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The Bach bow
Writing the article Emil Telmányi was quite difficult for me as I don't know much about violins, and the most I studied in high school was a short overview of Bach's work. While researching the article, I came across one site praising the Bach bow (but I've now lost the URL of that site), but mostly condemnation of it. A google search I did now turned up this blog post and this dissertation (pdf) as interesting sources.

What do you know of the recordings of Richard Clayderman? I have heard mostly his early recordings. I went to see him in concert recently and to be honest it was quite boring because he didn't play many familiar songs - I can't really remember what he played. But some of his work is wonderful. I'll comment more about your work on the talk page - in Wikipedia, comments are almost never deleted from talk pages though; Remove personal attacks is a very controversial essay and the only time I've ever seen it employed is to remove this rant from a now banned user. I'll put the comment you removed back with your response indented, and probably add some more responses soon. You can sign your name on talk pages using four tildes like this: "~". Graham 87 04:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Neo-classical metal
Hi Francisco :-) O que eu posso dizer sobre suas adições ao artigo supracitado? Elas são um ponto de vista seu. Dessa forma não deveriam ser expostas na wikipedia, a menos que você citasse fontes confiáveis, trabalhos publicados ou livros que apoiassem sua perspectiva. O texto está bem escrito, e é uma abordagem interessante sobre o assunto, contudo, ao meu ver é um pouco tendencioso contra este estilo de metal, inclusive citando uma controvérsia que, em todos os meus anos de ouvinte de música clássica e metal, nunca me veio ao conhecimento. Não há, na verdade, controvérsia em relação ao nome, o que, afinal de contas, não passa de nomenclatura. O movimento nunca clamou ser baseado no neo-classicismo, apenas adotando esse apelido porque, em analogia ao próprio movimento neo-clássico, valorizava influências clássicas em seu repertório e sua forma. Acredito que vc seja capaz de encontrar fontes que sustentem as adições que fez ao artigo, caso contrário um editor (eu mesmo incluso) poderá exigir essas fontes sob pena de remover as adições não sustentáveis, uma vez que soam muito como Original Research o que não deve ser colocado na wikipedia. Há também um tom pouco enciclopédico em muitas de suas contribuições ao artigo, parecendo uma dissertação, acho que você conseguiria melhorar em muito o mesmo com um pouco de esforço. Um bom exemplo de tom enciclopédico e citação de fontes é o artigo sobre Virtuoso, que originalmente era totalmente não-enciclopédico, mas depois de um árduo trabalho ele tornou-se um bom exemplo de artigo. Outra coisa a tomar nota: como em música e em quase todo o resto, menos é mais... talvez condensar as adições seja um bom caminho para melhorá-las... O texto ficará mais claro e será mais apreciado em geral. Agora algo interessante, e que vc deve esperar acontecer, é ver como, com o tempo, suas contribuições evoluem praticamente sozinhas aqui na wikipedia. Várias pessoas editarão o seu texto, mudarão ordem das frases, encontrarão fontes para os mesmos, etc e tal... esse processo criativo e colaborativo da wikipedia é o que me mantém fascinado com a mesma. Abraços Loudenvier 16:23, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Olá Francisco. Como vc mesmo disse não há fontes para esse tipo informação, pelo menos nas publicações brasileiras (que eu tenho acesso). Porém há historiadores do rock e do metal com livros impressos nos EUA e Inglaterra. De nossa cabeça só podemos colocar na wikipedia o estilo do texto, mesmo assim seguindo as linhas-gerais definidas para a enciclopédia. Eu tentei transformar o artigo de metal neo-clássico em algo sério, mas ficou difícil pq as pessoas costumavam sempre mudar as coisas de acordo com seu artista predileto, etc e tal... Esse é o problema de não usarmos fontes para expor o que queremos. Na minha opinião o artigo deveria ser praticamente todo apagado e reescrito, baseado em referências sérias (All Music Guide, entre outras). No final das contas é complicado ser editor de um artigo e não expor seu ponto de vista, mas é justamente não expor nosso POV que devemos tentar a todo custo... Difícil? Sim. Ah! Tente assinar seus posts usando ~ dessa forma fica igual à minha assinatura aqui ao lado >>> Loudenvier 17:39, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

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Your one contribution to date
I felt that Abandoned train stations was inappropriate for the Wikipedia Main namespace. I have copied and pasted it to Reference desk. (Are the both the shift keys broken on your keyboard?) -- RHaworth 03:09, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

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Royal Rumble 2011
Would it not help the article slightly until the match has occurred to state that those are not the Royal Rumble Entry numbers? People might get confused. Sepmix (talk) 20:55, 19 January 2011 (UTC) Apologies, I hadn't noticed, I'm currently browsing on my phone and noticed it had moved/disappeared, so assumed it had been removed, I shall have a proper look in the morning. Sepmix (talk) 21:26, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Very well, I see it now, apologies again. Sepmix (talk) 11:58, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

hi my name is Mdp ncr is I am a member of wikipedia in French, without meaning to, I took your picture Hell in a Cell, 2010, and I put wikipedia in France. I write this message so that you give me your permission to put it in wikpédia France. Sincerely Mdp ncr — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.137.241.196 (talk) 21:05, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

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User talk:FeastOfBones

please...  I'm real short on conversation.

Welcome! Again, welcome! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 20:56, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

 * thanks for the hello welcome....

 * i've descended to a dirty sockpuppet, because my other user name is too sad right now. strong pov calling itself "npov" has taken its toll upon me, and i just want to find something else to do.  trolling seems to be profitable...   at least one needn't suffer from a conscience FeastOfBones

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Distillery District

The Distillery District is a commercial and residential district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, east of downtown, which contains numerous cafés, restaurants, and shops housed within heritage buildings of the former Gooderham and Worts Distillery. The 13 acre district comprises more than forty heritage buildings and ten streets, and is the largest collection of Victorian-era industrial architecture in North America.

The district was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1988.

History
The Gooderham and Worts Distillery was founded in 1832. Once providing over 2 e6USgal of whisky, mostly for export on the world market, the company was bought out in later years by rival Hiram Walker Co., another large Canadian distiller. Its location on the side of the Canadian National Railway mainline and its proximity to the mouth of the original route of the Don River outlet into Lake Ontario created a hard edge which separated the district from neighbouring communities. These did, however, allow for a facilitated transport connection to the rest of Canada and the world and acted as Toronto's domination as an industrial centre or transshipping hub. With the deindustrialization of the surrounding area in the late 20th century, and the winding-down of the distillery operations, the district was left increasingly derelict. Surrounding industrial and commercial buildings and structures were often demolished, leaving the former distillery surrounded primarily by empty lots. Nonetheless, the closing of the remaining distillery operations in 1990 created redevelopment and investment opportunities for a district that contained the largest and best preserved collection of Victorian-era industrial architecture in North America. The Distillery District was designated as a National Historic Site, and has been protected under the Ontario Heritage Act since 1976. It was listed by National Geographic magazine as a "top pick" in Canada for travellers.

The economic recession of the early 1990s, however, and the resulting crash in residential condominium prices and office lease rates in downtown Toronto, delayed efforts to revitalize the district. Nonetheless, two residential condominium buildings were constructed on the periphery of the district during the late 1990s.

While the site awaited redevelopment and reinvestment, the district's ambiance began to attract numerous film shoots. Since 1990, the site has served as a location for over 800 film and television productions.

21st century
In 2001, the site was purchased by Cityscape Holdings Inc., which transformed the district into a pedestrian-orientated area. Work was completed and the district reopened to the public on May 22, 2003. The new owners refused to lease any of the retail and restaurant space to chains or franchises, and accordingly, the majority of the buildings are occupied with boutiques, art galleries, restaurants, jewellery stores, cafés, and coffeehouses, including a well-known microbrewery, the Mill Street Brewery. The upper floors of a number of buildings have been leased to artists as studio spaces and to office tenants with a "creative focus". A new theatre, the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, has opened on the site and serves as the home of the Soulpepper Theatre Company and the George Brown Theatre School. There are plans to develop residential condominiums, offices, and more retail space on the vacant lands that surround the district.

New condominium developments will be located at the south-east corner of the neighbourhood, bordering on Cherry Street and Tank House Lane.

The Pan American Games' Athletes' Village was built in the area in 2015, in conjunction with an extension to the streetcar network constructed along Cherry Street. After the games, the athletes village was converted to townhouses, condos, affordable housing, and retail space.

Toronto Christmas Market
The Toronto Christmas Market has been an annual outdoor tradition run within the Distillery District since 2010. The market includes "Santa's house", an Indigo pop-up shop, pet photos with Santa, a Ferris wheel and themed entertainment each day. There are food vendors and dining locations that are popular tourist attractions.

The 2020 edition of the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto. The event returned for 2021, under the new name "The Distillery Winter Village".

Urban design
The Distillery District's traditional brick-paved streets and lanes are restricted to pedestrians and cyclists, with general motor vehicle traffic restricted to streets and parking areas outside of the district's historic centre. Several large sculptures installed along the lanes enliven its streetscapes, three being on Distillery Lane and the final one at the parking area at the end of Trinity Street. Another primary landmark is the chimney stack atop the Boiler House complex. There are informal public spaces on the pedestrianized streets with chairs and tables for general use, as well as formal patios for some of its coffee houses and restaurants.

Trinity Street is the widest street in the district and often functions as a public square for events such as market days. The main thoroughfares within the district are Distillery Lane from Parliament Street running southeast to Trinity Street, Trinity Street from Mill Street at its north end to the motor vehicle parking area at its south end, and Tank House Lane from Trinity Street east to Cherry Street. The four borders of the Distillery District are Parliament Street to the west, Mill Street to the north, Cherry Street to the east, and the parking area to the south with the condominiums along Distillery Lane forming hard edges to pedestrians. The Distillery District can be reached via the Toronto Transit Commission's 121 Fort York-Esplanade bus route, and since June 2016 the 514 Cherry streetcar line has its eastern terminus at the Distillery Loop to the east of the historic district, providing service along King Street through the downtown core as far west as Dufferin Gate Loop in Liberty Village.

The surrounding lands are animated with a mix of uses: residential areas at Parliament and Distillery and at the eastern end of Mill Street up to Cherry, restaurants along Trinity Street, Tank House Lane, Brewery Lane, and Case Goods Lane, and education uses at the eastern end of Tank House Lane.

Government policy
Toronto's Official Plan designates the Distillery District as a mixed-use land parcel, which is an area that includes a combination of land uses such as commercial, residential, entertainment facilities and art galleries. In order to provide additional details regarding the breakdown of the types of mixed uses in the area, the King-Parliament Secondary Plan is used to determine the locations of the commercial, residential, and other land uses. In addition, the plan also outlines design guidelines and places emphasis on enhancing the existing historical buildings. The plan divides the 13-acre area into three different mixed-use designations. This includes the incorporation of a bike lane and private roadway where the current southern park lot is located. The remaining existing structures within the District all comply with the outlined land uses within the Secondary Plan.

In addition, the Ontario Heritage Act, 1990 is a governing document for the historical buildings that have been redeveloped on the site. Any amendments to this act must be proposed to the Conservation Review Board for approval. In particular, the Secondary Plan reinforces these notions by stating that any additions to existing buildings within mixed-use areas 2 and 3 "may be permitted only if it has been demonstrated that they respect the three-dimensional integrity of the heritage building and the quality and the character of both the historic building being added to and its relationship to adjacent historical buildings within the area". The Secondary Plan is important for guiding how development occurs within the area. It provides the course of action for what the future image of the Distillery should look like and ensures that development at a small scale (such as the 13-acre area of the Distillery) is compliant with plans outlined in the city's master plan (official plan) and is reflective of the province's Planning Act (1990), which sets out the ground rules for land use planning.

Various buildings on the site are protected under part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act since 1976. The property at 70 Mill Street is protected under a heritage easement since April 3, 1996.

Buildings
The former distillery consisted of a series of buildings, centred around a seven-storey windmill and wharf. Although the windmill and wharf have long since been demolished, a number of buildings from distillery operations remain. These historical buildings include:

 * Stone Distillery, 1859
 * Boiler House, c. 1859–1860
 * Boiler House/Drying Annex, c. 1859–1860
 * Yeast Store, c. 1859–1860
 * Malt House, c. 1863
 * Paint House, c. 1863–1864
 * Cooperage Building, c. 1863–1864
 * Office, c. 1863–1864
 * Rectifying Building, c. 1863–1864
 * Carpenter's Shop, c. 1863–1864
 * Cooper's Yard, c. 1863–1864
 * Kilns Building, c. 1863–1864
 * Fermenting cellar, 1869
 * Cannery buildings, 1873
 * Pure Spirits buildings, 1873
 * Pure Spirits tank houses, 1873
 * Maintenance Shop, c. 1877–1880
 * Paint Shop, c. 1877–1880
 * Stables buildings, 1877–1880
 * Denaturing Room, c. 1884
 * Molasses Tank, c. 1884–1889
 * Tank House 4, c. 1884–1889
 * East Boiler House, 1886
 * Office and Cooperage, 1886
 * Lunch Room, c. 1887
 * Tank House 9, 1889
 * Tank House 10, 1889
 * Long Room, c. 1884–1891
 * Rack House D, c. 1884–1891
 * Rack House G, c. 1884–1891
 * Rack House H, c. 1884–1891
 * Rack House I, c. 1884–1891
 * Rack House J, c. 1884–1891
 * Pump House, 1896
 * Case Goods House, 1927
 * Rack House M, 1927

Demographics
The 2006 Census revealed that the population of the Distillery is largely composed of young adult to middle aged persons aged twenty to fifty-nine. Most households contain one to two persons. The immigrant population of the area is largely made up of persons of European descent with the overwhelming majority of the population not being visible minorities. The occupation data for the neighbourhood shows that almost a fifth of the residents work in social science/education/government service/religion. Those with jobs in sales and service, business, and arts/ culture/ recreation and sports make up a total of 48% of the occupation categories with an even split of 16% to each job category.

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Saint Prisca

Prisca was a young Roman woman allegedly tortured and executed for her Christian faith. The dates of her birth and death are unknown. She is revered as a saint and martyr in Eastern Orthodoxy, by the Catholic Church, and in the Anglican Communion.

Though some legends suggest otherwise, scholars do not believe she is the Priscilla (Prisca) of the New Testament couple Priscilla and Aquila, who were friends of the Apostle Paul. She is honored, especially in England, as a child martyr. January 18 is her feast day.

Legend
Legend says that Saint Prisca was of a noble family. At age thirteen, she was supposedly baptized by St. Peter. Emperor Claudius ordered her to make a sacrifice to the god Apollo. When she refused because of her Christian faith, she was beaten and sent to prison. She was at last thrown to a lion in the amphitheater, but it quietly lay down at her feet. The Italian poet Martha Marchina (1600–1646) describes this moment of Prisca's martyrdom in a pair of poems in her book Musa Posthuma, where the lion's humane nature is contrasted against human savagery.

She was starved for three days in a slaves' prison house, tortured upon the rack, and thrown on a burning pile. Still she remained alive, but was beheaded at the tenth milestone on the Via Ostiensis—the road from Rome to Ostia.

Commentary
It is difficult to establish the true identity of this Roman martyr since the various information concerning her probably refers to three different people.

There exists on the Aventine a church of St. Prisca. It stands on the site of a very early title church, the Titulus Priscoe, mentioned in the fifth century and built probably in the fourth. In the eighteenth century there was found near this church a bronze tablet with an inscription of the year 224, by which a senator named Caius Marius Pudens Cornelianus was granted citizenship in a Spanish city. As such tablets were generally put up in the house of the person so honoured, it is possible that the senator's palace stood on the spot where the church was later built. The assumption is probable that the Prisca who founded this title church, or who, perhaps as early as the third century, gave the use of a part of the house standing there for the Christian church services, belonged to the family of Pudens Cornelianus.

The grave of a martyr Prisca was venerated in the Roman Catacomb of Priscilla on the Via Salaria. The place of interment is explicitly mentioned in all the seventh-century itineraries to the graves of the Roman martyrs. Whether the martyr buried in the Catacomb of Priscilla belonged to the same family or was identical with the founder of the title church cannot be proved. Still some family relationship is probable, because the name Priscilla appears also in the senatorial family of the Acilii Glabriones, whose burial-place was in the Catacomb of Priscilla on the Via Salaria. The Martyrologium Hieronymianum mentions under 18 January a martyr named Priscilla on the Via Salaria. This Priscilla is evidently identical with the Prisca whose grave was in the Catacomb of Priscilla and who is mentioned in the itineraries of the seventh century.

A legend from the eighth century has identified the founder of the Titulus Priscoe with St. Paul's friend Priscilla, whose home would have occupied the spot on which the church was later erected.

Another legend relates the martyrdom of a Prisca who was beheaded at the tenth milestone on the Via Ostiensis, and whose body Pope Eutychianus is said to have translated to the church of Prisca on the Aventine. The whole narrative is unhistorical and its details impossible. As 18 January is also assigned as the day of the execution of this Priscilla, she is probably the same as the Roman martyr buried in the Catacomb of Priscilla. Her feast is observed on 18 January.

The Acta S. Priscae, which places her martyrdom under Claudius II (268–270) and the burial on the Via Ostiense, from which his body would later be taken to the Aventine, has no more credibility than the legend, which places Prisca at the time of Peter in Rome.

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Balochistan National Party (Mengal)

The Balochistan National Party or Balochistan National Party (Mengal) (Urdu: بلوچستان نيشنل پارٹی ; ) is a political party in Balochistan, Pakistan. BNP believes in more provincial rights and greater autonomy for Baluchistan province through peaceful and democratic struggle.

History
In 1972, the National Awami Party or NAP formed the first elected government in Balochistan after winning the elections and Ataullah Mengal was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of Balochistan. Nine months after the formation of the NAP Government, it was overthrown by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who used Akbar Bugti's allegation that Ataullah Mengal's regime wanted to disintegrate Pakistan and liberate Balochistan as grounds for this dismissal. Mengal, Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, Gul Khan Nasir, Khair Bakhsh Marri and the other NAP leaders were thrown in jail. They were released when Bhutto's government was toppled by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, after spending more than four years in captivity. By this time differences had arisen between the NAP leadership, so while Mengal, Bizenjo and Nasir went to the NAP headquarters, Khair Bakhsh Marri and Sher Mohammad Marri headed home.

Later, Bizenjo formed the Pakistan National Party or PNP after differences arose between him and Wali Khan over the Kabul Revolution (he supported the revolution while Wali Khan was against it). Nasir joined PNP and became the President of its Balochistan wing while Mengal went into exile in London.

In 1996, Mengal returned to Pakistan and formed the Balochistan National Party.

BNP Government
BNP swept the 1997 elections and was able to form a coalition government in Balochistan with Mengal's son, Akhtar Mengal as the Chief Minister This government did not last long, as differences began arising between the Balochistan Provincial Government and the Federal Government.

1998–2009
After the dismissal of their first government, BNP hasn't taken part in any elections. In 2002, the party didn't compete in the elections in protest of General Pervez Musharraf's October 1999 military coup which allowed the pro-military religious alliance to win almost all the moderate and nationalist constituencies. Though a few members of the party did take part in the elections independently. One of these members got elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan, one to the Senate of Pakistan and two to the Provincial Assembly i.e. Mir Akbar Mengal and Mir Akhtar Hussain Langove.

In 2006, Bugti was killed by the Pakistani Army. BNP had vehemently criticized the government when the operation in Balochistan had been launched and after Bugti's death all four of its independently elected representatives resigned from their seats of the National and Provincial Assemblies.

In December 2006, Akhtar Mengal was arrested for allegedly ordering his security guards to beat up secret service personnel. Mengal maintained that these secret service officials had tried to kidnap his children as they returned from school and as a result, the security guards had beaten them. During his trial, according to Iqbal Haider, secretary-general of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, "Mr Mengal was brought into the courtroom and shoved into an iron cage with bars all around that stood in a corner away from his counsel.” Mengal was released in 2008, after the Pakistan Peoples Party government came in power, after spending almost one and a half year in jail.

After Akhtar Mengal's arrest, the rest of the BNP leadership was also imprisoned mainly in MPO cases. On December 2, Sajid Tareen was arrested from his chambers, Habib Jalib Baloch, Mir Akhtar Hussain Langove and Akbar Mengal were also arrested the same day. Jahanzeb Jamaldini was also put under arrest in December. Then, on January 3, 2007, the acting Chief of BNP, Mir Noor-ud-din Mengal was also arrested along with other activists while they were on their way to meet imprisoned workers of BNP in Khuzdar.

Platform
The Balochistan National Party's main goal has been for the provinces having control over their resources. Under the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan, the federal government has broad powers, though the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan brought some changes.

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T. D. Allman

Timothy Damien Allman (October 16, 1944 – May 12, 2024) was an American author, historian, and journalist. His interviews with leading political figures such as Yasser Arafat, Helmut Kohl, Boris Yeltsin, and Manuel Antonio Noriega were published in the magazine Vanity Fair, where he was a foreign correspondent. Allman has also written two best-selling, prize-winning books on Florida, and what events there reveal about the nature of America. One of his books on foreign policy added the phrase "Rogue State" to foreign policy discourse. He also was the first to popularize the term "secret war" to describe clandestine U.S. involvements in foreign wars.

Allman’s book Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State was long-listed for the National Book Award in 2013.

Life
Allman was born in Tampa, Florida, on October 16, 1944. He graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1966.

His first book, Unmanifest Destiny, dealing with issues of American nationalism in U.S. foreign policy, grew out of his doctoral thesis at Oxford University, but his “definitive educational experience” occurred in the lowland town of Nepalganj, Nepal, after joining the Peace Corps in order to avoid the draft. “It's there,” he later wrote, “that I learned the most important thing of all. It is that all humans are truly, totally, completely, indivisibly, equal. What I learned in Nepalganj" he added, "has kept me alive in situations when I might have gotten killed." “After Nepalganj,” as was later reported in the National Geographic magazine, “T.D. Allman exposed the CIA’s secret war in Laos, rescued massacre victims in Cambodia, became an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, survived a kidnapping in Beirut, a bullet in Tiananmen Square, and a balloon crash in Kathmandu while reporting from more than 90 countries.”

He died on May 12, 2024, at a hospital in Manhattan, from pneumonia.

Writing
Allman's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, National Geographic, as well as in The Guardian, Le Monde, The Economist.

His rescued massacre victims in Cambodia, led to his work being banned from The Washington Post. Later, as a contributing editor of Harper's, he aroused further controversy when he predicted that the U.S. defeat in Indochina had opened the door to a new epoch of Pacific Rim success for American values and economic systems. He also rebutted claims that the Earth was running out of oil and predicted that U.S. cities, far from being doomed, were on the verge of a "Yuppie renaissance". His reports from Iraq and on the Colombian drug wars received wide attention, as have his profiles of figures such as Dick Cheney.

Allman's first book on Florida, Miami: City of the Future is considered the definitive work in its field. His history of Florida, Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and named one of the best works of history and non-fiction by Kirkus Reviews. The Florida Association of Authors and Publishers honored it as both the best overall book on Florida, 2013–2014, and the best book in the non-fiction for adults category.

Papers
Harvard University's Houghton Library is the repository of the T.D. Allman archive. The Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College also hold some of his papers.

Legacy
In 1968, at age twenty-three, T.D. Allman broke his first big story: the CIA's 'secret war,' against the Communists in Laos. He accomplished this by listening to local people, then trekking over mountains to a clandestine CIA base, Long Cheng. The news in his dispatches spurred congressional investigations and protests in America, and he went on to document the CIA's involvement in the overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk in Cambodia.

Author, broadcaster, and investigative analyst John Pilger on Allman and his approach: “The great American journalist T. D. Allman once defined 'genuinely objective journalism' as that which 'not only gets the facts right, it gets the meaning of events right. Objective journalism is compelling not only today. It stands the test of time. It is validated not only by 'reliable sources' but by the unfolding of history. It is reporting that which not only seems right the day it is published. It is journalism that ten, twenty, fifty years after the fact still holds up a true and intelligent mirror to events.”

The T.D. Allman Studentships, funded by the ChengZhong Focus Foundation, support ground-breaking independent research into past and present events.

As author

 * Anatomy of a Coup, Glad Day Press, 1970
 * In France Profound: The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024) ISBN 978-0-8021-2784-6
 * In France Profound: The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024) ISBN 978-0-8021-2784-6
 * In France Profound: The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024) ISBN 978-0-8021-2784-6
 * In France Profound: The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024) ISBN 978-0-8021-2784-6
 * In France Profound: The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024) ISBN 978-0-8021-2784-6

As co-author or contributor

 * Cambodia: The Widening War in Indochina
 * Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1968–1973 ISBN 1883011590
 * Conservatism as Heresy: In Defence of Monarchy
 * Provence: An Inspired Anthology ISBN 0609806785
 * The Florida Reader: Visions of Paradise ISBN 156164062X
 * Spain: True Stories: The King Who Saved His Country ISBN 9781885211781
 * Why Bosnia? ISBN 978-0963058782
 * Miami, the America Crossroad: A Centennial Journey ISBN 053659693X
 * Busted: Stone Cowboys, Narco-Lords and Washington’s War on Drugs. ISBN 9781560254324
 * These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers ISBN 1560256184
 * Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print ISBN 1560256184
 * Marguerite Yourcenar and the USA: From Prophecy to Protest ISBN 9789052015637

In French

 * Un Destin Ambigu
 * La Floride : Cœur révélateur des Etats Unis, Paris: Garnier, 2019 (translated by Frederic Monneyron)

In Spanish

 * Miami: La Ciudad del Futuro
 * El Hombre Mas Peligroso del Mundo

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Clark Aldrich

Clark Aldrich is an American author and practitioner in the field of educational simulations and serious games for education and professional skills.

In 1999, Clark Aldrich began publishing research that criticized traditional education methods for failing to teach leadership, innovation, and strategic skills effectively. He advocated for interactive learning experiences inspired by computer games genres, arguing that they offer innovative models for content presentation. He believed that new genres of computer games would need to be developed for educational and entertainment purposes. His independent research and simulation designs resulted in numerous articles, speeches, and five books five books.

Childhood and education
Aldrich grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, and graduated from Fenn School and Lawrence Academy. He spent eight summers at the Chewonki Foundation, including four as a counselor under the mentorship of Director Tim Ellis. He received his Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science from Brown University in 1989.

Career
Aldrich first worked at Xerox as the speechwriter for Executive Vice President Wayland Hicks. Aldrich became the Governor’s appointee to the Joint Committee on Educational Technology and served in this role from 1996 to 2000 while at Xerox. He then moved to Gartner, where he launched their e-learning coverage and began his formal writing and analysis of education. Later, he left Gartner to begin hands-on work in designing and building simulations himself, where he also increased his external writing about the industry through books, columns, and articles.

Aldrich went on to found the company SimuLearn, which produces training simulations that help corporations teach leadership, responsibility, and other skills within a corporate setting. The first product that was released by the company was titled Virtual Leader, and it required the user to conduct a series of business meetings while still juggling the interpersonal relationships of the employees and customers during business hours. His simulations have earned numerous industry awards, including "Best Product of the Year" in 2004 by the American Society of Training And Development/Training Media Review. He is also the lead designer for several educational simulations.

Aldrich's work is part of the conversation about the impact of simulations and serious games on the direction of 21st-century learning.

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Pakistan Democratic Party

The Pakistan Democratic Party (PDP) was a political party in Pakistan, founded by Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan in June 1967. Nawbzada Nasrullah Khan led the party until his death in 2003. After Nawab's death, the party's leadership was later taken by his son Nawabzada Mansoor Ahmed Khan; the party later merged with Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in 2012. It was a major rival during Pakistan's former president, Pervez Musharraf's presidency due to its affiliation with Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) led by its chief Nawbzada Nasrullah Khan along with PML-N and PPP which was created to campaign for Pakistan’s return to civilian rule after the 1999 military coup led by General Musharraf and was reported to include over a dozen political parties.

Electoral history
At the legislative elections held on 20 October 2002, the party won 0.29% of the popular vote.

Leadership

 * Muhammad Arshad Chaudhry
 * Nawaz Gondal, secretary general
 * Nawabzada Mansoor Ahmed Khan, chairman of the party
 * Basharat Mirza, vice-president

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List of storms named Monica

The name Monica has been used for three tropical cyclones in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean:

 * Tropical Storm Monica (1967), which spent its life at sea south of Mexico
 * Hurricane Monica (1971), did not affect land
 * Tropical Storm Monica (1975), stayed far from land

In the Southern Hemisphere near Australia:
 * Tropical Cyclone Monica (1984), formed west of New Caledonia, dissipated in the Coral Sea
 * Cyclone Monica (2006), struck the Northern Territory

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Talk:In The Groove song list

--Dj HaQ 20:56, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Minor punctuation misplacement fix.
 * Changed "75" songs to "76" songs.
 * Inserted "Wake Up" by Kid Whatever into the table.
 * Fixed the end of the table to suit the addition.

Wake Up
I do not think Wake Up was in In The Groove 1. On the local arcade machine it shows up as an addition from In The Groove 2, and it also appears on the In The Groove 2 song list, which is supposedly for only those selections exclusive to ITG 2. I have reverted the addition of Wake Up; please show evidence that it is an ITG 1 music selection before re-adding. --69.72.108.196 00:09, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Answer from anonymous : "Wake up is in ITG 1".

Wake Up is not a part of the official In The Groove (1) songlist. It was added as a "preview of ITG2" to the ITG1 PlayStation2 game. Plaguefox 20:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Liquid Moon diffuclty
I just updated the Liquid Moon expert diffuculty to a level 10. Since we are treating it as a home version song, and in that version the song is a level 10 expert song.

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Adam Brothers

Adam Brothers may refer to:

Scottish architects, three sons of William Adam:
 * John Adam (architect) (1721–1792)
 * Robert Adam (1728–1792), also an interior designer and furniture designer
 * James Adam (architect) (1732–1794), also a furniture designer

French sculptors, three sons of Jacob-Sigisbert Adam:
 * Lambert-Sigisbert Adam (1700–1759)
 * Nicolas-Sébastien Adam (1705–1778)
 * François Gaspard Adam (1710–1761)

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Talk:Jason Scott Lee

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Is this guy somewhat related to Bruce Lee. Are they relatives? Kassie (talk) 20:58, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Although they share the same surname, Jason Scott Lee is of no relation to Bruce Lee. Tony619 (talk) 22:48, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

'Oiwi ancestry
I thought Jason was 'Oiwi (of aboriginal Hawaiian ancestry), then found out that he was only Chinese. Now someone actually verified that he is 'Oiwi? And if someone is specific with his blood quantum, then being a quarter Hawaiian means either his maternal grandfather/grandmother or paternal grandmother was a Hawaiian, or two of his 4 grandparents were half Hawaiian. So which is it? --Mamoahina 15:04, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

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Emma Smith (author)

Emma Smith (21 August 1923 – 24 April 2018) was an English novelist, who also wrote for children and published two volumes of autobiography. She gave encouragement to Laurie Lee while he was writing his bestselling memoir of his childhood, Cider with Rosie.

Early life and fame
Smith was born as Elspeth Hallsmith in Cornwall, daughter of a bank clerk, Guthrie Hallsmith, D.S.O. and his wife Janet, a nurse. Her father suffered a nervous breakdown and left the family, after which Smith only saw him three more times in his life. She received a "negligible" private education up to the age of 16, when she decided to take up a job at the War Office. During the Second World War, she volunteered to work on the canals as a boatswoman. Later on, her experiences as a trainee boatswoman on the Grand Union Canal would become the basis for her debut novel, Maidens' Trip.

In September 1946, Smith, still only 23, went off to India with a team of documentary film-makers that included the poet Laurie Lee, who served as the scriptwriter on the team. During the trip, Cider with Rosie, Lee's classic account of growing up in rural Gloucestershire, was in its embryonic stages. Emma Smith was one of those who would later encourage Lee to complete what became one of the best loved accounts of childhood in English literature.

After nine months in India, Smith returned to England in 1947 and set down to write her first book. Maidens' Trip (1948) proved to be a critical and a commercial success and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. With the proceeds from it, she moved to Paris, where she took a room in the Hotel de Tournon, and drawing on her memories of India, typed up her second novel. It was reprinted by Bloomsbury in 2011. It was while working on her second novel in Paris in 1948 that Smith was photographed with her typewriter on the quay at the Ile de la Cité by the French street photographer Robert Doisneau, who was commissioned by Paris Match. After it had appeared in the magazine, Doisneau continued to use the photograph in his collections.

The Far Cry was published in 1949 to even greater acclaim and republished in 2002 by Persephone Books. The tale of a young English girl and her cantankerous father travelling together through India, it was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1949, and later reissued in a Penguin edition.

Later life
In 1951, Smith married Richard Stewart-Jones, who worked for the National Trust, within four weeks of meeting him. However, he died of a heart attack six years later, leaving her with two young children and some heavily mortgaged houses in Chelsea. She then moved to Radnorshire in rural Wales to raise her children.

Her writing took a back seat to her family duties. Only very slowly did she return to writing. She produced several children's books, as well as a novel, The Opportunity of a Lifetime, in 1978. But she never regained the celebrity she had enjoyed in the late 1940s. The specialist canal book publisher M. & M. Baldwin pioneered the revival of interest in Emma Smith's work, by republishing her award-winning Maidens' Trip in 1987 and keeping it in print for many years.

The novelist Susan Hill has been instrumental in a recent revival of interest in Emma Smith's works. Many years after The Far Cry had gone out of print, Hill found a copy in a jumble sale and wrote enthusiastically of her discovery in The Daily Telegraph. In 2002 – 50 years after the Penguin edition – Persephone Books reprinted The Far Cry as one of a series of forgotten classics by women writers. Hill supplied the afterword to that edition.

After 1980, Emma Smith lived in Putney in south-west London.

In 2008, Smith returned to writing with a memoir, The Great Western Beach, describing her childhood in Cornwall between the two World Wars. Bloomsbury Publishing, its publishers, went on to republish Maidens' Trip in 2009. The success of her first memoir led Bloomsbury Publishing to encouraged her to write a sequel. This appeared as As Green As Grass in 2013, and covered her life between 1935, when she left Newquay at the age of 12, to 1951 when she married.

Emma Smith died peacefully in Putney on 24 April 2018, at the age of 94.

Novels

 * The Far Cry (1949)
 * The Opportunity of a Lifetime (1978)

Autobiography

 * Maidens' Trip (1948)
 * The Great Western Beach: A Memoir of a Cornish Childhood Between the Wars (2008)
 * As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War (2013)

Children's books

 * Emily, The Travelling Guinea Pig (1959)
 * Out of Hand (1963)
 * Emily's Voyage (1966)
 * No Way of Telling (1972)

Uncollected short stories

 * A Surplus of Lettuces (1977)
 * Mackerel (1984)

Non-fiction

 * Village Children: A Soviet Experience (1982)

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Servais Stradivarius

The Servais Stradivarius is an antique cello crafted in 1701 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644–1737). One of only sixty-three extant cellos attributed to Stradivari, it was crafted from exceptional wood reserved by the luthier for large instruments. Its varnish has been described as "unusually rich" and the color a reddish-orange with golden transparency. The cello takes its name from the nineteenth-century Belgian cellist, Adrien Francois Servais (1807–1866), who played this cello.

The Servais Stradivarius is currently owned by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. The instrument is famous for its remarkable state of preservation—retaining its original 1701 label—and musical excellence. The Russian Prince Yusupov purchased the cello for Servais ca. 1845, and it was subsequently passed to his son. The cello was later donated to the Smithsonian by Charlotte Bergen of New Jersey. Cellist Anner Bylsma used the Servais in his 1992 recording of the J. S. Bach Suites for Unaccompanied Cello.

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Modanville, New South Wales

Modanville is a scattered community in New South Wales, Australia, situated 14 km north of the city of Lismore. At the 2006 census, it had a population of 515 people.

It contains farmland and areas of rainforest, and is known for dairy and macadamia farming. The closest village, Dunoon, is called the Macadamia Capital of Australia.

Known as a village of Lismore, Modanville is actually a locality, a broad area of land with farmhouses.

A general store, takeaway food shop and bicycle shop currently serve the community. A primary school, Modanville Public School, is attended by students from the village and surrounding areas.

Modanville is the home of the Richmond Birdwing butterfly.

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National People's Front

National People's Front may refer to:

 * Rastriya Janamorcha, a communist political party in Nepal
 * National People's Front (South Africa), a South African political party

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Franz Xaver Gabelsberger

Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (9 February 1789, Munich - 4 January 1849, Munich) was a German stenographer; the inventor of Gabelsberger shorthand.

Biography
His father was a wind instrument manufacturer, originally from Mainburg, who died while Franz was still in school. As a result, he was transferred to a convent school and finished his studies at the Alten Gymnasium in 1807. He was unable to pursue his education further, due to lack of funds and poor health. Instead, he entered the civil service of the newly established Kingdom of Bavaria.

His superiors were impressed by his skills in calligraphy. Meanwhile, he was contemplating a system that would make writing faster and easier. In 1817, he began to develop his system. As the German bureaucracies expanded, rapid transcription became essential. England and France already had such systems, but they proved difficult to adapt to German. Gabelsberger's method caught on quickly, and he became the first stenographer for the Bavarian State Parliament.

He was also promoted to Ministerial Secretary, and his system was certified by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities as being more reliable and legible than previous systems. Later, he was awarded 1,000 Gulden per year, half of which was to be used for his shorthand students. His method was officially named and published in 1834. He designed an abbreviation typeface in 1840.

In 1849, he suffered a stroke while out for a walk, and died shortly after. He was interred in the Alter Südfriedhof. From then until 1902, his system was revised three times. By that time, the number of users was estimated to be four million. Monuments have been dedicated to him in Munich, Vienna, and Traunstein. Streets in numerous German and Austrian cities are named after him. The medal of honor awarded by the German Stenographers' Association bears his likeness.

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Leora

Leora (In Hebrew ליאורה) is a Hebrew female given name, which means "light unto me" or "I have light". Alternative spellings may be Liora or Liorah. The name can be a diminutive form of Eleanor. A male variant is Leor. The name Leora may refer to:

People

 * Leora Auslander (born 1959), American historian
 * Leora Dana (1923–1983), American actress
 * Leora Skolkin-Smith (born 1952), American novelist
 * Leora Spellman (1890–1945), American actress
 * Liora (singer) (Liora Simon Fadlon) (born 1970), Israeli singer, represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995
 * Liora Itzhak (born 1974), Israeli singer
 * Liora Ofer (born 1953), Israeli businesswoman
 * Leora Bettison Robinson (1840–1914), American author, educator

Other uses

 * Leora's stream salamander
 * Leora, Missouri

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Talk:Dursley

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The information on Cam should probably be put into a new article Cam, Gloucestershire. Our Phellap 21:01, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Stinchcombe Hill
The entry on the Hill is a bit POV, ('a lovely asset to the town ...' meaning?, reference?), and travelogue-ish; and we already have an entry for Stinchcombe which refers to Stinchcombe Hill. This all needs some rationalisation, which I have attempted. Bob aka Linuxlad 18:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Introductory Paragraph
The introductory paragraph of the Dursley article looks like the scrapings off the cutting-room floor. Could the author please sort it out to the quality of the rest of the article. --Oldontarian (talk) 20:04, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

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