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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lango (conlang)

 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 --Allen3 talk 16:24, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

Lango (conlang)
Nothing seem related to it in google, not notable, I say delete Kiba 17:20, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Kiba. Nandesuka 17:34, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * "Among the sadly common sights of Wiki-Hell: ... Neologists and conlangers, who invented words - or worse yet, entire languages - and posted them as articles, condemned to an eternity spouting nothing but meaningless self-made words in unknown tongues, these uncromulently disembiggened souls are denied the ability to engage in intelligent communication with others!" ... We know where this article goes. :-) Delete. --Idont Havaname 18:13, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Although I don't see why the previous speaker deems it necessary to insult conlangers and other people with linguistic creativity. But that aside, we seem to be dealing here with IAL/euroclone no. ###, and to that a hardly verifiable one. --IJzeren Jan 18:23, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It wasn't an insult from me - it was a direct quote out of the Wiki-Hell subpage that User:BD2412 created. He sometimes bans things to Wiki-Hell on VfD, and since conlangs are part of Wiki-Hell, I thought I could do the honors this time. --Idont Havaname 18:36, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, if you quote somebody like that, you take responsability over what you write. But it's fine. Just be a little polite, and don't insult people who have interests that you cannot understand. --IJzeren Jan 18:43, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, as Idont Havaname has already done the condemning of this non-notable creation. -- BD2412 talk 19:53, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. – ishwar  (speak)  21:07, 2005 July 24 (UTC)
 * Comment: This is essentially a creative work in progress. Would we want an article on a movie that was just at the conceptual stage?  Still, if someone wrote 1000 articles in the language and started a new wikipedia... Peter Grey 04:47, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, vanity, not yet notable, unless good evidence to the contrary provided. Attempts to search this in Google Scholar and such are greatly complicated by the existence of the real Lango, which happens to be a Western Nilotic language spoken in Uganda . But as nearly as I can tell there are no relevant hits in Google Scholar. I'm limited by not knowing Russian, but as nearly as I can tell the Lango conlang website itself provides no evidence whatever that this is more than one person's pet project. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:59, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn conlang. JamesBurns 07:19, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No evidence of notability per CONLANG.  It's not even listed on Langmaker, for pete's sake.  Almafeta 13:37, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Hakusan, Ishikawa

Hakusan (白山市) is a city located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 113,375 in 43246 households, and a population density of 290 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 754.93 sqkm. It is the second-most populous city in Ishikawa Prefecture after Kanazawa.

Geography
Hakusan is located in southwestern Ishikawa Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Japan and is bordered by the Sea of Japan to the west and Fukui Prefecture to the south, and Gifu Prefecture and Toyama Prefectures to the east. The southeastern portion of the city is dominated by high mountains. Parts of the city are within the borders of Hakusan National Park.

Neighbouring municipalities

 * Ishikawa Prefecture
 * Kanazawa
 * Komatsu
 * Nomi
 * Nonoichi
 * Kawakita
 * Fukui Prefecture
 * Ōno
 * Katsuyama
 * Gifu Prefecture
 * Takayama
 * Shirakawa (village)
 * Toyama Prefecture
 * Nanto

Climate
Hakusan has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by mild summers and cold winters with heavy snowfall. The average annual temperature in Hakusan is 14.2 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2542 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.8 °C, and lowest in January, at around 2.9 °C.

Demographics
Per Japanese census data, the population of Hakusan has recently plateaued after decades of strong growth.

History
The area around Hakusan was part of ancient Kaga Province. The area became part Kaga Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. Following the Meiji restoration, the area was organised into Ishikawa District, Ishikawa. The town of Mattō was established with the creation of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. It became a city on October 10, 1970. On February 1, 2005, Mattō merged with the towns of Mikawa and Tsurugi, and the villages of Kawachi, Oguchi, Shiramine, Torigoe and Yoshinodani (all from Ishikawa District) to form the city of Hakusan.

Government
Hakusan has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 21 members.

Economy
Eizo and its subsidiary, Irem, have their headquarters in Hakusan.

Education
Hakusan has 19 public elementary schools and ten middle schools operated by the city government, and three public high schools operated by the Ishikawa Prefectural Board of Education and one by the city government. There is also one private high school. Kinjo College, a private junior college is also located in Hakusan.

Railway
Effective 16 March 2024, JR West no longer operates in Hakusan as its operations on the Hokuriku Main Line have since been transferred to the IR Ishikawa Railway.

IR Ishikawa Railway Hokuriku Railroad - Ishikawa Line
 * Komaiko - Mikawa - Kaga-Kasama - Mattō
 * Hibari - Sodani - Dōhōji - Inokuchi - Oyanagi - Hinomiko - Tsurugi

Highway

 * Hokuriku Expressway

Sister city relations

 * 🇯🇵 - Fujieda, Shizuoka, Japan
 * 🇺🇸 - Columbia, Missouri, United States
 * - Boston, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
 * 🇦🇺 - Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
 * 🇨🇳 - Liyang, Jiangsu, China
 * 🇩🇪 - Raunheim, Hesse, Germany
 * 🇫🇷 - Beaugency, Loiret, France

Local attractions

 * Ishikawa Forest Experiment Station
 * Hakusan, the "White Mountain" from which the merged city took its name.
 * Hakusan National Park
 * Tedori River
 * Torigoe Castle ruins, a National Historic Site
 * Matto Stadium is home to the city's major football club, FC Hokuriku (formerly Fervorosa Ishikawa, Fervorosa Hakusan and FC Goals) which competes in the Hokushinetsu Regional League.

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Talk:Kaniv

Old talk
I'm from Kaniv :)

There's a story about my recent trip there in English. And also a long article with a lot of sources, by my father--the school teacher of History (in Ukrainian language though)

Polish name
I have no problem with Polish names at all (and I used them myself even in this very article). But to keep it in the first line, please show that Polish name is frequently used in English language. Google test shows plenty of Kaniv and Kanev, and not Kaniow. I am not itching to remove it asap, but please do respond at some point. --Irpen 22:12, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Kaniow is irrelevant, as well as Kijow and Moskwa. Let the Poles use these names in the Polish Wiki. --Ghirlandajo 22:38, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The Polish name of that place is quite relevant, both for its importance during the PLC times and for the battle. There is quite a few English, French or German books using the Polish rather than Russian or Ukrainian name., , , , , , , , , , , , , ...... Does it hurt so much to have the Polish name of the place in the lead?  // Halibutt 08:26, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

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This is not an XP BSOD. — Ilγαηερ   (Tαlκ)  17:22, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Indeed, this is identical to one that my mom gets on Windows ME sometimes. In fact, it's referenced as WinME on the Blue Screen of Death page. ~ Oni Lukos (No, that's not my real name) c

Windows, even older versions, are copyrighted software and thus this is not PD. Not sure how you could take a screenshot of a BSOD outside of an emulator though. — Jesse's Girl | Talk 16:16, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I took this screenshot in VMware; does it matter? --tyomitch 14:03, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

 * its possible to modify a photograph of the bluescreen. you just need to blood-fill the background and use a digital camera.ne0pets22 (talk) 10:43, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Trouble uploading
I'm having trouble uploading a new screenshot. I'll try to figure it out. Sorry for any inconvenience. --Akhristov 00:15, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Never mind... my web browser was acting up. --207.177.241.28 00:25, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

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It clearly states to press Enter to return and CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart. So why does it say "Press any key to continue"? =D Cyklopas (talk) 13:25, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

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Lobachevskiy (crater)

Lobachevskiy is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, beyond the eastern limb. It was named after Russian mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky in 1961. This crater lies to the southeast of the larger crater Fleming. Less than a crater diameter to the east-northeast lies Guyot.

This is a well-formed crater with features that have not been significantly eroded since Lobachevskiy was first formed. The rim and inner wall are nearly free of significant overlapping impacts, although the satellite crater Lobachevskiy M is attached to the southern outer rim. The inner walls display terrace features, along with some slumping along the upper edge.

Near the midpoint of the interior floor is a pair of central peaks, with one to the southeast and the other to the northwest of the middle. To the east of these peaks is a relatively bright, high-albedo patch that is most likely the result of a recent small impact.

Two dark ribbons of material apparently emanate from the base of a small crater in the western wall of Lobachevskiy, and this was observed on the Apollo 16 mission.

Prior to 1961 this crater was known as Crater 205.

Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Lobachevskiy.

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Talk:Tokai, Cape Town

MAST QUERY
This query has been answered-- Xiph o  n    17:11, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Hey, let me in on the secret of the 'tree platform' :) Greenman 22:45, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Oh, well, if you must know. Xiphon and I built a tree platform like thing at the top of a high tree at the edge of the tokai forest. Hey, do you live near there or something? Ban e  s  07:56, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

I do, and walk there quite often. I'll keep an eye out for it. I better be careful next time I'm getting frisky in the forest in case someone is watching down on me :) Greenman 21:10, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Heh heh, big brother is watching you.... Ban e  s  11:21, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

That's insane. That means I live within 100 yards of Greenman. You're not that old crazy who runs around in the buff are you??-- Xiph o  n  14:44, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Hehe, no that's not me. I don't actually live there (currently moving to Obs) but being 'retired' I do quite a bit of walking. Greenman 21:10, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

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Green World

Green World is a literary concept defined by the critic Northrop Frye in his book Anatomy of Criticism (1957). Frye defines this term using Shakespeare's romantic comedies as the foundation. In Anatomy of Criticism, Frye describes the Green World as "the archetypal function of literature in visualizing the world of desire, not as an escape from "reality," but as the genuine form of the world that human life tries to imitate." The plots of these comedies often follow the formula of action starting in the normal world and then progressing to an alternate one in which the conflict is resolved before returning to the normal world. The plot of the Shakespearean romantic comedy is built upon the tradition established by the medieval "season ritual-play," the plots of which thematically deal with the triumph of love over the wasteland. The concept of the Green World is used to contrast the civilized world of man with the often harsh natural world.

Presence in Literature
As noted in Frye's Anatomy of Criticism, the "drama of the green world" is embodied in the works of William Shakespeare. The thematic tones of the plays contain the overarching appearance of humanity eclipsing the natural worlds displayed.

In Shakespearean Works
A Midsummer Night's Dream serves as an exploration of the green world through the fairies' interference in the romantic entanglement of the Athenian lovers. The majority of the play's action takes place in the woods outside of Theseus' Athens, with Shakespeare primarily using Athens to frame the narrative in civilization. The woods of A Midsummer Night's Dream serves as an analogy to a dream-like world created out of our desires that serves to contrast the "stumbling and blinded follies of the world of experience."

In the more urban setting of Romeo and Juliet, the green world becomes associated with the intimacy of romantic emotion and is notable in its "protracted absences." Romeo journeys in solitary walks into the woods surrounding Verona to lament his ill-fated romance with Rosaline and remove him from a world occupied by more human matters.

As You Like It, also contains considerable references to the green world. The Forest of Arden is both idealized through the usage of pastoral terms, but is also depicted in a way that shows how humans manipulate and exploit it. While the play makes use of typical pastoral motifs in describing the forest, these are often juxtaposed with images of the wood as a wild place–showing a dialectic tension between the new inhabitants and long standing forest.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona, also exhibits signs of the literary green world. The comedy's protagonist, Valentine, enters the woods and shortly becomes the leader of a band of outlaws; afterwards, however, the other characters all venture out into the forest and become converted. As Frye notes using this example: "...the action of the comedy begins in a world represented by as a normal world, moves into the green world, goes into a metamorphosis there in which the comic resolution is achieved, and returns to the normal world."

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Green Knight is completely green, right down to his skin: he is "nature anthropomorphized." He challenges King Arthur's court by accusing them of being too indulgent rather than courageous. Sir Gawain must travel through winter's brutal conditions to arrive at Bertilak's court, which is described [by... ] as the "antithesis of winter." Despite Sir Gawain being attacked by "unnamed giants," it is made clear that the greatest threat to his survival is the harsh winter landscape as made evident in line 726 of the poem: "For werre wrathed hym not so much þat wynter nas wors."

Upon entering this alternate world, Sir Gawain is surrounded by abundance and warmth. The Green World is represented both by the frightening challenge made by the Green Knight, as well as by the refuge of Bertilak's court. Nature's cruel forcefulness as well as its power to protect are aspects of the Green World, as it offers an alternate reality in which a problem is resolved. The Green Knight, representing nature, threatens the comfortable lives of the members of King Arthur's court. The Green Chapel is described as a bare wasteland which shows another way in which nature is presented.

Relationship to Ecocriticism

 * Ecocriticism
 * Literary criticism
 * Shakespearean comedy
 * William Shakespeare

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Talk:Knight Errants

Nice job. Are we the Knight Errants or the Knights Errant? I was also thinking that each member could provide a short autobiography or something similar. Just a few ideas. I'm glad you did this. Thanks a bunch. --Generalkaia

 * That just occured to me :(, i guess we could make a reference to another page i.e. See Knights Errant. --JavaManIssa

 * We can't change the title? --Generalkaia

 * I thought temposchlucker was now the official spokesperson of the Knights Errant? --Anand's Knight
 * Satish, we don't have a spokesperson. Tempo is the recordkeeper who keeps track of who is a Knight and ratings improvements. I think this is a cool idea, but it looks like some of the deletists at Wiki are trying to get the entry deleted. I don't mind as long as we can re-introduce it with the correct spelling.--Blue Devil

 * If they decide to delete this page, we can always go to PBWiki and create our Knights Errant wiki for free.--Satish Talim

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Harry Romero

Harry Romero, better known as Harry "Choo Choo" Romero, is an American DJ and record producer.

Biography
Harry Romero is linked with the label Subliminal with Erick Morillo and Jose Nuñez, with whom he also produced and remixed several tracks, as 'Constipated Monkeys', 'The Dronez' or 'Ministers De La Funk'. The trio won the Muzik Remixer of the Year award in 1999. When working alone, he also uses the pseudonyms 'HCCR' and 'Mongobonix'. Romero owns a sub label of Subliminal called Bambossa, in which he has released six tracks, including "Tania", "What Happened", "Son of Mongo" and "Warped".

Romero has mixed several of the Subliminal Sessions series of mix albums, blending releases from the Subliminal stable with other current house tracks. His latest release was a remix of a Nick & Danny Chatelain track called "Me Resuelve". He continues to play at Subliminal session parties worldwide, including those in Pacha, Ibiza. In 2007, he set up a four date residency throughout the year at the SE1 club in London, with the last party taking place on October 10 that year.

Romero has had two appearances under his own name in the UK Singles Chart, with "Just Can't Get Enough" (1999, #39) and "I Want Out (I Can't Believe)" (2001, #51)., as well as "Hazin' and Phazin'" (2000, #21), under the name Choo Choo Project.

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--Smack (talk) 03:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Fixing links to disambigs is mind-numbing. In my experience, after half an hour of fixing links, my head starts to swim and I have to sit and vegetate for a while.  If I interrupt my progress periodically to fix pages that obviously have other problems, I can fix about forty pages in that time.  To me, that's not satisfactory.  It would be nice to have a bot, similar to the one used for the Wiki Syntax project.  This bot would do three things:
 * Identify every page that links to a disambig page (using Category:Disambiguation and Special:Whatlinkshere)
 * Search through each of these pages for every link to a disambig
 * Generate a link to an edit window in which every one of these links has been suitably marked, maybe like this: foo.

 * Actually, I was partly mistaken. I'd forgotten that there were two different ways of doing things for Wiki Syntax.
 * For the part of the project that dealt with redirects, a script generated an edit screen with the edit suggested (like this). This is easier to work with, but it may be too resource-intensive to do make this work right for pages that (unlike redirects) are liable to be edited at any time for other purposes.
 * For the rest of the project, a script just listed problems in a page (like thus). If option 1 doesn't work out, this would be the way to go.  However, I would very much like to have all of the problems in any given page listed in the same place, so that we don't have to edit it five times to fix five bad links.
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Meir Pa'il

Meir Pa'il (מאיר פעיל; 19 June 1926 – 15 September 2015) was an Israeli politician, military historian and a former colonel in the Israel Defense Forces.

Biography
Meir Pilevsky (later Pa'il) was born in Jerusalem during the Mandate era. His parents, Nahum and Bracha Pilevsky, were pioneers of the Third Aliyah. Pa'il studied at the Tahkemoni school in Jerusalem, a school for laborers' children in Holon, and at Balfour high school in Tel Aviv. He joined the "Working Youth" movement in 1937 and served in an active signal unit for the Haganah.

Pa'il served in the Palmach from 1943 to 1948. He participated in a series of operations, including the smuggling of illegal Jewish immigrants from Syria and Lebanon, the Saison, the Night of the Bridges, and an attack on a British police position on Mount Canaan. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Pa'il served in the Negev Brigade. Pa'il served as a career officer in the IDF, commanding the 51st Battalion during the Suez Crisis, the Bahad-1 officers school from 1964 to 1966, and the Department of Military Theory for the General Staff. He left the IDF in 1971.

Pa'il studied history and Middle Eastern studies at Tel Aviv University, later gaining a doctorate in military and general history. In 1973, he was among the founders of the Blue-Red Movement, which merged with Maki to form Moked, which Pa'il headed.

He was elected to the Knesset in the 1973 elections on the Moked list, and was the party's only representative in the Knesset. The party merged with several others to form the Left Camp of Israel prior to the 1977 elections. The new party won two seats, which were rotated between five party members including Pa'il. However, they failed to win any seats in the 1981 elections and Pa'il did not reappear in the Knesset. He died on September 15, 2015, due to complications of Alzheimer's disease.

Published works

 * Political and Military Reflections in the Wake of the War of October 1973. Tel Aviv: Israel Peace Research Society, 1974.
 * From the Hagana to the IDF (1979) (Hebrew)
 * The West Bank and Gaza: A Strategic Analysis for Peace. Tel-Aviv: New Outlook, 1981.
 * Development of Jewish Defense Capabilities, 1907–1948 (1987) (Hebrew)
 * Independence 1948 (1990) (Hebrew)
 * Rift in 1948 (1990)
 * The Palmach (1995) (Hebrew)
 *  From Hashomer to the Israel Defence Forces: Armed Jewish Defense in Palestine. Jerusalem: Israel Information Center, 1997.
 * The Commander: Temperate Military Leadership (2003) (Hebrew)
 * Meirke - Meir Pa'il: Commander, Educator, Historian, Politician - Autobiography and Selected Texts. (2014) (Hebrew)

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 * Please do not add the tag to the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince any more. The first time you did so, you left it on for over four hours until it was removed, and the second time you tried this stunt, it was seven hours until it was removed. If you honestly wish to edit this article, I suggest you do so offline in a text editor or in your own personal sandbox. If you add the tag to this article from now on, I will revert you as soon as I see it. Thank you, and hopefully you can contribute to enhancing our Harry Potter articles! --Deathphoenix 17:37, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm sorry if I came across a little strong, but it's just that you did it twice, and I've seen tonnes of people come in and make a mess of things. I thought that's what you were doing, but as I stated above, I gave some suggestions if you were making honest edits, which is what you were doing. Enough people try to look at these things that leaving on an incomplete synopsis makes the article seem... unencyclopedic. As for the article itself leaving out a lot of detail, the very reason it's so short and concise is because we were aiming to cut it down to size. People reading this summary article are looking for a brief synopsis stating relevant facts, and if they want more detail, they can read many of the other larger plot synopses that exist, such as Harry Potter (plot), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Full Plot Summary, and Harry Potter plots.

 * As I said, if it seems like I'm "repelling" you, I sincerely apologise, because I usually try to treat people with respect. I try to welcome users when I can and give them the benefit of the doubt, but I've also seen people come and vandalise articles or doing things after being asked several times not to. I try to be welcoming, but after dealing with the whole influx of bad-faith edits to Harry Potter articles, it can wear down on you after a while. Also, you have to admit that four hours (the first time) and seven hours (the second time) is a long time. At least now now you know that you shouldn't use the tag for so long :-) As I said, I apologise if I seemed terse, and it certainly isn't my intention to drive away good faith editors who only want to improve an article. As for what is an appropriate length for a brief synopsis, we've already discussed this on the talk page (at various places). If you wish to contribute more detail to a longer synopsis, we would welcome your help at Harry Potter (plot) or Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Full Plot Summary (or, if you want to try your hand at Wikibooks, you can go to Harry Potter plots). If you're wondering what is good to use for off-article edits, I use Notepad and Textpad to make offline edits, or you can make your own sandbox, such as at User:H.J.Potter/Sandbox and try out your edits there (I have one at User:Deathphoenix/Sandbox). Good luck, and I hope to see you continuing to make great edits! --Deathphoenix 03:45, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

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Ordeal by Innocence

Ordeal by Innocence is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 3 November 1958 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6) and the US edition at $2.95.

A crucial witness is unaware of his role as such until two years after a man is found guilty of a murder. When he realizes the information he holds, he re-opens the pain of loss in a family, and re-opens the question of who was the murderer two years ago.

This novel received mixed reviews at the time of publication, as reviewers were not generally comfortable with the psychological aspects of the story. The plot had her "customary ingenuity" but lacked "blitheness" and was "much too like an attempt at psychological fiction". Sympathy is evoked for too many characters, "but the unravelling is sound and the story well told." Another said there is ingenuity and a good ending, but the plot "lacks a central focus" and it appears that the "serious socio-psychological approach doesn't suit" Christie's writing. A later review considered it one of the better Christie novels of the 1950s, and noted that the author sometimes called it her own favourite.

Plot summary
Geologist Arthur Calgary appears at the Argyle home Sunny Point two years after Rachel Argyle, wife and mother of five adopted children, was bludgeoned to death. Her son Jacko was tried and imprisoned, and he died after 6 months in prison. Calgary explains that Jacko is innocent of murder, because his alibi was true. Calgary is the man who gave Jacko a ride to town and talked with him, when the murder was known to happen. Calgary is confused by the family’s reaction to his news. It had been difficult to face them with his failure to appear by the time of the trial, yet no one is pleased at his effort for justice. Brother Mickey Argyle realises immediately that there is a murderer among them still, and visits Calgary in his hotel room to tell him. As the new police investigations proceed, they suspect in turn Jacko's father Leo, his brother Mickey, his sisters Mary, Tina and Hester, his father’s secretary Gwenda, and the long-time housekeeper Kirsten. Calgary visits the defence lawyer, who gives him more details of the event and some insights into the family, and the position in which the news puts them. Calgary feels he must now assist the family in the new situation.

Dr Calgary was unaware of the trial because he was hit by a truck within hours after meeting Jacko, and a concussion blocked Calgary's recent memory. He left the country on a lengthy polar expedition when police were seeking the driver of the car. Jacko’s photo jogs his memory upon Calgary’s return to England; he recalls conversing with Jacko. Calgary feels his duty to justice to come forward late, and the police accept his reasons for not appearing earlier.

Calgary next visits retired local doctor, Dr MacMaster, to ask him about Jacko. MacMaster was surprised when Jacko was convicted for killing Rachel, not because murder was outside Jacko's 'moral range'. He sees Jacko as one too cowardly to kill another; instead, he would direct an accomplice. Calgary speaks to Maureen, who reveals Jacko's persuasive ways with older women: initiating affairs and then taking money from them. Hester visits Calgary in London, as she cannot take the tension at home. Each returns to Sunny Point. Calgary meets with one older woman who had fallen for Jacko’s compliments and given him money. The police gather new information from family members as they seek the murderer. Mickey plans to meet with Tina, to learn what she did the night of the murder and tell her of his new job out of England. Mary Argyle and her husband Philip Durrant stay at Sunny Point during this period of upset. Philip tries to find the guilty one among them and his efforts spur the killer to strike again.

At Philip’s request, Tina comes to Sunny Point. As she reaches his room, Kirsten is at the door with a tray, and they see that Philip is dead at his desk. Tina walks away until she collapses outdoors, where Mickey sees her fall and carries her inside. Doctor Craig arrives and says that Tina has been stabbed in the back and must go to hospital.

Hester tells Calgary about Philip and Tina. Calgary heads to Superintendent Huish, who repeats the words Tina spoke in hospital, that the cup was empty, Philip's cup, meaning Kirsten was leaving not entering the room. At Sunny Point, Calgary reveals to all, in the library, that the killer is the housekeeper, Kirsten. Jacko had persuaded the plain Kirsten that he was in love with her, and persuaded her to murder Mrs Argyle to steal some money he wanted that his mother would not give him. Kirsten learns that Jacko was secretly married, by meeting his wife the day after the murder. Kirsten realises what a fool she has been and sees the evil in Jacko.

Once accused, Kirsten runs away from Sunny Point. The family expect the police will nab her. While Mary mourns her beloved husband, her sister Hester professes her love for Arthur Calgary. She suspects that Tina and Mickey will get together once Tina recovers. Leo feels free to remarry.

Characters

 * Arthur Calgary: a geophysicist who gave a lift to Jacko Argyle two years earlier, and then was out of the country when Argyle was on trial for murder. Thus, Calgary could not give his testimony, which would have backed up Argyle's statement. He does give it when he returns to England and learns what happened.
 * Leo Argyle: Rachel's husband. He is a wealthy man with an interest in research on the history of economics and a calm personality.
 * Rachel Argyle: Leo's wife, and mother of five adopted children. She had a strong instinct for mothering, and was also active in charity work. She inherited wealth from her parents which she set up in trusts for her children. She was murdered about two years before the novel opens.
 * Mary Durrant (formerly Mary Argyle): eldest child of Leo and Rachel, about age 27, and the first child they adopted, while they were in New York City before World War II.
 * Philip Durrant: Mary's husband; he served as a pilot in the war, when he married Mary. About two years before the novel opens, he contracted polio, paralyzing his legs.
 * Michael "Mickey" Argyle: adopted son of Leo and Rachel. He is angry that his birth mother did not seek him from Sunny Point after the war ended. He works as a car salesman in the nearby town.
 * Jacko Argyle: adopted son of Leo and Rachel; he died in prison of pneumonia, convicted of killing his mother. He had been both an amusing person and one of fierce anger, and already had a police record.
 * Hester Argyle: adopted daughter of Leo and Rachel. She is about 20 and is challenged to find her own place in the world. She shows her strong emotions.
 * Christina "Tina" Argyle: adopted daughter of Leo and Rachel. She came to them at age 3, and remembers no other parents. She works in a library in a nearby town and has her own place there. She is of mixed race, and has a calm personality.
 * Kirsten Lindstrom: nurse and masseuse from Sweden, she joined the Argyle household during the war when Rachel opened their home as a place for children age 2 to 7, safe from the bombing of the second World War. She stays on as a housekeeper.
 * Gwenda Vaughan: Leo Argyle's secretary for his research, in her late 30s. She lives in her own place, walking distance from Sunny Point. She and Leo were about to announce their engagement before the novel opens.
 * Superintendent Huish: police officer who handled the first investigation and is called on to conduct the second with this new information.
 * Dr MacMaster: retired local doctor who saw the children in the Sunny Point house, and formed views on the five children adopted by the Argyles.
 * Mr Andrew Marshall: attorney for the Argyle family and the defense for Jacko at his trial.
 * Donald Craig: young doctor in town, who is dating Hester Argyle. He loves her but he does not believe in her.
 * Maureen Clegg: previously married to Jacko Argyle. He kept her a secret from his family until she appeared at Sunny Point the day after the murder. She works selling snacks in a movie theatre. Soon after Jacko died she married Joe Clegg, an electrician.
 * Unnamed middle-aged woman: interviewed by Arthur Calgary, she had fallen for Jacko and tells how he fooled her with love when he planned to take her money.

Literary significance and reception
Philip John Stead concluded his review in the Times Literary Supplement of 12 December 1958, with, "The solution of Ordeal By Innocence is certainly not below the level of Mrs Christie's customary ingenuity, but the book lacks other qualities which her readers have come to expect. What has become of the blitheness, the invigorating good spirits with which the game of detection is played in so many of her stories? Ordeal By Innocence slips out of that cheerful arena into something much too like an attempt at psychological fiction. It is too much of a conversation piece and too many people are talking – people in whom it is hard to take the necessary amount of interest because there is not enough space to establish them. The kind of workmanship which has been lavished on this tale is not a kind in which the author excels and the reader feels that Miss Marple and Poirot would thoroughly disapprove of the whole business."

Sarah Russell of The Guardian gave a short review to the novel in the 9 December 1958 issue when she said, "In this solving of a two-year-old family murder sympathy is, unusually with Miss Christie, evoked for too many people to leave enough suspects; but the unravelling is sound and the story well told."

Maurice Richardson said of this novel that "The veteran Norn has nodded over this one. There is ingenuity, of course, but it lacks a central focus. The characters are stodgy and there is little of that so readable, almost crunchable dialogue, like burnt sugar." He concluded, "The serious socio-psychological approach doesn't suit A C somehow. Only at the end with the big surprise do you feel home and dry."

Robert Barnard considered this novel as "One of the best of 'fifties Christies, and one of her own favourites (though she named different titles at different times). The Five Little Pigs pattern of murder-in-the-past, the convicted murderer having died in prison, innocent. [sic]” His evaluation was that it was “Short on detection, but fairly dense in social observation. Understanding in treatment of adopted children, but not altogether tactful on the colour question: 'Tina's always the dark horse…Perhaps it's the half of her that isn't white.'"

Film

 * Ordeal by Innocence (1985)

A film adaptation was released in 1985, directed by Desmond Davis. It starred Donald Sutherland as Arthur Calgary, Sarah Miles as Mary Durrant, Christopher Plummer as Leo Argyle, Ian McShane as Philip Durrant, Diana Quick as Gwenda Vaughan, and Faye Dunaway as Rachel Argyle.

The film's musical score by Dave Brubeck was criticised as inappropriate for its style of mystery. Brubeck had taken over from Pino Donaggio, who had already composed many pieces for the project, but was too busy to work on the project when various film edits needed re-scoring. His original score had swirling strings, lush melodies, and tension-filled passages.

Agatha Christie's Marple (2007)
The novel was adapted for the third season of the ITV television series Agatha Christie's Marple featuring Geraldine McEwan as the eponymous Miss Marple in 2007, although the character was not in the original novel. The episode guest starred Denis Lawson as Leo, Stephanie Leonidas as Hester, Lisa Stansfield as Mary, and Jane Seymour as Rachel. This version made noticeable differences from the novel, such as having Jacko (Burn Gorman) executed by hanging instead of dying in prison of pneumonia.

Gwenda Vaughan (Juliet Stevenson) takes Philip Durrant's (Richard Armitage) place as the household member who is murdered by Kirsten (Alison Steadman) for coming too close to the truth. Omitted completely is Kirsten's attempt to silence Tina (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and Micky (Bryan Dick) by stabbing Tina. There is also the addition of another adopted child, Bobby (Tom Riley), the twin brother of Jacko, who commits suicide after financial ruin. Kirsten is shown being arrested at the end, unlike in the original novel in which her arrest was not explicitly included in the actual text.

Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie (2009)
The novel was adapted as the second episode of the French television series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie, airing in 2009.

Ordeal by Innocence (2018)
BBC One broadcast a three-episode series based on Ordeal by Innocence in 2018. It was filmed in Inverkip, Scotland, and stars Bill Nighy as Leo Argyll (changed from "Argyle" in the novel), Luke Treadaway as Arthur Calgary, Anna Chancellor as Rachel Argyll, Ella Purnell as Hester Argyll, Eleanor Tomlinson as Mary Durrant, Crystal Clarke as Tina Argyll, Morven Christie as Kirsten Lindstrom, Matthew Goode as Philip Durrant, Alice Eve as Gwenda Vaughan, and Anthony Boyle as Jack Argyll. The script was written by Sarah Phelps, who also adapted the Christie miniseries And Then There Were None and The Witness for the Prosecution for the BBC. First scheduled to air in 2017, the series was delayed due to sexual allegations against actor Ed Westwick, who was originally cast as Mickey Argyll, which led to Westwick's scenes being reshot with Christian Cooke as Mickey.

The series features many differences from the original novel, including the ending, where the killer is revealed to be Leo instead of Kirsten. Additionally, Jack is depicted as having no involvement with Rachel's murder and is the biological son of Leo and Kirsten, resulting in Leo having him beaten to death in prison when he threatens to reveal his true parentage. The series also portrays Calgary as a former mental patient, which causes doubts toward his testimony as Jack's alibi.

Stage
The novel was also adapted into a stage play by Mary Jane Hansen performed for the first time by the New York State Theatre Institute in Troy, New York. The original run lasted from 4 to 17 February 2007, and included 14 performances.

Comics
Ordeal by Innocence was released by HarperCollins as a graphic novel adaptation on 1 July 2008, adapted and illustrated by "Chandre" (ISBN 0-00-727531-5). This was translated from the edition first published in France by Emmanuel Proust éditions in 2006 under the title of Témoin indésirable.

Radio
The BBC produced a radio adaptation by Joy Wilkinson, starring Mark Umbers as Arthur Calgary, Jacqueline Defferary as Gwenda, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Hester Argyle. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 over three weeks beginning 17 March 2014.

Publication history

 * 1958, Collins Crime Club (London), 3 November 1958, Hardcover, 256 pp
 * 1959, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1959, Hardcover, 247 pp
 * 1960, Pocket Books (New York), Paperback, 211 pp
 * 1961, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 192 pp
 * 1964, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 256 pp

In the UK the novel was first serialised in the weekly magazine John Bull in two abridged instalments from 20 September (Volume 104, Number 2725) to 27 September 1958 (Volume 104, Number 2726) with illustrations by "Fancett".

In the US, the first publication was in the Chicago Tribune in thirty-six parts from Sunday, 1 February to Saturday, 14 March 1959 under the title of The Innocent.

An abridged version of the novel was also published in the 21 February 1959 issue of the Star Weekly Complete Novel, a Toronto newspaper supplement, with a cover illustration by Russell Maebus.

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Michel Mathieu Lecointe-Puyraveau

Michel Mathieu Lecointe-Puyraveau (13 December 1764 – 15 January 1827) was a French politician.

Assembly and Convention
Born in Saint-Maixent-l'École (Deux-Sèvres), he was elected deputy for his département to the Legislative Assembly in 1792, where he made himself known for his harsh stances against the moderates. He was elected to the National Convention in the same year, voting in favor the capital punishment for King Louis XVI, with the possibility of appeal to the people.

His association with the Girondists nearly involved him in their fall of May–June 1793, despite Lecointe-Puyraveau's extreme Republicanism - he had placed his position in peril after publicly accusing Jean-Paul Marat for having instigated the September Massacres, and even called him "demented", but had not voted in favor of his prosecution. At the precise moment of the Girondists' proscription, Lecointe-Puyraveau was representative on mission to the Vendée, and, back in Paris during the Reign of Terror, remained an inconspicuous presence in the face of the Committee of Public Safety.

Directory, Empire, and proscription
He took part in the Thermidorian Reaction which brought down Maximilien Robespierre, but protested against the establishment of the Directory, and continually pressed for severer measures against the émigrés, and even their relatives who had remained in France.

He was secretary and then president of the Council of Five Hundred, and under the French Consulate a member of the Tribunate. Lecointe-Puyraveau took no part in public affairs under the First French Empire, but was Lieutenant General of police for south-east France during the Hundred Days.

After the 1815 battle of Waterloo he took ship from Toulon, but the ship was driven back by a storm and he narrowly escaped a disastrous shipwreck at Marseille. After six weeks imprisonment in the Château d'If, he returned to Paris, escaping, after the proscription of the regicides (those who had voted for the death of the previous king), to Brussels, where he died a decade later.

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Lodygin (crater)

Lodygin is a lunar impact crater to the southeast of the much larger crater Galois. To the east-northeast is the crater Paschen, and to the south-southwest is the immense Apollo.

The outer rim of Lodygin has been heavily damaged along the western and northwestern sides, which lie closest to Galois. The rim along this face has been heavily modified and is overlain by multiple smaller craters. The remainder of the rim to the east and south are worn, but relatively intact. About half the original interior floor survives, and is marked only by a low central ridge offset to the south of the midpoint, and a few small or tiny impacts.

Satellite craters
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List of Disney Channel original films

Since its launch on April 18, 1983, American cable and satellite pay television channel Disney Channel airs and/or releases/distributes of original first-run television films under the banner names of Disney Channel Premiere Films until October 1997, Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) until March 2023, and Disney Original Movie thereafter.

Most of these films were subsequently released on home video formats such as VHS, DVD, or more recently, Blu-ray, while others were not. Beginning with Princess Protection Program in 2009, releases of DCOMs on DVD months following their television premieres got reduced to a week after television premieres. The 2009 television film also became the first DCOM to appear in high-definition widescreen, although DCOMs have been produced in such a format since the release of Go Figure on June 10, 2005.

The highest-rated premiere for the banner/brand came in August 2007, when High School Musical 2 set a record for basic cable with 17.2 million viewers. The second highest-rated premiere is held by Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, which premiered with 11.4 million viewers. DCOMs include sequels-turned-franchises such as Under Wraps, Halloweentown, Zenon, Twitches, The Cheetah Girls, High School Musical, Camp Rock, Teen Beach, Descendants and Zombies.

During the Memorial Day holiday weekend of 2016, Disney Channel began to air many older DCOMs in a specialized marathon programming block in celebration of its 100th film, Adventures in Babysitting, starting off with the 51 most popular films airing over the four-day weekend from May 27, 2016 and concluding on June 24, 2016 with the premiere of the aforementioned 100th Disney Channel Original Movie.

From April 5 to May 24, 2021, Disney Channel hosted an eight-week event called "DCOM & Dessert", where a Disney Channel Original Movie would air every Monday night at 7:00 PM. Zombies 2 stars Ariel Martin and Chandler Kinney hosted this event and had their own baking segments where they would make interactive dessert recipes that families could make at home.

Disney Channel Premiere Films

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Disney Channel Original Movies

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Disney Original Movies

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Upcoming Disney Channel original films

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Notable non-Disney Channel Original Movie films
The following films did not originally premiere under the "Disney Channel Original Movie" label, though they were sometimes later promoted as such:

 * Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars (March 26, 2010)
 * 16 Wishes (June 25, 2010)
 * Back of the Net (June 15, 2019)
 * The Curious Case of Dolphin Bay (June 11, 2022)

The following were produced by Disney Channel, but premiered on Disney+ without being labeled as Disney Channel Original Movies:
 * Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (August 28, 2020; premiered on Disney Channel on April 8, 2023)
 * Secret Society of Second-Born Royals (September 25, 2020; premiered on Disney Channel on February 26, 2023)
 * Sneakerella (May 13, 2022; premiered on Disney Channel on August 13, 2022)

The following films are based on Disney Channel shows or Disney Channel Original Movies, but were released theatrically. However, some of them later premiered on Disney Channel:

 * The Lizzie McGuire Movie (May 2, 2003; premiered on Disney Channel on November 26, 2005)
 * Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (February 1, 2008; premiered on Disney Channel on July 26, 2008)
 * High School Musical 3: Senior Year (October 24, 2008; premiered on Disney Channel on April 4, 2010)
 * Hannah Montana: The Movie (April 10, 2009; premiered on Disney Channel on November 19, 2010)

Top 10

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Cat Among the Pigeons

Cat Among the Pigeons is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 November 1959, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1960 with a copyright date of 1959. The UK edition retailed at twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6), and the US edition at $2.95.

It features Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, who makes a very late appearance in the final third of the novel. The emphasis on espionage in the early part of the story relates it to Christie's international adventures (such as They Came to Baghdad) and to the Tommy and Tuppence stories.

Plot summary
A revolution takes place within Ramat, a fictional kingdom in the Middle East. Knowing that he is unlikely to survive the violence, Prince Ali Yusuf entrusts his best friend and pilot, Bob Rawlinson, to smuggle a fortune in jewels out of the country. Rawlinson conceals the gems within the hollow of the handle of a tennis racquet belonging to his niece Jennifer, the daughter of his sister Joan, without telling them. Unbeknownst to him, a mysterious woman watches him from the neighbouring balcony.

The Prince and Rawlinson die in a plane crash while attempting to flee Ramat. Three months later, Jennifer prepares to attend Meadowbank School, a prestigious girls' independent school in England. Its staff includes Miss Bulstrode, the school's founder and headmistress; Miss Chadwick, a co-founder of the school and teacher of mathematics; Miss Vansittart, who has taught German at the school for several years; Miss Rich, who has taught English Literature at the school for 18 months; Miss Johnson, the girl's matron; Miss Angèle Blanche, the new French teacher; Grace Springer, the new gym teacher; Ann Shapland, Miss Bulstrode's new secretary; and Adam Goodman, a new gardener. As Miss Bulstrode is nearing retirement, she is deciding upon her successor. She believes Miss Chadwick is too old to take over, and is considering both Miss Vansittart, who behaves almost like a second edition of Miss Bulstrode, and Miss Rich, who is young and has many ideas of her own.

One night, Miss Chadwick and Miss Johnson notice a light in the sports pavilion and hear a gunshot; upon investigating, they find Miss Springer murdered. When the police begin to investigate, Goodman reveals to Inspector Kelsey, and later to Miss Bulstrode, that he works for British Intelligence. He is at Meadowbank to track down the gems Rawlinson smuggled out, by monitoring Prince Ali Yusuf's cousin, Shaista, who is attending the school. Meanwhile, Jennifer complains to her friend Julia Upjohn that her racquet no longer feels balanced, and they swap racquets. Later, a strange woman approaches Jennifer to present her with a new racquet, claiming it is from Jennifer's Aunt Gina, and takes the old racquet in exchange. However, the sharper Julia finds this suspicious, and Aunt Gina later writes to reveal that she had not sent Jennifer a new racquet.

The following weekend, Shaista is kidnapped by someone posing as her uncle's chauffeur. That night, Miss Vansittart is murdered with a sandbag in the Sports Pavilion. After Jennifer and many other students are fetched home by worried parents, Julia investigates the racquet she swapped with Jennifer and finds the smuggled jewels. When someone attempts to enter Julia's room during the night, she quickly flees the school to tell her story to Hercule Poirot, whom she has heard stories about from her Aunt Maureen (Mrs. Summerhayes from Mrs. McGinty's Dead).

While Poirot is at Meadowbank investigating the murders, Miss Blanche is murdered with a sandbag. Interviewing Miss Bulstrode, Poirot learns that Julia's mother, Mrs. Upjohn, who once worked in British counterintelligence during the war, recognized a fellow agent at the school on the first day of term.

Poirot eventually reveals to all that the Shaista who attended Meadowbank was an imposter; the real Shaista was kidnapped by a group seeking Prince Ali Yusuf's jewels. When the imposter did not find them, the group extracted her from the school before the uncle of the real Shaista could expose her. Poirot briefly focuses attention on Miss Rich as a potential suspect, so he can put the true murderer at ease. He then reveals that Miss Springer was killed because she caught the killer searching for the tennis racquet. Miss Blanche was killed when she attempted to blackmail the killer.

Through Mrs. Upjohn, Poirot identifies Ann Shapland as a ruthless espionage agent known as "Angelica". Miss Shapland had been in Ramat three months earlier, and was the woman who had witnessed Rawlinson concealing the gems in Jennifer's racquet. Before Miss Shapland is arrested, she attempts to shoot Mrs. Upjohn. As Miss Bulstrode tries to shield Mrs. Upjohn, Miss Chadwick steps in to protect Miss Bulstrode and is fatally wounded. Miss Shapland is disarmed and taken away; Poirot then reveals that the second murder was committed by Miss Chadwick, who was jealous of Miss Vansittart's better qualifications as Mrs. Bulstrode's possible successor. Miss Chadwick came upon Miss Vansittart alone in the Sports Pavilion, and struck her down in a fit of madness.

In the aftermath of the investigation, Miss Bulstrode appoints Miss Rich as her partner and successor, with both focusing on rebuilding Meadowbank and its reputation. Meanwhile, Poirot turns over the gems to a Mr. Robinson, who turns them over to Prince Ali Yusuf's secret wife; they had married and had a son while Yusuf was a student in England. Julia Upjohn receives an emerald as a reward.

Characters

 * Hercule Poirot, the famed Belgian detective
 * Inspector Kelsey, the investigating officer
 * “Adam Goodman”, an operative for Special Branch, working undercover at Meadowbank as a gardener
 * Honoria Bulstrode, headmistress of Meadowbank School for Girls
 * Ann Shapland, Miss Bulstrode's secretary
 * Elspeth Johnson, the matron
 * Miss Chadwick, a long-serving and senior teacher of mathematics who helped found Meadowbank
 * Eleanor Vansittart, a senior teacher, set to succeed Miss Bulstrode
 * Grace Springer, a sports teacher
 * Angèle Blanche, a French teacher who is using the passport and teaching history of her late sister to get this good position.
 * Eileen Rich, a teacher
 * Miss Blake, a teacher
 * Miss Rowan, a teacher
 * Princess Shaista, the cousin of the late Prince Ali Yusuf of Ramat
 * Prince Ali Yusuf, hereditary Sheikh of Ramat
 * Bob Rawlinson, the personal pilot of the Prince of Ramat (and the Prince's best friend)
 * Jennifer Sutcliffe, niece of Bob Rawlinson and pupil at Meadowbank; daughter of Joan and Henry Sutcliffe
 * Lady Veronica Carlton-Sandways, the disruptive and tipsy mother of twin daughters enrolled at the school
 * Joan Sutcliffe, Bob Rawlinson's sister and Jennifer's mother
 * Henry Sutcliffe, Joan's husband and Jennifer's father
 * Julia Upjohn, pupil at Meadowbank and Jennifer's friend
 * Mrs Upjohn, Julia Upjohn's mother, and a former British intelligence agent
 * Colonel Ephraim Pikeaway, a senior figure in Special Branch, Adam Goodman's superior
 * John Edmundson, a member of the Foreign Office; third secretary in the British embassy in Ramat at the time of the revolution.
 * Derek O'Connor, a member of the Foreign Office
 * "Mr Robinson", a shadowy figure, of importance in international affairs
 * Denis Rathbone, Ann Shapland's boyfriend
 * Briggs, the gardener

Literary significance and reception
Maurice Richardson of The Observer of 8 November 1959 said, "Some nice school scenes with bogus sheikhs sweeping up in lilac Cadillacs to deposit highly scented and busted houris for education, and backwoods peers shoving hockey-stick-toting daughters out of battered Austins. It's far from vintage Christie, but you'll want to know who."

Robert Barnard: "Girls' school background surprisingly well done, with humour and some liberality of outlook. Some elements are reminiscent of Tey's Miss Pym Disposes. Marred by the international dimension and the spy element, which do not jell with the traditional detective side. Fairly typical example of her looser, more relaxed style."

British adaptation
An adaptation of the novel was written by Mark Gatiss for the series Agatha Christie's Poirot. It aired 28 September 2008, and starred David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. The supporting cast included Dame Harriet Walter as Miss Bulstrode, Natasha Little as Ann Shapland, Claire Skinner as Miss Rich, Susan Wooldridge as Miss Chadwick, Miranda Raison as Mlle Blanche, Elizabeth Berrington as Miss Springer, Raji James as Prince Ali Yusuf, and Adam Croasdell as Adam Goodman. This adaptation, while primarily faithful to the novel, featured a change in setting to the 1930s, matching that of the TV series. This change necessitated that many of the novel's scenes referencing the Middle East, World War II, and the British Secret Service be rewritten or eliminated. As this change also meant World War I would have occurred at the time Ali Yusuf was meant to be studying in England, the character of his secret wife was removed, and his motives for smuggling out the gems were changed from personal to political. Instead of attacking Miss Vansittart – who is not included in the adaptation – Miss Chadwick attacks Miss Rich, who does survive and accepts Miss Bulstrode's offer of a partnership.

Filming took place primarily at Joyce Grove in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, with some shots inside the marble hall of Elveden Hall.

French adaptation
The novel was adapted as the fifth episode of the French television series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie. The episode first aired in 2010.

Publication history

 * 1959, Collins Crime Club (London), 2 November 1959, Hardcover, 256 pp
 * 1960, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), March 1960, Hardcover, 224 pp
 * 1961, Pocket Books (New York), Paperback, 216 pp
 * 1962, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 187 pp
 * 1964, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 255 pp
 * 1976, Pocket Books (New York), 8th printing, February, 1976, Paperback, xi, 210 pp

In the UK the novel was first serialised in the weekly magazine John Bull in six abridged instalments from 26 September (Volume 106, Number 2771) to 31 October 1959 (Volume 106, Number 2776) with illustrations by Gerry Fancett. In the US a condensed version of the novel appeared in the November 1959 (Volume LXXVI, Number 11) issue of the Ladies Home Journal with an illustration by Joe DeMers.

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John Frederick Dewey

John Frederick Dewey (born 22 May 1937) is a British structural geologist and a strong proponent of the theory of plate tectonics, building upon the early work undertaken in the 1960s and 1970s. He is widely regarded as an authority on the development and evolution of mountain ranges.

Biography
Dewey was educated at Bancroft's School and Queen Mary and Imperial College at the University of London where he was awarded a BSc and PhD in geology. Following a period as lecturer at the University of Manchester (1960–64), the University of Cambridge (1964–1970) and Memorial University of Newfoundland (1971), Dewey was appointed Professor of Geology at the State University of New York at Albany. During this period he produced a series of classic papers centred on the history of the Appalachians in Newfoundland as well as the Scottish and Irish Caledonides. In later years, his research has concentrated upon producing a model to describe the development and orogenic history of the Himalayan mountain range.

Dewey returned to the UK in 1982 as Professor of Geology at the University of Durham, a position he held for four years. As with another Durham geologists before him, Lawrence Wager, Dewey was appointed Professor of Geology at the University of Oxford (and Fellow of University College) in 1986, a position he held until his resignation in 2000. Since then he has returned to the US as Professor of Geology at the University of California at Davis, although he maintains a position as Senior Research Fellow at University College, Oxford.

John Dewey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS) in 1985 and has received numerous medals and awards, notably the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London (that society's highest award) in 1999 and the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America (1992). Dewey was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1997, is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and is a Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science (2011).

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This was double-stubbed because it contains information on both the book and the film. I'll not revert the removal of film-stub because it would just be bait for an edit war, but I'm making my opinion clear here nonetheless. Courtland 17:31, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
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Is the title taken from the play by Turgenev?
The introduction to the Penguin edition says: "'Fine gentlemen from London', as Jim insisted on calling them, arrived at his house in Kettering, and pointed out that the title, of course, would not do, it had already been used by Turgenev. 'Is that so?' said Jim. 'I don't think I'll change mine, though.' He didn't." But that anecdote may be entirely ironic - and there are certainly similarities between the two plots.

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Pine Ridge (Lum and Abner)

Pine Ridge, Arkansas, was the fictional setting for the radio program Lum and Abner, which ran for 13 weeks every year from 1932 to 1954 on WNBC. It was based on the town of Waters, Arkansas, and some of its residents. Subsequently, the real town of Waters changed its name to Pine Ridge by a vote of the city council, and the community of Pine Ridge, Oklahoma also was named after the fictional town.

Lum Edwards and Abner Peabody were the main characters. The radio show was a comedic look at rural life in the Depression and World War II era. Other characters in the show included Mousey Gray, Cedric Wehunt, and Squire Skimp. In the series, Lum and Abner were the owners of the Jot 'Em Down Store. Some of their misadventures included a failed experiment in creating a bank (first season), getting swindled by a counterfeit money printer (Diogenes Smith – who introduced the phrase "Wonderful World" into the series), and Lum trying himself for a crime he didn't commit (after all, he was simultaneously the town's only prisoner and Justice of the Peace).

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The Pale Horse

The Pale Horse is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1961, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at fifteen shillings (15/- = 75p) and the US edition at $3.75. The novel features her novelist detective Ariadne Oliver as a minor character, and reflects in tone the supernatural novels of Dennis Wheatley who was then at the height of his popularity. The Pale Horse is mentioned in Revelation 6:8, where it is ridden by Death.

Plot introduction
A dying woman, Mrs Davis, gives her last confession to Father Gorman, a Roman Catholic priest, but along with her confession she gives him a list of names and a terrible secret. Before he can take action, however, he is struck dead in the fog. As the police begin to investigate, a young hero begins to piece together evidence that sets him upon a converging path.

Plot summary
In the following summary, events are not given in strict narrative order.

Mark Easterbrook, the central character of the book and its principal narrator, sees a fight between two girls in a Chelsea coffee bar, during which one pulls out some of the other's hair at the roots. Soon afterwards, he finds out that one of the girls, Thomasina Tuckerton, has died. At dinner with a friend, a woman named Poppy Stirling mentions something called the Pale Horse that arranges deaths, but is suddenly scared at having mentioned it and will say no more.

When Mark encounters the police surgeon, Corrigan, he learns of the list of surnames found in the shoe of a murdered priest called Father Gorman. The list includes the names Corrigan, Tuckerton and Hesketh-Dubois (the same name as Mark's godmother who has recently died of what appear to be natural causes). He begins to fear that the list contains the names of those who are dead or are shortly to die.

When Mark goes to a village fete, organised by his cousin, at Much Deeping, with the famous mystery writer, Ariadne Oliver, he hears about a house which has been converted from an old inn called the Pale Horse. The house is inhabited by three modern "witches", led by Thyrza Grey. Visiting houses in the area, he meets Mr Venables, a man who uses a wheelchair and has no apparent explanation for his substantial wealth.

Mark also visits the Pale Horse, and Thyrza Grey discusses with him the ability to kill at a distance, which she claims to have developed. In retrospect, it seems to Mark that she has been outlining to him a service that she would be willing to provide. As part of the police investigation, a witness, Zachariah Osborne, describes a man seen following Father Gorman shortly before the murder. Later, Osborne tells the police that he has seen the same man in a wheelchair. Even though he finds out that the man, Venables, is crippled by polio, and is incapable of standing due to the atrophy of his legs, Osborne remains certain of his identification and suggests that Venables could have faked his disability.

Mark's girlfriend, Hermia, does not take his growing fears seriously and he becomes disaffected with her. He does, however, receive support from Ariadne Oliver, and from a vicar's wife, Dane Calthrop, who wants him to stop whatever evil might be taking place. Mark also makes an ally of Katherine "Ginger" Corrigan, a girl whom he has met in the area, and who successfully draws Poppy out about the Pale Horse organisation. Ginger obtains from Poppy an address in Birmingham, where Mark meets Mr Bradley, a disbarred lawyer, who outlines the means by which the Pale Horse functions without breaking the law - that Bradley bets someone will die within a certain period of time and the client bets otherwise. If the person in question does die within that time, the client must pay. (One client who refused fell in front of an oncoming train and was killed).

With the agreement of Inspector Lejeune and the co-operation of Ginger, Mark agrees to solicit the murder of his first wife, who will be played by Ginger. At a ritual of some kind at the Pale Horse, Mark witnesses Thyrza apparently channel a malignant spirit through an electrical apparatus. Shortly afterwards, Ginger falls ill and begins to decline rapidly. In desperation, Mark turns to Poppy again, who mentions that her friend, Eileen Brandon, resigned from a research organisation called CRC (Customers' Reactions Classified) that seems to be connected with the Pale Horse. When Mrs Brandon is interviewed, she reveals that both she and Mrs Davis worked for the organisation, which surveyed targeted people about what foods, cosmetics and proprietary medicines they used.

Ariadne Oliver contacts Mark with a key connection that she has made: another victim of the Pale Horse (Mary Delafontaine) has lost her hair during her illness. The same thing happened to Lady Hesketh-Dubois, and Thomasina's hair was easily pulled out during the fight. Moreover, Ginger has begun to shed her own hair. Mark recognises the symptoms are of thallium poisoning, not some sort of satanic assassination.

It is revealed that Osborne has been the brains behind the Pale Horse organisation, and that the black magic element was a piece of misdirection on his part. The murders were committed by replacing products the victims had named in the CRC survey with poisoned ones. Osborne's clumsy attempt to implicate Venables was a vital mistake. After Osborne's arrest, Mark and Ginger, who is recovering, become engaged.

Characters

 * Mark Easterbrook, a historian researching the Moguls
 * Inspector Lejeune, the investigating officer
 * Ariadne Oliver, the celebrated author (based on Agatha Christie)
 * Jim Corrigan, the police surgeon
 * Ginger Corrigan, a young woman (not related to Jim)
 * Mr Venables, a wealthy man who uses a wheelchair
 * Zachariah Osborne, a pharmacist
 * Mr Bradley, legal representative of The Pale Horse
 * Thyrza Grey, a practitioner of the Dark Arts
 * Sybil Stamfordis, a medium
 * Bella Webb, Thyrza Grey's cook and self-professed witch
 * Thomasina Tuckerton, a wealthy young woman
 * Pamela "Poppy" Stirling, an employee of Flower Studies Ltd.
 * Rev Dane Calthrop, the local vicar
 * Mrs Dane Calthrop, the vicar's wife
 * Rhoda Despard, Mark Easterbrook's cousin
 * Colonel Hugh Despard, Rhoda's husband
 * Mrs Tuckerton, Thomasina's stepmother (and heiress)
 * Mrs Coppins, owner of the boarding house where Mrs Davis dies
 * Eileen Brandon, a former employee of Customers' Reactions Classified
 * Hermia Redcliffe, Mark's pretentious girlfriend
 * David Ardingley, a historian friend of Mark
 * Father Gorman, a Roman Catholic priest

Characters repeated in other Christie works

 * Ariadne Oliver also appears in Parker Pyne Investigates, Cards on the Table, Mrs McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly, Third Girl, Hallowe'en Party, and Elephants Can Remember.
 * Colonel Despard (as Major John Despard) and Rhoda Dawes (maiden name) both also appear in Cards on the Table.
 * Rev and Mrs Dane Calthrop both also appear in The Moving Finger.

Literary significance and reception
Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox) praised the novel in the 8 December 1961 issue of The Guardian: "Mrs Agatha Christie is our nearest approach to perpetual motion. And not only does she never stop, but she drops the ball into the cup nearly every time; and if one is sometimes reminded of those automatic machines where one pulls a handle and out pops the finished product, that is a compliment to the automatic machine and not by any means a reflection on Mrs Christie. For the latest tug on the Christie handle produces a product which is not only up to the standard but even above it. The Pale Horse is in fact the best sample from this particular factory for some time, and that is saying plenty. The black magic theme is handled in a masterly and sinister fashion, and to give away what lay behind it would be unforgivable. This is a book which nobody (repeat, nobody) should miss." Iles further named the novel as his favourite in the paper's Critic's choice for the end of the year, published one week later, writing that "It has not been an outstanding year for crime fiction, but as usual there have been one or two first-class items. The best puzzle has certainly been Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse."

Robert Barnard: "Goodish late example – loosely plotted, but with intriguing, fantastical central idea. Plot concerns a Murder-Inc.-type organisation, with a strong overlay of black magic. Also makes use of 'The Box,' a piece of pseudo-scientific hocus-pocus fashionable in the West Country in the 'fifties (one of the things which drove Waugh to the verge of lunacy, as narrated in Pinfold)."

In the "Binge!" article of Entertainment Weekly Issue #1343-44 (26 December 2014–3 January 2015), the writers picked The Pale Horse as an "EW favorite" on the list of the "Nine Great Christie Novels".

References to other works
Several of Christie's earlier characters reappear in this book. In addition to Ariadne Oliver, Major Despard and his wife Rhoda (who met and fell in love in Cards on the Table) also participate in the plot. Mrs Dane Calthrop from The Moving Finger also reappears in approximately the same role as she played in that book: the rational but devoted Christian who wants the evil stopped.

Mrs Oliver is apprehensive of attending a fete, for reasons that will be apparent to readers of her previous appearance in a Christie novel: Dead Man's Folly.

References in actual history
This novel is notable among Christie's books as it is credited with having saved at least two lives after readers recognised the symptoms of thallium poisoning from its description in the book.

 * In 1975, Christie received a letter from a woman in Latin America who recognised the symptoms of thallium poisoning, thus saving a woman from slow poisoning by her husband.
 * In 1977, a 19-month-old infant from Qatar was suffering from a mysterious illness. After the baby was flown to London, Marsha Maitland, a nurse who had been reading The Pale Horse correctly suggested that the baby was suffering from thallium poisoning.
 * In another instance, in 1971, a serial killer, Graham Frederick Young, who had poisoned several people, three fatally, was caught thanks to this book. A doctor conferring with Scotland Yard had read The Pale Horse and realised that the mysterious "Bovingdon bug" (the deaths occurred in a factory in Bovingdon, England) was in fact thallium poisoning.

The novel is also cited to have been the "inspiration" of what was dubbed "The Mensa Murder". In 1988, George Trepal, a Mensa Club member, poisoned his neighbours, Pye and Peggy Carr and their children, with thallium introduced in a Coca-Cola Classic bottles eight-pack. Peggy Carr succumbed while the others survived the attack.

First ITV adaptation
The novel was first adapted for TV by ITV in 1996, in a 100-minute TV film with Colin Buchanan as Mark Easterbrook. This version omitted the character of Ariadne Oliver. It makes Easterbrook the suspect in the killing of Father Gorman. At first it seems that the murders are masterminded by Venables, who it transpires is not disabled, but ultimately Osbourne is still revealed as the murderer.

Second ITV adaptation
A second adaptation was later made by the same network, done by Russell Lewis for the fifth series of ITV's Agatha Christie's Marple starring Julia McKenzie in 2010. As the character of Miss Marple was made the chief sleuth of the plot, several changes were made for the adaptation:
 * The characters of Ariadne Oliver, Pamela "Poppy" Stirling, Colonel and Rhoda Despard, Jim Corrigan, and Rev. and Mrs Dane Calthrop, are omitted from the adaptation; the omission of Rhoda and Colonel Despard is probably due to the fact that in the Agatha Christie's Poirot adaptation of Cards on the Table, Rhoda dies in place of Anne Meredith, and Colonel Despard falls in love with Anne instead.
 * New characters were invented for it:
 * Captain Cottam – a local in Much Deeping with a firm dislike of Venables.  These men do not see eye to eye, with Cottam claiming Venables was responsible for a fire at his home.
 * Kanga Cottam – Wife of the Captain, staying with him at The Pale Horse
 * Lydia Harsnet – Housekeeper of the Cottams, who secretly is having an affair with the husband.
 * Father Gorman is made a friend of Miss Marple, and sends the list of names he received from Mrs Davis to her just before his murder. After learning of his death, and coming to London, Miss Marple visits Mrs Davis' home and finds a second list of names in one of her shoes; because Poppy is omitted from the adaptation, Miss Marple is led to the Pale Horse by the second list, written on headed paper taken from the hotel, which also included dates next to the names on it.
 * While The Pale Horse is a house converted from a pub in the novel, the adaptation places it as always being a hotel, bought by Thyrza Grey and her associates shortly after the previous owner lost his wife. The fete held at the village still occurs but has no involvement from Mark Easterbrook's cousin.
 * Bradley's office is relocated from Birmingham to Charing Cross, London. His address (supplied in the novel by the now-omitted Poppy) is provided to Miss Marple by Ginger Corrigan, who had found his card during a party held by Mrs Tuckerton.
 * Thomasina Tuckerton is not involved in a fight in the adaptation.
 * The first name of Osbourne is changed from Zachariah to Paul, while his profession is changed from pharmacist to Sales Officer. Other modifications included an attempt by Osbourne to poison Miss Marple, who tricks him into believing she had been but hadn't and reveals she had discovered his attempt by a mistake he made in not observing her sense of order, and a slight change in the solicitation of murder made by Mark, in which the police involvement is greater, while Ginger does not fall ill as she is not poisoned.
 * The knowledge of Mrs Davis' involvement with CRC, is found differently due to the omissions of Poppy and Eileen – Inspector Lejeune learns about CRC by having Bradley tailed, shortly after meeting Miss Marple outside his offices, to which Marple suspects that Mrs Davis was involved with them owing to her earlier asking Mrs Coppins about her work.
 * During Osbourne's attempt to cast suspicion on Venables he takes Miss Marple to spy on Venables' house after dark, where they see him get up from his wheelchair to draw the curtains. (This reinforces Osbourne's false claim to have earlier observed Venables - or an identical double - cosh Fr. Gorman in London.)  The final confrontation scene reveals that Inspector Lejeune was playing Venables inside the house, hence his ability to walk. The real Venables is indeed paralyzed.

French adaptation
It was adapted as a 2016 episode of the French television series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.

BBC adaptation
In June 2019, it was announced that Sarah Phelps, who had written several Christie adaptations for BBC and Mammoth Screen, would write a new adaptation of The Pale Horse. The two-part series was broadcast on 9 and 16 February 2020 on BBC One. The cast included Rufus Sewell as Mark Easterbrook, Sean Pertwee as Inspector Lejeune, Bertie Carvel as Zachariah Osborne, Kaya Scodelario as Hermia, and Sheila Atim, Rita Tushingham and Kathy Kiera Clarke as the “witches” of Much Deeping. It was only very loosely based on the novel, deviating in many significant ways, including the portrayal of Mark Easterbrook as a twice-married antihero. The Independent noted that it had a "satisfying conclusion despite traditional whodunnit thrills", while The Telegraph asserted that it chucked "the rat-filled kitchen sink into this rewrite of Agatha Christie".

Radio
The novel has been adapted twice for BBC Radio:
 * An adaptation was broadcast in 1993 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre. This was dramatized by Michael Bakewell and featured Jeremy Clyde as Mark Easterbrooke, Stephanie Cole as Ariadne Oliver, Terence Alexander as Mr. Venables, Mary Wimbush as Thyrza Grey, Hilda Schroder as Bella, Stephen Hodson as Jim Corrigan, Jonathan Adams as Inspector Lejeune and Federay Holmes as Ginger.
 * A new BBC Radio 4 adaptation in three parts was first broadcast in September 2014 and has been re-broadcast in January 2018. This was dramatized by Joy Wilkinson and featured  Jason Hughes as Mark Easterbrook, Eleanor Bron as Thyrza, Georgia Groome as Ginger, Michael Bertenshaw as Inspector Lejeune, Phoebe Pryce as Hermia, Ron Cook as Osborne and Nicholas Jones as Venables.

Publication history

 * 1961, Collins Crime Club (London), 6 November 1961, Hardback, 256 pp
 * 1962, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1962, Hardback, 242 pp
 * 1963, Pocket Books (New York), Paperback
 * 1964, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 191 pp
 * 1965, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 256 pp
 * 2011, HarperCollins; Facsimile edition Hardcover: 256 pages ISBN 978-0-00-739572-9

The novel was first serialised in the British weekly magazine Woman’s Mirror in eight abridged instalments from 2 September to 21 October 1961 with illustrations by Zelinski.

In the US a condensed version of the novel appeared in the April 1962 (Volume LXXIX, Number 4) issue of the Ladies Home Journal with an illustration by Eugenie Louis.

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Merging link to "http://www.ariga.com/peacewatch/dy/dypail.htm" into Deir Yassin massacre and redirecting this article. This is a review of an article, and personal opinons do not belong on wikipedia. -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 17:35, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

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1994 New Brunswick electoral redistribution

The 1994 New Brunswick electoral redistribution was the first re-alignment of electoral districts in New Brunswick, Canada, since 1973. Under this redistribution, several districts were changed significantly due to considerable population shifts from the northern part of the province to the south. The total number of districts was reduced from 58 to 55. Due to considerable population shifts over the course of two decades, some ridings were merged, while others were split in two, and some were unchanged.

The draft recommendations of new districts was created by a royal commission appointed by Premier Frank McKenna in late 1991, which completed its report in 1993. The report was then referred to the provincial legislature which made changes, including the addition of a district and several boundary and name changes. The changes to districts were proclaimed into law in 1994.


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Economic history of the Indian subcontinent

This is the Economic history of the Indian subcontinent. It includes the economic timeline of the region, from the ancient era to the present, and briefly summarizes the data presented in the Economic history of India and List of regions by past GDP (PPP) articles.

Antiquity

 * 500 BC
 * Silver punch-marked coins were minted as currency belonging to a period of intensive trade activity and urban development by the Mahajanapadas.
 * 1 AD
 * Indian subcontinent under the Gupta Empire united much of the subcontinent, contained 33.21% of the world’s population and contributed to around 33 to 35% of World's GDP and generated an estimated average of $450 (1990 dollars) PPP per annum.

Middle Ages

 * 1000
 * Indian subcontinent contained an estimated 28.05% of the world's population,and contributed to around 30 to 33% of world's GDP. Individually generated an estimated average of $450 (1990 dollars) PPP per annum, and collectively produced $33,750 million.
 * 1500
 * Indian subcontinent under the( Delhi Sultanate, vijaynagar Empire, Deccan sultanate , Gajapati Empire and Bengal Sultanate and rajput kingdoms) contained an estimated 25.09% of the world's population, and who individually generated an estimated average of $550 (1990 dollars) PPP per annum, and collectively produced $60,500 million, of the world's $248,321 million (24.36%), second only to Ming China in regional share.

Mughal era

 * 1500–1600
 * Indian subcontinent, mostly under the Mughal Empire (after the conquest of the Delhi Sultanate and Bengal Sultanate) and vijaynagar Empire became economically 10 times more powerful than the contemporary Kingdom of France, contained an estimated 24.27% of the world's population, and who individually generated an estimated average of $550 (1990 dollars) PPP per annum, and collectively produced $4,250 million, of the world's $31,344 million (4.41%),
 * 1600–1700
 * The Indian subcontinent, under Mughal Emperor's Aurangzeb becomes the world's largest economy (after the economic downfall by the transition from Ming to qing )and the most important center of manufacturing in international trade, ahead of Qing China. Worth 25% of the world's industrial output, it signalled the Proto-industrialization.
 * 1700–1800
 * Large parts of the Indian subcontinent, including Bengal Subah, which accounted for 36% of Dutch imports, and Kingdom of Mysore, had some of the world's highest real wages and living standards, made direct essential contributions to the first Industrial revolution in Britain.

East India Company

 * 1793
 * Cornwallis' Permanent Settlement Instituted in Bengal
 * 1820
 * China was the world's largest economy followed by the UK and India. Industrial revolution in the UK catapulted the nation to the top league of Europe for the first time ever. During this period, British foreign and economic policies began treating India as an unequal partner for the first time.

 * 1850
 * The gross domestic product of India in 1850 dropped to 5–10% and was estimated at about 40 per cent that of China. British cotton exports reach 30 per cent of the Indian market by 1850.

British Raj

 * 1868
 * First estimation of India's national income by Dadabhai Naoroji
 * 1870
 * India's economy had a 9.2% share of world income under the British Empire.
 * 1900
 * Under the British Empire, India's share of manufacturing declined to 2% of global industrial output.
 * 1913
 * India's economy had a 5.4% share of world income under the British Empire.
 * 1930
 * Indian subcontinent contained an estimated 336.4 of the world's 2,070 million people (16.25%), and who individually generated an estimated average of $726 (1990 dollars) per annum, and collectively produced $244,097 million, of the world's $3,800,000 million (6.42%)
 * 1943
 * Famine of Bengal

Just after Independence

 * 1952
 * India's economy had a 3.8% share of world income.
 * 1973
 * India's economy was $494.8 billion, which accounted for a 3.1% share of world income.

1980–1991
Economically closed.

1991–present

 * 1991
 * Economic liberalisation was initiated by Indian prime minister P. V. Narasimha Rao and his finance minister Manmohan Singh in response to a macroeconomic crisis.
 * 1996
 * Beginning of short-lived coalition govts. India's economy is $1.560 trillion (purchasing power parity) accounting for a 3.9% share of world GDP, the fifth largest in the world.
 * 2004
 * First NDA govt ends, inflation is 3.8%. India's economy is $2.870 trillion (purchasing power parity) accounting for a 4.7% share of world GDP, the fourth largest.
 * 2010
 * India's economy is $4.002 trillion (purchasing power parity) which accounts for a 4.5% share of world income, the fourth largest in the world in terms of real GDP (PPP).
 * 2012
 * Second half of UPA-2 and Inflation 10%. India's economy is $4.825 trillion (purchasing power parity), the third largest in the world in terms of real GDP (PPP).
 * 2014
 * India's economy is $7.376 trillion (purchasing power parity), the third largest in the world in terms of real GDP (PPP).
 * 2017
 * NDA-2 and inflation is 3.8%. India's economy is $9.448 trillion (purchasing power parity) and accounts for a 6.8% share of world GDP (PPP).
 * 2021
 * As of 2021, India's economy is $10.207 trillion (purchasing power parity) and accounts for a 7.19% share of world GDP (PPP).


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