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Talk:Owen gun

Better photo please
Can someone please add a good photo or graphic of the Owen so those of us not familiar with it can compare it to other firearms?

Article moved; not
Why on earth has this been moved? Owen Gun was and is the common name.Grant65 (Talk) 10:45, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

 * It hasn't been moved, check the history! I merged a lesser article "Owen Gun" into this article and turned the other into a redirect. GraemeLeggett 17:03, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi Graeme, I really think the redirect should be reversed. I've never seen or heard the name "Owen machine carbine" in official war histories, academic histories or in popular culture. It is always the Owen Gun, and there is no danger of confusion.Grant65 (Talk) 13:06, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * Try these links http://www.awm.gov.au/korea/weapons/owen/owen.htm and http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-weapons/omc.htm but I understand what you're saying and we can do the rearrangement, the Sten machine carbine is under Sten after all. GraemeLeggett 13:18, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

In accordance with the above discussion, I have now requested at Requested moves that the article be moved to Owen Gun. Grant65 (Talk) 13:05, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. Unnecessary disambiguation removed. Dragons flight 01:11, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Most strange the edit of the 2nd Oct didnt show in my watchlist. No move tag temlate either! GL

MCEM 1 Submachine gun relation?
Did the Owen gun lead to the MCEM 1 SMG?, Just asking since it has a similar layout User:EX STAB, 2nd April 2007

72-Round Magazine?
I've read references to, and seen pictures of, a 72-round magazine for this submachine gun. If we had more specifics, it might be an interesting piece of information to briefly mention. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 01:26, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Photo caption.
A minor point. I believe the soldier on the right is a from the Dutch KNIL. The gent on the left is Australian. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 20:42, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Both are identified (by name) as Australians of the 19th Btn in the Offical AWM caption Baska436 (talk) 03:01, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Is there any proof of American military use?
It seems highly unlikely that a conventional American military unit would have used a 9mm weapon during the Second World War, Korea, or Vietnam. Is there any proof of this? Unconventional units may have access to weapons that would not be GI but that should not come under an article implying American use. Foofbun (talk) 04:50, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Indeed, it seems incredibly unlikely that it was ever officially adopted by the US. I have read of accounts of individual GIs trading for Owens, but that would certainly not qualify. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 04:46, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Needs a lot of improvement and expert attention
In the past few years I have seen at least two whole books written about the Owen gun. One I did read was "The Owen gun files: an Australian wartime controversy" by Kevin Smith. the other was "the Owen Gun" by Wayne Wardman.

This article seems to be based on the commonly repeated wartime myths of the Owen, myths that were officially endorsed to boost wartime morale and later to push partisan politics.

Just off the top of my head: -The bit about the army dismissing Owen's invention in 1939 is partly true, but in all fairness the prototype he showed them was little more than a well made zip-gun with a spring operated "cylinder" full of .22 cal cartridges (not a Thompson-style "drum magazine").The "trigger" was a push button at the rear of the breech.needless to say no safety.

-It took a lot of work by Lysaghts and a professional german-trained gunsmith they brought in to make a viable weapon. Owen apparently had unconvential engineering ideas, quickly lost interest and had an alcohol problem that apparently worsened when he felt he was being "sidelined" by Lysaghts -One of the prototypes was in .32 ACP thanks to a large stockpile of ammo in that calibre held by the Victoria Police Dept.

-One of the test guns in the "mud test" was a German MP-38 that customs had seized. I'm not sure a Sten was involved at all. Benvenuto (talk) 10:38, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Could you add material from these books into the article? Nick-D (talk) 10:41, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

 * I'm sorry I don't currently have access to themBenvenuto (talk) 13:23, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

'This was very important to the Australian Army.'
This sentence at the bottom of the fourth paragraph in the history section needs some clarification. Is it regarding the adoption of the 9mm round, the rifle in general, of that it surpassed the other guns in the trial? Someone with greater knowledge needs to clear up this sentence.--Monkofbob (talk) 04:34, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Merge proposal
There are two articles (MCEM 1 submachine gun & Kokoda submachine gun) about firearms that appear to be related this firearm. Rather than outright deleting those articles, I propose that the articles be merged here (what can be supported by reliable sourced of course) and redirects from those former articles be directed to this article. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:08, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * If you can find any reliable sources at all which prove that these weapons exist, I'll agree. However, I was unable to find anything of the sort, and the articles appear to be hoaxes. Nick-D (talk) 06:38, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I will drop MCEM, and support the PROD, I could not find any reliable sources regarding it's existance.
 * I have found 1 mention of the Kokoda submachine gun in a book that cannot be read online via Google Books:
 * --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 22:37, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 22:37, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

EL
One EL has been persistently added, a 20 second video showing that the Owen remains functional when covered in mud. WP:LINKSTOAVOID states that "the site [being linked to] should not merely repeat information that is already or should be in the article." The design section of this article already mentions specifically that the Owen can function when covered in mud, and already details its reliability in a considerable level of detail, and so I'd consider the addition of this EL rather unnecessary. Loafiewa (talk) 11:39, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

I would like to respectfully disagree, the video clip from 1942 is very graphic evidence of this capability and gives comprehensive and contemporaneous visual proof of the Owen's unique ability to function after full submersion in mud. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cathat906 (talk • contribs) 10:37, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * It's not any more comprehensive than the other sources and prose in the article, which already explain that the Owen is capable of functioning under this exact same scenario. And as already stated, a link should not be added if it only repeats information that is already in the article.Loafiewa (talk) 12:42, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

I think independent dispute resolution is now required. In my view a link to a contemporaneous wartime video demonstrating this capability, (which is more or less unique in weapons of this type), is helpful to those accessing a Wikipedia article for information about the Owen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cathat906 (talk • contribs) 17:40, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I've gone ahead and requested a third opinion. Loafiewa (talk) 22:09, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

There is apparently no argument to include the link. 's statement amounting to little more than "I think it's useful." This does not address the clear meaning of the ELNO failing referred to. I see no reason to retain the link. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:44, 1 February 2022 (UTC) I will be more specific, watching a short contemporaneous wartime video that demonstrates a unique capability is more valuable than a written reference. That is what makes Wikipedia different from 20th century text encyclopedias and why Wikipedia allows links to video material. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cathat906 (talk • contribs) 23:04, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia allows links to video material, but only under certain circumstances, and WP:ELNO explains why this is not one of them. Loafiewa (talk) 15:24, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

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Isabelle Brasseur

Isabelle Brasseur, (born July 28, 1970) is a Canadian former competitive pair skater. With her partner, Lloyd Eisler, she won two Olympic medals and the 1993 World Championships.

Personal life
Brasseur was born on July 28, 1970, in Kingsbury, Quebec. She married the American former pairs skater Rocky Marval (Marvaldi) on August 10, 1996. Their daughter, Gabriella Marvaldi, was born on November 1, 2000, in Voorhees Township, New Jersey. Brasseur has vasodepressor syncope, causing her heart to stop for 31 seconds shortly before Gabriella's birth. Her daughter is also a pairs skater and won the 2012 U.S. juvenile pairs title with partner Kyle Hogeboom.

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Early in her career, Brasseur competed with Pascal Courchesne. They were 5th at the 1985 Skate America.

Brasseur teamed up with Eisler in 1987. They won five Canadian pairs championships, the 1993 World Championships and bronze medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics and the 1994 Winter Olympics. They retired in 1994.

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She co-wrote a book, Brasseur & Eisler: To Catch a Dream, in 1996 and a follow-up, Brasseur & Eisler: The Professional Years.

In 1994, she and Eisler were awarded the Meritorious Service Decoration (civil division). In 1996, she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. In 2000, she was inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame. The Colisée de St-Jean in her hometown of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec was renamed Colisée Isabelle-Brasseur in her honour.

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Ray Fearon

Raymond Fearon is a British actor. He played garage mechanic Nathan Cooper on ITV's long-running soap opera Coronation Street and voiced the centaur Firenze in the Wizarding World film series Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts.

Theatre
After studying drama at Rose Bruford College, Fearon went on to make his reputation as a stage actor, working at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre; Manchester Contact Theatre; Manchester Royal Exchange; Oxford Playhouse; Barn Theatre, Kent; The Almeida; The Crucible, Sheffield; The Donmar Warehouse; The Royal Shakespeare Theatres in Stratford and the National Theatre. He has also toured in the United States and Europe and the Far East.

Fearon starred in Othello—opposite Gillian Kearney's Desdemona— in Liverpool at the age of 24, becoming the first black actor to play Othello on RSC main stages for over 40 years. His other early stage roles included Charles Surface in The School for Scandal; Betty/Martin in Cloud Nine; Longaville in Love's Labour's Lost; Ferdinand in The Tempest; and Pete in Blues for Mr Charlie.

His early theatre work in London included Hugo/Frederick in Ring Round the Moon at the Lilian Baylis Theatre; the title role in The Invisible Man (his one-man show) at the Bridewell Theatre; and Pierre in Venice Preserv'd at the Almeida.

He has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company in their Stratford and London theatres and on tour. He was the first black actor to play the title role in Othello in the main Royal Shakespeare theatre (director Michael Attenborough, 1999) giving a performance alongside Richard McCabe's strong and repressed Iago. They also played opposite one another in 1996's The White Devil (Gale Edwards, Swan theatre) where he played Brachiano and McCabe the villain Flamineo. Fearon was directed by Attenborough also as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (RSC, Swan Theatre, 1997) alongside Zoe Waites as Juliet.

Other RSC roles have included the First Knight and First Tempter in Murder in the Cathedral (Swan, 1993), Stubb in Moby Dick (TOP, 1993), the Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice (RST, 1994), Paris in Troilus and Cressida (Ian Judge, RST, 1996), the Marquis of Posa in Don Carlos (1999), Pericles in Adrian Noble's Pericles, Prince of Tyre (RST and Roundhouse, 2002) and Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (2012).

In 2003, he played 'Oberon' in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. In 2004, he appeared in as Jean Kiyabe in World Music by Steve Waters at the Donmar Warehouse, and in the same year at the National Theatre as Mark in Sing Yer Hearts Out for the Lads by Roy Williams.

In 2010, he starred as Walter Lee Younger in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. This critically acclaimed production was directed by Michael Buffong at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.

In July 2013 he played Macduff opposite Kenneth Branagh (as Macbeth) and Alex Kingston (as Lady Macbeth) in Macbeth at Manchester International Festival. His performance was broadcast to cinemas on 20 July as part of National Theatre Live.

In December 2017 he played Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. The production was directed by Michael Buffong.

Television, film and radio
Fearon played Nathan Harding in Coronation Street from 2005 to 2006 and in 2001 he appeared in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (as Firenze the centaur). He had a minor role as a sentry in Kenneth Branagh's 1996 film version of Hamlet.

He was in the 2006 series of Strictly Come Dancing, partnered by Camilla Dallerup, and was voted out in week 6.

He also appeared as a fictionalised version of historical figure Carlo de' Medici on the Starz series Da Vinci's Demons, which ran from 2013 to 2015.

In 2019, Fearon played the role of Hot Misogynist in season two of the acclaimed BBC Three comedy-drama Fleabag.

In the BBC's 2003 radio adaptation of His Dark Materials, Fearon appeared as the narrator and as the angel Balthamos.

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Plaxton President

The Plaxton President was a low floor double-decker bus body built by Plaxton at the former Northern Counties factory in Wigan, England. It was first unveiled in 1997 on the longitudinal Volvo B7L chassis and later built between 1998 and 2005 following a body redesign. When it became part of TransBus International, the body was sold under the TransBus name. The President was built on the Dennis/TransBus Trident, the DAF DB250 and the Volvo B7TL chassis.

Design
Launched at the Coach & Bus '97 expo in Birmingham on the as-yet-unannounced Volvo B7L chassis, the Plaxton President was designed as the successor of the Northern Counties Palatine to compete with the low-floor Alexander ALX400 body, being the first 2.55 m wide bus body produced in the United Kingdom following a 1995 amendment to the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 that legalised their operation. The President was available with the option of a central interior staircase, though later models would see the staircase moved behind the air-conditioned driver's cab. The President had rectangular front headlights below a large front windscreen, and from the side, could be recognised by the different depths of windows on the lower deck; this is less apparent with bonded-glazed models. Seating varied according to the chassis and specification; TfL models were typically built with 41 seats upstairs, and 23 downstairs with a centre exit door.

Following the collapse of TransBus International and resultant formation of Alexander Dennis, it was announced that the Plaxton's Wigan factory would close, with the Plaxton President discontinued in favour of the Falkirk-built Alexander ALX400. The final nine Presidents, all on Volvo B7TL chassis for London operator Metroline, were built at the Wigan plant in January 2005.

London
The Plaxton President on various chassis combinations proved very popular with some of London's bus operators. The first production examples of the body were first delivered to Arriva London on the DAF DB250 chassis in 1999. Arriva London would go on to purchase 91 Plaxton Presidents on the DAF chassis until 2005, acquiring a further ten from Capital Logistics.

Metroline operated the most Plaxton Presidents in London, ordering 305 examples on the Volvo B7TL chassis and 260 on the Dennis Trident 2 chassis from 1999 to 2005. First London also amassed large quantities of Plaxton Presidents, taking delivery of 403 Dennis Tridents and 73 Volvo B7TLs with Plaxton President bodies from 1999 to 2003,  while London General and London Central, both part of the Go-Ahead Group, purchased a total of 419 Presidents on the Volvo B7TL chassis as well as an additional 50 President-bodied Dennis Tridents.

Other major London operators included London United, who took delivery of 26 Plaxton President-bodied B7TLs in 1999, London Sovereign, who took delivery of 27 President-bodied B7TLs in two batches between 2002 and 2003,  and Blue Triangle, who took delivery of two President-bodied Tridents in 2003 and also acquired two second-hand that year.

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Lothian Buses were the largest operator of Presidents outside London, purchasing approximately 205 from 1999 to 2004. All but seven examples were built on the Dennis Tridents chassis; the remaining seven Presidents were purchased on the Volvo B7TL chassis. Travel West Midlands were the second largest operator of Presidents outside London, taking delivery of 102 examples on Volvo B7TL chassis between 1999 and 2000.

Go-Ahead Group companies outside London also bought Presidents in substantial numbers. Brighton & Hove took 36 Presidents on the Dennis Trident 2 chassis between 2001 and 2002. This was followed by Go North East who took 15 in 2001 on the Dennis Trident chassis. Prior to the company being taken over by the Go-Ahead Group, Southern Vectis took delivery seven Presidents on Volvo B7TL chassis for 'Island Explorer' services in 2002.

The Stagecoach Group ordered nearly 50 low-height Presidents on Dennis Trident 2 chassis between 2000 and 2003. Stagecoach Cambus took the first seven Presidents in 2000, with the company later ordering a majority of their Presidents in 2003. 30 of these were delivered to Stagecoach Manchester, while six were delivered to Stagecoach Oxfordshire in 'Brookes Bus' livery. Stagecoach opted in 2003 for Plaxton to body these Dennis Tridents in order to support their Wigan factory, which was suffering from a lack of orders.

East Yorkshire Motor Services were another large operator of Presidents, ordering 36 lowheight examples on Volvo B7TL chassis ordered from 2000 to 2003. 30 were delivered to the main East Yorkshire fleet while six were ordered for their Finglands subsidiary in Manchester, with two Presidents for each company being delivered for evaluation in 2000 before orders commenced. East Yorkshire later purchased 27 mid-life Presidents from Go-Ahead London in 2012, some of which was converted for open top operation and driver training.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Machine-breaking

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The result of the debate was redirect. Eugene van der Pijll 15:50, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Machine-breaking
Nothing more than a dictdef. Not expandable, as any encyclopedic information here can go into Luddite. —Lowellian (talk) 10:53, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete for reasons given above. —Lowellian (talk) 10:53, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

 * Redirect to Luddite, as the term is a well established one, although as people rightly point out it is reasonably dealt with under that article. PatGallacher 11:54, 2005 July 17 (UTC)

 * Redirect to Luddite, as above. Transwiki definition to Wiktionary if appropriate. --Blu Aardvark | (talk) 11:56, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete; I don't think a redirect makes sense in this context. Transwiking to Wiktionary would make sense. Nandesuka 17:59, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Luddite; as far as I know, this isn't particularly an "English word" any more than "iPod-breaking" or "desk-breaking" might be, so I wouldn't bring Wiktionary into it. Dcarrano 18:51, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect for now though I suspect a separate article may be on the horizon: the machine breakers of the 1830s were a separate movement from the Luddites. -- Francs2000 | Talk [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px| ]] 22:15, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Nandesuka. JamesBurns 08:37, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
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Arnold Steinhardt

Arnold Steinhardt (born 1937 in Los Angeles, California) is an American violinist, best known as the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet.

Steinhardt made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 14. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Ivan Galamian and later in Switzerland with Joseph Szigeti and Toscha Seidel. In 1958 he won the Leventritt International Violin competition and consequently was invited by George Szell to take second chair in the Cleveland Orchestra's first violin section (next to concertmaster Josef Gingold). He was later appointed to the faculty of the Curtis Institute, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and University of Maryland. In 2009 he was appointed to the faculty of the Colburn School in Los Angeles. He has also performed extensively as a soloist.

He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is the author of two books; Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony, an account of his life in the Guarneri String Quartet, and Violin Dreams, an autobiography about his life and experiences as a violinist. He appeared as himself in the 1999 film Music of the Heart, starring Meryl Streep and also featuring violinists Isaac Stern and Itzhak Perlman. His wife, Dorothea von Haeften, is a supporting character in the film, played by Jane Leeves.

Arnold Steinhardt received an honorary degree from Binghamton University.

Works

 * Steinhardt, Arnold, Violin Dreams, Houghton Mifflin, 2006, ISBN 978-0-618-36892-1
 * Steinhardt, Arnold, Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999, ISBN 0-374-23670-4

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The real name of Magol is Magnus Österlund (formerly Olsson) and is from Reftele, Sweden. He has computer engineering and technology degree from University of Borås. This exam is completed at Chalmers University of Technology with an civil engineering degree. After a year in Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant, he continued to Capgemini in Gothenburg, where he continued to work with Computers in nuclear power plants

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Richard Chandler

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The Cockpit (Leeds)

The Cockpit was a club and music venue in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Formerly the Cock of the North pub, the venue was located on Swinegate, close to Leeds station. It hosted small to medium-sized touring artists as well as occasional showcases for local acts. The venue's main room held 500, whilst the second room held 250, and the small upstairs room held 125.

History
A regular competition run by promoters Futuresound (and sharing their name) gave unsigned bands from Yorkshire the chance to win a spot on the bill at the Leeds Festival.

The Cockpit was split into three live gig rooms with individual stages in each: The Cockpit (The Pit), Cockpit 2 (The Venue) and Cockpit 3 (The Upstairs). The venue had the ability to host 2 gigs on the same night, with a band in the main room using the second room as a bar, and a band in the upstairs using the main bar.

The venue played host to a variety of bands playing a wide range of musical styles including rock, metal, hardcore, emo, punk, indie, alternative and folk. Four weekly club nights ran at the Cockpit - Slam Dunk on a Tuesday, Southern Fried on a Wednesday, Heavy Soul on a Friday and Garage on a Saturday. Gay night Poptastic ran at the Cockpit on Thursday nights from the late 90s to early 2000s.

In November 1997 the club was one of three venues spotlighted in the Club City documentary about Leeds nightlife, screened as part of the BBC North Close Up North strand.

Nick Hodgson introduced Ricky Wilson to the other members of the Kaiser Chiefs at the Cockpit in the mid-nineties, when they attended Brighton Beach, the club's then weekly indie night. The group formed Runston Parva, later shortened to Parva, before changing their name to the Kaiser Chiefs in 2004.

Closure
On 10 September 2014 the Cockpit's owners, promoters Futuresound, announced that they were to close the venue after 20 years due to the dwindling number of people prepared to go to club nights during the week and the poor condition of the building. As a "direct result" of the Cockpit closing, Futuresound's sister company Slam Dunk opened a new venue, the Key Club, in the Merrion Centre. Slam Dunk director Ben Ray has described the new venue as the first "pure rock" venue in Leeds. The Garage and Slam Dunk club nights, which were previously held at the Cockpit, along with several rock gigs which had been booked for the Cockpit, moved to the Key Club on its opening.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Isiolo

The Diocese of Isiolo is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Eastern Province, Kenya.

Its episcopal see is in Isiolo, where the St. Eusebius Cathedral is located.

History
The Apostolic Vicariate of Isiolo (Vicariatus Apostolicus Isiolansus) was created on 15 December 1995 on territory split off from the Diocese of Meru in Eastern Province, Kenya.

On February 15, 2023, Pope Francis elevated the vicariate to the Diocese of Isiolo and appointed Anthony Ireri Mukobo as its first bishop.

Statistics
As per 2014, the vicariate pastorally serves 49,800 Catholics (34.8% of 143,294 total) on an area of 25,605 km², in 13 parishes and a mission with 22 priests (16 diocesan, 6 religious), 55 lay religious (9 brothers, 46 sisters) and 12 seminarians.

Episcopal ordinaries

 * Apostolic Vicars of Isiolo
 * Luigi Locati (born Italy) (15 Dec 1995 – death 14 July 2005 fatally shot during an attempted robbery), Titular Bishop of Zica (15 Dec 1995 – 14 Jul 2005)
 * ''Apostolic Administrator John Njue (2005 – January 25, 2006), while Metropolitan Archbishop of Nairobi (Kenya) (6 Oct 2007 – ...), created Cardinal-Priest of Preziosissimo Sangue di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo (24 Nov 2007 [17 Feb 2008] – ...)
 * Anthony Ireri Mukobo, Consolata Missionaries (I.M.C.) (first native incumbent) (25 January 2006 – 15 February 2023), Titular Bishop of Rusguniæ (22 Dec 1999 – ...); previously Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Nairobi (Kenya) (22 Dec 1999 – 25 Jan 2006).

 * Bishops of Isiolo
 * Anthony Ireri Mukobo, (15 February 2023 – present)

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The Holy Innocents

The Holy Innocents may refer to:

 * The victims of the Biblical Massacre of the Innocents, and any of several artistic depictions of this massacre (e.g. by Giotto di Bondone)
 * The Holy Innocents (Adair novel), by Gilbert Adair
 * The Dreamers (2003 film), a film based, in part, on the Adair novel
 * The Holy Innocents (Delibes novel), by Miguel Delibes
 * The Holy Innocents (film), film based on the Delibes novel

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Aleksander Koniecpolski (1555–1609)

Aleksander Koniecpolski (1555–1609) was a voivode (palatine) of Sieradz, a staunch supporter of king Sigismund III Vasa of the House of Vasa.

He was the son of Stanisław Przedbór Koniecpolski and Elżbieta Ligzianka (relative of hetman Jan Tarnowski). His wife was Anna Sroczycka, daughter of Stanisław Sroczycki, voivode of Kamieniec. This marriage brought into the Koniecpolscy family large estates at Podolia.

He had six children:
 * Stanisław Koniecpolski, the great and famous hetman, voivode of Sandomierz and semi-official 'viceroy of Ukraine'
 * Krzysztof Koniecpolski (chorąży koronny, voivode of Belz from 1641)
 * Remigiusz Koniecpolski, bishop of Chełm (died in 1640)
 * Jan Koniecpolski (castellan and voivode of Sieradz)
 * Przedbor Koniecpolski (died in 1611)
 * Anna Aleksandra Koniecpolska (died in 1651), married to Kasper Doenhoff (1588–1645). She was a great-grandmother of king Stanisław Leszczyński of Poland.

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John Birch

John Birch may refer to:
 * John Birch (soldier) (1615–1691), English politician and soldier
 * John Birch (died 1735) (c. 1666–1735), nephew of the soldier, MP for Weobley
 * John Birch (surgeon) (1745–1815), English surgeon and anti-vaccination activist
 * John Birch (engineer) (1867–1945), English designer of pushbikes and automobiles
 * John Birch (rugby league) (1878–1955), English rugby player
 * John Birch, received 1879 a U.S. patent for the first cash register
 * John Birch (missionary) (1918–1945), American military intelligence officer and missionary
 * John Birch Society (established 1958), the organization named after him
 * John Birch (luthier) (1922–2000), English luthier
 * John Birch (musician) (1929–2012), British organist and choral director
 * John Birch (diplomat) (1935–2020), British diplomat
 * John Birch (cricketer) (born 1955), English cricketer
 * John Birch (rugby union), Irish rugby union player

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Czesław Niemen (real name Czesław Juliusz Wydrzycki) (February 16, 1939 - January 17, 2004) was one of the most important and original Polish rock musicians, singing mainly in the Polish language.

Niemen was born in Wasiliszki in Grodno district. He was a singer with a wide voice scale and rich intonation, a composer and a keyboard player. He made his debut in the early 1960s, singing a Polish kind of rock and roll and soul music. Soon after his first successful concerts in France, he started to use a pseudonym Niemen instead of his real surname, gaining wider notoriety in Poland, also making it easier to pronounce by foreigners. His song of 1967, Dziwny jest ten świat (Strange Is This World) became the most important Polish protest song of that era. He was one of the first Poles to wear long hair and colourful clothes, introducing psychedelia style to communist Poland. The first three records he recorded with his band "Akwarele" (The Watercolour Paintings), later he recorded with his new bands: "Enigmatic", "Grupa Niemen" and "Aerolit". In 1969 he changed musical style to progressive rock, recording the monumental album Enigmatic. The most notable song from it was Bema pamięci żałobny rapsod (A Mournful Rhapsody in Memory of Jozef Bem), based on the 19th century poem by Cyprian Kamil Norwid. The rest of Enigmatic songs were poetry as well. Niemen played Hammond organ, later mellotron and Moog synthesizer on his records.

In the early 1970s, Niemen recorded three English language albums under the CBS label, and in 1974 he recorded Mourner's Rhapsody with Jan Hammer and Rick Laird from Mahavishnu Orchestra. In the seventies, Niemen turned to jazz-rock fusion and electronic music (Katharsis album). In 1972 he also contributed with a song perfomed by him in the movie The Wedding (Wesele, 1972) by film director Andrzej Wajda, laureate of an honorary Oscar. Later, Niemen has also composed film soundtrack and theater music. In the 1990s he also showed interest in painting and computer graphics. He died of cancer in Warsaw.

Discography

 * 1967 Dziwny jest ten świat ("Strange Is This World")
 * 1968 Sukces (Success)
 * 1968 Czy mnie jeszcze pamiętasz ("Can you remember me")
 * 1969 Enigmatic
 * 1970 Niemen Enigmatic (aka Człowiek jam niewdzięczny - CD edition)
 * 1972 Niemen Vol. 1 (aka Marionetki with Vol. 2 - CD edition)
 * 1972 Niemen Vol. 2
 * 1972 Strange is This World (English lyrics)
 * 1973 Ode to Venus (English lyrics)
 * 1973 Russische Lieder (Russian lyrics)
 * 1974 Mourner's Rhapsody (English lyrics)
 * 1974 N.AE. (aka Niemen Aerolit)
 * 1975 Katharisis
 * 1977 Idée Fixe
 * 1978 Best of Niemen (early singles collection)
 * 1980 Postscriptum
 * 1982 Przeprowadzka ("Removal")
 * 1989 Terra deflorata
 * 2001 Spodchmurykapelusza ("Fromunderacloudofahat")

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Oeiras

Oeiras may refer to:

Brazil

 * Oeiras, Piauí, a municipality in the State of Piauí
 * Oeiras do Pará, Pará, a municipality in the State of Pará

Portugal

 * Oeiras, Portugal, a municipality in the district of Lisbon
 * Oeiras e São Julião da Barra, a former civil parish in the municipality of Oeiras
 * Oeiras e São Julião da Barra, Paço de Arcos e Caxias, successor of the above

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Kappabashi-dori

Kappabashi-dori, also known just as Kappabashi (合羽橋) or Kitchen Town, is a street in Tokyo between Ueno and Asakusa which is almost entirely populated with shops supplying the restaurant trade. These shops sell everything from knives and other kitchen utensils, mass-produced crockery, restaurant furniture, ovens, and decorations, through to esoteric items such as the plastic display food (sampuru, derived from English sample) found outside Japanese restaurants. The street is also an off-beat tourist destination.

Nearby is located Kappa-dera, where locals offer cucumber to appease the Kappas.

Etymology
The street's name is believed to come from either the raincoats (kappa 合羽) of nearby residents which were hung out to dry on the bridge, or from a merchant named Kihachi Kappaya who funded the project to build Shinhorikawa River for water management. However, as the name is a homophone with the popular mythical creature, kappa (河童), the shops along the street have officially adopted the kappa as their mascot. Images of kappa appear frequently in the area, from merchandise to displays and websites about the district, often written in hiragana as かっぱ rather than in kanji.

Transportation
The closest station is Tawaramachi Station on the Subway Ginza Line.

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Alexander ALX500

The Alexander ALX500 (later known as the TransBus ALX500) was a low-floor double-decker bus body built by Alexander in Falkirk, Scotland between 1997 and 2002.

The ALX500 was fitted to Dennis Trident 3 and Volvo Super Olympian chassis (they could be distinguished by the design of the engine compartment: with round indicators for Dennis and square indicators for Volvo), and came in lengths of 10.6, 11.3 and 12 meters (35, 37 and 40 foot). The ALX500-bodied buses were sold new to Citybus, Kowloon Motor Bus, Long Win Bus, New World First Bus and Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation in Hong Kong. Due to the climate there, all of them were fitted with air conditioning systems, and as a result lacked a rear window on the lower deck. The extra length of the buses meant the seating capacities were near the 100 mark for the 12.0 metre variant.

Alexander built three prototype ALX500 bodies for prototype Trident 3 chassis in 1997, with the first finished in February 1997. Production of the ALX500 body was started later in the same year, with two examples exhibited in Coach & Bus '97 in Birmingham; but there were some minor changes in appearance, for example the exit door was moved rearward (for 12.0m variant only). In 1999, a facelifted version of the ALX500, which more resembled the ALX400 in appearance was introduced, the first of these bodies were fitted to the first batch of Super Olympians for Kowloon Motor Bus and New World First Bus.

When TransBus International was formed in 2001, the ALX500 body replaced the standard height, right hand drive version of the Duple Metsec DM5000 body (built for the Dennis Trident 3) which was duplicated with the ALX500 design. In late 2002, the ALX500 body was superseded by the TransBus Enviro500.

All Alexander ALX500s are retired in March 2023.

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Nedjeljna Dalmacija

Nedjeljna Dalmacija was a Yugoslavian regional weekly newspaper based in Split, Croatia. Its publisher was Slobodna Dalmacija.

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The Simonizer
it was added as a "reverse angle slam" but the only reference i can find to it is as a form of twisting legsweep. If anyone remebers the move and can either write it in, or write it in and link it please do --- Paulley 11:09, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

I once saw a short clip of it and several others at a site called wrestlingencyclopedia.com

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Nova Photo
Am I the only one that thinks that that photo of Bucci as Nova looks a little off? It seems the be edited around the face, especially where the forehead is perfectly sqaure and protruding. I think it should be removed, either all together or until a better one can be put in it's place.Gopherbassist 21:33, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

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His status
shouldn't we include something that says that he's retired from wrestling? or at least currently inactive? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Muhand (talk • contribs) 17:12, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It notes his release, and does not mention information about any sort of return, so it's pretty clear that he is not currently working for any notable wrestling promotion. -- iMa tth ew  T.C. 02:05, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

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Sean Williams (author)

Sean Llewellyn Williams (born 23 May 1967) is an Australian author of science fiction who lives in Adelaide, South Australia. Several of his books have been New York Times best-sellers.

Early life and education
Williams was born in Whyalla, South Australia on 23 May 1967.

He studied sciences and music at Pulteney Grammar School and matriculated third in his year (1984), topping the state for Musical composition. That same year, he won the Young Composer's Award for a theme and three variations for string quartet with flute, oboe and trumpet soloists called "Release of Anger".

He then went to the Adelaide University and studied a Bachelor of Economics and wrote for the student newspaper On Dit. He completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at the Adelaide University in 2005 and was in 2010 a PhD candidate at the same institution.

Writing career
He is the author of over one hundred and forty published short stories and sixty books, including Twinmaker and (with Garth Nix) the Troubletwisters series. He has co-written three books in the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series. His novelisation of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed debuted at #1 on the "New York Times" bestseller list, the first novelisation of a computer game to do so.

Other roles
Williams was Chair of the SA Writers' Centre from 2001 to 2003, and is one of only three lifetime members of that institution. Williams has also tutored for the Clarion South Workshop, was a previous winner of the Writers of the Future contest, and remains a judge for the same.

Since 2019, Williams has taught Creative Writing at Flinders University. He was awarded a PhD from University of Adelaide in 2013.

Under the pseudonym, theadelaidean, Williams makes ambient and experimental music released mainly through Projekt Records. In July 2024, Projekt released the double CD Parallels, his first collaboration with Steve Roach. Some of Williams' music has appeared in film and on the stage, such as for the award-nominated short film "Life Savings" (which screened at the St Kilda Short Film Festival in 2024) and the score for the 2023 South Australian Ruby Awards-nominated multimedia work Bárbaros. A presentation of his album Hyperaurea appeared in the 2024 Adelaide Fringe.

Awards
Williams is a multiple recipient of both the Ditmar and Aurealis Awards.

Evergence (with Shane Dix)

 * The Prodigal Sun (1999)
 * The Dying Light (2000) - Winner, Best Long Fiction, 2001 Ditmar Award
 * The Dark Imbalance (2001) - Winner, Best Science Fiction Novel, 2001 Aurealis Award

The Books of the Change

 * The Stone Mage & the Sea (2001)
 * The Sky Warden & the Sun (2002)
 * The Storm Weaver & the Sand (2002) - Winner, Best Fantasy Novel, 2002 Aurealis Award

Orphans (with Shane Dix)

 * Echoes of Earth (2002) - Winner, Best Australian Novel, 2002 Ditmar Award
 * Orphans of Earth (2003)
 * Heirs of Earth (2004)

Star Wars: New Jedi Order (with Shane Dix)

 * Force Heretic I: Remnant (2003)
 * Force Heretic II: Refugee (2003)
 * Force Heretic III: Reunion (2003)

Star Wars

 * The Force Unleashed (2008)
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance (2010)
 * The Force Unleashed II (2010)

The Books of the Cataclysm

 * The Crooked Letter (2004) - Winner, Best Novel, 2004 Ditmar Award & Winner, Best Fantasy Novel, 2004 Aurealis Award
 * The Blood Debt (2005)
 * The Hanging Mountains (2005)
 * The Devoured Earth (2006)

Geodesica (with Shane Dix)

 * Ascent (2005) - Winner, Best Novel, 2005 Ditmar Award
 * Descent (2006)

The Broken Land

 * The Changeling (2008) - Shortlisted for Best Young Adult Novel, and Best Children's Novel, in the 2008 Aurealis Award.
 * The Dust Devils (2008) - Shortlisted for the Best Children's Novel, in the 2008 Aurealis Award.
 * The Scarecrow (2009)

Astropolis

 * Saturn Returns (2007) - Winner, Best Novel, 2008 Ditmar Award
 * Cenotaxis (2007) - book 1.5, novella

 * Earth Ascendant (2008)
 * The Grand Conjunction (2009)

The Fixers

 * Castle of the Zombies (2010)
 * Planet of the Cyborgs (2010)
 * Last of the Vampires (2010)
 * Invasion of the Weird (2010)

Troubletwisters series (with Garth Nix)

 * The Magic (2011) (aka Troubletwisters in Australia)
 * The Monster (2012)
 * The Mystery (2013) (aka Mystery of the Golden Card in Australia)
 * The Missing (2014) (aka Missing, Presumed Evil in Australia and the UK)

Have Sword, Will Travel series (with Garth Nix)

 * Have Sword, Will Travel (2017)
 * Let Sleeping Dragons Lie (2018)

Twinmaker Series

 * Twinmaker: Jump (2013) (aka Twinmaker outside of Australia)
 * Twinmaker: Crash (2014) (aka Crashland outside of Australia)
 * Twinmaker: Fall (2015) (aka Hollowgirl outside of Australia)

Others

 * The Unknown Soldier: Book One of the Cogal (1995) - (with Shane Dix) Re-imagined and rewritten as The Prodigal Sun
 * Metal Fatigue (1996) - Winner, Best Science Fiction Novel, 1996 Aurealis Award
 * The Resurrected Man (1998) - Winner, Best Long Fiction, 1999 Ditmar Award
 * Spirit Animals Book 3: Blood Ties (2014) (with Garth Nix)
 * Impossible Music (2019)
 * Her Perilous Mansion (2021) - Shortlisted, 2021 Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature
 * Honour Among Ghosts (2022) - Shortlisted for Best Fantasy Children's Novel, in the 2023 Aurealis Award

Collections

 * Doorways to Eternity (MirrorDanse Books, 1994)
 * A View Before Dying (Ticonderoga Publications, 1998)
 * New Adventures in Sci-Fi (Ticonderoga Publications, 1999) - Winner, Best Collected Work, 2000 Ditmar Award
 * Light Bodies Falling (Altair Australia, 2007)
 * Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams (Ticonderoga Publications, 2008) - Winner, Best Collection, 2008 Aurealis Award
 * The View from the End of the World (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, 2020)
 * Little Labyrinths: Speculative Microfictions (Brain Jar Press, 2021)
 * Uncanny Angles (Wakefield Press (Australia), 2022)
 * The Sky Inside (PS Publishing, 2023)

Notable short stories

 * “Last of the Rational Actors at the End of the Unnatural World” (2022) in Griffith Review
 * “Face Value” (2013) in Lightspeed This story was read by LeVar Burton on his podcast in 2019.
 * “The Dark Matters” (2015) in Galaxy's Edge Magazine.
 * “IMPACT” (2023) in From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi
 * "The Freezing of Sarah" (1997) in Bloodsongs #9
 * "Entre les Beaux Morts en Vie (Among the Beautiful Living Dead)" (1998) in Dreaming Down-Under (ed. Jack Dann, Janeen Webb)
 * "Hunting Ground" (2003) in Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural (ed. Bill Congreve)
 * "haikaiju" (2005) in Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales (ed. Robert Hood, Robin Pen)
 * "daihaiku" (2005) in Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales (ed. Robert Hood, Robin Pen)
 * "The Tyranny of Distance" (2014) in SQ Mag, Edition 14 (ed. Sophie Yorkston)
 * "The Legend Trap" (2014) in Kaleidoscope (Twelfth Planet Press) - Winner, Best Novella or Novelette, 2015 Ditmar Award
 * Ghosts of the Fall
 * White Christmas
 * The Jackie Onassis Swamp-Buggy Concerto
 * The Soap Bubble
 * The Perfect Gun
 * The Masque of Agamemnon (with Simon Brown)
 * The Girl-Thing
 * Star Wars: Or Die Trying (with Shane Dix)
 * The Seventh Letter
 * Midnight in the Cafe of the Black Madonna (Doctor Who)

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Talk:Yongqi, Prince Rong

I've just moved this from the article:

I know it is highly unconventional to comment here and not on the discussion page, but it is also highly unconventional to put the clan name before the given name of a Manchu person. So please just move this to Yongqi. Thanks. Colipon+(T) 03:27, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

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Liu Yifei

Liu Yifei (born August 25, 1987) is a Chinese-American actress. She has appeared multiple times on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list and was named one of the New Four Dan actresses of China in 2009. She is widely known as "Fairy Sister" in China.

In 2020, Liu Yifei became known to international audiences for starring as the titular character in the Disney live-action film Mulan. The role earned her nominations for a Critics' Choice Super Award, a Kids' Choice Award and a Saturn Award.

Early life
Liu Yifei was born on August 25, 1987 in Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei as An Feng (安风). She is an only child. Her father is An Shaokang (安少康), who served as a first secretary of the Education Office of the Chinese Embassy in France and director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Paris VII. Her mother is Liu Xiaoli (刘晓莉), a dancer and stage performer from Hubei. Her parents divorced when she was 10 years old, and she was raised solely by her mother. That same year, she adopted her mother's surname and changed her name to "Liu Ximeizi" (刘茜美子). Her godfather is Chen Jinfei (陈金飞), the Chairman of Beijing Tongchan Investment Group.

In 1997, when Liu Yifei was 10 years old, she and her mother immigrated to the United States. She lived in Queens, New York City where she attended Louis Pasteur Middle School 67. In 2002, she returned to China to pursue an acting career and took the stage name "Liu Yifei" (刘亦菲). Several weeks after returning to China, Liu Yifei was accepted into the Performance Institute of Beijing Film Academy at age 15 and graduated in 2006.

2003–2006: Rising popularity
Immediately after her admittance into the Beijing Film Academy, Liu Yifei received offers to star in various television series. Her first television appearance in 2003 was in the period romance drama The Story of a Noble Family (金粉世家), based on Zhang Henshui's eponymous novel. The series achieved the highest ratings on CCTV, and positive reviews from the audience. The same year, she was chosen by Zhang Jizhong to play Wang Yuyan in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, an adaptation of Louis Cha's wuxia novel of the same title. The series was broadcast in Taiwan and achieved a rating of 5.69, becoming the highest-rated Chinese drama in Taiwan. Liu's role as the Wang Yuyan earned her the nickname of "Fairy Sister" by the media and fans.

In 2005, Liu Yifei starred in Chinese Paladin, a fantasy action drama adapted from the role-playing game The Legend of Sword and Fairy. The drama earned a cult following and solidified her popularity in China.

After the drama aired, Liu Yifei gained acclaim for her performance and swiftly experienced a surge in popularity. The same year, she was chosen as the "Golden Eagle Goddess" at the 6th China Golden Eagle TV Art Festival.

2008–2013: Transition to film
After achieving success in television, Liu Yifei then ventured onto the big screen. In 2007, she joined William Morris Agency (WMA) and was subsequently cast in her first Hollywood production, The Forbidden Kingdom. She played Golden Sparrow, an orphan seeking revenge against her parents' killer. Thereafter, she starred in romantic-comedy Love in Disguise (2010) with Taiwanese-American singer and actor Wang Leehom.

In 2011, she starred in fantasy supernatural film A Chinese Ghost Story, adapted from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. The same year, she was cast as Wu Qing (Emotionless) in Gordon Chan's wuxia film The Four, adapted from Woon Swee Oan's novel series The Four Great Constables. She subsequently reprised her role in two other installments of the film series.

Liu Yifei won the Best Actress award at the fifth Macau International Movie Festival for her role as Lingju and Diaochan in the historical film The Assassins (2012).

2014–present: International collaborations and television comeback
In 2014, Liu Yifei collaborated with Korean actor-singer Rain for the romance film For Love or Money, based on Hong Kong novelist Amy Cheung's 2006 novel of the same name. Though it did reasonably well at the box office, the film was criticized for its storyline and production.

Liu Yifei starred in The Third Way of Love (2015). Her performance in the film led to her win for the Most Anticipated Actress award at the 16th Chinese Film Media Awards. The same year, she was named the first Chinese ambassador of Dior Prestige and became the global ambassador of Tissot.

In 2016, Liu Yifei starred in romance film Night Peacock, a Chinese-France co-production directed by Dai Sijie. She then starred in the youth romance film So Young 2: Never Gone.

In 2017, Liu Yifei starred in romantic fantasy film Once Upon a Time by award-winning director Anthony LaMolinara and Zhao Xiaoding. She also starred in the historical film The Chinese Widow directed by Bille August. The film premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival as the opening film, and Liu was nominated as Best Actress. The same year, Liu Yifei reunited with White Vengeance co-star Feng Shaofeng in the fantasy comedy film Hanson and the Beast.

In November 2017, Liu Yifei was cast as Mulan in the live-action adaptation of the 1998 Disney animated film, which was released in 2020 to mixed reviews.

In December 2017, it was announced that Liu Yifei will star in the upcoming fantasy mystery television series, The Love of Hypnosis. This marks her first small-screen comeback in 12 years.

In 2022, she won the Best Actress Award at the 13th Macau International Television Festival for her role as Zhao Paner in the costume drama "Meng Hua Lu"(梦华录).

Controversy
In August 2019, Liu Yifei reshared an image posted by Chinese newspaper People's Daily, an official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. The image included a quote from Chinese reporter Fu Guohao who worked for People's Daily-owned tabloid Global Times and was subsequently assaulted by protesters after stating during the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests: "I support Hong Kong police. You can beat me now. What a shame for Hong Kong." This sparked international controversy, with Liu Yifei being accused of supporting police brutality. Following this, the hashtag #BoycottMulan started trending supporting a boycott of the movie. In response to the controversy, Liu Yifei was not present at the 2019 D23 Expo, which gave fans an exclusive sneak peek of Mulan. When asked about the controversy in February 2020, Liu Yifei stated: "I think it's just a very sensitive situation."

During an interview with Variety magazine at the premiere of Mulan on March 10, 2020, Liu Yifei described herself as "Asian" instead of "Chinese", which caused anger among some Chinese social media netizens, who threatened to boycott the movie and accused her of forgetting her roots. They also questioned why a non-Chinese national was playing the "legendary Chinese icon".

In March 2021, Liu Yifei cut ties with clothing brand Adidas over its support for the Better Cotton Initiative, an industry group that promotes sustainable cotton, after the trade body pulled out of Xinjiang, China citing concerns of forced labour involving Uighur Muslims.

Music career
Liu Yifei signed with Sony Music Entertainment Japan in 2005. She released her first Japanese single "Mayonaka no Door" with Sony Music on July 19, 2006. Her debut album Liu Yifei was released the next month in various parts of Asia such as mainland China, Hong Kong and throughout Southeast Asia, featuring a diverse music repertoire including rap and soft rock. In the same year, Liu Yifei also released her Japanese album in which the single, "Mayonaka no Door" was chosen to be an ending theme for the anime series ''Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z'' by TV Tokyo.

In 2020, she performed the Mandarin and English version of the song "Reflection" for the live-action Mulan.

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Eastwood, Syracuse

Eastwood is a neighborhood in the northeastern part of Syracuse, New York, located adjacent to East Syracuse, New York, United States.

History
Eastwood was originally a village, and as a suburb of Syracuse, was named for its easterly direction from that place. The neighborhood was part of the last round of annexations by the City of Syracuse, in 1926. Today the neighborhood still has a strong sense of community, and its nickname is "the village within the city."

Culture
Eastwood's main retail corridor is along James Street, which still boasts a village-like atmosphere that residents are working to preserve.

The Eastwood Neighborhood Planning Group worked to amend the Zoning Rules and Regulations of the City of Syracuse to require neighborhood approval to any changes to the building structures along James Street.

The neighborhood is also home to the Palace Theatre completed in 1924. It has recently been restored and serves as not only a movie theatre but also as a facility for the community.

The neighborhood schools include: Salem Hyde Elementary, Lincoln Middle School, Huntington K-8 and Henninger High School (with eastern edges of the village falling under the East Syracuse-Minoa Central School District from North Midler Ave and New Court Ave to North Ave, Taft Ave, Craigie Street and Carrier/GM Circles).

The Eastwood community is very open to the restoration of the neighborhood, and currently has many plans on its future.

Syrathon
Eastwood's 5 Mile Run completes Syrathon every October. Syrathon, organized by the Syracuse Parks Conservancy, is a series of 7 established road races based in the City of Syracuse that showcase Syracuse's parks systems and city neighborhoods. Participants who complete enough of those races to accumulate at least 26.2 miles receive a Syrathon medal.

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Kristiansand Airport

Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik (Kristiansand lufthavn; ) is an international airport serving Kristiansand Municipality in Agder county, Norway. The airport is located in the district of Tveit in the Oddernes borough, about 16 km by road and 8 km by air from the center of town of Kristiansand. Operated by the state-owned Avinor, it is the sole airport in Southern Norway with scheduled flights. It has a 2035 m runway aligned 03/21 and served 1,061,130 passengers in 2018. Scheduled flights are provided by Scandinavian Airlines, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Widerøe, KLM Cityhopper and Wizz Air. The Royal Norwegian Air Force has a training center at the airport.

It opened on 1 June 1939, as the joint second airport in the country. During the Second World War it was occupied and expanded by the Luftwaffe. Kristiansand's southerly location caused the airport to receive several international routes during the early years, as well as domestic services. Braathens SAFE served domestic services from 1955 to its demise in 2004. KLM flew until 1971, after which Dan-Air opened routes to the United Kingdom. The terminal received major extensions in 1955, 1979, 1994 and 2015. New control towers were built in 1966 and 2013. It was the base for Sørfly from 1946 to 1962, for Agderfly from 1969 to 2004, and for FlyNonstop in 2013.

Construction
The first airport in Kristiansand was a water aerodrome situated in the city center. It was built by the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service in 1918. A government commission recommended on 21 October 1920 that Kristiansand receive a water airport as part of a nationwide investment program. However, nothing came of the plans for more than a decade. Moving of the military water aerodrome was proposed several times, although this was never carried out before the construction of Kjevik.

Locally the initiative for an airport in Kristiansand was launched by Mayor Andreas Kjær in 1933. The city council sent a formal application to the government in August 1934 asking for an airport. That summer Widerøe commenced flights to Kristiansand along a coastal route from Oslo to Haugesund. Norwegian Air Lines (DNL) commenced a coastal seaplane route along the southern coast from Oslo to Bergen via Kristiansand on 9 June 1935. This service used an aerodrome at Kongsgårdbukta.

The government stated in 1935 that it planned on building a main airport for Agder – Kristiansand, Mandal and Arendal were all proposed as suitable hosts. The government concluded that Kristiansand was the most suitable, based on traffic, military and financial considerations. Several locations were considered. Kongsgårdbakken was selected, costing 2 million Norwegian krone (NOK) less than Kjevik. The municipality and the state formalized construction in April 1936, where the former would provide the land and the construction costs of NOK 2.4 million would be split. Construction commenced soon afterwards.

Meanwhile, a group started looking at Kjevik as a suitable site, led by aviator Bernt Balchen, industrialist Rolf Petersen and Lawyer Hartmann. They presented detailed plans and agreed prices for purchase of lands. Based on this Kristiansand Municipal Council accepted on 5 August 1936 to reconsider Kjevik. Kjevik was passed in the council on 30 September 1937 with 34 against 26 votes. Construction commenced in November and was contracted to Høyer-Ellefsen. The same year the Norwegian Army Air Service used the fields at Kjevik for training.

The airport originally consisted of a 1000 by concrete runway connected to the apron with a 12 m wide taxiway. A small, wooden terminal building was built of a shed and a nearby residential house was used as a restaurant. Seaplanes were served with a floating dock and a slipway. Kjevik opened on 1 June 1939, the same day as Oslo Airport, Fornebu. The first aircraft to land was a Douglas DC-2 of KLM. They started an international route from Oslo via Kristiansand to Amsterdam, while Danish Air Lines operated to Copenhagen. DNL opened a domestic seaplane route from Oslo via Kristiansand to Stavanger Airport, Sola.

Second World War
Kjevik was captured by the Luftwaffe during the German invasion on 9 April 1940. The first aircraft landed at Kjevik as an emergency landing on the first day of the invasion. Later it was used by Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft, flying in troops. From 11 April a squadron of Messerschmitt Bf 109s were stationed at Kjevik.

Luftwaffe immediately started upgrading the aerodrome. They began by removing a hill at the east end of the runway, followed by an extension of the runway. Tveit was transformed with military structures built throughout the village. In the east a minefield was laid and several fuel tanks were built around the airfield. Two large hangars were built, along with a large number of sheds. In the course of the war the runway was extended to 1580 m. The German military planned a large expansion of the airport from 1945, which would have included new aprons and would have obliterated the village. These plans were halted by the end of the war.

Early operation
Kjevik was taken over by the Royal Air Force in May 1945. They started the work of mine sweeping and disarming the armaments and general clean-up of the aerodrome. It was later transferred to civilian use. The Air Force's Aircraft-Technical School and the Weapon-Technical School moved to Kjevik in February 1946. The latter moved to Lista Air Station two years later.

The upgraded facilities resulted in Kristiansand Municipality wanted to rid itself of the responsibility and cost of running the airport. The city council passed a resolution of 9 December 1946 offering the airport free of charge to the state. This was approved by Parliament on 20 June 1947. The same year the aviation club Kjevik Flyklubb was established.

On 6 March 1946 KLM resumed its route, flying from Oslo via Kristiansand to Amsterdam using a Douglas DC-3. By 1950 it was flown three times a week, and continued onwards to Brussels. DNL, through the Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) cooperation started an international route on 2 October 1946 from Oslo via Kristiansand, Amsterdam and Brussels to Paris. Four days later a domestic Ju 52 seaplane route from Kristiansand to Stavanger, Haugesund and Bergen. Danish Air Lines introduced a route from Kjevik to Aalborg and Copenhagen in 1947.

DNL started a land plane route from Kristiansand to Stavanger in 1947, but withdrew two years later, using a Douglas DC-3. From 1949 KLM took over flights from Oslo to Kristiansand. Braathens SAFE was awarded the route in 1950, along with an extension to Copenhagen, but abandoned it the following year. The terminal building was expanded in 1953, receiving a new waiting room and a new cafeteria.

Sørfly—the first airline based in Agder—was established in 1946. It operated out of Kjevik, originally with the Auster Autocrats. They performed various general aviation tasks, including sight-seeing, charter flights for hunters, especially to Setesdal and aerial photography. A Republic Seabee and a Miles Gemini were delivered in 1947 and 1948. The airline launched a scheduled route from Stavanger and Kristiansand via Ålborg to Gothenburg. The airline's hangar at Kjevik collapsed in 1954 and the Seabee sold in 1956. From then the airline had less and less activity and liquidated in 1962.

Braathens resumed traffic on 6 June 1955 when it opened a route from Oslo via Tønsberg, Kristiansand and Farsund to Stavanger, with a daily round trip on a de Havilland Heron. These were replaced with the larger Fokker F27 Friendship in 1959. The route served 2,593 passengers the first year, increasing to 17,900 in 1960. Braathens opened a route from Kristiansand to Ålborg in 1960, although this was taken over by SAS the following year. That year the airport had 54,306 passengers.

KLM introduced the Vickers Viscount on the Kjevik route in 1957 and three years later started using the Lockheed L-188 Electra. The Weapon Technical School moved back to Kjevik in 1963. During the late 1950s and 1960s SAS switched its Kristiansand services first to the Saab Scandia and then the Convair CV-440 Metropolitan. Dan-Air introduced summer services to Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1963, expanded to an all-year service from 1972.

New aircraft resulted in the need for a longer runway. The city and the state made an agreement whereby the former would pay for the land while the latter would pay for the construction. The runway was extended to 1960 m in 1966. On 2 November a new, 18 m tall control tower opened. The airport had 143,585 passengers in 1965.

Agderfly was established at Kjevik in 1969. The company operated a wide range of aircraft, focusing until the 1980s exclusively as a flying school. KLM introduced the Douglas DC-9 on the Amsterdam route from 1966. However, the stopped serving Kristiansand from November 1971, when the stop was moved to Gothenburg. Braathens introduced the Fokker F28 Fellowship from 1969 and the Boeing 737-200 from 1975.

The airport served 203,875 passengers in 1970, which increased to 295,578 five years later. A parachute club, Kjevik Fallskjermklubb, was founded in 1974. Dan-Air introduced a service to London in 1976. The Air Force's Communication- and Radar School moved to Kjevik in 1977. SAS used the DC-9 for its international route for a period during the 1970s, but as these proved too large later switched to the smaller F27.

New terminal

Kristiansand was one of six test airports which received a British doppler microwave landing system in 1977. In the late 1970s the terminal was too small, resulting in the airport opening a new 3500 m2 terminal on 22 March 1979, costing NOK 19 million. The terminal from the war had been used for domestic services and was converted to cargo terminal. The international terminal was converted to a terminal for the Air Force. Kjevik served 400,549 passengers in 1980, increasing to 477,549 five years later.

Kristiansand-based Agderfly introduced services to Göteborg Landvetter Airport on 26 September 1989, followed by a Billund Airport route on 2 October. Two years later they received permission to fly to Bremen Airport, but ultimately shut down on 21 November 1991. The flight school continued to operate. SAS was reorganized in 1990 and the Copenhagen routes were taken over by SAS Commuter's Eurolink service with new Fokker 50 aircraft. Norsk Air introduced a service from Sandefjord Airport, Torp via Kristiansand to London Stansted Airport on 28 October 1991. The route had insufficient traffic and was terminated the following year. The airport served 578,373 passengers in 1990, which increased to 745,061 passengers five years later.

Busy Bee went bankrupt in 1992 and their routes to Stavanger and Bergen were taken over by Norwegian Air Shuttle. Following SAS terminating the Copenhagen service on 26 March 1994, Maersk Air introduced three daily flights to Copenhagen. That year the terminal was rebuilt and expanded with another 1000 m2. Most of this was expansion of the public areas, including a new baggage area. SAS commenced domestic services from Kjevik on 8 October 1998 when Oslo Airport, Gardermoen opened. This waived the need for landing slots which had limited capacity at Fornebu, allowing for free competition on the route. KLM returned to Kristiansand on 28 March 1999, introducing flights to Amsterdam using a Fokker 50 three times per day. By 2000 Maersk Air had replaced its F50s with jet aircraft on the Copenhagen route. The airport's patronage peaked at 902,295 in 1999, after which the ridership fell and did not recoup until 2011.

Following the SAS Group purchase of Braathens in 2002, SAS closed its Kristiansand to Oslo route on 2 April. Also as a result of the merger, SAS Commuter took over Norwegian's routes to Stavanger and Bergen on 1 April 2003. The same year SAS resumed its route to Copenhagen, matching Maersk Air with three daily flights. The following year Maersk Air introduced flights to Billund Airport in Denmark. The airline ceased operations the following year. Braathens merged into SAS Braathens in 2004, and resumed as Scandinavian Airlines from 2007. Norwegian returned to Kjevik in 2007 as a low-cost carrier with three weekly flights to London Stansted Airport. However, the route proved to have too little patronage and was closed within the year. However, they introduced three daily flights to Oslo from 5 June 2008, adding to the four daily flights flown by SAS. Widerøe took over SAS Commuters flights to Bergen and Stavanger in 2010.

Avinor installed a 90 m long section of engineered materials arrestor system at the end of each runway in 2012. Kjevik is the only airport in Norway with this system, as the proximity to vulnerable marine environment prohibits the creation of a conventional safety zone around the runways. The south end was installed in July and the north end later in the year. The installations cost between 70 and 80 million Norwegian krone. The control tower from 1966 was not sufficiently high to give the air traffic controllers full view of the runway. A new 38 m tall control tower was therefore opened on 3 June 2013.

FlyNonstop was established as a Kjevik-based airline and commenced flights on 25 April 2013. They flew to ten sun and city holiday destinations using an Embraer 190 operated by Denim Air. With insufficient passenger load factor, they went bankrupt on 29 October. Wizz Air started a route to Gdańsk using an Airbus A320 in May 2013, mostly targeting the Polish expatriate community.

Construction of a new international terminal commenced in 2014, scheduled for opening in June 2015. It will consist of a 3200 m2 extension of the terminal northwards. It will feature four new gates, of which two can be used for flights out of the Schengen Area. The baggage hall and duty-free shop will be expanded.

Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik is situated on the grounds of the farm Kjevik at Tveit in Kristiansand, Norway. The asphalt runway physically measures 2035 by and is numbered 03/21. In addition it features a 90 m engineered materials arrestor system at each end. The runway has a declared take-off run available of 1986 and 1969 m on runways 03/21, respectively. The landing distances available are 1920 and 1870 m, respectively.

The aerodromes reference altitude is 17 m above mean sea level. Kjevik has a category I instrument landing system in both directions, both which are equipped with precision approach path indicator. The airport has a category 7 fire and rescue service. The apron is connected to the runway via three taxiways, although none of these run parallel to the runway.

The check-in area consists of automated and staffed check-in stands, five car rental agencies and a Deli de Luca kiosk. The departure hall features a kiosk from the same chain and a duty free store. The latter also serves arriving international passengers. The airport has six gates, numbered 1 through 7. The first three can be used for international flights, with gate 3 able to also handle domestic flights, when it is numbered 4. The last three only handle domestic flights. None of the gates have jetbridges. Ground handling is provided by Aviator and SAS Ground Handling, while aviation fuel is provided by Shell.

Airlines and destinations
The busiest route from Kristiansand is to Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. It is flown six times daily by SAS and four times daily by Norwegian using Boeing 737s. Other domestic routes are flown by Widerøe to Stavanger, Bergen and Trondheim. KLM Cityhopper flies twice daily to Amsterdam and Widerøe flies thrice daily to Copenhagen. SAS flies once per week during the summer to Alicante and Wizz Air flies twice weekly to Gdańsk.

Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik is the ninth-busiest airport in Norway. It served 1,061,130 passengers in 2018, of which 297,106 were international passengers. In 2018, the airport also saw 19,290 aircraft movements. Kjevik's catchment area covers Agder and is the only scheduled airport in the twin counties. For international flights, Kjevik experiences a leakage in western Vest-Agder to Stavanger Airport, Sola, and in Aust-Agder a leakage to Sandefjord Airport, Torp. These both have significantly more international services than Kjevik. Kjevik has significantly lower traffic than other airports in Norway covering similarly sized populations. A contributing factor is the well-established bus and train services to the capital.

Ground transport
The airport is situated 16 km by road from the city center. National Road 451 runs along the northern side of the runway and connects to National Road 41. It connects to the E18 freeway. The airport features parking for 1,800 cars. Car rental is also available.

Haga Buss operates an airport coach to Kristiansand. Nettbuss operates a coach service to Lillesand, Grimstad and Arendal. This is a direct service during rush hour and a shuttle service from a stop on the E18 the rest of the day. Agder Flyekspress operates a direct coach service to Arendal. Taxis are available at the airport.

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Misopogon

The Misopogon ('Beard-Hater') is a satirical essay on philosophers by the Roman Emperor Julian. It was written in Classical Greek. The satire was written in Antioch in February or March 363, not long before Julian departed for his fateful Persian campaign.

Glanville Downey says of the text:

 * Julian vented his spleen in the famous satire, the Misopogon or Beard-Hater, in which, by pretending to satirize himself and the philosopher's beard which he wore in a clean-shaven age, he was able to pour forth his bitter anger against, and disappointment with, the people of Antioch.

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Oeiras, Piauí

Oeiras is a municipality in the Microregion of Picos, in the northeastern Brazilian State of Piauí.

According to the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), its population was 37,085 inhabitants in 2020. The municipality covers an area of 2,720 km2. The mayor, as of 2017, was José Raimundo de Sá Lopes.

History
Originally known as Vila da Mocha, due to its location on the stream Mocha, the settlement gained the recognition and status of Vila in 1712 by order of the King John V, later when the Captaincy of Piauí was created from the Captaincy of Maranhão in 1718, the settlement was designated as the capital of the newly created province.

However, the royal decree which granted political autonomy would only be followed in 1759 with the arrival of the first governor of Piauí, João Pereira Caldas, the settlement would then gain the status of city in 1761, also changing the name to Oeiras as a tribute to the Count of Oeiras, who would later be known as the Marquis of Pombal, a powerful minister in the portuguese court.

The city remained as the center of political decisions all the way to 1852, when the center of government was changed to the newly-founded city of Teresina.

Climate
The maximum temperature of 42.4 °C (108.3 °F) was recorded on September 25, 2023 in Oeiras, Piauí.

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Charrette (disambiguation)

A charrette (or charette or design charrette) is a term describing a period of intense design activity, often immediately preceding a deadline.

Charrette may also refer to:

 * Charrette, the French word for cart
 * La Charrette, the smallest cinema in the UK, built from a disused railway carriage
 * "Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart" or "Lancelot, le Chevalier de la Charrette", an Old French poem by Chrétien de Troyes

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