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I agree with the sentiments of the guys below. Perhaps not in the detail. There is a plethora of information out there on so called accelerated learning. Most of it conjecture. I do not think that should mean we dismiss it out of hand, but it should be clear what is proven by research and what is not. I think the best thing to do is to change the title to Acclerated learning rather than specifically focussing in on language. (Dave Catlin 10:54, 11 May 2007 (UTC)).

I'm a professional in the field, and I can't tell what half of this gibberish is about. I'll try to clean it up when I'm feeling a little more tolerant. -- Visviva 13:01, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

I think this article should be erased entirely. "The brain can accept 80% more information than assumed?" -Meaningless! The link I tried to "Accelerated Spanish" is no longer in service on tripod.com.

My two cents: Or if you don't entirely erase it, ask the guy to provide some citation for his points. I looked in vain all over the internet and also through books on language acquisition to find something positive about "over-stimulation" for instance. Citing specifically how the different techniques like mnemonics or theory of multiple intelligences are used in diferent systems of "accelerated language learning" would be useful. The entry on Pimsleur's system, I found useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimsleur_language_learning_system Pimsleur is a real historical figure who made intellectual contributions such as his "Forgetting Curve" which is cited in Nations's book "Learning Vocabulary in Another Language" in the Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series.

Jon Fernquest http://portablelanguageteacher.blogspot.com/

I think that a simmilair article or an improvement of this one should be addressed. I find tons of problems with this article, and I cannot argue that the above critisms are invalid, but the points are valid. I think the article is more or less part of a simmilar article on Second language aqcuisition though.

all the links about superleaning and accelerated learning are trying to validate and sell bunk books on amazon,, DESTROY this psudo-garbage. or at least reduce it to its component compounds,, this article belongs in the 80's

 * It's been a long time coming, but I've merged this to Suggestopedia, as the language part seems pretty much directly related to it, and I can't find any clear explanations of it in its own right. I'll make a redirect from accelerated learning to Suggestopedia too - someone can turn that into an article later if they feel like it (and can find the sources). —  Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 14:43, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

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Herb Bernstein

Herb Bernstein is an American record producer, composer, arranger, and conductor.

Professional life
Herb Bernstein arranged and produced records in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s for Laura Nyro, John Denver, Joel Grey, The Four Seasons, Bob Dylan, The Monkees, Dusty Springfield, Tina Turner, Norma Tanega, The Happenings, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Julie Budd, Lainie Kazan, Frankie Valli, Peaches & Herb, Patti Austin, Connie Francis, Lesley Gore, and Jimmy Roselli.

Bernstein's numerous hit records as producer, publisher, or arranger include "See You in September," "Go Away Little Girl," "Knock Three Times" and "Leaving on a Jet Plane, as well as "Brink of Disaster" and "I Can't Make It Without You" by Lesley Gore (released in 1967 and 1968, respectively). The Laura Nyro album More Than a New Discovery released in 1967, which Bernstein arranged and conducted, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The album included such songs as "Wedding Bell Blues" and "Stoney End".

Bernstein served as musical director and conductor for Michael Amante. he continued to work as an arranger and conductor, working with Regis Philbin and Joy Philbin, and Bernstein's longtime protegee Julie Budd, appearing with orchestras and other ensembles across the country.

Bernstein has conducted at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, and with the Buffalo, Baltimore, Austin, Hartford, South Bend, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras.

On August 11, 2012, Bernstein participated in Lincoln Center's "29th Annual Roots of American Music Festival" as a panelist for the "Stoned Soul Symposium", discussing the work of Laura Nyro.

Early life
Herb Bernstein was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Southern Methodist University on a basketball scholarship, then earned his B.S. and M.A. in education at New York University. He taught at Eastern District High School before embarking on his music career.

Bernstein dabbled in music from the time he was a child, starting with violin lessons at the age of four. He later learned piano and played in various bands until he broke into the record business full-time in the mid-1960s.

Personal life
In the 1960s, Bernstein was married to Joyce Robinson, a dancer with whom he had two daughters: Jill and Ellyn. He has two granddaughters, Alyson and Rachel. He and his second wife, Anne Roselli, daughter of Jimmy Roselli, have a son Michael Bernstein.

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User talk:Peggy Brennan

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Hi Peggy, Thanks for the note on my talk page. It looks like you're well on your way to having a solid article, and yes, you seem to have established WP:Notability. Nice work. On the stylistic side, many editors prefer to have a list of external links at the end of the article versus embedded external links.

BTW, it seems like Trese was quite the quite the guy. Sorry we lost him. Toddst1 21:19, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

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San Ildefonso (disambiguation)

San Ildefonso or just Ildefonso, is a masculine name, originally from the Gothic language. It is taken from the name Hildefuns meaning "battle ready" (hild "battle" combined with funs "ready"). It is Latinised as Ildephonsus, and it is possible that Alfonso is a variant of this name.

It can refer to:

Places

 * Cape San Ildefonso, a cape in the Philippines
 * San Ildefonso Amatlán, a municipality in Oaxaca, Mexico
 * San Ildefonso Ixtahuacán, a municipality in Guatemala
 * San Ildefonso Peninsula, a peninsula in the Philippines
 * San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, a census-designated place in the USA
 * San Ildefonso, Bulacan, a municipality in the Philippines
 * San Ildefonso, Ilocos Sur, a municipality in the Philippines
 * San Ildefonso, San Vicente, a municipality in El Salvador
 * San Ildefonso, Coamo, Puerto Rico, a barrio
 * San Ildefonso, a town in Spain
 * San Ildefonso Solá, a municipality in Oaxaca, Mexico
 * San Ildefonso Villa Alta, a municipality in Oaxaca, Mexico
 * Santo Ildefonso, a parish in Portugal

People

 * Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo - archbishop of Toledo in the 7th century
 * Blessed Ildefonso Schuster, archbishop of Milan, Italy

Other

 * Ildefonso Altar (Der Altar des hl. Ildefonso), a painting by Peter Paul Rubens
 * Convent of St. Ildefonso, a book by Regina Marie Roche
 * CEIP San Ildefonso, a bilingual school in Madrid
 * San Ildefonso, a Spanish ship launched in 1785 and taken into the Royal Navy as HMS Ildefonso in 1805
 * Palacio Real de la Granja de San Ildefonso, a palace in the Spanish province of Segovia
 * Church of Saint Ildefonso, an 18th-century church in Oporto
 * San Ildefonso school also known as the San Ildefonso Self-taught Group, a Native American art movement from 1900–1935 in Northern New Mexico

Treaty of San Ildefonso

 * First Treaty of San Ildefonso of 1777 between Spain and Portugal this was settled in Uruguay a region in this time called orbe novo
 * Second Treaty of San Ildefonso of 1796 between Spain and France, allying the two nations
 * Third Treaty of San Ildefonso of 1800 between Spain and France, by which Spain returned Louisiana to France

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Kaladian Coulibaly

Kaladian Coulibaly was a West African ruler who founded one of the first large Bambara kingdoms, centered on Ségou in what is now Mali. Originally from Kong in what is now the Ivory Coast, he was a mercenary warlord who overthrew the ruling Koita dynasty of Segou. Around 1650, Coulibaly's kingdom was one of the dominant forces in the region. Though it lacked a systematic framework and thus failed to outlast his death (c. 1680), his great-grandson Bitòn Coulibaly would found a more stable Bambara Empire fifty years later on the same spot.

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Catch points

Catch points and trap points are types of points which act as railway safety devices. Both work by guiding railway carriages and trucks from a dangerous route onto a separate, safer track. Catch points are used to derail vehicles which are out of control (known as runaways) on steep slopes. Trap points are used to protect main railway lines from unauthorised vehicles moving onto them from sidings or branch lines. Either of these track arrangements may lead the vehicles into a sand drag or safety siding, track arrangements which are used to safely stop them after they have left the main tracks.

A derail is another device used for the same purposes as catch and trap points.

Trap points

Trap points are found at the exit from a siding or where a secondary track joins a main line. A facing turnout is used to prevent any unauthorised movement that may otherwise obstruct the main line. The trap points also prevent any damage that may be done by a vehicle passing over points not set for traffic joining the main line. In the United Kingdom, the use of trap points at siding exits is required by government legislation.

An unauthorised movement may be due to a runaway wagon, or may be a train passing a signal at danger. When a signal controlling passage onto a main line is set to "danger", the trap points are set to derail any vehicle passing that signal. Interlocking is used to make sure that the signal cannot be set to allow passage onto the main line until the trap points have been aligned to ensure this movement can take place.

Trap points should preferably be positioned to ensure that any unauthorised vehicle is stopped a safe distance from the main line. However, due to space limitations, it is not always possible to guarantee this.

If the lines are track circuited and a wagon or train using the catchpoint could foul an adjacent line, then a track circuit interrupter will be fitted to one of the run-off rails. When a train runs off it will break the track circuit and set main line signals to 'danger'.

Types
There are several different ways of constructing trap points: The type of trap points to be used depends on factors such as the gradient of the siding, and whether locomotives enter the siding.
 * A single tongue trap consists of only one switch rail, leading away from the main line to a short tongue of rail. This is usually placed in the rail farthest from the main line.
 * Double trap points are a full turnout, leading to two tongues. Usually the tongue nearer the main line is longer than the other.
 * Trap points with a crossing are double trap points where the tongues of rail are longer, so that the trap point rail nearest the main line continues over the siding rail with a common crossing or frog.
 * A trap road with stops is a short dead-end siding leading to some method of stopping a vehicle, such as a sand drag or buffer stop.
 * Wide to gauge trap points have switches that work in opposite directions and are therefore either both open or both closed. Vehicles derailed at these points will tend to continue in a forward direction rather than being thrown to one side. Wide to gauge points are typically found on sidings situated between running lines.
 * Independent switches are a kind of wide to gauge switch which are part of two separate crossovers. There are three positions: part of crossover A to left; wide to gauge switches; part of crossover B to right. A good place to view these independent switches are at both ends of Platforms 1 and 2 at Hornsby railway station, Sydney.

Catch points are used where track follows a rising gradient. They are used to derail (or "catch") any unauthorised vehicles travelling down the gradient. This may simply be a vehicle that has accidentally been allowed to run away down the slope, or could be a wagon that has decoupled from its train. In either case, the runaway vehicle could collide with a train farther down the slope.

Catch points may consist of a full turnout or a single switch blade. In some cases, on a track that is only traversed by uphill traffic, trailing point blades are held in a position to derail any vehicle travelling downhill. However, any traffic travelling in the correct (uphill) direction can pass over the turnout safely, pushing the switch blades into the appropriate position. Once the wheels have passed, the catch points are forced back into the derailing position by springs. In these cases, a lever may be provided to temporarily override the catch points and allow safe passage down the gradient in certain controlled circumstances.

The use of catch points became widespread in the United Kingdom after the Abergele rail disaster (1868), where runaway wagons containing paraffin oil (kerosene) collided with an express train. Catch points continued to be used in the UK until the mid-20th century. At this time, continuous automatic brakes, which automatically stop any vehicles separated from their train, were widely adopted, making catch points largely obsolete.

Wide to gauge catch points
Sometimes a track is located between two other tracks that are converging, and there is nowhere for a catchpoint to divert a train to. In such cases, a pair of single catchpoints of left and right hand may be provided to derail the overrunning train without directing it to either side. The two blades of an ordinary turnout may also be operated separately for the same purpose.

Examples would be the north and south ends of platforms 1 and 2 at Hornsby in New South Wales.

Sand drag

In some cases, catch points and trap points direct vehicles into a sand drag or safety siding, also sometimes called an arrestor bed. This may be a siding simply leading to a mound of sand, gravel or other granular material, or a siding where the rails are within sand-filled troughs. This method of stopping a vehicle travelling at speed is preferred over a buffer stop as there is less shock to the vehicle involved.

Chock block
A cheap and simple alternative to catch points or a derail is a chock block, which is a piece of timber that can be positioned and locked over one of the rails at the end of a siding to protect the main line from runaways. In order for the siding to be used the chock block must be removed.

Effectiveness
Because catch points are rarely needed, it is not always clear whether they will in fact derail a runaway train effectively and as safely as possible. For example, use of catch points to derail a train that had passed a signal at danger at London Paddington station in June 2016 resulted in the empty train, a Class 165, hitting and severely damaging an overhead line electrification stanchion, causing all services to and from the station to be halted for hours.

Accidents
In 2010, in snowy conditions, at Carrbridge, a Class 66 passed a red signal as well as catch points, leading to the train going down the embankment, injuring the two crew on board.

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User talk:Strydermike

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Type A Mod.2 submarine

The Type A Kai 2 (A Modified 2) submarine (巡潜甲型改二潜水艦), also called I-13-class submarine (伊一三型潜水艦) was a pair of large, aircraft-carrying cruiser submarines built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II.

Design and description
The Type A Mod.2 submarines were versions of the preceding A2 class with the command facilities replaced by an enlarged aircraft hangar, which was fitted for a pair of Aichi M6A1 floatplane bombers. They displaced 3603 LT surfaced and 4762 LT submerged. The submarines were 113.7 m long, had a beam of 11.7 m and a draft of 5.9 m. They had a diving depth of 100 m.

The machinery was reduced in power from the A2-class boats. For surface running, the boats were powered by two 2200 bhp diesel engines, each driving one propeller shaft. When submerged each propeller was driven by a 300 hp electric motor. They could reach 16.75 kn on the surface and 5.5 kn underwater. On the surface, the AMs had a range of 21000 nmi at 16 kn; submerged, they had a range of 60 nmi at 3 kn.

The boats were armed with six internal bow 53.3 cm torpedo tubes and carried a total of a dozen torpedoes. They were also armed with a single 140 mm/40 deck gun and two triple and one single mount for 25 mm Type 96 anti-aircraft guns.

In comparison to the A2 class, the aircraft hangar was enlarged to accommodate two aircraft. It was offset to the right of, and was faired into the base of, the conning tower which protruded over the left side of the hull. A single catapult was positioned on the forward deck. Two folding cranes on the forward deck were used to recover the floatplanes.

Name Translation
Sources also refer to this class of ships as the "Type AM" (standing for the "Type A Modified"), or "Type AM2" (for "Type A Modified 2"), contrasting with two other sub-classes of the type, the I-9-class (Type A/A1) and I-12-class (Type AM1/A2). As the I-12 submarine was only a minor evolution of the I-9-class as well as being the sole ship of its class, it may also be considered as part of the I-9-class, making the I-13-class the only sub-class of the type, hence the I-9-class "Type A" and the I-13-class of the "Type AM".

"Type AM" might also be a miss-translation of Kai Ni (改二) (equivalent to 2nd remodel/modification) being interpreted as "Mark 2" in the sense of the 1st remodel/modification.

As the original Japanese name (Junsen kō-gata kai-ni sensuikan (巡潜甲型改二潜水艦)) is better translated as either "Type A Mod.2 Submarine Cruiser" or "Junsen Type A Kai 2 Submarine ", the "Type A Mod.2" designation is used here.

Boats
Seven units were ordered, but only two were completed, while construction of two more was abandoned in March 1945. Construction of the remaining three submarines never started.

 * JAPANESE SUBMARINE I-13 was sunk on 16 July 1945 by the destroyer escort USS Lawrence C. Taylor and aircraft action from escort carrier USS Anzio about 550 nmi east of Yokosuka.
 * JAPANESE SUBMARINE I-14 surrendered at sea at the end of the war, and was scuttled off Oahu in 1946. In 2009, researchers at the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory found I-14 at a depth of about 2600 ft.
 * I-15 was converted to a tanker submarine in June 1945, 90% complete, scrapped in 1945.
 * I-1 was 70% complete, sunk by a typhoon on 18 September 1945; later salvaged and scrapped.
 * No.5094, No.5095, and No.5096 were cancelled in 1943.

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Robin Ramsay (editor)

Robin Ramsay (born 1948) is a Scottish author, and co-founder and editor of the magazine Lobster. Ramsay writes about politics and conspiracy theories. His books have been published by HarperCollins and Pocket Essentials. His writings have resulted in him receiving death threats from the fascist group Combat 18.

The eldest child of a food chemist father and housewife mother. Ramsay was born in Edinburgh and studied at Stirling University but left after a term and moved to London. He later graduated from Hull University. During his time at Hull, he became interested in the John F. Kennedy assassination.

While investigating the case, Ramsay met fellow Kennedy assassination enthusiast Stephen Dorril. Together they started a magazine about the influence of intelligence and security services on politics, Lobster, in September 1983. Ramsay also draws on his research and writes a regular monthly column in the Fortean Times.

Conspiracy theories
Although Ramsay's magazine Lobster includes articles on conspiracy theories, and he has written a book on the subject, Gareth McLean (writing in The Scotsman newspaper) says that Ramsay "hates conspiracy theories", quoting him as saying "The term 'conspiracy theory' is used by various intellectual establishments to dismiss people like me. It's irritating but there's nothing you can do about it."

Personal
Guardian journalist Robert McCrum in 1991 described Ramsay as "an extrovert, fast-talking Scot with jack-of-all-trades experience in alternative journalism, jazz music and the theatre".

In July 1988, Ramsay made an extended appearance on the Channel 4 discussion programme After Dark, alongside Merlyn Rees, H. Montgomery Hyde and others.

Published books

 * Smear: Wilson and the Secret State (1992) HarperCollins, ISBN 0-586-21713-4 (co-authored with Stephen Dorril)
 * Prawn Cocktail Party: The Hidden Power of New Labour (1998) Vision Paperbacks, ISBN 1-901250-20-2
 * New Labour (2002) Pocket Essentials, ISBN 1-903047-83-8
 * Conspiracy Theories (2006) Pocket Essentials, ISBN 1-904048-65-X
 * Politics and Paranoia (2008) Picnic Publishing ISBN 0-9556105-4-0
 * Who Shot JFK? (2nd ed. 2009) Pocket Essentials, ISBN 1-84243-232-X

Articles

 * Robin Ramsay, "The Gemstone File", International Times, Vol.4, Number 11, 1978, retrieved 17 August 2012

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Al-Tha'alibi

Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Thaʿālibī (أبو منصور الثعالبي، عبد الملك بن محمد بن إسماعيل) (961–1038), was a writer famous for his anthologies and collections of epigrams. As a writer of prose and verse in his own right, distinction between his and the work of others is sometimes lacking, as was the practice of writers of the time.

Life
Al-Thaʿālibī was born in Nishapur and was based there throughout his life. Of Arab ethnicity, his nickname means 'furrier' or 'tailor who works with fox fur', and medieval biographers speculated that this was his job or his father's, but there is no convincing evidence for either proposition. The only hint as to al-Thaʿālibī's education is that claim that he was taught by Abū Bakr al-Khwārizmi (who was certainly a source for al-Thaʿālibī's poetry anthologies). Likewise, despite his great proess, there are only hints that al-Thaʿālibī was himself a teacher. Al-Thaʿālibī travelled widely beyond Nishapur, however: autobiographical information scattered in his works shows that he spent time in Bukhārā, Jurjān, Isfarāʾīn, Jurjāniyya, Ghazna, and Herat. The numerous dedicatees of his works indicate the circles in which al-Thaʿālibī moved and the range of his acquaintances; they included Abū al-Fāḍl ʿUbaydallāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mīkālī (d. 1044/1055), Qābus ibn Wushmgīr (d. 1012), Sebüktegin (d. 1021), Abū Sahl al-Ḥamdūnī (d. after c. 1040), and both Masʿūd of Ghazna (d. 1040) and other members of his court such as Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd, Abū al-Ḥasan Musāfir ibn al-Ḥasan, and Abū al-Fatḥ al-ḥasan ibn Ībrāhīm al-Ṣaymarī.

Al-Thaʿālibī gained fame as a composer of both Arabic prose and verse, writing in most verse genres of his culture, and developing literary and philological scholarship. His most famed, however, for his two anthologies of roughly contemporary Arabic verse, much of which would otherwise have been lost: the Yatīmat al-dahr and its sequel the Tatimmat at Yatīma.

Works
Al-Thaʿālibī has twenty-nine known works.

Kitāb Yatīmat al-dahr fī mahāsin ahl al-ʿaṣr
This is al-Thaʿālibī's best known work and contains valuable extracts from the poetry of his own and earlier times; its title means 'The Matchless Pearl of the Age on the Fine Qualities of Contemporary Men'. In its surviving form — a second edition revised by al-Thaʿālibī — it quotes 470 poets in four volumes, organised geographically. The four volumes cover, in this order, Syria and the west (Mawṣil, Egypt, Maghrib); Iraq; Western Iran (al-Jabal, Fārs, Jurjān, and Ṭabaristān); and Eastern Iran (Khurāsān and Transoxania). Composition began in 384/994. No satisfactory edition exists. The Yatīmat and its sequel the Tatimmat have been characterised as 'our main, if not the sole, source about literary activity' in al-Tha'ālibī's time.
 * ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad Thaʿālibī, Yatīmat al-dahr fī shuʿarāʼ ahl al-ʿaṣr (يتيمة الدهر في شعراء أهل العصر), 4 vols (Damascus: [al-Maṭbaʿah al-Ḥifnīyah] دمشق : المطبعة الحفنية, 1302 AH [1885 CE]), vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4. The most widely used edition, with a Persian interlinear translation.
 * Muḥammad Muḥyī al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd محمد محي الدين عبدالحميد (ed.), يتيمة الدهر في في محاسن أهل العصر, 4 vols (Cairo 1956), vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4. Bilāl Urfahʹlī concludes that this is the most accurate edition, and 'offers a preliminary basis of studying the Yātima, even if some points will have to be changed according to what a critical edition might reveal'.
 * ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad Thaʻālibī, Yatīmat al-dahr fī maḥāsin ahl al-ʻaṣr maʻ al-tatimma wa-l-fahāris (يتيمة الدهر في شعراء أهل العصر مع التتمة والفهارس), ed. by Mufīd Muḥammad Qumayḥah, 6 vols (Bayrūt: Dār al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah (دار الكتب العلمية), 1983), vols 1-4 (index vol. 6). This includes the original work, as well as its sequel (Tatimma): Machine-readable text.
 * Manuscript facsimile from the Thomas Fisher Arabic Collection.

Tatimmat al-Yatīmah ('completion of the Yatīma ' )
The Tatimmat al-Yatīmah was a sequel to the Yatīmat al-dahr. It follows the same geographical structure as its precursor (with an extra, fifth, book collecting miscellaneous poets whom Thaʿālibī had missed) and added poems and poets which al-Thaʿālibī had not been able to include in the Yatīmat. Like the Yatīma, it survives in a second edition revised by al-Thaʿālibī, published in or after 424/1032.
 * The best edition is Ahmad Shawqi Radwan, 'Thaʿālibī's “Tatimmat al-Yatīmah”: A Critical Edition and a Study of the Author as Anthologist and Literary Critic' (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Manchester, 1972).
 * The most widely available edition, prior to the digitisation of Radwan's edition, was ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad Thaʻālibī, Tatimmat Yatīmat al-dahr, fi maḥāsin ahl al-ʻaṣr (تتمة يتيمة الدهر في محاسن أهل العصر), in Yatīmat al-dahr fī maḥāsin ahl al-ʻaṣr maʻ al-tatimma wa-l-fahāris (يتيمة الدهر في شعراء أهل العصر مع التتمة والفهارس), ed. by Mufīd Muḥammad Qumayḥah, 6 vols (Bayrūt: Dār al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah (دار الكتب العلمية), 1983), vol. 5 (index vol. 6). Machine-readable text.
 * An earlier edition is Tatimmat ʾal-yatīmah, ed. by ʻAbbas ʾIqbal, 2 vols (Tihran, 1353 AH [1934]) [based on Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Fonds Arabe, 3308].

Other works

 * Aḥsan mā samiʿtu ('the best I ever heard'), an anthology of poetry and prose, including 535 poems averaging 2.26 lines each, apparently abridged from a collection called Aḥāsin al-maḥāsin (the best of the best).
 * Al-Thaʿālibī, Aḥsan mā samiʿtu, ed. by Muḥammad Ṣādiq ʿAnbar (Cairo: al-Maktabah al-Maḥmūdiyyah, n.d. [1925]).
 * Kitāb Fiqh ul-Lugha; lexicographical dictionary arranged by semantic subject. (Paris, 1861), (Cairo, 1867), (Beirut, 1885 - incomplete).
 * Zād safar al-mulūk
 * Zād safar al-mulūk: A Handbook on Travel by Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1038), ed. by Ramzi Baalbaki and Bilal Orfali, Bibliotheca Islamica, 52 (Beirut: Orient-Institut, 2011), ISBN 978-3-87997-692-8.
 * Al-Iqtibās min al-Qurʾān (الاقتباس من القرآن الكريم, 'quoting from the generous Qurʾān', literally 'taking hot coals from the generous Qurʾān'), on the cultural and literary influence of the Qurʾān.
 * Ed. by I. M. al-Ṣaffār (Baghdad: Dār al-Ḥurriyya li-l-Ṭibāʿa, 1975).
 * Ed. by I. M. al-Ṣaffār and M. M. Bahjat, 2 vols (al-Manṣūra: Dār al-Wafāʾ, 1992) [repr. Cairo: Dār al-Wafāʾ, 1998).
 * Ed. by I. M. al-Ṣaffār (ʿAmmān: Jidārā li-l-Kitāb al-ʿAlamī, 2008).
 * Makārim al-akhlāq wa-maḥāsin al-ādāb wa-badāʾiʿ al-awṣāf wa-gharāʾib al-tashbīhāt
 * The Book of Noble Character: Critical Edition of Makārim al-akhlāq wa-maḥāsin al-ādāb wa-badāʾiʿ al-awṣāf wa-gharāʾib al-tashbīhāt Attributed to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1039), ed. by Bilal Orfali and Ramzi Baalbaki, Islamic History and Civilisation: Studies and Texts, 120 (Leiden: Brill, 2015), ISBN 978-90-04-30093-4.
 * Kitāb Lata'if al-ma'arif (tr. 'Book of curious and entertaining information' Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Edinburgh University Press, 1968).
 * Kitāb al-Kināya wa-l-taʿrīd aw al-Nihāya fī fann al-kināya (ed. F. al-Ḥawwār, Baghdad & Köln: Manshūrāt al-Jamal, 2006).
 * Ghurar akhbār mulūk al-Furs wa-siyarihim, an Arabic chronicle of pre-Islamic Iranian dynasties, dedicated to al-Nasr(brother of Mahmud of Ghazni).
 * Ādāb al-mulūk or Sirāj al-mulūk, a mirror for princes.

External links and further reading

 * Urfahʹlī, Bilāl, The Anthologist's Art: Abu Mansur al-Tha'alibi and his Yatimat al-dahr, Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, 37 (Leiden: Brill, 2016), ISBN 9789004316294.
 * Urfahʹlī, Bilāl, The Anthologist's Art: Abu Mansur al-Tha'alibi and his Yatimat al-dahr, Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, 37 (Leiden: Brill, 2016), ISBN 9789004316294.

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Unimak

Unimak may refer to:
 * Unimak Island, the largest of the Aleutian Islands
 * Unimak Bay on the coast of Unimak Island
 * Unimak Pass, a passage between the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean
 * USS Unimak (AVP-31), a United States Navy seaplane tender
 * USCGC Unimak (WAVP-379), a United States Coast Guard cutter

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Summary
Cover to The Amazing Spider-Man #83. Art by John Romita, Sr.

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Vanilla Series

The Vanilla Series is Digital Works' brand for its hentai (pornographic) anime, most of which are based on hentai video games. In North America, the series is usually released by Critical Mass. However, at least three of the series was released by other studios. Angel Blade was released by Anime 18, while Office Affairs and Co-Ed Affairs were released by Kitty Media.

Notable works

 * Anyone You Can Do... I Can Do Better! (爆乳母娘) (2003)
 * Bondage 101 (懲罰予備校) (2003)
 * Booby Life (ＯＰＰＡＩライフ) (2007)
 * Chains of Lust (2003)
 * Classroom of Atonement (2003)
 * Co-ed Affairs (1998)
 * Cosplay Sex Machine (2009)
 * Cougar Trap (2008)
 * Dirty by the Dozen (2007)
 * Duchess of Busty Mounds (2005)
 * Elfen Laid (2005)
 * Enspelled (2006)
 * Erotic Adventures Of Tom Thumb (2007)
 * Gold Throbber (2005)
 * Hardcore Hospital (2003)
 * Holy Virgins (2003)
 * Horny Ladies and the News (2006)
 * Hot For Teacher (2003)
 * Humiliated Wives (2007)
 * Internal Medicine (2004)
 * Invasion of the Boobie Snatchers (2005)
 * Invisible Stud (2006)
 * Last Train to Gropesville (2007)
 * Like Mother Like Daughter (2005)
 * Maid Service (2004)
 * Medical Humiliation (2005)
 * Mother Knows Breast (2005)
 * My Brother's Wife (2005)
 * My Classmate's Mother (2007)
 * Naughty Nurses (2004)
 * Rxxx (2005)
 * Sex Exchange (2005)
 * Sextra Credit (2004)
 * Sexual Pursuit (2007)
 * Sinners Paradise (2007)
 * Sins of the Flesh (1999)
 * Slaves to Passion (2003)
 * Submission Central (2005)
 * Urotsukidoji: New Saga (The Urotsuki) (2002)
 * Xpress Train (痴漢電車) (2002)
 * Voyeur's Digest (Bad End 贖罪の教室) (2004)
 * Virgin Auction (処女オークション) (2005)
 * Wife-Swap Diaries (人妻交姦日記) (2008)

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Women in Cellblock 9

Women in Cellblock 9 (Frauen für Zellenblock 9) is a 1977 Swiss exploitation action film written and directed by Jess Franco and starring Karine Gambier. Its main theme is women in prison.

Plot
The film is set in a South American jungle prison during a revolution. Initially, the camp commander and the prison physician, Dr. Costa, wait for a few guards on a truck. On board are six young women. Three of them were arrested on suspicion of revolutionary activities, the other three are made available to the guards to be raped. The three detainees, Karine, Barbara, and Aida, are found shortly thereafter, naked and chained in a standing position, in the notorious Cellblock 9. Gradually, they are presented to the "interrogation", which is supported by the doctor through various tortures. Barbara and Aida resist the torture and remain silent, Karine, however, breaks down under the torture, and some revolutionaries denounced the (unnamed) city.

In the meantime, the young indigenous student Marie also ends up in the cellblock. Allegedly, propaganda material was found on her by the insurgents. Their torture was to spend three days without food and water in a single cell. She was then taken to dinner with the commander of the doctor, where they have oral sex in order to then get a little sip of salty Champagne.

After the four women in Cellblock 9 again are forging among themselves, they devise a plan to contact their contacts in the capital. The quartet manages to distract the guard in order to knock him out and flee with his rifle. Shortly after leaving the cellblock, Aida is killed in a gunfight with another guard who is also killed. The other three flee into the jungle, where Barbara has been shot and they progress slowly. They make it to an old temple, where they feel safe and remove the bullet from Barbara's shoulder. Karine and Marie go into the jungle to look for food, but the guards find their trail and meet them at the temple. As Barbara is killed, the other two, alerted by her screams, run back to the temple and are suddenly confronted by the camp commander and the doctor (surrounded by prison guards). In a last desperate action Karine attempts to steal the commander's pistol. When she fails to pull the trigger, the commander gives the order to fire and the last two prisoners are struck down on the spot. With the desecration of the corpses, the film ends.

Release
The film was first released in West Germany on 17 March 1978. In addition to its original title, the film is also known as Escape from the Island of Death. In English-speaking countries it is also known as Tropical Inferno and Women in Cellblock 9.

In the United Kingdom, the film was refused classification by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) in February 2004, with the board citing potential legal issues under the Video Recordings Act 1984, as well as pending updates made to the Protection of Children Act 1978 (under the Sexual Offences Act 2003) set to take effect in England and Wales in May 2004, as issues prohibiting the classification of the film.

Reception
A retrospective review states that "The story for this one is just like all the other films from the time period.  We find pretty, young women who are forced to be nude most of the film and are degraded physically, mentally, and sexually.  The story is one tracked and leaves very little for the viewer to grab hold of.  The film moves as a snails pace and the dialogue is very tedious." The same review adds that this film is one of the rare films by Franco the author would not recommend.

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Ryan Klesko

Ryan Anthony Klesko (born June 12, 1971) is an American former Major League Baseball first baseman and corner outfielder who played for the Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants. He attended Westminster High School in Westminster, California.

Early life
Klesko was born on June 12, 1971, in Westminster, California. His father was an oilfields worker whom Klesko lost at a young age. His mother, Lorene, worked at an aerospace parts company in Santa Ana and helped Klesko learn to play baseball. When he was nine, she dug a pitcher's mound for him in his backyard. She enrolled him in pitching school with Ron Lefebvre and put on catcher's gear herself to catch Klesko three times a week.

Klesko attended Westminster High School, where even though he hit a lot of home runs, he starred as a pitcher, throwing a ninety-two mile per hour fastball and pitching for the USA Junior Olympic team. He strained a ligament pitching for the junior team at 17, though, and concentrated on hitting thereafter. Klesko signed a letter of intent to play college baseball at Arizona State, but he never did so, instead signing with the Atlanta Braves after the team selected him in the fifth round of the 1989 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft.

Professional career
Klesko hit a home run in three consecutive World Series games against the Cleveland Indians in Games 3, 4, and 5 of the 1995 World Series. In Game 3, he hit a solo shot off of Charles Nagy in the seventh inning of a 7–6 loss. The Game 4 home run, another solo shot (this time off Ken Hill) put the Braves up 1–0 in the sixth; they would win the game 5–2. In Game 5, his ninth-inning two-run home run to right field off José Mesa was almost caught by his mother; Klesko wound up trading the man who caught it an autographed Greg Maddux baseball for it. The Braves lost that game 5–4, but they beat the Indians for the fourth time in the sixth game to become World Series champions.

Klesko hit at least 21 home runs in eight of his 13 seasons in the major leagues, with a high of 34 homers in. His most productive season came in, when he hit .286 with 30 home runs and posted career highs in RBI (113), runs (105), stolen bases (23) and slugging percentage (.539), and made the National League All-Star team. In, Klesko hit .300 with 29 home runs and 95 RBI, and collected career-highs in hits (162) and doubles (39). Defensively he shuttled around the outfield and first base. In his career, Klesko compiled a .370 on-base percentage with a .500 slugging average, for an .870 OPS. His .525 slugging percentage as a Brave ranks fourth all-time among the team's career leaders, ahead of Eddie Mathews. His .886 OPS as a Brave ranks him fifth among Braves' all-time leaders.

Klesko missed nearly the entire season due to major shoulder surgery. He returned on September 21, drawing a walk as a pinch-hitter in his first plate appearance. On December 19, 2006, Klesko signed a one-year contract with the San Francisco Giants. Klesko announced his retirement from baseball on April 18,.

Off the field
As of 2019, Klesko serves as a pre-game and post-game analyst for the Atlanta Braves on Fox Sports South and SportsSouth. Klesko has also served as the Padres' spokesperson for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, hosting Make-A-Wish children for batting practice, a pregame ceremony and a ballgame each home stand. Through his Klesko's Korner program, he has regularly provided Padres tickets to children and families facing cancer for the last four years, and he has also been a leading supporter of the Padres Scholars program. Klesko was honored June 19, 2014 with his induction into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame in Troy, Michigan.

Klesko and fellow former Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz were named in a tax dispute involving conservation easement for a 1,546-acre non-cash donation the two made on behalf of a partnership the two formed in the early 1990s. On 25 April 2024, the court cleared the two of fraud charges, but reduced the assessed value of the donated easement to one-tenth of the claimed amount, and imposed a 40% penalty.

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Doru Davidovici

Doru Davidovici (1945–1989), was a Romanian aviator and writer. Born in a Romanian-Jewish family, Doru Davidovici became one of the most loved Romanian fiction writers in the 1980s. During the communist years, his books gave an unusual sense of liberty and new horizons by describing the experience of flying, and the closeness it forged – both between pilots and between pilots and their machines. The plane is seen by Davidovici not simply as a machine that enables one to fly but as an actual character, with its own personality and almost with its own soul.

Early life and military career
Doru Filimon Davidovici was born on 6 July 1945 to Paul and Etti Davidovici. He attended the Higher School of Active Aviation Officers, graduating in 1967 with the rank of Lieutenant. He continued his studies at the Military Academy between 1977 and 1979.

After he completed his conversion training on supersonic fighters, he was assigned to the 86th Fighter Aviation Regiment in 1984 where he flew on MiG-21 aircraft. Between 1981 and 1986, he served in various roles such as patrol commander, squadron commander, and inspector in the Military Aviation Command. From 1986 until his death in 1989, he worked as an instructor on the MiG-21.

The cockpit incident
In 1974, soon after taking off on a mission, the canopy of his airplane broke off knocking him unconscious. When he woke up, the aircraft was diving towards a forest but soon he managed to regain control and bring the airplane to level flight. Under the instructions of his flight leader, he then began the process of landing.

While everything else was under control, he noticed a piece of the broken plexiglass still attached to the metal frame of the cockpit. Fearing it could tear off and hit him in the face, he grabbed the piece with his right hand while keeping the controls of the aircraft with his left hand. Unsuccessful in his attempt, and with an injured hand, he tried again with his other hand, eventually managing the tear off the piece. While on approach he tried to lower his visor, but his arm got twisted by the air current and flung backward, outside the cockpit, dislocating his shoulder. He managed to land the aircraft while his right arm was still twisted. Soon after landing, the medics managed to save his arm.

Writing career
He began his writing career in 1973, publishing the book titled Caii de la Voroneț ("The Horses of Voroneț"). With this book, he received the First prize at the publishing house's debut contest. His works soon gained popularity, giving readers a sense of liberty by describing the experiences of flying and presenting new horizons, and in other works of his presenting UFOs and aliens.

Due to his writing about flight, his books were particularly popular among aviators. Young pilots even asking for his autographs on books while at the Air Base, with him always happy to sign them right on the wing of his MiG-21 RFMM.

Investigation by Securitate and censorship
Due to his family's close ties to Israel, he became a target for the Securitate. His father, Paul, had been investigated two times in 1953 and in 1963, while his mother, Etti, was arrested on suspicion of treason being released two years after her arrest. Davidovici's wife, Agnes, worked as a translator for Agerpres and had many contacts in Israel, West Germany, France, and the United States. Thus, both Doru (under the codename "Aron") and his wife were investigated by the secret police.

In 1987, the Securitate intercepted one of his letters to writer Cornel Marandiuc. In this letter, Doru complained that his newly released book Lumi Galactice was censored with "incompetent erasures and clumsy additions".

Later career
Sometime at the end of 1987, or the beginning of 1988, Davidovici wanted to leave military aviation and wished to become a pilot flying internal routes for TAROM. He was however denied this request.

Death and legacy
Doru Davidovici lost his life together with Dumitru Petra on 20 April 1989 during landing procedures while returning with his MiG-21UM from a training flight to the Borcea air base. The place where he crashed near the village of Perișoru (44.38446°N, 27.60264°W) is marked with a pile of boulders.

His work was influenced by writers like Ray Bradbury, Radu Tudoran, and Bertolt Brecht. He is often compared with French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Both found a source of literary inspiration in their profession, and they both died, at about the same age, flying a fighter plane.

The MiG-21 modernization program, which later became known as the LanceR program, was initially called the "DD Program", meant as a tribute to Doru Davidovici.

Davidovici was married to Agnes-Ruth, née Valentin, and had two children, Irina and Ștefan.

Literary works
His published works include:
 * Caii de la Voroneț (1973)
 * Ultima aventură a lui Nat Pinkerton (1975)
 * Insula nevăzută (1976)
 * Intrarea actorilor (1977)
 * Zeița de oricalc (1977)
 * Celula de alarmă (1979)
 * Culoarea cerului (1981)
 * Aripi de argint (1983)
 * Lumi galactice (1986)
 * V de la Victorie (1987)

Published posthumously

 * Ridică-te și mergi (1991)
 * Dezmințire la Mit (1991)

Besides his narrative work, Doru Davidovici is known for his essay on the UFOs, Lumi Galactice – colegii mei din neștiut (Galactic worlds – my colleagues from the unknown), published in 1986. Here Davidovici regards, once again through his pilot eyes, the UFOs and the issues raised by their presumed existence.

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Talk:Saffron (Firefly)

I've just created this article on the rather amusing character Saffron from Firefly, and I feel a bit too enamored of my own writing. I think it may be a bit fancruftian at the moment. Can someone give it a more objective editing? Thanks. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:12, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Lesbian categorization
Why is the category "Fictional gays and lesbians" here? MosheZadka 20:09, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Because Saffron tried to seduce Inara Serra, a woman. Although I guess that doesn't prove she's bisexual, since it was an act of desperation.-LtNOWIS 02:03, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

 * My point exactly -- the seduction was obviously a strategic act...if that is the only proof for the category, it is flimsy :( MosheZadka 15:37, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Kuralyov added that category (among others) as part of his/her massive categorization effort. I didn't really think about it at the time. I agree that it's slim evidence, but the scene in which Saffron tried to seduce Inara was unambiguous about her intentions. The real question, I suspect, is "If you have sex with someone of your own gender out of desperation (or for financial gain) rather than desire, does that make you homosexual?" A more pointed related question is, "Do Wikipedia categories involving homosexuality require clear interest or simple actions?" I'm also concerned about possible agendas here (not necessarily of the immediate participants), both for those who prefer not to think of someone as homosexual, and those who want to trumpet such activity. After all that contemplation, I'm content to let the category stand, but I doubt I'll revert its removal. I prefer to wait for more compelling information to take either action.

 * I will make one observation: Saffron doesn't ever appear to be "desparate". Her actions seem, to me at least, to imply that she always believes herself to be in control, even when she obviously isn't. I believe she treats any sexuality like most people would treat a box of tools — you use the one that's most likely to get the job done. Of course, that's only my opinion, and a fairly speculative one at that. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:21, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I said "strategic act", not desperation :) I noticed Inara Serra was also classified as "gay/bi", possibly because she (provably) has sex with women for financial gain. I guess to me "gay/bi" means being attracted to the relevant genders, not merely having sex with them. Categorization proves to be a POV-problem once again :( MosheZadka 08:00, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Sexuality (either gay or bi) implies ATTRACTION. If a guy gets raped by another guy, that doesn't make him gay. A lesbian could turn a trick without being bisexual. Sexual orientation refers to attraction, not a particular action, and Saffron's quick pullback when she's discovered shows she is not ACTUALLY attracted to Inara, she's just trying to play her. Staxringold 03:25, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you for your opinion. It is supported by Cambridge Dictionaries Online, but is contradicted in part by Merriam-Webster Online, which supports both the "desire" and "activity" aspects of homosexuality (given that "lesbian" is only indirectly defined as a female homosexual). Wiktionary's definition of "homosexual" (which is how it also defines "lesbian") is unfortunately even less direct, in that it uses the vague term "orientation", which in turn is even more vague with "inclination, tendency, or direction" (exactly the sort of Rorschach that everyone interprets how they prefer). And as far as Saffron's pullback, I suggest it had much more to do with the ship alarm that made both of the women drop the pretenses and get physical in a less pleasant manner.

 * That said, it remains unclear whether Saffron has any natural inclination to bisexuality, only an apparent ability to convincingly project interest if it suits her purposes (assuming Inara's response, "you're amazing", was not just a diplomatic riposte). We could speculate endlessly whether Saffron believed she could be sufficiently convincing to fool Inara in bed, whether she was just biding time until she could attack Inara, whether she was just doing one of her loopy personality switches that seems outrageously unrealistic and is perhaps designed to confuse, etc., etc. — but it's all just speculation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:23, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, in that PARTICULAR situation I think it's clear Saffron's goal was to get a kiss, thereby knocking out Inara with her stunner lips, I think the question is whether she:
 * A. Chose that path because she wanted to kiss Inara
 * B. Chose that path because she thought it was the most efficient way to take Inara out Staxringold 05:22, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Interpreting the motivations and forecasting the potential actions of a fictional character, without any evidence to back it up other than one's own reasoning, is the heart of fancruft, and is not encyclopedic. The more you argue about what Saffron was thinking, feeling, or planning, the more I feel compelled to make the point that this is sheer speculation. Unless Joss Whedon writes you a note that says, "Yes, Staxringold, that's exactly what was going to happen! You have me pegged!", you are not adding information to this discussion, simply your opinions. (And even a handwritten note from Whedon may not be considered canonical, as it is not part of the story as shown.) As I've said before, as far as I see, no one has demonstrated anything conclusive about Saffron's sexual preferences, but all this extended discussion is simply pointless. Why don't you just remove the category tag? ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:36, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Hell, I'll do it. It's gone. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 06:38, 29 August 2005 (UTC)=
 * For posteriety's sake, please don't yell at me when you don't even bother to understand what I'm saying. I was arguing for the removal of the tag, as her motivations were clear (not my opinion), that's the whole point of a good actor/actress (you know what their doing and why). (Added by Staxringold

Spoiler
Isn't the stuff above the spoiler warning actually a pretty big spoiler for OMR?

 * Good point. However, I'm not sure what to do about it. Starting off this article describing her misleading initial appearance to the crew doesn't seem right for an encyclopedia article introduction. But placing a spoiler message at the very top of the article seems bizarre and unlikely to serve its purpose. (Have you ever tried not looking at something shoved in your face?) Any suggestions? ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:46, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Merger
There is an active discussion about merging this article into Minor characters in Firefly at Talk:Minor characters in Firefly. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:07, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

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1984 Tour de France

The 1984 Tour de France was the 71st edition of the Tour de France, run over 4021 km in 23 stages and a prologue, from 29 June to 22 July. The race was dominated by the Renault team, who won the team classification and ten stages: Renault's French rider Laurent Fignon won his second consecutive Tour, beating former teammate Bernard Hinault by over 10 minutes.

Hinault was pursuing his fifth Tour victory after having sat out the 1983 Tour because of injuries. Also that year, Fignon's team-mate Greg LeMond became the first American rider to finish in the top three and stand on the podium, and he also took the young rider classification. Belgian cyclist Frank Hoste won the points classification, and British Robert Millar won the mountains classification. The race consisted of 23 stages, totaling 4020 km.

Teams
There was room for 18 teams in the 1984 Tour de France; in early 1984, there were 17 candidate teams. Although the Tour organisation approached AVP–Viditel and Metauromobili, an 18th team was not added. The 1984 Tour started with 170 cyclists, divided into 17 teams of 10 cyclists. Of these, 42 were riding the Tour de France for the first time. The average age of riders in the race was 26.99 years, ranging from the 21-year-old Carlos Marta to the 37-year-old Joop Zoetemelk. The cyclists had the youngest average age while the riders on  had the oldest.

The teams entering the race were:

Route and stages
The 1984 Tour de France started on 29 June, and had one rest day, in Grenoble. The highest point of elevation in the race was 2642 m at the summit of the Col du Galibier mountain pass on stage 18.

Race overview
The 1984 Tour de France was a battle between reigning champion Fignon and his former team captain Hinault. Questions had been raised about the strength of Fignon's 1983 win due to Hinault's absence and Pascal Simon's withdrawal after breaking his shoulder whilst wearing the yellow jersey. Hinault won the prologue and the first two stages following the prologue were flat stages; the first of which was won by Frank Hoste in a bunch sprint with Ludo Peeters taking over as race leader. Tour organizers had made a purposeful effort to get riders from other countries outside of the traditional nations who usually make up the main field, and in stage two Ireland's Stephen Roche and Denmark's Kim Andersen both made the stage podium coming in just a few seconds behind stage winner Marc Madiot, as Jacques Hanegraaf claimed the yellow from Peeters going into the TTT in stage three. Over the previous five years or so the Team Time Trials would often be dominated by the Dutch TI–Raleigh squad, which was run by Peter Post as the Directeur Sportif, but there had been a rift between riders and some of them followed Post over to the new while others joined Jan Raas and Joop Zoetemelk on the new  squad. Perhaps ironically in their first test competing against each other within the Tour de France the two teams tied for 2nd place at four seconds behind the Team of Fignon and Greg LeMond. The Team of Robert Millar and Pascal Simon finished 4th and Hinault's new  team had a tough day coming in 7th place, leaving Hinault out of the top 10 overall following the stage. The overall lead was still held by Hanegraaf by a single second over Adri van der Poel with Fignon in the best position among the proven GC contenders in 6th place at +0:13, and his teammate and Tour debutant LeMond sitting in 5th place just ten seconds off the lead. Stage four finished in Béthune on the border of Belgium, and consequently thousands of Belgian fans descended upon the town for the finish. Ferdi Van Den Haute survived a solo attack of about sixty kilometers and upon entering the town he threw his arms up in celebration for all of the fans who were hoping to see a Belgian win, even though he still had five kilometers to go. He beat the peloton by over a minute to claim the stage win as Van Der Poel moved into yellow. In stage five a three rider breakaway made up of Paulo Ferreira, Maurice Le Guilloux and Vincent Barteau finished more than seventeen minutes ahead of the main field with Ferreira taking the stage victory and Barteau moving into the yellow jersey.

Stage six was a flat stage without a surviving breakaway meaning it was decided in a bunch finish, which was won by Hoste yet again, who this time edged out Eddy Planckaert and Gilbert Glaus at the finish line. Stage seven was an individual time trial which would provide a bit of clarity as to who the major contenders were going to be and it was won by Laurent Fignon. Two time Green Jersey winner Sean Kelly finished in 2nd while Hinault, who typically throughout his career dominated the ITT's, finished in 3rd place 0:49 slower than Fignon. Other potential contenders including Roche finished at +1:07, Gerard Veldscholten at +1:11, the Australian Phil Anderson at +1:24 and the very strong Italian rider who was often among the contenders for the Giro Roberto Visentini finished at +1:53 behind. The three breakaway riders from stage five still made up the top three but as far as the General Classification was concerned, Fignon was the highest placed contender, with Anderson, Hinault, Veldscholten, LeMond, Visentini and Roche all within 3:00 of him. Stage eight was won by Pascal Jules who beat Ludo Peeters and Bruno Leali to the finish by nine seconds. Stage nine in this Tour was notable because it was 338 km long. This was the longest stage included in the race since the 1967 Tour de France and there has not been a stage longer than this since 1984. The last time a Tour stage was over 300 km was during the 1990 edition, the last time a stage was longer than 250 km was during the 2000 Tour and the last time a stage approached 250 km was in 2013 when there was a stage that was 243 km long which was not even a flat stage, but rather a stage that included Mont Ventoux. Stage 9 was won by Jan Raas and this would be the 10th and final stage win of his impressive career. The riders were on their bikes for nearly ten straight hours during this stage.

In stage ten Eric Vanderaerden beat Marc Dierickx in the sprint to take the stage win as the two of them escaped the peloton and beat it to the line by more than two minutes. More importantly in the overall standings the once seventeen minute gap held by Ferreira, Le Guilloux and Barteau was being considerably cut into and the race hadn't even reached the first set of high mountains in the Pyrenees, which began in stage eleven. In stage eleven Robert Millar won the first day in the mountains on a solo attack, with the Colombian climber Lucho Herrera coming in 2nd 0:41 behind him. Going into this stage Fignon held a gap of 1:13 over Hinault and by the end of the day it widened up to 2:05 as Fignon crossed the line in 7th place with Ángel Arroyo. The next two stages were both flat stages which were won by Pascal Poisson and Pierre-Henri Mentheour and then the race moved into south central France for two intermediate/hilly stages which were won by Fons de Wolf and Frederic Vichot. The stage win by De Wolf was rather astonishing in that it was a solo breakaway in which he beat the favorites to the line by nearly 18:00, actually jumped ahead of Hinault in the overall standings and came within 1:32 of Fignon. The energy exerted in this stage proved to be very costly however, as de Wolf lost considerable time the following day and faded back in with the Domestiques for the remainder of the Tour.

Going into the rest day Le Guilloux and Ferreira had long since fallen out of the top 10, however Vincent Barteau, perhaps inspired by the legend and mystique associated with the Maillot Jaune, did not want to let it go as he still held a lead of over ten minutes on the 2nd place Fignon, who was leading the way as far as the serious contenders were concerned. Hinault trailed him by 2:13, Veldscholten by 2:15, Anderson by 3:04 and the young American LeMond was thus far proving he could ride with the best of the best in the biggest race of them all being just 4:10 behind the defending champion. Stage sixteen was another individual time trial which was once again won by Fignon who cut the lead of Barteau down to 6:29 while simultaneously adding 0:33 to his lead over the four-time champion Hinault going into the Alps. Hinault made up his mind to strike during this first Alpine stage, which included the Alpe d'Huez and Côte de Laffrey and he attacked Fignon over and over again, but was not able to break the young Parisian. Lucho Herrera won the stage and Fignon crossed in 2nd after dropping the Badger and taking considerable time out of him. In fact, the American Lemond even finished the stage fourteen seconds faster than Hinault. Barteau finally came apart on this stage losing more than ten minutes to Fignon, who for the first time in the Tour, officially took over as race leader with Barteau falling to 2nd at +4:22, Hinault in 3rd at +5:41, Millar in 4th at +8:25 and LeMond in 5th at +8:45. In stage eighteen Fignon caught and dropped Jean-Marie Grezet, who put in a very gutsy performance, to take the stage win. LeMond had himself another remarkable performance in the mountains coming in three seconds behind Grezet and 1:07 behind Fignon as Hinault just couldn't find his legs in the mountains as he had done so many times before crossing the line in 9th place losing another 2:58 to Fignon. Stage nineteen was more of the mountains and this time Arroyo was able to ride off the front and claim the win, by 1:14 ahead of the group of favorites who all followed Sean Kelly across the line with the same time. Stage twenty was the last chance for riders to gain time in the mountains, but the only one who won time was the leader Fignon, who put his stamp of authority on the 1984 Tour by winning the stage eleven seconds ahead of Arroyo and seventeen seconds ahead of Pablo Wilches all while adding another 1:17 to his lead over Hinault.

With the heavy climbing finished Fignon had an all but insurmountable lead over Hinault of 9:56, and LeMond was only 1:13 behind Hinault. Stage twenty-one was back to the flatlands where the always gutsy, prideful and spirited Hinault decided to work his way to the front of the pack and bang elbows with the sprinters fighting it out for the stage win. Despite the fact the Tour was lost, yet Hinault continued charging on and fighting for stage wins, is part of the reason his popularity soared even higher than it already was with racing fans during the 1984 Tour. This time however, it was the sprinter Frank Hoste winning the day beating out Kelly, Hanegraaf and Hinault. During the final ITT in stage twenty-two Fignon and Sean Kelly finished with the same time, but the tiebreaker went to Fignon giving him the official win as he claimed enough time over Hinault to put his margin of victory over 10:00. LeMond finished in 4th place, and in the process secured both the final podium position, as well as his place as a legitimate GC contender proving he could compete with the best of the best during cycling's version of the Super Bowl. During the final stage in Paris, one of the most coveted sprinter's stages in the sport, Hoste, Kelly and the fiery Hinault once again made their way to the front of the pack during the final lap around the Champs-Élysées, but none of these riders would claim the coveted prize. Instead it was the Belgian rider Eric Vanderaerden (who along with Marc Demeyer, Freddy Maertens, Michel Pollentier, Johan De Muynck and Fons de Wolf was given the impossible to live up to task of following the legend Eddy Merckx) who won the day clinching his second stage win of the Tour, and one of the highlight wins of his entire career.

Greg LeMond took the young rider classification, Belgian cyclist Frank Hoste won the points classification, British Robert Millar won the mountains classification and Laurent Fignon would win a total of five stages as he won the Tour with a ten-minute margin. With his air of indifference in interviews and his crushing dominance, he was hailed as France's newest superstar. He even made the claim that some of the attacks Hinault made against him were laughable and that he easily caught back up to him, but this would be the second and final Tour de France win of Fignon's career. Hinault meanwhile, would sign LeMond to his La Vie Claire team in the offseason by visiting him at his home in the Sierra Nevadas, and win his fifth Tour the following year.

Classification leadership and minor prizes
There were several classifications in the 1984 Tour de France, six of them awarding jerseys to their leaders. The most important was the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Tour.

Additionally, there was a points classification, where cyclists were given points for finishing among the best in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and was identified with a green jersey.

There was also a mountains classification. The organisation had categorised some climbs as either hors catégorie, first, second, third, or fourth-category; points for this classification were won by the first cyclists that reached the top of these climbs first, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and wore a white jersey with red polka dots.

There was also a combination classification. This classification was calculated as a combination of the other classifications.

Another classification was the young rider classification. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders that rode the Tour for the first time were eligible, and the leader wore a white jersey.

Before the 1984 Tour, the intermediate sprints classification did not have a jersey. In the 1984 Tour, the organisers gave the leader of the classification a red jersey to wear. This classification had similar rules as the points classification, but only points were awarded on intermediate sprints.

For the team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time. The riders in the team that led this classification were identified by yellow caps. There was also a team points classification. Cyclists received points according to their finishing position on each stage, with the first rider receiving one point. The first three finishers of each team had their points combined, and the team with the fewest points led the classification. The riders of the team leading this classification wore green caps.

In addition, there was a combativity award, in which a jury composed of journalists gave points after certain stages to the cyclist they considered most combative. The split stages each had a combined winner. At the conclusion of the Tour, Bernard Hinault won the overall super-combativity award, also decided by journalists. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange was given in honour of Tour founder Henri Desgrange to the first rider to pass the summit of the Col du Galibier on stage 18. This prize was won by Francisco Rodríguez Maldonado.

 * In stage 1, Laurent Fignon wore the green jersey, because Bernard Hinault already wore the yellow jersey.
 * In stage 2, Harald Maier wore the polka dot jersey, because Ludo Peeters already wore the yellow jersey.
 * In stage 4, Allan Peiper wore the white jersey, because Jacques Hanegraaf already wore the yellow jersey.
 * In stages 6 – 11, Paulo Ferreira wore the white jersey, because Vincent Barteau already wore the yellow jersey.
 * In stages 12 – 17, Greg LeMond wore the white jersey, because Vincent Barteau already wore the yellow jersey.

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Tanvir Mokammel

Tanvir Mokammel (born 8 March 1955) is a Bangladeshi filmmaker and writer. He is the recipient of Ekushey Padak in 2017. He won Bangladesh National Film Awards total ten times for the films Nodir Naam Modhumoti (1995), Chitra Nodir Pare (1999) and Lalsalu (2001). He is the current director of Bangladesh Film Institute in Dhaka.

Early life and education
Tanvir Mokammel grew up in Khulna. His father worked as a magistrate in Narail and his mother was a teacher in a local college. He completed his master's in English literature at the University of Dhaka.

Career
Since he was a university student, Mokammel worked as a left-wing journalist for landless peasants in rural areas. As a filmmaker he has made six full-length features and fifteen documentaries and short films, some of which have received national and international awards.

His feature films are "Nodir Naam Modhumoti" (The River Named Modhumati), "Chitra Nodir Pare" (Quiet Flows the River Chitra), "Lalsalu" (A Tree Without Roots), "Lalon", "Rabeya" (The Sister), and "Jibondhuli" (The Drummer). Tanvir Mokammel's prominent documentaries are "The Garment Girls of Bangladesh", "The Unknown Bard", "Teardrops of Karnaphuli", "Riders to the Sunderbans", "A Tale of the Jamuna River", "The Promised Land", "Tajuddin Ahmad :An Unsung Hero", "The Japanese Wife", "Swapnabhumi" and mega-documentary "1971". His movies "Nadir Naam Modhumati" (The River Named Modhumati) and "Chitra Nodir Pare" (Quiet Flows the River Chitra) ranked second and third respectively in the list of 10 best Bangladeshi films, in the audience and critics' polls conducted by the British Film Institute.

Mokammel has written poems, short stories, and newspaper articles on cinema and cultural issues. Tanvir Mokammel's important books are "A Brief History of World Cinema", "The Art of Cinema", "Charlie Chaplin: Conquests by a Tramp", "Syed Waliullah, Sisyphus and Quest of Tradition in Novel" (a work of literary criticism), "Grundtvig and Folk Education" (a book on alternative educational ideas), and a translation of Maxim Gorky's play "The Lower Depths".

Mokammel established a film institute called Bangladesh Film Centre.

Awards and honors
Mokammel received Ekushey Padak, the second highest civilian award in 2017 for notable contribution in Bengali film.

Publications

 * 1) Chalachitra Nondontottwo o Barojon Director (Film Aesthetics and Twelve Directors); 1985, Sahitya Prakashoni, ISBN 9789844250208
 * 2) Chalachitra (Film); 1987, Bangla Academy
 * 3) Marxbad O Sahitya (Marxism and Literature)
 * 4) Syed Waliullah, Sisyphus and Quest for Tradition in Novel; 1988, Muktodhara.
 * 5) Nitchutalar Manush, translation of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths; 1997, Bishwo Shahitto Kendro, ISBN 9841800667.
 * 6) Charlie Chaplin: Triumph of the Tramp (Bhabaghurer Digbijoy), in Bengali, on the life and craft of Charlie Chaplin as an actor and film-maker, Sahitya Prakasoni, 1996.
 * 7) Grundtvig and Gonoshikhsa, a book on the theories of alternative education for the downtrodden and disadvantaged people of the rural areas, 1997.
 * 8) Art of Cinema (Cinemar Shilparup), in Bengali, a collection of essays on different aspects of the aesthetics of cinema, 1998, Agamee Prakashani

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North American package art for the 1994 Sega Genesis video game Aerobiz Supersonic, as found at www.vgmuseum.com.

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Intro pics and Tesla Model Y
The Tesla Model Y is the 4th best selling vehicle in the world. https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1619012569393676288 Should it be highlighted in intro and intro pics? Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 03:25, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

 * Sorry, but that tweet carries almost no weight. He doesn't show where his facts came from and even within its comments it was challenged. Just some random dude (with Tesla Shares) giving an unsupported "fact". Also not clear if his figures include Model 3 and Y together or not or whether he is counting only western cars or includes Chinese cars (eg from BYD).  Stepho  talk 04:40, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
 * We had a debate on the lead image(s) a few years back with me being the stick in the mud. I'm used to it, so here goes. As per WP:CARPIX, the lead image doesn't have to be the latest, or the most popular, etc. Nut it does have to be representative. Most people know what an electric car looks like, so the only question is how to show the electric half of the title. Showing cars that happen to be electric but look just like any other car on the road is pointless - that's just showing "cars". Hence my fight to have images of a car charging, or a close up of the batteries, or a close up of an electric motor. Adding an image of just another car (regardless of what is under the skin) is not representative.
 * Adding it in the text is a possibility (with a much better reference) but this is the type of thing that changes on a yearly basis, so it becomes a constant maintenance chore. And does it really mean much?  Stepho  talk 04:40, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
 * The tweet references this as a source: https://www.focus2move.com/world-car-market/  Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 05:47, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

 * Hmm, looks like I missed that reference. And it does address many of my points (BYD is mentioned). However, I still don't see a Model Y image as adding much value to the article. However, I am also not against replacing one of the other "car" images - as long as the charging image stays.  Stepho  talk 07:03, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Editathon June 17
Just a heads-up that as part of an editathon I'm leading on June 17, new editors might be making some edits to this article. I'll be following up shortly afterwards to check for copyright compliance and other quality issues and will clean up stuff if needed. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 23:14, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Update the lead pictures?
Hi guys. I know this is a difficult question and it took a long time to reach consensus to select the current 5 pictures in the lead. However, the January discussion above and the updating of the top selling models that I just finished make me wonder that the lead should have at least one Chinese manufactured EV (one among the top selling ones, meaning a BYD or the GAC Aion). In addition, the Jaguar I-Pace is a very nice-looking car but only has sold 60,000 units. My specific proposal is the following:
 * I propose to change the Jaguar I-Pace picture in the lead for one top selling EV from a Chinese manufacturer, and put to consideration the following options:

Any of these options can be trimmed or retouched of course. Please express your opinion below, or even propose other candidates accompany by the rationale of your proposal (for example, the BYD Tang is selling well and illustrates a full size electric SUV).--Mariordo (talk) 00:45, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

 * Any of the BYD pics look fine to me. The GAC is a generally fine pic but looks like any other car on the road - ie the image doesn't show the electric nature of the car.  Stepho  talk 11:00, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
 * It has been more than a week and participation in the discussion has been limited. So, I will go ahead and substitute the Jaguar I-Pace for the BYD Tang. Image #4 is the one that fits better with the other images. Feel free to reopen this discussion at any time, but please, do not change the lead images without seeking consensus here.--Mariordo (talk) 23:33, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

 * All good :)  Stepho  talk 13:57, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * What do you look for when picking which pictures to use?--HereForAnth (talk) 21:43, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
 * The image must be able to show that this is an article about electric cars, not just an article about ordinary cars. A picture of an electric car (eg a Tesla or a Nissan Leaf) might seem like it does this but to most people it looks like an ordinary car and therefore does not emphasis the electric part. Looking for images showing cars with electric motors, electric batteries, charging plugs/sockets, at charging stations, etc. If we have a group of images then some of them can be of the more popular electric cars, as long as there are other images in the group that also specifically show the electric nature.  Stepho  talk 22:19, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
 * FWIW, I second the choice of the BYD Tang (#4).  Mr.choppers |   ✎  03:19, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

Inclusion of the trolleybus
I removed '* In 1882, Werner von Siemens presented the world's first trolleybus in Berlin' but should it be included? Darrelljon (talk) 10:01, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

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Tennyson Point, New South Wales

Tennyson Point is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Tennyson Point is located 10 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Ryde and is part of the Northern Sydney region.

Tennyson Point sits on the northern bank of the Parramatta River on a peninsula positioned between Morrisons Bay and Glades Bay. The suburb was originally called Tennyson before it was renamed Tennyson Point by the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales in 2001.

History
Tennyson Point takes its name from the Tennyson Estate, named after the poet Alfred Tennyson, which was subdivided in 1887.

Captain William Raven, (1756-1814) who sailed to New South Wales in 1792 as captain and part owner of the Britannia, was granted 100 acres (40 ha) of land in the area in 1795, plus another 285 acres (115 ha) in 1799. The grant to Raven was known as Grove Farm. These Eastern Farm properties were managed for him by the brewer James Squire of Kissing Point until 1822. The tip of the peninsula into the Parramatta River at Tennyson Point is now called Raven Point. The creek running into Morrisons Bay near the western boundary of Tennyson Point is now called Grove Creek.

In the 1820s all the land of the current suburb was owned by James Squire's daughter Mary Ann Farnell and her husband Thomas Charles Farnell (brewer). Mary Ann and Thomas were the parents of James Squire Farnell who became the first Australian born premier of New South Wales.

Population
In the 2016 Census, there were 1,219 people in Tennyson Point. 66.9% of people were born in Australia and 68.8% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion were Catholic 40.5%, No Religion 19.2% and Anglican 10.9%.

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