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Catman (DC Comics)

Catman (Thomas Reese Blake) is a character appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. He is part of Batman’s growing roster of enemies, debuting in the mid-1960s.

For decades, the character rarely appeared in comic books, as Batman stories returned to darker themes. A modern revival of the character in the pages of Green Arrow many years later depicted a Catman down on his luck, clinging to past glories, overweight, and pathetic.

In 2006, however, the character was rehabilitated by writer Gail Simone, depicting Blake as having picked himself up from the gutter, restoring his physical fitness and gaining a new sense of purpose and dignity while living with lions in Africa. Stories since then have depicted him as an attractive and capable antihero, and leader of the mercenary team Secret Six.

Publication history
Catman first appeared in Detective Comics #311 (January 1963) and was created by Bill Finger and Jim Mooney.

A different Cat-Man once opposed the Blackhawks in Blackhawk #141, but he has no connection with the more prominent Batman villain.

Pre-Crisis
Catman was Thomas Reese Blake, a world-famous trapper of jungle cats who turned to crime because he had grown bored with hunting and had squandered most of his millions. He became a burglar who committed his crimes in a catsuit made out of an ancient African cloth. His costume was modeled after Catwoman's disguise. Catwoman was none too pleased to have her modus operandi copied, which resulted in Catwoman being wrongly implicated for Catman's crimes at least once, and so she initially helped Batman against him.

As with many Batman villains in their first appearances, Catman was originally a gimmicked villain who stole cat-themed items. His weapon of choice was a pair of steel claw-tipped gloves and the razor edged "catarang".

Catman would reappear once more, this time revealing that the orange African cloth in his uniform gave him nine lives. The character first shows his capability for good causes when he rescues Batwoman from nearly dying. He gives her some of his costume fabric, believing she too will have nine lives. He resumes his criminalistic ways, but Batwoman (temporarily infiltrating his trust to be his new partner, with a new costume as "Cat-Woman") reasons the entire cloth has only nine lives, not individual pieces, and manipulates events until Catman only has one remaining. Batwoman attempts to convince him to turn himself in, but Catman attempts to kill her so he can escape, before being defeated by Batman and Robin.

Outcast
In 1992, Catman appeared in Batman: Shadow of the Bat as a member of a team called "the Misfits", led by Killer Moth. The Misfits were portrayed as third-rate villains trying to prove themselves, foreshadowing Brad Meltzer's treatment of the character in Green Arrow.

Catman reappeared in a 1995 crossover between Shadow of the Bat and Catwoman. In this story, the cloth that Catman's costume was made from was retconned as belonging to a South Sea cat cult. Catwoman was hired by the cult to return the cloth, but gave them a fake.

Catman remained in limbo until 2003, when he resurfaced as a foe of Green Arrow. Written by Brad Meltzer, Catman was portrayed as a pathetic, overweight loser who was looked down upon by other villains and who is easily defeated by Green Arrow. His hair had been dyed black, which he thought "made [him] look tougher".

Monsieur Mallah sends Warp to abduct Blake, the implication being that Catman had met a rather grisly end as Mallah's dinner; this situation is alluded to by Blake, when he joins the Secret Six: "You know you've hit rock bottom when a monkey and a Frenchman don't consider you worth killing". When he later meets Monsieur Mallah, he comments that he has no desire to see the gorilla's stomach again.

Secret Six
In the 2005 mini-series Villains United, Catman resurfaced in Africa, where he attempted to resalvage his life and began living with a pride of lions. He used this time to lose weight and regain his sense of self-worth and fighting skills. This 'perfect existence' would be shattered by the arrival of the Secret Society of Super Villains, however. Seeking to unite all of Earth's super-villains under his control, Lex Luthor (secretly Alexander Luthor Jr. of the original Earth-Three in disguise) sought to recruit Catman into the fold as a minion, only to be rejected. It was initially believed that an angry Lex Luthor had Deathstroke kill the lions Catman was living with in retaliation for being rejected by a "nobody" but this was later revealed to have been a misdirection.

Catman vowed revenge against Luthor, and was subsequently recruited into a criminal syndicate known as the Secret Six. Together, the Secret Six waged war against the Secret Society of Super Villains under the direction of an individual known only as Mockingbird. During that time he found out that it was in fact fellow Secret Six member Deadshot who had killed his lions, so that he would join the organization. Deadshot would later apologize, and Catman forgave him. Although the two were reluctant allies at first, the two soon bonded and became what one could loosely call friends.

Under Villains United writer Gail Simone, Catman has achieved a new level of fame. Portrayed as a cunning warrior with a sense of honor, the character is now a potent antihero. He is depicted with physical abilities that allow him to fight Mallah to a standstill and to blind Captain Nazi.

He is different from most other Batman villains in the sense that he has noble and heroic qualities. While Cheshire notes that Blake behaves more like a hero than a villain, he sees heroes such as the Justice League as being arrogant and abusive of their power, as seen when he confronts Green Arrow about the Doctor Light incident. It has been revealed that during his time with the Six he impregnated Cheshire and that the two now have a son, Thomas Jr.

In Gail Simone's Birds of Prey #104, the Secret Six run into Barbara Gordon's team. Huntress and Catman – out of disguise – dance together, with hints of an attraction. The two teams battle, six members for six, Catman paired against Huntress amidst sexual innuendo, but the fray ends with the resurrection of Ice. Commenting upon Catman's reasonings, Knockout claimed that he had "gone soft".

In 2008's Salvation Run #3, Catman and former Secret Six teammates Scandal and Rag Doll are depicted amongst DC's larger villain population, exiled on a faraway planet.

Catman reappeared in the new Secret Six ongoing series, which takes place after the events of Salvation Run. Blake spent some time back in Africa, where he brutally attacked a gang of poachers and may have left them for dead. His actions have led Catman to wonder if he has the temperament to be on the side of the angels.

It was in his role as leader of the Secret Six that Catman faced Batman again after many years. Batman tried to warn Catman and his team to not accept their mission to break someone out of Alcatraz. The non-personal warning did not work, so Batman went to confront Catman. Catman said in response: "The old me? Probably would've whooped his milk and cookies". He made no hesitation to throw the first punch at the Dark Knight. During the fight, Batman even offered to pay the Secret Six off, but to no avail. Catman's main goal was just to keep Batman distracted as the Secret Six broke Tarantula out of prison.

After the cancellation of the series in August 2011, Gail Simone revealed on her Tumblr that Catman is in fact bisexual, and that she had planned to reveal this in a story arc that was cut short by the September 2011 DC relaunch. Simone has also said that she plans to make this canon the next time she writes Catman in a book.

The New 52
In The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity, Catman made his debut, with an updated outfit, in the December 2014 reboot of Secret Six. In the first issue of the series, he is captured by a mysterious group and is put in a strange holding cell with the new team. As Simone had promised in her earlier tweet, his bisexuality was confirmed in the issue when he is seen flirting with both a man and a woman.

Powers and abilities
Catman is an Olympic-level athlete and skilled hand-to-hand combatant, able to hold his own against some of the most proficient beings and fighters in the DC universe, including Bronze Tiger, Batman, and an actual lion. He is also one of the world's foremost hunters and trackers, possessing an extraordinary sense of smell and sight. He is also a skillful observant with the accurate ability to notice and perceive things.

He wears razor-tipped gauntlets and uses a sharp-edged Catarang, modeled after Batman's Batarang, and a utility belt similar to Batman's. The belt frequently has a smiley face button, a trophy he claimed from a misleading pilot on a mission with the Secret Six. Catman has claimed several times, both in his early appearances and modern ones, that his cape is mystical and able to restore mortal wounds.

He was once the owner of a pet Siberian tiger named Rasputin, which was trained and helped him commit crimes. Rasputin has not been utilized in his modern appearances to date.

Other versions

 * An alternate version of Catman, Selina Kyle's brother Karl Kyle, is a burglar motivated to steal by an intense sibling rivalry with his sister.
 * An alternate version of Catman appears in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight. This version is a serial killer who wields knife-like claws.
 * An alternate timeline version of Catman appears in the Flashpoint event. This version is the leader of a South African resistance before being killed by Gorilla Grodd.

Television

 * Thomas Blake appears in The New Batman Adventures episode "Cult of the Cat", voiced by Scott Cleverdon. This version is the leader of a cat-worshiping cult.
 * An unrelated Catman inspired by Batman and Wildcat appears in the Justice League two-part episode "Legends", voiced by Stephen Root. He is a member of the Justice Guild of America, a superhero team from another universe who exist as comic characters in the "prime" universe, and died in a nuclear war.
 * Catman appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Thomas F. Wilson.

Film

 * Catman makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.
 * Catman makes a non-speaking appearance in The Lego Batman Movie.
 * Catman makes a non-speaking appearance in Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
 * Catman makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in Injustice.

Video games

 * Catman appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame, voiced again by Thomas F. Wilson.
 * Catman appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.

Miscellaneous

 * Catman appears in The Batman Adventures. This version hues closer to the comics' Thomas Blake, with a history as a former big game hunter who sells live animals to zoos and circuses. Additionally, he dons a masculine variation of Catwoman's suit and commits copycat crimes in an attempt to gain her romantic attention.
 * Catman appears in Batman: Arkham Knight – Genesis as an associate of the Joker, Harley Quinn, and Blockbuster before he is killed by Jason Todd.
 * Catman makes a cameo appearance in Batman '66 #30.

Reception
In 2013, ComicsAlliance ranked Catman as #9 on their list of the "50 Sexiest Male Characters in Comics".

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K. V. Subbanna

Kuntagodu Vibhuthi Subbanna (20 February 1932 – 16 July 2005) was an acclaimed dramatist and writer in Kannada. He was the founder of the world-famous NINASAM (Neelanakantheshwara Natya Sangha) drama institute. Founded in 1949 in Heggodu, Sagara. Ninasam, under the guidance of K.V. Subbanna, made significant contribution to Kannada theatre and other performing arts. He was awarded, in 1991, the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts, in recognition of his contribution to enrich rural Karnataka with the world's best films and the delight and wonder of the living stage. He was awarded the Padma Shri during 2004–05.

Under the influence of Shantaveri Gopala Gowda, a senior leader of the socialist movement in Karnataka, Subbanna espoused socialist ideology, to which he was committed throughout his life. To promote Kannada dramas Subbanna set up training centres in various parts of Karnataka. He also established Akshara Prakashana, a publishing house, to publish literature in Kannada related to theatre, which included translations of plays from other languages. His son K. V. Akshara is also a playwright.

Awards and recognition

 * Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1991
 * Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1994
 * Sahitya Akademi Award in 2003
 * Padma Shree in 2004

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What is the point of this page?

I'm not trying to be rude, but I am struggling to see what value this page adds. Manning 10:35, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * This was going to be a place for helping to organize and advise WikiProjects had the main listing stayed at WikiProjects as a way to centralize WikiProject activities and to kind of Interface with a Wikiproject_group at Meta. Quinobi 19:00, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

hotlist
This is a tentacle of WikiProject_Wikidemia and the Statistics_Department attached to the WikiProject paradigm for analysis purposes. We simply want to determine what's hot and what's not. Quinobi 23:08, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

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Andrew White Tuer

Andrew White Tuer (1838–1900) was a British publisher, writer and printer.

Life
He was born in Sunderland in 1838. Orphaned at an early age, he was raised by his great-uncle, Andrew White, after whom he was named. After his education, he went to London with the plan of becoming a doctor, but that did not suit him, and after working in a merchant's office, he set himself up as a wholesale stationer. In 1862, he joined with Abraham Field, an established producer of ledgers, in the partnership of Field & Tuer. Tuer, the entrepreneur of the pair, invented the highly successful Stickphast Paste, a clean, vegetable-based alternative to the gums and glues then in use. He later introduced the popular Author's Paper Pad, perhaps the first writing block with detachable sheets.

In 1867, Tuer married Thomasine Louisa Louttit, who became well known as an amateur opera singer. The following year, Field & Tuer moved to 50 Leadenhall Street, and the expansion allowed Tuer to pursue his publishing ambitions. In 1872, Tuer introduced the quarterly Paper & Printing Trades Journal, intended as a "Medium of Intercommunication Between Stationers, Printers, Publishers and Booksellers." Tuer later served on the committee of the Caxton Celebration of 1877 commemorating the 400th anniversary of the introduction of printing into England, in charge of Class E: Specimens of Printing.

After that event, Tuer and fellow printer Thomas Hailing began a scheme aimed at improving the quality of the printing trade at all levels. In 1880, after two years of planning, Field & Tuer introduced the Printers' International Specimen Exchange, whereby printers and their employees and apprentices could submit multiple samples of their work and receive back a volume containing a copy of every specimen accepted. Tuer published and edited the Exchange for the first eight years. In 1879, the first official book of its new imprint, the Leadenhall Press, appeared: Tuer’s own Luxurious Bathing, a treatise on the joys of hygiene, with etchings by Sutton Sharpe. From this point on, Scribner was the firm's U.S. import partner. The second edition was issued the following year in a smaller format with etchings by Tristram Ellis. Tuer's passion for collecting soon led to the two-volume Bartolozzi and his Works, with a biographical account, information on how to date impressions and identify deceptions, and a list of over 2,000 engravings. In 1884, Tuer published a collection of printers' jokes from the pages of the Paper & Printing Trades Journal, titled Quads within Quads, consisting of a midget folio housed in a block of extra pages at the back of a duodecimo "enlarged edition." The prospectus described it as "A book and a box, or rather two books and a box, and yet after all not a box at all, but a book and only one book."

The catalogue as a whole reflected Tuer's energetic and whimsical nature and his interest in antiquarian subjects, including London history and early children's books. However, Tuer was also an experimenter, and some books were ahead of their time in content, design, and printing. Under his stewardship, the Leadenhall Press went on to issue more than 450 publications of all kinds on a wide variety of subjects by many prominent authors and illustrators of the time, ranging in price from sixpence to several guineas for special limited editions.

In 1891, Abraham Field died, and the following year the firm was incorporated as Leadenhall Press Ltd. Publishing continued throughout the nineties, and one of Tuer's most important works was published in the 1896: History of the Horn-Book (still the best study of the subject).

Tuer died of pleurisy on 24 February 1900 and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. In its obituary of 5 March, the Pall Mall Gazette wrote: “London publishing is the poorer in high spirits and humour by the death of Mr. Andrew Tuer. In all his doings he was mirthful, and he gave readers several very excellent books.”

The Dictionary of National Biography describes him as an "omnivorous collector", who filled his house in Campden Hill Road Notting Hill with "books, engravings, clocks, china, silver and bric-a-brac of the most varied description".

Family
Tuer's wife was Thomasine Louisa. They had no children. Mrs. Tuer's godson was the Cambridge historian J. P. T (John Patrick Tuer) Bury, who wrote articles about Tuer for the Book Collector and the Bookplate Journal.

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Hanshin Department Store

Hanshin Department Store (阪神百貨店) is a Japanese department store chain owned by Hankyu Hanshin Department Stores, Incorporated (株式会社阪急阪神百貨店), a subsidiary of H2O Retailing Corporation.

Stores

 * Hanshin Umeda
 * 13-13, Umeda Itchome, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
 * Access
 * Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line: Umeda Station
 * JR West: Osaka Station and Kitashinchi Station
 * Osaka Municipal Subway
 * Midosuji Line: Umeda Station
 * Yotsubashi Line: Nishi-Umeda Station
 * Tanimachi Line: Higashi-Umeda Station

 * Others
 * Snack Park (スナックパーク) is in the first basement.
 * Hanshin Tigers Shop (阪神タイガースショップ) is in the 8th floor.

 * Hanshin Mikage
 * Mikage Classe, 2-1, Mikage-Nakamachi Sanchome, Higashinada-ku, Kōbe, Japan
 * Access: Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line: Mikage Station

 * Hanshin Nishinomiya
 * Ebista Nishinomiya in 1-26, Tanakacho, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
 * Access: Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line: Nishinomiya Station

 * Amagasaki Hanshin
 * Amagasaki Q's Mall (formerly COCOE), the place the factory of Kirin Brewery Co., Ltd. used to be.
 * Access: JR West Amagasaki Station.

 * Kaohsiung Hanshin Department Store
 * Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Former store

 * Kenmin Hyakkaten (former Kumamoto Hanshin)
 * 3-22, Sakuramachi, Chūō-ku, Kumamoto, see Kumamoto Bus Terminal

On February 23, 2011, Kumamoto Hanshin was renamed Kenmin Hyakkaten (県民百貨店). The store was closed on February 28, 2015, due to the redevelopment of Kumamoto Bus Terminal.

 * Sannomiya

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Howard Goldfarb

Howard Goldfarb (born 1961 or 1962) is a Canadian poker player, chiefly noted as the runner-up of the 1995 World Series of Poker (WSOP).

At the time he was a 33-year-old land developer and businessman from Toronto. He made his first foray into poker in 1993, when he joined some friends for a game in one of Toronto's private clubs. As a recreational poker player, he had previously entered only a few major tournaments, one of which was the 1994 World Series of Poker championship event, where he finished in 22nd place.

At the 1995 World Series of Poker main event, Goldfarb made it to the final table where he was the chip leader for a time. In the final hand of the heads up match against Dan Harrington, Goldfarb began with the best hand (Ace, 7 unsuited) to Harrington's (9, 8). Harrington paired his eight on the flop and called Goldfarb's all-in, dodged the remaining aces thus winning the championship.

Goldfarb's tournament winnings exceed $500,000.

Goldfarb is married and is the father of three children.

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Lusin's theorem

In the mathematical field of mathematical analysis, Lusin's theorem (or Luzin's theorem, named for Nikolai Luzin) or Lusin's criterion states that an almost-everywhere finite function is measurable if and only if it is a continuous function on nearly all its domain. In the informal formulation of J. E. Littlewood, "every measurable function is nearly continuous".

Classical statement
For an interval [a, b], let

 * $$f:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{C}$$

be a measurable function. Then, for every ε > 0, there exists a compact E ⊆ [a, b] such that f restricted to E is continuous and

 * $$\mu ( E ) > b - a - \varepsilon.$$

Note that E inherits the subspace topology from [a, b]; continuity of f restricted to E is defined using this topology.

Also for any function f, defined on the interval [a, b] and almost-everywhere finite, if for any ε > 0 there is a function ϕ, continuous on [a, b], such that the measure of the set

 * $$\{x\in[a,b]:f(x) \neq \phi(x)\}$$

is less than ε, then f is measurable.

General form
Let $$(X,\Sigma,\mu)$$ be a Radon measure space and Y be a second-countable topological space equipped with a Borel algebra, and let $$f: X \rightarrow Y$$ be a measurable function. Given $$\varepsilon>0$$, for every $$A\in\Sigma$$ of finite measure there is a closed set $$E$$ with $$\mu(A\setminus E) <\varepsilon$$ such that $$f$$ restricted to $$E$$ is continuous. If $$A$$ is locally compact, we can choose $$E$$ to be compact and even find a continuous function $$f_\varepsilon: X \rightarrow Y$$ with compact support that coincides with $$f$$ on $$E$$ and such that

 * $$\ \sup_{x\in X} | f_\varepsilon (x) | \leq \sup_{x\in X} | f(x) | $$.

Informally, measurable functions into spaces with countable base can be approximated by continuous functions on arbitrarily large portion of their domain.

On the proof
The proof of Lusin's theorem can be found in many classical books. Intuitively, one expects it as a consequence of Egorov's theorem and density of smooth functions. Egorov's theorem states that pointwise convergence is nearly uniform, and uniform convergence preserves continuity.

Example
The strength of Lusin's theorem might not be readily apparent, as can be demonstrated by example. Consider Dirichlet function, that is the indicator function $$1_\mathbb{Q}:[0,1]\to \{0,1\}$$ on the unit interval $$[0,1]$$ taking the value of one on the rationals, and zero, otherwise. Clearly the measure of this function should be zero, but how can one find regions that are continuous, given that the rationals are dense in the reals? The requirements for Lusin's theorem can be satisfied with the following construction of a set $$E.$$

Let $$\{x_n; n=1,2,\dots\}$$ be any enumeration of $$\mathbb{Q}$$. Set
 * $$G_n=(x_n-\varepsilon/2^n,x_n+\varepsilon/2^n)$$

and
 * $$E:=[0,1]\setminus\bigcup_{n=1}^\infty G_n$$.

Then the sequence of open sets $$G_n$$ "knock out" all of the rationals, leaving behind a compact, closed set $$E$$ which contains no rationals, and has a measure of more than $$1-2\varepsilon$$.

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ID eNTITY

iD_ᴇNTITY or Yureka (유레카) is a Korean manhwa series created by Son Hee-joon in collaboration with Kim Youn-kyung and distributed by Tokyopop in North America. The series centers on the main character Jang-Gun and his friends along with their virtual reality avatars in the computer game world called "Lost Saga". There are 41 volumes right now, twelve of them have been released in the United States and 34 in France.

Story
The series centers on the main character Jang-Gun and his friends along with their virtual reality avatars in the computer game world called "Lost Saga". When Jang-Gun logs on as a different character, he "Creates" an AI with a personality from the hacked disk he found when renewing his appearance for his once a year renewal process. Yureka is a flutter-brained, but advanced, AI with powerful stats and a real-life doppelganger. It is his turn to see just how deep his immersion in the virtual world goes.

The following is a plot summary by volume:

Volume One
Many of the central characters (and their relationships to each other) are introduced in this volume, including Team Triple Threat, Lotto's family, Myriah, Aradon, the Lovely Angels, Row-the-Mighty, Miss Piri, and Capri. Oddly enough, Yureka does not make her debut until the second volume.

Volume Two
Jang-gun's birthday passes unheeded by his family, but he does find that he needs to renew his Lost Saga ID. When he goes to the Net Room to do so, he accidentally bumps into a girl who drops a card with the name 'Yureka' on it on her way out of the Room. Later that day, he accidentally logs on with the card, creating the impossibly strong but airheaded AI, Yureka, who is at once aware of her AI status and strength, but blissfully unaware of guile and trickery. Under this disguise, he clears a high-level dungeon called Terror Tower with the other two members of Team Triple Threat. The next day he logs on under his own name, but is bewildered to encounter Yureka herself, who joins the Team after showcasing her strength the previous night.

Volume Three
Volume Three heralds the beginning of the first story arc, the Double Trouble Tournament. With riches and treasure as a promised prize, everyone in Lost Saga is dying to join. Lotto enters with Yureka at his side, and meets Rapha and John on his way to entry. A preliminary is held, in which the pairs must fight two tough monsters, the cyclops from Terror Tower and a generic Ghouliant undead sort of mage which, according to Boromir's exclamation in this volume, is called a Lich. After this grueling pretest, there are eight remaining teams: Lotto and Yureka, Ah-Dol and Boromid, Rapha and John, The Lovely Angels, Aradon and Alpha, a strange Necromancer(Baltisse)/Axman(Lazarus) team, a generic filler team, and Row-the-Mighty, with a mysterious master-level witch by his side. These teams are set up in a tournament bracket, and the first fight takes place between Lotto and Row.

Lotto and the witch, named Orugazi (other translations term her Horgacia, etc.) have a magical face-off of epic proportions, which ends in a double KO. Yureka is then forced to fight Row- she easily overpowers him, but her compassion stays her hand. Row, realizing this, concedes the match.

Immediately after this, Lotto runs out to brag to Miss Piri, the NPC storekeep he crushes on. Yureka follows him to fetch him back (Ah-dol and Boromir's match is going on) and inadvertently displays a new power: Yureka pulls Miss Piri free of the strict set of preprogrammed boundaries surrounding her store, that Miss Piri is bound to as an NPC, so that she can watch the tournament.

The volume concludes with Boromir and Ah-dol's complete and easy victory over the nameless team, and Miss Piri's thanks for her freedom.

Volume Four
All story is still about the tournament.

Volume Five
All story is still about the tournament. Boromir and Ah-Dol face off against Aradon and Alpha who uses multiple classes to create the "ninja class."

Volume Six
All story is still about the tournament. The last battle of the Double Trouble Tournament, Yureka and Lotto against Aradon and Alpha begin. While Lotto and Aradon are in the middle of their fight, a mysterious demon appears—Cube. Cube explains that the demon army will be coming to Normal City to take over their land and that they can try to get to Demon Island, however they will be waiting for them.

Volume Seven
Various characters begin preparing for the match-off with the demons. The people who will actually be going to Demon's Island turn out to be Yureka, Lotto, Boromir, Ah-Dol, Aradon, an anti-priest named Il-Barn, Capri, Basara, and a player who happens to know where the entrance to Demon's Island (that Basara found) is. Lotto also asks Row-the-Mighty a request — to defend the city. The group splits their separate ways because there are two portals. Il-Barn, Capri, Boromir, and Ah-Dol form one team, and Lotto, Yureka, Aradon, and Olios form the other. Basara eventually comes later behind the group of Roto, Yureka, Aradon, and Olios. Each team defeats many monsters called Cerberus. As the demon army attacks Normal City, the party all enter Demon Island.

Volume Eight
In Normal City, the combined powers of four guilds were unable to withstand the power of the demon army and retreat. Row-the-Mighty, keeping his promise with Lotto, begins fighting monsters one by one in order to defend the city. Eventually, various other characters (a random warrior who is first to join Row, Rapha, John, "Mistress Orugazi," K.C., Julie, and eventually Alpha) join him to defend Normal City, causing other players (who are offline and watching the whole thing) to join in.

Volume Nine
On Demon Island, the two groups have to defeat the demon king's Devas. The first two are played by real-life people who work for the company. One of them turns out to be Myriah (using the form of the demon Pristina), and she faces off with the party of Il-Barn, Capri, Boromir, and Ah-Dol. On the other hand, just as they (Lotto, Yureka, Aradon, and Olios) are about to lose, Basara appears and proceeds to kill the masked Deva. Lotto makes a deal with Basara which he (Basara) agrees to. The deal is that Basara can kill all the monsters and that they (Lotto, Yureka, Aradon, and Olios) will finish off his "leftovers" or complete the quest if Basara were to die. They continue on to meet the next Deva—Cube. Roto then leaves Basara to fight Cube and heads for the entrance to the demon king's room along with Yureka, Aradon, and Olios. Basara stops him from doing so, causing Lotto to fall. Yureka jumps down to save Lotto. As Basara is turned to stone by Cube, Aradon and Olios leave Lotto and Yureka to fight Cube.

Volume Ten
Just as they are about to be defeated by Pristina's dragon, Il-Barn uses his anti-priest master-level item to bring Capri to full power in exchange for Capri's life (online) and one of his levels. Capri survives a blast from the dragon and kills Pristina. Il-barn, Boromir, and Ah-Dol continue on to meet their next opponent—the Deva Neogia. Ah-Dol starts with the first attack and is soon defeated. However, his defeat was not in vain as Il-Barn and Boromir learns that Neogia can read their next movement. The two team up and manage to strike Neogia with Il-Barn's master-level item which causes Neogia to begin losing a life point each second. Neogia claims to be able to last an hour, meaning that he has 3,600 health points. Boromir and Il-Barn manage to capture Neogia, allowing Boromir and Ah-Dol to continue onto the demon king. Soon enough, Aradon and Olios reach the demon king, but are both defeated. Lotto tricks Cube, using the fact that Cube is confused about his past to his advantage and gets Cube to help them reach the demon king via a shortcut. Boromir and Ah-Dol arrive at the top of the stairs to the demon king's room's entrance just as Aradon is defeated. Eventually, Lotto, Yureka, and Cube reach the demon king's room. Aradon and Olios offer to help.

Volume Eleven
Boromir and Ah-Dol awaken and now Team Triple Threat is complete. Lotto then begins to question the reason why they are fighting. Aradon then explains that Dexon (the creators of Lost Saga) is combining with Mega Entertainment and that this battle will determine the future of Lost Saga. Everyone then becomes serious about this match and the battle begins. Lotto and Aradon prepare their ultimate techniques to bring down the demon king, but the demon king blocks them. Aradon attempts to kill the demon king using a new magic spell he hasn't used in the battle yet. A large explosion occurs soon after, yet the demon king survives (as well as everyone else). Roto explains that due to something underground, the demon king has infinite regeneration. Everyone except Aradon leaves. Aradon asks the demon king a question. Lotto, Yureka, Ah-Dol, and Olios then encounter Cube. Cube begins to attack with lightning, however Olios counters it with his metal-tipped arrows. As Lotto, Yureka, and Ah-Dol walk downstairs, they encounter Neogia.

Volume Twelve
As Ah-Dol prepares to fight Neogia, he's revealed about a player option that causes them to affect their levels and discovers that players like Roto and Aradon are using said option in order to pre-buff themselves before most important fights. Seeing this as cheating, Ah-Dol tells Roto to go on ahead while he fights Neogia (in the rudest of ways). Roto and Yureka soon find themselves in a fiery pit fighting an onslaught of weak monsters before stronger ones pop out in the "Heart" of Lost Saga.

While this is happening, Olios is fighting Kube and Aradon is fighting Kast.

Characters
[[Image:Yureka Cast major.jpg|right|thumb|The characters are as follows: Left to right, top row: Olios, Alpha, Rapha holding a plush John doll.

Second Row: Sisters K.C. and Julie in the yellow, Aradon to the twins' lower right, Boromiru with the spiky blond hair, Ah-Dol with blue hair and angry-looking, and pre-Monster Island Myriah looking off to the right.

Below Ah-Dol, approaching the foreground: Roto directly below, Yureka on his lower left, Miss Piri to Yureka's lower left.]] The names of the characters are listed first, with their Lost Saga identities in (parentheses) unless their real names are unknown, in which case they will be listed by their handles only.

Jang-Gun (Lotto/Roto)
Hangul: 장군

Age: 16

Title: Archmage

Class: Mage

Sub-class: Swordsman

Occupation: High School Junior

Lotto/Roto (his identity in the game, and what he is most commonly called) is a master level sorcerer (later wizard/ Archmage). Along with Boromid and Ah-Dol, he is one of the members of Team Triple Threat. He is considered one of the most powerful players in the game, logging over 6000 hours, the most since last beta.

Jang-Gun is very short for his age, but is still considered attractive, and is popular with girls (although he hardly notices them, usually thinking about game strategy). He's a bit of a jerk. He is very manipulative, exploiting others to his own advantage, as well as clever, able to discover new uses for his powers, that surprises everyone. and hitting or burning Yureka when she irritates him. He is also very arrogant, with many character during the Demon war, not want him to face the demon king, as they would never hear the end of it. But he cares very much for his friends and Yureka, being extremely angry, if they had been defeated.

Although he is crazy for the game, he still manages to maintain an A-plus average in school and put up with his chain-smoker mother and chatroom-obsessed sister, Rose (Chang-Mi). When his Lost Saga ID card expires and he goes to renew it, he accidentally picks up a hacked one with the name Yureka on it- when he accidentally logs on with it, Yureka is created. As the series continues, his relationship with Yureka grows. At first, he used her as a punching bag, having her help in fights, while he questioned what she was. In the Demons War arc, he cared enough to have a ring given to her that made all damage she took be taken from his mana instead. After Yureka was deleted, he fell into great depression, quitting lost saga, and stopped talking to his friends. He later started again, to revive her, and anything someone tried to copy her, he would angrily ignore them. Once he found Yureka true person, Jaeha is an alternate personality, he accepts both of them. He later reveals that he cares for both personalities, and that he likes Yureka.

Lotto specializes in fire magic & fire-based summons (i.e. Efreeti), but he can use other elemental-based magic if need be. Along with the large repertoire of spells he has at his disposal he is a semi-skilled Swordsman, supposedly shoring up many of the sorcerer class' weaknesses in his quest to become a Grand Mage. He is said to have a large amount of mana, something his rival Aradon admits. One of his greatest strengths is his ability to mix his skills to create abilities that can give him the edge in battle, even against stronger foes. These include modifying the Berserk spell so the target focuses a little on its own defense rather than dedicating all power to attacking, and bouncing his magic off his own barrier to create magic capable of piercing an opponent's magic barrier. One of his major strengths is his intellect, allowing him to think of strategies and use new abilities that have gained him impressive victories.

In the two team tournament, he showed that he was roughly at Aradon's strength, before the tournament was interrupted. After the tournament, he is represented as a Wizard/ Archmage, joining in the battle against Lord Kast, the demon king. He, Yureka, Aradon, and Olios take one path, by which they meet up with Basara. After tricking him to let them follow him, they continued to the castle. After battling Kast, they realized that it was impossible to defeat him as he would infinitely heal. To solve this, Roto and Yureka went to the core of the castle and found Kast's power source, a creature represented as the opening of Pandora's box, a creature that does damage that can not be fully healed and if killed by the beast, one can not log back into Lost Saga. In the midst of battling this creature Lotto falls to dark magic, and becomes a demon in his desperation. This resulted in the real Yureka showing up, killing the Yureka AI, and an old man casting the seal of saint, sealing the creature and revealing that the massacre was a Beta test of Dexon. Disgusted by this action, and the fact that Yureka was gone, he decided to quit lost saga.

Later on Lotto is logging in as Yureka and meeting up with a Jijong Jang, an annoying character who uses people to get what he wants. As Yureka he meets with Elca, a player who can harm players real bodies when online, Lotto agreed to protect Jang and two other players, by using Yureka to train them in the Dragon Lands. Finally the real Yureka showed up killing players and resulting her state in a coma, and later on playing with Lotto and other others on Lost Saga while in the coma. In the process Lotto has realized Slayan has defeated Basara and is battling Slayan.

Yureka
Hangul: 유레카

Class: Freelancer, Swordsmaster

After Roto gets his normal ID back, Yureka is still around. Her presence hasn't been explained yet, but she is most likely a rogue AI, like Aura from the .hack series. She may have been hacked, as her stats are all maxed out- strangely enough, her skill for specific spells and weapons are all at zero. Regardless, she embodies a unique power to mimic moves enemies use on her and retaliate with versions of them more powerful than the original. Her real-life counterpart, Jaeha, reappears in volume 6, mildly surprised to see 'herself' on television. She is revealed to have feelings for Roto, always protecting him. When she was erased, he learned of her history. Yureka name in the real world is Jaeha. Jaeha was a skilled hacker that worked as a "killer", a person on the net that attacked corrupt politicians or businessman, putting them in a coma-like state. It turns out Jaeha's parents were tricked by such people, causing them to commit suicide and attempt to kill her as well. She wanted to become a "killer" to gain revenge on that man. After losing her card, she found that Yureka existed and watched her and Roto as entertainment. As time progressed, she focused more and more on Yureka's life, interfering with her job, making her partner Elca angry. They later realized that Roto was learning too much of Yureka's programming, so they decided to separate them, causing Jaeha to kill Yureka. But it was too late, as Jaeha was in love with Roto, and was jealous of Yureka's relationship with him. Later when Yureka was revived, Yureka and Jaeha share the same body, but their separate psyches create conflict, as they both love Roto and they want to be loved by him. So much that Yureka has been suppressing Jaeha's will.

Kwan-Su (Boromir)
Hangul: 관수

Class: Priest (Temple Knight)

Sub-Class: Warrior

Occupation: High School Junior

The master level priest (later temple knight) of Team Triple Threat, Boromir is frequently the comic relief, and most likely the weakest member of his team. Unlike Roto, he enjoys the attention of girls his age, and is constantly frustrated as they all flock around his apathetic friend- he fancies himself a ladies' man, but he's really just a big pervert. He upskirts various female NPCs as an in-game hobby, and his reputation in the game as a result is dismal. As Triple Threat's only healer, his role is very important- but then again, he's not the best healer around, since his first instinct in a fight is to run for the exit. But despite this he is very skilled, even giving Aradon a hard time. He is very cowardly, mostly having his friends fight on the front lines. He has openly said he uses them as meat shields. But he has great care for his friends, if one of them is killed off, he goes in a rage, and is willing to do a suicide attack to get revenge. He prefers to fight with maces, but has been seen dual-wielding ogre scimitars, or using the Priest-class master item, Mjollnir (a lightning-based hammer with awesome power). In Lost Saga, a Priest is similar to a White Mage.

Boromid also frequently breaks the fourth wall. He seems to be aware that he is a character in a manhwa, and often complains about poor exposure and lack of splash pages.

Outside the US, Boromid is named "Boromir".

Woon-Suk (Ah-Dol)
Hangul: 운석

Class: Master Level Warrior (Force Master)

Sub-Class: Sorcerer

Occupation: High School Junior

Ah-Dol is the warrior of Team Triple Threat. Unlike his two friends, Boromid and Roto, he is stoic, and doesn't excite as easily as the others- unless his brother's avatar, Alpha, happens to be around. He is very hotheaded He tends to be the only thing preventing Boromid and Roto from attempting to kill each other. Also unlike his allies, he shuns weapons such as swords and maces as he prefers instead to move in close and pummel his enemies with his knuckle dusters. His sub-class is sorcerer, as he would like to use elemental-based skills like Magma Punch.

Aradon the Black
Title: Magic Sword Master

Class: Sorcerer

First Sub-Class: Swordmaster (Master level)

Second Sub-class: Warrior (Master level)

Aradon is famous for being a bounty hunter, hunting down player killers for a reward, as well as being one of the fastest player ever to reach master level. He is the first player to ever obtain two master levels and later first to reach a third achieving rank as a master sorcerer, a master swordsman and master warrior status. He teams up with the mysterious Alpha for the Luciferian Double Trouble Team Tournament. He wields both the magical Sword of Harmony which he uses to channel and control the elements and the master-level Warrior/Sorcerer weapon Gladiat, the Sword of Light. He is commented on during the series to be very handsome, and has captured the heart of NPC Miss Piri, whom Roto loves. In one of the recent chapters of "Yureka," Aradon is seen wearing a high school uniform, with Olyus catching up to him. His real identity, however, remains vague.

Il-Ban
A master-level Anti-Priest (also known as Dark Priest), which is a combination of a master level Necromancer and a master level Priest. He is not featured largely in the series until Volume 6. Capri (the player who mentioned him earlier and a good friend of Il-Ban) also referred to how Il-Ban helped him out earlier on in the game, contradicting his title "Dark Priest of the Dragon Lands," and his physical appearance (he is menacing looking, with an inverted cross on his forehead). Il-Ban later explains what constitutes a Dark Priest, when he resurrects Rapha as a Night Shade (a spirit-type monster). Il-Ban is intimate with the workings and events of the game, and may have connections to the company. He also met with Alpha (during a flashback) and is the one who dubbed him a ranger. In the past, he was known as the "ruler" of the Dragonlands, and he was a very well known Player Killer. He hardly participated in the battle to defeat the Demon King, and it was implied that he was involved in a plot to destroy Lost Saga. Later it's revealed that in real life, he is actually a programmer that works for Dexon's competitor, Mega Entertainment (Dexon is the creator of Lost Saga). Il-Ban plays Lost Saga to study the fundamentals of the game for the purpose of his own work, not to have fun. As such, he has a very strong knowledge of the game mechanics. Il-Ban is involved in a plot to cripple Lost Saga before the impending merger between Dexon's and Mega Entertainment's respective games, thus giving Mega Entertainment a large advantage. As part of his plot, Il-Ban has created an AI character named Ban, that is based on a combination between the powers of Yureka and Ijoyen/Neogia.

Basara
One of the master level players, and is considered the best player in Lost Saga (the game): He soloed a difficult dungeon known as the Tower of Terror to properly gauge the power of his two swords to find the stronger, the latter being discarded on the spot despite being worth 700,000 gold. He extremely despises people who attack his "prey" and is even willing to break player-killing laws in order to dispense his own version of "justice". He is brash and hotheaded as seen when he attempts to kill Roto and company for taking his route for the quest. Later, thanks to Roto's backstabbing, Basara got turned into stone by Cube. Later on however, he is able to break free. He then goes on to defeat the Demon King who was thought to be invincible. He is later seen to be killed by Slayan at the end of chapter 147, after his defeat he is found by jijon jang and dragon lands Phuan. in a deep depression, although they don't know its him.

Extra note: according to the profiles in the manga, Basara "Enjoys long walks on the beach. Alone."

"Mistress Orugazi"
The first master-level witch Roto meets in the series so far, she has a flying broomstick which she uses to evade attacks while she casts her spells. She teams with Row in the Double Trouble Tournament, but is beaten by Roto in the first round. Later, she has a change of heart and joins Row in defending Nomal City from the monster horde. She possesses great magical power as seen when she can unleash Meteo, a powerful spell that summons meteors to crush foes.

Team Fallen Angels
A team of master-level thieves- make that treasure hunters- who are a pair of sibling pop stars ("The Lovely Angels") out of the game. They have the tricky task of juggling celebrity status with devotion to the game.

Jin-Mee (K.C.)
Hangul: 진미

A master-level Thief and one half of the Team. She and her sister Gina (or her game name, Julie) are also the famous pop group known as "The Lovely Angels". Her master-class item is a bandanna that allows her to become invisible. She is also skilled in Lair's wire, which is barely visible wire used by high-level thieves to hold down foes or protect areas. She is latter killed by a mysterious character who has also a master level thief because he also has the bandana.

Gina (Julie)
Hangul: 진아

Another master level thief and Jin-Mee/ K.C.'s sister. She is the other half of both "The Fallen Angels" and "The Lovely Angels". She uses her master-class item, a remote-controlled boomerang to kill her foes. She is also skilled in using poisons on her weapons.

Da-Bin Yun (Rapha)
Hangul: 윤 다빈

Class: Cleric

Offline, Da-Bin is a 16-year-old student attending "Beautiful Star Middle School". She has a girlish crush on her NPC guardian, John, which enables them to do things in-game previously thought impossible. As a Cleric, Rapha is around 80th level prior to her fight with Roto, and substantially below that in the Monster Island Arc. The reason for this is that among the many powerful heals and buffs in Rapha's arsenal, she has a revival prayer- Sacrifice- which she uses to bring back John at the cost of her own stats. This sets off an easter egg which temporarily increased John's abilities significantly, even high enough to slay the Ancient Dragon Lord Matria, a boss thought by most users to be impossible to kill.

Mun-Suk Sim (Myriah)
Hangul: 심 문숙

Class: Beastmistress

Occupation: Student/Debugger/Admin/Deva

A 17-year-old student and part-time employee for Dexon Corp, she has a serious grudge against Team Triple Threat (who has dubbed her "Medusa), after they ruined her life during a power play session. She is technically a debugger, but when in the game, she has powers like that of a Beastmaster.

Myriah remembers just why she hates Team Triple Threat during an out-of-game chat with her friend, the niece of Dexon's CEO. When she was a regular player, she was an accomplished Beastmistress with a populated menagerie of mythical beasts, like griffins and manticores. Tragically, Team Triple Threat happened to be levelbusting nearby, and burned the barn down for the loot and experience points.

Jun-Suk Hwang (Row-the-Mighty)
Hangul: 황 준석 Class: Swordmaster

Row starts out as an arrogant weakling who only serves to annoy Team Triple Threat, but he gains strength and courage throughout the series and turns hero in Volume 8, where he tries to single-handedly protect Nomal City from a horde of monsters. He gives Yureka her first copycatted move, a shockwave-type attack he calls Sword Pulse Wave (like an Air Render). He was awarded Master-Class in volume 9 but was killed from behind by a lesser dragon while celebrating. Unbelievably, he then bravely logged back in to continue the defense of the city at the cost of his master level. His noble sacrifice inspires others including Woon-Ha(Alpha) to aid in his cause and defend Nomal City.

At master level, he chose the Orichalcon Sword instead of Gladiat, saying it was more his style. The sword lost its power and broke when he attempted to use it below master level after logging back in. He does appear to receive a new one, however, as he is seen with the Oricahlcon Sword when attempting to protect Miss Piri from a dangerous PK named Slayan.

During the event Last Memory, he is wounded by the same Slayan, which makes him blind, and due to the impossibility to disconnect in order to heal, he is forced to learn how to fight in this state. By the end of a short training with Whan, he took back most of his combat abilities and realize that this ways of playing offers him another dimension of the game.

Woon-Ha Sung (Alpha)
Hangul: 성 운하

Age: 22

Occupation: Net Room Proprietor

Class: Ranger or Ninja (Depends on who you ask)

Ah-Dol's older brother in the real world, he is a self-proclaimed 'ninja' in the world of Lost Saga. In reality (inside Lost Saga), he is what is termed a ranger, a player who has obtained a variety of obscure and eccelastic skills from other classes to enrich his playing experience. Even though he isn't master level, the combined level of all his skills is over 200, which rivals that of a double master. This was enough for Aradon to choose him as a partner in the Double Trouble Tournament. In the past, he was strong enough to fight the player-killer Anti-Priest Il-Ban to a draw. He also saved John's life in the Double Trouble Tournament after the match with the Fallen Angels, with an arcane "Poison Identification" skill. He has many "unique" skills and chose to protect Nomal City using the identity of Sauel Abi Beta(or Saurabi Beta), using a new look and choosing martial arts over ninja skills after Il-Ban's disclaimer. He keeps changing his character's appearance and goes on to use the names Gamma and Delta also. Alpha also plays under the ID Omega on Cyber Quest, a competitor game to Lost Saga, and is known as one of the best players of the game. Ah-Dol went berserk when Woon-Ha supposedly "died", at the hands of Yureka's creator Jaeha. He managed to infect Jaeha with an anti-kill virus which instead gave people game overs. It's also suggested he might be a Hacker, or a Bounty Hunter.

Olios
Class: Archer

Per the U.S. releases, very little is known about Olios other than that he discovered the Thirsty Hill entrance to Monster Island and has deadly aim with any sort of projectile weapon, be it greatbow or rifle. He gets along with Aradon moderately well. He is also a player of Force Recon, which is where he met Roto, and is apparently the only person ever to get a clean head shot on him.

It is often noted by his fellow characters that the "arrows" which he uses in conjunction with his massive greatbow are more accurately described as spears.

Slayan
Class: Thief

Sub-Class: Unknown

A unknown player who was first seen in chapter 144 encountering number 8, Seidus "class: Archer". This player is extremely strong, he is able to kill many players, as well as being able to follow them without them knowing. Slayan's main weapon is the strange gauntlets that he uses in all fights but later revealed in chapter 148 that he has the scarf of invisibility, portraying that he is a master class thief. In chapter 164 it is revealed that there are 3 Slayans, all master level Thieves using the invisibility scarf to attack opponents at the same time and make it appear that to their opponents that Slayan is so fast that he can attack from many different angles before they can even turn around. The Slayan trio was revealed to be Cyber Quest players who wanted to sabotage Lost Saga's reincarnation system so that Cyber Quest would have a huge advantage in the impending merger. Two Slayans were revealed to be brothers, and the much stronger third one (who later named himself Ban) was an AI created by Il-Ban. Ban has the power of all classes at master level and was given powers that were based on a combination between Yureka and Ijoyen/Neogia.

Known Battles Note: Numbers represent the now abolished ranking in the Land of Dragons, PK zone. Names listed on the same line are players fought in the same battle.
 * #10
 * #9
 * Seidius, Archer, #8
 * K.C, Thief
 * Row, Swordsman (the only player who was not defeated)
 * Whan, Swordsman, #4
 * Lotto, Wizard/ Archmage
 * Aradon, Magic Gladiator
 * Olios, Archer; Remi, Warrior, #7
 * Hata; Rasbal, Beastmaster, #6
 * Basara, Gladiator

Piri
Piri is a NPC character whose Roto crushed on but fell in love on Aradon. She is a NPC shopkeeper. Later in the chapter titled "this story again" on the last pages it shows a woman who looks like Piri lying in a bed hooked up to machines. This implies that she may have been a victim of a "killer"; seeing as she was in the same state as Jaeha who was killed by Elca. Later it shows that Piri, ingame as the shopkeeper, also has a key like many of regular players of Lost Saga.

Classes
Single Classes
 * Alchemist
 * Archer
 * Assassin
 * Beast Master
 * Cleric
 * Freelancer
 * Mage
 * Necromancer
 * Pikeman
 * Priest
 * Swordsman
 * Thief
 * Warrior
 * Witch

Double Classes
 * Force Master (Master Warrior and Mage)
 * Dark/ Anti Priest (Master Necromancer and Priest)
 * Temple Knight (Master Priest and Warrior)
 * Wizard/ Archmage (Master Mage and partially mastered Swordsman)
 * Magic Sword Master (Master Swordsman and Mage)
 * Sword Master (Master Freelancer and Swordsman)
 * Gladiator (Master Warrior and Sword Master)

Class Breakers
 * Ranger (high levels in most classes; only ever achieved by the character Alpha, who pioneered it in an attempt to be a ninja)

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Otto-Wagner-Spital

The Otto-Wagner-Spital (Otto Wagner Hospital) is a hospital in Vienna, Austria. It was originally a psychiatric hospital and center for pulmonology.

The hospital lies in Steinhof, an area of the 14th district of Vienna, Penzing, and was built according to the plans of architect Otto Wagner and opened in 1907. The building is made up of 60 pavilions that were designed by Carlo von Boog. The Kirche am Steinhof is located at the center of the compound. An art nouveau theater is found further on the grounds.

In 2000, five health facilities were consolidated under the label Sozialmedizinisches Zentrum Baumgartner Höhe - Otto Wagner Spital mit Pflegezentrum (Baumgartner Höhe Social Medicine Center - Otto Wagner Hospital and Care Center). The five facilities are

The center also hosts the Gedenkstätte zur Geschichte der NS-Medizin in Wien (Memorial to the History of Nazi-Medicine in Vienna) memorial and exhibition, which opened in 2002.
 * Förderpflegeheim Baumgartner Höhe (advancing care)
 * Neurologisches Krankenhaus Maria-Theresien-Schlössl (neurology)
 * Pflegeheim Sanatoriumstraße (nursing care)
 * Psychiatrisches Krankenhaus Baumgartner Höhe (psychiatry)
 * Pulmologisches Zentrum Baumgartner Höhe (pulmonology).

During the Second World War, 789 children were tortured and murdered in the Children's Ward of the hospital.

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Hawkesbury River railway station

Hawkesbury River railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Main Northern and Central Coast–Newcastle lines in Brooklyn in the Hornsby Shire local government area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The station serves the town of Brooklyn and is located on the southern bank of the Hawkesbury River. It was designed and build by the Department of Railways New South Wales. It is also known as Hawkesbury River Railway Station group and Brooklyn Station. The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

History

The Main Northern line between Sydney and Newcastle was constructed in two distinct stages and in the earliest years, was worked as two separate railway systems. The line between Sydney (actually the junction at Strathfield) and the Hawkesbury River was opened on 7 April 1887, with the terminus being on the southern bank of the Hawkesbury River. The line between Newcastle and the northern bank of the Hawkesbury River (near present-day Wondabyne) was opened in January 1888.

The line was completed through between Sydney and Newcastle with the opening of the Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge in 1889. The Hawkesbury River railway station is presently located on the Northern line between Cowan railway station and Wondabyne railway station.

The single-line section between Hornsby and the Hawkesbury River was opened for traffic on 7 April 1887. Separate side platforms were provided at the-then terminus, one for each of the future Up and Down lines in preparation for the forthcoming planned duplication of the Northern line. Completion of the bridge over the Hawkesbury River was still two years away and the station facilities provided at Hawkesbury River remained in use to serve as the railway terminus until the opening of the bridge. The construction name of Hawkesbury River was Flat Rock. The station was opened as Peats Ferry, renamed Brooklyn (1888), Hawkesbury River (1889), Hawkesbury (1890), finally reverting to Hawkesbury River in October 1906. Reflecting the confusion in the timetables, the station was known locally as Peats Ferry, Flat Rock, and Brooklyn in the early years, depending on whom one spoke to.

Whilst the main line terminated at Hawkesbury River, an arrangement of trackwork, sidings and platforms was provided on the causeway formed by reclaimed land on the eastern side of Long Island where the new Long Island tunnel had been constructed. The station was known as "River Wharf" and the tracks terminated at a wharf at the edge of the waterway. The purpose of the arrangement was to allow transhipment between the railways and river ferries, thus allowing passengers to cross the waterway, to another wharf on the northern side of the river, while the Hawkesbury River Bridge was under construction. Hawkesbury River became a popular destination for day trippers and fishermen, outstripping the capacity of the original timber platform building. This was replaced in 1903 with the current brick building, which is of the type that had recently been adopted as the standard construction for island platforms.

In the single line era, Hawkesbury River Station comprised two timber platforms, one for each of the Down main and Up main line. A timber station building was provided on the Up platform. By 1912, duplication was extended to Hawkesbury River and the layout had changed. An island platform and standard brick station building had been provided, refuge sidings, loops and goods sidings had been laid in, all controlled by interlocking and a signal box on the platform. A footbridge and stairs allowed access to the platform.

In subsequent years, increased rail traffic resulted in constant re-modelling, improvement and updating of railway facilities at Hawkesbury River to cater for bank engines (which assisted up trains from Hawkesbury River to Cowan) and longer and heavier trains. Signalling and interlocking was improved as a result.

Electrification of the Hornsby–Gosford section was opened in 1960. The first stage of the project was the electrification of the Hornsby to Hawkesbury River section and this was opened into Hawkesbury River on 12 April 1959. As part of this scheme, the platforms, overbridges, underbridge, footbridges and other structures were modified or rebuilt to accommodate the wide electric rollingstock, planned to operate between Hornsby and Cowan.

The station footbridge was raised for electrification. The electrification at Hawkesbury River saw the demise of steam locomotive bank engines, replaced by electric locomotives. As a result, modifications and improvements were carried out to trackwork, sidings and signalling to suit the use of electric locomotives and the future operation of stainless steel electric interurban car sets on passenger trains.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, most station buildings on the northern line between Hornsby and Newcastle were further rebuilt with modern materials, a result of the extension of electrification from Gosford to Newcastle. However, the brick station building at Hawkesbury River is extant, although some additional awnings and structures have been added on the platform. The station steps have been rebuilt with modern materials. In 1987, the station featured in Jimmy Barnes' Music Video of his song 'I'm Still on Your Side' from his album Freight Train Heart. It also featured in episodes 885 and 886 of the soap opera Home and Away.

At Hawkesbury River, the signal box at the Hornsby-end of the station building was closed at the time of the upgrading, with all signals being controlled by a control centre at Hornsby.

A southbound passing loop exists to the east of the station. Immediately south of the station is the 8.6 km Cowan Bank.

In February 2021, an upgrade with two new lifts was completed.

River Wharf platform
Associated with the Hawkesbury River railway station is the now defunct River Wharf railway station. This was located on the eastern end of Long Island, across the causeway linking Long Island with the mainland and was in use from at least 15 August 1887. River Wharf was the terminus of the northern line until the first Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge opened in 1889. During its operation, trains would disgorge passengers and goods here for transfer to the General Gordon paddle steamer.

They would then be transported out into Broken Bay and up to Woy Woy station from where they would rejoin a train for their onward journey north. This inconvenience was alleviated somewhat when the Woy Woy Tunnel was opened and the line extended south to another defunct platform named Mullet Creek, that was in the general vicinity of the present day Wondabyne station, in January 1889, as this meant the General Gordon only had to cross the Hawkesbury River and travel up Mullet Creek a few kilometres.

The down platform is still extant on Long Island, although the wharf and other infrastructure associated with the station has been removed.

Platforms and services
Hawkesbury River has one island platform with two sides. It is serviced by NSW TrainLink Central Coast & Newcastle Line services travelling from Sydney to Newcastle.

Transport links
CDC NSW operates one bus route via Hawkesbury River station, under contract to Transport for NSW:
 * 592: Hornsby station to Mooney Mooney

Description
The complex comprises a type 11 station building, including a former signal box, erected in 1910; the platform, completed in 1887; a footbridge, completed in 1910; a wharf; a store room, completed in c. 1930; a water spout; and moveable heritage items.

The Hawkesbury River Station is located at the north-western edge of Brooklyn immediately adjacent to the commercial strip and Brooklyn Marina. It is connected to Long Island to the north via a land bridge (containing rail line and road). It sits within a railway precinct that includes a range of railway workers accommodation to the south of the station on both sides of the line. The station commands impressive views of the Hawkesbury River to the east and west and Long Island to the north.
 * Context

The 1910 Hawkesbury River Station is an island station building, located between the Up and Down lines. It is a single-storey face brick building with a corrugated iron gable roof. On each platform is a large awning, supported on cast iron brackets, which are in turn supported on painted stone brackets, which are part of brick engaged piers of the station building. The station building features rendered detailing including cornices, architraves, string-courses and sill, some extant tuck-pointing, timber-framed double-hung sashed windows with the upper sashes retaining coloured glass panes. The building is circled by a concrete box drain with cast iron grate covering. Some of the doorsteps are standard concrete with metal foot scraper inserts. Attached to the southern end of the building is a former signal box with large sliding windows. The signal box has rendered external walls.
 * Station building including the formal signal box

Internally, the building has painted plaster walls, painted joinery of a high quality and ceilings of ripple iron or fibrous plaster sheeting. The floors are all wooden. The waiting room retains its original fitted timber seating. The male and female lavatories retain their original configuration and timber partitions, with tiled finishes and fittings dating from c.1950. All of the office furniture and fittings as well as the ticket window are modern. There is evidence of a former fireplace in the former Station Master's office and an original cast iron safe. Some original four panel doors are extant.

The 1897 platform is located between the Up and Down lines and curves in a gentle crescent facing west. Some of the faces are face brick, particularly on the Down line, while the faces of the Up line are entirely modern and concrete. There is standard modern railway furniture, bins and fences on the platform. The Up platform has a WWII honour roll board and cast iron drinking fountain.
 * Platform

At the northern end of the platform there is a steel truss footbridge dating from the early 20th century, though somewhat modified with the addition of an upper half truss, steel beams and concrete deck and stairs (dating from the late 20th century). The footbridge goes from Brooklyn Road in the east, across the lines to the platform and the wharf.
 * Footbridge

A small timber wharf sits on the western side of the station immediately north of the footbridge.
 * Wharf

At the southern end of the platform is a single-storey, c. 1930s, brick building with a tiled gable roof. It is currently used for staff facilities.
 * Store room

South of the platform between the Up line and siding is a water spout, originally used for the supply of water for steam locomotives. It is a cast iron structure on a concrete base with a timber platform and sheet metal spout, pivoting on a gear mechanism with a counter weight.
 * Water spout

Moveable items include a World War II honour roll and cast iron drinking fountain on platforms, a collection of historic photographs in waiting room corridor, and an original cast iron safe in former Station Master's Office.
 * Moveable heritage

Condition
The station building including the former signal box is in very good condition. Also in very good condition are the platform and footbridge. The wharf is in very poor condition. The store room is in good condition and the water spout is in poor condition, rusted through on the spout.

The station group is intact and maintains its historic relationship with the Hawkesbury River setting, the Long Island Group, the current and former Hawkesbury River Rail Bridges and workers accommodation in Brooklyn township.

The station building is intact with most original fittings and fixtures. The footbridge has been raised to accommodate electric trains, but maintains its original steel support structure.

Modifications and dates
In 1960, electrification of the Hornsby-Gosford section of the line was completed. The station footbridge was raised, and modifications and improvements were carried out to trackwork, sidings and signalling to suit the use of electric locomotives and the future operation of stainless steel electric interurban car sets on passenger trains. The signal box was closed. In the late 1980s and early 1990s some additional awnings and structures have been added on the platform. The station steps have been rebuilt with modern materials.

Heritage listing
Hawkesbury Railway Station has State significance. The station group has an outstanding degree of aesthetic significance. It has a particularly picturesque setting on the edge of the Hawkesbury, with views over the water to the east and west and to Long Island to the north. The station affords a view of the land bridge between Brooklyn and Long Island and the portals of the current and former Long Island tunnels, providing a rare opportunity to easily view some of the technical achievements of the Short North line construction. Its waterside setting is unusual and as such it is one of the most picturesque station settings in NSW.

Hawkesbury River Station has historical associations with the construction of the Short North line in the late 1880s and the Hawkesbury River Bridge in 1889, which was a major event and a significant engineering achievement in the history of NSW railways. The station facilitated the development of Brooklyn as a settlement for workers constructing the line and the station forms part of an extensive railway landscape of outstanding significance clustered around the Hawkesbury River, which includes the Long Island tunnels and maintenance depot, the current and former Hawkesbury River railway bridges and worker accommodation in Brooklyn township.

The platform building, island platform and footbridge are representative of structures built at Sydney railway stations between 1892 and 1929 and especially the period between 1909 and 1917. The station building is a good representative example of its type due to its high degree of intactness and integrity.

Hawkesbury River railway station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.

The place is important in demonstrating the course, or pattern, of cultural or natural history in New South Wales.

The Hawkesbury River Railway Station was the terminus for the first section of the Short North from Strathfield for two years until the first Hawkesbury River bridge was completed in 1889. As such it has historic associations with the rail linkage of Sydney and Newcastle, which was a major event in the history of NSW railways. It forms part of a significant railway landscape including the Long Island Maintenance Depot, land bridge and tunnels, the current and former Hawkesbury River Rail bridges and railway worker accommodation in Brooklyn township.

The station facilitated the development of Brooklyn as a settlement for workers constructing the line. The associated housing (not owned by RailCorp) increases the significance of the Brooklyn Railway precinct, representing the provision of railway workers accommodation for construction and permanent ongoing operation of the railway, a practice that is no longer occurring.

Like many historic railway stations in NSW the station complex is able to evoke a former era of travel, communication and trade. This is heightened by the presence of a water spout at the southern end of the station from the former days of steam powered railway travel and the jetty, which forms an interface between transport on land and sea.

The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales.

The station group has an outstanding degree of aesthetic significance. It has a particularly picturesque setting on the edge of the Hawkesbury, with views over the water to the east and west and to Long Island to the north. The station affords a view of the land bridge between Brooklyn and Long Island and the portals of the current and former Long Island tunnels, providing a rare opportunity to easily view some of the technical achievements of the Short North line construction. Its waterside setting is unusual and as such it is one of the most picturesque station settings in NSW.

The station building is an example of early twentieth century railway station design with fabric and details typical of this period and is similar to other rail buildings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the Sydney region.

The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group in New South Wales for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.

The place has the potential to contribute to the local community's sense of place and can provide a connection to the local community's history.

The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.

The Hawkesbury River station complex is a common station Type 11 (standard A8-10), well represented elsewhere in the Sydney metro network. Its waterside setting is however rare, providing one of the most picturesque station settings in NSW.

The station group also forms part of an unusual late nineteenth and early twentieth century railway landscape of outstanding significance clustered around the Hawkesbury River, which includes the Long Island tunnels and maintenance depot, the current and former Hawkesbury River railway bridges and worker accommodation in Brooklyn township.

The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales.

The platform building, island platform and footbridge are representative of structures built at Sydney railway stations between 1892 and 1929 and especially the period between 1909 and 1917. The station building is a good representative example of Type A8-10 stations due to its high degree of intactness and integrity.

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Hdamm is Heinrich Damm from Aachen, Germany

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Tascott railway station

Tascott railway station is located on the Main Northern line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the southern Central Coast suburb of Tascott opening in October 1905.

Platforms and services
Tascott has two side platforms that are about 2 cars long. It is serviced by NSW TrainLink Central Coast & Newcastle Line services travelling from Sydney Central to Newcastle.

Transport links
Busways operates two bus routes via Tascott station, under contract to Transport for NSW:
 * 55: Gosford station to Ettalong Beach
 * 70: Gosford Hospital to Ettalong Beach

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ID eNTITY

 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 keep. humblefool®Deletion Reform 01:38, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

ID eNTITY
This article was speedy deleted as nonsense, but was undeleted after discussion at WP:VFU. This appears to be some sort of cartoon. I myself am unsure of whether this cartoon is notable so no vote. If kept the article will need some wikifikation/cleanup. Sjakkalle (Check!)  10:46, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. This is an internationally published graphic novel.  The article needs work, but it's a legitimate stub, mistaken for "nonsense" by Hedley (who subsequently voted for its undeletion).  Please see the VfU and my discussion with Hedley for more details.  —Lifeisunfair 12:09, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep per Lifeisunfair. - Mgm|(talk) 20:42, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep I already said I'd fix it up and such... I'm planning on doing it when I get back home from Connecticut on Friday of next week. Solomaxwell 23:06, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

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List of The Bill episodes

This is a list of episodes of The Bill, which ran from 16 August 1983 to 31 August 2010. 26 series were made.

Cancellation
On 26 March 2010, ITV announced that The Bill would end after 27 years on air due to a drop in ratings, and on 31 August 2010, the final episode, Respect: Part 2 was aired, bringing the total number of episodes to 2425.

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Talk:Possum Lodge

In "Duct Tape Forever", it is mentioned that Possum Lake is 145 beer stores from Toronto. The figure 145 may be off a bit. Does anyone know the value mentioned?, and place it in the article.

Cdnguye192 21:42, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Someone has removed a fair bit of the article, I'm going to revision and place the rest of the article where it belongs, if no one minds. And I never watched Duct Tape Forever, so I can't include that in the article. Sorry.

Rewrite
I rewrote and trimmed this article in an effort to get rid of the "needs revision" tag. Cleaned up grammar, and deleted descriptions of characters which are simply repeats of information in the Red Green Show article. Changed stub tag to more specific category. I never saw the show, but it sounds hilarious. Hope this helps. Cmichael 19:17, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

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Wamsutta

Wamsutta (c. 1634–1662), also known as Alexander Pokanoket, as he was called by New England colonists, was the eldest son of Massasoit (meaning Great Leader) Ousa Mequin of the Pokanoket Tribe and Wampanoag nation, and brother of Metacomet.

Life

Wamsutta was born circa 1634 as the eldest son of Massasoit Ousa Mequin, leader of the Pokanoket. Wamsutta married Weetamoo.

After Massasoit's death, Wamsutta assumed leadership of the Pokanoket, becoming leader of all the Native American tribes between the Charles River in Massachusetts and Narraganset Bay in Rhode Island, including the tribes in eastern Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts. Wamsutta, whom the English named Alexander, agreed to adhere to the peace established by his father. As a result of a collapse of the fur trade, he substantially increased the power of the Pokanoket by selling land to colonists. However, rumors soon began to circulate that he was conspiring with the Narragansetts to attack the English. In 1662, the English accused Wamsutta of independently negotiating land sales. In 1662, he was summoned to and seized by the Plymouth Court. After being questioned, Wamsutta became ill and soon died.

The cause of death was disputed, and Wamsutta's brother Metacomet (who succeeded Wamsutta in leadership of the Pokanoket) suspected that he had been poisoned. Wamsutta's death was one of the factors that would eventually lead to the 1675 King Philip's War. Some historians believe Wamsutta was poisoned or tortured by Governor Josiah Winslow, who saw him as a threat; however, considering Winslow's father, Edward Winslow, and Governor William Bradford (both of whom had died before this), and their previous peaceful relations with Wamsutta's father, Massasoit, such speculation is open to question. This issue is examined in the 2017 historical novel "My Father's Kingdom" by James W. George.

Metacomet (or Metacom), known as King Philip to the colonists and officials at Plymouth, signed an agreement with the English in 1662. Like Wamsutta and his father before him, Philip vowed not to needlessly or unjustly provoke or raise war with any other natives. In return, the colonists agreed to advise and aid Philip. However, it was an uneasy alliance and hostilities between natives and colonists continued to grow.

Legacy
Wamsutta has been the namesake of businesses and places:
 * In 1846, the Wamsutta Company's textile mill opened in New Bedford.
 * In 1861, 20-year-old Henry H. Rogers and his partner Charles Ellis of Massachusetts named their tiny venture near Oil City, Pennsylvania, the Wamsutta Oil Refinery. Rogers later became a principal in John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil empire.
 * USS Wamsutta was the name of a United States Navy steamer in commission from 1863 to 1865.
 * In 1866, the Wamsutta Club was founded in New Bedford. It was a club for the affluent residents, who had generally made their money from the flagging whaling industry, as well as the up-and-coming textiles, for which the club was named.
 * 1945-1975, Camp Wamsutta, a summer camp, operated in Charlton, Massachusetts.
 * Post-1975, Wamsutta Estates is a residential development in Charlton, Massachusetts.
 * In 1997, the Wamsutta Middle School was built in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
 * In modern times, Wamsutta is a brand name of textile products marketed by Springs Global.
 * Wamsutta trail on Mount Washington, NH

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Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/2

L.A.'s Second Wikipedia Meetup
L.A.'s second Wiki meetup will be on Monday, September 26, 2005 at 7:30pm.

Please indicate your intent to attend by adding your name to the section below.

Whichever location has the most votes on September 19, 2005 will be the site of L.A. Meetup #2.

Intent to Attend
Please indicate your Intent to attend as a percentage (i.e., 100% would be certain attendance, 0% would be certain non-attendance, 50% if you have no idea either way) We are using Approval voting. Each voter may vote for as many options as they wish, at most once per option. This means that whichever location gets the most total votes wins (this also makes it easier to select a runner-up location if the primary choice is unavailable to us).

Mark an X under Interested in being a Host if you'd like to help organize the gathering (hosts help everyone find each other at the meetup location, and start the introductions and such)

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Talk:Mamluk dynasty (Delhi)

Mamluk Sultanate Cairo
Should someone put a 'not to be confused with Mamluk Sultanate Cairo" link here?

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What is the name of Balban's wife

Clarity on Nasiruddin mohammed accession on throne
as per your article on alauddin masud, he was succedded nasiruddin. but how can it be possible if he died in 1229 AD i Bengal as per your article on iitutmish?

WP:INDIA Banner/Delhi Addition
Note: WP India Project Banner with Delhi workgroup parameters was added to this article talk page because the article falls under Category:Delhi or its subcategories. Should you feel this addition is inappropriate, please undo my changes and update/remove the relavent categories to the article -- Amartyabag   TALK2ME  15:46, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Map incorrect
The map is grossly incorrect. Nepal was not under Mamluk dynasty ever, neither under Sultanet of Delhi. See History of Nepal for further details.--Eukesh (talk) 07:24, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Role in protection of Islam
It is notable that the Mamluk Sultanate in India played an active role in the protection and preservation of Islam as the whole of the middle east was overrun by the Mongols. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 223.29.197.13 (talk) 03:24, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

This needs some heavy tone checking
I'm not an editor so I don't know exactly what to say here, but this definitely needs a warning banner about how it might not have an appropriately encyclopedic tone (and maybe some other warning banners). Talking about Turks being brutish and calling the dynasty the "Slave dynasty" doesn't seem to be handled appropriately. 173.29.22.129 (talk) 02:23, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Missing wikilink
This article is missing a wikilink to Indian campaigns of Muhammad of Ghor, which has important background information directly relevant to this article, as the actions taken by Mohammad of Ghor are foundational to the creation of this dynasty. If it is not immediately obvious where to put it in the text, it could start as a "See also" section entry. --174.17.171.14 (talk) 05:00, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

 * , put in See Also section. Cheers!  Coco bb8  (💬 talk to me! • ✏ my contributions) 17:13, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

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Blood Money (video game)

Blood Money is a 1989 side-scrolling shooter video game developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis. It was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS in 1989, and for the Commodore 64 in 1990. The game is set in four different locations on a planet, where the player must fight off enemies and bosses.

The game began development immediately after Menace, and borrowed similar gameplay elements. The development team used advanced hardware to develop Blood Money, using improved graphical and technological processes. The game was inspired by the presentation of Mr. Heli, and the animations of Blood Money would later inspire the development of Lemmings. The game was released to positive reviews; praise was given to the game's graphics and gameplay. The game was commercially successful, selling over 40,000 copies.

Gameplay

Blood Money is a 2D side-scrolling shooter. The player moves through four stages on the planet, taking control of a different vehicle in each level: a helicopter in the metal world, a submarine in a water world, a spacesuit in an ice world, and a fighter jet in a fire world. Each vehicle features unique weaponry, which the player uses to attack all advancing enemies. The player can upgrade their vehicle with power-ups, which grant them additional weapons and upgrades, such as support missiles and neutron bombs.

The vehicles' energy acts as the player's health, and is depleted when the vehicle makes contact with enemies and walls. When all energy is lost, the player lose a life; three lives are provided at the beginning of the game, and additional lives can be bought in a shop at certain points in the levels. Money for the shop can be collected when destroying enemies. When all three lives are lost, the game ends and the player are sent to a score result screen. The first two levels may be selected from the beginning of the game; after one level is complete, the player can select any remaining world without restrictions. At the end of each level, the player must defeat a boss.

Development
Following the successful release of Menace in 1988, David Jones began developing Blood Money on 4 January 1989, on the 25 MHz 386-DX computer that publisher Psygnosis granted him, alongside a personal development system. Jones saw Blood Money as a continuation of the concept used in Menace. Jones was heavily inspired by the "cuteness" of Mr. Heli (1987) during the development of Blood Money. The game's cover art was designed by British artist Peter Andrew Jones for the novel Protector (1973) by Larry Niven, and was adapted for the game's cover.

With Blood Money, Jones was determined to use the full colour range of the Amiga, opting to use the blitter as opposed to the hardware scrolling; the blitter allowed graphics to be drawn quickly. Tony Smith, who had worked on Menace, produced the graphics for Blood Money, while Jones began work on a new scrolling system. While developing his own game, Talisman, Mike Dailly created a compact method to move enemies on-screen, which Jones incorporated into Blood Money. The game's animations fascinated Jones's friend Gary Timmons, who then began experimenting with Deluxe Paint; his work on the program led to his employment at DMA Design, and inspired some of the animations used in DMA's next game, Walker (1993). The game's introduction required a star field, which Jones took from a quick demonstration that Dailly had been working on.

Blood Money was released for the Amiga on 19 April 1989. A port for the Atari ST, developed by Jones's friend Wayne Smithson, was released in September 1989, while an MS-DOS port by Tim Ansell of Creative Assembly was released in December 1989. Video game musician Matt Furniss claimed that a conversion for the Sega Mega Drive was once in development with its music complete.

Dailly began porting the game to the Commodore 64 following the Personal Computer World Show in September 1989, using the code from the Talisman demo and writing a new sprite system. He re-worked the multi-directional scrolling, and wrote his own tape loading routines, allowing the player to play a simple game while Blood Money loaded. Smith, who designed the port's graphics, was confused by the hardware limitations, forced to draw double pixels in Deluxe Paint and being limited to sixteen colours. Dailly finished developing the Commodore 64 version on 12 March 1990, and it was released in June 1990.

Reception
Blood Money received mostly positive reviews from critics upon release. ST/Amiga Format's Gary Barrett considered it the best shoot 'em up game on the Amiga. Zzap!64's Stuart Wynne listed Blood Money as the best Amiga game of the 1980s, and ST Format named it the second-best shoot 'em up game of 1990. It won Best Action/Arcade-Style Game from Computer Entertainer. The game sold 40,000 copies, doubling Menace's sales.

Stuart Wynne of Zzap!64 found the game convenient, while Robin Hogg of the same publication wrote that it equals to the game's detailed graphics. The One's Brian Nesbitt viewed the game as among the more difficult and technologically sophisticated shoot 'em ups, while ACE called it "compelling". Conversely, Mike Pattenden of CU Amiga criticised the difficulty, noting its lack of rewards.

The One's Gary Whitta lauded the game's "tongue-in-cheek style", particularly in Smith's art. Computer and Video Games's Paul Glancey appreciated the opening sequence and called the sprites among "the best designed and most fluidly animated" in an Amiga game. The Games Machine believed the graphics were very advanced, and ST/Amiga Format's Barrett wrote that the game is "in a class of its own", praising the sprite animations. Zzap!64's Hogg commended the animation and backgrounds. Conversely, CU Amiga's Pattenden felt the graphics lack depth.

The game's use of sound received positive reactions. Phil King of Zzap!64 was impressed by the soundtrack, particularly praising the introductory music. The Games Machine echoed similar remarks, writing that the game features "excellent" audio, and Glancey of Computer and Video Games wrote that the sound chip was heavily utilised. Barrett of ST/Amiga Format preferred the sound effects over the music, though felt that they were inferior to those in Menace. Pattenden of CU Amiga felt that the sound is "a poor tune and some average effects", while ACE called it "a little weedy".

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Suma Josson

Suma Josson is an Indian-American journalist and filmmaker. Her documentary film Niyamgiri, You are still alive, on the ecological and human damage done by bauxite mining, won a first prize in the Short Film, Environment category at the 2010 International Film Festival of India.

Life
She was born in Kerala, India and graduated in English Literature from the University of Minnesota, United States. She began her career as a journalist at Press Trust of India, and in 1992 switched over to the visual media. She has made a number of documentary films. She has published three books: Poems and Plays, A Harvest of Light (a collection of plays), and Circumferences (a novel).

Her debut film was Janmadhinam which won three state awards, and was screened at various international film festivals including the 1999 Berlin Festival. She was one of the five women filmmakers commissioned to make a documentary Trading Images on the subject 'women's space' in a German international coproduction. Saree is her second feature film.

1998 – Janmadinam (The Birthday) - Malayalam
Sarasu has come to the hospital to deliver her baby. Amma, her mother, is with her, to assist her. The actual time-span of the film is a single night which the mother and the daughter spend at the hospital. Sarasu, a TV-reporter working in Bombay, keeps a diary into which she pours her inner-most feelings. We find out that Sarasu was forced by her father to marry Raghu, although she was in love with Ajay, a cameraman. A few months after her marriage, she passes through Bombay to join her husband. On the way, she meets Ajay in his flat. This is during the '1993 communal violence in Bombay. In the aftermath of this meeting, Sarasu is finally forced to make a choice. And Amma realizes that she also has to take a stand, as a result of Sarasu's choice. It is this unspoken, unseen, subtle tension between mother and daughter, and a slow psychological unfolding of the personal histories of the main characters, which form the content of this film.
 * Direction & Screenplay: Suma Josson
 * Cast: Nandita Das, Surekha Sikhri
 * Cinematography: Hari Nair
 * Music: Narayana Mani

1999 – Saree - Malayalam
Two children, Gita and Radha, are stranded in the no man's land between two worlds that dominate contemporary childhood: school and home. This in-between land is one of myriad dreams, fears, and fantasies all yearning to take the shape of a free fluid space where children can summon whichever spirit they like. The two young friends are on their way back from the school as they recount their dreams in this subliminal space available only to childhood.

Saree was selected for the 1999 Berlin Festival, and in 2000 it was the inaugural film at the Mumbai International Film Festival in Mumbai.
 * Direction & Screenplay: Suma Josson
 * Cast: : Remya, Krishna, Nedumudi Venu, Sreelatha, Priyanka
 * Cinematography: M J Radhakrishnan, K G Jayan
 * Editing: Bina
 * Music: Chandran Veyattumal

Gujarat: A Laboratory Of Hindu Rastra, Fascism
Set in the post-Godhra violence which was unleashed in Gujarat during February 2002, this film examines the extent to which the fascist ideologies of the communal forces have infiltrated into the sub-conscious of an ordinary Gujarati Hindu.

2003 / documentary / 50 min / English subtitles

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