bear the fatigue of practice. His style in the main was, according to scholars such as John Freind, very good, short, clear, and (to use Alexander's own term) consisting of common expressions that, though not always perfectly elegant, very expressive and intelligible.

German scholar Johann Albert Fabricius considered Alexander to have belonged to the Methodic school, but in the opinion of Freind this is not proved sufficiently by the existing text.

Perhaps the most curious art of Alexander's practice appears to be his belief in charms and amulets. For example, his suggestion for treatment of ague: "Gather olive leaf before sunrise, write on it with common ink κα ροι α (ka roi a), and hang it round the neck." In exorcising gout he says, "I adjure thee by the great name Ἰαὼ Σαβαὼθ" (Iao Sabaoth), and a little further on, "I adjure thee with the holy names Ἰαὼ, Σαβαὼθ, Ἀδοναὶ, Ἐλωί" (Iao, Sabaoth, Adonai, Eloi), from which he would appear to have been either a Jew or a Christian, and, from his frequent prescription of pork, it is most probable that he was a Christian.

Works
Alexander's chief work, titled Twelve Books on Medicine, first appeared in an old, imperfect Latin translation, with the title Alexandri Yatros Practica, which was several times printed. It was first edited in Greek by Jac. Goupylus (Paris 1548, fol.), a beautiful and scarce edition, containing also Rhazae de Pestilentia Libellus ex Syrorum Lingua in Graecam Translatus.

The other work of Alexander that is still extant is a short treatise, Περὶ Ἑλμίνθων, De Lumbricis, which was first published in Greek and Latin by Hieronymus Mercurialis (Venica 1570, 4to). Alexander seems also to have written several other medical works which are now lost. Alexander also is credited with the discovery that depression (melancholia) can lead to homicidal and suicidal tendencies (dianne, hales R. Depression). He expresses his intention of writing a book on Fractures, and also on Wounds of the Head. A treatise on Urine written by him is alluded to by Joannes Actuarius, and he himself mentions a work of his on Diseases of the Eyes, which was translated into Arabic. The other medical treatise on pleurisy, which is said to have been also translated into Arabic, was probably only the sixth book of his great work, which is entirely devoted to the consideration of this disease. Two other medical works which are sometimes attributed to Alexander Trallianus (viz. a Collection of Medical and Physical Problems, and a treatise on Fevers) could also be attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias.

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Cosham railway station

Cosham railway station serves Cosham, a northern suburb of the city of Portsmouth, Hampshire in southern England. It is from London Waterloo.

Opened in 1848 by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR), it is located on the West Coastway Line which runs between Brighton and Southampton. It is currently served by the South Western Railway, Southern, and Great Western Railway train operating companies.

The station used to have a small goods yard which served local freight trains around Portsmouth. Today all that remains is an old loading gauge, with the original site being built upon.

Services
Services at Cosham are operated by Southern, South Western Railway and Great Western Railway using, and  EMUs and ,  and  DMUs.

Great Western Railway services between Cardiff and Portsmouth pass through without stopping after 8pm.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 * 1 tph to London Waterloo via Basingstoke
 * 2 tph to Brighton via Worthing
 * 3 tph to Southampton Central
 * 1 tph to Cardiff Central via Bristol Temple Meads
 * 3 tph to Portsmouth & Southsea of which 2 continue to Portsmouth Harbour

The station is also served by a single daily service from London Waterloo to Southampton Central via Guildford, which runs directly to Cosham from Bedhampton.

Westward, the line through Cosham leads to Portchester and Fareham, eastward to a junction (part of the local "Railway Triangle") between lines leading south to Hilsea and Portsmouth and east to Bedhampton and Havant.

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Talk:Ultimate Spider-Man

Split
Since the character of Ultimate Spider-Man appears in other comic books (especially since the character now appears in a relaunch with a different title and its own article), I think this article should be split into Ultimate Spider-Man, focusing on the character, and Ultimate Spider-Man (comic book), focusing on the series. In addition the comic book is notable enough (e.g. it contains Marvel's longest run from a single creative team) for its own separate article.--Marcus Brute (talk) 04:12, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

 * I agree. Though I suggest separating the current article into Ultimate Spider-Man (comic book) and Ultimate Spider-Man (Character). The title is too ambiguous and confusing. Friginator (talk) 17:01, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

 * I think so too. After all if the Ultimate Captain America and Nick Fury get their own article I would say Spider-Man deserves one too. Question is when is it going to be done? Jhenderson777 (talk)

 * I would personally agree. It's time to start branching out the Ultimate Spider-Man related articles seeing as there's an animated series coming as well as a video game and two separate comic book series. Should we create a template?

And what do you plan to fill this article with? not endless in-universe triva? what reliable secondary sources exist to built such an article with? What content that currently exists needs this spilt. --Cameron Scott (talk) 08:44, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Death of Peter Parker / Miles Morales
Nothing on this yet? I'd edit it in, but I really don't have many details except for the new Spidey's name that got released yesterday. Eticketjedi (talk) 18:09, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

May and Gwen emigrating to France
It happens in the Ultimate Fallout #06 issue. I'm on mobile so I can't cite it properly right now. 71.197.196.100 (talk) 11:21, 5 March 2017 (UTC) (Am I signed in? WiiWillieWiki)

Peter Death
Does Peter really “die” in Infinity War? He is resurrected in Endgame. Would a better verb be “erased into dust”? Chickenmonger (talk) 23:12, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

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Spring Airlines

Spring Airlines Co., Ltd. is a low-cost carrier headquartered in Changning, Shanghai, China. While the company adopted the English name "Spring Airlines", the Chinese name literally means "Spring–Autumn Airlines."

Spring Airlines is the aviation subsidiary of Shanghai Spring International Travel Service. It reported a net profit of 950 million yuan ($143 million) in 2016.

History
The airline was given approval to be established on 26 May 2004. Its first aircraft, an Airbus A320 (formerly of Lotus Air), was delivered on 12 July 2005, at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport. Spring Airlines started operations on 18 July 2005 and the first flight on that day was between Shanghai and Yantai. Daily flights to Guilin were also initiated.

To keep operating costs low, Spring sells tickets exclusively from its ch.com website (and some designated ticket offices), bypassing travel agents. Spring no longer offers complimentary on-board meals nor complimentary water; however passengers are able to purchase meals and beverages on board. In December 2006, the airline offered a 1-yuan promotional price which caused trouble with government officials.

In late July 2009, Spring's plan to establish overseas routes was granted by the General Administration of Civil Aviation of the People's Republic of China, making it the first budget airline in China to explore the international market. The airline had plans to operate short-distance routes linking mainland Chinese cities to Hong Kong and Macau, as well as neighboring countries such as Japan, South Korea, Cambodia, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand.

On July 29, 2010, Spring Airlines launched its first international route linking its home city Shanghai and Japan's Ibaraki Airport, about 80 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. 2 months later, on September 28, the airline successfully introduced its first flight from Shanghai to Hong Kong with almost full passengers on board. Spring's daily flights from Shanghai to Macau commenced on 8 April 2011 with further international destinations following in the second half of 2011.

Since January 2015, the company has been listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Spring Airlines also operates a subsidiary in Japan and is the first Chinese airline to do so.

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On June 6, 2014, at Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport, an Airbus A320 operated by Spring Airlines experienced a runway excursion on the right side of the runway and struck a runway light. The pilot then attempted to go around, causing a tail strike. There were no injuries, but the aircraft sustained substantial damage. An investigation was conducted by China's Accident Investigation Board.

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=Original Position of The Kiss in The Gates of Hell?=

Wonder where you found that? I would like to add a referene to it. All references I have found indicate it was there, but not the exact location. Thanks. --JuanPDP 16:04, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Hula Valley

Article name
Why Hahula Lake? It seems that article is more about Hula Valley. Further from article seems that the normal lake name is Hula Lake. So maybe we should move the page to Hula Valley (and place new redirect). -- Cate 16:04, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Correctly. ha is the Hebrew definite (IIRC) article, it's never capitalized, and the name plus article would be correctly transcribed haHulah, and translated as "the Hulah [Lake/Valley]". Dysmorodrepanis

Ecological Significance
As one of the prime stopover points for Eurasian migrating birds, and a rich and significant local ecosystem, the Hula valley is ecologically significant on a hemispoerical level. surely some mention should be made of this? I am no expert but will write something brief if nobody better qualified does the job

--213.8.87.25 12:55, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Lake Agmon - no such thing
Agmon is an unofficial word which means "little lake". calling this little lake "lake agmon" is therfore calling him "lake little lake". The place is known as "Agmon ha-Hula" (something like "Hula Little lake"). I don't know how to translate it, but it's deffinately not "Lake Agmon". Idobi1 (talk) 21:00, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Language is a funny thing - it has a life of its own! And it's certainly not a Lego game. So Lake Agmon is very much a valid name in English. If it's good enough for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, as quoted by the Jewish Virtual Library (see https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/geo/Hula.html), it should be good enough for Wik. - and for our dear friend Idobi1 :-) ArmindenArminden (talk) 21:14, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Where is the northern boundary?
Pls someone explain the term to the end: where does the Hula Valley end in the north? Since there is no proper name for what is geographically the upper Jordan Valley (from the main tributaries and their confluence, through the Hula swamps, the Korazim block, and to the mouth of the Jordan where it flows into the Sea of Galilee), at least the extent of the term "Hula V." should be better defined: is it used in the narrow meaning of the historic swampland above the Korazim block, or is the term "stretched" to include more of the Jordan Rift Valley north of that? N.b.: geogr. terminology does not depend on logic, but on what is the common use of names. ArmindenArminden (talk) 21:23, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Its geological boundary is defined here I believe. Doug Weller  talk 16:02, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * hi. My main interest is in geographical terminology, upper Jordan Valley vs. Hula Valley.
 * That source is a. one single author's system, and b. it refers to geology, not geography - a very different approach. It speaks of a central rift valley segment holding the lake, and a northern one from around Korazin to Metulla-Marj Aiyoun. Not relevant. I am trying to figure out if and why geographically speaking hardly anyone talks of the "upper Jordan Valley", and how that term is defined by those who do use it: as identical to the Hula Valley, or not?
 * Another aspect: it seems to me that the term Lake Hula/Huleh referred to a swampy area that never covered the entire basin stretching from Metulla, which is at a certain elevation above the valley, to the Korazim block. Maybe there is a distinction between Hula Lake and Hula Valley? Regarding the upper Jordan valley: How to define the upper course of a river probably follows a set of rules (hydrological basin, confluence of main tributary streams into a river, etc.). Arminden (talk) 16:29, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I can't get involved anymore. I'm far too busy and getting stressed out! Doug Weller  talk 19:37, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Define Hula Valley vs. Lake Hula
It's the same as the above question, but sharper. ArmindenArminden (talk) 09:42, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

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1948 ethnic cleansing
Benny Morris "1948" has a brief account of the May 1948 ethnic cleansing of Arabs from the region by Palmach, pages 159-160. 2600:6C44:437F:D901:3960:6F6B:B94E:68C9 (talk) 02:36, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Map please!
This article describes boundaries, but could really use a map for those of us who otherwise have to look up all of the boundary landforms. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:644:8B00:2420:606A:2FE5:3BCF:5A38 (talk) 22:17, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Ottoman concession
The article has "In 1908, the Ottoman government granted a concession to drain the marsh to a French firm, which sold it to Lebanese businessmen." I don't know where that comes from. The translation printed in the Palestine Gazette started "Javid Bey, Minister of Finance, acting on behalf of the Imperial Ottoman Government, on the one part, and Muhammad Omar Beyhum and Michel Sursock, merchants, of Beirut, on the other." and was dated "June 1330". That date in the Ottoman calendar was in 1914. I'll send you a report with a detailed history. A later document says that Beyhum and Sursock formed a company called the Syro-Ottoman Agricultural Company, which transferred the concession to the Palestine Land Development Company on Oct 3, 1934. In 1938, the government divided the area into "reserved" and "unreserved" sections. The reserved section was for Arab cultivators. Somewhere there is a map showing the two sections in color but I haven't found it yet. Zerotalk 10:15, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks . It is set out very clearly in W. P. N. Tyler. (1991). The Huleh Lands Issue in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-34. Middle Eastern Studies, 27(3), 343-373. Retrieved March 2, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4283445 I think the lead character in the saga was Salim Ali Salam, although nothing in his article at the moment. Onceinawhile (talk) 10:56, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Right, it was on my computer already but I missed it. No sign of 1908 or the French firm there, though, so that should be removed if there is no other source. Tyler also published a paper on the later history: The Huleh Concession and Jewish Settlement of the Huleh Valley, 1934-48; Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Oct., 1994), pp. 826-859. I see the reserved/unreserved division is on a map there, but not the pretty red and blue map that the archives speak of. Zerotalk 13:23, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

We still don't know what we're talking about!
Most paragraphs here reflect this fundamental problem: "Article name", "Where is the northern boundary?", "Define Hula Valley vs. Lake Hula", "Map please!".

NO DEFINITION: Geographical/hydrological vs. geological p.o.v.? No clear boundaries. No map.

How close does it correlate to the expanse of the Hula Lake (before it being dried up)? Or is it synonymous to "upper Jordan River course/valley"?

Until this fundamental issue is addressed, the article is of minimal use at best, confusing at worst. Arminden (talk) 16:42, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

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Peter Bellinger Brodie

Peter Bellinger Brodie (1815 – 1 November 1897) was an English geologist and churchman, the son of the conveyancer Peter Bellinger Brodie and nephew of Sir Benjamin C. Brodie. He was born in London in 1815. While residing with his father at Lincoln's Inn Fields, he gained some knowledge of natural history and an interest in fossils from visits to the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, at a time when William Clift was curator. Through the influence of Clift he was elected a fellow of the Geological Society early in 1834.

Proceeding to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Brodie came under the influence of Adam Sedgwick, and devoted his time to geology. Entering the church in 1838, he was curate at Wylye in Wiltshire, and for a short time at Steeple Claydon in Buckinghamshire, becoming later rector of Down Hatherley in Gloucestershire, and finally (1855) vicar of Rowington in Warwickshire, and rural dean. Records of geological observations in all these districts were published by him.

At Cambridge Brodie obtained fossil shells from the Pleistocene deposit at Barnwell, Northamptonshire; in the Vale of Wardour he discovered in Purbeck Beds the isopod named by Henri Milne-Edwards Archaeoniscus Brodiei; in Buckinghamshire he described the outliers of Purbeck and Portland Beds; and in the Vale of Gloucester the lias and oolites claimed his attention. Fossil insects, however, formed the subject of his special studies (History of the Fossil Insects of the Secondary Rocks of England, 1845), and many of his published papers relate to them. At present the best exposure of his Purbeck beds for collecting fossil insects is at Teffont Evias Quarry / Lane Cutting.

Brodie was an active member of the Cotteswold Naturalist's Club and of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society, and in 1854 he was chief founder of the Warwickshire Naturalists' and Archaeologists' Field Club. In 1887 the Murchison Medal was awarded to him by the Geological Society of London. He died at Rowington, Warwickshire on 1 November 1897.

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