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http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/braves/stories/0326bravesnotes.html?imw=Y Info on his late 2005 eye infection.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2216645 There is a link to the ROY voting in a chart. Can someone make a chart for the page using that?

changed a few things, Specifically: Francouer was not known as someone 'who can hit the ball no matter where it is pitched'. For his rookie season he was an undisplined fastball/strike hitter. He could not hit things out of the strike zone well and frequently had trouble on breaking balls. The francouer frank thing was unneeded and inaccurate. The franks were about high school age kids during the 2005 season, they certainly were not francouer's age or his high school friends. Cleaned up some grammar things. It might be interesting to note that francouer threw out the same batter twice in one game at home, iut was on August 14th Alex Gonzalez of the Flordia Marlins was thrown out after roudning third from second both times by francouer

Actually, it was Luis Gonzalez of the Diamondbacks. The Braves were playing the Diamondbacks on August 14.

is the ball he was hit by last night notable? --*kate 05:21, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

There is no official word that the Royals are interested in obtaining him as of 11/12/2010. 68.70.76.10 (talk) 17:27, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

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Pyotr Chaadayev

Pyotr or Petr Yakovlevich Chaadayev (Пётр Я́ковлевич Чаада́ев; also spelled Chaadaev, or Čaadajev; 7 June [27 May O.S.] 1794 – 26 April [14 April O.S.] 1856) was a Russian philosopher. He was one of the Russian Schellingians.

Chaadayev wrote eight "Philosophical Letters" about Russia in French between 1826 and 1831, which circulated among intellectuals in Russia in manuscript form for many years. They comprise an indictment of Russian culture for its laggard role far behind the leaders of Western civilization. He cast doubt on the greatness of the Russian past, and ridiculed Orthodoxy for failing to provide a sound spiritual basis for the Russian mind. He extolled the achievements of Europe, especially in rational and logical thought, its progressive spirit, its leadership in science, and indeed its leadership on the path to freedom.

The Russian government saw his ideas as dangerous and unsound. After some were published, they were all banned by the censorship process. Because there was nothing to charge him with, Chaadayev was declared legally insane and put under constant medical supervision, though this was a formality rather than a real administrative abuse.

Biography
Chaadayev was born and died in Moscow. The familty name of the Chaadayevs probably derives from the Turkic word Chaʿadai, with the name deriving from Chagatay, the second son of Genghis Khan. (The Mongol name Chagatay means "bold", "honourable" or "true". ) After leaving Moscow University without completing his course in 1812, he entered the army and fought against the 1812 French invasion of Russia. Chaadaev's first-hand observation of Emperor Alexander's reaction to the Semyonovsky revolt in the Semenovsky regiment (in which Chaadayev had previously served) in October 1820 may have led to his resignation from service in December 1820. From 1823 to 1826 he travelled in Europe, so he was out of Russia during the 1825 Decembrist insurrection, though he was questioned on his return about his connections with many of the Decembrists. These connections may have contributed to his failure to find a position in the new administration of Emperor Nicholas I ((r. 1825 – 1855)).

Chaadayev befriended Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) and became a model for Chatsky, the chief protagonist of Alexander Griboyedov's play Woe from Wit (1824). During the 1840s Chaadayev was an active participant in Moscow literary circles.

Philosophy
The main thesis of his famous Philosophical Letters was that Russia had lagged behind Western countries and had contributed nothing to the world's progress and concluded that Russia must start de novo. As a result, they included criticism of Russia's intellectual isolation and social backwardness.

When in 1836 the first edition (and only one published during his life) of the philosophical letters was published in the Russian magazine Telescope, its editor was exiled to the Far North of Russia. The Slavophiles at first mistook Chaadayev for one of them, but later, on realizing their mistake, bitterly denounced and disclaimed him. Chaadayev fought Slavophilism all of his life. His first Philosophical Letter has been labeled the "opening shot" of the Westernizer-Slavophile controversy which was dominant in Russian social thought of the nineteenth century. He wrote in his "first letter":

"We are an exception among people. We belong to those who are not an integral part of humanity but exist only to teach the world some type of great lesson."

The strikingly uncomplimentary views of Russia in the first philosophical letter caused their author to be declared "clinically insane" because he criticized the regime of Tsar Nicholas I. The 1836 case of Pyotr is believed to be the first recorded incident where psychiatry was used in Russia to suppress dissent.

Living under house arrest following his declaration of insanity, Chaadayev's next work was entitled, fittingly, "Apologie d'un Fou" [which has been translated as "Apology of a Madman" but may better be translated as "Apologia of a Madman"] (1837). It opens with a quote from Samuel Coleridge stating "O my brethren! I have told/ Most bitter truth, but without bitterness." In this brilliant but uncompleted work he maintained that Russia must follow her inner lines of development if she was to be true to her historical mission.

His ideas influenced both the Westernizers (who supported bringing Russia into accord with developments in Europe by way of various degrees of liberal reform) and Slavophiles (who supported Russian Orthodoxy and national culture.)

Most of his works have been edited by his biographer, Mikhail Gershenzon (two volumes, Moscow, 1913–14), whose study of the philosopher was published at St. Petersburg in 1908.

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Dodge St. Regis

The Dodge St. Regis is an automobile that was marketed by Dodge from the 1979 to 1981 model years. Replacing the Monaco, the St. Regis was the largest Dodge sedan, positioned above the mid-size Diplomat and Aspen. In contrast to both the Monaco and the Diplomat, the St. Regis was offered solely as a four-door sedan. Produced for a single generation, the St. Regis is one of the shortest-lived Dodge nameplates.

Deriving its name from a 1950s Chrysler trim package, the St. Regis was the first example of downsizing of the full-size Dodge sedan line. For 1982, the model line was discontinued, with the Dodge Diplomat serving as the largest Dodge; the next full-size Dodge sedan was the 1990 Dodge Monaco (derived from the Eagle Premier, itself a version of the Renault 25). Dodge would not market a rear-wheel drive sedan until the 2006 Dodge Charger.

The Dodge St. Regis was assembled alongside the Chrysler Newport, Chrysler New Yorker, and Plymouth Gran Fury by Chrysler at Lynch Road Assembly (Detroit, Michigan), becoming the final production vehicles produced at the facility. In total, 64,502 examples were produced.

Design overview
The Dodge St. Regis was based on the rear wheel drive Chrysler R-body platform. As Chrysler needed to expedite a downsized replacement for the 1974-1977 C-body to market (in response to the 1973 oil crisis), the R-body was developed from existing underpinnings at minimal costs. In place of redesigning the full-size C-body, Chrysler developed the R-body as an update of the intermediate B-body (last released in 1971, dating to 1962). Used by a wide variety of Chrysler model lines, the B-body architecture underpinned model lines ranging from the Dodge Coronet and Plymouth Belvedere to the Dodge Charger and Chrysler Cordoba.

Compared to its 1977 Dodge Royal Monaco predecessor, the Dodge St. Regis shed 5.5 inches in length, 2.7 inches in width, 3 inches in wheelbase, and nearly 900 pounds of curb weight (dependent on powertrain). The 225 Slant-6 inline-6 was now the standard engine with optional 318 and 360 V8s; a three-speed automatic was paired to all three engines. In deference to fuel economy standards, the 400 and 440 big-block V8s were deleted from the engine lineup. The front suspension continued to offer Chryslers signature longitudinal front torsion bars, called Torsion-Aire, and anti-sway bar with a solid rear differential connected to leaf springs.

The "St. Regis" name first saw use as an uplevel trim package on the 1956 New Yorker hardtop coupe and again on the 1974–78 Chrysler New Yorker Brougham coupe.

Offered only as a four-door notchback sedan, the St. Regis was styled with frameless door glass (the rear quarter glass was fixed). To further distinguish the model line from its Plymouth Gran Fury, Chrysler Newport, and Chrysler New Yorker counterparts, the front fascia was styled with transparent retractable headlamp covers (introduced on the 1978 Dodge Magnum).

Market timing
The Chrysler R-body cars (like their 1974–78 predecessors) arrived at precisely the wrong time, as a second gasoline crisis hit the U.S. in 1979. In contrast to the clean-sheet Ford and GM designs, the dire financial situation of Chrysler relegated the company to retool an existing chassis.

While shifting to an intermediate chassis allowed the St. Regis a smaller exterior footprint over the 1974-1977 Monaco, it remained far larger than its Ford LTD and Chevrolet Caprice competitors (at 220.2 inches long, an inch shorter than a Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham).

Coinciding with the 1979 fuel crisis, high interest rates and the uncertain future of the company forced Chrysler into a high proportion of fleet sales for its full-size sedans. Despite being an introductory model, nearly 30% of St. Regis production was dedicated for police/law enforcement use. For 1979, Chrysler withdrew Plymouth entirely from the full-size segment (making the Volare the largest Plymouth that year); for 1980, a R-body Gran Fury was reinstated, nearly exclusively for fleet sales.

Discontinuation
The Chrysler R platform was dropped during the middle of the 1981 model year, with the Dodge St. Regis ending its product run; to reduce model overlap, Chrysler ended sales of the Newport. For 1982, Dodge began marketing the Diplomat as its largest four-door sedan; nearly 16 inches shorter than the St. Regis, the mid-size Diplomat was the final rear-wheel drive sedan marketed by Dodge during the 1980s.

For 1990, the Dodge brand re-entered the full-size segment with the fifth-generation Dodge Monaco. A rebranded version of the Eagle Premier (adapted from the Renault 25), the 1990 Monaco was the first version produced with front-wheel drive, slotted above the Dodge Dynasty in size. For 1993, Dodge introduced its first Chrysler-developed full-size sedan with front-wheel drive, the Dodge Intrepid. While closer in exterior size to the Diplomat, the Intrepid nearly matches the St. Regis in interior room.

Use in law enforcement
Following its introduction, the Dodge St. Regis saw heavy use as a police car in the United States. Outside of California, a 195-hp 360 V8 engine was available as part of the A38 Police Package; the option package was popular by law enforcement of the time. In California, the St. Regis was fitted with a 190 hp four-bbl 360 V8. For 1980, the 360 was replaced by a 155 hp 318 V8 4-bbl with California emissions to comply with state emissions regulations.

The change in powertrain was unpopular, as the top speed of the St. Regis was reduced to below 100 mph (65 mph while ascending a grade) when fitted with a light bar. Coinciding with efforts to expedite the retirement of the St. Regis from patrol service, the CHP adopted the 'Ford Mustang Severe Service Package' police pursuit vehicle (PPV) in 1982.

Television and collectors
Coinciding with its usage in law enforcement, the St. Regis appeared on multiple 1980s police-based television series, including Sledge Hammer!, The A-Team and T.J. Hooker.

While the St. Regis is of little collector value today (alongside Chrysler/Plymouth R-body counterparts), the mechanical commonality of the R platform with earlier Chrysler vehicles leads collectors to search for scrapped examples for its front disc brakes to upgrade earlier cars (such as the Dodge Dart and Plymouth Barracuda) With the low number built (in comparison to its Ford and Chevrolet competitors) and the high percentage destroyed in film and TV work or retired after police use, very few examples survive today.

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PowerPC G5
Maybe PowerPC G5 should also be added to this template since G3 and G4 are there? And if so, then instantiate the template at the bottom of the G5 article.Bovineone 18:55, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Well.. Motorola/Freescale didn't have any part of the PowerPC 070 design, so I will remove it from the template. However.. I'll include the PowerQUICC-series. -- �Henriok 15:12, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Remember that Motorola had their own "G5" PowerPC project (called the PowerPC 7500 or 8500) - see Motorola G5 project. Letdorf (talk) 17:46, 26 March 2008 (UTC).
 * Yeah well, but it didn't go anywhere. The G5 didn't go anywhere.. But we might see the e700 core some time.. It's kind of G5:ish. If they get their thumbs out of their asses. -- Henriok (talk) 19:29, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Here we go.. e5500 core is their 64-bit Power Architecture processor. Now included instead of e700. -- Henriok (talk) 13:25, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Merge with Moto/Freescale microcontrollers
Shouldn't we merge this template with the Template:Motorola microcontrollers? -- Henriok (talk) 13:25, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

 * ✅. --DavidCary (talk) 02:26, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Should we also merge Motorola DSPs into this template?

If so, I suggest undoing the rename of this page back to its original name, "Template: Motorola processors", because I consider a microcontroller a special kind of processor, and a DSP likewise a special kind of processor. --DavidCary (talk) 02:41, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


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Long Mott, Texas

Long Mott is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 76 in 2000. It is part of the Victoria, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History
German settlers arrived and established the location around 1853. The Upper and Lower motts, two sizable motts near San Antonio Bay, were home to the earliest settlements. Since the Upper Mott was the more extensive of the two, it was given the name Long Mott when a post office was opened for the hamlet in 1887. The first postmaster was Frederick W. Roemer. Anna Mary (Braentegam) Roemer and Dr. John were two more early settlers of Long Mott. One of the first Black residents was Guy Mission. In 1914, Long Mott listed 200 residents, a telephone connection, a lumber company, two general stores, and the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway as its means of transportation. Long Mott had 75 residents in the early 1930s. In the 1930s and 1940s, the community's population was recorded at 75; in 1952, that number increased to 100. 1968 saw the population peak at 125, and from 1970 to 2000, 76 were recorded as living there.

Geography
Long Mott is located south of the intersection of Texas State Highway 185 and Farm to Market Road 2235 in western Calhoun County. It is near Guadalupe Bay.

Education
In 1892, a school was founded in Long Mott, with Harriet (Reeves) Thayer as the initial instructor. Eleven pupils were taught by a single instructor in the community in 1904. Six teachers were teaching 133 White children in its classrooms by 1939, while one was teaching eighteen Black kids. Students from Long Mott were bused to Port Lavaca schools after the Long Mott school district was merged into the broader county school district in 1955.

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William Crawley

William Crawley, MRIA, is a Belfast-born BBC journalist and broadcaster. He is the presenter of Talkback, a daily radio programme on BBC Radio Ulster, and he is a presenter of Sunday on BBC Radio 4. He has also made several television series for BBC Northern Ireland.

Early life
William Hugh Galloway Crawley was born and raised in North Belfast. He was educated at Grove Primary School, Dunlambert Secondary School, Belfast Royal Academy and Queen's University, where he studied Philosophy (B.A., M.Phil.). He read Theology (M.Div.) at Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1999 Crawley was awarded a PhD by Queen's for a thesis on the epistemology of the American philosopher Alvin Plantinga.

Prior to his career in the media, Crawley worked as a university lecturer in Philosophy and Theology. Having been licensed, then subsequently ordained into the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland in the mid-1990s, he worked as assistant minister in First Presbyterian Church, New York City, and Fisherwick Presbyterian Church, Belfast, before serving as Presbyterian chaplain at the University of Ulster. He later resigned from the ordained ministry and from membership of the church before beginning his career as a journalist. He has described himself as "a lapsed Protestant."

Television programmes

 * Blueprint NI, a three-part series examining Ireland's natural history, first broadcast in 2008.
 * The late-night television interview show, William Crawley Meets..., a series of 30 minutes in duration with leading thinkers and social reformers from across the world, including the philosopher Peter Singer, the scientist Richard Dawkins, the writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, and the gay bishop Gene Robinson.
 * Frozen North (BBC One, 2008), a documentary examining the possible future impact of global warming.
 * Festival Nights (BBC Two), television coverage of the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Belfast Festival at Queens.
 * Hearts and Minds, a Northern Ireland politics programme.
 * What's Wrong With ...? (BBC One), a six-part round-table current affairs discussion programme.
 * More Than Meets The Eye (BBC Two, 2008), a series investigating folklore in contemporary Ireland.
 * He anchored the BBC's live coverage of the Queen's official visit to Northern Ireland in 2008.
 * In 2010, he presented an episode of Spotlight (BBC One NI) concerning the Vatican.
 * In 2012, he wrote and presented a 60-minute documentary exploring the history of the Ulster Covenant.
 * In 2013, his series An Independent People examined the history of Ireland's Presbyterians.
 * His 2013 one-hour documentary It's a Blas followed his year-long effort to learn Irish sufficiently well to present a live radio programme in the language.
 * The 2013 programme The Man Who Shrank The World told the story of the engineering feat carried out by the scientist Lord Kelvin in the creation of a transatlantic communications cable was made as part of the Groundbreakers series for BBC Four.
 * His 2014 four-part series for BBC Two Northern Ireland, It's a Brave New World -- New Zealand, examined the links between Northern Ireland and New Zealand.
 * 2015 Brave New World: USA (4 part series).
 * 2016 Brave New World: Australia (4 part series).
 * 2017 Brave New World: Canada (4 part series).
 * 2018 Brave New World: Bringing It Home (1 episode).
 * 2019 Spend It Like Stormont.

Radio programmes

 * He presented Sunday Sequence on BBC Radio Ulster from 2002 to 2014.
 * Since 2008, he has presented Sunday on BBC Radio 4.
 * He has presented the daily radio phone-in show Talkback on BBC Radio Ulster since 2015.
 * He has presented Radio 4's Beyond Belief and The Moral Maze.

Awards and memberships

 * Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA).
 * Fellow of the British-American Project.
 * Recipient of Eisenhower Fellowship (2012).
 * Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Lit.), Queen's University Belfast, 2012, for services to broadcasting.
 * Andrew Cross Award for Speech Broadcaster of the Year 2006, and other programme content awards.
 * Thinker and Explainer of the Year, Slugger O'Toole/Channel 4 Political Awards 2011.
 * Aisling Award, 2013, for contribution to Irish language broadcasting.
 * Patron, Belfast Film Festival.
 * Member of advisory board of Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing.
 * 2015 Royal Television Society Documentary Award for Brave New World: New Zealand.
 * Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
 * 2022 IMRO Speech Broadcaster of the Year (Gold Award).

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Talk:Hyborian Age

Organization of Page
I organized this discussion page and put everything under appropriate category names Hope there's nothing wrong with that. Spartan198 (talk) 15:32, 30 September 2008 (UTC) Spartan198

Pictish Wilderness-Colonial California Connection
I am interested in finding out what relation the Pictish Wilderness has to do with colonial California. --Kortoso 18:55, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Uh, nothing? The 'pictish wilderness' would be set in Europe.  Name is taken from the Picts.  It has nothing to do with North America.  --Emb021 19:32, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Howard's Picts originated in his equivalent of Northern America ages before the Hyborian Age. They moved to the west and inhabited islands at the time of King Kull. That could be the link they have to Northern America. Furthermore Howard gave an American colonial feeling to the Pictish Wilderness, with Picts more or less inspired by Amerindians and waring against Aquilonia which was trying to settle westward into the Pictish lands. Corriel 11:39, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Howard's borderer Pict stories reference tales of the Old Northwest Territory such as Drums Along the Mohawk and Last of the Mochicans. AusJeb (talk) 23:10, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Eastern Kingdoms
What about the Eastern kingdoms of the Hyborian Age: Kosala, Kusan, Uttara Kuru? Kusan's name is most likely inspired by the historical Kushan Empire.

These are not mentioned in the original essay, and appeared only in pastiche tales. Kortoso (talk) 18:36, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Asgard/Vanaheim
Someone changed Asgard to "scandinavian". If Vanaheim is denmark and norway, asgard gotta be sweden. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.231.118.48 (talk) 10:53, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I reverted Vanaheim and Asgard back to their original descriptions as describing them, as "Scandinavian" seems a rather vague comparison. Spartan198 (talk) 03:35, 2 October 2008 (UTC) Spartan198

Asgard and Vanaheim have been reverted to "Scandinavian". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wingsforsheeba (talk • contribs) 15:48, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

"Scandinavian" describes numerous countries in northwestern Europe, and REH's Aesir and Vanir are predominantly Viking, which is reminiscent of Dark Age Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. Spartan198 (talk) 16:59, 24 May 2008 (UTC) Spartan198

Scandinavia describes only 3 countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. I don't know how to properly sign my post, sorry if that doesn't make me serious. -Wingsforsheeba —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wingsforsheeba (talk • contribs) 17:06, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Again, REH's Aesir and Vanir are a predominantly Viking culture. That's pretty specific. Spartan198 (talk) 17:11, 24 May 2008 (UTC) Spartan198

No one is saying they're not viking. Scandinavian equals "viking", but there's not enough info to draw a line to a specific Scandinavian nationality Wingsforsheeba (talk) 17:13, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Okay, let's compromise, then. Just "Scandinavian" could apply to any point in the history of those countries from the Bronze Age to modern times. Can we settle on "Dark Age Scandinavia"? That would denote specifically the so-called Golden Age of Viking society. Spartan198 (talk) 17:22, 24 May 2008 (UTC) Spartan198

That ok with me. :) Wingsforsheeba (talk) 17:30, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

All right. Glad we could come to even ground. As for the seriousness remark, I'd thought better of it yesterday during our conversation and removed it. That was rude and uncalled for, and I apologize. Spartan198 (talk) 23:59, 25 May 2008 (UTC) Spartan198

Hyborian Age vs Hyboria
Anyone think that it's worth pointing out that "Hyboria" is incorrect? Maybe in the text box of the Hyborian Age map (which uses the word). The recent release of AoC has awakened me to how much I despise that non-REH term. (62.136.99.14 (talk) 12:35, 18 June 2008 (UTC))

Yeah, that's true. REH didn't ever use that specific term. But I gave both map boxes a glance and didn't see it used. Spartan198 (talk) 17:36, 26 June 2008 (UTC) Spartan198

Wait, I found it. I'm changing it to "Hyborian Age", since REH never specified a name for the continent itself. Spartan198 (talk) 17:38, 26 June 2008 (UTC) Spartan198
 * One problem, for me, is that that the actual image of second map says "Hyboria". I thought it might be worthwhile pointing out the mistake in the text. Even with the passing of the Thurian Age, the continent of Thuria remains named as such. :) (84.69.82.159 (talk) 19:43, 14 July 2008 (UTC))

Hyborian Age inspired by the bible?
"Due to the Biblical settings and characterization of the Conan stories, the Bible is also seen as a major inspiration for the barbarisms and politico-cultural sociologies of the majority of the Hyborian peoples." If anyone has a source confirming this, please add it. I'm not meaning to be offensive here, but this sounds an awful lot like vandalism for religious cause. Spartan198 (talk) 15:29, 30 September 2008 (UTC) Spartan198

Okay, I just spoke with REH scholar Rusty Burke via the REH Forum and he confirms there's no source that confirms the above quote, so I'm removing it. Spartan198 (talk) 08:07, 1 October 2008 (UTC) Spartan198

Removal of Lemuria from Hyborian Age kingdoms
I think Lemuria should be removed from the list,as it sank during the cataclysm that destroyed the Thurian civilization,and is henceforth not a Hyborian Age kingdom. This was outlined by REH himself in his essay,making the presence of Lemuria and Mu on numerous maps wrong. Spartan198 (talk) 05:35, 29 March 2008 (UTC) Spartan198

It's been over a month since I suggested removing Lemuria, and since no one seems to object to it, I did. Spartan198 (talk) 11:02, 4 May 2008 (UTC) Spartan198

Typo
Someone changed "legendry" to "legendary". That's incorrect. Those words have two entirely different meanings. I've corrected. Spartan198 (talk) 03:44, 10 October 2008 (UTC) Spartan198

Pseudo Celtic Hyborian Kingdoms?
I have removed the following from the lead: "Paradoxically, Howard had the majority of the pseudo Celtic Hyborian kingdoms immersed in Near Eastern belief systems with the sole exception of Conan, who supposedly a non-Hyborian, swearing names of Celtic deities." Unless I've misunderstood something, none of the Hyborian kingdoms are pseudo-Celtic. Only the Cimmerians are supposed to be Celts, so there is no paradox. The Hyborians are not really the ancestors of any modern people as they are almost exterminated before modern history. They are generally equivalent to other European nations (eg. Argos=Greece) but not celts. In any case, this statement is unsourced. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 12:32, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Hybarians are something like Slavs, but it isn't really explained well. 99.236.221.124 (talk) 01:05, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Nemedia
"Nem" means "silent" or "mute", and the rest is what places are called. So it's "the place of the silent" in translation 99.236.221.124 (talk) 01:05, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

It's from Irish mythology. Seek "Nemed" on Wikipedia. Kortoso (talk) 18:39, 4 October 2010 (UTC)Nemedia might also be based on the legend of the Nemean Lion slain by Heracles. REH borrowed from mythology wherever he could, and that particular myth has a lot to do with Conan himself, since he was called Amra (lion). Thetrellan (talk) 21:53, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

south east europe
seems to be the only part of europe not represented. is this Howard's fault, or an oversight from the wikipedia people? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.32.135.162 (talk) 03:46, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Hyborian Age page confusion rectified
I ran this by an administrator months, if not over a year, ago, and never got a reply, but the pages for the universe and the essay were titled very confusingly, so I've taken it upon myself to act and moved the world to The Hyborian Age (fictional universe) and the essay to The Hyborian Age (essay) so as to alleviate this confusion. If I was out of line doing so, I apologize, but I felt it necessary to take the initiative on this issue myself. Spartan198 (talk) 22:48, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: page moved and the essay too. -- JHunterJ (talk) 02:30, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

The Hyborian Age (fictional universe) → Hyborian Age – Clear primary meaning, the only other article with a similar title is about Howard's essay, which should probably be merged with it. PatGallacher (talk) 19:44, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
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Pathenia
I'll like to turn the attention of anyone who has edited this aricle on this topic. There's a very big mass of land in the extreme north of eastern Hyboria called Pathenia surrounded by mountains and it is not mentioned in the etymology table. I've tried done research on many sites including the Conan wiki but nothing ecept an very obiuous fact that it's shape and size matches that of Greenland. But me ain't sure because there is nothing about it's similarity to any country or geographical region provided in any story of Conan. Thanks in advance. SuperNerdMan83 (talk) 10:32, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Added Pathenia to the etymology table since no one was responding. If someone feels it shouldn't have then they can inform me and I will remove it afterwards from the table. SuperNerdMan83 (talk) 04:05, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

 * Is Pathenia mentioned by Howard in The Hyborian Age, or shown on his map, or used in any of his original stories, or is this from a later pastiche? I believe that should be the touchstone in this regard. Kortoso (talk) 17:56, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Some claim it was mentioned in "The Road of Kings" and "The Flame Knife". The name might be based on Athens and be a contraction of "Pan Athenia", although it seems a strange name for a place deep in the heart of proto-China. But one can hardly argue with either Howard or DeCamp (authors of The Flame Knife), so it's definitely canon.Thetrellan (talk) 01:02, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

 * Many people argue with DeCamp and dispute his contributions to Conan and the Hyborian Age. "Pathenia" does not appear on Howard's maps reprinted in The Coming of Conan (Del Ray). AusJeb (talk) 23:16, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Modest proposal
The citations for the individual nations are all over the map, so to speak. IMHO, it gives the wrong impression of the organization of this universe.

Information regarding each Hyborian land comes from several sources, and I think it would be good to display that transparently. So for each land, there can be a few different headings, and this might even be a good ordering in importance:

Current content needn't be removed or extensively modified; the entries can simply be sorted according to which area they are addressing. Kortoso (talk) 18:04, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Description in The Hyborian Age.
 * Description in the yarns.
 * Possible origin of name.
 * Geographical placement on the map vis-a-vis modern Europe.

 * Reckon I got most of it sorted out now. Kortoso (talk) 19:45, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Argument for the Hyborian continent being based on the Arab world and South Asia rather than Europe and North Africa
While there is a general correlation between the nations REH modeled his world after in a general N S E W sense, there is really no geographical resemblance to Europe, most of Asia, or Asia Minor. The Hyborian age appears to be a kind of proto-Africa, India, Arabia. and south Asia. It could be that all the maps of the Hyborian age don't look at all like what REH had in mind, though. But if you can think of Aquilonia as a kind of inland Carthage, then Africa kind of makes makes sense. But not if you get too real about it, because something would be wrong climate wise. Thetrellan (talk) 22:02, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
 * You are confusing the shape of the Hyborian Age continent with that of modern world Africa.--Manfariel (talk) 00:58, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Vilayet might not relate to the Caspian
Modern interpretations of the Hyborian age model it after Africa and southern Asia, and indeed there was always a resemblance. If you look at one, you see that the Caspian is nowhere to be found, and that the Vilayet looks as it always has on all maps: Like the Red sea, one of the most recognizable features on Earth. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nouprOuzjXU/TQ-vdWA2vNI/AAAAAAAAAhI/Agf5vH_ha0w/s1600/vd_hyborian_age_full.jpg Thetrellan (talk) 22:01, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
 * You are confusing the shape of the Hyborian Age continent with that of modern world Africa.--Manfariel (talk) 01:01, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

About the Styx
Maps of the Hyborian age have always resembled Africa and parts of Asia, more so since video gaming came into play. Modern versions are modeled after that part of the world. If we are to use such a model, though, then the river Styx doesn't demark the future coast of the Mediterranean Sea at all. It would be a now-extinct river that bends Westward right around where the source of the White Nile river currently is located. Clearly it is based on the Nile. REH makes that much plain. Its two axes of movement represent the two source rivers of the Nile. Thetrellan (talk) 21:45, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Response
I hope you don't mind, but I reorganised the section headers for your arguments, since you had spread reiterations of the same main thesis over three different top-level sections, one of which was crowding into a different section altogether. Anyway. Have you read "The Hyborian Age" essay, or seen Howard's own original maps of the Hyborian world (which are superimposed over the outlines of real-world Europe and North Africa)? Both those sources are explicit that Africa separated from Europe "along the line of cleavage formed by the River Nilus [the Styx] on its westward trend" and that the Vilayet "still later, much reduced in size, was known as the Caspian". Howard made it clear that the Hyborian kingdoms, as well as Cimmeria, the Pictlands and Nordheim, were located on the territory of real-world Europe. One could argue that post-Howard derivations of his work have given Conan's world a more Eastern flavour, but to include that in the article you'd need reliable sources that discuss it.

Dating
I guess Wikipedia talk is probably not the right place to reignite the discussion of when the Hyborian Age would be set but… I have to point out that REH's essay explicitly states it ends with the coming of the glacial period. From the edition I own: “For a short age Pict and Hyrkanian snarled at each other over the ruins of the world they conquered. Then began the glacier ages, and the great Nordic drift. Before the southward-moving ice-fields the northern tribes drifted, driving kindred clans before them.” This starts the last detailed period, during which Hyrkanians are pushed to Asia and Vanir found Egypt for example, ending with the final “cataclism” that would put the Earth in the shape we know. -- Lalo Martins (talk) 15:23, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Lacking features
The Provinces of Thandara, Conawaga, Oriskonie and Schohira. At least, Conawaga comes likely from Caughnawaga site in NY State, matching Picts to Native Americans, as seen in Conajohara.--Manfariel (talk) 01:17, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Vendhya - the immemorial nemesis of the earthly empire of the dark gods?
One might wonder how the lemurian slaves,"reduced to svagery", and perhaps the gentile khitanians, after thousands of years suddenly were able to overthrow the evil empire in the far east(perhaps originally a colony from Mu in the eastern ocean?). Apart from political and military power and resources the ancestors of the ruling elite of Stygia no doubt did posess great and terrible magic and ockult knowledge. Did the rebels get aid and support from outside - or had the empire been seriously weakened after a presumably great and lost war or other conflict with an external enemy? Or both these things? In either case ancient, wise, powerful and all in all benign Vendhya seems the likeliest. Perhaps the hyborians were able to overthrow Acheron, another daughter kingdom of Mu, with the same background. As the hyborians have preferred to forget!Or been made to forget! Note the presence of asura-worship, originally from Vendhya since long in the hyborian lands. In the Kull story "The altar and the scorpion" the scorpion is a symbol for good. The one tradition where the scorpion is regarded positively is in originally indian(=Vendhya) buddhism. There the scorpion with its raised stinger is seen as the image of the spirit warrior wielding the sword of truth.Note that it is when archdarkpriest Thuron starts messing with the Girl that the scorpion crawls out from between her breasts and sting him.Also in the Kull-stories a sage and/or prophet with the quasi-hinduistic name Raamaa has much the same role as Empimetreus the sage to the hyborians. The hindu deity Rama was allegedly born in historical Ayodya which also is the name of the capital of Vendhya!!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.130.31.203 (talk) 09:04, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Negari from 'Solomon Kane must have existed in Conans days
Negari from the Solomon Kane story "Vampire queen of Negari" with an african majority brutally ruled by a white skinned elite worshipping the dark gods with human sacifice dates back to thurian times and may have had its heydays in Conans days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.198.216.242 (talk) 08:23, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

The devil in iron ,shadows in the moonlight and the empire of the ancestors of Stygias elite.
The shaman who originally defeats Khosatral Khel must have been an agent of the empire in the east of the ancestors of the white-skinned elite of Stygia. Perhaps a daughter kingdom of ancient MU? Note that Khel like Xaltotun of Acheron speaks archaic nemedian. The people that Conan confronts on the island of the iron statues resemble what is usually meant with "Stygians" i.e. the stygians below the white-skinned master race. The youth that they sacrifice must come from this eastern empire. He is obviously a mortal son of one of the Dark gods, perhaps The Great Dark Nameless One himself. Perhaps an ancestor, or at least kinsman of king Ctesphon in Conans days?

Luxur
Luxor is a late name of the necropolis, greek :"City of the dead" of ancient Thebes. Luxur in Stygia is a stronghold of the cult of "the queen of the dead". In Conans world "the nameless gods" or "the nameless ones" is a common label for the dark gods."The great Dark Nameless One" is arguably identical with Skelos, appaerently one, or The, god of death, as many gods of death(Odin for one) also connected with wisdom and learning of the darker kind. In "The hour of the dragon" is spoken of a dead nameless holy city being the center of Stygias religion. Is this perhaps actually Luxur, Holy city of the nameless god of death? The hour of the dragon is one story where it proves out that much of what both the outside world and the people of Stygia believe about Stygia, not least religious matters, is wrong, part camouflage and desinformation on behalf of the ruling elite of Stygia. Luxur is the last stronghold of the white-skinned masterrace and seat of their, rather than Stygias, priest-king. Khemi is in many ways a strong competitor to Luxur.(Khemet was the name of the ancient egyptians themselves of their country)Did Conan succeed in plundering Khemi because this did sit well with the rulers at Luxur? As said: Why sacrifice or risk anything yourself if you can have someone else to do the job for you? Luxur being "more ancient"than Khemi should be understood in the light of that in Conans world great age is as a rule something ominous! This also for Stygia being more ancient than Acheron. Even Xaltotun naturally speaks of "dark Stygia"! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.130.31.203 (talk) 08:09, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Thugra Khotan
Tughra is the persian word for "autograph", especially the sacred autograph of the ruler. The most known tughra is that of the ottoman sultans. They had a way of writing it so that it looked much the same no matter the name. Khotan is the name of a tributary to, and creating,the river Tarim = the name of the perhaps most important turanian deity. Erlik, another, and perhaps in principle supreme, turanian deity is historically a mongolian lord of death and darkness, much like persian Ahriman or mesopotamian Nergal. Note that the last king of Persia before the islamic conquest was named Yazdegerd III(!) residing in the capital Ctesiphon. Ctesphon is the name of the king of Stygia, motherland of Kutchemes and Acheron.Interestingly "Tarim" is an anagram of "Mitra" - and vice versa! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.130.31.203 (talk) 09:10, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Borri - the real Mitra?
The hyborians did worship the god Borri before the destruction of Acheron. Icelandic 19th century scholar Finnur Magnusson did connect the name Borri to Borz, the name of a mountain in Persia, homeland of the god Mitra,and this ones- alleged!- father Ahura(Asura) Mazda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.198.216.242 (talk) 11:08, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Etymology Section
This section, while trying to reference de Camp and Carter, has a LOT of original research and is just not reliable in general. For instance, the "Acheron" entry implies it references the Roman Empire, while the actual appendix in Conan the Swordsman mentions nothing of the sort; it seems to imply a connection to Stygians instead. This also seems to be the case for a lot of entries in the table, so I wouldn't trust it at all. For anyone interested, I recommend acquiring Conan the Swordsman yourself and checking the appendix at the end. It lists a lot more concepts and interesting terms, and it also references which source each of them originates from.--191.176.103.86 (talk) 01:47, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

A royal attribute was an attribute of dark priests at work.
Note that when darkpriest Orastes resurrects Xaltotun in The hour of the dragon with an incantation to Skelos, old when Atlantis was young( and hence older than Stygia or Set-worship) he wears an ermine-brimmed cloak, a traditional royal attribute!¨¨¨¨ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.198.216.242 (talk) 10:30, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

"Commoria" = "Cimmeria"
During the Thurian age the atlanteans did establish colonies and daughter-kingdoms on the thurian continent. It is hardly a coincidence that "Commoria" in Kulls days so resemble "Cimmeria" in Conans days. The atlanteans did wage war against the city-state spoken of in "The altar and the scorpion". Perhaps archdarkpriest Thuron is of atlantean descent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.198.216.242 (talk) 08:29, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Mu and Kaa-u
In the Kull-story "By this axe I rule" is spoken of the nations Mu and Kaa-u. Mu, the Atlantis of the Pacific, was created by british colonial-officer gone american writer John Churchward. What Churchward says about Mu sounds like the continent in the eastern ocean from where the master-race minded white elite of Stygia stem. "Kaa" is an indian word for Python.In Rudyard Kiplings "The jungle book" the python Kaa is a friend of Mowgli and a good guy. This with Kaa as an enemy and a villain is an odd idea of Disneys!Kaa-u is probably an old- or the real!- name of Vendhya. Note "Kaa" in the prase "Ka naama Kaa lajerama". The serpent men are probably based on the Nagas, wise- and usually good!- serpent beings from indian(= Vendhyan)lore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.213.119.32 (talk) 10:10, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Vathelos the blind
Vathelos the blind was the author of "The book of Skelos", the "Bible" of maltheists and necromancers in Conans world. The blind seer Tiresias in greek mythology was strongly connected with Hades, The realm of the dead. As was the land of "Cimmeria". Note The Odyssey where Odysseus visits Cimmeria and the gates of Hades in order to confer with the shade of Tiresias. Luxur, throne city of Stygia, lies roughly where a volcanic mountain called Watellen lies in real S.Algeria. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.79.245.252 (talk) 11:09, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

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In 2016, Ecclesiastical celebrated a milestone of £50million donated to its charitable owner in under three years. This was celebrated by a special Thanksgiving service in Gloucester Cathedral at which a personal message of thanks from Archbishop Justin Welby was read out by Bishop Nigel Stock, honouring the achievement of the insurance group. Ecclesiastical has set itself a new target of reaching £100million for Allchurches Trust by 2020.

Elliott Review
In March 2016, Archbishop Welby's office and Bishop Paul Butler came under considerable criticism for having followed instruction from Ecclesiastical to end contact with a sex abuse survivor. According to the findings of Ian Elliott, who led an independent review of the Church's handling of the case, the instruction from Ecclesiastical was not only reckless but ran counter to the church's stated policies. The Archbishop of Canterbury's office ignored repeated calls for help from the man after staff were told to avoid contact with him to protect the Church of England's financial interests.

Church of England Bishops
In October 2017, Ecclesiastical received a letter from Bishops Paul Butler, Tim Thornton, and Alan Wilson criticising amongst other things: inconsistent advice to the Church and the practice of 'horse trade' legalism when dealing with CSA cases, with little concern for the impact upon survivors. The letter was copied to Justin Welby and John Sentamu, Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and to William Nye, Secretary General of the Church of England's Synod. The three bishops requested a meeting with Ecclesiastical to look at how the church and the insurer work together in relation to the difficulties in responding to survivors of child sex abuse. Ecclesiastical wrote a strong rebuttal of the letter and did not recognise the picture the bishops gave. Nor did they recognise the criticism previously made in the Elliott Review, which they had claimed in a previous statement on their website had a number of inaccuracies. Their main criticism of the Review was that they had not been given any input to the process of the Review and had been misrepresented. This conflict between the insurer and one of its main clients received considerable media attention.

Mandate Now
In March 2018, the pressure group Mandate Now released a critical analysis of the Church of England's safeguarding policy in which they questioned Ecclesiastical's possible involvement in formulating the policy “which for obvious reasons of conflict of interest ought not to be allowed”. They went on to say that the influence of Ecclesiastical seemed "omnipresent”, and that it appeared the Church's safeguarding officers might be required to gather information from survivors in order to defeat possible claims for damages.

Mandate Now's concerns were borne out in a statement to IICSA by Michael Angell on behalf of the insurer in 2018. His testimony included the statement that Ecclesiastical had been a regular participant in the Church of England Safeguarding Committee from the mid 1990s onwards. This committee made policy recommendations and issued safeguarding guidance within the Church. In 2000, the Church formed a joint safeguarding committee with the Methodist Church, which Ecclesiastical continued to attend. In 2012/13 the two churches returned to separate committees. Ecclesiastical has not attended either since 2015.

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Channel Island milk

Channel Island milk is a creamy, light-beige coloured cow's milk from the Jersey cattle and Guernsey cattle breeds. This variety of milk is commonly called Jersey milk and is also known as gold top milk from the color of the bottle cap used to distinguish it. Channel Island milk is produced in the Channel Islands off the northwestern French coast of Normandy, as well as in the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, Denmark, the United States and Canada.

Channel Island milk has a higher fat (5.4 per cent) and protein (3.9 per cent) content than whole milk produced by Holstein Friesian cattle (3.9 per cent and 3.3 per cent respectively), and also contains higher levels of calcium, vitamin A and vitamin D than other types of milk. Milk from Guernsey cows is notable for the levels of beta-carotene, Omega-3 fatty acid and A2 β-casein protein.

The Guernsey and Jersey dairies each have a monopoly on milk supplies on their respective islands, and both distribute a range of full fat, semi-skimmed and skimmed milk from the local pedigree herds. In the UK, Channel Island milk and dairy products are often targeted at the premium end of the market; the UK retail market for Channel Island milk products is more limited than that in Canada and Denmark, where a wider array of yoghurts, cheeses, cream cheeses and ice creams made from Channel Island milk, in full fat and low fat forms, are sometimes available.

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Here's a couple quotes from the second article, which I can email to you if you give me your address.
 * [The 12 billion dollar cost] figure is utterly ridiculous, a mere fraction of what will be entailed in anything beyond some "paper spacecraft"--engineers' lingo for studies and Power Point presentations of hardware that never gets built. Boeing expects to spend around $7.5 billion merely to develop the new 7E7 jetliner, which will stay within the atmosphere and use very well-understood engineering. The development cost of the Crew Exploration Vehicle will be several times greater.
 * And what's going to put this Crew Exploration Vehicle into orbit? No rocket that exists in the world today is capable of lifting the Apollo capsule and Moon lander of the late 1960s. Unless the Moon-bound twenty-first-century Crew Exploration Vehicle is going to be significantly smaller than the Apollo of a generation ago--carrying just one person and no supplies--a new, very large rocket will be required.
 * And what's going to put this Crew Exploration Vehicle into orbit? No rocket that exists in the world today is capable of lifting the Apollo capsule and Moon lander of the late 1960s. Unless the Moon-bound twenty-first-century Crew Exploration Vehicle is going to be significantly smaller than the Apollo of a generation ago--carrying just one person and no supplies--a new, very large rocket will be required.

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Wei Wei (singer)

Wei Wei (born 28 September 1963) is a Chinese mandopop singer, actress, philanthropist and professor. Nicknamed "The Empress of Pop", she has been widely recognized for her artistry and vocal performances. She has been regarded as one of the greatest Chinese entertainers of her generation, and her contributions to music and visual media have made her a prominent and influential Chinese pop culture figure during the 1990's and early 2000s.

Wei started performing in various state-sponsored singing and dancing competitions as a child, singing state-sanctioned revolutionary music. Her breakthrough came alongside the Chinese economic reform in 1986 when she won both the National Young Singers contest in China, and the 24th Sopot International Song Festival in Poland. Four years later, she performed a duet with Spanish singer Julio Iglesias at the 1993 East Asian Games in Shanghai.

Largely associated with sports culture and the Olympics, Wei has been an Olympic Cultural Ambassador for China since 1993, a role she assumed when the Chinese Olympic Committee submitted its initial application to host the Olympic Games. Wei was the sole cultural representative for Asia at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and has performed at several major events, including the opening ceremony of Expo 2010, the closing ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics, and the opening and closing ceremonies of the 11th National Games of China.

Wei's songs have been used as the official theme songs for many major sporting events in China. Her single "I Want to Fly" was chosen by the Chinese Olympic Committee as the official theme song for the 2008 Olympic Sailing events. In 2007, The All-China Women's Federation recognized Wei's contributions to Chinese sports culture by designating her the "Queen of Sports".

Having sold an estimated 100-200 million records worldwide, Wei is one of Asia's best-selling recording artists. Considered a "national treasure" in China, Wei is the first Mainland Chinese pop singer to have competed abroad representing the People's Republic of China, the first Zhuang ethnic minority artist to represent China internationally, the first woman to be selected as China's Olympic Cultural Ambassador, and one of China's earliest artists to use the internet for the digital release of music. The haute-couture dress designed for Wei by Lars Wallin for the '08 Olympics is on permanent display at the Nordic Museum in Sweden.

Early life
Wei was born to a Zhuang family in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia to Zhang Yu, a People's Liberation Army veteran and railway official, and Wei Xiuqun. While in kindergarten, she began practicing the performing arts. When she was 7 years old, her family moved to Liuzhou in Guangxi, and at the age of 14, she moved to Beijing and started to work for the China National Song & Dance Ensemble. As a young unit member her education included dancing, singing, playing instruments, choreography, stage design, and lighting. The unit traveled throughout China, often doing several live performances in one day. She finished her education at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China.

1986–1987: Breakthrough and National Qualification
In 1986, Wei won the National Young Singers contest on Chinese television with the song Wanna Take One More Chance to Look at You. In 1987, she won the 24th Sopot International Music Festival in Poland as China's first representative to an international pop competition. In 1986 at the age of she was awarded a "2nd Level National Performer Professional Qualification Certificate" by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China. A year after, the ministry awarded her with a "1st Level National Performer Professional Qualification Certificate", the highest professional qualification of her field in China, equal to a Professional Doctorate, and which enabled her to teach at professor level in music academies in China.

1988–1992: Dedication of Love and Rise to Stardom
In 1988, Wei sang the theme song for China Central Television's New Year's Gala, Gathering of the Year of the Dragon. In 1989, her rendition of the Chinese song Dedication of Love - a performance credited with truly starting her career – became a national hit in China, and she became a symbol for charity and fund-raising activities as her performance had raised enough funds to help a rural migrant worker from Anhui to recover from spinal surgery. In the same year, her song Today is Your Birthday won the Gold Medal at the Jian Brand Cup and Beijing Radio Song Competition, and has since been used as a theme song to celebrate China's National Day. In 1990, her new single Asian Mighty Winds was selected as the theme of the 1990 Asian Games, and she performed it alongside Chinese singer Liu Huan. The song quickly became another national hit, and Wei was dubbed the "Queen of Sports" by the Provincial Government of Guangxi, Liuzhou. That same year, she starred in the film The Story of A Songstress alongside Chinese actor Zhang Guoli and Jiang Lili; and performed at the Miss Asia Pageant show in Hong Kong in 1992, also becoming the lead singer in the first concert tour in American major cities arranged by the China Central Song and Dance Group.

1993–2000: Carnegie Hall and International Recognition
In 1993, Wei was the lead singer at the 1993 East Asian Games opening and closing ceremonies together with Spanish singer Julio Iglesias. She then performed her single Asian Mighty Winds again at the 1994 Asian Games opening show in Hiroshima, Japan, and the lyrics of her songs became the subject of academic discourse and analysis in Japan. Later that year, Wei was one of only two singers chosen to join a 200-member Olympic delegation visiting Monaco to campaign for the Beijing Summer Olympic Games bid. A year after, in 1994, she was named Star of the Night after her performance of her hit single Dedication of Love at the CCTV New Year's Gala in Carnegie Hall, New York. In the same year, the song Wind Coming From the East became a hit at a show in Shanghai Oriental TV, and subsequently became the TV station's theme song. Her first English album was released, titled The Twilight.

After her performance at Carnegie Hall, she started her concert tour "Wei Wei and the World", which included visits and performances in the major cities in Mainland China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Kunming.

Billy Payne, president and CEO of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games confirmed Wei as Asia's sole cultural representative to the Olympics after meeting in 1996. Wei performed in front a 60,000 crowd alongside James Brown, Willie Nelson, Travis Tritt, Trisha Yearwood as a Cultural Olympiad performer at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta in 1996. For being Asia's sole cultural representative to the games, Wei was interviewed in a CNN fifteen-minute special. The year after in 1997, Wei entered into a one-year endorsement agreement with American hair care company Nioxin, becoming its product ambassador in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. In 1999, Wei's compilation album Wei Wei's Devotion was the most popular pop music album in China, and she held a concert at Caesar's Palace in Paris, France to further promote the album. In 2000, she joined the Chinese Olympic Committee and represented the People's Republic of China in campaigning for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, and performing with the Sydney Opera and Shanghai Opera. Her rendition of The Same Song won her a Golden Phoenix Prize at the 6th China Music Television Competition.

2000–2014: Go, Girl Go!, The 2008 Beijing Olympics & I Am A Singer
In 2003, Wei was invited as a special guest at galas arranged in Beijing in the honor of healthcare staff after the SARS epidemic, and initiated an international management company, Wei Wei International Management, in Stockholm for the purpose of further developing her international career. In 2004, she continued her performances for Olympic and sports related events, and inaugurated the construction start of the new Beijing National Stadium. During this time, she was also the main performer at the opening ceremony show for the Formula 1 Racetrack in Shanghai. At a show for the international unveiling of China's Olympic slogan "One World, One Dream", she performed Andrew Lloyd Webber's song Love Changes Everything. In a 2004 online survey about who should sing the theme song for the Chinese Olympics, Wei emerged as the most voted candidate.

From 2005 to 2010, Wei served as a Standing Committee Member of the All-China Youth Federation. In 2006, she celebrated twenty years on stage with the publication of her biography The New Wei, My New Way, written by Swedish author Catarina Lilliehöök. She also released twenty new recordings of her 20 greatest hits. The first one, a medley that consists of parts of her five greatest hits, was launched on 8 May: the 20X20 Dance Loop. She also released worldwide on digital download distributor iTunes Music Store, and commenced an international tour for the celebration of the Chinese New Year, which included performances in Los Angeles, Vienna, Barcelona, and Roger's Center in Toronto, where she was welcomed by China's Ambassador to Canada, Lu Shumin and Consulate General of Toronto Chen Xiaoling. During this time, she also served as a judge on China's largest singing competition, The National Young Singers Grand Awards, and performed the Olympic theme song One World, One Dream at an Olympic Show at the Great Wall together with Olympic athletes.

In 2007, she was appointed Ambassador for the Chinese Football Association, and her single Go, Girl Go! was appointed the official theme song of the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. FC Barcelona players Carles Puyol, Lionel Messi, Deco and others joined Wei in the Go, Girl Go! music video as a salute to women's football players.

In 2008, she performed as part of the Fairchild Media Group, and Shanghai Media Group's Chinese New Year All Star Show 2008. The show was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on 18 January, and included a duet from Wei and classical-crossover soprano Giorgia Fumanti. Wei also performed at Swedish show Allsång på Skansen with host Anders Lundin. During this time, she also served a one year term as Ambassador of the Chinese Football Association, and as the year drew to a close, she collaborated with BoA, Ruth Sahanaya, Despina Vandi, Sonu, Daniela Mercury and others to remix her original hit song Dedication of Love in English.

At closing ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics, Wei performed Surpass alongside Chinese singer Sun Nan, and then assumed her position as China's Forestry Ambassador to the United Nations of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration from 2009 to 2010.

In 2014, Wei competed in I Am a Singer (Chinese season 2) alongside Phil Chang, Gary Chaw,G.E.M., Han Lei and others.

The 2022 Winter Olympics & The 2022 Asian Games
In 2022, Wei reappeared after a 8 year hiatus as one of the lead singers for the 2022 Winter Olympics' theme song "Together for the Future". On February 18, 2022, Wei's online encouragement of her eldest son Symington to "learn from" Olympic skier Eileen Gu became a trending topic on Weibo and made headlines in the Chinese press. The same year, she was appointed Visiting Professor of Music and a doctoral advisor specializing in vocal music at Shinawatra University, a private international university in Thailand established by former Prime Minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra.

2023–2024: Return to China - Theatre, Fashion & Entrepreneurship
Wei returned to China in 2023 and made her first debut into musical theatre, performing as a lead actress in musical Ghetto, created and directed by Israeli artist Joshua Sober and premiering in Harbin city. On November 24, 2023, Wei walked the red carpet at Elle China's 35th Anniversary Gala, and received the 2023 Elle Style Award. In 2024, Wei chaired the 2024 Yale Sinovation Forum at the Yale Center Beijing, promoting and discussing the role of women in entrepreneurship, and performed at China's Strawberry Music Festival, with a lineup including American indie pop band The Drums and Chinese singers Zhao Lei and Wowkie Zhang.

Charity work
Throughout her career, Wei has performed at a variety of charity shows. In 1991, she performed her song Dedication of Love at a charity fundraising show in China for victims of the 1998 China floods at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. In 2004 she performed Dedication of Love together with Yang Haito, a blind Chinese artist, at a charity ball for the handicapped hosted by Deng Pufang, son of the former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. In 2005 she performed at the charity show "The Happiness Project" for mothers in Shenzhen, China.

In 2012, she attended a charity auction in Beijing alongside her three children to auction a dress she wore during her performance at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It sold for a record CNY ¥300,000 (US$42,800), and all proceeds were donated to charity. In the same year, she was also appointed China's Oceanic Goodwill Ambassador by the China's Ministry of Natural Resources.

In 2013, to raise funds for cancer research and to spread awareness for cancer patients, she performed Dedication of Love at the 15th Beijing Hope Run & Dash held in Chaoyang Park, Beijing to an audience of over 5585 people, for which she was awarded a world record for "the most number of people who sang Dedication of Love using sign language at the same time in the world" by the World Record Association of Hong Kong.

Personal life
Wei married American composer Michael Joseph Smith in 1995, and the couple had three children, Symington W. Smith, Remington W. Smith & Vinson W. Smith. They divorced in 2005, and she moved with her children from Stockholm, Sweden to Beijing, China.

Wei has been a long-time friend of Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan, who appeared with her and her children at a charity event in Beijing, and Chinese-Singaporean actress Gong Li, who in pictures released by Xinhua News Agency in 2014 showed Gong embracing Wei's eldest son, Symington, at Wei's home in Beijing.

In December 2009, Swedish tax authorities accused Wei of owing an estimated SEK 80–104 million Swedish kronor (approximately US$10 million) in taxes to the Swedish government for incomes earned in China during the years 2003–2008. In response, she released a public letter addressed to then-Prime Minister of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeld, asking for help and arguing that the tax authorities had illegally confiscated her assets because the tax authorities had proceeded with confiscation without a warrant or court order. The Swedish tax authority's accusations were ultimately rejected by Swedish courts due to a lack of concrete facts.

Legacy
Wei is largely considered a national treasure in China, and one of its most iconic singers. Wei is the first Mainland Chinese pop singer after the reform and opening-up period initiated under Deng Xiaoping to have competed abroad officially representing the People's Republic of China, the first Zhuang ethnic minority artist to represent China internationally, the first woman to be selected as China's Olympic Ambassador, and one of China's earliest artists to use the internet for the digital release of music. Winne Chung wrote for the South China Morning Post, "Wei Wei is China's biggest pop star and its most attractive ambassador." Kristoger Stenneberg wrote for DiEgo, a Swedish magazine that " Wei has a dark, almost masculine voice when speaking which suddenly becomes absent when singing. Her voice is a blend between Kylie Minogue and Ann Sofie von Otter", also remarking that "In China, the military stands double file to hold back her screaming fans."

Writing for Open Magazine, Hong Kong journalist Huang Baolian remarked that "This unpretentious woman is China's radiant superstar, and everyone in China knows it. She's rightly regarded by her government as a national treasure.” Commenting on Wei's duet with Julio Iglesias at the East Asian Games, Swedish journalist Per Nillson wrote in Expressen "The high point for the jubilant masses was when Iglesias tried to sing in Chinese - a language he learnt from Wei, who also credits him with being a great student." Interviewing Wei for Svenska Dagbladet, journalist Adam Svanell described her as an "unwilling superstar who never dreamed of being a popstar" and a "most secret world artist".

In 2015, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the East China University of Political Science and Law and appointed Honorary Dean, and she holds a world record for the largest number of people to perform a sing-along using sign language. She has sold an estimated 100-200 million records, making her one of the best-selling Mainland Chinese artist during the 1990s, and leading her to be referred to as "China's Whitney Houston", and "China's Madonna".

Discography

 * The Album (1986)
 * Bright Eyes (1987)
 * The Four Points of Love (1988)
 * Endless Love 无限的爱 (1989)
 * I Love My Motherland 我爱我的祖国 (1990)
 * Famous Songs (1992)
 * The Twilight (1994)
 * Wei Wei 韦唯 (1998)
 * Wei Wei's Devotion (1999)
 * Dedication of Love 爱的奉献 (2001)
 * Myths of China 中国的神话 (2005)
 * Yang Chin (2006)
 * 20x20 (2008)

Filmography

 * The Story of a Star 女歌星的故事 (1991)

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