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Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral

St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral (كاتدرائية القديس مرقس القبطية الأرثوذكسية) is a Coptic church located in the Abbassia District in Cairo, Egypt. The cathedral is the Seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope. It was built during the time when Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria was Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, and was consecrated on 25 June 1968.

The church is dedicated to St. Mark the Evangelist, an apostle of Jesus and founder of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Relics of his life are kept inside. It was, until 2019, (after the inauguration of the new Nativity Cathedral) the largest cathedral in Africa and the Middle East.

History of the land
The cathedral is located in the place of a village called p-Sovt em-p-Hoi (Coptic: ⲡⲥⲟⲃⲧ ⲙ̀ⲡϩⲟⲓ "the wall of the moat") which had been given to the Coptic Church in 969 by Jawhar. This land was a replacement for the land that was taken from the church to be included in building the Palace of Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah as part of the planning of the new capital of Egypt, Cairo.

During the twelfth century the area contained ten Coptic churches, but during the rule of Qalawun on 18 February 1280, the churches were destroyed by Muslims who persecuted the Copts. Two churches were subsequently built in the area under the rule of his son.

In 1943, the governorate of Cairo attempted to expropriate the area for public use. This was opposed by the General Congregation Council led by its secretary at the time, Habib Elmasry. The campaign proved successful as the Coptic Church maintained control of the land under the condition that a non-profit building be built on it in the following fifteen years. This condition spurred the building of the cathedral.

Office of the Coptic Orthodox Pope
The cathedral is where Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria has his office; thus, security is normally high here. However, on 11 December 2016, during the Muslim festival of Mawlid, the chapel near the cathedral was the venue of an Islamic terrorist attack that killed at least 25 people, most of them women and children. This attack is a copycat of various other earlier attacks against Coptic churches in Egypt.

Architecture
The cathedral is considered a unique example of architectural evolution which includes seven churches of which some have a great historic value such as the Church of St. Rewiss. The Cathedral represents the rapid development of Coptic architecture, as the famous Coptic civil engineer Michel Bakhoum contributed in its structural design. It has a capacity for 5,000 worshipers.

Relics of Saint Mark
Before the completion of the cathedral, the Roman Catholic pontiff of the time, Pope Paul VI, returned part of St. Mark's relics, which were stolen from Egypt in the year 828 to Venice, Italy. These relics were taken to the newly constructed Cathedral, where they were placed in a specially-built shrine brightly decorated with Coptic icons, where they have remained until the present time.

Inauguration ceremony
The inauguration of the new Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral took place on 25 June 1968 in a ceremony hosted by Pope Cyril VI and attended by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, among other foreign clergy members from other churches.

Burials

 * Athanasius of Alexandria
 * St Reweis (Teji)
 * Abouna Mikhail Ibrahim
 * Metropolitan Samuel

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Talk:Patti Ann Browne

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I went ahead and removed the line "According to her own website, Ms. Browne has an identical twin sister." since it doesn't seem worthwhile to the entry. Add it back if you disagree :) Ash Lux 04:02, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

You must have never seen Patti Ann Browne. In her case, the answer to the question, "Any more at home like you?" is a BIG TEN-FOUR! Wahkeenah 06:15, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Collector/distributor road

Weaving
What is "weaving"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.184.193.190 (talk • contribs)

 * See cloverleaf interchange - it's the crossing of traffic between the loops. --SPUI (talk) 06:43, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

merge "Collector/distributor" with "Local lane"
I believe that the two articles should be merged since they are similar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.38.206.203 (talk • contribs)

 * I have removed the merge tag, as it's been a year and no one's done anything. Plus, I don't think they're similar, see Talk:Local lane.  If someone would like to replace the merge tag and start a full-on debate on the topic, however, please feel free. -- Northenglish (talk) -- 23:38, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Title: "collector/distributor road"
Is there a better thing to title this? The current title seems a little clunky, but so far I cannot find any other way the name is written, other than with an en-dash (as in: "collector–distributor road"). Thoughts on this? Addition: I am not seeing anything come up on Google as to a distinctive way of writing this. Legal documents say them in many different ways: "collector and distributor road", "collector-distributor road", and "collector/distributor road" are what I usually see. The wording varies across Wikipedia as well, so it seems nothing really says that there's a specific way to write it. With that said, I'll reference the Manual of Style. It says to not use slashes if at all possible, as they do not state how the two terms adjoined by the slash are related. With this in mind, I think the best title for this page is the en-dash version. —Onore Baka Sama(speak 17:21, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * FWIW, the predominant style on the Federal Highway Administration website (sample) appears to be a hyphen. Mapsax (talk) 04:01, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Source
Likely a good source for this article is the "Green Book", A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (GDHS-5, ISBN 1560512636), but its text is not available online, so I can't add anything right now. Mapsax (talk) 23:28, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

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Peace River Regional District

The Peace River Regional District is a regional district in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The regional district comprises seven municipalities and four electoral areas. Its member municipalities are the cities of Fort St. John and Dawson Creek, the district municipalities of Tumbler Ridge, Chetwynd, Taylor, and Hudson's Hope, and the village of Pouce Coupe. The district's administrative offices are in Dawson Creek.

The regional district also has four regional district electoral areas: B, C, D and E. Six Indian reserves and one Indian settlement are located within the regional district's boundaries, but are not governed by the regional district.

Its modern boundaries were established on October 31, 1987, when the Peace River-Liard Regional District was divided in two. The separated northern territories became the Fort Nelson-Liard Regional District, now the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality.

Located east of the Rockies, the regional district is characterized by rolling hills with grain and cattle farms. About 40% of the province's Agricultural Land Reserve is situated within the regional district. The Peace River flows west-to-east through the middle of the eastern half of the regional district. West of the Rockies the terrain is severe mountain wilderness with few roads and only a handful of inhabitants. Its total land area is 119,200.1 km2 (46,023.42 sq mi), the largest regional district in British Columbia in area. (The Stikine Region is larger, but is not a regional district.) The total population reported in the 2006 census was 58,264 with 24,019 private dwellings, up from 55,080 people in 2001.

History
Westward expansion during the 18th and 19th centuries pushed First Nation groups westward and into competition with each other for resources. The Algonkian-speaking Cree had pushed the Athapaskan-speaking Dunneza into the BC portion of the Peace River Country, which pushed the fellow Athapaskan-speaking Sekani into the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and beyond. European-Canadian explorers penetrated the area during the 19th century by canoeing along the Peace River and establishing trading posts at Fort St. John and Hudson's Hope. In 1883 the province gave the federal government control over 3500000 acre of land, anywhere north the Rocky Mountains, as part of a deal to extend a rail line to Vancouver. After settling land claims with Treaty 8 First Nations, creating the East Moberly Reserve, West Moberly Reserve, Halfway River Reserve, and the St. John Reserve, the government surveyed out its land as the Peace River Block in 1907 and opened it to homesteading in 1912. Pioneer Hector Tremblay, and a few others, helped cut trails and opened stores and lodges to help incoming settlers. The first community of these settlers was established at Pouce Coupe, around Tremblay's cabin. The land was granted back to the province in 1930 after conflicts regarding the water and mineral rights emerged.

The region grew slowly as agricultural settlements spread westward to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and northward to the muskegs of the Liard. In 1932 Pouce Coupe became the first community in the region to incorporate as a village, followed by Dawson Creek in 1936 after a rail line was extended there from Alberta. The 1941 Canadian Census recorded 8,444 people in northeastern BC but a year later the Alaska Highway was constructed by 10,000 US Army servicemen connecting Dawson Creek to Alaska via Fort Nelson. After the war and turning the highway over the province, the highway made it much easier to transport resources and agricultural products to rail lines and left Dawson Creek with 14-fold increase, and northeastern BC with a 2.5-fold increase, in population by 1956. Industrial development began with the provincially funded megaprojects which included the extension of transportation and utility infrastructure through the Rocky Mountains to Chetwynd and across the region and the construction of two hydroelectric dams at Hudson's Hope. An oil and gas industry developed and helped Fort St. John's population increase from 3,619 people in 1961 to 13,891 in 1981 surpassing Dawson Creek as the largest city. The last municipality in the region to incorporate was Tumbler Ridge which was built by the province in 1981 as an instant community to service two proposed coal mines. The region experienced little growth in the late-1980s and the population remained between 55,000 and 59,000 between 1992 and 2003. Since then, with a booming oil and gas industry, the population has gained over 5,500 people in three years.

Geography and climate
The Regional District is the largest in the province, comprising 13% of its area. At 119,200 km2 (46,023 mi2) it is similar in area to the American state of Pennsylvania or New Zealand's North Island. The northern border along the 58th parallel north was created when the PRLRD split to create the PRRD and the NRRD. The Regional District borders with six municipal districts in Alberta to the east – the Municipal District of Greenview No. 16, the County of Grande Prairie No. 1, Saddle Hills County, Clear Hills County and the County of Northern Lights. The southwestern border runs along the Rocky Mountains, beginning at Intersection Mountain then northwesterly along the summit of the Hart Ranges to Williston Lake and then northwesterly along the watersheds of the Manson, Omineca, Mesilinka, Finlay, and Kechika rivers.

Despite this large area, only about 64,272 people live there, giving the Regional District a population density of 0.54 people per km2 (1.4 people/mi2). The people live almost exclusively in the agricultural areas in British Columbia's portion of the Peace River Country straddling the Peace River. This biogeoclimatic zone, called the Boreal White and Black Spruce Zone, begins on the northern end of the Rockies and stretches into Alberta and the NRRD. Here, mean annual temperatures have ranged between −2.9 and 2 °C with annual precipitation averages between 330 and 570 mm.

According to BC's Ecoregion Classification System most of the Regional District is located in the Boreal Plains Ecoprovince of the Polar Ecodomain. This area is characterized by a continental climate with low year-round precipitation. Moist Pacific air loses its precipitation over several mountain ranges before moving over the region, while Arctic air masses are uninterrupted. About 61% of BC's bird species and 46% of all breeding species occur in this ecoprovince. This ecoprovince is divided into four ecosections: the rolling uplands with few ridges and wide valleys of the Clear Hills and Halfway Plateau ecosections, the wide plains with deeply incised rivers of the Peace Lowland ecosection, and the rolling uplands and Rocky Mountain foothills of the Kiskatinaw Plateau ecosection. These ecosections have many wetlands, ponds, and slow-moving streams the area is a major migratory corridor for water- and shorebirds. Moose are the most common large mammal but mule and white-tailed deer, caribou, and elk are also very common. The ecosystem also supports Dall sheep, black bear, grizzly bear, and gray wolf. There are few small mammal or reptile species. Fish species are restricted to freshwater fish like the Arctic grayling, northern pike, and slimy sculpin. Major tree species include white spruce, black spruce, trembling aspen, lodgepole pine, balsam poplar, tamarack, subalpine fir, and paper birch.

Government and politics
The Regional District is governed by a board of 11 directors. The Board consists of one representative from each municipality, usually the mayors, and one director from each electoral area. The municipal representatives, and their alternates, are elected by the municipal councils and the electoral area directors are elected for 3 year terms by their constituents during province-wide local elections. Due to its population size relative to the other jurisdictions and the Board's weighted voting scheme, Fort St. John elects two directors and two alternates. The Board annually elects a chairperson from its membership. The Board convenes twice a month in the board room of Regional District office in Dawson Creek, although they occasionally meet in other member municipalities. Portions of these meetings are dedicated to the matters arising from the Peace River Hospital District which has the same membership and is responsible for raising capital for hospital expenditures.

The Electoral Area Directors Committee, consisting of the four electoral area directors, meet separately from the Board as a committee twice a month and addresses issues from their jurisdictions that do not require municipal participation. The board directors also form committees for wildlife, solid waste, rural budgets, and parks and recreation. The directors are joined with members of the public on committees for agricultural advisory, libraries, fire protection, community sewer systems, and emergency management. Directors can also be appointed to outside agencies to represent the interests of the Regional District.

The Regional District is covers portions of two provincial electoral areas: Peace River South and Peace River North. Peace River South is entirely with the Regional District and is represented by Mike Bernier in the Legislative Assembly. Peace River North, represented by Pat Pimm, includes the northern half of the Regional District as well as the entire Northern Rockies Regional District. The Peace River Regional District is entirely with the federal riding of Prince George—Peace River and is represented in the House of Commons of Canada by Bob Zimmer.

Demographics
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Peace River Regional District had a population of $61,532$ living in $24,902$ of its $28,683$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $62,942$. With a land area of 117216.74 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

 * Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses.

Regional parks
The Peace River Regional District administers five regional parks:
 * Blackfoot Park
 * Montney Centennial Park
 * Minaker River Park
 * Spencer Tuck Park
 * Sundance Lake Regional Park

Recreation facilities
In cooperation with member municipalities and communities, the PRRD supports and/or finances recreation facilities in many communities. These include:
 * the Buick Arena, located in Buick Creek, British Columbia, owned by the school district and operated by the Buick Creek Community Club. The arena is located 45 minutes north of Fort St John.
 * the Clearview Arena, operated by the Clearview Arena Society; the arena is located 40 minutes northeast of Fort St John.
 * Chetwynd Recreation Complex, aka the Chetwynd and District Recreation Centre, operated by the District of Chetwynd
 * the North Peace Leisure Pool, operated by the City of Fort St John, in that city's downtown
 * South Peace Multiplex comprises the Kenn Borek Aquatic Centre, EnCana Events Centre and Lakota Agriplex and is owned by the City of Dawson Creek with capital costs partly borne by ratepayers in the Village of Pouce Coupe and a defined portion of Electoral Areas D and E. The Encana Events Centre, aka and formerly the Dawson Creek Events Centre, is operated by Comcast Spectacor.

Community halls and grounds
The regional district supports community organizations in maintaining various public community halls and grounds.
 * in Electoral Area B:
 * Buick Rodeo Grounds
 * Cache Creek Community Hall
 * Golata Creek Club & Recreation Grounds
 * Halfway-Graham Recreation Grounds
 * Halfway-Graham Gymkhana Grounds
 * Goodlow Recreation Grounds
 * North Peace Fall Fairgrounds
 * Osborn Community Hall
 * Upper Pine Recreation Grounds
 * Electoral Area D:
 * Kelly Lake Community Centre
 * Electoral Area E:
 * Jackfish Community Hall
 * Moberly Lake Community Hall

Time zone
The regional district and the municipalities within it observe Mountain Standard Time (UTC−7) year round; they do not change their clocks for daylight saving time. Hence, from March to November, clocks in the regional district are synchronized with the rest of the province, which is on Pacific Daylight Time. During the winter, they are synchronized with clocks in Alberta.

The surrounding regions, namely Grande Prairie, Alberta (Mountain Time) and Prince George, British Columbia (Pacific Time) do observe daylight-saving time.

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2005 World Series of Poker

The 2005 World Series of Poker opened play on June 2, continuing through the Main Event No Limit World Championship starting on July 7. The conclusion of the Main Event on July 15 marked the close of play, and the largest prize in sports and/or television history at the time ($7,500,000) was awarded to the winner. ESPN's broadcast began July 19th with coverage of WSOP Circuit Tournaments, and coverage of the Main Event began October 11th and ended November 15th.

All events were held at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino with the exception of the final 2 days of the Main Event which were held at Binion's Horseshoe. This marked the last time the Main Event final table was held at Binion's Horseshoe.

Main Event
There were 5,619 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter what was the largest poker tournament ever played in a brick and mortar casino at the time. Many entrants won their seat in online poker tournaments. 2004 Main Event champion Greg Raymer finished in 25th place in his title defense.

Final table
*Career statistics prior to the beginning of the 2005 Main Event.

Other High Finishes
NB: This list is restricted to top 100 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

Fall of World Champions

 * Day 1: Jim Bechtel, Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Chris Ferguson, Phil Hellmuth, Tom McEvoy, Carlos Mortensen, Scotty Nguyen, Robert Varkonyi
 * Day 2: Dan Harrington, Chris Moneymaker, Huck Seed
 * Day 3: (none)
 * Day 4: Russ Hamilton
 * Day 5: (none)
 * Day 6: Greg Raymer

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Net2Phone

net2phone is a Cloud Communications provider offering cloud based telephony services to businesses worldwide. The company is a subsidiary of IDT Corporation.

History
net2phone was founded in 1990 by telecom entrepreneur Howard Jonas, the chairman and chief executive officer of net2phone’s parent company, IDT Corporation. The company was an early pioneer in the commercialization of voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) technologies leveraging the global carrier business and infrastructure of IDT and focusing on transitioning businesses and consumers from PSTN, traditional telecom interconnects, to Voice over IP.

On July 30, 1999, during the dot-com bubble, the company became a public company via an initial public offering, raising $81 million. Shares rose 77% on the first day of trading to $26 per share. After completion of the IPO, IDT owned 57% of the company. Within a few weeks, the shares increased another 100% in value, to $53 per share.

In March 2000, in a transaction facilitated by IDT CEO Howard Jonas, a consortium of telecommunications companies led by AT&T announced a $1.4 billion investment for a 32% stake in the company, buying shares for $75 each. The transaction was completed in August 2000. AOL had expressed an interest in buying all or part of the company but was not agreeable to the price.

In August 2000, Jonathan Fram, president of the company, left the company to join eVoice.

In September 2000, the company formed Adir Technologies, a joint venture with Cisco Systems. In March 2002, the company sued Cisco for breach of contract.

In February 2002, the company announced 110 layoffs, or 28% of its workforce.

In October 2004, Liore Alroy became chief executive officer of the company.

On March 13, 2006, IDT Corporation acquired the shares of the company that it did not already own for $2.05 per share.

In 2015, net2phone began providing Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) targeted to the SMB market. net2phone’s UCaaS initiative was developed by the Company’s management team led by its President, Jonah Fink.

Over the next 3 years, net2phone continued to expand its UCaaS offering into Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, leveraging its local infrastructure, communication licenses and local staff all while selling in the respective market’s local currency and language sets.

Acquisitions
In 2001, the company acquired iPing.

In 2000, the company acquired Aplio, an internet appliance maker located in San Bruno, California.

As Unified Communications demands more than just voice over IP, such as messaging – in January 2017 net2phone acquired Live Ninja, a Miami based provider of a customer-facing messaging and live chat management service.

In 2018, net2phone launched an updated version of its communications platform, incorporating the technology and capabilities from the Live Ninja acquisition.

Further expansion came in 2019 with the acquisition of Versature, a SaaS-based business communications and hosted VoIP provider serving the Canadian market.

In 2020 with the acquisition of RingSouth Europa, a business communications provider headquartered in Murcia, Spain.

In 2020, with the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic causing a shift in the workplace environment, net2phone launched a native integration into Microsoft Teams, as well as its own video conferencing platform, net2phone Huddle, followed by further integrations into CRM tools such as Salesforce and Zoho and collaboration tools such as Slack.

In 2022, net2phone acquired Integra CCS, a Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) provider operating out of Uruguay.

UNITE
UNITE is net2phone's Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) product, which provides businesses with voice, video, chat, text, and integrations. The product offers advanced call features, reporting, analytics, and integrations with popular SaaS tools that can be managed through a web-based interface.

uContact
net2phone's uContact is a Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) platform introduced through their acquisition of Integra in 2022. uContact features a suite of contact center features, including omnichannel support, social media, chatbots, workflow management, and development tools.

Huddle
Huddle is a net2phone’s high-definition video conferencing platform released in April 2020. Huddle conferences are passcode-protected and encrypted. Huddle includes several features including screen sharing, YouTube casting, chat messaging, and a raise hand option. The application is accessible from desktop or mobile device.

net2phone AI
net2phone AI was released in July 2023 as an add-on service designed to optimize agent and client interactions. Key functionalities include sentiment analysis, automatic call transcription, auto-generated follow-up emails, auto-generated call summaries, AI-generated coaching notes, call analytics, and CRM integrations. net2phone AI is available in multiple languages and integrates with communication or voice platforms that support API webhooks.

SIP Trunking
net2phone offers SIP Trunking services, allowing businesses to merge voice and data into a unified communications platform without the need for equipment replacement. The SIP trunking solution includes features such as high-quality voice interactions, international calling, hybrid SIP and hosted support, increased security, codec support, and a stable, fully redundant network.

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South Carolina's 2nd congressional district

South Carolina's 2nd congressional district is in central and southwestern South Carolina. The district spans from Columbia to the South Carolina side of the Augusta, Georgia metropolitan area.

From 1993 through 2012, it included all of Lexington, Jasper, Hampton, Allendale and Barnwell counties; most of Richland and Beaufort counties and parts of Aiken, Calhoun and Orangeburg counties.

It was made more compact in the 2010 round of redistricting, and now comprises all of Lexington, Aiken and Barnwell counties, most of Richland County, and part of Orangeburg County. Besides Columbia (60 percent of which is in the district), other major cities in the district include Aiken and North Augusta.

The district's current configuration dates from 1933, following South Carolina losing a seat in apportionment as a result of the 1930 Census showing that the state's population had declined. Before that time, much of its territory had been within the 6th district.

As a Columbia-based district from 1933 to the early 1990s, it was a fairly compact district in the central part of the state, which was largely coextensive with the Columbia metropolitan area. As a result of the 1990 census, the state legislature was required to draw a black-majority district. In a deal between Republicans and Democrats, the 6th district, previously located in the northeastern portion of the state, was reconfigured to incorporate most of the old 2nd's black residents. To make up for the loss in population, the 2nd was pushed as far west as the fringes of the Augusta suburbs and as far south as Beaufort/Hilton Head. As of 2019, the district was more than 69% white.

Since 1965 the 2nd district has been held by the Republican Party, coinciding with the late 20th-century realignment of political parties in the South. In the decades after the Civil War and before disenfranchisement in 1895 under the new state constitution, members of the Republican Party in South Carolina and the South were mostly African Americans, including many freedmen enfranchised due to Republican support for amendments for emancipation, citizenship and the franchise. After white Democrats regained control of state governments across the South, in the late 19th century, they passed new constitutions from 1890 to 1908 to disenfranchise blacks, excluding them totally from the political process. The Republican Party was crippled in the region and nearly comatose.

As a result of the Civil Rights Movement, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which provided for federal enforcement of blacks' constitutional rights. That year, the 2nd district's second-term Democratic congressman, Albert Watson, resigned, then ran as a Republican in the ensuing special election and won, becoming the first Republican to represent South Carolina in the House since Reconstruction.

However, the district had begun shedding its Yellow Dog Democrat roots before then. Some of the old-line Democrats began splitting their tickets as early as the 1940s, and some counties in the district haven't supported the official Democratic candidate for president since the 1950s. The district swung hard to Strom Thurmond during his third-party bid for president in 1948, and gave an equally massive margin to Barry Goldwater in 1964. Since 1964, Jimmy Carter has been the only Democrat to come close to carrying it. However, conservative Democrats held most local offices well into the 1980s.

Watson gave up the seat to run for governor in 1970. His successor, state senator Floyd Spence, held the seat for more than 30 years. He was chairman of the House Armed Services Committee from 1995 to 2001, and died a few months after being elected to a 16th term. He was succeeded in a special election by one of his former aides, state senator Joe Wilson.

Wilson has since been reelected eleven times. In the most recent election, held on November 11, 2022, Wilson earned 60% of the vote against Democrat Judd Larkins.

Counties
Counties in the 2023–2033 district map:
 * Aiken County
 * Barnwell County
 * Lexington County
 * Orangeburg County (part)
 * Richland County (part)


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Are you sure this name is correct? After all, the model kit box for Providence says "Raww La Kleuze", but his name is now officially Rau Le Creuset. It's not uncommon for the Romanization used in merchandize to be abandoned by Bandai later on. 68.47.175.214 04:07, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

According to the X Astray manga (which I'd consider more official than a model kit box), his name is indeed Prayer Reverie. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/Heine_Westenfluss/Picture-015.gif 68.47.175.214 21:11, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm going to officially request that the page be moved back to "Prayer Reverie". Redxiv 01:17, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

This article has been renamed after the result of a move request. Dragons flight 14:43, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Relations
Is it really correct to list all the other Flaga offspring as "Clone" compared to Prayer? It seems to me that it'd be more accurate to call Rey, Rau, and Mu "Co-Clone" or "Clone Sibling," and Al "Clone-Father" or "Genetic Source" or something. [[User:Golux Ex Machina|''Golux Ex Machina'']] 00:20, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

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Mina Rashid

Mina Rashid (ميناء راشد; mina'a rāšid), also referred to as Port Rashid, is a man-made cruise terminal in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was Dubai's first commercial port; in 2018 cargo operations moved to Jebel Ali Port. It is a seafront coastal destination, tourist cruise destination, and residential area. It is the permanent home of Queen Elizabeth 2.

History
The port is named after Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum and it was opened in 1972. At the time the port only had two gantry cranes and a capacity of less than 100,000 TEUs. In 1978, the port was expanded to include 35 berths (five of which were able to be used by the largest container ships at the time). Later, the port [which has a depth of 13 metres (43 ft)] had 9 gantry cranes and a capacity of 1,500,000 TEUs.

Mina Rashid provided berths for general cargo, RoRo and passenger vessels. In the early 1980s, Mina Rashid was supplemented by Port of Jebel Ali, which is further from the commercial centre of Dubai near the Abu Dhabi border.

Adjacent to the port are Dubai Drydocks and Dubai Maritime City. Both of these facilities were built due to Mina Rashid's proximity. But, in January 2008, it was announced that the port would be redeveloped. All cargo operations will move to Jebel Ali Port by the end of March 2018. Mina Rashid will turn into a cruise terminal. Also, part of the port will be reclaimed by Nakheel to create "a vibrant mixed-use urban waterfront" that will house 200,000 residents.

In collaboration with DP world, top developer Emaar had announced an exclusive launch of a new project Sirdhana at Mina Rashid, which offers 1-3 Bedroom Apartments situated within a new maritime destination of Mina Rashid, Dubai.

Queen Elizabeth 2
Port Rashid is the current location of the former Cunard Ocean Liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) which arrived there on 26 November 2008 at the end of her final voyage for the company before being handed over to her new owners. In March, 2017, a Dubai-based construction company announced it had been contracted to refurbish the ship. The restored QE2 opened as a floating hotel on 18 April 2018.

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Kitaakita

Kitaakita (北秋田市) is a city located in Akita Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 29,201, and a population density of 120 persons per km2. and a population density of 25 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 1152.76 sqkm.

Geography
Kitaakita is located in the mountains of north-central Akita Prefecture, about 80 kilometers northeast of the prefectural capital of Akita city. It accounts for about 10% of the total area of Akita Prefecture. The city is bordered by the Ōu Mountains on the east. The main urban area is centered around the Takanosu Basin in the middle reaches of the Yoneshiro River, and river basins such as the Ani River and the Koani River, which are tributaries of the Yoneshiro River. The Yoneshiro River originates from the Ōu Mountains, which form the border of the city to the east and south. Much of the city is forest and parts of the city are within the borders of the Towada-Hachimantai National Park. Due to its inland location, the city is noted for its heavy snowfall in winter.

Neighboring municipalities
Akita Prefecture
 * Akita
 * Ōdate
 * Noshiro
 * Kazuno
 * Semboku
 * Kamikoani
 * Fujisato

Climate
Kitaakita has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfa) with large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. Precipitation is significant throughout the year, but is heaviest from August to October. The average annual temperature in Kitaakita is 10.5 C. The average annual rainfall is 1704.7 mm with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 23.7 C, and lowest in January, at around -1.5 C.

Demographics
Per Japanese census data, the population of Kitaakita has been decreasing rapidly over the past 60 years.

History
The area of present-day Kitaakita was part of ancient Dewa Province. During the Edo period, the area came under the control of the Satake clan, who ruled the northern third of the province from Kubota Domain. After the start of the Meiji period, the area became part of Kitaakita District, Akita Prefecture in 1878 with the establishment of the modern municipalities system.

The city of Kitaakita was established on March 22, 2005, from the merger of the towns of Aikawa, Ani, Moriyoshi and Takanosu (all from Kitaakita District).

Government
Kitaakita has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 18 members. The city contributes two members to the Akita Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Akita District 2 of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.

Economy
The economy of Kitaakita is based on agriculture, forestry, manufacturing of clothing and electronic components, and seasonal tourism.

Education

 * Akita University – Kitaakita branch campus
 * Kitaakita has seven public elementary schools and three public middle schools operated by the city government and one public high school operated by the Akita Prefectural Board of Education. The prefecture also operates one special education school for the handicapped.

Airport

 * Odate-Noshiro Airport

Railway

 * JR logo (east).svg East Japan Railway Company – Ōu Main Line
 * Maeyama – Takanosu – Nukazawa
 * Akita Nairiku Jūkan Railway – Akita Nairiku Line
 * Takanosu – Nishi-Takanosu – Ogata– Ōnodai – Aikawa – Kamisugi – Yonaizawa – Katsurase – Ani-Maeda – Maeda-Minami – Kobuchi – Aniai – Arase – Kayakusa – Okashinai – Iwanome – Hitachinai – Okuani – Ani-Matagi

Local attractions

 * Yasu Falls – one of the Japan's Top 100 Waterfalls
 * Isedōtai Ruins – a Jōmon period archaeological site and National Historic Monument

Sister city relations

 * 🇨🇳 Fengcheng, Liaoning, China, friendship city since September 11, 1997

Noted people from Kitaakita

 * Kinya Abe, fencer
 * Takekaze Akira, sumo wrestler
 * Tamezō Narita, musician
 * Daito Takahashi, Olympic ski jumper
 * Norihito Kobayashi, Olympic ski jumper
 * Yūsuke Minato, Olympic ski jumper
 * Satoshi Nakajima, baseball player
 * Fuyuko Suzuki, Olympic Biathlon athlete
 * Yuki Suzuki, volleyball player
 * Kieko Watanabe, novelist

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Regarding Holtz's death. I've watched that episode no more than twice at most, but I always got the impression that Holtz did want Angel to live with Connor. Considering Angel's talk with Connor afterwards, I always thought Justine had made it look like Angel had killed Holtz, but this was not the latter's original intention. Do I need to watch the episode again?

 * By that time it's possible Holtz may have even respected Angel and known that Connor would do well as a son to him, but thats the twist of the episode it seems Holtz is finally accepting Angel, but in reality he is still consumed by vengeance to the point that he will kill himself to get vengeance on Angel beyond the grave. It was very much Holtz's intention to make it appear he was killed by Angel. -- Paxomen 16:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

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Similarities to Robin Wood
I've noticed something; namely that Holtz is similar to Robin Wood from Buffy Season Seven. Think about it; Holtz and Wood have both had people close to them who were slaughtered by vampires, and both want revenge to the point of psychotic obsession, not caring that the vampires in question now have souls and are heroes. Is it possible to put that down? Nintendoman01 talk, 8:34, 14 April 2009

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Peace on Earth (film)

Peace on Earth is a one-reel 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short directed by Hugh Harman, about a post-apocalyptic world populated only by animals, as it is claimed in the short that human beings have gone extinct due to war.

Plot
Two young squirrels ask their grandfather (voiced by Mel Blanc) on Christmas Eve who the "men" are in the lyric "Peace on Earth, good will to men." The grandfather squirrel then tells them a history of the human race, focusing on the never-ending war just like World War I men waged between the "Meat eaters" and the "Vegetarians". After a tension between these two coalitions, they began fighting each other, shelling fields and meadows with bombs and artillery. Eventually the wars ends with neither side winning, with the deaths of the last men on Earth, two soldiers shooting each other, one shoots the other soldier and the injured soldier headshots the other soldier that shot him, but slowly dies as he sinks into a watery foxhole while his hand grasps into the air. Afterwards, the surviving animals discover a copy of an implied Bible in the ruins of a church. Inspired by the book's teachings, they decide to rebuild a society dedicated to peace and nonviolence (using the helmets of the soldiers to construct houses). The short features a version of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" with rewritten lyrics, and a trio of carolers sing this song outside of the squirrels' house.

Accolades
According to Hugh Harman's obituary in The New York Times and Ben Mankiewicz, host of Cartoon Alley, the cartoon was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. However, it is not listed in the official Nobel Prize nomination database. Mankiewicz also claimed that the cartoon was the first about a serious subject by a major studio. In 1994, it was voted #40 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.

It was also nominated for the 1939 Academy Award for Short Subjects (Cartoons). It did not claim that honor (which instead went to Walt Disney's Silly Symphony The Ugly Duckling).

Remake
Fred Quimby, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera remade the cartoon in CinemaScope in 1955. This post-World War II version of the film, entitled Good Will to Men, featured updated and even more destructive forms of warfare technology such as flamethrowers, bazookas, missiles, and nuclear weapons. This version used a choir of mice as the main characters including a deacon mouse who tells the story to his charges, and also had more direct religious references (though the Bible is simply referred to as "the book of humans' rules" in both), Good Will to Men includes a reference to the New Testament, while Peace on Earth only includes verses from the Old Testament). This new version was also nominated for the Best Animated Short Subject Oscar, but lost to Speedy Gonzales. This film would be the last animated production for producer Fred Quimby before his retirement in May 1955.

Home Media
Both Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men are included, digitally restored and uncut, on the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection DVD set. Peace on Earth is also included as an extra on The Mortal Storm Blu-Ray by Warner Archive Collection.

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Talk:Viz (comics)

Letterbocks
One thing I've always wondered about: Letterbocks. Almost every issue has letters that refer to other letters in the same issue. Are these people psychic, or are the letters faked by the Viz staff? I know that not all letters are, because I myself had a letter in once, but I was wondering if any are. J I P | Talk 21:48, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Its a gag, and one of their better observed ones. The spoof is that similar pages in 'real' magazines are often patently written by staff. Do you realy think there are that many mentals in the popularion writing inane letters to the press? I like to think not, though, that said.... Coil00 23:46, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I think it used to be that the vast majority were written by the editors - possibly to the extent of having an entire issue without a "real" letter. I wouldn't be surprised if it was still over 50% "fake" these days. — sjorford (talk)  16:12, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Didn't Viz also have a strip about a park attendant? Din't see this in the entry. Perhaps if someone can confirm they should add him?

Yeah, 'The Parkie'. He's in the list.

Re: The Parkie. I added him a few weeks ago. Perhaps someone can make an article about him if they have the time.

 * The letters are apparently a mix of real and faked. Chris Donald elaborates in his book 'Rude Kids', which should probably be added in this entry. 193.195.87.117 09:49, 19 April 2007 (UTC)Matt

Shouldn't there be a reference to it not being as funny as it used to be? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.158.165.180 (talk) 17:37, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Wanker Watson
I seem to recall that "D.C. Comics" (publishers of The Dandy and The Beano and Jack and Jill and Playhour etc) instigated legal action against Viz in the mid 90s? Due to Viz's obscene parodies of strips such as "Little Plums" and "Wanker Watson" ("wow! jazz mags!" etc etc). Hilarious stuff. Can anyone with some details make mention of it in the article?--feline1 23:27, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

 * It was Little Plumber, not Little Plums. It was not the Wanker Watson episode that got them into bother with D C Thompson, it was the rather provocative "Desperately Unfunny Dan" one - Viz could hardly moan about that one when they'd set out to wind them up in the first place. They tried it again with "Korky The Twat" later, but by then D C Thompson were twice shy Mark Boyle 19:51, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

 * DC Comics are American and publish stuff like Superman. DC Thompson are the owners of the Beano etc. After Viz were threatened several times, John Brown (the publisher at the time) promised DC Thompson Viz wouldnt make fun of their characters any more, on behalf of the writers, he only told the writers later though. They got angry at this and decided to mock DC Thompson themselves, creating a character called "DC Thompson, the humourless Scottish git", who gets angry when he see's things like "Little plums" for sale in a fruit shop. DC Thompson responded to this in the Dandy by reviving their old characters "The Jocks and the Geordies" (Viz being based in Newcastle), in a one-off strip in which the Geordies steal all the Jocks ideas during a cartooning competition, because they can't come up with anything funny themselves. Apparently relations between the two companies improved somewhat after that, though expressly blatant parodies of DCT characters are still a thing of the past in Viz today.86.145.229.205 (talk) 17:48, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Separate article for strips
The list of notable strips seems quite long and there are a lot of red-links to many of them. I'm thinking the whole Viz article would be neater if the Notable Strips section was just a brief paragraph mentioning and outlining the main ones (Roger Mellie, Sid the Sexist, etc), then with a link to the Category of Viz Characters. Otherwise the majority of the article is just a long list. Does anyone agree? Robert Mercer 20:32, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah.--Crestville 14:32, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree.--ML5 15:58, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Okay, done it. We could do with some pictures of the characters on the individual strips. I believe we can use single-frames of comic strips without running into copyright issues. The problem is, although I've got piles of Viz back-issues lying around, I've no scanner. I'll see if I can hunt some down on the web. Robert Mercer 15:51, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

For a complete list, see List of Viz comic strips ?
I think the list of Viz comic strips is a little misleading this really amounts to a list of Viz Characters not each comic strip.

Pleas can we have the title changed, but over all agree from previous discussion the list did need to be moved

NPOV
The opening paragraph features a rather non-neutral take on the modern incarnation of the comic. Also, there's confusion over its popularity, being cited as the third- and first-best-selling magazine in its hey-day. --82.15.46.131 01:33, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Does this regard the text that keeps getting removed? I agree that it could probably be reworded in a more NPOV manner, but I think perhaps the point still stands.  Anybody fancy rewording it...?
 * -- Chris  ( blather  •  contribs ) Flag of the United Kingdom (3-5).svg 16:27, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey. I removed the text about myself being the reason Viz is shit and the text about the Framley guys work not being as good as Chris Donalds. I think it is unfair and also, in some cases, untrue and unhelpful. Obviously I am a bit hurt at the accusation, but the comic strips in Viz are subjective. You like what you like. Some people like certain stuff, some people hate it. Other people like the stuff other people hate, and vice versa. There is no correlation between my work and a decline in sales. I don't know how Wiki works, so apologies if this editing was underhand of me. But yes, my draftmanship is a bit crude. You're right there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.179.127.208 (talk • contribs) 16:52, 29 August 2006 (UTC).

 * Okay, that sounds like a pretty good reason, now that you point it out! I wouldn't class your editing as underhand, just that my first reaction to seeing something removed with nothing in the edit summary is that it might potentially be vandalism (especially with an anon IP: might be worth registering an account).  I'll revert my revert.  Apologies for that.
 * I hope you don't take my "the point still stands" comment too much to heart: it's all part of the "not as good as it used to be" ethos. :)
 * -- Chris  ( blather  •  contribs ) Flag of the United Kingdom (3-5).svg 17:06, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Cheers for that. I have registered now so I don't come across as some sort of devious anonymous pervert in the future. I'm not well versed in all this technology. I just do comics that are good or shit or mediocre depending on your viewpoint. You clearly know your stuff though, so thanks for supporting it. Alex —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex collier (talk • contribs) 17:16, 29 August 2006

First legal action ever taken against Viz
Was that the man who purportedly 'had sex with himself'? ('Fondled his own buttocks') Long time ago, and haven't got that issue to check. Notreallydavid 12:24, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * He wasn't named in the comic as I recall but rather they cut a picture of his house out of the classified ads and used that.
 * Didn't he settle out of court for beer or something? 85.210.110.46 (talk) 11:30, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Requested move
Propose that the article be moved per the Naming conventions (comics) guideline, to fall in line with all the others using (comics). Anyone have strong feelings and good reason why not? M urgh disc.  17:29, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I will oppose this change until the DAY I DIE, and if needs be I will declare holy war on Jimbo Wales until this travesty of an idea is shot down forever —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.205.74.152 (talk • contribs)

 * You couldn't resist? It may seem as if I had it coming, but I asked for strong feelings AND good reason . M urgh disc.  04:36, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Move completed. M urgh disc.  02:10, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Move reverted. All the examples given under WP:NCC are comics series or publishers, for which the plural "comics" would be appropriate ("Fawcett comics", etc.). Viz is a single publication and always has been; there have been no spin-offs and there is no publisher named "Viz" releasing other titles that might justify a plural form. I have thus restored the singular form. Strictly speaking, Wikipedia prefers "(publication)" in disambiguation cases such as this. If you wish to move the article to this, you might find less objection to it. However, "comics" in this context makes no sense in English. Pro hib it O ni o ns  (T) 11:22, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

 * I disagree, hence the referral to the Naming conventions (comics) guidelines, which may be the better forum for you to raise your concern that the "context makes no sense in English". Your statement "All the examples given under WP:NCC are comics series or publishers" is simply not the case if you look deeper into it. You might find that the singular of comics has multiple meaning, and that this article's current name primarily indicates to cover a stand-up comedian named Viz isn't acceptable, so I don't see how this justifies your argument to revert 2 months after the fact. It is this title that doesn't fall into the naming conventions, so it must be changed, either to Viz (magazine), Viz (publication) or some better idea. M urgh disc.  13:12, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree with ProhibitOnions here, simply because Viz themselves frequently refer to their own publication as "Viz Comic" and never as "Viz Comics" (indeed, for example, their postal address is listed in this month's edition as, "Viz Comic, PO Box 656, North Shields, NE29 1BT".) However, I would oppose moving the article to Viz Comic, as simply "Viz" is the actual title. Cheers, DWaterson 09:36, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Agree with ProhibitOnions. Apart from the valid arguments stated above, 'comics' in this sense just sounds plain wrong to anyone familiar with Viz and lends the article an American air that is most certainly not in keeping with the humour and attitude of Viz.  'Viz (comic)' it has to be.  Juux 16:32, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Seems like there's one rule for Viz (comic) and one rule for everyone else... Lugnuts (talk) 14:03, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

 * There seems to be a misunderstanding of WP:NCC. "(comics)" is not a description it is a classification (as in this falls within the remit of the comics industry) which we use for series, one-shots, characters, publishers, etc. It is only if there were other occurrence of the name "Viz" in comics that we'd disambiguate further. This is supported by a hefty consensus within the Comics Project, a consensus which also suggests one of the disambiguation terms that should be avoided is "(comic)". So not only is this wrong but it should be specifically avoided (and most other articles with this disambiguation have been moved). If anyone has a problem with this it should be brought up at [{WT:CMC]] as this is a widely agreed upon and implemented standard and I don't see any reason this should be an exception. (Emperor (talk) 17:17, 29 April 2009 (UTC))

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Profanisaurus editions
I've edited the recently added bit about Terry Jones providing the foreward to the published Profanisaurus compendiums, as I can only see Terry Jones being credited on the 2002 edition and my first edition heirloom quality 1998 print has no forward at all. Juux (talk) 14:40, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Early Contributors
Some of the early strips - as featured in "The Big Hard One" - are credited variously to "Jim Biz" and "The Doc aka Johnny Shiloe". Anyone know who they are in Real Life? Mr Larrington (talk) 13:53, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I believe their real names are James Biz and John Shiloe.DavidFarmbrough (talk) 05:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Old Merger proposal
I have proposed that the unreferenced Rock Lobster be merged into this article. Narthring (talk • contribs) 17:14, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Robbie Coltrane
I remember Chris Donald on a TV show (Jonathan Ross show) slagging off the Scottish comic actor. He said that back at the start he went from pub to pub in Newcastle selling hand drawn copies of Viz. In one bar, Coltrane was there drinking after a production. When Donald approached his group, the actor grabbed his comics, screwed them up and threw the copies on the floor, telling Donald to "fuck off"!

 * Coltrane's such a little tart after a few shandies. --OhNoPeedyPeebles (talk) 23:11, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

 * "... up-and-coming fat bastard. Those were the days" Martinevans123 (talk) 14:16, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Paul McCartney's knackers
According to the article, Viz ran a story about McCartney having a "gonad-focussed violent encounter with Mr T and a 70's playground toy", which was called "BA Baracus in Macca's clackers knackers fracas". I remember it - Mr T had gone mad, cut off McCartney's testicles and converted them into a playground toy - I recall it was called "Crackers Baracus Turns Macca's Knackers Into Clackers". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.11.91.232 (talk) 14:02, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
 * A gross violation of WP:BLP if ever I saw it. BA would be furious. (are you on commission?) Martinevans123 (talk) 14:13, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Verifiability
Remember this is not a fanzine entry but an encyclopedia. Anything we use here needs to be verifiable to a valid third-party source. The alternative is to have this article degenerate further towards being a collection of fan-sourced trivia. Anything that mentions a living person needs absolutely to conform to this, and there are additional safeguards. --John (talk) 10:39, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Merger proposal
As of November 2013, there are many proposed with discussion(s) leading >>>here<<<. Please join the discussion:

GenQuest "Talk to Me" 23:56, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Farmer Palmer Merger
Farmer Palmer was to be merged into Viz, but this has not yet happened. Thegreatgrabber (talk) 21:15, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Do it yourself, you lazy bastard. We're not your fucking slaves. --OhNoPeedyPeebles (talk) 23:18, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Last year's winner of the "Most Gracious Talk Page Reply" award. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:07, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

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Talk:Bananaman

Titlecard
The TV show has an image (the titlecard), the comic doesn't, but that's not surprising, as most British comic characters don't, for copyright reasons. Digifiend (talk) 13:50, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Tim Brooke-Taylor voiced Eric
This has been a bit of a contentious issue as websites such as www.tv.com & affiliated sites often list Bill Oddie as being the voice of Eric. The Goodies toured Australia last year & I decided to put this topic to rest. I asked Tim Brooke-Taylor himself who confirmed that yes he did voice Eric. He wrote it on my Dandy comic cover which if anyone wants any evidence can be found here:

http://bustercomic.4t.com/cgi-bin/i/famousfans/autographeddandy.jpg  **This Link Directs To A Page Without A Picture**

It clearly says "Little Eric" aka Tim Brooke-Taylor (Tim's little joke as I asked him to sign it the other way around as Graeme Garden had done)

Poem?
Is the poem from the show? --Kjoonlee 18:01, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

 * It does immediately strike me as being genuine Timb0h 19:29, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Writer and artist
Infobox says Writer: Steve Bright, Artist: John Geering. Is that correct? Bright is the second artist, surely he only wrote the strips he drew, and the Geering-era writer is unknown? Digifiend (talk) 13:49, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

My father Gerry O'Donnell wrote many of the scripts for Bananaman in the Nutty Comic, along with other writers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.157.161.175 (talk) 11:26, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

 * I believe the character was created at least in part by Dave Donaldson, who was Editor of the Nutty at the time. I added this to the article. The best citation I could find was the Historic Scotland one. Cmungall (talk) 17:57, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

animated or live action
Does anyone know if the planned bananaman movie is going to be an animated movie orlive action — Preceding unsigned comment added by Melvyn the psychopathic aardvark (talk • contribs) 16:19, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Origin of the name "Nerk"
Is there any information on where the name "Nerk" came from? Could it be from Porridge (TV series)? They use "nerk" as a '70s TV friendly substitute for a much ruder expletive. According to the article it is a neologism coined by the show. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danielklein (talk • contribs) 07:13, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Bananaman (TV series)
I would suggest that you split the Bananaman TV series section and move it to its own page "Bananaman (TV series)". AdamDeanHall (talk) 17:30, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

I would agree that this is a fair suggestion. The TV series was fairly notable on its own. Dunarc (talk) 18:47, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Yes. I would certainly agree that the TV series should have its own section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moonbeam1812 (talk • contribs) 10:12, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

And I also agree it should be a separate page. Why is it every time I see one of these discussions on Wikipedia they're always years old, and even though multiple people agree on a subject like this, none of the experienced editors have done it yet? Danstarr69 (talk) 17:49, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

It needs sources before it can be split into a separate article. I have created a Draft:Bananaman (TV series) to encourage this. – Laundry Pizza 03  ( d c̄ ) 08:16, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

First Appearance Dandy
The first appearance for the Dandy is listed as 2012 (Electronic publication). Given the Nutty merged with the Dandy in 1985 (per Nutty wiki page), it feels like this should list 1985 instead of, or as well as, 2012. Flamefew (talk) 00:01, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

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Star-Club

The Star-Club was a music club in Hamburg, Germany, that opened on Friday 13 April 1962, and was initially operated by Manfred Weissleder and Horst Fascher. In the 1960s, many of the giants of rock music played at the club. The club closed on 31 December 1969 and the building it occupied was destroyed by a fire in 1987. The address of the club was Große Freiheit 39 in the St. Pauli quarter of Hamburg. Große Freiheit is a side street of the Reeperbahn. The club had a capacity of 2,000 people, and cinema-style seating.

The club achieved worldwide renown through the performances of the Beatles, who played three residencies there between April and December 1962. An amateur tape recording of one of the performances (or parts of several performances) during their December engagement was remixed and released in 1977 as Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962. The club remained a popular venue for British and American rock and roll acts through the mid-1960s; its success was such that it spun off a record label bearing the Star Club name that operated from 1964 to 1966, often recording acts who performed at the club.

Musicians who played at Star-Club
List of musicians who played in the Star-Club:
 * American musicians:
 * Ray Charles
 * Bo Diddley
 * Fats Domino
 * Everly Brothers
 * Goldie and the Gingerbreads
 * Bill Haley
 * Jimi Hendrix
 * Johnny and the Hurricanes
 * Brenda Lee
 * Jerry Lee Lewis (who released a highly praised live album recorded at the club in 1964)
 * Little Richard, who at that point had Billy Preston in his band
 * The Monks, with Gary Burger played at the Top Ten Club a number of time 1965, 1966, and 1967.
 * English musicians:
 * The Beatles (13 April-31 May, 1-14 November, and 18–31 December 1962.)
 * Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers
 * The Big Three
 * Black Sabbath
 * Chicken Shack, featuring Christine McVie
 * Cream
 * Lee Curtis and the All-Stars
 * Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
 * Earth (pre-Black Sabbath)
 * Gun
 * The Jimi Hendrix Experience (US/UK, March 1967)
 * The Nice
 * The Jaybirds, featuring Alvin Lee.
 * Innocent Child, Blackpool Rock Band (originally Cherry Blossom Clinic)
 * Billy J. Kramer
 * Garth Crooks
 * The Dakotas
 * The Liverbirds
 * Maze featuring Ian Paice and Rod Evans later of Deep Purple
 * The Overlanders
 * The Pretty Things
 * The Remo Four
 * The Searchers
 * Taste
 * Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes
 * Richard Thompson
 * Soft Machine
 * The Twilights
 * The V.I.P.'s (band)
 * The Roadrunners, Liverpool's original R & B band of the 60s
 * Ian Hunter
 * German musicians: The Rattles and many more
 * Italian musicians
 * Benjamin & His Brothers – Rock 'n' Roll band featuring Mino Reitano
 * Swedish musician:
 * Jerry Williams

Star-Club records
In October 1962, Siegfried Loch, label manager for Philips Records, visited the Star-Club for a concert with Fats Domino. Loch persuaded Manfred Weissleder, the manager of Star-Club, to give him permission to set up recording equipment in the club. He started a record label, Star-Club Records, subsidiary of Philips Records.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kahn's Law

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

The result of the debate was Delete --Allen3 talk 11:38, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

Kahn's Law
Original research? "Kahn's law" gets 72 Google hits, none of which seem to be related. This is the only article by the author. TheCoffee 04:15, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism. Dcarrano 04:31, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless rewritten into an encyclopedic article on the main Google hit; "that the effectiveness of a committee is inversely proportional to the number of participants and the time spent deliberating". I doubt that an encyc article exists in the future for that, however. But I do wonder how it might apply to VfD... -Splash 04:55, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Splash. -mysekurity 05:52, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete student neologism. JamesBurns 09:21, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable law. Don't even know if the law is valid. Sjakkalle (Check!)  11:51, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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User:DuKot/Pseudo Watchlist

 * Indian Railways
 * Lisa Kudrow
 * Thomas Jefferson
 * Arianna Huffington
 * WikiProject U.S. states
 * U.S. presidential election, 2008
 * The King of Queens
 * Barnstars on Wikipedia
 * Nurse
 * Map (disambiguation)
 * Blue Collar Comedy Tour

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Echinostoma

Echinostoma is a genus of trematodes (flukes), which can infect both humans and other animals. These intestinal flukes have a three-host life cycle with snails or other aquatic organisms as intermediate hosts, and a variety of animals, including humans, as their definitive hosts.

Echinostoma infect the gastrointestinal tract of humans, and can cause a disease known as echinostomiasis. The parasites are spread when humans or animals eat infected raw or undercooked food, such as bivalve molluscs or fish.

Taxonomy
There has been debate about the number of species in this group, with estimates as high as 120 unique species of Echinostoma, however, currently 16 species have been accepted as valid species with another 10 to be validated Echinostoma are difficult to classify based on morphology alone. Many species look alike and can be considered cryptic species (different lineages are considered to be the same species, due to high morphological similarity between them). Many species of Echinostoma have been re-classified several times. For example, the species now known as Echinostoma caproni, was previously known by a variety of names including E. liei, E. parasensei and E. togoensis.

Methods for classifying Echinostoma species, such as the Echinostoma revolutum group, were devised by Kanev. The Echinostoma species in this group are now classified according to their shared morphological and biological characteristics, such as the presence of 37 collar spines.

Molecular methods, such as sequencing mitochondrial DNA and ribosomal DNA, are also used to distinguish between species of Echinostoma as an alternative to morphological classification methods.

Species
Phylogeny of most known Echinostoma species based on the mitochondrial nad1 sequences:

Further confirmed species are E. lindoense Sandground & Bonne, 1940 and E. luisreyi Maldonado, Vieira & Lanfredi, 2003, these are not included in the phylogeny because of a lack of genetic material. Unconfirmed species are E. acuticauda, E. barbosai, E. chloephagae, E. echinatum, E. jurini, E. nudicaudatum, E. parvocirrus, E. pinnicaudatum, E. ralli, and E. rodriguesi.

Morphology

Echinostoma are internal digenean trematode parasites which infect the intestines and bile duct of their hosts.

The length and width of adult Echinostoma varies between species, but they tend to be approximately 2-10mm × 1-2mm in size.

Adult Echinostoma have two suckers: an anterior oral sucker and a ventral sucker. They also have a characteristic head collar with spines surrounding their oral sucker. The number of collar spines varies between Echinostoma species, but there are usually between 27 and 51. These spines can be arranged in one or two circles around the sucker, and their arrangement may be a characteristic feature of an Echinostoma species.

Echinostoma have a digestive system consisting of a pharynx, oesophagus and an excretory pore.

Echinostoma are hermaphrodites, and have both male and female reproductive organs. The testes are found in the posterior part of the fluke's body, in the area furthest from the mouth. The ovary is also found in this location, close to the testes.

The eggs (ova) of Echinostoma are operculate and vary in size, but are typically in the range of 80-135μm × 55-80μm.

Geographic distribution
The genus Echinostoma has a global distribution. These parasites are particularly common in South East Asia, in countries such as South Korea and the Philippines. However, they are also found in some European countries, and species such as Echinostoma trivolvis are found in North America.

Life cycle
Echinostoma have three hosts in their life cycle: a first intermediate host, a second intermediate host and a definitive host. Snail species such as Lymnaea spp. are common intermediate hosts for Echinostoma, although fish and other bivalve molluscs can also be intermediate hosts for these parasites.

Echinostoma species have low specificity for their definitive hosts, and can infect a variety of different species of animal, including amphibians, aquatic birds, mammals and humans. A definitive host which is infected with Echinostoma will shed unembryonated Echinostoma eggs in their faeces. When the eggs are in contact with fresh water they may become embryonated, and will then hatch and release miracidia. The miracidia stage of Echinostoma is free-swimming, and actively penetrates the first intermediate snail host, which then becomes infected.

In the first intermediate host, the miracidium undergoes asexual reproduction for several weeks, which includes sporocyst formation, a few generations of rediae and the production of cercariae. The cercariae are released from the snail host into water and are also free-swimming. The cercariae penetrate a second intermediate host, or they remain in the first intermediate host, where they form metacercariae. Definitive hosts become infected by eating secondary hosts which are infected with metacercariae. Once the metacercariae have been eaten, they excyst in the intestine of the definitive host where the parasite then develops into an adult.

Echinostoma are hermaphrodites. A single adult individual has both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of self-fertilization. Sexual reproduction of adult Echinostoma in the definitive host leads to the production of unembryonated eggs. The life cycle of Echinostoma is temperature dependent, and occurs quicker at higher temperatures. Echinostoma eggs can survive for about 5 months and still have the ability to hatch and develop into the next life cycle stage.

Echinostomiasis
Infection of humans with members of the family Echinostomatidae, including Echinostoma, can lead to a disease called echinostomiasis. E. revolutum, E. echinatum, E. malaynum and E. hortense are particularly common causes of Echinostoma infections in humans. Humans can become infected with Echinostoma by eating infected raw or undercooked food, particularly fish, clams and snails. Infection with these parasites tends to be common in regions where cultural dishes require the use of raw or undercooked food that may be infected with Echinostoma. A mild infection may not have any symptoms. If symptoms are present they can include abdominal pain, diarrhoea, tiredness and weight loss.

Epidemiology of echinostomiasis
Echinostomiasis is endemic in South East Asia and the Far East, in countries including China, Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and India. Echinostomiasis has also been reported in Japan, Singapore, Romania, Hungary and Italy. The prevalence of echinostomiasis varies between countries but there tend to be foci of infection in areas where raw or undercooked hosts of Echinostoma, such as snails or fish, are widely consumed.

Pathogenesis
Echinostoma are not highly pathogenic. Symptoms of greater severity tend to be seen in an echinostomiasis infection where there is a higher number of flukes. The flukes cause damage to the intestinal mucosa, which leads to ulceration and inflammation.

Diagnosis
An Echinostoma infection can be diagnosed by observing the parasite eggs in the faeces of an infected individual, under a microscope. Methods such as the Kato-Katz procedure can be used to do this. The eggs typically have a yellow-brown appearance, and are ellipsoid in shape. To confirm which species is causing the infection adult worms must be recovered from the infected individual, such as with anthelmintic treatment.

Treatment and prevention
Echinostomiasis can be treated with the anthelmintic drug praziquantel, as for other intestinal trematode infections. Side effects of anthelmintic drug treatment may include nausea, abdominal pain, headaches or dizziness.

Echinostomiasis can be controlled at the same time as other food-borne parasite infections, using existing control programmes. Interrupting the parasite's lifecycle by efficient diagnosis and subsequent treatment of infected individuals, and preventing reinfection, may help to control this disease. As echinostomiasis is acquired through the consumption of raw or undercooked infected food, cooking food thoroughly will prevent infection.

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Talk:Traducianism

Grammar error
In the pararaph titled "Biblical support", the sentence beginning "there was never any doubt" is ungrammatical. Someone who knows what the correct meaning is, please fix. Zargulon 06:56, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

 * The statement is in passive voice, too, and should not be. CyberAnth 03:48, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Technically, that's not the passive voice (which would be something like "The doctrine of the divine creation of Adam's soul was held by all of the Church Fathers"). In any case, I made some changes to make that section flow a little more smoothly. --Flex 17:57, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Needs a "Criticisms" section
This article needs more to contrast its subject with "creationism" (immediate divine creation) and have a section of criticisms that creationism adherents level at traducianism. This is more to help one better understand traducianism through contrastive opposition than bias issues. Interesting article otherwise, however. CyberAnth 03:04, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Agreed. --Flex 17:57, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to suggest removing the fifth point under Main Arguments for Traducianism ("souls are already present in the loins") because the whole argument behind this point is based on an equivication of the word "souls."--Gesundheit 01:01, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Position of the Eastern Church
This article claims that the Eastern Church has always held to the traducian position. However the article on Creationism (soul) claims that the Eastern Church has always held the creationist position. Which is it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.216.37.203 (talk) 18:04, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Generatianism
Could it be possible that an alternative name for T. is Generatianism? --92.74.125.253 (talk) 21:52, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, I read that in German "Generatianismus" there. --105.0.1.160 (talk) 23:27, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

pro-life view
Article claims:
 * Opponents of human traducianism are sometimes found in the pro-life movement, because many among those who hold to pro-life views are of the opinion that embryos have a soul and are to be fully recognized as persons.

That uncited claim makes no sense to me. Prima facie, it would seem that traducianism is more favourable to the anti-abortion case than creationism. If the child's soul is derived by transmission from one or both parents, it must have been present from the very moment of conception. Conversely, if the child's soul is an independent action of creation by God, God could conceivably choose not to perform this act at conception, but at some later point in the pregnancy, which might imply that abortion prior to that point is acceptable. So I am very inclined to think this sentence is simply wrong and should be stricken as incorrect; if someone thinks there is some truth to it, maybe they can provide a cite where that argument is advanced. SJK (talk) 22:52, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
 * No one objected so I went ahead and deleted the paragraph in question. SJK (talk) 11:26, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

There are also other similar unsourced passages. I added {Refimprove} then. Zezen (talk) 09:07, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Soul creationism and Eve's substance
The current phrasing in the article is incorrect. Soul creationism does not hold that Eve's substance, material and immaterial was taken out of Adam. What it should say, in Thomistic terminology, is that Eve's matter (i.e. her body, the "material") was taken out of Adam, while her soul (i.e. the form, the"immaterial") was created directly by God. (Eve's "substance", then, is the composite of her body and her soul.) 173.49.57.233 (talk) 12:15, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

More support from Genesis
Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth. --105.0.4.126 (talk) 03:08, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

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San Remigio

San Remigio is the name of two places in the Philippines:

 * San Remigio, Antique
 * San Remigio, Cebu

And of a church in Florence:

 * San Remigio di Firenze

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Poster paint

Poster paint (also known as tempera paint in the US, poster color in Asia) is a distemper paint that usually uses starch, cornstarch, cellulose, gum-water or another glue size as its binder. It either comes in large bottles or jars or in a powdered form. It is normally a cheap paint used in school art classes.

Asian poster paints are similar to gouache, albeit has a thinner viscosity, uses gum arabic and/or dextrin as a binder, and use inexpensive and less lightfast pigments more coarsely ground, with added brighteners to make the paints affordable. Poster colors are used in art classes, in animation production, and in scanning and printing. Notable brands that produce poster colors include Kokuyo Camlin, Monami, Pentel, Sakura, and Nicker.

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Yurihonjō

Yurihonjō (由利本荘市) is a city located in Akita Prefecture, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 72,550 in 30,750 households, and a population density of 60 pd/sqkm. The total area of the city is 1209.59 sqkm.

Geography
Yurihonjō is located in southwest corner of Akita Prefecture, bordered by the Sea of Japan to the west, and by Yamagata Prefecture to the south. The main urban center spreads around the south side of the Koyoshi River, about 3 kilometers upstream from the mouth. Yurihonjō is the largest municipality in Akita Prefecture in terms of area, covering approximately one-tenth the area of the prefecture, or about half the area of Kanagawa Prefecture. Part of the city is within the borders of the Chōkai Quasi-National Park.

Neighboring municipalities
Akita Prefecture Yamagata Prefecture
 * Akita
 * Nikaho
 * Daisen
 * Yuzawa
 * Yokote
 * Ugo
 * Sakata
 * Yuza
 * Mamurogawa

Climate
Yurihonjō has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) with large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. Precipitation is significant throughout the year, but is heaviest from August to October. The average annual temperature in Yurihonjō is 12.0 C. The average annual rainfall is 1838.7 mm with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 24.5 C, and lowest in January, at around 1.0 C.

Demographics
Per Japanese census data, the population of Yurihonjō peaked in the 1950s and has been in decline since then.

History
The area of present-day Yurihonjō was part of ancient Dewa Province, dominated by the Mogami clan during the Sengoku period. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, part of the area came under the control of Honjō Domain, Kameda Domain and Yashima Domain, with a very small portion under direct rule by the shogunate (tenryō). After the start of the Meiji period, the area became part of Yuri District, Akita Prefecture in 1878, and the town of Honjō was formed with the establishment of the modern municipalities system. Honjō was raised to city status on March 31, 1954.

The city of Yurihonjō was established on March 22, 2005, from the merger of the city of Honjō, and the towns of Chōkai, Higashiyuri, Iwaki, Nishime, Ōuchi, Yashima and Yuri (all from Yuri District). Just after the merger, the new city of Yurihonjō had 126 representatives in its new city assembly, more than the whole of Tokyo.

Government
After the merger, Yurihonjō had a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city assembly with 126 members (more than Tokyo Metropolis). The city legislature currently has 26 members. The city contributes three members to the Akita Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Akita District 3 of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.

Economy
The economy of Yurihonjō is based on agriculture and commercial fishing.

Companies headquartered in Yurihonjo

 * TDK Yurihonjo

Education
Yurihonjō has 14 public elementary schools and 10 public middle schools operated by the city government and five public high schools operated by the Akita Prefectural Board of Education. The prefecture also operates a special education school for disabled children. Akita Prefectural University also has a campus in the city.

Railway
East Japan Railway Company – Uetsu Main Line Yuri Kōgen Railway – Chōkai Sanroku Line
 * Nishime – Ugo-Honjō – Ugo-Iwaya – Oriwatari – Ugo-Kameda – Iwaki-Minato – Michikawa
 * Ugo-Honjō – Yakushidō – Koyoshi – Ayukawa – Kurosawa – Magarisawa – Maegō – Kubota – Nishitakisawa – Yoshizawa – Kawabe – Yashima

Seaports

 * Port of Honjō

Local attractions

 * Amasagi Village (天鷺村)
 * Amasagi Village is a complete tourist center in the town of Iwaki, northern Yurihonjō. It is centered on an historical facility, and it contains the samurai residence of the Unuma family (transferred from its original site), and a museum with collections of furniture and samurai armor.

 * Akata Giant Buddha Statue (赤田大仏)
 * A large standing Buddha statue.

 * Honjō Park (本荘公園)
 * Each year a large cherry blossom festival (April) and Azalea festival (May) take place here.

 * Yashio Park (八塩いこいの森)
 * This park is famous for its yellow cherry blossom trees and it holds a firework display in May during full bloom.

 * Hottai Falls (法体の滝)
 * One of Japan's Top 100 Waterfalls, grassy park, and hiking trails in the mountains near Mt. Chōkai.

 * One Thousand Jizō (千体地蔵)
 * One thousand stone statues of Jizō line the side of a hill in Oriwatari, Ōuchi.

 * Yashima Ski Area (矢島スキー場)
 * A small but popular ski area on the lower slopes of the Mount Chōkai. It is especially popular with snowboarders.

 * Minami Yurihara Highland (南由利原高原)
 * A large plateau of outstanding natural beauty on the Akita side of Mount Chōkai. It includes numerous rental cottages and an amusement area.

 * Taki Hot Spring (滝温泉) in the Ōuchi area is reputed to cure minor pains and many patients stay there long-term.
 * Yurihonjo Arena
 * Mizubayashi Athletic Field

Honjō Marina & Koyoshi River

 * Rowing
 * There are 500 metre & 1000 metre rowing courses at the mouth of the Koyoshi River. A major public regatta takes place here each year in September. Three high schools in Yurihonjō have their own rowing clubs with a history of success in national rowing championships.

 * Marina, Sailing
 * Honjō has a wide beach with an adjacent yachting harbour.

Local events

 * Fireworks
 * A fireworks festival is held every summer near the mouth of the Koyoshi River.

 * Naked Festival (裸参り)
 * This religious event takes place in January in which a group of men and boys walk up the Shinzan mountain through the snow to Shinzan Shrine. They wear only loincloths and thin shoes.

 * Yurihonjō Hinakaidō (由利本荘ひな街道)
 * In March each year visitors can follow a map of public displays of the traditional Hina dolls at over 50 different locations around the city.

Mount Chōkai
Mount Chōkai (鳥海山) is an inactive volcano that stands alone on the border between Akita Prefecture and Yamagata Prefecture. It is 2,236m high and is the second highest mountain in the Tōhoku area. It is popular with skiers, hikers and climbers.

There are two main trails for climbing Mount Chōkai from the Akita side. One trailhead is in Nikaho, south of Yurihonjō. The other, in Yurihonjō, starts at the Haraikawa (秡川) Parking Area. A one-way hike from the Haraikawa commonly takes 3 hours and there are bungalows and camping sites on the lower slopes of this trail.

The mountain has its own unique Alpine plants and vegetation such as Chōkai Thistle (チョウカイアザミ) and Chōkai Fusuma (チョウカイフスマ).

Local crafts, arts, and food

 * Sake (Rice wine)
 * There are four independent sake breweries in Yurihonjō: Akita Homare, Yuri Masamune, Tenju, and Dewanofuji.

 * Honjō Udon (本荘うどん)
 * Dried noodles which are eaten hot or cold. The texture of Honjō Udon is tough.

 * Gotenmari ball (ごてんまり)
 * These elaborate decorative balls are made from silk thread and are a popular souvenir of Yurihonjō.

 * Honjō Lacquer (本荘塗り)
 * A number of craftsmen in Yurihonjō produce traditional lacquerware.

 * Honjō Oiwake (本荘追分)
 * This is a traditional folk song, known as min'yō, which is reputed to be one of the most difficult for singers to master. A national Honjō Oiwake competition is held in Yurihonjō every year over 2 days in September.

 * Mountain vegetables (山菜)
 * The foothills of Mount Chōkai produce many varieties of wild mountain vegetables and in spring and autumn it is common to see cars parked on the side of the road as people stop to pick them. Popular mountain vegetables are yamaudo (山ウド), bamboo shoots (笹タケノコ) and warabi (ワラビ).

Sister city relations

 * 🇭🇺 – Vác, Hungary, since September 25, 1996
 * 🇰🇷 – Yangsan, South Korea, since October 10, 1998
 * 🇨🇳 – Wuxi, China, since July 6, 2001

Notable people from Yurihonjō

 * Akira Endo, biochemist
 * Mika Yamauchi, Olympic volleyball player
 * Natsuki Katō, model, actress and TV celebrity.
 * Akira Komatsu, footballer
 * Mikio Kudō, baseball player
 * Toshiyuki Igarashi, professional wrestler
 * Shu Watanabe (actor), actor
 * Rina Ikoma, actress, a former member of the idol group Nogizaka46

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Sebaste

Sebaste (Σεβαστή) was a common placename in classical Antiquity. Sebaste was the Greek equivalent (feminine) of the Latin Augusta. Ancient towns by the name sought to honor Augustus or a later Roman emperor.

Sebaste may refer to:

Places in Turkey

 * Sivas, a city in Sivas Province
 * as Sebastea or Sebaste di Armenia, a former Metropolitan archbishopric, now a Latin Catholic titular see
 * Sebaste in Phrygia, town of ancient Phrygia, now in Turkey
 * Elaiussa Sebaste, or Sebaste in Cilicia, near modern Ayas, in Mersin Province
 * Cabira, later called Sebaste during Roman times
 * Niksar, in modern Tokat Province, called Sebaste during Roman times
 * Pompeiopolis, later called Sebaste during Roman times

Other places

 * Sebastia, Nablus, or Sebaste in Palæstina, a village in the West Bank, known as Samaria before 30 BCE and Sebaste in Latin
 * Sebaste, Antique, a municipality in the Philippines

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KFIO (AM)

KFIO (1050 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to Dishman, Washington and serves the greater Spokane media market. The station is owned by Thomas R. Read, through licensee Liberty Broadcasting System, LLC.

The station broadcasts in the daytime at 25,000 watts but at night it must reduce power to 260 watts; that is because 1050 kHz is assigned as a clear channel frequency reserved for Mexico, so it cannot use a higher power that might interfere with Mexican radio stations.

History
KFIO first signed on as KSPO in 1984. Tom and Melinda Read purchased the tower and property of the former KPEG on Crestline on Spokane's South Hill. In an interview with the Northwest Pioneer Broadcasters, Tom Read said he purchased the radio station building for his production and tape duplicating facility. Every morning he came to work and looked at the AM tower on the property and thought that the tower should be put to use. He phoned George Frese, then a consulting broadcast engineer, and asked him to conduct an AM allocation study for a new AM station for Spokane. Tom further asked George to see why 1050 would not work as it had been assigned to nearby Coeur d'Alene, Idaho but that station had been deleted. Frese study confirmed that 1050 AM was used by some Canadian station but was available for Spokane with 5,000 watts, daytime. The original call letters were KSPO. KSPO 1050 AM became Spokane's premier religious-programmed station.

Years later, KSPO 1050 was sold by Read in order to increase power of his Central Washington station, KTBI, to 50,000 watts on 810 kHz. The FCC rules at the time did not allow one owner to control two AM stations which overlapped. In his book, Read explained that KTBI was a grandfathered type of facility and if it did not increase power to the maximum allow at the time, it would most likely never be able to do so. For that reason, he reluctantly sold KSPO 1050.

The station went through a large number of owners through the years. Read repurchased the Crestline transmitter property and studio building after the 1050 facility was moved to another transmitter location. Finally, Mapleton was the owner of the 1050 and approached Read about purchasing the license and moving the transmitter back to its original Crestline tower where it remain today.

With the KSPO call letters used by Read on 106.5 FM in Spokane, some thought was given to using the KSPO AM and FM combination with the 1050. However, to pay honor to the original KFIO, the first licensed radio station in Spokane, Read decided to use the KFIO callsign for the new 1050 AM station.

In January 2016, KEYF owner Mapleton Communications sold the frequency to Thomas Read, owner of Spokane religious stations KSPO and KTRW, who changed the call sign to KFIO in honor of the original KFIO (now KSBN), which was assigned these call letters from 1923 to 1950. On April 25, 2016, KEYF went silent to allow for the installation of a new 25,000–watt transmitter at the Crestline location. KFIO began equipment testing in October 2016 and returned to the airwaves later that year.

Date from the archives of the Northwest Pioneer Broadcasters and the draft of Tom Read's forthcoming book, "A Young Man With A Microphone".

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/E5 Series Shinkansen

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

The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:57, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

E5_Series_Shinkansen
There is no such train as the E5 series, and so this page can only be considered a hoax. Dave 04:20, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Trusting the user above (Dave), this is a hoax. DarthVader 05:10, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete in agreement with above. -mysekurity 05:52, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. There is indeed No Such Train. - Thatdog 08:14, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unverifiable. JamesBurns 09:21, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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